Campuses in turmoil
By United Press International
Students at Alabama's predominantly Negro Stillman College defied an ultimatum to end their occupation of the student union building yesterday.
Pickets called for a class boycott at the University of Illinois.
Ten Negro students seized a building at Rutgers University.
Elsewhere on the fields of conflict in the nationwide campus rebellion, student protesters held mass meetings at the University of California and the University of
Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania State University students demanded an administration reply to "non-negotiable" demands.
School closed
Dr. Harold N. Stinson, Stillman College president, closed the small Tuscaloosa, Ala., school Sunday after a five-day class boycott by the 750 students to enforce their demands for improved food and living quarters. The students promptly occupied the student union.
John Byrd, a student spokesman
said police would have to "drag us out. We're not going to leave voluntarily."
Negro students at New Jersey's Rutgers University seized Conklin Hall, the main classroom building at the school, and renamed it "Liberation Hall." The protesters demanded active recruitment of Negro and Puerto Rican students by the school.
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a mass meeting in the University of Pennsylvania's
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79th Year. No.82 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Tuesday, February 25,1969
By RICK PENDERGRASS
Kansan Staff Writer
Tensions ebb on MU campus
COLUMBIA, Mo., - Fireworks predicted for the University of Missouri at Columbia fizzled last night when the two opposing sides-students and administration-settled their differences.
At a protest rally yesterday which officials estimated 3,000 students and faculty attended, the MU administration came under heavy fire from both students and faculty for its censorship of three publications, the Free Press Underground, the New Left Notes and the Movement.
In a 9 $ \frac{1}{2} $ - hour meeting of the Committee of Student Affairs and Conduct, the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was acquitted for distributing the publications.
In the same meeting, Jack Matthews, dean of students, was absolved of any wrong in having the organization disaffiliated from the university and the publications banned.
Senate OKs criminal bill
Jean Coleman, representing the Free Press Underground, said the issue came to a head when campus police were instructed by Matthews to stop
By MARTHA MANGELSDORF Kansan Staff Writer
TOPEKA - After nearly $2\frac{1}{2}$ hours of debate, the Kansas Senate yesterday approved by voice vote, the proposed state criminal code and its new abortion section. The final roll call vote, the last major hurdle before the Governor's signature, is scheduled for today.
The Committee of the Whole rose and reported the code out favorably. On the Senate floor, however, the code met a block of opposition.
The 40-member chamber defeated an attempt recommended by the Senate Judiciary Committee to change the abortion section by a narrow vote of 18 for and 20 against the amendment. The revision recommended a more elaborate section detailing the types of abortions which could be performed.
Near the end of the debate the Senate defeated a motion by a 14 for and 23 against vote which would have sent the code back to the Senate Judiciary Committee for another full year of study.
The abortion section, if it carries today, will legalize abortions performed only by a licensed physician in a licensed, accredited hospital in Kansas. Determination of need is left to the doctor and a 3-member panel of the hospital.
Other action in the Legislature yesterday:
Highways
The $300 million accelerated highway construction bill was passed by the Senate last Thursday by a vote of 31 yeas to 5 nays.
The measure, which calls for issuance of revenue bonds for freeways and a 2-cent gasoline tax increase, was sent to the House. Gov. Robert Docking last year
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Avoids protesters
Nixon, Wilson confer
LONDON (UPI) — President Nixon carried his European unity mission to England last night with a reaffirmation of the "special relationship" between the United States and Britain. Aides said he would try to stay out of Britain's diplomatic row with France.
Nixon arrived from Brussels at London's foggy Heathrow Airport and began a round of talks with Prime Minister Harold Wilson that will include Nixon's hopes for summit talks with the Soviet Union.
The two statesmen conferred at Chequers, Wilson's country home 40 miles northwest of London.
Addressing the NATO council in Brussels earlier Monday in the first major speech of his day-old European journey, Nixon said he would confer with Russian leaders "in due course."
Police guard
Air Force One, the presidential jetliner, landed at an isolated corner of Heathrow as a security precaution and there were no crowds to greet Nixon. Protest groups have threatened to "hound" Nixon during his 36-hour stay in England but none were on hand.
A heavy guard of police, some with tracker dogs, surrounded Chequers.
In an airport statement here, Nixon went out of his way to stress the ties between the United States and Britain, although he emphasized it should not be exclusive.
U. S. officials said Nixon would try as far as possible to stay out of the squabble between Britain and France which erupted late last week.
Reduce U.S. influence
British officials said President Charles de Gaulle had proposed a realignment of NATO and the Common Market that would reduce U.S. influence in Europe. French officials angrily denied the British version and relations between Paris and London became strained.
Nixon departed extensively from the advance text of his airport speech at Heathrow and used the "special relationship" phrase once proclaimed by the late Sir Winston Churchill three times.
On the subject of U.S.-Soviet summit talks, Nixon said "we are ending a new era of negotiation.
"In due course, and with proper preparation, we shall enter in negotiations with the Soviet Union on a wide range of issues, some of which will directly affect our European allies."
SDS members from distributing copies of the publication Feb. 19.
Miss Coleman said this action was an infringement on the rights to freedom of the press.
The rally, which began at 1:30 p.m. in the courtyard of the Student Union, and later moved in the form of a parade to the front steps of the administration building, featured speakers from faculty and student body.
"The students of the University of Missouri will no longer stand for the administration stifling our basic freedoms!" exclaimed Fred Rich, introductory speaker.
Donald Kultzen, professor of philosophy at MU, spoke in support of the rally.
Kultzen said: "Adults have the right to decide what they want to read and what they don't want to read. Adults should be able to express their thoughts freely and in any way they wish to other consenting adults. And I think students in college are adults!"
Richard Kirkendahl, professor of history, referred to Matthews' action as a suppression of the freedom of the SDS and the leftist movement.
Ted Frech, speaking for the conservative element of the student body, said, "He (Matthews) not only has failed to do away with the movement, he has reversed a three year decline in the left of this campus."
Later in the rally, the crowd elected vocally to send a committee of three students to the state legislature to voice their grievances concerning the "unclear standards
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Jean Coleman, University of Missouri student and representative of the Free Press Underground, and Donald Kultgen, professor of philosophy at MU, address a crowd of more than 3,000 MU students and
Censorship protest at Mizzou
faculty members at a rally in front of the MU Student Union in protest of administrative censorship of underground publications. The Free Press Underground and two other publications were banned from the
Photos by Rick Fendergrass
Columbia campus last Wednesday when Dean of Students Jack Matthews charged they were "obscene literature."
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