BSU works for 'black power'
By FRED PARRIS Kansan Staff Correspondent
(Editor's note: This is the last in a series of four articles on the black student at KU.)
Isolated from the administrative establishment, the black student at KU traditionally has had to be satisfied with scraps of power.
The Black Student Union (BSU) intends to change that. By molding blacks into a united body, it provides a strong, respected voice.
As an organized campus group, the BSU is relatively new. It received University recognition in Sept., 1968.
As a concept, however, says one Union leader, the BSU has always existed. And it will continue to exist as long as black people find themselves in a hostile atmosphere to which they cannot relate.
Current president of the Black Student Union is Clarence Reynolds, Kansas City freshman. Adrian Clark, Kansas City senior and the BSU's president in the fall semester, is now an Executive Board Adviser.
Other officers are the two vice presidents; Jake Mumford, Lawrence freshman and Harold Lasley, Kansas City sophomore.
The BSU faculty adviser is Robert Sanders,
The Union is open to all black students on campus, said Clark. Presently, he added, approximately 90 per cent of KU's black students are members.
assistant professor of biochemistry and physiology.
The BSU is not necessarily restricted to black students, Clark said, but rather to those persons "who meet membership requirements."
He declined to say exactly what these requirements are, however.
Clark also refused to reveal the number of black students in the BSU-or the number of blacks on campus.
"The University claims that they don't keep any (racial) count . . . " he said. "I wanted to know and took my own count."
"If the University wants to know, let them take their own count," Clark said.
Both Clark and Reynolds emphasize that whites should not mistakenly classify the Black Student Union with such other campus organizations as the Students for a Democratic Society, People's Voice or the First Artaud Romantic Tautological Society.
"There is always a danger of confusing the black revolution with the New Left," Clark said. "They're really not the same."
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Black Student Union recruiting table
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79th Year, No. 79 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Thursday, February 20, 1969
CYR speech interrupted by noisy demonstrators
By MIKE FREDERICK Kansan Staff Writer
State Attorney General Kent Frizzell was "tried" before an unscheduled "revolutionary tribunal" last night at a College Young Republicans (CYR) meeting by a group of campus radicals.
The group entered an open CYR meeting in the Kansas Union Ballroom and charged that, "Frizzell stands accused of crimes committed against the people of Kansas." Rick Atkinson, Belleville graduate student and former People's Voice leader, declared that Frizzell:
- Supported laws which placed
  property rights above human rights.
- Campaigned on a platform
which stressed law and order rather than racial justice.
M isled 'poor white' people into believing that law and order would serve their emotional and economic needs.
- Violated rights of free speech and assembly of students throughout the state.
After a brief exchange of opinions on the first three charges, a lengthy discussion evolved concerning the right of student protest.
After hearing the accusations, Frizzell said, "I will lay aside my intended speech and open myself to questions from the floor."
Frizzell was then asked if he supported Senate Bill No. 83. The bill states that any faculty member or student receiving all or any part of its financial aid from the state of Kansas would be dismissed if he refused the lawful orders of a peace officer while involved in any disturbance or demonstration.
"Your way to me is to take a law out that you don't like and flaunt it and violate it," he said. To
this the students responded that existing channels of legislation stiffed change.
"That bill has been tabled," he said. He explained that the senate was working on a similar bill though. In anticipation of a new law he said he would support it if it would deter unnecessary disruption.
Bill Hansen, Kansas City, Mo..
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Code election vote heavy
Photo by Carol Sue Stevenson
Senate Code ballotina in Strona Hall rotunda
Voting heavier than last year's All Student Council (ASC) general election was reported in the referendum on the University Senate Code today.
The code, which would replace the present ASC constitution and Senate Code, has been in the works for almost a year.
Election booth officials reported heavy voting yesterday at all three polling places—the Kansas Union lobby, Strong Hall rotunda and Murphy Hall.
"An exact ballot count is not available yet," said Martha Fowler, Osawatomie junior and co-chairman of the ASC election committee, "but the results of the election will be released at 8:30 tonight at the Hawklet snackbar in Summerfield Hall."
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Wescoe testifies on bill
WASHINGTON - Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe endorsed a proposal by the subcommittee on Science, Research and Development of the House Space Committee to authorize $400 million annually for improved science teaching and research.
Wescoe said the current federal aid projects that are tailored to specific educational projects cannot by themselves provide the amount of "continuing investment" higher educational institutional need.
MU paper banned
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) failed yesterday to reach a compromise with the dean of students at the University of Missouri at Columbia over a banned issued of an underground newspaper.
Dean Jack Matthews refused to allow the paper to be sold on campus because of an allegedly obscene front-page cartoon and inside headline.
CHICAGO - The Chicago Tribune in a front page editorial last night explained that it was refraining from publishing stories about student protests in today's editions as its own protest against "the attention, concern and indulgence" given such demonstrations.
Paper starts own protest
Agnew aims for record
WASHINGTON - Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, heading for some kind of record, presided over his 13th straight session of the Senate yesterday.
He has not missed a single meeting since the inauguration, Senate records showed.