Students face arson charge
Three University of Kansas students face charges of arson following their arrest April 22 on charges of possession of incendiary devices.
Two of the three arrested were bound over to the May term of the Douglas County District Court at preliminary hearings held Thursday in county court. They are William E. Benson, Topeka senior, and David A. White, Kansas City junior. Both remain in the county jail with bond set at $10,000 each.
The third person, Gerald A. Riley, Kansas City Mo. senior.
is in the Shawnee County jail. He was placed there by federal authorities after his release on bond from iail here.
All three are charged with fourth degree arson. The Kansas statute covering this charge provides either prosecution as a misdemeanor or a felony.
The cases are being treated as felonies, with penalties up to two years in prison or a fine of up to $1000.
The police officers who arrested the trio testified at the preliminaries that while they were on foot patrol in the 1200 block of
Louisiana during the curfew, they saw the three men running between houses in the area, carrying objects which resembled gallon cans and fifth-size wine or whiskey bottles. They testified that these items were later recovered and found to contain flammable liquids.
A fourth-degree arson charge faces Riley also in Douglas County, with his preliminary hearing postponed indefinitely.
A hearing on the charges filed in U.S. District Court in Topeka has not been announced. Riley faces the same charges there.
KU coed chosen as Wilson designate
The only microbiology major to be chosen a Woodrow Wilson Designate is quite an honor for a University of Kansas student, especially when it is a young woman.
Edith Lord, Kingman senior, was the only microbiologist among the 1,150 designates chosen this year in the nation. There were 26 students chosen in the biological sciences of which she was the only one in her field.
The honor is given to those students who plan to attend graduate school and are interested in going on in university teaching, she explained. Being a designate guarantees financial support to the student in the
graduate school of her choice.
Miss Lord is presently involved in a research problem involving the anti-body products of a rabbit's appendix. She began the project last summer and is finishing the final paper required of honor graduates in the microbiology department. Her emphasis in microbiology is immunology.
During one of the summers of her high school years, she attended the KU summer science camp. As one of 100 students, she took classes that summer and was invited back the next summer as one of 25 laboratory assistants in various fields.
During her first two years at KU she worked in the radiation
biophysics department and did not declare microbiology as a major until her junior year. Before then she was considering majoring in French or art history.
In 1969 she attended the French institute in Paris, but ended up in Switzerland for the summer when student riots erupted.
Last fall Miss Lord was a teaching assistant in microbiology.
The University of California at San Diego is the graduate school Miss Lord has chosen for the continuance of her study in microbiology. Because of her award, she was accepted by Yale, Cornell Medical School and Stanford, but chose UC instead.
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Law School elects student bar officers
Elections held in meetings for the last three weeks at the University of Kansas School of Law resulted in the election of 1970-71 officers for the Student Bar Association and class officers for second-and third-year law students.
"Elections took three weeks because we had to hold several extra meetings to break ties." Bob Montgomery, Topeka second-year law student and new president of the Student Bar Association said.
New Student Bar Association officers are: Montgomery; Jean Owen, Kirkwood, Mo., second-year law student, vice-president; Dennis Barritt, Hutchinson second-year law student, secretary-treasurer and Dick Porto, Lawrence second-year law student, law student division representative.
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Third-year law class officers for the next year are: Joe Pierron, Olathe second-year law student, president; Dickson Lee, Honolulu, Hawaii, second-year law student, vice-president and Danannenberg, Salina second-year law student, secretary-treasurer.
New second-year law class officers are: Bill Tanner, Seattle, Wash., first-year law student, president; Barry Gunderson, Everett, Wash., first-year law student, vice-president and Rick Gram, Hutchinson first-year law student, secretary-treasurer.
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