Velvel, Litto promotions granted by Regents
By DAN OSBORNE Kansan staff writer
University of Kansas Professors Lawrence Velvel and Fredric Litto were granted promotions April 24 at the Board of Regents meeting in Kansas City.
The Regents' action ended a month-old controversy about the two men, which resulted in the KU student strike April 8.
The promotions for Velvel, associate professor of law, and Litto, assistant professor of speech and drama, had been delayed since the Regents' meeting March 21.
Velvel's promotion was delayed allegedly because of his speech in February to a group of demonstrators protesting the Chicago Seven trial.
The promotion for Litto was postponed allegedly because of his part in producing an "obscene play," which was produced overseas.
After the March 21 meeting, Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. submitted additional information to the Regents concerning academic qualifications of the two professors.
vote was 6 to 2 in favor of the promotions. The dissenters were Paul Wunsch of Kingman and T. J. Griffith of Manhattan.
Regents voting in favor of the promotions were Jess Stewart of Wamego, Lawrence Morgan of Goodland, Elmer Jackson of Kansas City, William Danenbarger of Concordia and Dr. James Basham of Fort Scott.
Henry Bubb, Topeka Regent,
was absent but sent a letter to be
read at the meeting.
Bubb's letter stated that an instructor's character, in addition
to his academic qualifications, should be considered when the Regents grant promotions.
The letter said Bubb, who did not favor promoting Velvet and Litto, had not found additional information that would change his opinion.
"Academic freedom is not academic license to use gutter language or intemperate remarks to students in schools throughout Kansas or elsewhere." Bubb's letter said in reference to Velvel's speech.
Union reopens today
Frank Burge, Kansas Union director, announced Sunday that the Kansas Union would be back in business today on a functional basis.
The north and west entrances and the tunnel from X zone to the Kansas Union are open for student traffic, Burke said.
After a thorough cleaning and sanitizing operation the following rooms were opened: Hawk's Nest, Oread Book Store, Council Room, Forum Room, Woodruff Auditorium, International Room, Big Eight Room, the upper floor of the Book Store, Prairie Room, and the Cafeteria.
"There was little or no damage to the areas that we are opening," Burge said. "Engineers and architects have declared the open section completely safe."
"The insurance company, engineers, architects and contractors
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Watson said, "I didn't ask for his resignation but am accepting it because when a man gives you his resignation at a time like this I don't think you should do anything but accept it."
Lawrence will not be without protection if the officers who threatened to resign do so, Watson said. If necessary state authorities could provide enforcement personnel through the highway patrol, he said.
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have insisted that damaged areas have no trespassing," Burge said. "The damaged areas still have falling debris and are not safe."
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Burge said the main floor corridor should be open within the week.
"We ask the students who will be coming to the Union to follow the signs that are up and to use their own good judgment," Burge said.
Nixon, a spokesman said, favors the lower minimum age but is doubtful that it can be legally accomplished by a Senate rider on the Voting Rights Act.
Nixon asks voting bill be rejected
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The White House said Sunday President Nixon would ask House leaders this week to reject a Senate move to lower the voting age to 18 by legislation. Instead, he will ask that the minimum age be lowered through a constitutional amendment.
The President, according to the White House, will urge the House to separate the rider and the bill, then join the Senate in preparing a constitutional amendment that would have to be ratified by three-fourths of the states.
Already in the Senate there are 71 sponsors of a resolution calling for such an agreement. And there were indications that an amendment would be favorably accepted in the House.
Velvet told the Kansan that he was "really happy" about the promotions and said that the controversy was "a threat to academic freedom."
Nixon is expected to tell House leaders, in a letter early this week, that he fears the 1972 elections might be jeopardized if 18 year olds vote under authority of the Senate rider.
Clergy asks amnesty for LHS students
"Some damage has already been done," Velvel said, "but I hope we don't have to worry about future threats." When contacted by the Kansan, Litto said he had no comment.
The letter was not released until after the meeting.
Twenty-three Lawrence ministers issued a statement last week, calling for immediate amnesty and reinstatement of all Lawrence High School students and the dropping of all charges connected with the recent disturbances at LHS.
The statement, presented to the Board of Education of Lawrence Unified School District No. 479 and to the school administration, was issued by the clergymen as individuals, not as representatives of their congregations.
The clergymen said the statement was issued in an effort to clear the air and to foster a healthier atmosphere for respond affirmatively to the demands of the black students at LHS.
"We do not condone violence in any form by any segment of our society," read the statement. "We pledge ourselves to a continuing ministry of reconciliation and justice."
It was signed by Otto Zingg, Jerry Catt, Don Conrad, Clint Dunagan, Stuart W. Herrick, William H. DeLaughder, Harold E. Hamilton, Timothy A. Miller, Norman L. Steffen, Rafael Sanchez Jr., Donald L. Baldwin, John E. Felible, Walter H. Lutz, Thomas C. Emswiler Jr., Sharon Neufer Emswiler, A. Lewis Parker, Robert Freitag, W. S. Sims Sr., Harold T. Hutton, P. Garrison, Ronald L. Sundbye, James Jackson and M. C. Allen.
In other action April 24, the Regents authorized KU to begin receiving insurance payments to restore the sections of the Kansas Union damaged by fire April 20.
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