Photo by Ray Sellers
Cleaning out the Kansas Union . . .
Cleanup of the debris in the Kansas Union ballroom began Tuesday. This workman dumps a load of burnt rubble from a temporary scaffold constructed outside a window of the ballroom.
Topeka blacks boycott schools
TOPEKA (UPI)—The Topeka Board of Education stated Wednesday it will overlook the recent black boycott of two high schools here, but students not returning to classes Thursday will face possible disciplinary action.
Black students have been boycotting classes at Highland Park High School and Topeka High School since Monday. They have said they wouldn't return until their demands were met, including removal of the two high school principals and a number of teachers.
The board issued a statement Wednesday saying it would not remove the teachers of the principals.
About 150 black and white students and some parents met with Attorney General Kent Frizzell earlier Wednesday to discuss the legality of suspending classes for two weeks as a "cooling off" peroid. The attorney general said this might be possible.
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Protests cause violence at colleges, high schools
Racial conflict and anti-war protest have recently set off a series of disturbances at several U.S. colleges and high schools.
Officials at Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y. locked the ROTC offices and classrooms after a sit-in by 100 Hobart students
In Los Angeles a firebomb was thrown through a window of a Bank of America branch, causing extensive damage. Police said they did not know if it was linked to last weekend's turmoil at Santa Barbara, where firebombs were thrown in a Bank of America branch which had
been built to replace one burned down in February.
At Yale University, New Haven, Conn., the Yale College Student Senate voted 33-26 to urge the entire Yale community to attend a meeting tonight to vote on a strike protesting the approaching trial of eight Black Panthers charged in the slaying of another Panther.
At Hutchinson a small group of Negroes walked out of a Board of Education meeting Monday night after school officials failed to fire a grade school teacher who admittedly struck an 8-year-old girl.
Polish paintings, drawings rescued from Union blaze
Paintings and drawings by Wojiech Wybieralski were saved from fire damage Tuesday night when the artist removed them from their exhibit place in the South Lounge of the Kansas Union about an hour before a fire was discovered on the roof of the Union.
Wybieralski is a Fulbright scholar from Poland attending the University of Kansas.
Wybieralski said he moved the paintings to an office in Flint Hall at around 9 p.m. Tuesday because the exhibit ended
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that dav.
He said he later went back to the Union for coffee, and while he was in the Trail Room he noticed smoke.
"I noticed the smoke," he said, "but I'm not used to being terrified by a little smoke." He added a few moments later the Trail Room was ordered evacuated.
Sharing the exhibit with Wybieralski was Piotyr Bozyk, also a Polish KU student and Fulbright scholar. Bozyk was unavailable for comment, but it was believed that his moving wood and wire constructions, which are motivated by pendulums set in motion by the viewer, also escaped fire damage.
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ATTENTION
to all honor guests, members of International Club, student judges, and international queens. Due to the damage to the Union building, the annual Banquet of Nations is postponed until Sunday, May 10, 1970 at 6:00 p.m. It will be held at the Kansas Union cafeteria. The tickets are on sale again at the following places: 1) Room 226 Strong, 2) Raney's Drugs downtown, 3) Union check cashing desk upon reopening of the Union. For any further information, call 842-4083 in the evenings.
Masoud Moayer,
International Club President