LHS disturbance prompts arrest
One University of Kansas student was arrested Tuesday and a warrant was issued for another in connection with Monday's disturbance at Lawrence High School.
John Spearman Jr., Lawrence freshman, president of the KU Black Student Union and son of a member of the Lawrence school board, was arrested Tuesday morning by police on charges
of disturbing the peace. He is free on $100 bond.
Police issued a warrant for another student, Jerry Mumford, Lawrence freshman, along with Mark Dowdell, 778 Locust and a 17-year-old juvenile, all on the same charges.
The incident began Monday afternoon when Lawrence High School Black Student Union members interrupted classes to draw attention to their demands
made to principal William Medley.
Medley said, "The incident probably began in protest when students failed to elect a black girl to the cheerleading squad. Another factor might have been that the 'outsiders' had some invested interest."
Officals indicated that approximately 10 students were suspended from the high school.
Medley indicated Tuesday morning that school officials were still investigating the demonstration and that more suspensions and charges might result.
"We preferred charges of disturbing the peace against the 'outsiders'," Medley said, "and we are working individually with our students, treating them as individual cases with conferences with their parents."
Vanessa Collins, president of LHS Black Student Union said that several of the black students had received telephone threats and warnings during the night. She said, "The white people were preparing for us. They said they were getting boards with nails and rubber hoses and things like that."
Miss Collins said that many of the black students indicated to her that they were going to stay away from classes Tuesday. Medley said more than half of the nearly 100 blacks enrolled were absent from classes Tuesday.
Medley and James W. Paddock, president of the unified district board, both indicated that the students suspended were those who either caused disruption or took part in any vandalism. Paddock said that any damage would be paid for by guilty parties if identification could be made.
Media, finance topics of Vietnam discussion
About 15 students were present last night when the topic "Vietnam: U.S. Imperialism?" was discussed in the Big Eight room of the Kansas Union as part of the National Anti-War week.
Panelists were Gus diZerega, Wichita special student, Bruce Moholt, assistant professor of microbiology, and Jack Krebs, Wichita senior.
Krebs opened the discussion by explaining U.S. foreign policy. He said that the United States discouraged elections in Vietnam, and that Buddhist groups who were fighting to end the war were being repressed by the United States.
Krebs defined imperialism as "use of power over other countries regardless of the desire of those countries."
DiZerega said statistics showed that more money was going to Vietnam than to New York City.
Zerega said.
"If you wonder where the money is going, it goes to Westinghouse and other forms of big business and not to poor 'niggers'," he said.
"The enemy is not the officials in Washington, but the way the U.S. economy is right now,"di-
The mass media is brainwashing the American people, diZerega stated, because the media is dependent on private industry for advertising.
He also said that students learned from their history books that "Americans have almost always been right and the other guys have almost always been wrong."
Moholt said that if the U.S. withdrew from Vietnam, which it should, and free elections were held, this would show that the National Liberation Front (NLF) was backed by "at least 20-30 per cent" of the people.
Another part of the population, Moholt said, is loyal to Saigon in the daytime, "but at night, the NFL has no trouble getting to work."
Neff freed on parole; Schall given 10 days
David M. Neff, of 1225 Oread,
was released from the Douglas
County jail April 10 on a two-
year parole.
Neff, who was sentenced to a six-month jail sentence for painting the Jimmy Green statue and the Douglas County Court-house, was released on $1,000 bond and two-year parole. He also faces charges in St. Louis for attempting to avoid the draft.
The conditions of Neff's parole read as such: (1) to finish the removal of paint stains from the Douglas County Courthouse (2) conduct himself with decorum and dignity (3) to gain and maintain continual employment (4) to obey all laws, local, state and federal and (5) to have no dangerous weapons of any description in his possession or under his control.
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Robert Schall, 1837 Ky., was convicted Monday and sentenced to the Lawrence municipal jail for 10 days and fined $85 as a result of a disturbance which occurred on Feburary 17, the same day as the "Chicago Seven" incident at the courthouse.
Schall was one of five persons arrested as a result of the disturbance but the only one who was charged in both city and county courts.
He was arrested by Lawrence police on February 17 when he interfered with their questioning of another individual about a minor theft.
Fines for Schall included, $25 charges of resisting arrest; $25 on a charge of profane language; $25 on a charge of drinking beer on a public street, $10 on a charge of littering. A peace disturbance charge was dismissed.
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