Professors passed by for promotion
Students asked to support Velvel, Litto
University of Kansas students are being asked to express their support next week for two KU professors passed over for promotion by the Kansas Board of Regents.
Activities are being planned by a group of individuals who want to see that something is done about the issue, said Lawrence seniors John Naramore and John Writt, yesterday.
New AURH officers sought for next year
The Association of University Residence Halls Council met Wednesday evening in Ellsworth Hall to discuss the forthcoming election of officers.
Keith Jorgensen, Mission junior and AURH president, said anyone living in a residence hall was eligible to run for office, but some first-hand knowledge of how the AURH functions was desirable for a candidate.
There are five AURH offices to be filled. Committee chairmen
The elections will take place at the April 22 AURH Council meeting. The time and place have not yet been announced. At the meeting, any individual may announce his candidacy or may be nominated from the floor.
will be appointed by the Executive board.
After nomination speeches, a panel discussion will be held. Following the discussion, members of the Council will vote. A candidate must receive a majority of the votes to win.
Campus police disturbed by barrage of snowballs
and policeman were the object of the snowballs.
A second car arrived on the scene, only to be met with a second barrage of white projectiles. Both officers retreated to the safety of their cars.
What may be the first confrontation of the "spring offensive" took place in front of Strong Hall Wednesday afternoon.
The officers pleas were met with glee and another flourish of hurling white objects. After a few tense moments of silence, the policemen retreated to the Jaya-hawk Drive traffic control booth.
The two professors, Lawrence Velvel, associate professor of law, and Fredric Litto, assistant professor of speech and drama, were dropped from a list of faculty members recommended for promotion, because of their controversial activities.
Naramore and Writt said the matter went beyond Velvel and Litto. For two years this University had been going through a process of securing and insuring student rights and University autonomy, they said. Efforts were being made to develop a working system whereby the University could handle its own affairs. By their action the Regents were negating all that had been done, Naramore said.
Their retreat was termed an obvious victory for the People, by activist leaders.
week on the issue. Tentative plans include a mass meeting Tuesday night in the Kansas Union or Wesley Center, a demonstration Wednesday afternoon in front of Strong Hall and a possible strike against classes one day next week.
Velvel had been dropped because of his speech Feb. 17 to a group demonstrating against the trial of the Chicago Seven. Littos name was deleted for his part in producing a play which was to be performed behind the Iron Curtain. The play was criticized by Congress as being in poor taste to be sent abroad.
The goal of the students is to inform the people, Naramore said. Leaflets will be distributed next
A group of students, engaged in a snowball fight, were confronted by a campus policeman and asked to stop the melee.
Regents can say what is taught and who teaches it," said Writt.
As the situation stands, the
According to Naramore, this was an issue that should draw total University support since it concerns everybody, whether they realized it or not.
"They are exercizing their authority too much and playing politics with the University. The Regents are making University structural government ineffectual," the students said.
As the policeman arrived, red light flashing, the dissidents drew back and reformed. Soon the car
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