THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
80th Year, No. 88
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, Feb. 27, 1970
BSU presents 'demands'
A five-page list of demands from the KU Black Student Union (BSU) was presented to Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. Thursday.
The list was presented by BSU chairman John Spearman, Lawrence sophomore.
The BSU demanded that the following administrative positions be held by blacks by September 1: Campus provost, associate dean of faculties, associate dean of student affairs, associate dean of men, associate dean of women, associate director of admissions and associate director of financial aid.
The BSU also demanded that by September 1971, the University have
at least five deans and associate deans, and that at least one be appointed by September this year. Other PSU dorments were
At least 10 per cent of the freshman class be black; every school at the University have at least one full-time black faculty member by September this fall; and within two years 10 per cent of faculty members be blacks.
The BSU demanded that every department at the University have a black faculty member by next fall and also five black graduate students, including one instructor.
The demand list said that the University Senate Executive Committee
was to have two black students immediately, and that all University committees were to include blacks.
The BSU further demanded that KU create a black studies department to hold the same number of faculty members as other college departments.
Copies of the demands will be distributed to the various administrators for them to prepare a response, Chalmers said.
The Chancellor also said he would prepare a response himself and that he hoped to present the response to the BSU late next week.
The BSU statement said, "Our position is clear. We have requested
no more than our dignity permits for those things which this place should have, before it dare call itself a University. We have been done a great wrong and now demand only that it be righted.
"We intend to dedicate ourselves to see that this document becomes a living reality. Our suffering has a limit. We think it very 'inappropriate' to talk of 'appropriateness,' we want ACTION," said the statement. Regarding the alleged obscene material in the BSU paper, Harambee, Spearman said he had not been asked about considering litigation to test Kansas statutes pertaining to obscenity.
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Meany enters rail talks
WASHINGTON — AFL-CIO President George Meany threw the prestige and power of himself and his office into an effort today to settle a railroad union contract dispute that has frustrated 15 months of bargaining and threatened to bring on a nationwide rail shutdown.
Campuses quieting down
Like a fever, the student revolution appears for now to have run its course. But nobody is saying the violence is gone for good.
"There is still a great deal of seething discontent on some campuses," said M. Brewster Smith, chairman of the psychology department at the University of Chicago. Other academicians agree.
Roommates poisoned
MONTREAL—Police hunted today for an American student charged with trying to kill his four Canadian college roommates by putting the larvae of a pig parasite in their food. Two of them nearly died.
Deputy given new trial
SAIGON—The government granted a new trial today to the neutralist national assembly deputy sentenced two days ago to 20 years at hard labor for having ties with the Viet Cong.
Chau had appealed in letters to President Thieu and President Nixon to help him prove his innocence. The extensive news coverage of his trial put Chau in the role of a martyr being persecuted by the Thieu regime.
Specifically, the deputy, Tran Ngoc Chau, was charged with meeting eight times with his brother, Tran Ngoc Hien, a North Vietnamese agent who since has been captured and interned.
Oil plagues beaches
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—The tide pushed a five-mile long crude oil slick back toward shore today and the Coast Guard said the slimy mass was a possible pollution threat to resort beaches.
Meeting plans campaign
"What this meeting is about." Bill Ebert, Topeka junior and Alliance student body presidential candidate said, "is to let everyone understand the issues."
The meeting Ebert referred to, drew nearly 60 Alliance supporters Thursday evening in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
Ebert outlined the party's campaign for the next three weeks and urged candidates to become familiar with the Alliance platform. "It's more complete than ISP's platform," he said, "and I refuse to put something so broad and general down as they have that you can't glean any information out of it."
He also reminded candidates of
"the students past lack of involvement," which he blamed on student government.
Greg Thomas, Alliance vicepresidential candidate said, "We are unified here tonight to go out and do something for the University."
When asked which were the more important issues of the campaign, Ebert said, "We have plans for a survival studies program that will result in utilizing a group of people knowledgeable about the problem. Also we plan to educate the students, facing them with the immediate needs of these problems.
supporting their programs and revise the Western Civilization program all in an attempt to let the student work out his own academic program.
"Also we plan to eliminate areas of discrimination with the Haskell Indians by developing exchange programs, such as allowing them to come to our concerts."
"We plan to assist in the current Black Committee Studies,
Rick von Ende, Abilene, Tex., graduate student reminded candidates that they could "draw 'pyramid-voting' by pooling slates of candidates." He urged candidates to get together in their respective colleges and identify themselves with the Alliance party which would help the voters in linking candidates to the Alliance ticket.
Rioters destroy bank
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (UPI)—Gov. Ronald Reagan declared a "state of extreme emergency" in Santa Barbara Thursday and said he was prepared to declare martial law to halt renewal of rioting which saw a campus mob of 1,500 seize a three-block business district and burn down a bank.
Reagan said he was asking the state attorney general to investigate whether William Kunstler, attorney for the "Chicago Seven," had crossed state lines to incite a riot in a speech at the University of California at Santa Barbara which preceded the six-hour rampage.
A $250,000 Bank of America branch was destroyed by arsonists as a "symbol of great corporations supporting the war in Vietnam." A coin laundry was also gutted, four real estate offices broken into and windows smashed in a delicatessen and other buildings in the Isla Vista district a few blocks from the UCSB campus.
The decree authorized the Santa Barbara County Sheriff to call on all other law enforcement agencies for help. Reagan also gave authority to state officials on the scene to call in the California
National Guard without further action by the governor.
Reagan said the persons who beat and showered rocks on sheriff's deputies were "cowardly little bums."
The Bank of America headquarters in San Francisco, the world's largest banking system, termed the burning of its Isla Vista building an act of "insurrection" and offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those who set the fires.
Deputies were summoned from two neighboring counties and a force of 450 helmeted officers swept into the Isla Vista district at 2 a.m. to break up the six-hour rampage a few blocks from the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Attorney William Kunstler had addressed a crowd of more than 5,000 students at the UCSB football stadium Wednesday afternoon, exhorting them to make the defendants at the Chicago trial a symbol. Kunstler said he did not consider sporadic violence a "good tactic" but then added:
"I think we have to show the so-called establishment a voice that's strong and clear and then they'll have to judge their future course accordingly."
Almost all the students left the stadium peacably and dispersed, but a small group gathered in a park and as night fell the crowd grew, many of them non-students. They marched down the Embarcadero Del Mar and forced sheriff's deputies to retreat from a three-block area which they held until the mass assault by officers.
A Bank of America branch office was broken into and drapes and furniture set ablaze until the entire two-story structure was burned to a shell while onlookers shouted: "The Bank of America breaks human laws. Death to corporations."
Thirteen fire companies responded to the alarm, but the firemen were forced to turn back when the rioters hurled rocks at them and threw garbage cans filled with stones at the vehicles. The vault of the bank withstood the flames.
Twenty-six police officers were injured, with four of them taken to a hospital. One deputy suffered a possible concussion and another sustained a slash in the chin that required 15 stitches.
Student dissidents denied the lawyer's appearance was the cause of the violence. They blamed "police harassment" and the firing of a professor.