THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
80th Year, No. 85
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, Feb. 24, 1970
BSU confiscates UDK's
Members of the Black Student Union (BSU) Monday afternoon seized aproximatesan and dumped many of them in Potter Lake.
BSU members converged on circulation points in Flint Hall, Strong Hall, Murphy Hall, Summerfield Hall, and several outdoor circulation bins on campus, and carried off nearly half of the Kansans printed for the day.
Earlier in the day, BSU members called on Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. and demanded that a ruling by Attorney General Kent Frizzell concerning the BSU newspaper Harambie be delivered to them by 2 p.m.
At 2 p.m. the BSU members returned to Strong Hall, and Chalmers told them he knew of no decision by Frizzell. BSU members then replied, "We know what we have to do."
At around 2:30 p.m. the BSU, using several private cars, began collecting Kansans, waiting until delivery was made at circulation points or taking papers directly from ears of circulation drivers.
About an hour later, papers were floating in Potter Lake.
BSU members seize Kansans
Photo by Ron Bishop
Within an hour of the seizure of the Kansans, a meeting of administrative, student, and Kansan officials was held in the Chancelors office.
At the meeting, it was decided that student government leaders and Kansan staff members would meet with the BSU at 11:30 a.m. today, and BSU officials agreed to the meeting. Chalmers suggested that students alone attend the meeting, and the students agreed.
Black Student Union members confiscated the Kansan from the trunk of the delivery car at 15th and Naismith Monday afternoon. The Kansans were also confiscated at the pick up stands along Jayhawk Boulevard.
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BSU paper funds queried
The Black Studnt Union does not have proper authority to print its newspaper, David Awbrey, Hutchinson senior and student body president said.
Any appropriations for the BSU were suppose to be sent through the Student Senate and the Student Senate Audit and Finance Committee, Rick von Ende, Abilene, Texas, graduate student said.
Mark Retonde, Kansas City, Mo., senior, and head of the Student Senate Audit and Finance
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The Black Student Union (BSU) newspaper, Harambee, went on sale Monday after last week's controversial setback with the KU Printing Service.
Last Tuesday, a majority of printing service employees walked off the job in protest over allegedly obscene material. Dissatisfied, the BSU withdrew their paper.
Clarence Reynolds, Kansas City, Kansas, sophomore said, "The paper was printed in Wichita but I don't know where." Monte Beckwith, Chicago, Ill., freshman and editor would not disclose the name of the printing service in Wichita.
The paper sold for 15 cents and was distributed free to blacks.
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Committee, said that he thought the Student Executive Committee had to give the BSU authority to spend beyond what it was appropriated in September.
Von Ende said a BSU proposal should be sent to the Student Senate where its next test will be the Student Senate Audit and Finance Committee. Once the Senate has voted on it, he said, the BSU may or may not have its money.
All the confusion centers on how the BSU is to gain money once it has exhausted what the Student Senate allocated for it in September.
In the middle of the controversy is Retonde who does not think he has a responsibility for any of this. He said that last September his committee proposed that all student fundings have the provision for further money should they exhaust their allocated amount if they gained approval.
"They know the proper channels," Awbrey said, "because they made them for speaker H. Rap Brown late last year."
Retonde said that the provision passed but was only applicable to the BSU. He added that he thought the proper authority was the Student Executive Committee.
But then there is the editor of the BSU, Beckwith who does not
care. He said he knows he must have authority to gain funds, but does not understand why he should have to get it.
Fire destroys ROTC building
ST. LOUIS (UPI)—The Army ROTC building on the campus of Washington University was virtually destroyed by fire Monday, and university chancellor Thomas H. Eliot said "There is no doubt that this was arson."
About 200 students cheered flames and booed firemen trying to extinguish the blaze. The FBI was called to help with the investigation of the cause of the fire because the metal and frame building on the northwest corner of the campus is federal property.
"The Army ROTC program will continue uninterrupted, despite the obvious physical inconvenience caused by this destructive crime." Eliot said.
Col. James F. Kudrna, head of the ROTC program, called the incident "utterly shocking."
Authorities said the fire started near the files on the 187 students enrolled in the program but that files were saved because they were in fireproof cabinets.
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Bar rejects genocide treaty
ATLANTA—The American Bar Association voted 130-126 Monday against U.S. ratification of an international treaty against genocide, and one opponent of the treaty remarked that "we wouldn't be here if we hadn't committed genocide."
The ABA first rejected the idea shortly after it was proposed 21 years ago.
Court considers conduct
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court today addressed itself to the question of a criminal defendant who shouts at a judge and deliberately disrupts a trial. The outcome could be a guide for the "Chicago Seven" appeal and other similar cases.
Congress hears ABM plan
WASHINGTON—The Nixon administration, ending what was described as a month of quiet but vigorous infighting, went to Congress today with details of its plan to buy another $1.5 billion installment of the Safeguard antiballistic missile system ABM.