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...legislative committee has winnowed those bills to twelve proposed laws and resolutions. If enacted, as expected, the measures will make it a misdemeanor to disturb the peace of any campus, command additional campus disciplinary action against convicted students, cancel their state financial aid for two years, and require all public campuses to develop specific codes of student behavior. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller has vetoed three stringent bills as "premature," including one that would have taken away disrupters' state scholarships. Even so, Rockefeller has signed three other bills that outlaw unauthorized firearms on campus, require new codes...
Several states have passed laws aimed at keeping nonstudent agitators off campus. The legislatures of Colorado, Oklahoma, Maryland and Tennessee have approved bills that apply private trespass rules to public campuses, or otherwise control the presence of nonstudents. Tennessee's law makes it a felony for nonstudents to enter school property "to incite, participate in, aid or assist a riot." Possible penalty: five years in the state penitentiary...
Carl B. Stokes, D.C.L., Mayor of Cleveland. You exemplify the strenuous role that must be played by qualified citizens of all races if the large public problems are to be solved...
Clark Kerr, LL.D., former president of the University of California. He continues to display those qualities that have marked him as an exemplar of the scholar in service to the public...
...acre amusement park near Little Rock, Ark., had illegally excluded Negroes. By a 7-to-l vote, the court ruled in favor of two Little Rock Negroes-Rosalyn Kyles and Doris Daniel-who had been denied membership at Lake Nixon. The "club," decided the court, was really a "public accommodation" involved in interstate commerce and was forbidden by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to discriminate against the women. In a lone dissent, Justice Black argued that Lake Nixon was in an isolated spot unlikely to attract any out-of-state travelers. But the majority pointed out that the owners...