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Ohio Independent rrlday, January 29, 1971 Student Volume 55 Number 76 Voice THe BG news Candidate approval in doubt; students sue Trustee screening disputed ByJtmMartoo Don Schener, senior (BA), Mike wanted a student on the board by their postponed until we could get more people to be truly representative of the student election can be held," Dobbeck said. and Damon Beck DeMario, senior (BA), J. Harper, senior next meeting, Feb. 6, that there is a real to apply," said Scherxer. body, the student body as a whole should (ED), and Mike Sprague, Junior (ED), question as to the validity of the final The four, however, said fault could not determine who will run in the election." STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT Two disputes over the screening said the pressure of a deadline for choices," said Scherxer. be placed specifically on any one agency "I was outraged by the whole thing Roger Coate said his action in choosing process which named the three student choosing finalists apparently resulted in for the foul-up. when I got my ballot in the mail," Miss the screening committee was legal ac- Board of Trustees candidates surfaced the three names being submitted for the HARPER SAID most of the applicants "You could blame council for the Weber said. "A screening committee is cording to the Student Body Constitution. yesterday, one from within the ranks of election by the student body. screened were unbelievably ignorant of •election process they chose, the trustees not representative of the student body." "Anybody who wanted to be on the the screening committee itself. All four are Student Court Justices. University affairs, administrative for pushing to get a student on by Feb. 6, "We have found that the screening screening committee could have been," Four of six members of the screening Scherxer said he and other screening policies and numerous other matters. some screening committee members for committee was composed of members of he said. "The Student Court members committee told The News they did not board members asked Roger Coate, "One of the people screened only endorsing the three finalists. Everybody Student Court, and that these members who were on the committee were there as vote affirmatively for anyone, but student body president, for a post- knew the names of two administrators has to share the blame," said Scherxer. are not elected by the University com- individual!,not as Court members." somewhere between planned screening ponement on the application deadline so here," said Harper. munity but appointed by Student meetings someone chose the three more competent students could be found. The four dissenters said although they THE FOUR COMMITTEE members Council," the suit states. Coate said he appointed the court finalists running in this week's election. "We were willing to go out and solicit had positively eliminated seven of the had no connection with the suit filed in The suit contends that since these members to make the selection because In an unrelated incident yesterday, people to apply for the Jobs," said nine applicants for the representative's Student Court yesterday by Manfred W. members of the committee were not of the competence shown by their being two students filed suit against Student Schener. "A majority of us were con- spot, they did not vote to keep the Dobbeck, Junior (BA), and Jan Weber, elected they have "no authority to be chosen Student Court Justices originally. Council in an effort to invalidate the vinced there were no outstanding can- remaining two students. sophomore (ED). representatives of the student body in Dobbeck and Miss Weber's suit asks election results. didates for the position who applied. "Someone apparently took that to The suit, which is to be referred to the determining the candidates." that Student Council "appoint a com- "The whole thing was handled in such mean we backed them, when we were University Board of Appeals for a ruling, "The injunction will invalidate the mittee in charge of a primary election in SELECTION COMMITTEE members a rush-rush fashion because the Trustees really trying to get the whole thing says "that if the elected student is going candidate until a free and representative which any student could run." Judge throws out Kent jury report CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) - A federal no evidence the law was unconstitutional. students and another by faculty mem- Judge struck from the record yesterday a bers who contended that the report en- special grand Jury report on violence at FORMER GOV. JAMES A. RHODES, dangered their Jobs. Kent State University, saying it could who sent National Guardsmen onto the He said the jury violated its oath of "Irreparably damage" the rights of 25 campus to break up rioting, ordered the secrecy in asserting in the report that indicted persons, mostly students. grand Jury probe. witnesses before it had "fairly U.S. District Judge William K. The shootings, which also wounded represented" events at Kent and that the Thomas also declared the report bor- nine persons, came in a confrontation witnesses "Indicted an effort at complete dered on criminal accusations against 23 between students and National Guard- impartiality." unnamed Kent State faculty members, smen. No trial date Is set for those indicted. who the grand Jury did not indict but said Thomas, in a 51 page memorandum, Kent State President Robert I. White shared the blame for the violence. said the special grand Jury went beyond said the court's invalidation of the He refused to throw out the 25 in- its powers and violated its oath of special grand Jury report on May dictments, saying there was no basis to secrecy in producing the report. violence last year at his school was stop prosecution, and refused to convene "The grand Jury is an accuser of "further proof that the Judicial process a three-Judge panel to rule on con- crime, not a trying body," Thomas said, eventually does work." stitutionality of Ohio's anti-riot law. adding that the report upset the teaching N.wtpholo by Brlon Suffans The Jury, convened in the wake of atmosphere at Kent State. He said it "I HAVE SAID on several occasions disorders at Kent State last May 4 in leveled charges "bordering on criminal that major portions of the report IN SPITE OF THE cold weather, students Bldg. to claim their copies of the fall quarter which four students were shot to death, accusations" against 23 faculty members disregarded available evidence," White turned up yesterday at the Student Services edition of the Key. Distribution will continue returned most of the indictments on riot who opposed the presence of National said. today. charges. Thomas said the plaintiffs gave Guardsmen. "This action by the federal court Is The Jury indicted 25 persons-23 of further proof that the Judicial process whom have been served with warrants eventually does work and can be relied LIFE continues Davis-Besse fight and said the Kent State administration upon In the Impending cases." had "fostered an attitude of laxity, over Dr. Thomas Lough, 42, a Kent State indulgence and permissiveness." professor indicted for inciting to riot, said Thomas' decision wss "a substantial THE REPORT CHARGED that victory but I think it's too early to tell Board advises against permit students, "observers," "cheerleaders" what the implications of the decision arc and the 23 faculty members who cir- in my case and the other 23." ByRlchBergeman DR. IRWIN OSTER, who is working board had Jurisdiction over all such own expense. culated a statement May 3 against the Perry Dickinson, special state News Editor with LIFE to block construction of Da vts- permits while the hearings were in Just the same, Dr. Oster said, guard presence all shared blame for the prosecutor In the Kent cases, said he Besse, said the companies wanted an progress. throughout the hearings the firms have shootings. asked for a copy of Thomas' 50-page LIFE won a point Wednesday at the exception to build parts of the plant the argued against any delays because it's Thomas' ruling was made on two suits memorandum but had no comment on Davis-Besse nuclear power plant group is criticising. PREVIOUSLY, there had been a costing them money. joined in his court, one by a group of the Judge's decision. hearings and may not be dropping out of "I was surprised," Dr. Oster said of the question over who did have jurisdiction, the proceedings after all. boards' decision. "I was getting the as the two power firms had applied for The Atomic Energy Commission's impression that the board was only the exemption directly to the AEC. safety licensing board ruled Wednesday receptive to Toledo Edison's demands." "The board thought the companies it would recommend to the AEC that an He said the environmental group's were trying to make an end run around exemption permit not be granted to the threat to pull out was no idle one.