Exclusive interview with Vice President Spiro Agnew pages 2 and 3 VicTlv^Wpnt P ^ ^ r B d conducting an Interview with Vice President Spiro Agnew In Agnew s hotei suite during his visit to Wichita. Demonstration becomes disruption Land your support Tile student body has a responsibility to fulfill on Saturday Students orrested at CSR afternoon, October 31, to participate at the first home game since^ the tragic air accident of October 2. It is not simply a matter of attendance ... it is more, much more. This is not just another football game. It may be truly said that anti-Agnew demonstration the nation will be supporting our players and coaches on Saturday, and will be noting our response as a University. 1 believe that it is and Kimball; Kimball took the College-1; Carol (Cookie) Bjostad, 19. Wichita. within our power to turn out in such numbers as to inspire our By Steve Koski campaign poster off his neck, player-student friends. We will have an opportunity tg demonstrate flin^ng it at Miller. According to No one was injured in the What was biiied as a peaceful disturbance. The majority of our respect for the families of those injured and lost who wili be in witnesses Miller was agitated be­ attendance. We will be able to acknowledge the courage of the anti-Agnfew demonstration out cause of the campaign poster those arrested were charged with side Century II Qvic Center failing to leave a riotbus area. players who chose to go on in the face of adversity unparalled in the around Kimball’s neck. Kimball history of intercollegiate athletics. And we will be able to express where Vice IVesident Spiro f.- Tyson and Kimball were charged was arrested and chained with our solidarity as a community. Agnew was speaking at a Repub­ with disturbing the peace and using “violent and profane lan­ Maybe Saturday is the day we ask to be excused from other lican Bind raising dinner, erupt­ use of vile and profane language. guage” in a speech, according to responsibilities for three hours. I wholeheartedly hope that you will ed into a disturbance TTiursday Miller. Bond was set a $125 per person. night. Miller and two city police All those arrested were said to respond. Mike James, President Trouble began when officere escorted Kimball across have been released on bond late Student Government Association Sedgwick County Sheriff Vem the street to the city police Hiursday night. Milier arrested George Kimball, department. Part of the crowd long-haired candidate for sheriff ran after Milier shouting ques­ of Douglas County, who was a tions and angry obscenities. featured speaker at the rally. CSR representatives restored When Miller arrived at the order in the crowd. Moments Committee for Student Rights later approximately 30 uniform­ (CSR) “ Agnew Parody” early In ed police marched from the po­ the evening the 360 persons lice station to the front of the standing around the podium library. Miller returned with Col. directly north of the city library Floyd B. Hannon of the city T sarcastically greeted him with police department and ordered cheers and applause. the crowd to disperse or be When the program began arrested. Five young people in Miller was largely ignored by the eluding at least one CSR mem­ crowd which was greatly amused ber who was trying to restore by the humorous speeches par­ order were promptly arrested. odying Agnew's political rhetor­ Some time later several others ic complete with a kazoo band wete arrested. accompaniment to the “Star- Hiose arrested include: iwo Spangled Banner” and “My juveniles, both 17-year-old IT 1 Country ’Tis of'Iliee.” males; George B. Kimball. 2B. Kimball was the final speaker Lawrence, Kan.; Robert G. of the program, perpetrating the Tyson, 26, a student at FViends light-hearted spirit evident at the University; Michael Lohrenz, IB. demonstration with his humor­ and Robert Hamrick, 18, Ster­ ous campaign speech. Kimball ling College students; Fred was wearing a Vem Miller cam­ Janney, 24, Wichita State alum­ paign poster around his neck. ni; Ralph Coffman. 20, Univer­ I While Kimball was at the po- sity College-1, Warren Swafford. Idium someone told him Miller 20, Wichita; Larry Kale. 23. Iwas standing about ten feet be- Wichita State graduate student; Cn'Y POLICE officers escorted this youth and twelve others across the street to jail after a disturbance jhlnd him. There was an ex- Dianna Kale, 22, Fine Arts-2; broke out at a OSR sponsored Anti- Agnew Rally near Century II Tliursday nl^t. Tke youths were later Ichange of words between Miller Brice L. Warnick, 20. University released on bond. (See related picture page 6) Wichita State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives 7VtoSun/7ou«r. Friday, October 30,1970 N o ’ Agnew says, highly motivated people outside the government. Michael Bates, University CoUege-2, conducted words, would you be in student politics or And each one of them has a peculiar facility of an exclusive intervievr with Vice President Spiro T. ecology, or what? being able to come in and say to me: Well, look. A^new at his hotel suite Thursday evening before VP: I just don’t know how to answer that I’m interested in health; let education take care of the GOP benefit banquet held earlier that night. because my political activities emerged rather late itself, but you can spend a lot more money in the Pollovring is word for word account of the in my life and during my college years, I was much health area. But I’m there in the catbird seat interview-Editor. more interested in the conventional pursuits of the expected to reach some compromising adjustment day-fraternity activities, athletics and the things that will make all these people happy. And it’s the Bates: What I’d basically like to center around, that voung people were doing in those days. TTiere same thing In educatlon-lt’s very difficult for since we have such a short time, is more or less wasn’t this overpowering sense of social conscious­ students to understand the problems in govern your thoughts about college and college kids ness that exists at the present time. TTiere was ment. And I think the best thing we could do today. In other words, after your many trips more of an Interest in students separating Into through our discourses with them Is to make them throughout the United States, and after speaking ^ u p s that w«re b ro u ^t about by their aspira­ understand Uiat a lot of the things they advance as to the thousands of people, what is your concept tions for the future, rather than their concern for solutions have been tried, and some of them have of just the typical American university student? contemporary problems. In short, the engineering been rejected and some of them are in the course VP: I don’t think thm ’s such a thing as a students sort of hung together, the liberal arts of going through the tedious process of legislation typical American university student and too fre­ students did, and everyone was sort of Interested and will emerge eventually, but that the rapid quently we're asked to reach a conclusion that in how to get ahead in his chosen course of action. changes that are bom of brilliance in the individual there is. The people who ask for a composite Bafes. That’s still basically true, I think. Do usually turn out to be not as brilliant as they university student raise the question that one Is you think this overpowering sense of social con­ seemed originally when you start to test them sciousness is bad? Do you think the awareness is potentially in existence. The same for the people a^inst reality. going to benefit the students later on? in the communications media who love their Bates: Do you think that-I hate to use the generalizations of the young, the black and the VP. I think it’s a good thing, and it should be inaccessibility of government leaders-that the sort poor, but our society is so varied, so infinitely encouraged and stimulated, but it should not be of protective world of government leaders is a complex that it’s unrealistic to expect that a regarded as simpllstlcally as it is on most hindrance to college students understanding gov­ bunch of young people coming from different campuses. The prlndpal fault I find with It is that ernmental problems? In other words, if they had backgrounds, coming from different areas, and without doing sufficient research and study in a access to the machinery of government more, centering in a university, would Immediately as­ certain area, students will im m ediately assume could talk with people, say, like I’m talking to sume a homogeneous quality that they would all that whatever is being done govemmentally. or by you- do you think it would be a help? think alike. Now, there is a ten d en cy ,, in that the Establishment, is automatically bad. And that circumstance, to develop a peer opinion. I agree it can be improved by doing something else that’s VP: It would- and yet, I think there’s a lot with that, but I think that if you go around the being stumped for by people outside the Establish­ more of it that goes on than we give it credit for. college campuses, youTl find the great variety of ment. Now, this is not unusual, and it’s not We have intern programs in the White House- opinion among students.