The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 73, No. 124, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1987 Page: 1 of 14
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cr state colleges.
Cox mentioned alleged inci-
dcnjs harassment toward black
reportedly oc-
-jrred during the Big Eight Con-
WASHINGTON - President
Reagan acknowledged Wednes-
day night that his bnce-secret Ira-
nian initiative “deteriorated” into
an arms-for-hostages deal
, “It was a mistake," he said.
Noting he had not said much
©out the affair since November,
Reagan said, “I’ve paid a i
for my silence in terms of your
trust and confidence, but I nave
had to wait, as have you, for the
complete story.”
House
The Huston Huffman Center
also was brought up and Carr
said there should be no prob-
lem between the expansion of
the center and the relocation of
the BPU.
The next topic was black par-
ticipation in the BPU. Lewis
said of 1,000 black students at
OU, 200-300 are involved in the
organization and only 60 are ac-
tive members.
One student said the black
students that did not participate
were simply "lazy folk” who
would not get involved regard-
less of the effort.
Lewis’ solutions to the prob-
lem were centralized leadership
and recruitment of native Afri-
can students.
The BPU Constitution next
came under scrutiny when one
student said the organization
had accomplished the goals list-
ed in the constitution.
Lewis said that if this was
true, the group had not empha-
sized these aims.
an appointment.
Sam Armstrong, Bellmon's
press secretary, said “He is not
time,"Cr'r'8 tfl*S Po'ss*bility a* this
great speech
night I ‘
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for Uncle 9am
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disappointed” with “some who
served me,” Reagan said: “As
personally distasteful as I find se-
cret bank accounts and diverted
happened
Reagan
on the many mysteries of the
••a ■ —— waaaa auiw VHIV13
Will have to find out where the
■A bill to implement the re-
gents’ plan is under consideration
m the House Appropriations
Gortrmittee.
University.
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?.tate r.e?en,s’ Student reprcsenta- hca.rin8 Wednesday at the state
i stated. SaP,to1 J0, discuss recommenda-
state board of ri Education Task Force. ‘ “ W“ doc“™n‘ed’
nnw<ar -------"“a “,e Rep. Kevin Cox. D-Oklahoma
power to appoint persons to the rlty’ ,old ,he s,a,e regents to re-
« recommendation which
governor would appoint 'he'sai’rt the hqUl^ng a <j,Judent ,o serve on W°o ? ehm,na,c Langston’s urban
a . PP° . ’ he Sd d- . e bnard would mean an Okla, outlets in Oklahoma City and
Tulsa.
He and other state legislators
and Langston University officials
said blacks would not attend a
university other than Langston
lane, or fired NSC aide Oliver
North.
------------ .UM uumcu Oval Office address Bole, R'Kansas, said the contro-
funds, as the Navy would say, this markcd Reagan’s first response v5rS' *lsn t behind him yet, but
happened on my watch.” to^he^Tower commission’s criti- ^start.” He said future aid to
by■. thread?”" " ™
...j Bole added, “Some wanted an
arms-to-Iran policy. aP°'°gy; my own view is he
shouldn’t have gone that far. He
BPU President Thomas Lewis addresses a i—
BPU debates need for
by Anthony thadld
I Minority Affairs Reporter
A general meeting of the
Black People’s Union broke
into a heated discussion
Wednesday over the need for
new direction in the
organization.
BPU President Thomas Lew-
is opened the meeting, posing
questions like “Have we
evolved into an organization
without a clear purpose?" and
‘Are we concentrating on a
purpose?”
Other questions revolved
around such issues as the BPU
role in academics, fostering
competitiveness and facilitating
separatism.
But the speech turned to a
floor dialogue, with some in the
audience questioning lack of di-
rection at Tomorrow’s Black
Sunshine, a i—
to recruit high sch<
Norris Williams, coordinator
of Black Student Services, re-
sponded, saying many college
. f'J ahoma
Ukl^hcjm^
OKLAHOMA CITY - Rus-
sell Vaught abruptly resigned
from the state Regents for Higher
Education on Wednesday, endini
speculation of a legal fight
the governor’s office ovei
status.
In a related development, an-
other regent charged that the
state Open Meeting Act was vio-
lated in the way a regents’ meet-
ing on Chancellor Joe Leone’s
status was canceled.
Vaught, a 13-year veteran of
the board, submitted a letter to
Gov. Hemy Bellmon saying he
was resigning effectively
immediately.
The Midwest City man said he
regretted there was a "misunder- w,CiUpi
standing between the governor’s Oklahoma
office and himself over his status
on .he regents N,ard. lo^sl^Zof^fe
• dislodge Leone from his
post as chancellor.
A majority of state regents are
known to support Leone and a
Wednesday morning for a vote of
confidence for the embattled
official.
But the chancellor’s office an-
- ------/ me meet-
ing had been canceled.
J.D. Helms, regent from Okla-
homa City, said Leone’s office
went against the advice of the at-
. , --r™, a student would
roaden the views of the people
‘’u the board of regents.
I have no problem with it,"
Helms said.
Although students would suffer
from some inexperience to a de-
gree, that is true of anyone the
. Appointing the student would
. v . ------- Bnv iuidrc,
he said.
The student <
tion states an advisory board
sen.alives from "Ons
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a 7” misiaKes were made
,on my watch; president says in nationwide address
“disaDDointed” with ...kd Poindexter and Robert McFar- that authorized arms ..u. . . ..
Once again Reagan said he
didn t know in advance about the
diversion of arms proceeds to the
Nicaraguan rebels even though,
as president, I cannot escape
He defended his management
style for its success in the past
personnel and nalioW TOrh
nnlimr DAn»n.. La '
w— rcvcni
appointees and said he’d told his
a s,udent to serve on
----,.„W1J mean an Okla-
homa constitutional change, he
Helms said the state regents
Thanksgiving.”
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.,
called the speech “window dress-
ing,” adding, “After all, this is the
fourth meeting the president has « prcsiuem,
Jnd h'thkthe Amcncan people responsibility.”
happened1”5 t0 State W,’at Hc defendeti
fn his ' lO-minure, national!,
"a lcwSmmth.CSS' R?8a?a a Pcrsonnel a"d national sec,
a few months ago, I told the policy. Reagan lauded his
^!r£nhp€tOp C *.dld not ,rade aPPointees and said he’d t
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bilore ^rUS||bU“l?S0“d-'-«
Vaught resigns
abruptly from
state Regents
I *«-cl«tod Frew the day after Rodia was
nominated.
Vaught said he made the final
decision to resign on Wednesday.
He declined comment on ques-
tions as to whether he felt pres-
-ing sured to resign or whether he had
with been treated fairly by the gover-
over his nor’s office. ’
Asked if he would have been
resigning if the governor’s office
had not taken action last week to
replace him, Vaught said: “I
• think ^that just kind of brought it
In a statement, Vaught said his
resignation will “help me to be
able to devote more time to my
personal business endeavors and
to devote more time to some of
the projects which I am working
on which will benefit the econom-
ic development of the state of
The resignation of Vaught, a
■ ---tJWLSL/v/i IVI I inf C |C
Last week, Bellmon announced considered a plus for Bellmon’s
he was nominating Ernest Rodia effort to dislodge Leone from his
of Lawton to replace Vaught,
whose term was not up until 1991 ’
The governor’s office released a .-----ri~.. ai
letter in which Vaught offered to meeting had been called
resign last September.
But on Tuesday, former Gov.
George Nigh said he never ac-
•ng with Vaught that Vaught --------
would remain on the board and
he wrote a letter to that effect on
Dec. 9,
The govetnor-s office said it did Sncdfi”'an"oundn8 «*
) 2
that authorized arms sales to
Iran.
-Sna„te.^inorify Leader Robert
•mu.#, as me wavy would say, this ,,,a,*BU pagan s first response ^rsy “isn’t behind him yet, but
happened on my watch.” l? ^e Tower commission’s criti- s • s,art-’’ He said future aid to
Reagan s remarks shed no light cis!n detached management l Contra rebels is now “hanging
the many mysteries of the 'tY1* iboui .I.v Jc- hv a ,hr‘’Qr* ”
Iran-Contra affair and said others tai s and consequences of his
7---:c w“‘ w,,c,c me arms-to-Iran policy.
^tesi"h^ h^SrEES
"a'1°Ml •*■*» ^ X^XhisiS It” heen a great speech
~ OKLAHOMA CITY - A
House committee approved a bill
Wednesday that would raise tu-
ition over a period of four years
until college students are paying
■< the national average for higher
education.
However, Rep. Penny Wil-
hams, D-Tulsa, chairwoman of
the House Higher Education
Committee, said the bill is not the
final word on tuition increases.
“I don’t expect this to be decid-
ed before May or June. There is
still the appropriations process
this must go through,” Williams
said.
She said the bill recommended
by her committee will serve as a
vehicle for increasing tuition at
Oklahoma’s universities, colleges
and junior colleges if no other bill
survives legislative scrutiny.
The bill would provide that tu-
ition will be raised through 1991
at which time the cost will even
the national average for what stu-
dents pay for their own
ethication.
The bill would allow increases
in tuition ranging from 25 percent
to 35 percent across the board for
the three tiers of higher educa-
tion institutions - comprehen-
sive universities, the regional
schools and junior colleges.
The bill does not set out a dol-
lar amount that should be
achieved. That will come later
when the budget for the universi-
ties and colleges is settled.
Williams also said that spread-
ing out the tuition increases over
four years would not create an
instant money drain on the
treasury.
The committee also voted earli-
er to send Gov. Henry Bellmon’s
tuition proposal on to the House
Rules Committee for further
consideration.
That bill was referred to both
t * ;
rules panels by House Speaker
Jim Barker, D-Muskogee.
siMC|Phe RanCr .R:TurPin> OklaKiT^t
said the Bellmon administration i - ---
package would increase tuition I
institutions.
Mudent Congress passed a res-
Bellmon has proposed raisina 2*ut,on Tuesday night calling for
about $34 million from the tuition , crcatl0n and implementation •; • i ° wv‘
increase. °* a student advisory board to the !?e p ,rain *eaders for the futu
state board. he said.
F Sa,k Regen,S for. Hi^hcr Bnu‘" sP°kcsman for Gov. Hen- . The student congress resolu- c°uld probably ’create" a boird*
Education have proposed raising «y Bellmon sa.d Wednesday the states an advisory board Th d> --v man ixn^nn
" * m*n' SS
cation tier. — -*• -• ••
One member of the advisory
board would be selected by the
advisory board to serve a two-
not find the letter until Friday, ■ See Vaught, page
Legislator cites
alleged incidents
to protect Langston
Staff Reporters through Feb. 22.
A state legislator cited alleged ?3 edl,lon The ok-
racist incidents at OU as a reason nrldw urep£r,ed ,hat ,he
•he Shue Board o( Re«„u for X,he?!ack P'OP'''!
Higher Education shodd rei,?[ Ha ? h?d ?lle8cd 'hree racial in.
recommended ZTunX Xn“ 0CCU'rCd “"8 ,hc
1 'mversity. .X*cnu- .
The state regents held a m.hiir .u . »saLd “ was r?P°r‘ed to him
aring Wednesday at thePstatp J a,» a ^US cany*n8 black stu-
c.apHol’tod^TXmeS'
.JheOklah°ma Constitution es- b"ns °f ,h* Oklahoma Higher and i? wasZUe?
tabhshed the state board of re- Education Task Force. "h Jas alS .
•JU. and the governor has the „ K?™ C«. H-Oklahoma that a bn, load of Ctack stldenB
from OU went to McDonalds in
Norman at 1:30 in the evening
and were refused service," Cox
said.
“We’re not talking about 1897
when black students were man-
dated. We re talking about last
week in Oklahoma/ he said.
The OU Department of Public
. “7 J.1?0 rccord of ,hc inci-
dents at OU, and Charlie Altom
owner of the three McDonald’s
lanchises in Norman, strongly
denied the charges.
Cox also made references to
■ Set Regent, page 2
The QklahOfna Daily.
Reagan acknowledges mistakes were
The
Helms said.
Restrictions include not ap-
pointing several regents from one dents of harassrr
senool or professional areas, he students which
curred during th
general meeting Wednesday night. Photo by D A. Emrick
new direction
students had little direction in
high school. He said a lot of
awareness and pride comes af-
ter experiencing the cultural ac-
tivities at college.
The topics then began to di-
verge. One person from the au-
dience said the BPU did not
need to redefine the goals.
Another person cited the
power of the BPU relative to
the reaction and resistance of
other groups on campus. He
said UOSA sees the BPU as a
threat or a force.
. "I feel the BPU is the
important organization on cam-
pus.” one student said.
After UOSA’s relationship
with the BPU was mentioned
several times, Terry Carr, a stu-
dent congress vice-chairwoman,
said there is no animosity be-
tween the UOSA and the BPU
She said UOSA tries to make
ns SK
budgetary limits.
She also cited the BPU as a
large recipient of UOSA funds.
Regent says student appointment
•h. Mgbe, e^o„ .;d^ board new Perspective
! a student to the
^tate Board of Re-
gents for Higher Education would
bring new perspective to the
Wednesday;
Siudcni Congress p;
olution Tuesday night
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Ferguson, Doug. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 73, No. 124, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1987, newspaper, March 5, 1987; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1822176/m1/1/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Communications+-+Newspapers%22: accessed July 5, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.