The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 57, No. 134, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 13, 1971 Page: 1 of 16
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Tuesday. April 1], 1971
57th Year. Na. 134
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.
Deatherage, Lunn leading
UOSA presidential vote
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Cleta Deatherage
Joe Lunn
centers
hell
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FOUND — This statae. which was stolen from the new Art Cen-
ter earlier this week, was recovered Monday. (Photo by Mike Seney)
Green Lady found
on teacher's lawn
Discount gets
okay for fall
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A student Legal Rights Fair will be presented
Monday, April 19 on the South Oval by faculty and
students in the OU College of Law
Wilson Center—Lunn leads with
73, followed by Deatherage with
70 Ryder took center president
with 178 Leading off for congres
sional seats were Tompson. 97.
and Lee 39
By DAVID SCHANZER
Major Staff Writer
against
Samuel
and
and
the
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com
A discount program between
OU students and Norman mer-
chants wil go into effect Septem-
ber 1 1971
Con-
were
Total
NBC president backs
Pentagon documentary
Newspaper Department
Oklahoma Historical Society
Oklahoma City, OK 73105
"Bar association rules prevent law students
from offering advice on a specific legal problem,"
Pat Malloy. Tulsa law junior explainer! "However,
we can help a student understand his rights and
tell where he can turn for legal help "
Free printed material which has been re-
searched hy law students and professors will be
available and books on student legal rights will
be sold Burk Brown, from the state department
ol consumer afafirs, will answei student questions
on service credit and carrying charges
A representative from the V S Department
Mbor office in Oklahoma City will answer
wage
University Apartments—Death-
erage led Lunn. 65-43 Center pre-
sident is Troutman, with 123
votes Taylor. 85. Robinson. 60
and Dura. 46. were up front in
congress elections
Former U S Sen Wayne Morse and Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union lawyer Stephen Jones of
Enid will head the list of lawyers available to
advise students on their positions under the law
Nine booths will be set up around the South
Oval where students can discuss topics such as
the draft, ecology, freedom of speech, arrests,
drugs and consumer rights from 1 30 p m -4pm
Speeches will be led by Dr Pete Kyle Mc-
Carter. interim president, at 4 p m . followed by
Jones and Morse
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questions on the minimum
The Lew School will have a minority recruit-
ment booth whe-e minority group students can
Cate Center—Results showed
Lunn. 314. leading Deatherage.
199 Burchfield held the lead for
FT MEADE. Md <UPD -
The Army granted an honorable
discharge Monday to 1st Lt
Louis P Font, a 1968 West Point
graduate who sought dismissal
from the service as a conscien-
tious objector to the Vietnam
war.
"The decision to release him
came from the Department of
the Army." said Joseph J. Hed-
ley information officer at Ft
Meade “To my knowledge
there was no explanation "
Cross Center—Deatherage
Lunn were ahead with 152
137 voles respectively. In
race for congressional seats. Zaid
led Welsh 117 to 82 votes
Font, of Puerto Rican descent
notified the Army last spring
that he could not take part in
the Vietnam war and that he in-
tended to bring war crime char-
ges against various U.S auhon
ties involved in the war
Steve Kimmel Tulsa Sr UO-
SA Congressman, and Director
of the d -count program said
the- program is one of two pro-
jects of the Consumer Bureau es-
tablished under Ladd Greeno
former I OS A president The Con-
sumer Bureau is also sponsoring
the student grocery store
NEW YORK tUPIi - Top
NBC executives Monday backed
CBS' decision to refuse to give
a House investigations subcom
mittee unbroadcast material
from its controversial documen
tary. "The Selling of the Penta-
gon ”
A spokesman at the Pentagon
said Font 24. was released be-
cause an Army selection board
recommended his discharge "for
substandard performance of du-
ty "
Officials of Ft. Meade said
the decision to end his military
service, which was to run until
1973 was made by the Pentagon
Congressional sources said
however that Font had won his
discharge because several House
members intervened in his be-
half
"1 guess the Army knew the
charges were ridiculous." said
an aide to Rep Parren J Mit-
chell. D-Md . who helped Font
win his discharge "They proba-
bly felt that since they had a
bad case it would be better just
to go get rid of him ”
Army grants dismissal to objector
after dropping disobedience charge
In the area of foreign relations, he has urged
better relation* between the U S and Latin Amer-
ica He was chairman of the Sulicommittee of U S •
!<atin American Affairs when the Alliance ror
Progress program wax initiated
center president with 392
gressional candidates
Boyle. 339, Anniess. 106
vote cast was 592
When the House Commerce
Committee's Investigations Sub-
committee sent a subpoena to
CBS last Thursday. Network
President Frank Stanton said he
In his 24 years as a senator from Oregon.
Morse opposed what he feels is the erosion of
Congress' powers hv a trend toward government
by executive supremacy
Morse sponsored or co-sponsored every major
piece of education legislation in the Senate since
1964 He was dean and professor at the University
of Oregon Law School from 1931 • 1944
—Wilbur E Storey
Arne Hansen, Tulsa graduate student and sculptor, was
reunited with his “Green Lady” Monday after her abduc-
tion from the Fred Jones Jr. Memorial Art Center last week
The OU Police Department recovered Hansen’s lime-
green plastic sculpture of a female nude Sunday night fol-
lowing a call from Lincoln Eddy, an art instructor at OU.
Eddy reported he heard a noise outside his home, 615 W.
Symmes, at ahout 11:30 p.m. Sunday. He stepped outside to
investigate and found the sculpture on his lawn, he said.
According to Bill Jones, OU chief of police, Eddv saw
no suspects.
Hansen said Tuesday, “If it hadn’t been for the paper
(the Daily), I wouldn’t have gotten it back. Everyone knew
about it, and so whoever had it was afraid to keep it. I
couldn’t believe I had gotten it back "
Greek Centers — Deatherage
ran ahead of Lunn 476-291 for
the presidential post. In the
Greek center congressional race
voting went to Josephs, 314
Moore. 191 and McCaleb. 190
Panhellenic and IFC president-
ial results showed Steve Gan-
dara. 252, over Pat Emery. 204
and Nancy Clarkson. 318. ahead
of Ann Withington. 149
would supply the film and writ-
ten transcript actually aired
But he said CBS would not sub-
mit "outtakes and other ma-
terials used in connection with
preparing the broadcasta, but
not actually broacast **
"The Selling of the Pentagon."
which took a critical look at the
Pentagon's public relations pro-
grams. was aired Feb 23 and
March 23. the latter showing in-
cluding a postscript with criti-
cism from Vice President Spiro
T Agnew. Defense Secretary
Melvin R Laird and Rep F Ed-
ward Hebert. D-La . chairman
of the House Armed Services
Committee,
Cleta Deatherage, Oklahoma
City sophomore, and Joe Lunn.
Muskogee junior, were apparent-
ly headed for a run-off in the
University of Oklahoma Student
Association presidential election
Tuesday, as Deatherage held a
slim 200-vote margin over Lunn
with the Commuter districts yet
to report in at press time for the
Daily
It appeared that the votes gain-
ed by the remaining six candi-
dates would deny either Lunn or
Deatherage the majority needed
to win outright Deatherage had
1,312 votes to Lunn's 1.075 Bob
Waters was a distant third with
292
"If the people we film or inter-
view believe their words or ac-
tions will be a happy hunting
ground for even the highest-
minded investigator, the flow of
news will dry up. and the public
itself will be the ultimste vic-
tim ’’ Reuven Frsnk, president
of NBC News slid
Run-off platforms for UOSA
presidential candidates will be
printed in the Daily Thursday.
They should be limited to 500
words and submitted no later
than 2 p.m Wednesday, accord-
ing to John Hoke, editor
Election results by
were:
Adams Center—Student Congress
president favorites were Death-
erage 161, Lunn. 137 Running
ahead for center president were
Crissman. 2456, Baker. 124 Lead-
ers In the race for congressional
seats were Griggs. 157. and Knut-
ter. 113. Total vote was 407
Kimmel explained that undei
• hr discount program, a student
gor* to a partic ipating merchant
shoMs hi* student ID and then
gets the discount agreed upon
beforehand under 'he progiam
One ol ’he benefits Norman
merchants will from the pro-
ginm i» adverting in the Okla-
homa Daily All participating
merchant* and their discounts
fm OU students will he adver-
tised in th< Daily
Morse hss been involved as sn arbitrator
mediator or negotiator in an estimated 2,000 labor
disputes From 1963 67 he served on the Presi-
dent's Special Board for disputes in the maritime
industry, steel industry, airlines, railroads and
longshoremen
The Army's charges against
him grew out of an unrelated in-
cident on Jan 21. when he alle-
gedly defied an order to leave
the 1st Army headquarters of-
fice until he had seen Lt Gen
Jonathsn O Seaman, the com-
manding general
At that time. Font wanted to
see Seaman to charge Col A
W Alexander. Ft Meade post
commander, with dereliction of
duty for allegedly failing to
maintain health standards at the
enlisted men’s barracks there
Font's claims were dismissed by
the Army
Maj Gen Robert G. Ciccolel-
la. chief of staff at the head-
quarters. ordered Font to leave
Seaman's office When he re-
fused to go. Ciccolells had him
removed and temporarily de-
tained.
Subsequently Font was charg-
ed with willfully disobeying the
general's order
Font a native of Kansas City
claimed the charges were brought
against him because he had ap-
pealed for a war crimes investi-
gation against Seaman
Gen Samuel K^ier
minder of the Aitserical Division
at the time of the Mv Lai mas-
sacre
Font's official discharge at
midnight followed the drooping
of charges that he had willfully
disobeyed an order He could
have been sentenced up to 25
years in prison if he had been
convicted of the charges
Fair features legal guidance
receive advice on how to get into law school
There will he a voters' registration booth and the
Oklahoma Civil Liberties Union will be recruiting
members for its Norman chapter
Three inmates from Granite Reformatory will
speak on prison conditions
Sen Morse, 70. is known as an educator, a
labor arbitrator and a national leader He was a
strong anti-war spokesman in the U S Senate
until his defeat in 1968 and was one of two sena-
tor* who voted against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
in 1964
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