Rioters and police recall Carbondale 1970 riots
Lt. Terry Murphy and Lt. Jerry Reno remember a mob turning on law enforcement in May 1970 in Carbondale. SIU Security Police and National Guardsmen faced tear gas, long shifts, and encircled officers. Kent State fears and constitutional rights framed actions while rescue efforts and car assaults left civilians shaken.
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Murphy
Carbondale
Southern Illinois University
Jerry Reno
University of California At Berkeley
Reno
Illinois State Police
SIU
Carl Kirk
Kirk
Kent State University
Ohio
Kent State
John Allen
SIUC
Allen
National Guard
Chuck Novara
Woody Hall
Free Forum
In loco parentis in higher education debated over rights
The piece discusses the persistence of the in loco parentis concept at Southern Illinois University and its influence on student protest in the 1960s. Richard Richman contrasts strict campus discipline with today’s climate, noting court rulings on searches and the risk of renewed parental governance in colleges amid rising conservatism and student anxiety about the future.
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Nancy Weil
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois University
SIU
Richard Richman
Jackson County
Richman
University of California At Berkeley
Supreme Court
Washington
Western Illinois University
Nazi Germany
Russia
Regional state trooper sues over sex harassment charges
Colleen M. Boaden, a Tay lorville resident and female state trooper, sues in federal court alleging Academy counselor Wallace White sexually harassed her and supervisors discriminated against her. The $500,000 suit names White, Dakin, Ryan, and Bateman, cites past discipline of White, and claims harassment began in 1982 with sessions in a locked room and coercive acts as part of therapy.
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Mike Lawrence
Anthony Man
Springfield
Taylorville
Colleen M. Boaden
Wallace White
State Police
Joseph Dakin
Carbondale
Jack Ryan
Arthur Bateman
Ryan
Academy
Boaden
Dakin
White
Ryan and
Bateman
Beadens
First-hand abortion tales sought for national letter drive
Southern Illinois women are urged to join a nationwide letter-writing campaign by the National Abortion Rights Action League to share personal abortion stories. Women may list their home town, and some letters may be read publicly at a Chicago Speak-Out. Letters should be sent to the Abortion Rights League or addressed to Reagan or a congressional representative, with details available from Muriel Hayward.
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Ann Schottman Knol
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois
National Abortion Rights Action League
Muriel Hayward
Southern Illinoisans For Choice
Ms. Hayward
Women’s Center
Memorial Hospital
Carbondale
Ronald Reagan
P.O. Box
Ill
Simon pushes for broad CPSC park ride inspections
U S Senator Paul Simon seeks Amusement Park Safety Act to let federal safety engineers inspect rides at parks with no local or state programs. He backs stricter notices of defects and federal orders to repair, aiming to spur state action and reduce accidents since 1984.
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U.S
Paul Simon
D-Makanda
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Simon
CPSC
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