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East Oregonian
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Mizzou demands similar to ’69,
but this time action is taken
By JIM SALTER and JIM SUHR
Associated Press
COLUMBIA, Mo. — The criticism
was blunt: Blacks at the University of
Missouri are harassed and threatened,
the university has too few Afri-
can-American faculty members, the
administration doesn’t seem to care,
and all of that needs to change.
A list of grievances issued this
month by a student group is strikingly
similar to those from 1969. This time,
though, it appears the university is
listening.
Recent racist incidents, and the
perceived lack of response by adminis-
trators, led to protests, a student hunger
strike and a threatened boycott by the
football team. It culminated Monday
in the resignations of University of
Missouri System President Tim Wolfe
and Columbia campus Chancellor R.
Bowen Loftin.
The interim president appointed
Thursday, Michael Middleton, made
it clear that he hears the concerns.
Unsurprising, since Middleton, 68,
was a founder of Missouri’s Legion of
Black Collegians who issued that set of
demands 46 years ago.
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devote attention to addressing those
demands,” Middleton said at his
introductory news conference. “It is
imperative to hear from all students
and do everything we can to make
them comfortable and safe in our
community.”
In fact, the university has already
addressed several of the eight points
on the list. Chief among them was the
removal of Wolfe, but other moves
have followed.
One day after the resignations, a
veteran associate law school dean,
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A member of the black student protest group Concerned Student 1950
addresses a crowd following the announcement that University of Mis-
souri President Tim Wolfe would resign, at the university in Columbia, Mo.
Chuck Henson, who is black, was
named to the new position of interim
vice chancellor for inclusion, diversity
and equity. The university’s governing
board also pledged more support for
those who experience discrimination
and said diversity and inclusion
training will become mandatory for
faculty, staff and students. On Friday,
Gov. Jay Nixon named Yvonne Sparks
to the Board of Curators, the second
black member of the nine-person panel.
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Sen. Roy Blunt’s son and campaign
manager, to represent it in Jefferson
City, agreeing to pay $10,000 per
month in a contract signed Monday.
Many students are hopeful, but want
to see more action.
“Really it just comes down to
holding these people accountable,”
said Shelbey Parnell, an organizer of
Concerned Student 1950, the group that
issued the demands. “They’re saying a
lot of these things in the moment.”
Many of the issues cited nearly
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document cited physical threats by
whites against blacks, with frequent
threats made to what was then known
as the Black Culture House. This week,
the university’s black culture center
reported a threat, and its sign was
spray-painted by vandals.
The 1969 list expressed concern
about the “nonchalant attitude on the
part of the university,” saying it made it
“a haven for comprehensive institution-
alized racist and political repression.”
Tour bus crashes, injuring 20
SAN
FRANCISCO
(AP) — A double-decker
tourist bus careened wildly
out of control Friday in San
Francisco’s crowded Union
Square, running down a
bicyclist, at least two pedes-
trians and striking several
cars before it plowed into
scaffolding lining a construc-
tion site. Twenty people were
hurt, including six critically.
Twelve people suffered
minor injuries in the crash
that happened just before
3 p.m., San Francisco Fire
Chief Joanne Hayes-White
said. The others suffered
moderate injuries.
Union
Square
was
crowded with shoppers and
tourists when, according to
eyewitnesses, the bus came
roaring across two city
blocks at a high rate of speed.
It struck several moving
vehicles in its path as well
as the bicyclist and the two
pedestrians, the latter ending
up trapped underneath the
vehicle after it plowed into
the scaffolding.
It also knocked down
several power lines used
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electrical buses.
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the two people under the bus
as well as one trapped on the
top deck, Hayes-White said.
As many as 30 people were
believed to have been on
board when the vehicle went
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MUNI workers assess the scene of a crash near Union
Square in San Francisco, Calif. on Friday. According to
The San Francisco Fire Department, a double-decker
tour bus crashed into multiple vehicles and pedestrians.
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the wreckage, Hayes-White
said. But she added it was too
early to speculate about what
caused him to lose control.
“The police department
will investigate what those
circumstances
involved,
whether it was mechanical
failure, whether it was driver
error. It’s way too early to tell
right now,” she said.
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couldn’t immediately say
which bus company owned
the vehicle.
Union Square is one of
the city’s most popular tourist
destinations with several
high-end stores, including
Macy’s and Saks Fifth Avenue,
as well as its Union Square
Park and its skating rink.
In the crash’s aftermath,
the area was a chaotic scene,
with crashed vehicles scat-
tered here and there and live
electrical lines on the ground.
Hoda Emam said she
rounded a corner at Union
Square and saw the chaotic
scene from half a block
away. She heard sirens and
emergency workers running
toward the accident.
“Everybody was asking
what’s going on,” said Emam,
a Bay Area resident in San
Francisco on personal business.
“There were still ambulances
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with stretchers coming up.”
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abortion case since 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Supreme Court is taking
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eight years, a dispute over
state regulation of abortion
clinics.
The justices said Friday
they will hear arguments over
a Texas law that would leave
about 10 abortion clinics open
across the state. A decision
should come by late June, four
months before the presidential
election.
The high court previously
blocked parts of the Texas
law. The court took no action
on a separate appeal from
Mississippi, where a state law
would close the only abortion
clinic, in Jackson.
Arguments will take place
in February or March.
States have enacted a wave
of measures in recent years
that have placed restrictions on
when in a pregnancy abortions
may be performed, imposed
limits on abortions using drugs
instead of surgery and raised
standards for clinics and the
doctors who work in them.
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the last category. In Texas, the
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of the law that Gov. Rick
Perry signed in 2013. One
requires abortion facilities to
be constructed like surgical
centers. The other allows
doctors to perform abortions
at clinics only if they have
admitting privileges at a local
hospital.
Backers of the regulations
say they are common-sense
measures intended to protect
women. Abortion rights
groups say the regulations
have only one aim: to make
it harder, if not impossible,
for women to get abortions in
Texas.
“Texans should have full
freedom to prioritize women’s
health and safety over the
bottom line of abortionists,”
said Alliance Defending
Freedom senior counsel
Steven H. Aden.
But Nancy Northup, pres-
ident and CEO of the Center
for Reproductive Rights,
disagreed about the purpose
of the law. “This law does
not advance women’s health
and in fact undermines it,”
Northup said.
Texas had 41 abortion
clinics before the clinic law.
More than half of those closed
when the admitting privileges
requirement was allowed to
take effect. Nineteen clinics
remain.
Northup said the effect of
the law has been to increase
wait times for women in the
Dallas area from an average of
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The focus of the dispute at
the Supreme Court is whether
the law imposes what the court
has called an undue burden on
a woman’s constitutional right
to an abortion. If allowed to
take full effect, the law would
leave no abortion clinics west
of San Antonio and only one
operating on a limited basis in
the Rio Grande Valley.
The state has argued that
women in west Texas already
cross into New Mexico to
obtain abortions at a clinic in
suburban El Paso.
Leaders seek answers in police custody death
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Black leaders
in Virginia want the state’s attorney general
to take over the investigation into the death
of a man who was shocked repeatedly by
police with stun guns, saying they are
frustrated no decision has been made about
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Leaders of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People from
across the state will gather Saturday to call
on Attorney General Mark Herring to step
in for Halifax County Commonwealth’s
Attorney Tracy Quackenbush Martin, who
has been reviewing the death of 46-year-old
Linwood R. Lambert Jr. for two years.
“We want to know why it is taking so
long for the commonwealth attorney to
move forward on this,” said Kevin Chan-
dler, president of the local NAACP branch
and pastor in South Boston, a town of about
8,000 in southern Virginia.
A spokesman for Herring said that crim-
inal cases are the generally the exclusive
responsibility of local prosecutors and the
attorney general doesn’t have the authority
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reached out to Virginia State Conference
NAACP leadership to see how they can
help address their concerns.
“The video of the encounter is very
troubling, and the matter clearly deserves
a thorough, deliberate investigation and a
prompt and just resolution,” spokesman
Michael Kelly said in an email.
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