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/q R OO M ^ O Supplement to Issue No. 15 FOUR STUDENTS ARE SUSPENDED FOR REFUSING TO STAND TRIAL Four Elon College students were |) suspended Saturday, March 7 after re- j fusing to stand trial on the charges I of writing and/or publishing material i' containing obscene words in the March 6, 1970 edition, labeled vol.l, f no. 1, of the 'Veritas Liberated Press', | knowing that said publication was to j be sold or distributed on the campus f of Elon College and in fact said pub- ! lication was sold on said campus." [ The four students are* Randall S. Spencer, a senior from Manchester, Conn.; Dale L. Kaufman, a sophomore from Charlotte, N.C. Mark A. Shockley, a j senior from Seaford, Del.- and Walter ? Kale, a junior from Matthews, N.C. ’ i 1 Each of the four students was I served with a summons Friday afternoon. | An Administrative Committee met at 3 p.m. Saturday to try the students on the above charges. About 17 students, who had worked on the paper, arrived at the hearing and all 17 were asked to sign a paper assuming the responsibility^ for the contents of the Veritas publication. All 17 refused. The four students served with summons refused to be tried on the charges, and on the basis of this refusal all four students were suspended from the College until such time as they would stand trial. As of 5 p.m. Monday, March 9, the College had received no notice from the students to the effect that they wished to stand trial.^ Unti such time as the suspension is lifted, the students will not be allowed to come on the campus.
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