40 years ago: Crowd rallies to protest AG’s recent drug raid

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Mar. 1, 1971:

  • During a recent protest rally in front of Kansas University’s Strong Hall, an estimated crowd of 300 persons had accused Atty. Gen. Vern Miller of using a recent drug raid on Lawrence to further his own political ambitions and personal image. A young man who gave his name as Mark Richard Creamer, told of his experience of being arrested in the raid, calling it “a pretty radicalizing experience.” Speaking to the crowd, Creamer said that illegal searches had been made in some cases and that suits alleging invasion of privacy might possibly result.
  • Weather conditions had prompted KU officials to temporarily remove the flags customarily flown from atop Fraser Hall. Meanwhile, a different sort of flag was flying from a different part of the building. Several Alpha Tau Omega fraternity members had created a 56-by-18 foot banner celebrating recent successes by the KU basketball team. The banner, made of bed sheets with KU in red and No. 1 in blue, was hoisted on the north end of Fraser at around noon.