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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan
78th Year, No. 44
A student newspaper serving KU LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, November 16, 1967
IT FINALLY HAPPENED
The steel supports overhead once supported the roof of old Robinson Gymnasium whose walls were all but demolished Wednesday with repeated blows from a "skullcracker" ball wielded by a crane situated on the opposite side of the building. The 60-year-old structure is being razed to make way for construction of a new 26-story Humanities Center,
Light vote cast in ASC elections
A total of 2,122 votes had been cast by noon today in the All Student Council elections to choose ASC representatives, freshman class officers and to decide the fate of two referendums.
Voting places in Strong and Murphy Halls and in the Kansas Union lobby will be open until 6 p.m. today.
When the final vote was tabulated Wednesday, the first day of elections, only 1,189 students had
Wescoe leads schools group
COLUMBUS, Ohio-Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe took over as president of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges Wednesday at the association's convention here.
George Budd, president of Kansas State College of Pittsburg, was named president-elect of the Association of State Colleges and Universities, which also met at Columbus.
voted, a spokesman for the ASC said last night.
Schools in the two associations enroll more than half of all students in higher education in the country.
Elmer V. McCollum, distinguished KU alumnus and pioneer biochemist and discoverer of vitamins A and D, died Wednesday in Baltimore, Md., after an extended illness. He was 88.
This figure represents slightly less than eight per cent of the eligible voters. The polls closed at 6 p.m. Wednesday and reopened at 8 a.m. this morning.
Don Chubb, Topeka senior and ASC chairman, declined comment on the light vote. He said he thought it unwise to talk until after the elections.
KU's McCollum Hall was named in honor of McCollum and his brother, the late Burton McCollum. both 1903 graduates of the University.
Rosie Burns, Caldwell senior and co-chairman of the election committee, expects the vote to be heavier today. She said the ASC planned no special activities to get the student voters out today.
In the election, ASC representatives are being chosen from 45 candidates to represent 10 districts, including the various living groups on campus.
McCollum dies
The first of the two referendums voted on today concerned a proposed decrease of the number of ASC districts from 10 to nine, eliminating the co-operative-professional district.
The other one proposes the inclusion of class officers on the ASC in an effort to increase the one-vote representatives from 1,000 to 1,500, and also to increase the proportion of votes needed to elect a representative to the council.
KU Republicans seek draft repeal
The backers of the proposal likened the draft to slavery and offered volunteer service as an alternative.
A committee of the KU Kansas Collegiate Young Republicans (CYR) passed a resolution favoring the repeal of the Selective Service law Wednesday night in the Kansas Union Jayhawk room.
They suggested raising the pay of enlistees, guaranteeing them home duty except during emergencies to attract volunteers, and increasing the use of reserves.
The draft measure and others must be passed again by the club to have complete CYR endorsement. Attendance at the meeting was only 21 and they voted as a committee of the whole.
The meeting was the last before the State Resolutions Convention Friday and Saturday at Topeka. More than 200 delegates from six Kansas colleges are expected.
Other resolutions passed at the meeting reproached Kansas Gov. Robert Doering for failure to follow the recommendation of the livestock commission in appointing a sanitation commissioner, called for the admission of Red China into the United Nations, supported adoption of a Kansas fair housing code, and asked for partisan election of state board of education members.
The cigarette proposal has passed the Kansas House of Representatives, with the support of a 5,000-signature petition signed by Kansas college students, and is expected to come before the Senate in January.
The KU CYR will send 20 delegates. One of the proposals the KU delegation plans to introduce calls for sale of cigarettes on college campuses.
The next KU CYR meeting is in December.
Nagy to talk on U.S. role
Ferenc Nagy, former prime minister of Hungary, will speak on the role of the United States as a peacekeeper in Eastern Europe at 8:15 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
His lecture is part of the Student Union Activities World Affairs Week.
Nagy was obtained by Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science, said Joe Goering, Moundridge junior and chairman of World Affairs Week.
Nagy will open the meeting to questions after the lecture.
I-Club will present Vietnam 'speak-out'
Donald Parsons, professor of speech and coach of the KU debate teams, will moderate the
A "speak-out" on Vietnam will be presented at 7.30 p.m. Saturday in the Kansas Union Forum Room by the International Club.
Charges swirl at Wichita
By Robert Entriken Jr.
Kansan Staff Reporter
WICHITA—The arrest Saturday of a member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at Wichita State University on charges of threatening the life of President Lyndon Johnson, and the subsequent detention of four other SDS members, has resulted in accusations of attempted deprivation of Constitutional rights, unlawful detention, and harassment of a prisoner.
Charles V. Blackmon, 25, who was charged Saturday with making the alleged threat Friday, was released on $2,500 bond in the custody of his stepfather.
Blackmen spent four nights in jail, unable to raise a bond originally set at $25,000. After his release he said he spent three of the four nights "on steel." Not until Monday night was he given a mattress for his bunk, he said.
program to begin with four student speakers—two for and two against the U.S. position in Vietnam.
After his midnight arrest, Blackmon spent Saturday morning in the city jail. He was transfe red later that day to the Sedgwick County jail until his release Tuesday.
Wichita attorney James Nelson accused Wichita Police Major Floyd Hannon Jr., head of the detective bureau, and agents of the U.S. Secret Service of attempting to deprive his clients, the four SDS members, of their Constitutional rights to counsel during interrogation.
Nelson's four clients, all Wichita State students, are Duane Goodvin, senior; Lynn Torkelson, junior; Marilyn Markley, graduate student; and Jo Edna Boldin, freshman.
The SDS members claim they were kept in Hannon's office more than two hours before being allowed to call an attorney and questioned by Hannon, who lectured them on the "evils of anti-establishment groups." Hannon took from Torkelson some notes he was making.
The four speculated they may have been arrested to prevent a planned demonstration at McConnell Air Force Base near Wichita during the President's Veteran's Day stop there. SDS members from the University of Kansas and Kansas State University also were in Wichita for the planned demonstration.
Hannon denied it. He said the SDS members were detained solely for questioning on the alleged threat which they were supposed to have witnessed, although all four SDS members later denied ever having heard Blackmon make any such threat.
Torkelson, who said he asked more than once
See Wichita Police, page 4
Robert Burton, professor of East Asian studies and an authority on Communist China, will be the "resource person."
The four student speakers will be Lyle B. Fisher, Bird City junior; Ronald R. Kimzey, Topeka senior; Robert A. Schueler, Bartlesville, Okla., senior; and Jay Alan Stoker, Shawnee Mission freshman.
Solveig Eggerz, Iceland special student and International Club social and cultural affairs chairman, said public participation is being sought for the "speak-out."
"Any student, faculty member or other local resident who believes that Vietnam discussions are overlooking some important issue will have the opportunity to speak out," she said.
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WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts variable high cloudiness but generally fair skies tonight. Clear to partly cloudy skies are forecast for Friday with a little cooler temperatures. The low tonight is expected to be from 30 to 35 degrees.
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