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78th Year, No.43
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Wednesday, November 15, 1967
The "Angel" is Collene Collins, Leavenworth sophomore, and one of eleven upperclass women formally pledged Tuesday night into Angel Flight, national honorary women's auxiliary to Arnold Air Society and Air Force ROTC and campus service organization. One of her "pinnates" (center) is Diane Euler, Kearney, Neb., junior. Maggie Ogilvie, Kansas City junior and commander of KU's Ennis C. Whitehead chapter, presented the pin to Miss Collins.
AN "ANGEL" GETS PINNED
SUA Affairs Week hosts panel on Mid-east crisis
By Tim Jones and Monte Mace Kansan Staff Reporters
It sounded like the United Nations all over again as members of a World Affairs Week panel discussed the Arab-Israeli crisis in the Kansas Union Forum Room Tuesday.
The panel was unable to agree on a solution to the problem, which dates back to the creation of Israel in 1948.
"It would be better for the United States and the Soviet Union to solve the problem between themselves and then bring the solution before the UN," said Asad Husain, assistant professor of social sciences at Kansas State College at Pittsburg.
Husain, whose topic was the UN's involvement in the crisis, said, "That's the only way the dispute can be settled."
Israel should end aggression
But a Saudi Arabia senior, Abdul Said, told the group the 20-year dispute will end only when Israel abandons its policy of aggression.
Two panel members agreed that negotiations between the two countries is the key to ending the Middle East crisis.
Hillel Unz, KU professor of engineering from Israel, said peace talks are "the only possible solution."
Dr. James Seaver, KU history professor and head of the Western Civilization department, said mere withdrawal of Jewish forces wasn't
a realistic solution unless accompanied by negotiations.
Husain began the discussion by tracing the three-war history of the Arab-Israeli dispute. He said the first war in 1948, hours after the creation of Israel, could have been avoided if the UN resolution had been adhered to.
UN troops should have been sent to the area during the birth of Israel to insure peace, he added.
One point of the resolution called for the creation of a Jewish nation three months after Britain withdrew from the Middle East, Husain said.
He said, "I feel strongly that the United Nations has somehow done nothing, only created more problems."
UN is football field
"The UN is a sort of football field, they come to play games and decide issues," he said.
"I respect U Thant because I believe he's the only honest man in the world," he said.
Seaver, presenting the United States' policy on the question, read excerpts from State Department papers, speeches by President Johnson and Arthur Goldberg, U.S. ambassador to the UN.
He said the United States policy basically follows the UN Charter on the matter, and supports territorial integrity, avoidance of armed conflicts and passage of all ships through the
See SUA World page 3
Reform-loving ISP backs the pill, pass-fail Western Civ in platform
Everything from birth control pills to the institution of a passafail system for the Western Civilization exam was proposed Tuesday evening when the newly formed Independent Student Party (ISP) presented its platform to 20 listeners.
In the platform ISP "pledges to attempt to initiate" 15 "reforms," including a revision of the existing ASC electoral procedure. The proposal states "one man one vote is as valid at KU as anywhere" and suggests better representation for unorganized students.
Born at the time of the recent library hours crisis, ISP asks an investigation of the University budget, giving special attention to the "library situation."
ISF's platform also mentions "student liberty" and includes recommendations for eliminating compulsory floor meetings, allowing students age 18 and above to live "where they please" and making birth control pills available to anyone who requests them.
--able to anyone who requests them.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Free university announces class schedules. Page 16.
Goology professor receives a doll from Soviet scientists. Page 4.
Shirky Temple loses bid for C navies, Page 12.
CU is picked to beat KU Saturday. Page 9.
A "Im society is established at KU. Page 10.
"Unlike UP (University Party) we don't charge a quarter for membership and also unlike UP we are concerned with more than traffic lights." Peter Menge, Wichita junior and chairman of ISP, said.
"The primary idea of ISP is to provide a framework for student action," added Conall O'Leary, Lawrence sophomore and publicity chairman.
O'Leary said ISP is giving students a choice, an "alternative" to the present ASC.
The ISP platform proposes the following:
- Making greater opportunities for student participation in student government through the introduction of more democratic reforms.
Revising the existing electoral procedures of ASC, especially eliminating the under-representation of unorganized students. One man-one vote is as valid at KU as anywhere else.
Voting ASC representatives upon the Council's request, as all administration meetings affecting the student body.
See ISP, page 5
Polls open today
Voting for All Student Council (ASC) representatives, freshman class officers and two referendums continues today until 6 p.m. and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Streng Hall, the Kansas Union and Murphy Hall.
ASC representatives will be chosen from 45 candidates to represent 10 dist iets; security district, fraternity district, large women's district, small women's district, large men's district, small men's district, unmarried-unorganized district, married-unorganized district, freshmen women's district, and cooperative-professional district.
The first of the two referendums is to decrease the number of ASC districts from 10 to nine, eliminating the cooperative-professional district.
The second referendum is to include the class officers on the ASC, to increase the number of persons with one voting representative from 1,000 to 1,500, and to increase the proportion of votes to elect a representative to the ASC.
"GIVE YOURSELF A VOICE"
Members of the Independent Student Party discuss their new platform which stresses "one man one vote." Left to right: Cynthia Hedrick; Lyle "Buzz" Fisher, Bird City
junior; John Stocker, Pittsburgh, Pa., sophomore; Peter Monge, Wichita junior; Conall O'Leary, Lawrence sophomore.