ku kansan A student newspaper serving KU 78th Year, No. 38 LAWRENCE, KANSAS Wednesday, November 8, 1967 UP revises platform By S. Allen Winchester Kansan Staff Reporter The University Party (UP) Tuesday announced a new fall election platform which calls for more student participation in University affairs. The platform revision was initiated by Scott Brown, Wichita sophomore and UP president. Brown said the revision was made after the Vox Poniuli party announced it would not submit a slate of candidates for the fall election. "I would have liked to see the competition of another party." Brown said, "but because of the situation we have reorganized our platforms. "We feel we will give the student a stronger voice in student government. The All Student Council meetings will not be spent in arguing between parties as they have been in the past." Outlines party pledge Outlines party pledge Brown said the party is pledged toward a better student voice in campus government. One of the key objectives of the new platform is the establishment of set times for "open house" among living groups. Brown said "because of the unique one party situation, UP pledges itself to not only keep itself well oriented with problems of student life but to do something about them." Council boosts budgets The platform states: "The following reforms shall be dealt with immediately and explicitly." By Sam Neff Kansan Staff Reporter The establishment of set times and days in which living groups can have "open house" and the institution of such a program. An oversight in budgetary planning prompted the All Student Council Tuesday to increase substantially allocations for the ASC Traditions Committee and Sachem. The student governing body approved increases of $300 for the Traditions Committee and $140 for Sachem, senior men's honorary, to allow both groups to complete projects. In other business, the council approved an amendment to the constitution which classifies KU living groups in proportionate voting districts. It includes fraternities and sororities, men's and women's residence halls, scholarship halls, freshman women's halls, and unmarried and married student organized housing. He said this year's proposed budget allowed only $100 for the Traditions Committee when the group last year spent $350, and that only $50 had been reserved for Sachem when it used $100 last year. The revised allocations give the committee $400, Sachem $160. A controversy arose last week when Allen Russell, Scotts Bluff, Neb., senior and chairman of the Student-faculty Traffic and Safety Committee, introduced a proposal calling for the revision in the budget. The classification proposal will be voted on in student elections Nov. 15 and 16. The institution of a Student Opinion Poll, dealing with national, state and campus problems. Students will be given the choice of issues to be investigated. - Student evaluation of teachers so students have a voice in promotions and university grants given to teachers. - The establishment of a student run and oriented Better Business Bureau dealing with higher student wages, better student treatment and fair pricing. - A re-evaluation of the University's system of parking tickets and the fines levied for certain violations. Example: the graduated parking ticket scale. See Platform, page 3 "UNCLE JIMNY" GAVE BLOOD In an attempt to promote the All Student Council's biannual blood drive, a tourniquet was tied around the left arm of the statue of James Wood "Uncle Jimmy" Green in front of Green Hall. The sign was placed near the feet to remind students of the drive which will continue through Thursday afternoon. Donations will be taken until 5:15 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Thursday. Draft official speaks Draft alternate: enlist The best alternative to the draft is enlisting, the head of the Kansas selective service manpower division said Tuesday night. --- WHAT'S INSIDE A "pace" center is founded in Lawrence. Page 12. "The Screw," an underground newspaper, is being distributed today. Page 3. Discrimination is investigated at KSU. Page 4. Election results. Page 8. --- Interferers may go first WASHINGTON β€”(UPI)β€” Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey has told local draft boards they should strip deferments from college students who interfere with military recruiters on campus and put them at the top of the induction list. It was learned Tuesday that Harshey made the recommendation in letters to local boards on Oct. 26 as several hundred students at Oberlin College in Ohio were attempting to physically block recruitment activities of a Navy representative in a college building. The recruiter later was kept penned in his car for four hours until police broke up the crowd of students with tear gas. Watson's problems reflect national scene Watson Library is understaffed because of a nation-wide shortage of professional librarians, Terrence Williams, assistant library director, said Tuesday. "For every 1966-67 graduate of a library school there were four jobs available in the United States and 11 in Canada. Kansas just isn't as attractive as other places," he said. In a meeting with the Student Association of Graduates in English (SAGE) library committee, which was asking for strengthened library services, Williams said several positions in Watson's professional staff are vacant. "The only place where there are enough librarians to meet the demand is in the San Francisco Bay area," Williams said. "The situation is tight, but it's not a crisis," he said. "We just don't have the staff to keep up with the vastly increasing rate of publication and the increasing number of students." Williams said he was "aware of most of the problems but not in the detail that they (the SAGE committee) brought to light." He said student action at this point will not produce any result. Williams said students who abuse library materials and privileges make an even greater work load for the staff. He said theft is not a serious problem but students who "mutilate books despite Xerox machines, take them from the building despite the exit control man, and hide them in the building so other students can't use them are being selfish." He said, "The library has never had a possessive attitude toward book collections. We want to make the books as available as possible, without being policemen." If students knew more about how to use the library it would help relieve the staff, he said. Williams plans to recommend library orientation as a mandatory part of freshman English. The present voluntary orientation tour conducted during enrollment has had poor response, especially this semester. Williams is "afraid the tour only tells the students how big the library is and confuses them." The SAGE committee discussed with Williams: See Watson, page 9 An enlistee can't be inducted, Col. Junior Elder said at the KUY Forum. During the first of the speech outlining draft laws and alternatives, several persons walked out and a wad of paper was thrown toward Elder. Elder told the audience "satisfactory, full-time students" are still in school by act of Congress and should be permitted to continue their education. Must make progress But he added a qualification by saying the students must make satisfactory progress toward baccalaureate degrees. Elder said the manpower needs of the defense department now allow normal progress toward degrees but that if the needs of defense become great, the department "has the right to invade the college campus." Appeal steps If a student receives a 1-A classification and wishes to have it changed, Elder said the first step is to make a personal appearance before the home county draft board. After this step, a person has the right to appeal his case to the state appeal board, either in his home state or the state in which he attends school. Draft group Elder said any case before this board is "strictly on record" in that only the person's file is considered, not what he may have said or done previously. Concerning the "prime age group," Elder said the law permits the President to determine this group at any time. A person placed in this group would lose his deferment, he said. Elder said the method of selecting a person in the prime age group is an "unknown factor at the present time." Students in the healing arts, Elder said, have been put on a "shall basis"β€”he shall be classified II-S until he has finished school. After he is authorized to practise medicine, he shall be made available to the draft. Elder said students in graduate school, prior to Oct. 1, 1967, may, "at the option of their local See Draft, page 9 Coin refund policy changed Refunds for money lost in Coca-Cola vending machines on campus will now be handled under the supervision of KU Concessions and the Kansas Union business office. "KU Concessions will now see that we fill them," Dick Ailor of Coca Cola said. The policy change was announced Tuesday by Bill Wright, KU Concessions vending manager. Wright said under the new policy Coca Cola would fill their refund slips in the Kansas Union business office and KU Concessions would be responsible for picking up and delivering the refund slips to the residence halls. "We really did not realize the magnitude of the problem," Wright said.