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78th Year, No. 22
Serving KU For 78 of its 102 Years
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Tuesday, October 17, 1967
Draft Resistance Week hits U.S.
Bv United Press International
By United Press International Thousands of anti-Vietnam war protestors demonstrated Monday against the conflict and the military draft. More than 130 were arrested for blockading induction centers, staging sit-ins and clashing with police.
The resistance, a militant anti-war organization headquartered at New York City, announced the total number of draft cards turned in included San Francisco, 350; Boston, 291; New York, 185; Los Angeles, 55; Chicago, 40; Washington, D.C., and London, England (American expatriates): 11 each; Denver, Colo., and Portland, Ore., 7 each; Atlanta, Ga., and Champaign, Ill., 2 each.
It was the tumultuous start of coast to coast "Stop the Draft Week" protests.
Baez arrested
Policemen arrested 140 persons, including folk singer Joan Baez, for attempting to shut down the Oakland, Calif., induction center.
A 300-man police force hauled off most of the Oakland arrestees for trying to block draftees from entering the induction center. Police seized other demonstrators when they blocked traffic with a street sit-in. Miss Baez carried a rose as she entered a police van.
There were nearly 600 demonstrators at Oakland and about 500 more outside the federal building in San Francisco, across the bay. The U.S. Attorney's office said a basket left by demonstrators outside its locked doors contained 149 draft cards and 22 letters to various draft boards.
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts generally fair with little change in temperature today, tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight should be in the upper 30s, and the high to tomorrow in the 60s. Rain probabilities are less than five per cent through the period.
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A judge issued a restraining order blocking plans for an allnight "teach-in" on the draft at the University of California campus in Berkeley.
In New York, 300 to 350 persons demonstrated outside the federal courthouse at Foley Square and a group of anti-war protestors returned their draft cards to the federal government.
Twenty-seven marchers turned in their draft cards in a march on the induction center at Cincinnati. Ohio.
At least nine pickets were arrested during an anti-draft demonstration in front of a draft board office at Champaign, Ill. Two University of Illinois students burned what they said were their draft cards.
Crowds of demonstrators gathered at the Boston Common. They heard Boston University Prof. Howard Zinn say of President Johnson: "A president who goes to church every Sunday and sends bombers over Vietnam every day is a hypocrite."
Col. Daniel E. Omer, deputy director of the Selective Service, refused to accept draft cards handed him by 11 demonstrators in the nation's capital.
He said it would be up to Selective Service Director Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, to decide whether the cards turned in would be given to the Federal Bureau of Investigation or state selective service boards for action.
Omer indicated Selective Service might go lightly with protesters. But Justice Department officials were reported deliberating whether to prosecute those responsible for incidents in the nation's capital and elsewhere.
KU SDS may attend D.C. rally
By Robert Entriken Jr.
Kansan Staff Reporter
"Confront the Warmakers in Washington, D.C., October 21" says the headline of a fullpage advertisement on the back cover of the current issue of The Nation.
The ad, placed by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (NMC) tells of events to take place at the Pentagon on the weekend ending Draft Resistance Week, October 16-21.
Several members of the KU chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) hope to go to Washington to join the NMC demonstrations.
Sally Heeren, St. Louis, Mo., senior, said that about 30 members have expressed a desire to make the journey.
"Our only hangup," said Mrs. Heeren, "is rides. So far we only have one or two cars going."
SDS had originally hoped to charter a bus but could not reach the minimum of 46 people required to pay for the charter.
The NMC has encountered problems obtaining parade permits from the General Services Administration (GSA) which issues the permits.
Michigan Daily reports
The Michigan Daily, student newspaper of the University of Michigan, reported Saturday, "Authorities in Washington speaking for the GSA last Friday (October 13) refused to grant the permit unless NMC sponsors agreed to renounce a planned voluntary picketing and sit-in.
at the Pentagon under the theme 'Confront the Warmakers.'"
The NMC, said the Daily, claimed the permits were being withheld on technical points.
Beattie said a University of Michigan chapter of the NMC sent the paper a news release saying while NMC will continue to press for the permit, they will hold the demonstrations regardless. This would be an act of civil disobedience and participants would be subject to arrest.
By Monday, NMC and GSA were reportedly "within inches" of agreement and GSA representative Hendri Van Cleve was expected to authorize the permits this morning.
Today, the Daily reports GSA has agreed to yield on the permits provided picketing would be orderly. NMC had refused to disown the civil disobedience plan.
Specific routes and rally sites were being discussed by NMC and GSA. NMC agreed to change the Pentagon rally location from the Pentagon mall to a nearby parking lot if GSA would remove a fence restricting approaches to the Pentagon. GSA said persons leaving the approved picketing areas, presumably to sit-in at the Pentagon, would be subject to arrest.
The Pentagon sit-in is listed as the "direct action" part of the anti-draft demonstrations to begin at 4 p.m. Saturday. At that time, demonstrators who wish to will leave the rally to enter the Pentagon and block its hallways and entrances. The sit-in is expected to continue through Sunday.
--distribution of quota votes, Craig said.
INSIDE
Sports. Page 6, 7.
More draft news. Page 3.
ASC to ponder voting bill, budget
An election bill, designed to induce major changes in student government election procedure, will be introduced at a special meeting of the All Student Council (ASC) at 7 p.m. today in the Kansas Union.
The election proposal was outlined at an ASC meeting a week ago by Kyle Craig, Joplin, Mo., junior, and student body president. The bill provides the following changes in the current election procedure.
- The number of elections in a year will be reduced from two to one. Craig said he thinks one election a year would encourage more student interest in student government.
- Class presidents will serve as ASC members. This move is designed to have student representation by class as well as by living group and schools, as is the process now.
The present Hare System of voting will be eliminated. Under the Hare System, a student votes for a candidate in the order of preference. The candidate, in this system, may have the most first place votes, but lose on the redistribution of quota votes, Craig said.
Under the proposed system, Craig said candidates would be elected by a simple plurality. That is, whoever received the most votes would be elected.
In other action, Craig will present a budget plan for this year and the ASC will vote on it. Rusty Wells, Portland, Ore., junior and ASC vice-chairman, said.
Wells said the council also will appoint members to a committee which will study means to have the library closing hours changed. The council recently approved a resolution by Will Hardesty, Wheat Ridge, Colo., senior, establishing this committee.
1919 student costs-$500;
$400 if you were careful
Going to KU in 1919 cost a student about $50.
Miss Corbin said the freshman year was probably the most expensive for students because they had not yet learned to budget their money.
In a 1919 Daily Kansan article, Albert Corbin, adviser of women, said women who were economical might ever go to KU for $400.
To help high school students who were writing to her about the costs of college, Miss Corbin
composed the following list of approximate expenses.
Entrance fees for Freshmen $17.00
Clothing 170.00
Railroad fees 50.00
Board 192.00
Room 63.75
Laboratory fees 3.50
Doctor bill and nurse 10.00
Stamps 4.75
Books 9.28
Paper 3.13
Incidentals 48.44
Total ... $556.19
Man vandalizes Sigma Nu cars
By Bob Butler Kansan Staff Reporter
At least six cars parked outside the Sigma Nu fraternity house were damaged Monday night by a man identified as Robert L. Gallagher, 41, owner of A-1 Auto Sales, 1630 N. 3rd.
Members of the fraternity apprehended Gallagher and forcibly detained him until police arrived. Thomas Slaughter, Salina freshman, was the first to see Gallagher from the fraternity sleeping dorm about 11:15 p.m.
'Heard a car'
"I heard a car in the lot stall twice." Slaughter said. "Then I heard louder noises and looked out the window. The lights in one of the brother's cars were on and the doors were open. Then I noticed a man going from car to car. In one of the cars he began kicking the dash.
"Iran upstairs and told some of the others their cars were being kicked in and we all took off for the parking lot."
Slaughter; David Hill, Leawood junior; Robert Deuben, Des Moines, Iowa, junior; and Thomas Schumm, Prairie Village sophomore, found Gallagher in a car belonging to John Arnold, Topeka freshman.
'Tackled him'
Gallagher was held in the Sigma Nu dining room while a fraternity member called the
"Slaughter dragged him out," Hill said, "and when the man started putting up a fight Schumm tackled him. Then we carried him into the house. He smelled like a brewery."
Lawrence Police. Several other members held Gallagher down when he began fighting again.
"As soon as the police arrived the man started telling them what a good buddy he was with all the brothers," said James Hatfield, Chicago sophomore. "His speech was incoherent but you could hear him repeating the word 'Greeks' and he was swearing quite a bit.
Handcuffed him
The police department said Gallagher was charged with drunkenness and resisting arrest and released later on $50 bond. He was scheduled to appear in criminal court Oct. 23 for arraignment.
Gallagher again became violent when the police arrived, kicking one officer and attempting to strike another. After Gallagher was handcuffed and put into the back seat of the patrol car he kicked at the driver until he was again restrained.
A 1967 model sedan bearing dealer plates and believed to have been driven by Gallagher was found in the Sigma Nu lot. Police towed the car away after finding dashboard knobs in the back seat.
Ruined transmissions
Most of the students' cars had ruined transmissions from blows to stick shifts as well as broken antennae and smashed dashboards. Instrument panel knobs had been knocked off in many of the cars and the back window of one convertible had been ripped out.
No estimate of damage to the cars has been made.