Friday, October 6,1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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SDS group plans Washington trip
Several members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) are making plans to go to Washington, D.C., to take part in a planned march on the Pentagon Saturday, Oct. 21, Roger Alexander, Wichita senior and SDS member, said Thursday.
The march is part of a national "Draft Resistance Week." Oct. 16 through Oct. 22, during which various organized antidraft groups throughout the United States will protest the United States draft system.
The purpose of the march is to block incoming and outgoing traffic at the Pentagon in an attempt to "literally shut down the Pentagon." Alexander said.
To block traffic
The SDS also may take part in a planned antidraft demonstration in front of the induction center in Kansas City, Mo., Monday, Oct. 16, Alexander said. The demonstration was planned by a Kansas City antidraft group.
Alexander said he did not know who had planned the march on
the Pentagon or what would be done during the march. He said the originators had issued "an all-out call, in letter form, for people to help shut down the Pentagon."
Alexander said the SDS discussed its plans for "Draft Resistance Week" at a meeting Wednesday night, Oct. 4.
Not on campus
He said the SDS did not plan to demonstrate on campus during the week. Instead, the SDS will try to get campus organizations such as KU-Y and Collegiate Young Republicans to attend a meeting sometime during the week. Alexander said "the subject of military conscription" would be discussed, and that SDS wants speakers from both sides of the issue to attend the meeting
Journalism enrollment is up 38 per cent at the University of Kansas this fall.
Majors in the William Allen White School of Journalism grew to 271 this semester—75 more than the 196 enrolled a year ago. Over the past two years the gain has been 80 per cent from the 151 in 1955.
This year there has been a nearly 100 per cent increase in the number of juniors in the news-editorial sequence, from 21 to 41.
Advertising continues as the largest sequence with 138 juniors and seniors registered, as compared to 103 a year ago. The news-editorial sequence has 69 majors, a gain of 20; and radio-TV-film has 38, an increase of 10. The William Allen White School also has 16 graduate students and 10 special students.
Journalism enrollment shows gain
During the 1966-67 school year, 75 degrees in journalism were granted to 47 men and 21 women. This included 68 B.S. degrees and seven master's.
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The young observer said Colombians, tired of a history of revolutions, are rallying around President Lieras, who is determined to unite Colombia "under a banner of pride."
Economic programs planned by Colombian President Carlos Lleras are expanding the economy—traditionally based only on the production of coffee—to include textiles, fruits, crafts and beef, said the KU senior. Lleras has included countries other than the United States, some of them European and Iron Curtain nations, in Colombia's export market, he said.
"On billboards, in shop windows, in movie theaters, everywhere, I saw 'You Can Do More For Colombia' signs," he said.
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Ninety per cent of Colombia's population is Catholic, Lashbrook said. Catholics hold most government posts and the Church and State work together. For example, he said, Catholic influence
Lashbrook spent last semester in Bogota, Colombia, as a Spanish student at the University of the Andes and as an English instructor at the Centro-Colombo Americano, a joint U.S.-Colombian sponsored institute.
Lashbrook believes internal forces—growing nationalism, expanding economy and Catholic influence—are the real weapons deterring Communist success in South America.
By Pamela Peck Kansan Staff Reporter
"I was lying in bed one night last December. I just got the urge to go to Colombia," said Lashbrook. "In a month I was there."
Traveling student eyes Colombian Reds
"Communism in Colombia isn't what Americans believe it to be," said Damon Lashbrook, Kansas City senior. "Many Americans think the only way to get rid of Communists is to use a gun."
In Bogota, Lashbrook was a guest in the home of Sr. and Sra. Enrique Santos. Santos is managing editor of El Tiempo, Colombia's largest newspaper.
State department recruits Monday
"Communist guerrillas aren't going to be successful in a country which has a large and stable middle class, because Communism
"The Catholic Church has more influence on Colombians than on Americans," said Lashbrook.
Daniel H. Clare, Foreign Service officer with the U.S. State Department, will be on campus Monday to recruit students for foreign service careers.
has produced a Colombian law forbidding divorce.
thrives on discontent," said Lashbrook.
Clare also will discuss the service with staff members in the political science department. He will appear before some political science and journalism classes, according to Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science.
He will explain the service's work in a speech at 4:30 p.m. Monday in the Kansas Union Jayhawk room.
In a letter to Ketzel, William B. Kelly, director of the State Department's College Relations Program, said, "Although one of the immediate goals of the trip is to interest present seniors and graduate students in foreign service careers, we are also anxious to speak with underclassmen who may be generally concerned with foreign affairs but have not yet made their career plans."
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