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Tuesday, March 5, 1974
University Daily Kansan
1970 Candidate Recalls Activism
By BUNNY MILLER
Kansas Staff Reporter
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of interviews with former student political leader
The name Peter George is associated with days of student unrest, black protests and antiwar demonstrations for most University of Kansas senators and graduate students.
George, who attended KU from 1960-70, was in on the ground floor of the movement toward student participation in University government. He was a member of the group that organized the visit it was formed (1960-70) and a candidate for student body president the spring of 1970.
"I was doing a little bit of everything," said Thursday. "It seems like I was in all the student government organizations."
Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols, who was secretary of SenEx at that time, remembers George as articulate, perseverant and enthusiastic in student government than in academics*
Student participation in student government was just beginning at that time, Nichols said. George was one of a group of about a dozen students who led this
"They were very dedicated and very sincere, and he was one of them," he said. George ran for student body president with the Independent Student Party (ISP) of the previous year's winner, David Aubrey Hispano. He received the honorary and David Miller, who was defeated but elected student body president the following year.
George said students generally considered his party the most radical of the ones.
"We were three completely different kinds of people," George said. "And more than anything else there was a difference of style."
"But we couldn't have been radical," he said, "because we disagreed with a lot of the radical things Ebert did the next year. They were far left of what we were working
His party, George said, was "at that time
what the classic liberal student was all about."
"We were concerned with things like liberalizing academic regulations, doing away with grades getting more students and allowing government—that sort of thing," he said.
"The year after that was a horrible year to be student body president," he said.
George said that because his running mate, Sharon Baucom, was a black woman, his party was "looked upon with favor by the dean of women's office."
Looking back, George said he was glad he didn't win.
That year the Black Student Union erupted over the KU Printing Service's refusal to print their newspaper, the Harambee. That spring the Kansas Union was burned and two students were shot and killed the following summer.
George said he thought student activism had died down because the radicals "didn't understand" how to run a school.
"People just got tired of putting their heads on the guillotine," he said.
Oil Embargo to be Lifted, Sources Say
The Arabs are expected to resume oil production at pre-October levels when they lift their embargo against the United States, probably in about a month.
That assessment emerged as Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger returned from an eight-day trip to the Middle East and Europe. Kissinger said nothing publicly about prospects for a lifting of the embargo and a resumption of full production. But there was virtually no doubt aboard his Air Force jet that the Arab oil ministers will come through when they meet in Libya next week.
Prices are likely to drop to about $1 a barrel from the current $1.65 and the supply will be plentiful, newsmen were told.
Court Denies Education Benefits to CO's
The Supreme Court ruled eight to one yesterday that Congress may properly deny veterans' education benefits to conscientious objectors who perform civilian service as an alternative to the draft. Inaction is also a
In other action, the court
—Decided six to three that cable TV systems don't infringe copyrights when they import distant television signals rather than merely strengthen them.
—Refused to disturb the conviction of black militant H. Rap Brown on a federal charge of transporting a firearm while under indictment.
Lawyer Says Mitchell Didn't Know Vesco
Cambodian Nationalist Says Rebels to Defect
Former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell's lawyer told the jury at his client's criminal comprize trial yesterday in New York that Mitchell "didn't even know" Robert Vesco. Vesco, an international financier, is the man from which Mitchell is accused of accepting a secret $20,000 campaign contribution.
A Cambodian nationalist fighter said yesterday that 3,600 rebels, disenchanted with fighting alongside Communists, have halted offensive operations against government forces and are prepared to defect.
If negotiations under way in a neutral zone near Phnom Penh are successful and the claim is true, it would be the largest known mass defection of Cambodia.
Crime ...
From Page One
William R. Arnold, associate professor of sociology, said that an unusually high percentage of young people between the ages of 15 and 28 lives in Lawrence. Persons in this age group often come from other groups, he said. There is also a correspondently high incidence of crime, he said, where there is a large transient population of Lawrence and other University towns.
Figures released by the Lawrence police department show that clearance rates for crimes committed in Lawrence for 1973 are only per cent of the 2,291 crimes reported.
When the person or persons who committed a crime are identified to the satisfaction of the police, whether an arrest is made or not, the crime is listed as
The rate is 4.1 per cent lower than the 1972 rate, 20.2. The rate in 1971 was 17.4 per cent; 16.3 per cent in 1970, and 14.5 per cent in 1969.
Students have regressed to the apathy of the 50s, he said.
"We've lived through to many hassles and stresses we've gone back to beer drinking and doing what people used to do in college in 1974 than it was in 1989."
Crimes in Lawrence
Prepared by the Lawrence Police Department. 1921-1927. 187
Murder and non-murder
neighboring man/boy
emancipation
Hope
Burial
Ambulance not signaled
Burial
Burial (50 and over)
Larvey (under $50)
M
Crime on Campus
Other figures for the University of Kansas cover the following: (1) 37 figures from 1972 figures were provided by RP Parking and Security. The 177 figures from the AKR
George said his activity in student politics forced him to drop out of law school and caused other academic and emotional problems.
1971 1972
Murder and non-
negligent manslaughter
Burglary by negligence
Bravery
Robbery
Ambulance
Assaulted assault
Burglary
Larceny
Larceny
167 263
867 381
71 25
Aggravated and non-aggravated
Heath Resigns; Wilson Takes Over
LONDON (AP) — Conservative Edward Heath resigned yesterday after 44 months as prime minister, and his arch rival Harold Wilson of the Labor party, took over the task of trying to form a new, minority government.
"Student politics has the rare ability to mess up your academics," he said. "What saves most of these student leaders is that they are encouraged in instruction help pull them out of the hole."
A tense Buckingham Palace statement announced Wilson's appointment as prime minister. He had previously headed the British government from 1964 until Heath's conservatives defeated Labor in the 1970 general elections.
The change of government became effective from the moment Wilson kissed Queen Elizabeth's hand in the private audience room on the first floor of the palace. His wife Mary waited in a room ns arby.
The Wilson's drove from the audience directly to 10 Downing Street, the residence of Britain's prime ministers. Only two hours after meeting, she tender his resignation to the queen.
"We've got a job to do," the pipe-smoking Wilson told a crowd of well-wishers. "We can only do that job as one people. I'm going to do that job now."
Moving men were taking Heath's personal possessions out the back door of the prime minister's residence. The Wilsons planned to move in today.
Three days earlier Wilson's Laborites
narrowly defeated the Conservatives in national elections. They took more seats in the House of Commons than the Conservatives, enough for a majority in the 635-seat House.
Watkins Hospital equipment and personnel are being moved this week to the
Watkins Move Begins
Dr. Martin Wollmann, director of health services, said last week that the move was being done in stages and that only services "of the most urgent type" would be needed. Helen outpatients will not be able to doctor or receive treatment, he said.
For three days Heath sought to form a coalition government, but finally he had to relinquish the government when Jeremy Thorpe *Liberals*, with 14 seats, refused his
The top priority for Wilson's government will be the coal miners' strike menacing Britain's economy. The reason Heath had to withdraw is to win a mandate to handle the strike.
The next task before the new government will be to seek massive loans abroad to offset a trade deficit running at an annual rate of $10 billion. Even before the election, the British treasury said the government would have to find more than $6.9 billion to cover the deficit and to meet the higher costs of oil.
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Nichols said, "Peter's scholarship suffered severely because of his heavy injury."
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After 1970, George took a few classes, then left KU for Wichita where he was a used car salesman. He has maintained his publicity director for the KU concert series.
Last month he left the used car business to work for the Liberian Movement in Wichita. This group, he said, encourages students to be on government intervention in land use.
Later this spring, he said, he will move to Atlanta. There he will enter a training program at the University of Georgia.
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An Organizational Meeting. RIFLE CLUB to be held
Tuesday, March 5
7:00 p.m.
Meet in the rifle range Military Science Bldg. MEN and WOMEN Welcome Sponsored by Student Senate
9-11 p.m. for $1.00 in Union Ballroom B.Y.O. Beer
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