NSA IS GONE—Charles Patterson: "By disaffiliation with NSA . . . KU has lost a voice in international affairs."
NSA IS GONE—Sandra Moore: "The whole issue... pure political philosophy. I hate to see the liberal voice suppressed."
NSA IS GONE—Jerry Dickson: "There wasn't one meeting in which we didn't have to have a political argument."
Daily hansan
Thursday, October 26, 1961
59th Year, No.30
NSA Post-Mortem Is Not Conclusive
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
A Kansan Press Conference By Scott Payne
Ten members of the former National Student Association committee here met last night at a press conference to discuss the All Student Council action which dissolved the committee and disaffiliated KU from NSA.
Jerry Dickson, Newton junior, began the conference by saying. "As a member of the KU Young Republicans I am opposed to NSA as it now is—an extremely liberal body.
"I am willing to abide with the ASC decision but I am disappointed at the Council's failure to provide KU with a current events committee," he said.
"Such a committee," he said, "could have done much more here than the NSA committee because it would have been under far less pressure."
Replying to further questions, Dickson said, "No one campus political party has been responsible for KU's disaffiliation. In fact there was an NSA split in both parties. It was purely a personal decision on the part of ASC members."
Arthur C. Miller, Pittsburg junior, told Dickson that he disagreed. "I've been told by three sorority and fraternity members that they were coerced and threatened in their voting. This could hardly be called personal decision."
Miller continued his remarks, mentioning that the Young Americans for Freedom had had a role in the disaffiliation measure.
Charles McIlwaine, Wichita senior, interrupted Dickson.
"I am getting sick and tired of hearing that YAF is the guiding light in such happenings throughout the nation," McIlwaine said.
"I think it's very humorous for anyone to say that YAF is so powerful at KU it can dictate to the ASC—without even appearing there.
Interrupting McIlwaine's answer, Dickson said. "This is a good illustration of the trouble with the NSA committee this semester. There wasn't one meeting in which we didn't have to have a political argument," he said. "This is one reason KU was disaffiliated from NSA."
"Members of the committee persisted in arguing political philosophy on the national level," Dickson said. "A current events committee could have eliminated this whole problem."
Miller said, "I disagree with you again. Last year there was a great deal of political dissention on the committee. We spent most of our time arguing about politics," he said.
"This year," he said, "it's been different. Political discussion has not been prevelant at all. The only reason we couldn't get anything done was that we were not given a decent chance," he added.
Charles Patterson, Joplin, Mo., sophomore, interposed, saying, "I think the ASC has made a graye mistake in disaffiliating Kansas University from NSA.
"NSA was a tool of the ASC," he said, "and when it began to (Continued on page 12)
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KU Peace Team Will Summit in Columbia
The KU-MU meeting to plan ways to prevent violence at the Nov. 25 football game here is now scheduled for Nov. 12.
The committee of seven KU students will go to the MU campus at Columbia early in the morning. They plan to meet with the MU committee for about 10 hours, Max Eberhard, Great Bend senior and KU student body president, said.
Committee members who will go to Columbia are Eberhart; Jerry Palmer, El Dorado, chairman of the All Student Council; Phyllis Wertzberger, Lawrence, member of the ASC; Bruce Bee, Mission, head cheerleader; Ron Gallagher, Fort Scott, member of the ASC; Larry Moore, Topeka, student body vice president; and Carrie Merryfield, Minneapolis. All are seniors.
USIA Calls To P-T-P for Help
Bv Arthur Miller
The United States Information Agency (USIA) has contacted People-to-People to help them find a solution to a foreign student problem in Washington, D.C.
William Dawson, Kansas City senior and chairman or People-to-People, said today that international students in the Capitol city area have been demonstrating against a lack of American student interest in foreign students.
"An assistant of Edward R. Murrow (USIA chief) telephoned Sam Montague of the Hallmark Foundation, who is also secretary of the National People-to-People program, asking for a solution to the problem," Dawson said.
HE ADDED that the foreign students were apparently disturbed because in Washington American students show little interest in helping them learn the American way of life.
"NEITHER THE State Department nor the USIA was able to find a solution to the foreign student problem." Dawson added, "and since the USIA representative is acquainted with People-to-People
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Petition Asks Action Pause
By Zeke Wigglesworth
Two Lawrence leaders have signed a petition which urges curtailment of active civil rights demonstrations until the city of Lawrence and the Human Relations Commission have had an opportunity to study the discrimination problem in the community.
Lawrence Mayor Ted Kennedy and William Binns, chairman of the City of Lawrence Human Relations Commission, signed the petition which may be adopted by the All Student Council as a stand on solution to discrimination problems.
The petition reads:
"With due consideration to the problem of minority group student housing at the University of Kansas and the town of Lawrence, and to events of the past year that have so effectively demonstrated the opinion of individuals or groups of individuals on this problem; it is the recommendation of we the undersigned that any further action, either passive or active by these aforementioned individuals be curtailed until the organs duly authorized by city of Lawrence and University of Kansas have had sufficient time to examine the situation and make recommendations as to those steps necessary to alleviate the aforementioned problems."
Mr. Kennedy said he was in sympathy with what was set down in the document.
"We here in Lawrence have, for the first time, a human rights group to consider problems of discrimination. It would be wrong to start it off with a series of demonstrations."
HE SAID that the Human Relations Commission should be given a chance to solve the problems, and that his view of curtailment was simply a slacking off of pressure for a time so that the group could operate.
Mr. Binns, chairman of the commission and clinical psychologist at Watkins Hospital, said the petition seemed a good document.
"My only point in signing it was to show my feeling that these new groups at the University and in Lawrence should be given a chance
to operate effectively. I do not agree with the document in its entirely."
HE SAID he was signing the petition as a citizen and not as an official representative of the commission.
"It is my personal opinion that nothing can be accomplished by force. The commission, moreover, has been shown no proof that there are any problems of discrimination."
It was Mr. Binns' feeling that time was needed for the HRC to operate effectively.
The petition was first presented to the combined housing and human rights committee of the ASC by Brian Grace, Lawrence sophomore and chairman of the ASC human rights committee.
IN A TELEPHONE INTERVIEW Thomas Hardy, Hoisington junior and chairman of the committee, said he was opposed to the adoption of the petition as policy by the ASC.
"It slaps the hands of those groups which have been working on discrimination problems. The ASC should take a stand on the issue sometime, but this should not be it."
He said he believed in the basic idea of the petition, which is the use of non-force tactics in civil rights problems.
Roberta Johnson, Joliet, III, senior, and a member of the human rights committee of the ASC, said she didn't know who wrote the petition.
"IT WAS BROUGHT to the meeting by Brian Grace, chairman of the housing committee. I agree to it in theory, but I don't agree to the way it is worded. It is my feeling that instead of making these other groups stop, we should invite them to join with us. We are not going to do anything for awhile, and I wish they would do the same."
She reported that the combined Housing and Human Rights committee is split about 50-50 on the question.
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