COLDER
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Dim Outlook On Ecology
82nd Year, No.79
Monday, February 7, 1972
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Devlin Leads Illegal March For 20,000
NEWRY, Northern Ireland (AP)—About 20,000 pro-Roman Catholic demonstrators marched down Newry's streets in an illegal parade Sunday but averted a clash with British troops by switching their route at the last minute.
With tiny, defiant Bernadette Devlin in the lead, the silent marchers headed down a hill toward Newry's city center. An armed camp bristling with Northern Irish police and 3,000 combat-ready British troops awaited them.
They claimed they had tricked the troops into guarding the wrong part of the tense border city and got away with a parade the army was ordered to prevent.
Hanging over the procession was the memory of 13 civilians killed in a street fight with British soldiers in Londonerry on last week's "Bloody Sunday."
Shortly after falling in step, the marchers veered away from army barricades, made their way peacefully up at a mass railway near their starting point.
About 300 green-jacketed parade marshals kept the marchers well away from the army barricades blocking off the route into the city center, avoiding the rock-throwing riot of last week in Londonerry.
THERE was no violence. British troops stayed on their side of the barricades and claimed their massive show of force by the marchers from reaching the city center.
Whoever was right, it was a victory for restraint by both sides. Pope Paul VI and other religious and political leaders had to ensure that for everyone in Newry to avoid bloodshed.
The crowd, demonstrating against internment without trial of suspected Irish Republican Army outlaws, cheered as the American internment warnings against holding the march.
Referring to Prime Minister Edward Heath of Britain and the Northern Ireland prime minister, Brian Faukeer, she said: "We want to stand up down on their knees to beg us to call off this march, because they knew this march and that we would be going to bark down that clue at Stormont.
STORMONT IS the meeting place of Northern Ireland's parliament, dominated by the British-rulled province's two-to-one Protestant majority.
"The civil resistance campaign will never be done. Devin continued. "We with the faith."
Devlin, 24-year-old member of the British House of Commons, was joined in the march and afternoon rally by other and well known political militants.
AMONG THEM they actress Vanessa Redgrave, Joan Plowert, the actress wife of Sir Laurence Olivier, and Kevin Boland, former Dublin defense minister.
Army helicopters hovered high above the mass rally that filled Mooney's Meadow, an open space ringed by public housing projects.
Across the border in the Irish republic, thousands of demonstrators paraded peacefully throughout the country in sympathy with the Newry marchers but beeded please by their own government and the IRA to stay away from Newry.
Five thousand marched quietly in Dublin, where last week an angry mob took to the streets.
February Sister Attempts to Block Camera
Downtown Bus Service OK'd
StudEx Considers Sisters' Demands
By HAL RITTER
Kansan Staff Writer
. . . Group tries to expose film in scuffle
After passing a motion at the beginning of its meeting to bar photographers, the Student Executive Committee agreed Sunday night to consider requests by the February Sisters for funds for a cooperative child care center.
The motion to bar photographers while members of the February Sisters were present at the meeting was requested by the Sisters, Greg Sorber, University Daily Kansan photographer, remained outside the meeting.
The committee then decided to have Bill O'Neill, Student Senate treasurer, meet with representatives and prepare estimates of expenses for the center. The budget requests will be reviewed by the Finance and Auditing Committee.
The proposal will also be the first item
on the agenda of the Feb. 16
Student Council meeting.
The child care proposal originated Friday night as one of several demands presented by the February Sisters when theyupheld the East Asian Studies building.
After StudEx finished discussing the child care proposal, the representatives from February Sisters left the Governor's office in Union where the meeting was held.
SORBER BEGAN photographing the women as they left the meeting. The women attacked him and attempted to expose the film, but after a short scuffle Sorber escaped uninjured with his cameras and film intact.
A spokesman for the group, whose members wished to remain unidentified, said it was "really the right of the University to fund child care centers."
She said her group did not feel it was the Student Senate's responsibility to provide the funds, and funds were being sought only as a temporary stonaime measure."
The spokesman said her group had "put in a lot of man hours since Friday night" and wondered what the chances were that the proposal would pass the Senate.
The women said they did not want photographs taken because it was a group decision to keep individuals from receiving attention, although one of the Sisters said she simply did not want her father to see her picture in the paper.
"I don't want him to think I'm a radical woman and cut off my funds." she said.
StudEx decided at the meeting that if the Senate granted funds for the center they would have to go to the Women's Coalition and the Masters is not a recognized organization.
Following the meeting Rivian Bell, who identified herself as a press contact for the February Sisters, called the Kansan organization and made a statement of apology.
Bell said that she regretted the incident with Sorber had occurred, and that her group had only intended to expose Sorber's film.
She said the decision against photographs was made by the February Sisters as a whole and not just by those present at the meeting. She said the Sisters were part of the establishment of services to which the women of this University are entitled."
Sheik Mujibur Says U.S. Turned Its Back
CALCUTTA (AP) - Prime Minister Sheik Muibah Jiram of Bangladesh told a huge public meeting here Sunday that the United States had turned its back on the sufferings of his people and failed the democracy in the Indian subcontinent.
"Why was the U. S. government giving
Sisters' Terms Include Day Care
my GINNIE MICKE
Kansan Staff Writer
Eight representatives from the February Sisters, a group of about 100 women making such demands as a woman should attend a program and a department of women's studies, attended the StudEx meeting Sunday to discuss plans for a day
The February Sisters, proposing a free day care center to be financed by the University and run exclusively by women, are committed and possible locations for the center.
The women have scheduled a news conference for 10:30 a.m. today.
their pictures.
AFTER THE StudEx meeting Sunday several members of the February Sisters attempted to take a Kansan photographer's camera after he had taken
The day care center is one of the major demands that led the group to occupy the Center for East Asian Studies building in New York. The women whom brought children, stayed in the building for about 13 hours. This action was described in a written statement issued by the women as "a means of meeting the needs to meet the pressing needs of women."
StudEx, complying with the women's request that no pictures be taken, made a motion to close the meeting to photographers. The photographer was standing outside the conference room and pictures as the women left the meeting.
A representative of the women said that the East Asian Studies building had been occupied for "dramatic effect," but the rest was a non-violent, non-destructive group.
SENEX MET for three hours beginning at 10 p.m. Friday without any representatives from the women's group. At approximately 1 a.m., the February Sisters sent over five women. The women met with SenEx and the Chancellor both two and a half later. Six women returned at 6 a.m. for more discussion.
Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics and the nominee for the affirmative action program, did much of the negotiating between the February 1970 Senate that improved important outcome of the night was "that direct lines of communication were opened
Discussions ended before 8 a.m. The women and children who occupied the building were evacuated.
Confusion Clouds Field House Plan
Miller recently proposed that the entire floor be covered at an additional cost of almost $80,000. This would include three additional sets of basketball goals and court markings. His proposal was not disagreeable with the other two men, who were to Shinko, who has been concerned with the crowded conditions in Robinson Gymnasium.
Kansan Staff Writer
By RON WOMBLE
Kanean Staff Writer
The athletic department has long-range plans to surface all but the north end of the field house at a cost of $180,000. The staff at Stinson said, until the funds are available
Wade Stinson, athletic department director, David Miller, student body president, and Henry Shenk, head of the department of physical education, all want to see the floor in Allen Field House on a more accessible surface. The crucial problem is money.
Stinson said Miller had never contacted him about the program. He added that he had doubts about the feasibility of Miller's plans for financing the expanded program.
"I appreciate his efforts and concern,"
Sinson said, "except I don't believe he has
them."
MILLER PROPOSED that the student
The terms of the loan arranged for the yearly payments to increase each year over a 15-year period. Stinson said this was because he needed the season to subsequently and subsequent increases in season football ticket sales. He said football ticket sales had leveled off, however, and February 'prepayments' based on these sales had made the payments possible.
The original loan of $535,000 was taken out by the athletic department in 1966 with a projected repayment date of 1981. The loan is repaid by collections of $5 and $4 for each student season football and basketball ticket.
body "petition the Endowment Association and the Athletic Department to add the cost (not to exceed $80,000), to the current loan for the expansion of east stadium"
SHENK IS NOT really concerned about where the money comes from. He just wants to see the fieldhouse surface topped of the pressure off Robinson Gymnasium.
If the fieldhouse is surfaced it could be used by the physical education department for recreational activities on mornings, most evenings, Saturdays and Sundays.
between the women in the University, that there was a beginning of understanding of concerns, which hopefully can deepen in importance or important work which needs to be done."
Miller told the Student Senate that the loan, including the $80,000 addition, could be closed.
If the floor is ever to be completely surfaced, Shenk said, it should be done when the company is surfacing the rest of the floor.
A woman to be designated to fill the position of vice-chancellor of academic affairs, and women added to the staffs of the Office of Financial Aid and the Admissions Office to insure no sex discrimination.
provided there was no conflict with scheduled basketball games.
Shenk that Miller's plan would "almost double the recreational space and time" available in the field house under the athletic department's plan.
He said the gymnasium was used for classes most of the day, which put a great deal of pressure on the facility during the late afternoon and evening hours.
an end to what they called "unfair employment practices."
A free day care center financed by the university and directed exclusively by women.
The women's demands included:
AN AFFIRMATIVE action program planned and directed by a group of women involved in the planning.
"There are 262 men's intramural basketball teams being said, "and we only have 19."
A department committee that had been investigating ways to alleviate the crowding in Robinson Gymnasium had contacted the athletic department about using the field house if the floor could be surfaced, Shenk said.
THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE to Miller's plan is an expansion of the facilities at Robinson. Robinson is the first part of a two-phase program, but according to Shenk, phase two would cost well over $1 million.
An autonomous department of women's studies to be controlled and chiefly taught
Shenk said a large amount of money would be needed to start the expansion.
A COMMITTEE of University men and women have investigated the processes Office of Financial Aid, the Chancellor Office of Finance, and the Office of inequities in scholarship distribution.
A statement was issued by SenEx after the negotiations. It expressed SenEx's concern about the equal opportunity of women, but stated, "We can neither condone or ignore the type of action that has been taken tonight."
Chalmers also said the University had already developed a proposal to a federal funding agency to establish a day care center.
A search committee appointed by the chancellor is seeking qualified candidates for the position of vice-chancellor of a university. Twenty women had been suggested as candidates.
A women's health program.
IN DISCUSSIONS with SenEx and five representatives of the women who occupied the center, Dancellei E. Bender, a member of this action had already been taken on some of
the demands of the women
Chaimers said the University had been developing a comprehensive affirmative action program which could be filed with the federal government soon.
Employment practices came within the scope of the affirmative action program, Chalmers pointed out, and any inequality based on race must be removed in terms as accepted by federal directives.
Chalmers said the women's health program at KU had been expanded, and he pledged additional services and facilities when funds became available.
Feminist writer Robin Morgan, guest speaker at the University of Kansas last week, sent a telegram this weekend to the group. She praised the action that had been taken by the February Sisters and struck a blow for the freedom of women."
armis to Pakistan when the massacre of my innocent countrymen was going on in towns and villages?" he asked. "Did not the U. S. government know of it while it had machinery functioning there at the time?
"1 request the U. S. government to see
what they do, which they talk so
effectively." <u>CERTAINLY</u>
The visiting Bangladesh leader's speech coincided with publication by Indian diplomat Sushil Kumar, quoting a General Accounting Office report as saying the U. S. Air Force had arrrived more than half a million dollars on a priority basis to Pakistan on a priority basis in July 1975.
Pakistan had always preached that India was the enemy and had to be crushed, he said, adding, "Why should we, our enemy?" Indians are our brothers.
"AND BECAUSE India helped us," Mujib went on, "the United States cut off aid to India. While today I express my gratitude to the many countries who have recognized us, I cannot express gratitude to the United States."
Then he thanked Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for sending Indian troops into his homeland in December to help achieve independence for Bangladesh.
Twenty-nine nations have recognized Bangladesh to date.
It will be difficult for Bangladesh to renow its debt to India, he said.
Addressing close to half a million people, Mujib woved eternal friendship for India, which he said was guided by the same wisdom as Islam, secularism, democracy and socialism.
He said three million Bengalis lost their lives last year in East Pakistan, during the Pakistani military rule, and 40 per cent of the homes had been destroyed by the
"Because of the Pakistani atticries in my country, I am left a destitute and all that I can now offer you is my life," he said.
Kansan Staff Photo by KIT NETZER
Cost Poses Big Problem for Field House Proposal
... Other major questions remain unanswered ...