University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 30, 1971
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Liberation Groups Finish Busy Year
Bv PAM KUDA
PAM KUDA and JOHN GRAM senior Staff Writer
Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation have had an active year trying to make people better understand their objectives.
The Women's Coalition has tried to change the stereotypical picture that many people have felt about liberation, a spokesman for the group said. The women have made an effort and classes and have held speeches.
Members of the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front have been delegates to national gay liberation conventions inapolis, Minn. Austin, Texas and other cities. They have been representatives at the People's Constitutional convention in Washington, D.C., to ask for gay rights.
International Women's Day was one of the biggest projects of the year for women's lib. The women spent much time meeting with men, a march and a celebration honoring the women of the world.
Town-Gown Split Remains
Communications A Problem
SIX KU WOMEN from the Women's Center attended a
By CHRIS MILLER
Kansan Staff Writer
problems.
Last summer, two students were killed during violence in the city of Lawrence. Since then, feelings of students and townfolk have been scrutinized and efforts made to better relations.
A major barrier to communication was the tendency of students to ignore other. The community the Rev. Catt said, is uneasy concerning the possibility of violence. He said that some students imagined the student body to be
"firing zealots" who burn buildings and destroy the University that taxes helped to build.
The Rev. Catt said that improvements in housing brought about by pressure from the city would be easier to toward improving understanding
between townspeople and students. He described student pressure as "very legitimate," and said the city should get tough about "crudely housing." The city has a system of pressure from the University if
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LOOKING BACK
recent conference in Toronto, Canada. Representatives from Laos, North Vietnam, and South Vietnam talked to the women of the United States and Canada. They discussed the role of women in the War in Indochina was the war discussed, and the women
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Grassman Provided Highlight Last Fall
By MIKE LEWIS Kansan Staff Writer
In a 1970 fall offensive against marijuana penalties and the bad effects the authorities were having on the youth, the university offered a grant to reeducate the University campus with over 100 bags of "choice grass."
The first bag of grass to be grown in the United States, member 8 inside the Military Science Building. Further works of the 'street people' Santa Claus were not publicly heard of until 1972 and marijuana, complete with American flag and typewritten letters, was handed in to University authorities.
It would seem, however, that the phantom Grassman's philanthropy was generally well received. The many marijuana cachas were reported, the GRASSMAN stated in a personal letter to a Kansan reported, "By the end of Sep., 1985 I had distributed over 100 bags."
The GRASSMAN stated in the letter that his goal was to possess the land for possession of all 'pe' by November 1972 by using the
slogan "Legalize marijuana—it's already free."
The business-like aspects of marijuana traffic in Lawrence came under the rover scrutiny of the CBS eye in last November's NBC special. The program followed the day-to-day Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers in their routine in preparing harvested marijuana for sale.
The special aroused considerable criticism in the University Community which he faced. I gave misleading picture of University of Kansas students. Donald ether, Lawrence mayor at the time, wrote that "the other 98 percent represent the 'other 98 per cent of Lawrence and the University who are engaged in much deeper significance."
A written reply was never received and the word program went unread when the first sentence of the telegram was broadest in the
The students and "street community" now have a direct line to the city manager's office. The student was appointed "administrative aid to the city manager" for community work.
In a press release Metzler called the abbreviated air "a gesture which has little bearing on the substance of our request."
After Walker accepted the post in November, he came under fire from both liberal and conservative factions in the community. Walker said his efforts to understand what had been frustrated.
"Reform was my main goal and there has been virtually none of that. It is extremely frustrating from the standpoint of what I feel that the people are listening to, and that I have to say." Walker said.
COMMUNICATION is without doubt one of the greatest problems in the relationship between the town and University. During the past school year much effort has been made in improving communication
One project was a discussion group consisting of five students, five townpeepers and one teacher for the American Baptist Campus Center served as moderator. The group discussed drugs, city government and the philosophy of culture" during their five meetings.
Two of the members of the group, a graduate student and his wife, were. Catt said, sympathetic to other students and 'street people' because they were treated like 'second-class students', he said, feel that they're getting ripped off by the town.
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AN EXCELLENT example to this is off-campus student Catt, said in the discussions, Catt said, the students rarely saw their landlords unless their rent was due. High rents are charged for students cited by the student as urgent
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