THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
81st Year, No. 129
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
RAIN
Education At Haskell
Tuesday, April 20, 1971
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Vets March On Capitol; Protest War
WASHINGTON (UPD) - Led by two crippled veterans in wheelchairs, hundreds of former GI marched from the locked gates of Arlington National Cemetery to the steps of a building to begin more than two weeks of protests against U.S. involvement in the Indochina War.
The demonstrators, shouting slogans, raised clenched fists and shook them at President Nixon's helicopter when it flew overhead.
They carried a huge red and white banner proclaiming "Vets Against The War," on the four-mile march through the sunny streets that were crowded by spring tourists.
As they marched, the protestors shouted such slogans as "Power to the People," "Hi-di, Hi-di, Hi-di-ho, Mr. Nixon's got to go" and "Peace Now."
They complained about not being allowed inside the sprawling cemetery, but held a memorial service outside the heavy iron cates and left two wreaths of roses, asking that they be placed at the Tomb of the Wounded in honor of Americans who died in Indochina.
Police estimated the number of marchers at about 1,000. Most of them were white and the ranks included some former sergeants and their sons whose sons had been killed in Vietnam.
At the head of the march were James Atchle, 20, of Flushing, Mich., and William Wyman, also 20, of New York City. Both lost wounded and they were pushed along in wheelchairs.
Rep. Paul N. McCloskey, B-Calif., a leading critic of the war who has threatened to run against the President in 1972 unless he ends the war, marched with the group. He said the veterans should try to convince members of Congress to withdraw funds for the war.
The veterans' march was the start of a series of protests and demonstrations against the war that will continue for more than two weeks. The largest crowd is expected for a mass rally this Saturday sponsored by the National Peace Action Committee.
Officials of the committee have expressed
officials they might get as many protesters as
showed up for a peace rally Nov. 15, 1968. An
examination of party轮盘 turned out for that
 demonstration.
Kansan Staff Photo by JIM HOFFMAN
Enlightened
Study in the School of Religion, located across from the Kansas Union, is directed toward informing the student about religious practices and beliefs and not toward winning
converts. The school is equipped with new and modern facilities which include this quiet and comfortable library. The recent popularity by young people in religious study has caused the school's enrolment to increase and has kept the Librarians busy. See related story on page 2.
McGovern Attacks Hoover, Nixon
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Sen. George S. McGovern, D-S.D., said Monday he believed the FBI had under surveillance "virtually every political figure, every student activist, every leader for peace and social justice" in the nation.
The Democratic presidential hopeful, in a strong new attack on the FBI and Director, E. Edgar Hover, charged that President Nixon had been a 70-year-old Hover even though "the has been a 50-year-old Hover."
"The obvious truth is that Mr. Hoover is retained in office not out of a sense of confidence, but out of fear," McGovern said. "Out of political fear that the administration cannot afford to remove this 'sacred cow' from the public scene."
McGovern's fresh criticism of Hoover came in a speech at Lewis-St. Francis College in Lockport, Ill. He said documents stolen from the FBI showed that FBI "evillance was widespread."
Republican National Chairman Robert J. Dole, a Kansas Senator, defeated the FBI and
Hoover before GOP governors in Williamsburg, Va., saying that Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine, and other critics of the agency were making "a concerted and deliberate effort" to downgrade it into "an American version of the Gestapo."
On the House floor, a former FBI agent, Rep. Samuel L. Devine, Rohio, also criticized Muskie indirectly for making public the names of persons Muskie said were under FBI surveillance at 1970 Earth Day ceremonies.
Devine said 'anambitious politicians and newspapers which act as forces for stolen documents' were violating the privacy of individuals by using names.
McGovern referred to some of the stolen documents—copies of which were sent anonymously to certain newspapers and portions of which were published—as presenting "clear evidence" of FBI asking on citizens "whose only crime seems to be a social conscience that moves them to social action."
MeGovern then added: "There is no doubt in my mind that virtually every political figure, every student activist, every leader of the movement, every justice is under the surveillance of the FBI."
"I am convinced that paid informers are the rule rather than the exception on college campuses, within civil rights groups, and throughout the peace movement. I have no doubt and elaborate files are maintained on thousands of political figures across the land."
In his speech, McGovern said Heover attempted to get Trans World Airlines to fire Capt. Donald J. Cook Jr., after the pilot criticized FBI agents who tried to capture a hijacker aboard his plane at JFK Airport in New York Nov. 1, 1969.
He said after TWA refused to fire Cook Hoover tried to discourage FBI employees from flying with the airline and did not want to fly, so he served as air marshals aboard TWA flights.
System 'Monumental' Failure
Nixon Blasts Welfare, Seeks Reform Support
Republican governers attending a conference at Colonial Williamsburg, Va., watched Nixon's strong indictment of the former president as appeal for support of his welfare reform plan.
Nixon's Williamsburg appearance was the first of two during the day before friendly political audiences in which he called for support of his domestic programs that are stalled in the Democratic-controlled Congress.
He later appeared before the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)—the first chief executive to do so since 1954—and urged them to join him in "a new American government more workable through his relentless sharing and federal reorganization plans.
Nixon told the DAR convention at Constitution Hall in Washington that "when we look at government performance in this country today—when we listen to the discouragement and disgust which so many Americans have come to feel about all government—we can sense the urgent need for government renewal."
"Political power and tax revenue have flowed increasingly to Washington," Nixon said.
"As a result the local and state governments—which by rights should be vigorous instruments of the people's power—have fallen into disrepair.
"At the same time, the rapid and largely unplanned expansion of the federal government has resulted in a structure so complex that it is difficult to describe the attentiveness that can neither serve the people nor reliably to direction of the peoples' elected representatives," the President declared.
但 he reserved his strongest language for an indictment of the present welfare system
Space Station May Be Goal Of Satellite
MOSCOW (UPI) — The Soviet Union launched an unnamed "satellite" satellite into earth orbit Monday in what scientific sources call a "sleepy step down" construction of the first permanent space station.
The sources said the Salute satellite would be followed within a few days, probably Tuesday or Wednesday, by manned spaceships and the unmanned ones, with it and its abridgment of the station.
The official Soviet news agency, Tass, announced the launching of the Salute, which is a new name in Soviet space language. The announcement referred to it as "station," suggesting that it had a purpose different from what it was actually called "Sputniks" or "scientific satellites."
which he said rewarded people for doing nothing.
A permanent, manned space station, on which the United States also is working, is considered by space planners as necessary for large-scale exploration of the solar system. Fully developed, a space station could be used to launch manned satellites further into space. It also would have considerable military potential.
"If a job puts bread on the table and gives you the satisfaction of providing for your children and lets you look everyone else in the eye, I do not think that is mental." Nixon said in a tough speech to the Republican Governors Conference.
"Scrubbing floors or emptying bed pans is not enjoyable work, but a lot of people do it, and there is as much dignity in that as there is for cleaning it. We'd be done in this country including my own."
The current welfare system is a monumental failure" and reform of it is necessary.
Youth Conference Receives Divided Reaction at Opening
ESTES PARK, Colo. (UPI) - The White House Youth Conference kicked off its first full day of discussion Monday with many delegates optimistic about possible results and others upset over the presence of 500 adult delegates.
The 1,500 participants strugged through six inches of surprise spring snow at the Rocky Mountain resort town to participate in task training in up to 10 general areas of national concern.
Two handbills were circulated Monday, reportedly by members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. One carried a picture of former Secretary of the Interior Robert Bentley with the motation that the former Cabinet member was "buried from the conference."
The second handhill carried a picture of a
mourning couple in a room full of coffins. It
was on the wall behind them.
ference on Youth."
The task forces covered topics ranging from race and minority group relations to employment. The conference was scheduled to last through Thursday.
Some delegates criticized the Estes Park site. Prior to the conference, however, the White House said, "Many of the young people favored a site where the adults would be free from the distractions of their professional and educational life, able to fully concentrate on the work of their careers."
James L. Bernoulli, a black adult delegate from Los Angeles, said he thought the conference was "not moving as I would like to see it."
Even before the conference began, there were threats that the gathering would prove to be embarrassing for the President, who had been invited to the conference shifted from Washington.
Study of Race Problems Rejected by School Board
By CHRIS MILLER Kansan Staff Writer
A proposal for Unified School District 497 to apply for federal funds to assist the district's secondary schools in becoming fully integrated at a meeting of the board Monday night.
The proposal was to apply for $63,590 in federal funds to implement a study of racial problems in the secondary schools, particularly the high school. It also called for implementation on a trial basis of suggestions made by those participating in the research.
The three basic areas the program was designed to study were administrative policy and procedures; communication among all groups in secondary schools; and curriculum content, grading practices and class assignment procedure.
Concerning administrative policies and procedures, participants in the program would evaluate them to determine whether they are still appropriate to the system. If they found fault with any policy or regulation, they would make recommendations to the administration or the school board, depending on who had initiated the policy.
The task force to study administrative policies and procedures would be composed of 14 people - eight staff members from the high school, five students from the three junior high schools in the district
Another task force, composed of 30 people-29 staff members from the high school and 2
from each of the junior high schools—would study communication problems in the
They would also make recommendations regarding changes to benefit communication.
A third task force, composed of 21 people—15 high school staff members and 2 from each of the junior high schools—would evaluate curriculum content, grading practices, and class assignment procedures. They would assess students regarding changes in current practices.
The program called for all 65 participants to meet during August of 1971. At that time, students and parents would appear before the committee so that their opinions regarding existing policies.
Following these meetings, the task forces would review the public's comments, determining which were legitimate complaints. They would then direct their parents to solving the problems suggested by parents and students in the discussions.
The vote was five to two against the proposal. Helen Giles and John Spearman Sr. voted in favor of it. William Bradley, Larry Gibson, and Robert Paddock and Gladix Six voted against it.
Most of the opposition to the proposal concerned the allocation of funds in the program and qualifications for personnel to supervise it.
Union Fire and Curfew Still Remembered by Many
Kansas Staff Photo by JIM HOFFMAN
Union Ballroom After Fire
... part of estimated $1 million damage
BvERICKRAMER
and CAROL JACKSON Kansan Staff Writers
A year ago today a fire gutted part of the Kansas Union. It was extinguished in the early hours of the next morning, but it still has not been forgotten.
One man who will never forget the fire is Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. Other than the building, the University's image was also damaged by the fire. Chalmers becomes excited when he bears about the fire. He talks about one or two arsonists and is quick to point out that the arsonists might not have been students.
In fact, in a recent interview, Chailmers said that it was the publicity rather than the fire that damaged the University's image. He said that the national news media interpreted the fire as the "beginning of the revolution in the heartland of America."
Chalmers said he could not understand why the arsenists got the headlines instead of the 300 students who risked their lives to save art objects and to help fight the fire.
CHALMERS HAS HAD to defend the KU student body from many attacks, including Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. Agnew said he hoped the students responsible were
Mike Thomas, head of KU Traffic and Security, and Fred Howard, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, said the fire was still being actively investigated. Howard said that he was still optimistic that the crime would be solved and that the KBI had checked out several leads since he took office in university.
caught. Chailmers was quick to counter by saying students might not be involved.
"It was an act of arson," he said.
A reward, offered for information which would lead to the conviction of the arsonists, has been approved.
DURING THE NIGHTLY curfew which followed the fire, fire bombings and attempted fire bombings were reported almost hourly.
Another man living in the shadow of the fire is Frank Burge, Union manager. While it was Chalmer to job to rebuild the University's building, Frank Burge's job to rebuild the damaged building.
The April 20, 1970 fire started in a third floor rest room and quickly spread to the Union Ballroom and the rooms surrounding it. The fire was discovered by Bill Rowlands, information counter manager and night manager of the Union.
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Kansas Stuff Photo by HM HOVERMAN
Now, One Year Later rebuilding 95 per cent finished