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VOX PLATFORM FINISHED—Roger Wilson (left), Wichita senior and president of Vox Populi, and Rod Kuehn, Wakarusa sophomore, make a final check of Vox's platform which was released today.
The Vox Populi General Assembly last night approved a platform including planks calling for improvement of the intramurals program and establishment of two new committees.
Platform Ratified By Vox Assembly
By Linda Machin
The proposed committees would regulate dances and concerts coming to KU, and would help students during enrollment.
Rodney Kuehn, Wakarusa sophomore and co-chairman of the platform committee, presented nine platform planks for consideration. The only plank rejected pertained to the extension of women's closing hours.
THE PLANK regarding the intramural program also calls for the promotion of KU health and recreational facilities and the support of all intercollegiate athletic contests, by an interdepartmental committee of the All Student Council.
The assembly unanimously agreed that the importance of intramural games is underplayed. Members said a committee is needed to assure the games and game schedules, better coverage in the Daily Kansan and to organize the program in the large dormitories.
IN ADDITION to intramural sports, the plank supports intercollegiate sports and promotes individual maintenance of health and physical fitness.
Another major plank advocates establishment of a student board to advise students, particularly freshmen, on enrollment.
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A third major plank of the Vox platform calls for a student-faculty committee "to regulate the use of university facilities for and set the policy on the sponsors of any dance or concert sponsored by a student organization."
THE PLANK also advocates the securing of "big name" talent through the Big Eight Student Government Association, which would enable Big Eight universities to profit from collective buying power.
A fourth major proposal, the extension of women's closing hours, was defeated.
The plank suggested that freshman women's closing be extended from 10:30 to 11 weekdays and from 11 to 12 p.m. Sundays. Closing for upper-classmen would be extended until midnight on weekdays and Sundays. Closing one Saturday night a month would be extended until 2 a.m.
See text of platform on page 9
Another plank specified that the ASC should not be regimented by outside individual groups. Furthermore, the ASC should continue to consider only issues directly related to the campus.
Thursday, Oct. 25, 1962
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McCornack said:
ASC Budget Cut May Curtail PTP Activities
"THIS IS NO TIME to let up financially. There is a growing number of foreign students coming to KU which means an even greater
Reuben McCornack, Abilene junior and P-t-P co-chairman, said yesterday the budget cut will "definitely curtail" some KU P-t-P activities.
The All Student Council appropriation to KU People-to-People threatens to strangle that organization's programs this year.
At a budget session Tuesday, the Council gave P-t-P $1,800, about $400 less than the P-t-P request. People-to-People had estimated their expenses this year at $2,683.50, but requested only $2,192.20 from the ASC.
ALTHOUGH THE $1,800 sum represents about one-third of the entire sum allocated to student organizations, it reflects a cut of $105 from last year's ASC appropriation to P-t-P.
"Certain facts cannot be overlooked," he said. "People-to-People was originated at KU, and as a result of last year's Council appropriation, it has grown into a program of international significance."
"Realizing the growing number of students directly involved and the increasing effectiveness of P-t-P, I was surprised the ASC cut P-t-P's appropriation so readily. It is understandable, though, their attention might be directed to newer and more publicity-oriented programs." Schaeffer said he was referring to the KU Peace Corps Committee which received $1,098 from the ASC
McCornack said he felt certain the ASC criticisms and comments made in the Tuesday night Council meeting were "irresponsible."
WILLIAM SCHAEFFER, Shawnee Mission junior and KU P-t-P chairman, said.
need to diversify and expand People-to-People work."
He declined to elaborate on that point.
60th Year. No. 30
Soviet Tanker Allowed Through U.S. Blockade
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Students Split Over Cuban Quarantine
Compiled from UPI and CPS
PHILADELPHIA—The Federacior Estudianil Universitaria of Cuba, the national union of students under the Castro government, has sent a blistering telegram of protest to the office of the U.S. National Student Association on branding the blockade of Cuba by the Kennedy government a "fascist and criminal" action.
The cable demanded that American students condemn the action of their government. FEU has also telegrammed unions throughout the world asking condemnation of Kennedy.
Thousands of students at universities and colleges across the nation were split today over President Kennedy's blockade of Cuba
About 400 Marquette University students marched through streets near downtown Milwaukee, Wis., last night carrying signs which read:
More protest demonstrations against the quarantine were planned, despite evidence of mounting campus sympathy for the firm measure.
"To Hell With Fidel," "Down the Three C's,"—Cuba, Castro and Communism," and "MU Backs Jack."
FOR THE PAST three days, everything from chilly silence to eggs and fists have greeted picketing and speeches by some "peace" and "anti-war" groups.
IN CONTRAST, on the East and West coasts two separate groups said they would protest the blockade with "vigils for peace." One was the "Association for Disarmament" at Wesleyan University in Middleton, Conn., and the other, a "Students for Peace" group at Portland (Wash.) State College. They planned to picket and pass out leaflets.
Tomorrow's forecast includes temperatures expected in the 60s.
A booing crowd of 5.000 persons at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis hurled eggs at leaders of the Student Peace Union who argued the blockade may trigger war.
Other pro-blockade Indiana students heckled their classmates who opposed Kennedy's position. One non-student was arrested for assault and battery.
The Student Peace Union is planning to "encircle" the White House on Saturday, sending bus loads of students from all over the East. An SPU spokesman said "coffee won't be enough this time."
Police intervened to prevent a fight at the University of Michigan, as 500 students supporting the blockade demonstrated against half that number opposed to it.
Lawrence and area is expected to get a respite from the cool temperatures that have plagued the area for the past several days.
THE YOUNG REPUBLICANS for Freedom and the campus Young Republican Club staged a counterdemonstration at Indiana University to one launched by the "Ad Hoc Committee to Oppose Aggression."
Weather
Cool temperatures are expected, however, through the night as the forecasted low is in the 30s. Frost is again expected tonight.
WASHINGTON—(UPI)The Navy task force blockading Cuba encountered a Soviet tanker today but allowed it to pass through the U.S. quarantine ring because it carried no offensive materials.
The Defense Department announced, however, that "at least a dozen Soviet vessels" bound for Cuba have turned back, probably because they were delivering banned military goods to Cuba. According to the department, the ship involved in today's episode was carrying only petroleum which is not on the embargo list.
The Soviet ship was not boarded by U.S. Navy crewmen, according to two officials who attended a briefing on the Cuban situation.
New Jersey Gov. Richard J. Hughes and Rep. Victor L. Anfuso, D-N.Y., told newsman in New York City that the blockade task force
WASHINGTON—(UPI)President Kennedy today sent his reply to U.N.Secretary General Thant's proposal that the United States temporarily lift the Cuban blockade to allow negotiations over the crisis.
The contents of Kennedy's message were to be made public later in the day by Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, who was to read it to the Security Council. It was known that the administration believes it would be folly to suspend the blockade without adequate guarantees against a continued Soviet military buildup in Cuba.
had other information to rely on which made it possible to pass the tanker without actual inspection.
THE TENSELY AWAITED first meeting between the Navy and a Soviet ship occurred shortly after 8 a.m. EDT (6 a.m. Lawrence time). It apparently passed off without incident.
Other events today relating to the Cuban crisis:
- Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Great Britain told the House of Commons the Russian missile buildup in Cuba was "a deliberate adventure designed to test the ability and determination of the United States."
- France put its armed forces on alert to be ready for action should the Cuban crisis spread to Europe.
- Demonstrators protesting President Kennedy's Cuban blockade gathered outside the U.S. embassy in Moscow for the second straight day, chanting "Hands Off Cuba" and picketing the building with placards.
- Naval headquarters at Norfolk, Va., braced for the arrival of 2,432 woman and children, the last to be removed from Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
- A large troop train carrying foot soldiers unloaded at the northern end of the Florida Keys, adding more muscle to America's front line of land defense in the Cuban crisis.
- Extreme-leftist students and unionists in Uruguay started a drive to recruit "volunteers to fight in defense of the Cuban revolution."
The Defense Department said the dozen or so Russian ships which turned back did so "presumably because, according to the best of our information, they might have been carrying offensive materials."
The Pentagon statement added:
"However, the first Russian ship that proceeded through the area patrolled by our forces was a Soviet tanker.
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John Steinbeck Gets 1962 Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM — (UPI) — John Steinbeck, whose novel "The Grapes of Wrath" ranks as one of the classics of 20th century American letters, today was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Steinbeck, who rose to fame in the 1930s with novels and short stories that reflected the "common people" and the depressed economic conditions of the age, thus became the sixth American to receive the Nobel award.
THE OTHER FIVE were William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Pearl Buck, and playwright Eugene O'Neill.
Steinbeck was born Feb. 27, 1902, in Salinas, Calif., a section that provided the background for many of his novels and stories.
Once, when asked to furnish biographical information, Steinbeck said: "Please feel free to make up your own facts about me as you need them. I can't remember how
much of me really happened and how much I invented . . . biography by its very nature must be half-fiction."
The Swedish Academy of Letters, in naming Steinbeck the recipient of the award, praised the American novelist for "his at one and the same time realistic and imaginative writings, distinguished as they are by a sympathetic humor and social perception."
OF ALL THE Nobel Prizes, the award for literature and the peace prize draw the greatest public attention and invariably spark sharp debate around the world. The prize for literature is $50,034.
The author, now living in New York, was not immediately available for comment, but his wife said, "I am very proud and happy. It is a great, great honor."
Mrs. Steinbeck said her husband would hold a news conference in New York later today.