Daily hansan
60th Year. No.26
Friday, Oct. 19, 1962
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Colorado President Fires 'Daily' Editor
By Fred Zimmerman
"Senator. I shall not silence them."
This was the answer of President Quigg Newton of the University of Colorado, made two weeks ago to the demand of Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., that the editor of the Colorado Daily, Gary Althen, be fired.
Goldwater was angry because the Daily had printed a philosophy student's attack on Goldwater which called the conservative senator
Fellowship Grants Open
Francis H. Heller, associate dean of the college and KU liaison officer for the Danforth Graduate Fellowship program, announced today that fellowships worth up to $12,000 for college teaching careers are open.
The fellowships are for male college seniors and recent graduates preparing for a career of teaching, counseling, or administrative work at the college level. Interested students must indicate to Dean Heller by Oct. 20 their desire to be considered. A faculty committee will then nominate students.
The Danforth Foundation, one of the nation's 10 largest educational foundations, was founded in 1927 by the late William H. Danforth, St Louis businessman and philanthropist.
The foundation's primary aim is to strengthen higher education through its own programs of fellowships, workshops, and grants to colleges, universities and other educational agencies.
UP to Interview ASC Candidates
The University Party Campus Committee will interview 20 candidates for All Student Council seats at 2 p.m. Sunday in Room 305 of the Kansas Union.
Robert Stewart, Bartlesville sophomore and UP Greek co-chairman, made the announcement last night at a Campus Committee meeting at Lewis Hall.
Stewart said the interviews will not eliminate anyone from running in UP's open primary.
"We just want to get acquainted with the candidates and find out their qualifications," he said.
South Vietnamese Fail to Crush Reds
SAIGON — (UPI) The South Vietnamese government's biggest drive to crush the country's Communist rebels has ended in failure.
The offensive, called "Operation Morning Star," lasted eight days and involved more than 6,000 government troops, hundreds of American advisers and support people, and tens of thousands of dollars of American-supplied equipment.
The end result was 40 Communist Viet Cong guerrillas killed and two captured. In addition, a few weapons were taken and 151 guerrilla sampans destroyed by gunfire from planes and helicopters. Communist casualties from these air strikes were unknown.
Government forces suffered two killed and 27 injured. One U.S. helicopter was forced down during the operation and later had to be destroyed.
The Communists simply refused to fight the large government concentrations of troops, preferring to melt away into the rice paddies and continue the familiar guerrilla tactics which have been so successful.
a tool, a mountbank, a murderer,
no better than a common criminal.
WEDNESDAY, President Newton fired Althen as editor of the student newspaper. Five hundred students rallied in front of the Student Union that night, many of them wearing signs saving.
"Senator, I shall not silence them." The word "not" in each sign had been crossed out.
After publication of the article Sept. 21, Goldwater demanded — and got — public apologies from Althen and Newton.
PRESIDENT NEWTON'S apology said, in part:
"The words in question were obviously irresponsible and defamatory and the University of Colorado disavows them unqualified."
Althen's apology, printed as an open letter to Goldwater on the front page of the Daily, said:
"I recognize that certain statements made about you in the Colorado Daily of Sept. 21 were crude, intemperate and false.
"I respectfully apologize for publication of these statements."
IN SEPARATE MEETINGS last week the publications board, student government, and the faculty senate upheld Althen and the editorial autonomy of the Daily.
As Althet told a Daily Kansan editor by telephone Monday, it appeared the controversy was subsiding — in spite of periodic public attacks on Althet and the Daily by politicians and regents.
Then the Daily printed a letter from Carl Mitchan, author of the attack on Goldwater that started the trouble. In his letter, the philosophy student referred to former president Eisenhower as an "old futzer."
That apparently did it.
A messenger called Althem out of class yesterday. The student editor walked from the classroom to President Newton's office, where he was handed a brief note saying he had been fired as editor, effective immediately.
IN ANNOUNCING the dismissal of Althen, President Newton said the 21-year-old editor "had displayed a pattern of editorial irresponsibility that required his removal."
A wire service quoted Althen as saying in regard to his dismissal:
Althen further expressed the opinion that President Newton had reversed his position.
"I'm not sure this is in the best interests of the university."
Weather
IN THE LETTER from the university president to the Senator in which the "Senator, I shall not silence them" statement was made, President Newton also said:
"We have a genuine democracy of ideas on our campus. We have fought long and hard to achieve it, and the fight has been against those who — like yourself — believe the function of a university is to inductate, rather than educate; to control thought, rather than to stimulate it.
"The cry you raise has a very familiar ring to us: 'You must silence those who do not agree with me!'
"WE HAVE HEARD it from the John Birchers. . from the local Goldwaters. It is always the same:
There will be considerable cloudiness through Saturday with showers or thunderstorms south and east this afternoon and over most of the state tonight. Heavy rains are likely in the east portion. Low temperature tonight will be in the 40s northwest to the 60s in the southeast. High Saturday will be near 50 in the northwest to the 60s in the southeast.
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WASHINGTON —(UPI)—Republican leaders yesterday attacked President Kennedy for giving Algerian Premier Ahmed Ben Bella a red-carpet welcome a few days before the revolutionary leader went to Cuba and criticized the United States.
Ben Bella Visit Irritates GOP
The attack was made by GOP National Chairman William E. Miller, Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., chairman of the Senate GOP campaign committee, and Rep. Bob Wilson. Calif., chairman of the House GOP campaign committee.
THEY SAID IN a statement that the administration was guilty of "poor timing and bungled handling" of Ben Bella's visit, and demanded to know "how many millions of U.S. foreign aid dollars" the administration promised Ben Bella.
The GOP leaders said they were "disgraced and mortified" when Kennedy gave Ben Bella a 21-gun salute on the White House grounds Monday. Ben Bella went to Cuba and on Wednesday joined Premier Fidel Castro in demanding that the United States get out of the Guantanamo base.
"This administration is hurting our friends and aiding our enemies," the Republicans complained.
Another Republican, Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, N. Y., was disgruntled, also. He said, "We had best learn a little about people before we take them to the White House and give them a big ceremony." He suggested the United States deal through "less conspicuous diplomatic channels" with people who "turn around and stick a knife in our back."
ON THE SUBJECT of the Guantanamo base, Keating said it has been turned into a "virtual detention camp for more than 350 Cuban escapes."
Power Failure Scrubs Ranger-5 Moon Shot
CAPE CANAVERAL—(UPI)—An $8 million power failure has ruined a U.S. attempt to send a Ranger-5 spacecraft on a collision course to the moon to get the world's first close-up lunar snapshots.
away the 755-pound package, hurled
from earth by a 10-story
Atlas-Agena rocket yesterday, is
expected to miss the moon by
about 300 miles and then swing
into orbit around the sun around
midday Sunday.
Ranger-5 failed to get solar power and its own batteries ran down—and, like its four Ranger predecessors and six earlier U.S. moonships, it is a failure. The moon remains America's most elusive target in space.
THE UNITED STATES, still desperately short of the vital lunar exploration information needed to plan manned flights to the moon later this decade, won't get another moonshot opportunity until early 1963.
The gold- and chrome-platee Ranger-5 that scientists painstakingly built at a cost of $8 million on the ground was turned into a worthless hunk of space debris shortly after it leaped from earth on the start of a 70-hour, 231,500-mile flight toward the moon.
Ranger-5's electronic death was spelled out in its failure at that point to "lock on" to the sun—a maneuver to keep its huge solar panels in the right position to pick up electricity-producing solar energy.
Without solar help, the spacecraft was left powerless when its short-lived batteries wore out. The result was revealed by a terse line in a Federal Space Agency announcement 10 hours after blast-off:
". . the 775-pound spacecraft will not be able to accomplish any of its mission objectives."
The objectives were several—to try to get some 150 close-up photographs of the moon from altitudes ranging from more than 2,000 miles to within a few thousand feet of the lunar surface; and to attempt to "crash-land" a capsule loaded with scientific instruments on the moon itself.
But the camera cannot operate without power. And its lunar landing capsule will never be released because Ranger-5 missed its planned collision course.
Had the power been available, scientists could have easily turned the spacecraft back on the right path with the help of a mid-course rocket carried on board.
Vox Considers Proposed Plank
Vox Populi last night discussed a possible plan in the party platform which would support All Student Council discussions of national and international affairs.
The Vox platform and slate of officers will be presented at a special session next Wednesday. Roger Wilson, Vox President said.
Dissention in the meeting was centered around two questions.
- Does the ASC have the right to express opinion which it assumes to be that of the student body?
- Is it the responsibility of the ASC to concern itself with issues outside student government.?
Two Vox members questioned the advisability of including a plank which favored ASC "expanded" discussions.
"Personally, I'd like to see this thing fall flat on its nose," Dick Jones, Lenexa sophomore, said. "The ASC is not capable of handling it because there are just too many descending opinions."
John Grothusen, Ellsworth junior, stated that the ASC exceeded its authority by sending the letter to Mississippi.
"STUDENT GOVERNMENT does and will communicate with student governments at other schools, but I think the ASC should spend its time only on those things directly related to student government," he added.
A willingness to speak to any student group was reiterated by Wilson who termed the Corbin Vox-UP debate as "very encouraging for Vox."
Wilson said Vox has made plans to have similar meetings in Lewis and Gertrude Sellards Pearson.
In other action, Vox Populi voted unanimously to accept Battenfeid and Jolliffe Halls into the party.
Brian Grace, Lawrence junior, commented that he saw no reason why Vox should not be able to elect two men from the scholarship hall district.
THESE FRESHMAN WOMEN were elected to membership in Associated Women Students (AWS) governing bodies yesterday. They are (l. to r.): Robin Bruner, Newton, GSP, House
of Representatives; Beth Beamer, Topeka, Corbin, Senate; Claudia Reeder, Overland Park, Watkins, Senate; and Marty Mettner, Topeka, Corbin, House.