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Daily Hansan
Lawrence, Kansas
61st Year, No. 65
Thursday, Dec. 19, 1963
Moscow Police Block Off Way to Ghanaian Embassy
MOSCOW — (UPI) — About 50 fur-hatted Soviet militia today sealed off the Ghanaian Embassy where a group of students had tried to force their way in. Several Africans were pushed back into the snow.
Shortly before 1 p.m. the minuita had closed off both ends of the snow- covered street leading to the embassy with trucks.
A militia loudspeaker car warned Soviet citizens and all others in the area to move on.
A HIGH RANKING militia officer also blocked the way to newsmen.
He said he had instructions from Ghana Ambassador John Elliott to let no one pass.
The embassy was cordoned off shortly after a group of 30 Ghanaian students tried to enter.
They said they wanted information on the death of fellow Ghanaian student Edmund Asare-Addo, whose body was found frozen in the snow alongside a railroad track north of Moscow last Thursday.
AN ESTIMATED 40 African students marched into Red Square yesterday with banners charging Soviet maltreatment of Africans in the U.S.S.R.
Students in the crowd said they feared Asare-Addo was the victim of foul play.
The Soviets claim the 29-year-old Chanaaian medical student froze to death while in a state of intoxication after returning from Kenya independence celebrations in Moscow.
The Soviet News Agency Tass, in a foreign broadcast, today quoted the Moscow prosecutor's official as saying, "There is no reason to believe that his (the student) death was caused by violence."
An official at the prosecutor's office repeated a number of details of the preliminary investigation.
TASS SAID no signs of any struggle were detected around the body. The student's document case and overcoat were lying not far away, Tass said.
John Elliott, Ghana's Ambassador to Moscow, said he knew of "no incidents, scuffles, or storm of barricades" in connection with yesterday's demonstration.
The situation was different today.
situation was different body. The Soviet militiamen, who are stationed outside all embassies as guards, barred the African students from entering. When the students insisted on going into the embassy, they were pushed back into the snow.
IT WAS ONLY after repeated protests that a few were admitted.
Ambassador Elliott asked for extra militia guards outside the building today to prevent incidents. The eight guards refused to budge when the students arrived.
"We came here to find out what is happening about the death of Asare Addo," one student said. "We have an invitation to go into the embassy."
When the students moved forward, the militiamen pushed three of them back off the sidewalk, and they went reeling into the snow, their hats falling off their heads.
SEVERAL OF THE students said they were from the city of Kalinin, where Asare-Addo was studying before his death.
The Soviet guards told the students that the embassy was closed for the day and that the ambassador had issued orders to let no one in.
But the Africans continued arguing, and some said they would stage a strike outside the building. After repeated protests, an embassy official appeared and permitted a few students from Kalinin to enter.
The others then began dispersing as militiamen moved in a truck and bus to block the ends of the street.
A STUDENT WHO identified himself as Olimpio Ankapong told United Press International:
"I knew Addo's mother and father and we were like brothers. I don't know if he really froze to death or not. But I want to find out about it. And I came here to find out. I won't be satisfied until I know."
"IT MAY BE THAT Addo felt himself unwell and left the train on the way (he was on his way from Moscow to Kalinin where he studied at a medical institute). It is probable that being drunk, he felt hot and took off his coat, disregarding the frost," the news agency said.
"There was severe frost in the Moscow region in the night from Thursday to Friday which was fatal for Addo," it said. The temperature near Khovrino station was below zero, according to Tass.
Christmas Greetings To You From the UDK
The staff of the Daily Kansan would like to wish all its readers a very Merry Christmas and a most joyous New Year.
Today's edition will be the last paper until January 7, 1964.
Student's 'Foreign Aid Cheers Local Woman
By Leta Cathcart
Foreign aid is usually received by nations. Not so in Lawrence this Christmas season.
A foreign student gave "foreign aid" to a Lawrence woman last week when he pushed her car off icv pavement.
MARY WHITE. 1720 W. 21st St., is still looking for him. She said she never got to thank him.
The woman's car was parked in the parking lot of a grocery store on the corner of 11th and Massachusetts. When she attempted to leave the parking lot, her wheels spun on the ice.
Miss White backed up to get traction. She backed near the car of the student. As Miss White learned later, the student was also having trouble with his car. His battery was not charging.
MISS WHITE asked him if he could give her a push. The student apparently did not understand what she meant. After a confusing conversation about who was helping whom, the student said, "Oh, you want me to push you with my hands."
Miss White said "yes" and the student pushed her car. She drove away and was unable to thank him.
Moscow radio called yesterday's demonstration "a traditional memorial march" in honor of the dead student, Edmund Asare-Addo. It said the march "met with no obstacles on the part of Soviet authorities."
She said she had no chance to thank the student for his help. She would like him to call her at VI 3-8702 before he leaves for the Christmas vacation.
Militia reinforcements blocked off both ends of the streets on which the embassy is located. They apparently were anticipating a renewal of yesterday's mass demonstration.
But the 400 students who marched through the snow in Red Square yesterday carried placards that read "Moscow Is a Second Alabama" and "Don't Kill Like Cannibals."
TODAY, THE STUDENTS came to the embassy for further information on Asare-Addo's death. His body was found frozen in the snow beside a railway line north of Moscow
The students suspected their countryman had met with foul play. The Soviets released a statement yesterday indicating Asare-Addo was intoxicated and froze to death. Students disputed this.
The Soviets promised another report on the death following the student demonstration yesterday next to the Kremlin walls.
That demonstration also got started at the Ghanaian embassy. The students marched from there to Red Square. The militia cordoned off the square to keep other students out and talked to the Africans with loudspeakers in an attempt to disperse them.
The huge Spassky gate to the Kremlin was closed, although there were no reports that any of the students had tried to get into the Soviet government headquarters or Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's offices.
Carolers Brave Campus Weather
Some professors hold classes outside during the warm spring weather, but in the middle of winter?
Clayton Krehbiel, associate professor of music education, decided he was going to be different today
Work on today's Daily Kansar stopped for a few minutes as the carolers sang "We Wish You a Merry Christmas." "Joy to the World" interrupted a botany tes in Snow Hall.
The cold weather did not seem to daunt them as they visited buildings on campus.
The members of his choral clinic classes bundled up in coats, scarves and gloves and tramped around campus, singing Christmas carols.
Prof. Krehbiel said the annual Christmas caroling is a project of the choral clinic classes. They practice for two weeks before their performances.
The carolers gathered on the balcony of the rotunda of Strong Hall and sang "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" and "Away in a Manger" for passing students. Many of the members of administration went out in the halls so they could hear them better.
WEATHER
Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight 15. High tomorrow in the upper 30s.
For those traveling far today or tomorrow for the vacation, the U.S. Weather Bureau reports that scattered snow and snow flurries will occur in the Northeast, the eastern Great Lakes, Ohio and Mississippi valleys and portions of the North and Central Atlantic states. The same type weather will occur over the North Plains. Most of the remainder of the nation will have fair skies.
TOYS FOR TOTS—Collection toys from the campus living groups for the Toys for Tots campaign are (from left) Fred Hamilton, Iuka; senior; and Jim Simms, Clarendon Hills, Ill., junior. The toys are given each year to needy children in the area.
IFC Revamps Rush; Pledging in August
By Greg Swartz
The Interfraternity Council made major changes in rush procedures last night.
Men will now be able to be pledged in August, and two days of open rush, instead of one, will be conducted during Rush Week in September. (Open rush is the period when a fraternity can pledge a man. Closed rush is the period when it may contact men but cannot pledge them.)
The only change made in Rush Week was the time allowed for open rush.
IN THE FUTURE each fraternity will submit a quota which it intends to pledge before the Fall semester begins. The quota must be submitted by July 15 each year, and no fraternity can pledge more than 75 per cent of that quota during the August open rush.
In conjunction with the August open rush, the IFC will sponsor several Rush Orientation Weekends in the Spring semester.
BILL ANDERSON, Park Ridge. Ill., senior and IFC president, said this action represents a change in the attitude of the IFC. He listed three reasons for the change.
First, Anderson said, it is now thought that formal rush does not give the student an adequate opportunity to choose where he wants to live.
Second, he said, fraternities don't have enough time to sell their system and purpose. Often fraternities will duplicate efforts on a student who has not already decided on a house when they could be trying to get him to come to the University, or into the fraternity system.
THIRD, HE SAID. in the past the attitude was to let the rushee come to the fraternity This is probably why many people do not select organized living. Anderson said. "The fraternities will thereby encourage organized living."
"The fraternities can be more selective in the qualifications of the people they pledge. It will also help them have complete control whether
On the basis of statistics from other school, Anderson said, this system will be a tremendous advantage to the fraternities.
or not they pledge the number they desire," he said.
"THE WHOLE SYSTEM gives the student more time to decide. It takes the rush out of rush," Anderson said.
A pledge given in August is binding. If the pledge is broken the student cannot pledge another fraternity for one semester.
Rush procedures will remain the same for June and July. The Rush Orientation Weekends won't be the same as the formal Rush Week, Anderson said. The program will begeared more to the University than to the fraternity system or particular fraternities.
THERE ARE possibilities these procedures can be carried out in conjunction with similar programs carried on by other living groups, he said.
Each house will have to determine its own method for the August pledging, Anderson said. Some houses will have summer chapter meetings, and others will delegate this to the rush chairman.
Pledging methods have not changed much at schools which have adopted this system. Anderson said.
"I SEE THE fraternities approaching more people," Anderson said. "More high school seniors will be contacted during the school year and summer."
The possibility of these changes have been discussed from the beginning of the semester, Anderson said.
The changes were decided upon after an evaluation of the present system at KU and the evaluation of the new system as it is carried out at other schools. Anderson said
THE DECISION to change took so long to make because of the quality the fraternities at KU already have, the IFC president said.
Beta Theta Pi was selected the top fraternity chapter in the nation at the last national fraternity convention. Ten other KU fraternities rank in the top ten in their nationals, Anderson said.
Planning of these rush activities will be under the direction of John Mays. Lyons junior, and Clark Mandigo, Kansas City sophomore, rush co-chairmen.