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University Daily Kansa
Thursday, Oct. 24, 1963
Campus Civil Rights Boosters Join NAACP in Housing Poll
By Clare Casey
The local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has asked KU students to help conduct a house to house survey in Lawrence.
The announcement was made last night by the Rev. H. C. McMillan, head of the Lawrence NAACP, at a meeting of the Civil Rights Council in the Kansas Union.
"It HAS been found that most of the Negro families in Lawrence have been stationary since the 1820's," said Rev. McMillan. "We like to find out from the Negro families whether they would consider moving to other parts of the city if it were possible."
Rev. McMillan requested students to take a questionnaire to Lawrence homes, mostly Negro families. The survey begins Sunday to investigate minority housing in the Lawrence area.
city in New York. Rev. McMillan thought that it would benefit everyone if the CRC and the student body would help conduct the survey. He reported that the NAACP had around fifty persons now working on the survey. Many of these people have experience in the survey field, said McMillan.
HE ADDED that survey findings would be reported Nov. 1 in the St. Luke's Church.
A committee was set up to investigate fraternity and sorority affairs in the field of civil rights. ___
Police Stress Bike Safety
The KU Police department has launched a strict safety program on campus this week for the benefit of the increasing number of bicycle riders.
Joe Skillman, KU police chief, said, "The chances for accidents increase with the increased bicycle population and thus the need for strict enforcement of regulations."
He said that the department will take precautions to prevent another bicycle fatality.
Skillman said that patrolmen in the five traffic control booths are checking the bicycles to make sure they stop for the stop sign and see if they have been registered.
The bicycle riders are under the same regulations as an automobile and are not to be ridden on sidewalks. They should also stop for pedestrians as well as stop signs, he said.
All bicycles must be registered, according to a city ordinance, at the KU police department or the Lawrence police department. The campus has no bicycle regulations and follows those of the city.
Persons not registering their bicycles or violating other parts of the ordinance can be fined $25. This week KU police are issuing warning tickets to offenders.
Registration costs 25 cents and is a great aid in finding owners of lost or stolen bicycles when they are found by us, Skillman said. The manufacturer's serial number found on the bicycle frame is listed for registration.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Mathematics Staff Seminar, 3:30 p.m.
119 Strong. "Computer Languages"—Prof. John B. Johnson. Coffee at 3:20 p.m.
Catholic Mass, 5 p.m. St. Lawrence Catholic Chapel, 1910 Stratford Road.
Sigma Alpha Eta, 7:30 p.m. Sunflower Room, Kansas Union. "The Characteristics of Mentally Retarded Children."—Dr. John F. Cawley.
Christian Science Organization, 7:30 p.m. Danforth. Everyone welcome. Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m. Danforth.
TOMORROW
Catholic Masses 6:45 a.m. 5 p.m.
Lawrence Catholic Chapel, 1910 Stratford
American Society of Tooling and Manufacturing Engineers 6 p.m. Bowler Hall. Field trip Christian Fellowship, 7:30 p.m., 829 Mississippi St. "Jesus Christ and the World"—Dr. Alice Kitchen, KUMC grad.
Arthur Spears, Kansas City, junior, reported he was working with a group outside of the CRC in looking into the Greek organization problem.
"I WOULD like to make it known that there are other groups that are working on this problem," said Spears. "However, at this time we do not want any publicity as we feel that it would defeat our purpose. The tactics that we are using will be more effective if they are not publicized."
Aside from the fraternity and sorority committee, the council also voted to set up a housing committee.
The council also set up a committee to look into the tavern issue as it stands in the Lawrence area. It was decided that this committee should also handle recreation matters in Lawrence.
JAMES E. TITUS, assistant professor of Political Science and CRC
faculty advisor, suggested that the tavern committee be expanded to include all public accommodations in Lawrence. This motion was accepted.
Prof. Titus, former chairman of the Lawrence Human Relations Commission, (LHRC), urged the committees to stress accuracy in their reports. He said that in the past the LHRC has been hampered in its work by lack of definite facts. "If we are to take action in any field, we must have all the facts," said Titus. "We must know exactly what taverns, what cafes are discriminating. If it is housing we must know what home owners are discriminating."
The council also voted to have a finance committee and a committee to look into employment practices. Professor Titus urged that the CRC should have closer ties with the LHRC by working directly with a similar committee of the LHRC.
KU's Union Opens Room For Student Study Needs
Students frustrated by the noise and inconvenience from Watson Library's construction project may find solitude at last.
Frank Burge, director of the Kansas Union, has reserved the Sunflower Room off the cafeteria from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily for a study room for KU students.
Because of possible conflicts with previous reservations for the room, announcements about the study room will be posted on the main bulletin board in the lobby of the Union every day.
main bulletin board in the lobby of Stuart Forth, associate director of Watson Library, said there will be no library books in the Sunflower Room.
Forth said that Burge offered the Sunflower Room because of the inadequate studying facilities at Watson due to the construction.
Forth said the Sunflower Room would be open to students throughout the fall semester and probably into the spring semester.
The construction work on Watson is slated for completion in February.
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Home in Wax
LONDON—(UPI) It was moving day at Madame Tussaud's yesterday
LONDON day at Madame Tussaud's yesterday. The famous Wax Museum, which displays effigies of the British Cabinet among its exhibits moved New Prime Minister Lord Home to the center of the stage and carted former Leader of the House of Commons Iain MasLead to the storeroom to await a change in political fortunes.
Nobody's Fool
ST, LOUIS, Mo—(UPI)—James L. Mason was in jail on suspicion of robbery today because he refused to fall for an old trick.
Police said Mason was holding up a service station when the attendant began talking to someone behind Mason's back — patrolman Allen Duncan.
On Campus with Max Shulman
(Author of Rally Round the Flag, Boys and Barefoot Boy With Cheek)
HAPPINESS CAN'T BUY MONEY
With tuition costs steadily on the rise, more and more undergraduates are looking into the student loan plan. If you are one such, you would do well to consider the case of Leonid Sigafoos.
Leonid, the son of an unemployed bean gleaner in Straightened Circumstances, Montana, had his heart set on going to college, but his father, alas, could not afford to send him. Leonid applied for a Regents Scholarship, but his reading speed, alas, was not very rapid—three words an hour—and before he could finish the first page of his exam, the Regents had closed their briefcases crossly and gone home. Leonid then applied for an athletic scholarship, but he had, alas, only a single athletic skill—picking up beebes with his toes—and this, alas, aroused only fleeting enthusiasm among the coaches.
aroused only meeting enthusiasts. And then—happy day!—Leonid learned of the student loan plan: he could borrow money for his tuition and repay it in easy installments after he left school!
instrumentafter he lerst to acquire
Happily Leonid enrolled in the Southeastern Montana College of Lanolin and Restoration Drama and happily began a college career that grew happier year by year. Indeed, it became altogether ecstatic in his senior year because Leonid met a coed named Anna Livia Plurabelle with hair like beaten gold and eyes like two sockets full of Lake Louise. Love gripped them in its big moist palm, and they were betrothed on St. Crispin's Day.
...but he had, alas, only a single athletic skill
Happily they made plans to be married immediately after commencement—plans, alas, that were never to come to fruition because Leonid, alas, learned that Anna Livia, like himself, was in college on a student loan, which meant that he not only had to repay his own loan after graduation but also Anna Livia's and the job, alas, that was waiting for Leonid at the Butte Otter Works simply did not pay enough, alas, to cover both loans, plus rent and food and clothing and television repairs.
Heavy hearted, Leonid and Anna Livia sat down and lit Marlboro Cigarettes and tried to find an answer to their problem—and, sure enough, they did! I do not know whether or not Marlboro Cigarettes helped them find an answer; all I know is that Marlboros taste good and look good and filter good, and when the clouds gather and the world is black as the pit from pole to pole, it is a heap of comfort and satisfaction to be sure that Marlboros will always provide the same easy pleasure, the same unstinting tobacco flavor, in all times and climes and conditions. That's all I know.
Leonid and Anna Livia, I say, did find an answer—a very simple one. If their student loans did not come due until they left school, why then they just wouldn't leave school! So after receiving their bachelor's degrees, they re-enrolled and took master's degrees. After that they took doctor's degrees—loads and loads of them—until today Leonid and Anna Livia, both aged 87, both still in school, hold doctorsate in Philosophy, Humane Letters, Jurisprudence, Veterinary Medicine, Civil Engineering, Optometry, Woodpulp, and Dewey Decimals.
Their student loans, at the end of the last fiscal year, amounted to a combined total of nineteen million dollars—a sum which they probably would have found some difficulty in repaying had not the Department of the Interior recently declared them a National Park. © 1963 Max Sinclair
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You don't need a student loan—just a little loose change—to grab a pack of smoking picure: Marlboros, sold in all fifty states in familiar soft pack and Flip-Top box.