Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
61st Year, No. 29
Wednesday, Oct. 23, 1963
ASC Student Liaison Committee Abolished After Month's Work
The All Student Council's Liaison Committee died last night at the request of its chairman exactly one month after it began work.
The ASC voted, 17-6, to abolish the committee after Jim Thompson, Hugoton senior and its former chairman, said it was unnecessary.
Discussion of Thompson's resolution to end the Student Liaison Committee prompted criticism of the ASC committee system and the function of the ASC itself.
REUBEN McCORNACK. Abilene senior and student body president, responded to the criticism by announcing he will appoint a "little Hoover commission" to study the council's committees and to suggest revisions if it finds them necessary.
Principals in the disagreement over the scope of the committee were Thompson, who wanted it to try to solve problems affecting students on the campus, and McCornack, who felt the committee should have confined its activities to informing off-campus governmental bodies of student feeling.
The liaison committee was enveloped in controversy almost since its first meeting last month.
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Thompson—who resigned from the committee yesterday with three other members—said last night he now agrees with McCornack's concept.
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"But if McCormack and the chancellor feel we should work off campus on advice of the ASC only and on advice of the chancellor, then I don't think that what we were trying to do can be done in this framework," he said. "That is why most of us resigned.
"THE POINT OF our resigning is not that we are mad about what has been said of us. We have decided that the things we were doing were outside the scope of our committee."
In asking that the ASC abolish the liaison committee, Thompson said its functions would be "few and far between" and could be handled by a special committee.
Others who resigned were Larry
Bast, Topeka sophomore; Peggy Conner, Wichita junior, and John Sapp, Havana, Ill., sophomore.
BAST SAID THE committee had become "practically a do-nothing committee."
"I believe we have enough of these already." Bast said. "The liaison committee has tried to work in the interest of students, but we have been rebuffed in our attempts to do this. We have been reduced to messenger boys between the University and the city of Lawrence."
A member of the committee who did not resign asked that the ASC not vote it out of existence.
"Our scope is different than what it was two weeks ago, but I think it till has a function," said Mike Miner, Lawrence junior. "We still exist as a liaison between the University and groups off the campus.
I cannot agree with Thompson that its uses will be few. I think there are going to be incidents arising re-quiring the liaison committee."
EXPLAINING HIS position, McCornack said the ASC's 25 committees are "children" of the parent body, formed to fill specific needs.
"The Student Liaison Committee was created to serve a definite need—to provide a liaison between the students and the city of Lawrence, the State Board of Regents, the Legislature and the governor," McCormack said.
He said in assuming the functions of other committees, the liaison group had "diluted the functions of the ASC and threatened to make it less effective."
Interwoven into the discussion on the liaison committee were ques-
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Rights Meeting Off; Showdown Avoided
WASHINGTON —(UPI)—Administration forces, apparently facing defeat in an effort to keep President Kennedy's civil rights bill from being toughened, today abruptly postponed a showdown in the House Judiciary Committee.
Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler, D-N.Y., cancelled a meeting at which the committee was to vote on a civil rights bill far stronger than the President and many of his congressional supporters believe can be passed. Celler said the meeting would be held tomorrow.
THE VETERAN New York Democrat announced that a meeting at which the crucial vote was to be taken had been postponed until tomorrow.
It was the second time in less than a week that Celler called off a meeting at which a major civil rights
vote was scheduled. In the earlier instance last week, he said the reason was that he was trying to assure himself of sufficient support to carry out President Kennedy's civil rights bill—that is, to tone down sections of the bill regarded as too tough by the administration.
A bipartisan group supporting the strong measure apparently caught the administration napping yesterday when it offered a motion to adopt unchanged the strong bill approved last month by a Judiciary subcommittee.
CELLER, conceding that the move "took everybody by surprise," said committee members "who are trying to get a bill that can be passed felt time was required to realign our forces."
Seniors Meet for Coffee; Votes Are Cast for Queen
With their hands full of coffee and doughnuts, the Class of 1964 met today.
This was the first meeting of the year for the seniors.
Leaders of the group backing a strong bill at first appeared angry about the postponement. But they said later that they still expected to win.
year for the seting Those neglecting to pay their class dues were given a last chance at the business office.
The senior cheerleaders led the class yells. They demonstrated the yells and practiced for Senior Day Saturday. The class will sit in a block at the Oklahoma State-KU game.
The 20 candidates were selected from senior women's living quarters and presented individually to the cla's. The Queen will be the official class hostess for the remaining functions throughout the year.
The class voted for the Senior Queen. The queen will be crowned Saturday before the kick-off of the Saturday's game.
The Senior Day activities Saturday will feature the class gift dedication and class party. The dedication of the eight speakers given to the university will be after the crowning of the Queen. Vice-chancellor James Surface will accept the eight loudspeakers for the university.
The six-hour senior party begins at 5:00 p.m. in the Big Barn. Seniors will be admitted to the party by showing their identification cards. Other students and guests will be charged an admission of $1.50.
"The Flippers," a rock n' roll band, will furnish the music," Bill Anderson, Park Ridge, Ill., senior and
John Stuckey, Pittsburgh senior and gift committee chairman, reported that the committee will weigh ideas and then submit the outstanding ones to the class for a vote on Dec. 1.
"More seniors than ever before paid their dues this year." Anderson said. "Approximately 1,500 paid and we are expecting 1,000 at the party."
senior day committee chairman, told classmates in his report.
The official ring of the Class of 1964 can be ordered at the Union Bookstore or at the Balfour Jewelry store in Lawrence, Susan Smith, Lawrence senior and ring committee chairman, told classmates.
Stuckey said the amount spent for a class gift depends on other senior class activities throughout the year. The amount could vary between $2,000 and $5,000.
A gift committee of faculty and students has been selected to process ideas and present suggestions for additional class gifts.
Dean Francis Heller, associate dean of the liberal arts college, told the seniors they have advanced from freshman to seniors and back to freshman as alumni. The role of an alumni is more difficult than that of a student because he is away from the university, he said.
The purchase of each ring pro-
vides $2 for the senior class treasury for class functions. A rough
estimate of the cost per ring was $30.
"You have a stake in KU and its value in the future depends on your support as an alumni."
"It will have no effect on the outcome," said Rep. Robert Kastenmeier (D-Wis.).
The militants said they had 12 Democratic and seven Republican votes in the 35-member committee, or one more than a majority. But their count was believed to include some wavering members.
THE MILITANTS appeared somewhat troubled, however, by reports that the White House was telephoning members of their group in an effort to win votes for a more moderate bill. The administration believes the strong bill would alienate needed moderate and conservative Republican and Democratic votes on the House floor.
Wescoe Attends Meeting in East
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe has flown to the East coast for a weeklong series of meetings.
MOSCOW — (UPI) — The Soviet Community party today accused Peking of "defying" Chinese Communist Leader Mao Tse Tung in a willful attempt to split the world Communist movement.
Yesterday he attended a meeting of the board of trustees of the American University Field Staff in New York City.
Today and tomorrow Chancellor Wescoe is attending an Association of American Universities meeting in New York.
Late tomorrow through Sunday the Chancellor will take part in the 24th American Assembly in Harriman, N.Y.
Sunday night he will fly to Chicago for a meeting of the Midwest Universities Research Association. Chancellor Wescoe is a member of the association's board of directors.
Kommunist, theoretical organ of the Soviet Party's central committee, branded Chinese "subversive" actions as unprecedented since the times of the Leftist schism of Leon Trotsky in the 1920's.
Reds Say Peking Guilty of Heresies
PREMIER NIKITA Khrushchev, according to informed sources, intends to summon a world Communist conference—similar to that of 1960 in Moscow at which 81 Communist parties were present—to read the Chinese out of the international movement unless they recant.
The publication, "bible" of Russian Communism, declared that 65 Communist parties have thrown their support to Moscow in the bitter Sino-Soviet dispute and that Leninism-Marxism as interpreted here would triumph.
The Chancellor will return to KU Monday night.
The Chinese are not expected to retract their theses which Moscow regards as "heresies."
The groundwork for this world Communist conference is likely to be laid during the forthcoming Nov. 7 celebrations commemorating the 46th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
TRADITIONALY, top foreign Communist leaders make the pilgrimage to Moscow for this annual event. Informed sources said they were expected to gather afterwards specifically to discuss the ever widening split between Moscow and Peking.
The Chinese were not expected to send any representatives to the Red square ceremony next month—Moscow ignored Peking's anniversary celebrations Oct. 1.
KHRUSHCHEV, after conferring with party leaders gathered here in the next weeks, was expected to make known to Peking his willingness to have his ideological experts meet with their Chinese opposites for a final reconciliation attempt.
A Sino-Soviet meeting with that purpose ended in deadlock here in July.
Predictions are that another meeting would end the same way after which Khrushchev would feel justified in summoning the world's Communist parties to Moscow to read Peking out of the international fold.
KOMMUNIST TODAY said that
Chinese reluctance to approve Soviet de-Stalinization is "an appeal for the deification of Mao Tse Tung."
"The attempt to substitute Marxism-Leninism with the ideas or Mao Tse-Tung is resolutely opposed by all Communists," it said. "Marxism-Leninism is and will be our banner."
"We may say quite definitely that the Communist movement is confronted with an attempt to replace Leninism with Mao Tse Tungism."
KOMMUNIST, heightening the bitter Sino-Soviet dispute to a new point, bluntly declared;
"The conceptions of the Chinese Theoreticians in many respects coincide with those of the Trotskyists."
This charge is one of the bitterest in the Communist Lexicon and refers to the extreme Leftists position espoused by Trotsky in his theory of permanent world revolution.
MOSCOW HAS been particularly critical of the Chinese refusal not only to accept de-Stalinization but also to endorse fully the theory of peaceful coexistence between Capitalism and Socialism.
Peking has advocated the use of force, possibly even nuclear war, in order to achieve the triumph of Communism in the world.
Kommunist specifically touched on this hotly disputed issue:
"THE CHINESE propaganda is falsifying the position of the Soviet Communist party . . . alleging they have made absolute the peaceful road.
"Actually, it is precisely the Chinese Theoreticians who are making absolute only one way (to Communism) . . . that is the armed way."
"In Peking they are not too far away from the theory of permanent revolution." Kommunist said.
"The view of the Chinese Theoreticians that as long as imperialism exists the possibility of averting war is an illusion coincides with the views of the "Trotskytes."
Kommunist again also flatly rejected Peking's claim to a "special" relationship to the peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America which it said "fully contradicts Marxism-Leninism."
Weather
It was mostly fair today with continued warm temperatures tomorrow. It will be partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow. The low tonight should be in the middle 60's.
IS IT A SCAFFOLD?—It's just the beginning of the Alpha Omicron Pi homecoming displays, one of many which will be exhibited Nov.1. This year in addition to prizes in four divisions, an overall award will be presented to the best homecoming display on the campus.