Tuesday, Sept. 24, 1963 University Daily Kansan
Ole Miss Considers Action Against Negro
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OXFORD, Miss. — (UPI) The Student Judicial Council of the University of Mississippi meets today to consider a charge of carrying a concealed weapon against the school's only Negro student.
It seems to be a serious offense, said Council head Champ Terney, son-in-law of Sen. James Eastland, D-Miss., but he would not speculate whether the charge would result in the expulsion of Cleve McDowell.
McDowell, 21, was suspended by the university yesterday, a few
hours after Sheriff Joe Ford jailed him on the charge. The Judicial Council can only make recommendations to the university but such suggestions rarely are rejected by the administration.
McDowell will be invited to appear at the hearing. He was expected to be freed from the Lafayette County jail under bond today.
The charge carries a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail and a $100 fine.
HRC Survey一
(Continued from page 1) the campus that is opposed to the manner fraternities and sororites now use to pledge new members.
ONE QUESTION in the survey, asking whether it was poor taste for a white girl at KU to date a Negro boy, showed that a substantial majority of KU students feel interracial dating would be in poor taste. The students showed over 50% agreement that intermarriage was wrong.
The majority of students felt Negroes should be able to go to the same taverns as whites in Lawrence.
Most students would support the administration's having a Negro on its teaching staff.
The students' responses showed they thought it was acceptable for Negroes to enter previously all-white churches. In the Lawrence area all churches are integrated.
THE SURVEY indicated that only one per cent of the students felt it was in poor taste to date a European, 41 per cent opposed KU girls dating Africans (which part of Africa was not indicated), and 27 per cent opposed KU girls dating Oriental.
The survey indicated most KU students feel there are no serious
problems or discrimination against foreign students.
It appeared that upperclassmen were decidedly against intermarriage, but freshmen and sophomores were lenient toward it.
ON MOST of the other issues, all the undergraduates voted in a like manner. However, the survey did suggest that graduate students were a little less tolerant of fraternity segregation.
"There is, of course, no way of knowing the views of those students who chose not to return their questionaires," the committee said.
"Rather than to draw specific conclusions from the survey, it is the intention of the committee to allow the data to be interpreted, for the most part, by the reader. There are significant differences between the attitudes of the various living groups which say much about the kind of people living there, and the atmosphere of the attitude in which they live."
THE COMMITTEE hopes that the survey and the report will "provide a solid fund of accurate, objective information as to the state of attitude and policy regarding human rights at KU, from which constructive opinions and legislation can be derived."
Rights Bill—
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- Efforts by Greek houses to eliminate discriminatory clauses from constitutions of their national organizations.
- Refusal by the University to recognize new student organizations which practice racial or ethnic discrimination.
- All Student Council encouragement of voluntary desegregation at social affairs.
- Removal of discriminatory restrictions from new scholarship funds accepted by the University, unless such funds are used to aid minorities.
Most parts of the bill—described as a policy statement rather than a specific plan of action—incorporate the word "should" in making recommendations. Two sections, however, use "must" instead.
One of these concerns denial of recognition to new student groups practicing discrimination. The other would require organizations having discriminatory qualifications to inform prospective members of such practices.
THE BILL ALSO asks that the University continue to remove from the approved housing list rooming houses practicing racial discrimination.
Turner said he had prepared last summer a civil rights resolution to be introduced at the first ASC meeting, but later agreed to incorporate his ideas into the HRC recommendations.
Reuben McCornack, student body president, gave his support to the HRC bill last night.
University officials and student leaders will discuss the HRC report and recommendations at an informal dinner at 6 p.m. in the John Stuart Curry Room of the Kansas Union.
Among those attending will be Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, James E. Gunn, administrative assistant to the chancellor; L.C. Woodruff, dean of students; Donald Alderson, dean of men; Frank Thompson, HRC chairman, and ASC members.
Another bill expected to be introduced tonight would create a committee to help entertain visiting dignitaries and to greet other visitors to KU. McCormack said he will appoint faculty members to the ASC Advisory Committee.
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