UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Color to reduce ghosts
CAPE KENNEDY—Apollo 12's astronauts will teleview their walks on the moon in color. It will mean a clearer and more spectacular show.
Mission commander Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. said the color television camera should reduce the "ghosts and phantoms" that appeared from the Apollo 11 astronauts' black and white camera during their moonwalk in July.
Rates down $237 million
WASHINGTON—Americans will be paying $237 million a year less for their long distance telephone calls by February--but the giant Bell System will be authorized to earn more than ever on such calls.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the American Telephone and Telegraph Company's rate reductions plans Wednesday by a 5 to 1 vote.
The cuts could take the form of lower costs per each long distance call, or they could be achieved by lengthening the amount of time one may talk at the reduced rate.
Lodge may want out
WASHINGTON—Well-informed sources report Henry Cabot Lodge is dismayed at the floundering Paris talks and wants out of his job as chief negotiator by the end of this year.
Both the White House and the State Department refused to confirm Lodge wants to be replaced, but the sources said they were unsure if the veteran diplomat had yet made a formal request to be relieved of his post.
Appointees questioned
TOPEKA—Atty. Gen. Kent Frizzell planned to present a written report to Democratic Gov. Robert B. Docking today on "10 or 12" complaints involving "three or four individuals" appointed to state posts by the governor.
Docking said he planned to tape record any conversation between him and Frizzell, and invited the attorney general to do the same. Frizzell said Wednesday he wasn't sure if he would or not.
The two men met for 12 minutes Wednesday in Docking's private office. Docking has demanded to be told of any investigations and Frizzell said he would comply so long as the information was kept confidential.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
80th Year, No. 39
The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Thursday, Nov. 6,1969
BSU accepts plan
By KENNETH CUMMINS and CAROLYN BOWERS
The Black Student Union (BSU) executive committee voted Wednesday night to accept the proposal by the University Homecoming Committee to allow a five-minute pre-game crowning ceremony for the black students' queen and a motorcade for the black royalty during halftime.
Kansan Statt Writers
The proposal allows the crowning ceremony to take place on the football field before the start of the KU-Colorado homecoming game. The motorcade around the
field will take place after the conclusion of the University Homecoming queen's motorcade.
Four members of the BSU appeared before the University Homecoming general steering committee Tuesday afternoon to request that a black students' queen be crowned at the same time as the University Homecoming queen. They also requested that the black royalty be included in the motorcade.
The committee vetoed these requests and offered the proposals that the BSU queen be crowned during a pre-game ceremony
Mistrial declared,but Seale gets four years for contempt
CHICAGO (UPI)—U.S. District Court Judge Julius J. Hoffman Wednesday declared a mistrial for Black Panther leader Bobby Seale on riot conspiracy charges and sentenced him to four years in prison for contempt of court in tumultuous courtroom outbreaks that repeatedly stalled the trial of the "Chicago Eight."
Hoffman ruled that the trial of the other seven defendants charged with conspiring to incite the riots that swept Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention would go on. He said he severed the Black Panther national chairman from the case because it was his "duty an obligation to insure that the trial continue."
The judge imposed jail terms or three months each on 16 separate counts of contempt against Seale for the violent and obscene outbursts that caused the court to
order the Negro militant gagged and shackled for three days last week. He ruled that the terms would run consecutively.
Seale's ailing San Francisco lawyer, Charles Garry, said he would appeal the jail sentence "to the highest court in the land." He called the sentence "a savage one
illegal and contrary to law." Seale interrupted several times during the reading of the specifications, twice shouting "that's a lie."
Hoffman found Seale in contempt after a fellow judge, U.S. District Court Judge Edwin A. Robson, had upheld Hoffman's action in ordering Seale gagged and shackled.
Robson ruled that "no other remedy was available" to Hoffman when Seale's violent outbursts threw the trial into chaos and triggered the gag-and-bind order for three tumultuous days last week.
and/or included in a motorcade during half-time after the conclusion of the University Homecoming queen's motorcade.
The BSU also elected their queen and her attendants at the Wednesday night meeting. The queen is Lorene Brown, Value, Miss., freshman. Her attendants are Annie Dennis, Wichita sophomore, and Frances Robinson, Kansas City junior.
BSU representatives presented the Chancellor with a list of their demands during a meeting with him Friday.
The demand for a black students' queen to be crowned during half-time ceremonies of Saturday's homecoming game was immediately refused by Chalmers. He told the black students he would respond to the other demands within ten days to two weeks.
The list of demands also called for the creation of the positions of Dean of Black Students and Dean of Black Student Affairs.
The Dean of Black Students would have the responsibility of recruiting black students and faculty to the University. The job also would have the responsibility of setting up a tutoring program and finding jobs for all black students desiring to work both before and after graduation. The Dean of Black Students would have the power to determine his own budget and expense account.
His administrative powers would be synonymous with those of the Dean of Men and the Dean of Women and the Director of Student Financial Aids. All scholarships and grants from all departments and schools within the University will be coordinated under the office of the Dean of Black Students.
All black students would be tried by the Black Disciplinary (Continued to page 16)
Photo by Halina Pawl
Where have all the senators gone?
Attendance at the Student Senate meeting last night dwindled as the meeting continued. A quorum was called twice, and both times just enough senators were present to conduct elections for new senators to fill vacancies. The quorum call was contested and some senators said they might contest the elections at the next Senate meeting.
Senate hears reports
A Student Senate, at times barely comprising a quorum Wednesday night, heard 23 committee reports, passed 2 resolutions and filled 7 vacancies during a $4\frac{1}{2}$-hour meeting in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
Senate Executive Committee chairman Peter George, Tuckahoe, N.Y., law student, presented a proposal asking for the dismissal of any senator who misses three consecutive senate meetings.
"There are some senate members who have not attended a meeting this year," George said. "I think this shows a lack of interest in the senate and such action should result in their expulsion from the senate."
The resolution passed directing the Union Operating Board to start working on drawings for the proposed Satellite Union in "N" zone parking area, located west of Murphy Hall and north of Allen Field House.
The resolution also called for an investigation of possible pedestrian and traffic conflicts around the proposed site as well as the possible installation of a cooperative or discount sundry store at the site.
Also presented at last night's meeting were three alternatives for upgrading student health services by Dave Blahna, St. Louis Park, Minn., graduate student and chairman of the Student Health Committee.
The alternatives included adding a new wing to Watkins Hospital, the construction of a new health center at an estimated cost of $2 million, or building temporary structures near the hospital's present site at a cost of $16,000.
The seven new senators elected at last night's meeting were: John Morris, Emporia junior, at large; Fred Krebs, Wichita, Roger Laub, Omaha, Karen Wade, Columbus, Ohio, and Jack Casey, all from the Graduate School; Mike Haggans, Wichita, and Joe King, Potwin, both from the School of Architecture.
BULLETIN
Clark E. Bricker, professor of chemistry, was announced today as the recipient of the 1969 Hope Award, which is presented by the senior class to an outstanding faculty member.
Bricker, who won the 1966 award, stressed it was a department effort and he was merely the representative of his staff.