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Black Homecoming proposals discussed
Black Student Union members (from left) John Spearman, Lawrence sophomore, Geraldine Jones, Kansas City freshman, and Darryl Bright, Maywood, Ill., senior, left Strong Hall Tuesday morning after discussing their homecoming plans with the Chancellor.
The University of Kansas Homecoming Committee voted Tuesday night to give recognition to a black queen at Saturday's homecoming game, but vetoed the Black Student Union's (BSU) request to honor the black royalty at the same time as the University queen.
BSU's queen plan rejected
The committee, considering requests made earlier by the BSU in regard to the halftime ceremonies and crowning procedures, approved several alternate opportunities for recognition of the BSU queen. They are:
- A five-minute pre-game period during which the BSU may hold a crowning ceremony on the football field and/or a motorcade around the track between the time the teams leave the field and the band enters to play.
- A period of time at the conclusion of the half-time homecoming ceremony after the Homecoming queen's motorcade has completed its circuit of the field for a motorcade for the BSU queen and her attendants, with appropriate announcement by the homecoming narrator on the public address system.
- A combination of a pre-game crowning ceremony on the football field and a motorcade at half-time at the conclusion of the University Homecoming queen's motorcade.
The BSU has been requested to submit an outline and script of its planned ceremony to the ceremonies committee by Thursday noon for the Committee's approval. The BSU will be responsible for all planning and arrangements although the Homecoming committee has offered to help with details.
Earlier four representatives of the BSU had appeared before the Homecoming Committee to request the sharing of the half-time ceremonies of the KU-Colorado homecoming game with the crowning of the black students' queen.
Darryl Bright, Maywood, Ill., senior and BSU president, requested the crowning of the black queen prior to the crowning of the University Homecoming queen. He outlined specific proposals concerning details of the half-time ceremonies.
Emily Taylor, dean of women and member of the steering committee, pointed out to the committee that the BSU had had the opportunity to go through the proper channels of nominating a queen candidate but refused to do so.
Jennifer Gille, Topeka junior and chair-
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UDK News Roundup By United Press International
U.S. offers peace plan
CAIRO—The semiofficial Cairo newspaper Al Ahram said today the United States has offered Egypt a new peace plan for the Middle East. The report coincided with a new Israeli warning to one of its Arab neighbors.
Israel told Lebanon it reserved the right to attack in retaliation for guerrilla raids staged from Lebanese territory. The warning was made in a televised statement Tuesday by Foreign Minister Abba Eban.
Brominski wins election
WILKES-BARRE, Pa.—Judge Bernard C. Brominski, whose ruling on a request for an autopsy on Mary Joe Kopechne is expected shortly, won a lopsided re-election victory Tuesday at the Luzerne County Court.
With 335 of 408 divisions in Luzerne County reporting, Brominski, an 11-year-veteran of the bench, received 62,543 yes votes reaffirming his seat. He received 7,743 against retention.
Nixon gives cabinet rank
WASHINGTON—President Nixon has named Bryce Harlow and Daniel P. Moynihan presidential counselors with cabinet rank —only the second and third men to hold that title.
Nixon also named his counsel, John D. Ehrlichman, to the new post of presidential assistant for domestic affairs.
Arthur Burns, the first person to be designated counselor, was named by Nixon in October to become chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Jan. 31.
Options face committee
WASHINGTON—A last-minute offer by broadcasters left Congress uncertain today whether cigarette commercials should leave the air by law or industry abstinence—and when.
The Senate Commerce Committee faced three options today in a closed meeting. One would outlaw television and radio cigarette commercials.
A second would grant nine cigarette makers a special antitrust exemption so they could carry out their offer to stop voluntarily all broadcast advertising next September.
The third, the National Association of Broadcasters promised to black out cigarette commercials effective Sept. 1, 1971.
--man to be elected mayor in Kentucky.
The University of KansasLawrence, Kansas Wednesday, Nov. 5, 1969
Election results mixed
By United Press International
Republican candidates captured the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia from Democrats in Tuesday's elections and sent President Nixon's political stock soaring.
Results were mixed in big city elections, where racial tensions and the law-and-order issue dominated the campaigns. Mayor John V. Lindsay was reelected in New York. Cleveland re-elected a black mayor but in Detroit, a black candidate was beaten in a tight contest.
Voters in the predominantly white community of Glasgow, Ky., of about 10,000 have chosen to keep their Negro mayor, Luska J. Twyman, for a full four-year term, making him the first black
The Democrats re-elected Carl B. Stokes, only elected Negro mayor of a major American City, in Cleveland, the nation's eighth largest. In Louisville, Ky., and Syracuse, N.Y., the Democrats turned out incumbent Republican administrations.
Lindsay, denied renomination by the Republican party, was re-elected as the Liberal party and independent candidate but with less than a majority of the vote. His law-and-order opponents were Democratic City Controller Mario A. Procaccino, who finished second and Republic State Sen. John J. Marchi, also the Conservative party nominee, who ran a weak third.
In Detroit, the nation's fifth largest city, Roman S. Gribbs, Wayne County sheriff, and son of a Polish immigrant farmer, defeated Richard H. Austin, county auditor and a black, in a close nonpartisan contest which divided the city largely along racial lines. Both candidates are Democrats.
In New Jersey, Rep. William T. Cahill won over former Gov. Robert B. Meyner by a margin of about 3 to 2 to restore the governorship of that state to the GOP for the first time in 16 years.
Republican A. Linwood Holton, a loser four years ago, defeated Democrat William C. Battle, a Kennedy administration ambassador, to give the GOP the gov-
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University social policies on Student Senate agenda
The Satellite Union, Watkins Hospital, and University social policies will be among the topics on the agenda of the Student Senate tonight.
Frank Zilm, St. Louis senior and vice-president of the student body, will present a resolution allowing the Student Senate and the Union Operating Board to ask the Campus Traffic and Security Committee and the Campus Planning and Resources Commission to study potential traffic dangers to students walking to the proposed Satellite Union site and the Daisy Hill dormitories."
Zilm said he will also urge the go ahead for Satellite Union working drawings to be finished in March.
Another report from the Student Health Committee will ask the Senate to push for a new student hospital.
Brad Smoot, Sterling sophomore and a member of the committee, said the committee felt the present health center is inadequate and will recommend three proposals. One is for a new wing for the present structure, another for a temporary building in front of Watkins Hospital for additional office space for doctors and administration, and the third proposal asks for a new hospital that the committee estimated would cost $2 million.
The Senate will also discuss social policies and regulations in living groups at KU. David S.
Awbrey, Hutchinson senior and student body president, said the Senate has jurisdiction over the social policies of all living groups as stated in the Senate Code.
Awbrey said he had encountered opposition from Barbara Blee, Bonner Springs senior and president of the Panhellenic Council, concerning Senate action on social policies. Awbrey said he believed such action was necessary and justified.
Awbrey said seven new senators will be elected to fill vacancies, and Senate committees will give reports.
The meeting is at 6:30 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.