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Blacks appeal to Senate
Members of the Black Student Union (BSU) appeared before the Student Senate Wednesday night in an appeal for funds for black student programs.
Satellite Union downed
By SUZANNE ATKINS Kansan Staff Writer
The Student Senate rejected the proposed Satellite Union Wednesday night, refusing to join the Union Operating Board in a recommendation to the Board of Regents that building plans proceed as scheduled.
Members of the Black Student Union (BSU) appealed to the Senate for funds to recruit black students to the University and guarantee programs of "benefit not only to blacks, but to every individual in the University and the community," but when it was all over, they had less than they had started with.
The 39 to 22 roll call vote of disapproval of the Satellite Union followed a consideration of the proposed site, the questioning of the need for duplicate facilities, and the realization that the Union's Memorial Corporation is legally empowered to proceed with planning and construction.
Gene Dorris, Stillwater, Okla., graduate student, suggested that a union located between Daisy Hill and the graduate and research failities west of Iowa Street would be of more service than one nestled between Allen Field House, Jayhawk Towers Apartments and the N-Zone parking lot. A fourth-year architecture student and friend of the Senate, Bill Neyland, Sarasota, Fla., could not say either that the proposed site was a good one or a bad one, because the University's master plan is ten years old.
William Balfour, dean of student affairs and chairman of the Union Operating Board, said he would strongly urge the board to further postpone plans for the Union satellite (Continued to page 16)
80th Year, No. 29
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, Oct. 23, 1969
Inside...
Trouble at WSU
See page 13
Student Senate studies a lot
Editorials, page 4
Bad break holds Autry
Sports, page 7
Wilcox turns on new left
See page 6
Campus Briefs
See page 3
--appointee from the Chancellor's office would make up the ROTC Governing Board.
Test cases have overtones
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court today turned to the Nixon administration's school desegregation policy in test cases from Mississippi which have unique political overtones.
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Negroes are asking for a "desegregation now" order to apply all across the South. And for the first time since the high court's landmark 1954 ruling, the U.S. government is not by their side, but it teamed up with Southern school boards.
By United Press International
Laurie loses strength
Highest winds in the storm were estimated at 75 miles an hour in a few squalls near the center. Laurie's strength was 110 m.p.h.at one point during the week.
MIAMI—Hurricane Laurie, stalled and weakened by cool, dry air from a high pressure system over the Great Plains, lost more of its punch today as it drifted in the Gulf of Mexico.
The poll, which has been wrong only three times in its 41-year history, showed Lindsay polling 44 per cent of the vote.
Fees may be forced up
The committee reaffirmed a council recommendation to the 1967 legislature that resident and non-resident incidental fees at the schools provide 25 per cent of the general education program cost.
TOPEKA—The student-paid portion of the cost of running state universities and colleges has declined, a study presented Wednesday to a legislative committee shows.
Lindsay bid gains support
NEW YORK—Incumbent Mayor John V. Lindsay, who has repeatedly said he is an underdog in his reelection bid, holds an impressive lead in the mayoral race, according to first results of a straw vote conducted by the New York Daily News.
The budget committee of the Kansas Legislative Council took action which could cause the state Board of Regents to increase tuition at the institutions.
Senate to discuss future of ROTC
The University Senate will discuss recommendations for University policy concerning ROTC on campus at a meeting at 3:30 p.m. today at the University Theatre, said Charles Oldfather, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee and professor of law.
Earlier this year, the University Council voted to recommend the creation of an ROTC Governing Board.
Officers of ROTC, four faculty members, four students, and an
The adopted proposal said, ROTC should be integrated into the regular academic department "to the greatest extent practicable."
Credit for military discipline orientation and drill would be dropped, the proposal said.
abolition of the ROTC program at KU as a goal.
A Faculty Senate ROTC committee began studying the program last December.
Last March this committee heard testimony from representatives of groups and from interested individuals on the desirability of (1) having ROTC on campus, (2) giving credit for ROTC courses and (3) bringing about any changes or improvements in the ROTC program as
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Cease-fire under debate
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Senate GOP Leader Hugh Scott's proposal for a unilateral U.S. ceasefire in Vietnam has been rejected by the Pentagon and subjected to some verbal dodging by the White House.
Scott urged Wednesday that as of a certain date the United States should "proclaim a cease-fire, invite the enemy to join, and observe it ourselves" as a "first step" toward peace.
Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird, addressing the Overseas Writers later Wednesday, said this would not be a "successful approach." He cautioned the Nixon administration against a cease-fire without "some firm assurance" the other side would also stop fighting. He said the place for such assurance to be given was Paris.
At the White House, presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said Laird was "speaking for the Pentagon as a member of the administration" when he talked of the cease-fire.
Ziegler said that President Nixon stood by his previous stand on cease-fires in Vietnam. In a May 14 speech, Nixon proposed that an international supervisory group should police any cease-fire in the war.
Ziegler also said that Senate GOP leader Hugh Scott was "speaking on his own" when he said that the United States should fix a firm date for a cease-fire. Scott said the administration already had moved "quite close" to a cease-fire.
Laird said the best place for mutual assurances on a cease-fire to be worked out was at the Paris peace talks.
Sinful cigarettes back at KU after five-year banishment
A mustachioed young man with a serious expression approached the main counter of the Kansas Union, looked the night manager directly in the face and said, "I want to protest this sinful policy of selling cigarettes on campus."
He could no longer hold back a smile, however, and ended his brief jest, saying, "Oh, and give me a pack of Camels, please."
He was one of many students and faculty members who yesterday savored the end of KU's five year cigarette ban.
"This is less than our daily average before the 1964 ban," said Bill Rowlands, Union night manager. "But we expect it to pick up as people get accustomed to coming here."
By 8 p.m. Wednesday night, the Union had sold about 225 packs over the counter.
"Within two to three weeks, vending machines will be installed all over campus—in the dorms and here in the Union," Rowlands said.
The Union counter now stocks 20 brands, with more due after extra space is available. A note is made of any requests for brands not stocked by the Union. Rowlands said.
"After a couple of weeks, we'll take an inventory to see which are the most popular brands," he said. "Then we'll make whatever changes are necessary."
The Union bought 115 cartons (750 packs) of cigarettes for the first week's sales.