War moratorium plans introduced
A University of Kansas assistant professor addressed a meeting of the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam Thursday night in the Kansas Union Big Eight Room.
Donald Marquis, acting assistant professor of philosophy and western civilization, gave the group of approximately 220 students and faculty members suggested answers to critics of antiwar sympathizers. After condemning the war as immoral, he said, "The obvious way to end the war is to just quit fighting it."
Plans for campus activities surrounding the scheduled Oct. 15 moratorium were introduced at the meeting.
The Law Students Civil Rights Research Council (LSCRRC) will sponsor a symposium on the War at 2:45 p.m. Oct.15 in Hoch Auditorium. Speakers will include Arthur Katz, dean of the School of Social Welfare; John Wright, associate professor of human development and family life; and Lawrence Velvel, assistant professor of law.
The kick-off speech of the day's events will be presented by the Rev. Don Baldwin, director
of the Wesley Foundation, 9:30 a.m. at the proposed site of Wescoe Hall.
Robert Shelton, acting assistant professor of religion, will speak later in the day at an "open microphone" session. Shelton said he plans to open his Religion in American Society class to discussion of the war. The 9:30 a.m. class in 100 Smith Hall is open to the public.
Gretchen Miller, Wichita sophomore, said there will also be other speakers.
Other plans include six information tables at various places on campus, beginning at 7:30 a.m. Oct. 15, Miss Miller said, and permission is being sought to stage a silent vigil on Jayhawk Boulevard. A publicity dance is planned for the evening of Oct. 14 at Potter Lake.
The moratorium has received the endorsement of a number of campus groups, including the Young Socialists, the Council for a Humane Education, and the Students for a Democratic Society. Faculty support is being sought.
An open microphone will be maintained on campus, and anyone who wishes to speak on the War will be encouraged to do so, Miss Miller said.
Photo by Ron Bishop
Donald Marquis
Friday, Oct. 3, 1969
80th Year, No.15
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Apollo plans moonquake
CAPE KENNEDY—The Apollo 12 astronauts plan to crash their lunar module into the moon before starting home next month to create an artificial moonquake that may tell scientists more about the moon's interior makeup.
Alan L. Bean said he, Charles Conrad Jr. and Richard F. Gordon will try to aim the takeoff section of the landing craft 3,300 feet from a nuclear-powered seismeter left behind during the astronauts' two surface excursions.
Czechs in money crisis
PRAGUE—Factory officials appealed to union members today to work one day a month without pay to fight Czechoslovakia's acute economic crisis.
The request was another admission that authorities are unable to boost sagging production or stem the runaway inflation that has plagued the country for more than a year.
101st Airborne to DMZ
SAIGON—In a major tactical move, the U.S. command has replaced home-bound Marines along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) with troops of the combat-hardened 101st Airborne Division.
The disclosure was made today by military spokesmen who said the paratroopers had lost two killed and four wounded Thursday in their first reported clash since the move to the northern front.
Board denies two parole
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Parole Board, in separate decisions, has refused to parole Teamsters President James R. Hoffa and financier Louis E. Wolfson. Hoffa would have become eligible for parole Nov. 6, after serving a third of an eight-year sentence for jury tampering.
Decision delayed on fate of ROTC
By MIKE SHEARER Arts & Reviews Editor
A University Council decision on the future relationship of the University and the ROTC military programs has been postponed for at least a week.
The Council yesterday received the reports of the Senate Committee on ROTC and the dissenting report, but took no action on the reports.
A motion by Peter George, Tuckahoe, N.Y., first year law student, to reject the majority report was tabled until the council's next meeting. Thursday.
George said he "found it totally unsatisfactory as a report" but to have three points which the council should consider adopting: 1. the necessity of integrating ROTC into the university proper, 2. that drills, orientation and military discipline not be given credit, and 3. that an ROTC governing board be established (as recommended in the majority report) but with more specific goals than outlined by the report and with student members on that board.
The submitted majority report says, "The Committee believes that opposition to the present conflict (the war in Vietnam) is too short-sighted a basis upon which to formulate its recommendations."
It goes on to say "we must realistically face the fact that our
society is committed to maintaining a large defense establishment, a situation that can be expected to continue in the foreseeable future" and says to insure a "broad outlook" among military leaders, the university is the best place to train military leaders.
The board would enact a five-point plan:
1. Transfer of as many courses as possible from the military science department to regular academic departments:
2. Elimination of instruction and activity in the nature of military discipline, orientation and drill from credit bearing courses;
3. Close review of all nominations for ROTC instructor-
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Nixon firm on Haynsworth
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon stood firm Thursday in support of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr.'s nomination to the Supreme Court despite mounting opposition from Senate Democrats and members of his own party.
White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler termed "absolutely untrue" widespread reports that Haynsworth, embarrassed by criticism of his financial dealings, had asked that his nomination be withdrawn.
The reports coincided with a flurry of activity by Haynsworth, who first telephoned and then met Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell in his fifth-floor Justice Department office. The Chief Judge of the 45th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later visited Sen. James O. Eastland, D-Miss., a firm supporter and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee which is considering the nomination.
Eastland told newsmen he asked Haynsworth about the withdrawal reports and said "there is nothing to it."
Haynsworth's visit with Mitchell was previously arranged, the Justice Department said. It said he saw Eastland to ask how he could fulfill a request by Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., a committee member, for copies of his financial records.
In the Senate, even Haynsworth supporters reported they could muster only 56 votes for Nixon's nominee, five more than the required major. Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield said the chances for confirmation had dimmed.
Announcing their opposition Thursday were Sens. Ralph Smith, R-Ill., successor to the late
Senate GOP leader Everett M. Dirksen; Walter F. Mondale, D-Minn.; Charles E. Goodell, R-N.Y., and Thomas F. Eagleton, D-Mo.
The White House denied reports that Senate Republican whip Robert P. Griffin had asked Nixon to withdraw the nomination.
In Chicago, Herbert Klein, the President's communications director, said the President intends to stick by the nomination and "has the votes" to win confirmation.
Asked about reports that Haynsworth himself had asked to be withdrawn from the nomination, Ziegler said Atty. Gen. John N, Mitchell had been in touch with Haynsworth Thursday and that the U.S. Appeals Court judge had expressed no desire to re-
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