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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
The Pain of Abortion
81st Year. No.33
Thursday, October 15, 1970
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Scott Speaks to Jock Liberation Day Forum at Hoch Auditorium Wednesday Night
Nixon Called 'Ultimate Football Freak'
... in background, from left, Dave Meggesey, Conall O'Leary, Randy Smyth, Bill Ebert, Sam Goldberg
Speakers Denounce Athlete Exploitation
The game of football is "middle class theater, the theater of the absurd, the theater of the silent majesty." Dave Maggsgey, former player for the Philadelphia Football Cardinals, said Wednesday night.
Meggessy told about 200 persons gathered for a Jock Liberation Day forum in Hoch Auditorium that President Nixon was the "ultimate football freak."
Although the organizers of Jack Liberation may were denied permission to use the allusion, it is not a violation.
"Athletes are merely playing in Nixon's theater," he said. "The regime that perpetuates football also perpetuates the atrocities in Southeast Asia."
Meggessy, Jack Scott, sports editor or Ramparts magazine, and Randy Smyth, editor of the Daily Cal at the University of California at Berkeley, joined decadition students and others in protesting the system that they, led to the exploitation of athletes.
noon joi-in, they got permission to use Hoech Auditorium for the speeches. Bill Ebert, student body president, introduced the five speakers.
Meggyeyan said that fewer than one-tenth of one per cent of college football players made it in the pros and that the average annual football career was four and a half years.
Meggessy said the player had to pay the price of winning at any cost so that the team would have a chance to be on television and money for the school's athletic department.
Scott said that athletes usually did not start protesting the injustices they encountered until things got out of hand. Those who first came up with the idea were Scott, said that the impetus behind the form of SDS was given by blocks in the late 50's and the early 60's. In sports, he said, the protests were started by black athletes gained momentum before being followed up by white athletes this year.
Drug abuse is at an increasingly dangerous level in sports, Scott said, and the use of "speed" and steroids is advocated by many coaches.
"The situation has gotten so bad in weight events that it's practically impossible to compete adequately without steroids," he said.
He said protest had accomplished some things in the world of sports. He said a University of Maryland coach had kicked and punched his football players when they did not play up to his expectations. The players received the coach thought that an outside agitator had arroused his "dumb jocks," but when the protest continued, the coach was fired.
According to Scott, coaches thought that because the black athlete chose to protest, some of the injustices in which they were involved by not participating in all athletic activities wholeheartedly, they did not want to put out.
N. Vietnam Denounces Peace Plan
WASHINGTON (UPI) - North Vietnam declared in a broadcast monitored here Wednesday that it categorically rejects President Nixon's Indochina peace plan, but U.S. officials refused to take Hanо'i first formal response as its final word.
State Department officials said the lengthy statement of denunciation was a typical North Vietnamese bargaining technique and that Hanoi's final judgment of Nixon's offer
The foreign ministry broadcast in English by Hanoi Radio said Nixon's call a week ago for an immediate cease-fire throughout Indochina and the convening of an international peace conference was "merely a statement" to prolong its "precision" of South Vietnam.
These officials characterized the strongly critical tone of the Communist statement as an apparent effort to offset what was seen by them as insulting as worldwide approval for Nixon's plan.
The North Vietnamese government statement said the Viet Cong's eight-point peace plan of Sept. 17, remained the proper basis on which to settle the Vietnam war.
It asserted that Nixon came up with his five-point plan because public opinion was strongly demanding that "the give a serious response" to the Communist proposal.
"The Vietnamese people and the government of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, stern condemn and issue "sacre proposal made by the Nixon administration," the foreign ministry statement said.
North Vietnamese charged that Nixon actually was backding down on the troop withdrawal issue. The Communist statement said that previously he called simply for "mutual troop withdrawal" from Vietnam, but now "linked with the United States in a settlement of the Indochinese problem."
Bomb Damages Harvard Center; Blast Is 'Part of Fall Offensive'
It also charged that Nixon's proposal for the "right to self determination" in South Vietnam "birds down essentially to maintaining a puppet clique, lackeys of the United States."
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UPI) — A homemade bomb destroyed the library room at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs Wednesday. A "revolutionary" woman's bombing in Cambridge was "part of a national fall offensive," and was dedicated to Angela Davis.
The explosive, apparently left in a metal box placed in a top floor desk, went off shortly before I am., minutes after campus police discovered it. It was one of the three-story building. No one was injured.
"A nervous" girl telephoned campus police at the nation's oldest university at 12:32 a.m. on Thursday, when she was interment International Center in six minutes. This is no joke. Remember the Brooklyn cohouse
and California. Get the janitor out of there This is no joke."
The mention of California and Brooklyn apparently referred to recent radical bombings on the West Coast and at a courthouse in New York, but also to borough of Queens. The revolutionary Weatherland group took responsibility for the bombing in a letter to UPI in New York.
The Boston Record-American received a typewritten special delivery letter in which a women's group claimed it had set off the blast. It identified itself as "the Proud Eagle Tribe, a group of revolutionary women."
"The center figures out new ways for Fig. 511, an American destroy bomb war in Asia, Latin America and Africa." And the ground troops tolke from Henry Kissinger, who left the center to join Nick's death machine," the report concludes.
Kissinger served as associate director of the center, which was founded in 1955 and is chiefly concerned with the economics of foreign nations, before becoming President Nixon's top foreign policy adviser and chairman of the National Security Council.
“This, our tribe’s first action, is part of a national fall off initiative by tribes of kids all over to attack the enemy wherever he shows his ugly face, the letter said. “This coincides with the Viet Cong by the brothers in Southeast Asia and by their Bombs in the prisons in New York City.”
Black Congressmen Check Civil Rights Enforcement
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Black congressmen announced Wednesday that they were forming an all-Negro "shadow coalition" to stop the assault of officials who will enforce civil rights laws.
They said they decided to act because the President's Civil Rights Commission reported this week that bureaucats and lawyers were blocking progress in this field.
Rep. Charles C. Diggs $J_{r_1}$,
D-Mich, chairman of the nine black
congressman, told a news conference the
shadow cabinet's job would be to expose
instances of failure to enforce civil rights laws
and to name individuals responsible.
"We will not spare anyone's reputation who
is guilty of contributing directly or indirectly to this 1,000-page report," he said.
Diggs said the "cabinet" would have about 50 members, including some of the highest-ranking blacks in government, and would be headed by a man "who is well known in the country." But he said names would remain secret.
He also said the black congressman, who have tried unsuccessfully since February to President Nixon to meet with them, would send an email asking him to support for the Civil Rights Commission report.
Diggs said the action by the group, all Democrats, was not partisan because "the present administration is not the only one who has weakness in enforcing the civil rights laws."
Angela Davis Is Arraigned OnKidnap-MurderCharges
NEW YORK (UPI)—Black revolutionary Angela Diavous, ousted University of California philosophy instructor, was held Wednesday under $250,000 bail on a federal fugitive charge in connection with the courtroom murder of a California judge last August.
The arrests touched off telephone threats to
The New York Times to "kill a con a day" as
The 28-year-old admitted Communist and Black Panther supporter was arraigned in the federal courthouse under maximum security while 75 sympathizers outside charged "Free our sister" and "Power to the people." A few days later, the courtroom and shouted "You will be free."
The urrainage came 18 hours after Miss Davis and a black companion, David R. Pavin, had been sent to jail by FBI agents in their $30-a-day Manhattan mated room. They were unarmed and offered
Foindexter, a handsome mystery man of reputed wealth, was arranged shortly after Miss Davis on charges of harboring a bounty of 50 million dollars in bail by U.S. Commissioner Earle N. Ribusho.
Standing before Bishop, the attractive Alabama-born woman hesitated slightly and looked down at her manicated wrists before she began to whisper whether her name was Angela Yoye Davis.
Poindexter was identified as the son of a Communist who ran for alderman in Chicago in 1931. He has a police record in Chicago dating to 1866 and he was most recently in four years ago on a charge of receiving stolen property—a charge that was dismissed
Miss Davis was not present when a black teen-ager smuggled a pistol, two carbines and a Nazi Saafel courtroom in an attempt to free the defendant. The trio met the judge, the prosecutor and three woman jurors as hostages. The judge, who was convicted, convicts were killed in a subsequent shootout.
long as Miss Davis is held and to blow up the federal courthouse at Foley Square.
Authorities said Miss Davis bought the guns used by the blacks in the shootout and outlaw California law an accomplice who purchases weapons is equally guilty of a capital crime.
Lighthearted
a press conference Wednesday morning, in which leaders of Jock Liberation Day an-
naunced that they had postponed a "jog-in" at Memorial Stadium, was punctured with some lighter moments, such as this one. Bill McNamara had been the coach he support Sam Goldberg in the athlete's
verbal tilt with the athletic department, snickers at a crack made by George Kimbail, another Goldberg support. Kimball is a candidate for Douglas County Sheriff.
KU Grading System on Academic Chopping Block
By DAN EVANS Kansan Staff Writer
By DAN EVANS
The fate of KU's credit-no-credit system will be decided within the coming year in the House, and will be announced by the Senate and Procedures committee. But discussions have raised some questions about the current status of KU.
One of the prime areas of discussion has revolved about University Senate guidelines for use in the course.
The creditno-credit program has been studied intensively lately. The Academic Program is sponsored by the University Council, the Educational Policies committee of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (EPC) and several school colleges in addition to the program and some suggested changes in it.
The Senate Rules and Regulations adopted last March state: "Under such University-affiliated schools, faculty should adopt, the facilities of the several schools may prescribe conditions under which a student's work will be deemed to be approved."
achieved in credit or no credit enrollments" Originally the rules and regulations control how students can be allowed hours that could be taken credit-no credit and apply toward graduation. The clause specified that no more than 25 per cent of the course may not have been enrolled could be credit-no credit enrollments.
achieved in credit or no credit enrollments."
But a motion last March was introduced to the Senate by Dennis Emphy, Great Bend senator, that omitted the Senate limitation on credit-no credit. The motion was passed.
Credit/ No Credit Changes Seen
According to George Laughard, Dodge City Academy and a student senator, the credit-no-credit program is now open to two interpretations. Laughard claims that since the schools have not legally guideline, the various schools may not legally have the right to control credit-no-credit.
Embry's motion eliminated the only "University-wide guideline" from the Senate.
He views the present system of controlling the program, that is, by the faculties of the schools, as another possible interpretation of the rules and regulations.
Laughhead has brought the first interpretation to the attention of the EPC, to which he belongs. Eugene Fox, associate member of EPIC, disagrees with Laughhead's member of EPIC, disagrees with Laughhead's member of EPIC.
Fox claims the only way of interpreting the rules and regulations is that the schools do have power to control credit-no credit the Senate has created any guidelines.
He said on Monday the schools could be more restrictive than the guidelines set by the
Thus, Fox views the one normal/or fair course per semester restriction on credit-no credit.
He also claims it is legal, under the rules and regulations for the School of Education and the School of Engineering, to disallow students to enroll in any course on a credit-no
credit basis.
The APP held an open hearing Tuesday to gather information for its study on carbon emissions.
Most of the speakers at the hearing expressed a desire to alter the present grading system. A common idea was to place all undergraduate courses on some sort of credit-nec credit
Herrian Lajan, associate professor of political science and chairman of the APP, met with the Executive Committee had given APP the responsibility of studying the possibility of establishing an APP.
Now that the hearing is over, the committee will study other information and eventually present a proposal to the Senate about the grading system. What that proposal will be
Another problem of allowing each school to
William Lucas, associate dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design, said on Wednesday that he would generally use of credit-no credit had to come from the Senate. He said the individual schools were too hard pressed with other changes in the curriculum, major changes in their grading systems.
The School of Architecture and Urban Design faculty discussed earlier this fall the credit-no credit system. They decided that generation of credit-no credit as a general rule.
and whether the Senate will accept it are matters of conjecture.
Lucas also pointed out that coordination between the various schools at KU should be a major consideration. If one school allows its students to take all of their courses on a credit-case basis and another school does not permit its students to take any course on credit, transfer from one school to another would be a formidable task, he said.
choose its own method of using the credit-no-credit system is created when a student in a school that does not use credit-no-credit must be offered a credit. In some schools some school that is totally credit-no-credit.
Lee F. Young, associate dean of the School of Journalism, said on Tuesday that he did not think the faculty of the school would broaden its credit-no credit program unless there was a deficiency to do so. The School of Journalism has a program identical to the one in the College.
All of the discussion has failed to bring about any major changes in the credit-no-credit system. The APP appears to be the only body seriously studying possible changes in the credit-no-credit system and is presented to the Senate about Dec. 1, suggesting broad changes in the grading system.
Whatever the APP proposal says, the University Senate has the authority to alter and even reject it. One thing is clear, any major change in KU's grading system could not become effective until next summer and probably not until next fall.