University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Sept. 17, 1970
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Ebert, Von Ende Speak At Chamber Meeting
Two KU student leaders spoke to the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce Wednesday morning on problems of campus-community relations, and increased student concern about affairs apart from the University.
Bill Ebert, Topeka senior and student body president, concluded his opening remarks to the Chamber "Issues and Eggs" breakfast meeting at the Holiday Inn saying, "This isn't going to be a placid place to live. It can be made a safe place."
EBERT, SHARING THE program with Rick Von Ende, Abilene, Tex., graduate student, told of two ways the University community could make itself heard. Attention is drawn immediately to the University through "disruption and suppression from without, or through disruption and change from within," he said.
"The most fearful of the two would be disruption and suppression from without," commented Ebert, "For this could only serve to suffocate the University of Kansas."
Rick Von Ende, vice-president of the Student Executive committee, then addressed the group of about 80 Lawrence citizens.
"THE UNIVERSITY of Kansas community will continue to reorient itself and the resources it can mobilize to eradicate racism, violence, poverty and the denial of human dignity," he said.
Von Ende spoke of a vast difference between "the promise of America and the reality in which
we live." One of the greatest differences, Von Ende said, was the difference in life styles. He attributed that difference to much of the misunderstanding that prevents America from fulfilling that promise.
After both students finished their opening remarks, the program was opened to questions from the audience. The resulting discussion was directed in large part to explanation of student involvement in the C. M. Moore strike in Overland Park.
VON ENDE explained that the student and faculty strikers were not expressing an official University position, but rather a human dignity position based on individual beliefs. He said that such participation was an evidence of the students' concern for their community and fellow man.
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Ebert was asked if he felt he could be a spokesman for the entire student body. Ebert replied, "I don't believe I have ever said that I was a spokesman or wanted to be. The students elected officers and platforms in the election and I can only try to implement those platforms."
He explained the broader scope of student interest in terms of preserving peace.
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