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81st Year, No. 9 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Friday, September 11, 1970
Football Fever
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Kansan Photo by SHERRY ROY
Chained
Whether this vehicle is "wheelcuffed" for a traffic violation, saving space for a police car, or
even the latest in campus security vehicles is a question for scholars. Most likely it's a case of a student looking for a sturdy—and safe—place to park his wheels while attending class. Luckily, the bicycle has no handy windshield wiper under which to place the familiar blue ticket.
Palestinians to Send Hostages to Amman
By United Press International
An Arab guerrilla organization said today all hostages being held aboard three jetliners hijacked to an airfield in the Jordanian desert will be allowed to go to Amman.
The Palestine Liberation Organization, making the announcement in Amman, said the move was being undertaken "for humanitarian reasons."
The passengers, numbering more than 250, would be held in Amman while the negotiations with the United States, West Germany, Britain and Switzerland continue. An International Red Cross team is
representing all these nations in the negotiations with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the guerrilla organization which carried out the hijackings.
The PFLP is demanding the release of seven of its comrades being held in Britain, Switzerland and West Germany and the release of an undetermined number of Arabs from Israel in return for release of the hostages.
The nations earlier today rejected guerrilla proposals for a two-part exchange of the hostages.
Chalmers Stresses A 'Look to Future'
By CINDY WILLIS Kansan Staff Writer
PAOLA — Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. told an alumni group Thursday night that the violence of July was due in part to a "buildup of white-black confrontations" in Lawrence.
Chalmers said that the confrontations were of the "abrasive kind" in Oliver residence hall, where, he said, the University was partly to blame because it had not given summer session students the opportunity to select their living groups.
About 200 KU alumni, parents of students and high school students attended the meeting, which was part of Chalmers
CHALMERS STRESSED a look to the future in his opening remarks. He mentioned efforts to improve campus security and the establishment of a round-the-clock information service as possible means of giving concerned students added assurance.
Chalmers said a new department of University Relations would be a new feature in the administration this fall. The function of this department, Chalmers said, will be to provide better communication between the University and the citizens of Kansas as well as KU alumni.
statewide tour of alumni groups.
See CHALMERS, Page 16
Notice
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. will deliver his Opening Convocation at 10:30 a.m. Monday in Allen Field House. All 10:30 a.m. classes will be cancelled Monday.
Strike Threat Faces Unions
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The nation's railroads, already under threat of one strike, were hit with another threatened walkout Thursday. Prospects for settling either dispute were dim.
Here's what the railroads faced:
The sources said this would allow the railroads to blame Congress for what they would regard as excessive wage increases, and then demand that Congress grant their request for $750 million in federal loans and subsidies for modernization of equipment and tracks.
to force the dispute with the four unions into Congress where a settlement would be imposed.
- FOUR UNIONS,representing nearly 500,000 of the railroads' 600,000 workers, are demanding a wage increase of about 40 per cent during the next three years. The unions extended a strike deadline from 12:01 a.m. Thursday by five days until midnight Monday but warned it would be the only extension.
"That would be a fair guess," he said.
The railroads have not made a money offer so far, but there were reports that chief rails negotiator John F. Hiltz planned to make one before Monday night.
- ONE OF the four unions, the United Transportation Union, broke off negotiations in the decade-old dispute over the use of firemen in diesel locomotives and gave the railroads a two week strike notice. President Nixon has the authority to order a 60-day cooling off period in the dispute involving the four unions. But he used this provision earlier this year in the so-called "featherbedding" dispute and now has exhausted all legal means to prevent a shutdown.
A source close to the negotiations said the railroads hope
Labor Secretary James D. Hodgson met with the rails negotiators Wednesday night and it was learned he urged them to make an offer. The railroads claim union demands, if granted, would bankrupt them.
The four unions represent the clerks and operating personnel with the exception of most engineers, track maintenance and dining car workers. Their average wages now are about $3.20 an hour for track maintenance, $3.22 for dining car employees, $3.55 for clerks and $3.75 for train crewmen.
Gay Front Asks Regents To Reconsider Application
The Lawrence Gay Liberation Front has asked the Kansas Board of Regents to reconsider the denial of official University recognition at their next meeting.
If the Regents decide not to recognize the KU chapter of the National Gay Liberation Alliance, the Front has already instigated initial groundwork proceedings to take the issue into the federal courts.
David Stout, Rolla senior, spoke of the group's plans in a press conference Thursday in the Kansas Union.
"We are going through the official channels from Dean (William) Balfour and the Chancellor, and now to the Board of Regents. The next logical step is to take it to the federal courts," Stout said.
The Front thinks there are several landmark cases in the federal courts which support their bid for official recognition. Stout says the group is encouraged by the action taken so far, and they will have an attorney to handle the case if necessary.
Stout read this statement expressing the Front's reason for desiring official recognition:
"Homosexuality exists as an incontestable fact. That this
condition can be changed is a point questioned by the sociological, psychological and medical disciplines. However, we assert that the choice to attempt change should be the result of individual free thought and not the result of social pressure. In a society that professes the freedom of the individual, moral and sexual legislation has no valid place. Therefore, to recognize our right to exist is to recognize our right to engage in homosexual acts. We know we are entitled to this recognition."
When asked how large the gay community is in Lawrence, Stout replied that University statistics show that the number should be between 680 and 700, although he personally knew of only 150 to 200 gay people living in Lawrence.
One person said Kansas laws made it legal to be a homosexual but not to practice homosexual acts.
The Front is the only chapter in Kansas, though Stout said 28 other universities across the nation have given official recognition to other gay groups.
"Prisons are full of homosexuals," Stout said. "It's absurd to convict a person for
homosexual acts and send them to prisons.
"You might as well convict them and send them to a gay bar."
The Front plans to bring in speakers from the National Alliance and already has been asked to address three KU living groups.
The women of the Front met Thursday evening in an organizational session. Plans were made to hold another meeting next Thursday evening.
"Initially people are against us. When we talk to them and they find what we're all about, in nearly every case the result is quite positive," Stout said.
Nixon Will Speak At KSU
MANHATTAN (UPI)—President Nixon will deliver a speech in the Landon Lecture Series next Wednesday at Kansas State University, it was announced today.