University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Sept. 10, 1970
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Gays to Issue Reply About Recognition
David Stout, Rolla senior and co-ordinator of the Gay Liberation Front, said Wednesday that group would issue a statement today in the Union as a reply to a statement released Saturday by Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. which denied the Front formal University recognition.
Stout said the purpose of his statement would be "to explain the function, intentions and goals of the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front. We want to clear up improper assumptions that now stand.
"Chancellor Chalmers' statement reflects some of the assumptions made by the community and the people of Kansas."
The Lawrence chapter of the Gay Liberation Front first opened discussions about formal recognition in July with William Balfour, vice-chancellor of student affairs, but a formal request for recognition was not submitted to Balfour until August 1. Official University recognition for organizations must be obtained through the Office of Student Affairs.
Stout emphasized the purpose in asking for recognition was not to receive University funds, but
to establish that the Front and gay people do exist. He said the Front was being inhibited by lack of recognition because rooms in the Union free to University organizations must be rented by unrecognized organizations.
"We make every attempt to be non-secretive. All our meetings are open." Stout said. "We are being prohibited by the University from conducting our meetings in an open atmosphere. Although the function of both Gay Liberation and the University is to educate, the University is making us pay for the right to educate people."
No attempt has been made to recruit members, Stout said, stressing that membership has doubled in the last two weeks. He added that the Lawrence Front was about three months old and that the national movement had been active only 15 months.
Members of the group, Stout said, would stand together to defend and uphold rights granted by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
UAW Threatens Strike; Leaders 'Await Events'
DETROIT (UPI) — Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers, said Wednesday that "unless something radically changes," General Motors and Chrysler are "stalling into a strike" five days from now.
The UAW president met for two and a half hours with GM Wednesday afternoon and discussed non-economic issues "in an effort to get things moving" and reach a settlement before three-year contracts with the Big Three auto makers end at midnight Sept. 14.
Then Woodcock went to Chrysler and made a similar effort.
The UAW president declared the 400,000 auto workers at GM, and/or 100,000 at Chrysler, will strike unless a settlement is reached before the deadline. Only Ford, hit by a seven-week strike in 1967, was exempted by the union from a strike.
Woodcock said the union withdrew 25 demands it had made in the non-economic area "in an effort to get things moving," but the company said only it would study the situation.
Irving Bluestone, UAW co-director of negotiations at GM, said Wednesday's talks involved transfers, seniority and working time.
"We're just putting in time now," Woodcock said. "We're just awaiting events."
Woodcock said earlier negotiations had "ground to a halt." He was pessimistic about avoiding a strike.
The companies offered a 7.5 per cent wage increase the first year and 3 per cent in each of the second and third years, and an improved pension plan, but retaining an 8 per cent top on cost-of-living raises each year.
Three Objectives Stated
The auto workers want more than double what the companies offered on pay.
LHS Groups Meet, Confer
A group of 22 black and white Lawrence High School students met Wednesday to request school officials to reinstate four students who were expelled for the semester during disturbances last week.
For more than four hours, the 11 black and 11 white students met with principal William Medley, superintendent Carl Knox and Willoughby Abner, professional mediator and vice-president of the American Arbitration Center of Washington, D.C.
During the final session, shouts could be heard from the meeting room. There were repeated efforts by Abner and Knox to keep order.
After the meeting, the students said they had three objectives to be gained in the situation. The objectives were to stop all fighting, to have a general assembly of the student body where they could present their ideas, and to have the four students reinstated.
"We've come together," one student said. "There'll be no more fighting. Our primary objective was the reinstatement of the four students."
Medley said the group would be given the opportunity to present its ideas to the school at the conclusion of the B-Team cheerleader tryouts scheduled for today.
It was agreed to have spokesmen present the views of the two groups at the assembly.
The students were unanimous in their condemnation of the administration's handling of the situation.
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Medley said the administration is willing to study any new ideas and that a student grievance committee idea is currently under consideration.
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Amman Erupts Into Fighting
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Heavy fighting broke out today in Amman and other parts of Jordan between Arab guerrillas and troops loyal to King Hussein, according to reports reaching Beirut. Scores of hijack refugees were reported taking refuge in a basement nightclub of the Inter-Continental Hotel.
Palestinian guerrilla leaders appealed to the Arab masses to intervene in the fighting to halt what they called "a war of extermination against the Palestinian people." Telephone and telex communications were cut with the outside world.
Earlier, officials of the U.S. and British embassies said the situation in Amman was deteriorating after a cease-fire reached Tuesday by the guerrillas and the army broke down after 10 hours. The cease-fire had ended eight days of fighting that began when the Palestinians attempted to assassinate King Hussein.
The guerrillas said they resumed the fighting today after the forces of King Hussein mutilated and burned 25 commandos during the 10-hour truce.
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