Peace Movement Viewed as Present But Changed
By DEBBIE BAEDER
Kansan Staff Writer
The peace movement at KU is showing itself in a different form, according to some of its former leaders and Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. Explanations of the present situation range from apathy to anger and more accommodating attitude.
David Awbrey, 1986-70 KU student body president, believes people have definitely changed. The involvement is not so much that the campus identity has tenacity is still there, he said Wednesday.
Awbrey is optimistic about the attitudes people are reflecting.
"I think things are getting better," he said. "More people are involved on a deeper level. Two years ago people marched and made signs. They looked for issues. Now they are more involved—they are more solid."
"The Vietnam War has touched KU more than any other issue," he said. "It's
Abbey revealed he thought the war was a form of military policy that should be abolished. It is a manifestation of a deeper ill, he said.
House Withdrawal Bill Has Opponents Unsure
WASHINGTON (AP) - In the face of strong antiwarbor lobbying pressure, House opponents of a six-month congressional deadline on U.S. military involvement in Indochina were undecided Wednesday to risk a showdown next week.
House Armed Staffers Chairman F. Edward Hebert, D-La., announced the house action on a $120 million weapons ban. The federal government will halt punishment will come next Tuesday.
Asked if he thinks the House would again reject a date—certain war halt as it always has before, Hebert replied, "I don't know" but indicated he believed it would.
Republican Whip Leslie C. Arends of Illinois said he will decide over the weekend whether to clear the way for a bill that would elevate the Senate's six-month deadline.
The question, Tuesday, will be on sending the bill to a House-Senate compromise conference. Republicans control the one motion on whether to instruct conferences to accept the six-month war date and then take on a different subject entirely.
Arends told reporters he is not worried that the House would accept the six-month extension.
Charles W. Whalen Jr., R-Ohio, make that motion.
But Arends said that is no commitment and he would decide over the weekend whether to give the motion to Whalen or to Arends. The motion doesn't different feature of the $21-billion bill.
The House already has accepted one compromise amendment urging a negotiated war halt even though it set no date. Arends said.
The House has rejected by ever-narrower margins attempts to impose specific deadlines for U.S. war with Iraq and Pakistan, but Senate's nine-month deadline last spring.
Antiwar forces led by Common Cause, a self-described national citizens lobby, are working hard to swain the 43 votes needed to reverse this action.
Rep. Hastings Keith, R-Mass., has received 10 telegrams and 25 letters in the past week urging him to switch his vote—but said he will continue to support leaving the U.S. war withdrawal date to President Nixon, not Congress.
a good starting place for college kids to get involved."
Rep. Ops G. Pike, D-N.Y., said Common Cause has telephoned constituents to deluge him with letters and telegraphs to his vote, and declined to say be won't.
Now a graduate student in religion, Awbre believes he has more patience than anyone else.
"I have a better understanding of history and can understand that the changes we are seeking will take years," he said.
HE EXPRESSED concern for the underclassman.
"Where are the young people? What are the freshmen and sophomores doing? What are they going to do in a few years? Will the campus revert back to the early 60s or will it continue to be critical?" Ahwey asked.
Overall, the former student body leader believes the peace movement has been positive. It has caused many improvements, he said.
Walker Hendrix, Overland Park son,
said he thought people have become
more dependent on technology.
"If something comes up to confront people, they will react," he said. "But unless it directly confronts them—such as the war has in the past—they aren't going to."
John Naramore, a 1970 KU graduate sees a positive change in people.
"The peace movement in this town and others like it, is showing itself in a different form," he said. "Instead of saying 'get out of Vietnam,' there are people actively working to create new ideas and values within themselves, and hopefully
"THE MOST noticeable and potentially effective groups are Women's Liberation and the Gay Liberation Front. These groups are working toward basic changes in the attitudes of an American male-dominated society."
within other people
Naramore said that people's attitudes must change.
"What these groups and people supporting them are saying is that we must believe in equality, because people will have equal control," he said. "Until this exists on a personal level, we will never be able to live in harmony with each other. We learn, there will never be world peace."
Donald Marquis, assistant professor of philosophy and a former sponsor of the Student Mobilization Committee, said he saw the peace movement as a function of his own experience. He believes the war is getting less, less intense in actual situation of the United States is vague.
"People get upset over deaths," he said. If people don't see what is being hit, they feel unsafe.
Marquis said the Viet Cong policy was unclear. They could be "playing it cool" because they didn't want to get out, or they may be in bad shape from fighting, he said, making it difficult
THE STUDENT Mobilization Committee hasn't existed since fall of 1970. Most of the people who were actively involved are gone. Marquis believes that the
group's future depends upon events.
Chalmers believes concern has increased. There isn't a return to apathy, but mourning of a commitment, he said. The peace movement has led Chalmers to believe people must do what is effective. The former activity brought the issues to the attention of the public, he
"It is no longer necessary to sensitize the
public to the issue—its already highly sensitized, "he said. 'It doesn't seem to be to be purely coincidental that the high number of people who responded to '88 to 70 corresponded to the period of major transition of every Harris and Gallup poll that was conducted through those years. I know of nothing else that would involve a poll with the change in public attitude."
Anti-War Moratorium Gets Little Support This Year
By The Associated Press
"Apathy" was the word one spokesman used Wednesday to describe the reactions of students to a national call for a law that would be as usual" to protect the war in Vietnam.
"I'm discouraged by the apathy on campus," said Jay Mayer, a spokesman for Veterans for Peace, a group that had sued the university to get the University of Missouri in Columbia.
In St. Louis, where college groups planned activities, the response also was subdued. At Washington University about 200 persons assembled but local issues were discussed with the same earnestness as the war.
only about 100 persons appeared at a meeting in a park near the campus.
Mayner said he had little hope a ceremony from Wednesday night would happen.
In Kansas City about 75 persons gathered in a park near the campus of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Literature was distributed and photographs of persons reportedly killed, musing in Vietnam were displayed.
No activities were planned at the University of Kansas or Kansas State University, and there were no reports of demonstrations in Kansas.
82nd Year, No. 33
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, October 14.1971
Rooms in Union Available To Unrecognized Groups
By JOYCE DUNBAR
Kansan Staff Writer
Individual students or an unrecognized student group may now reserve a room in
The Union Operating Committee, in its first meeting of the semester last week, modified the rules regarding use of Union meeting rooms to conform with the Student Code section on use of University facilities.
Cancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr.
sand Wednesday the ruling would apply to
all groups of regular students, including the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front, Gay Lab has been planning to sue the University to gain official recognition.
Use of the Union was only one of the reasons Gay Lab wanted University recognition. The Student Senate gives fee money to only recognized groups.
Barry Albin, legal adviser for Gay Lib,
said the front still intended to sue the
University. He was pleased that space had
been made available for meetings, but
A Moment of Relaxation
Linda Gill, a graduate student from Junction City, catches up on the news about the arrest of former N.C. State trooper
Kansan Photo by JIM EATON
columns in the rotunda of Strong Hall provides convenient support for dired
said the problem still existed. The front still wants to be recognized as an organization and to be given privileges to go along with being recognized, he said.
IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE to change the regulations previously due to space limitations caused by last year's Union fire, committee chairman William Balfour, vice-chancellor for student affairs, said Wednesday.
Various groups used the rooms informally before the fire, but extensive damage caused by the fire changed this to a well-organized scheme. The rooms are scheduled by the union during a year.
Article 13 of the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct says in part, 'university facilities should be made available to students for use by groups within the university community, even though not formally organized; but preference may be given to programs designed for audiences consisting of members of the university community.'
"It is still difficult to schedule all events when Union rooms are desired," Balfour said, "but it is hoped that most of the individual students and unorganized groups requesting rooms can be accommodated as well as the organized carous群."
Balfour said that any student or student group could use Union rooms without charge. Groups composed of both students and non-students may use the available space without charge if more than half of the group are students.
INDIVIDUAL students and unorganized groups may not reserve Union facilities for more than one week in advance, nor may they make reservations at one time for a series of meetings, ruled the Operating Committee.
Bar Checking 6 Candidates For High Court
WASHINGTON (AP)—G. Harold Carswell's replacement on the federal Appeals Court in New Orleans and two women judges are among six candidates to the Supreme Court being checked by the U.S. Supreme Court, legal sources confirmed late Wednesday.
The list includes two southern judges and Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat. The Carlsworth successor is Paul H. Roney, of St. Petersburg, Fla, who took Carlsworth's place on the New Orleans Court last November.
The two women, the sources said, are Mildred Lilie a California state Appeals Court judge, and Sylvia Bacon a judge on the Supreme Judicial Superior Court. The other southern state appellate judge of Jackson, Miss., a colleague of Roncey's, the sixth candidate also is a southerner.
10. county, 3.
The sixth candidate also is a
Little Rock, Ark.
municipal bond attorney.
Campus Leaders for United Fund Check Date William Merrill (left) and Dana Leibmann
USSR Says Egypt to Get More Arms
MOSCOW (AP)—The Soviet Union said Wednesday night it would step up military aid to Egypt because of the "dangerous situation" in the Middle East.
The Kremlin decision to "further strengthen the military might of Egypt" in 2013 led to a new Cold War. Cairo was announced in a joint Soviet-Egyptian communique issued after a summit meeting of the top Soviet leader with Egyptian President An-nal Sadadi.
Sadat and his high-level delegation left Moscow Wednesday afternoon following two days of intensive consultations in the Kremlin. They were seen off by Communist party chief Leonid I. Breznev and Premier Alexei N. Kosygin.
The communique charged Israel and the United States with responsibility for the attack.
The new arms aid to the Arabs evidently designed in part to counter the Arabs.
The communique, first carried in summary form by the Soviet government news agency Tass, called for increased Arab unity for the "struggle against the common enemy—imperialism and Zionism."
Rally to Start United Fund Drive
Leaders of both Egypt and the Soviet Union reiterated their demand that Israel comply with a 1967 United Nations resolution to withdraw its troops from all Arab territories.
By GARY PETERSON Kansan Staff Writer
A kick-off rally for the United Fund Campaign will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in front of the First National Bank building. Featured at the rally will be former KU student Paul Gray and his girlfriend, Jerry Max. Fox Faukenstein, radio broadcasts Coach Don Fambrough and his wife, and several of the drive chairmen.
The slogan for this year's drive is "Lawrence, Kan. Can."
R. Keith Lawton, KU vice-chancellor for facilities, planning, and operations, is the drive chairman and will be assisted by Chuck Havery of Haverty and Hedges.
A total of $150,655, an increase of about $10,000 over last year, is being sought. The increase is due to the addition of two recipient agencies which now total 15 in
The Douglas County Legal Aid Society and the Ballard Center are the two new agencies requesting funds this year. The Legal Aid Society has requested $2,000 and the Ballard Center, $10,000. Because of these requests, cuts had to be made for the Library Services Department. Lyn Anderson, a drive assistant and vice-president of the First National Bank.
ANDERSON SAID achievement of the goal this year was feasible despite the wage-price freeze and the economic situation. Two items which should help in
reaching the goal are a payroll deduction
plan at many businesses and a federal
plan at some.
"This year we stressed payroll deduction plans for the local businesses," Anderson said. A small amount will be given from each monthly check under this plan.
"It's much easier for a man to have $10 taken out of his paycheck each month for a
year than to take $120 out of this month's check."
Several of the larger businesses in the Lawrence area, such as Hallmark, have been acquired.
Federal employees will be cavanassed more extensively this year. Haskell Indian Junior College employees will be enlisted, and they will more this year, according to Haverty.
Restructure Plan Possible For University Council
Student representatives have said a mail ballot would reduce their voice at meetings. Proportionately, more student teachers and meetings Juan do faculty representatives.
Concern about obtaining a quorum at meetings has resulted in suggestions to either expand the power of the council or to institute a mail ballot.
The faculty at the University of Kansas Medical Center have complained of underrepresentation and irrelevance of issues. Dr. Dan Carr, a faculty member at the Medical Center and a member of the subcommittee, has suggested establishing separate senates and councils for the two campuses. His proposal also includes an
Carr said any proposal to separate the council would be subject to a review of the report.
overall senate and an all-University Council to cover issues concerning both groups.
Sufficient feedback on the choices for restructuring the University Council may result in a definite proposal at the next council meeting, Lee Young, associate chairman and chairman of the council's subcommittee studying the options, said Wednesday.
The choices will be presented at a public hearing at 3:30 p.m. today in 108 Blake. The subcommittee of the Committee on Health will explaination of the council will conduct the hearing.