The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Officials Doubt January Cutoff Of Draft System
Wednesday, November 15. 1972
See story page 5
Chisholm Rips Racism in U.S.
By PHIL McLAUGHLIN
Kansan Staff Writer
"Racism is at the basis of the difficulties of our country," Rep. Shirley Chisholm, D.N.Y., told an audience of about 750 Tuesday night in Hoch Auditorium.
Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress, spent almost an hour pointing out many problems she thought existed in the United States.
She said that racism made the country vulnerable to internal attack which, she said, was much more deadly than any external threats.
"It's time we stop judging people on the
color of color in their skin," she said.
SHE SAID that racism caused the lack of respect America was finding from countries
"Money doesn't breed respect," Chisolm said. "How can they respect a country that practices racism? They know we have a cancer eating away at our roots, and that cancer is the knowledge that America doesn't treat all of its citizens equally vet."
Chisimalo said that much of the discontent in America was directly attributable to social and economic inequalities because of race.
Minorities erupt into violence because they don't think the rest of society is going to practice the Judeo-Christian morality that they profess, she said. It is the kind of behavior going to be ignored by society that frustrates them to the point of militancy, she said.
Kansan Staff Photo by PRIS BRANDSTED
CHIHOLM HOWG the recent occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affair's office in Washington D.C. as an example of how such women were finally violently expressed.
"Even though they followed the proper channels (for years), no one listened," she
"NDIANS, Chicanos and blacks want no more or no less than an ethnic group that fled Europe," she said. "There is enough in America for every one of us."
According to Chisholm, sex discrimination is just as rampant in
America as racial discrimination and must be fought with as much intensity.
"I've met much more discrimination as a woman than as a black in the field of politics," she said. "There is a basic difference against women in the country.
"Men don't fear women per se, men fear women with ability."
She said that there were stupus women and stupid men, brilliant women and brilliant men, so each person must be on his personal qualities rather than his sex.
Shirley Chishelm D.N.V. Address C4 14750 BRANISTEE KRIAN HART Photo by PRIS BRANISTEE
She said that Indians had been pushed onto reservations that were so barren the Indians could hardly make a living off the land. "We've got a percent per cent don't live to see the age of 45."
She said that the Washington violence occurred because the Indians had realized that the long years of denials and tokenism were not unless they took some dramatic action.
THESE FORMS of discrimination and other forms of injustice are all components of a general crisis in America today, she said. "The United States is the sick carcass of the 'American Dream'."
"The war in Vietnam has affected the very fabric of America," she said.
She said that the war had to be settled before the country could effectively begin so many years later.
According to Chisholm, the economic system will have to be restructured and the tax system reformed so that the "common man" will be favored rather than the corporate executive. Seh said that a compulsory health insurance program and a
. Racism and sex discrimination head speech on America's problems . . .
See CHISHOLM Page 5
Demos Must Rebuild, Wallace Says
KANSAS CITY (AP)—Gov. George Wallace of Alabama said Tuesday the Democratic party must be "restructured from top to bottom" and indicated he expects to take an active although still unspecified role in that restructuring.
The average American, Wallace said, feels the Democratic Party like an oppressive dictator.
Kensan Photo by DAN LAUING
It was for that reason, Wallace said, the memoirists rated as poorly as they did in the past.
Wallace made his comments as a surprise visitor to the Associated Press Managing Editors convention here at the conclusion of which he spoke. Which of his wife, Corpella, also participated.
Wallace flew here Tuesday and was to return immediately after addressing the convention, in what his wife acknowledged his longest journey since he was shot six months ago while campaigning in a Laurel, Md., shopping center.
rence area in the last few days has accounted for a rise in the river and the mounting concern of farmers over corn, soybean and milo crops in eastern Kansas. The weather forecast for today is partly cloudy with a high in the mid to upper 30's and 20 per cent chance of rain, changing to 30 per cent tonight.
SPEAKING FROM his wheelchair to a gathering of close to 600 journalists and their wives, Wallace said it had been "the press of state business" more than recuperation from his injury that had kept him feeling more extensively in recent months.
Rough Seas
In selecting a presidential nominee, the Democrats paid undue attention to "the exotic and those who made the most noise," Wallace said.
"I DON'T HAVE any specific plans except to give advice "if it is desired," Wallace said, adding that one piece of advice was that "you would be to 'read the election results.'
"It turned out Nov. 7 that those who made the most noise didn't have the most votes." In answer to a question, Wallace said he had, "no specific plans for 1978," but he would be physically able to take an active role in his party's immediate future.
The governor said politicians on both sides spoke during the 1972 campaign in language identical to that which he had used in the past. He said, he was labeled "a demagogue,"
Mrs. Wallace, in her remarks, said politicians and the press can both best serve the public by giving them "the truth—the plain, simple, honest, unadulterate truth."
Wallace's remarks were part of discussion entitled "Meet the Readers" in which several speakers criticized general aspects of the news media's approach.
HOWARD SAMUELS, president of New York's Off Track Betting Corp., and several other executives.
governor of New York, said that present-day political managers "carefully stage pseudo events" in their efforts to gain maximum coverage in the media.
This water-laden boat, found sailing in circles in the Kaw River below the Massauchets Street bridge, appears headed for rough seas. Heavy rainfall in the Law
"You can't just blame that on the politicians," he said. "For it's the very nature of the coverage to go for the jugular . . . the hot lead."
absolute shield for a reporter's investigative sources.
The convention, APME's 39th, continues through Friday.
"Otherwise, through the Supreme Court, the government has acquired a new dimension of control over the right of the person to know what is going on in its society."
"IF THE AMERICAN reading public wants to be properly informed, then the newspaper reporter must have the same professional relationship with his source in a way that has with this purpose, the lawyer with his client and the priest with his parishioner."
It opened Tuesday with a call from Wendell C. Phillipi of the Indianapolis News, the association's president, for "a national shield law . . . that provides an
Panel Halts Bus Service To Ridglea
By JOHN PIKE
The Student Senate Housing Committee voted Tuesday night to suspend bus service to the Ridgley area apartments beginning Friday night.
Kansan Staff Writer
ONE OF THE bills would allow StudEx to appoint an individual or group to "make a thorough study of past policies, current policies and policies that will future accomplishments" of the bus system. The individual or group would then submit a report to the Senate and would be
Reeves said the bill was unnecessary since the Housing Committee had recently recruited a subcommittee from the student body to perform the services called for in House's bill. The subcommittee, Reeves said, will work without salary.
Ken Reeves, Lawrence second-year law student and coachman of the committee, said that the Ridglea route lost more money than any of the other bus routes and that the Senate could not afford to continue the route.
The decision to suspend Ridgale bus service after attack on the large hotel complex was sparked.
It also voted to oppose two bills concerning the Senate meeting Thursday night.
The two bills concerning the bus system were sponsored by John House, Lawrence special student and chairman of the Student Executive Committee (StudExE). The bills were also consulted it about the bills before placing them on the Senate agenda.
The second bill would establish permanently the semester fee paid by students to support the bus system at $2 a student. It would also require the management of all apartments served by the buses to pay 50 per cent of the subsidy for their routes and allow merchandise merchants to pay 75 per cent of the subsidy to operate the downtown bus route.
Reeves said that service might be resumed if the apartment management would agree to pay half the subsidy necessary to operate the Ridglea route.
The committee voted to ask that the bill be sent to committee by the Senate.
Soldier Found Innocent on Charges Of Killing Two Officers in Vietnam
FT. ORD, Calif. (ALP)—A military jury Tuesday found Pvt. Billy Dean Smith, the first soldier brought to trial in the United States in a "fragging" incident, innocent on charges of killing two officers with a grenade in Vietnam.
Smith, a 24-year-old black from Los Angeles Watts section, was acquitted of six counts of murder, attempted murder and assault but was found guilty of assaulting a military policeman who arrested him soon after the fragmentation grenade exploded.
The jury, all career officers, reduced Smith's enlisted man's rank from E2 to E1
and ordered that he receive a bad conduct discharge on the assault charge.
The panel deliberated the assault sentence after announcing its verdict on the charges. The conviction carried a maximum penalty of one year at hard labor, disoblige discharge, forfeiture of money and reduction to lowest enlisted rank.
Smith, who has been in custody for 20 months, now will get a 20-day leave and be placed in the custody of his family, information officer J. D. Coleman said.
Smith had pleaded innocent to all charges. If convicted of the murder
charges, he faced a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.
The private had been accused of detonating a grenade that killed Ls. Thomas A. Dellouw of Choteau, Mont., and John B. Mulligan of March 18, 1973, at Pum Run Hoe air base in New York.
The jury's decision automatically will be reviewed by Maj. Gen. Harold G. Moore, commanding general of Ft. Ord, and can be ordered to the U.S. Court of Military Appeals.
He also was accused of attempted murder of his commanding officer, Cap. Randall Bannett.
Students Seek Realistic Chancellor
Editor's Note: This is the first story in a three-part series on the student, faculty and alumni members of the Campus Advisory Committee that is seeking a new chancellor for the University of Kansas. Part I deals with the student members.
By GARY ISAACSON Kansan Staff Writer
The students on the Campus Advisory Committee are looking for a leader who will set a trend for a more realistic education at the University of Kansas.
The four student members of the committee paint a picture of the next chancellor as at least 40 years old, strong in faculty, student and legislator relations and grounded more in academic interests than in administrative interests.
"The new chancellor must be someone who will try to build the University to the point of pulling the web of classes together," he said.
Dave Dillon, student body president and Hutchinson senior, said the new chancellor must have a "good philosophy" of higher education.
KATHY ALLEN, Topeka junior and student body vice president, said she thought people considered higher education differently pow from how they once did.
"We are failing if people ask, 'why college?' she said. "The new chancellor must have a willingness to look at new teaching methods and ways of learning."
Clyde Chapman, Newark, N.J., graduate student, and Charles Loveland, fourth year student in medicine at KU Medical Center. He has worked on the strongest arguments on this point.
"KU is an ivy tower," Chapman said, "Students here do not interact with the real world. They are not prepared for that world when they leave here."
Loveland said that higher education anywhere could not be concerned solely with the high school.
"IT HAS TO be concerned with educating people for life, not just for a job skill," he said. "I hope that I hear from the nominees that they are willing to expand the role of the University to meet with the problems of society."
Chapman voiced an opinion that the chancellor could begin to change trends when he took office.
To accomplish this, Chapman said, KU's chapster will have have a global view of the world.
The chancellor also will have to show the strength to establish good relations with the
"He will need to direct the course of the school toward more realistic learning," he said.
Chapman and Loveland agreed that each candidate's philosophy of life would have to be examined closely because a philosophy of life and education might be the same third.
faculty, the students, the Kansas Board of
Administration, and the Kansas Legislature.
Both students agree.
"We can't afford to have anybody who is weak in one area," Dillon said. "We will have to weigh the strengths in each nomenia and come up with the best combination."
"IF WE LOOK long enough, we will narrow it down to the person or people who can handle themselves reasonably well in all areas." Chamman said.
"I WOULD shy away from someone who
Chapman said that the chancellor's strongest demands must be in the University of Texas.
Loveand said that to determine a candidate's ability to handle such a multifaceted position, he would look at how in similar situations he handled past problems in similar situations.
The students disagreed about whether the new chancellor should be strictly an American.
"We have to consider people from the nonacademic world because of the heavy administrative aspect of the job," she said. "We need to ensure their qualifications very carefully."
Loveland said that the chancellor was more than an administrator but that an assistant was not.
"If we hire a nonacademician, he won't be able to begin to deal with the university at home in all its aspects," he said. "He must have at least ten years in a university structure because most of the important faculty chancellor will face will be academic."
"I hope that in the long run the chancellor's main impact would be in the area of education," he said, "but a vital interest in education is what is needed."
Lovedland said he would like someone who had been in the academic world but who also had had experience in the outside world.
"I don't want to get trapped into looking at someone who has come up through the system."
The students also discussed the possible selection of a member of a minority race and the age requirements they would have for the new chancellor.
"I WOULD accept a person from a
man who had been killed, she were
not malified," Dillon said.
Chapman, a black, said that he would never make a decision solely on the basis of
"To some extent, it is now fashionable and taddish to have minority representation,"
"Educationally and philosophically, I can definitely see someone from minority race."
Dillon said that because of tenure, the age
dilon for the job would probably be from 40