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University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 16. 1960
Rights Council Letters To Big Eight Colleges
The students who recently circulated petitions favoring "sit-ins" today mailed open letters to students in other Big-Eight schools.
The student group, which last week named itself the Civil Rights Council, sent copies of this letter:
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"In spite of this serious and adverse development, I have no intention whatsoever to diminish my continuing efforts to promote progress toward a peace with justice. This applies to the remainder of my stay in Paris as well as thereafter."
Ike Says Nikita Sabotages Talks
Eisenhower said the U.S. government statements on which Khrushchev based this charge did not, in fact, go further than to say that "The United States will not shirk its responsibility to safeguard against surprise attack."
Eisenhower took note of Khrushchev's 40-minute tirade this morning and said Khrushchev was under "an evident misapprehension" when he charged that the United States had threatened to continue flights over Soviet territory.
"I have come to Paris to seek agreements with the Soviet Union which would eliminate the necessity for all forms of espionage, including overflights." Eisenhower said. "I see no reason to use this incident to disrupt the conference."
"In point of fact," Eisenhower added. "These flights were suspended after the recent incident and are not to be resumed. Accordingly this cannot be the issue."
Eisenhower then announced that if the Soviet attitude made it impossible to come to grips in Paris with the plane incident, he was planning in the near future to submit to the United Nations a proposal for creation of a U.N. aerial surveillance to detect preparations for attack.
He said he had intended to hand this plan to the Paris conference. He explained that the surveillance system would operate in the territories of all nations prepared to accept such inspection.
"For its part," he said, "The United States is prepared not only to accept U.N. aerial surveillance but to do everything in its power to contribute to the rapid organization and successful operation of such international surveillance."
An Open Letter to Students and Faculty
The six officers attending the recent Big Eight Student Body Presidents' Conference unanimously adopted a resolution which in effect condemned the 'sitins' presently occurring throughout the South. As you probably know, hundreds of New York college students are employingMethod no violence non-violent protest against segregation.
"When the resolution was made public, students from the University of Kansas expressed their strong disagreement with a bill that banned a barrage of letters protesting the presidents' position; Negro students silently marched across the campus carrying signs expressing sympathy for the "sit-ins," and marched in support of the sit-ins and the protest of the KU Negroes. Simultaneously, an unorganized group of 24 students faced a similar challenge former Civil Rights Council] composed and circulated a petition which read:
"We, students and faculty of the University of Kansas, in opposition to the adopted resolution of the Big Eight Student Body Presidents' Conference, are in violation of securities an effective, non-violent means of securing justice and equal rights for all.
"Nearly 1,200 students and faculty members signed this petition.
"Many at KU are concerned about the resolution to which our president connected the name of the University of Kansas to many students and disturbed about the entire area of racial inequality in our nation. This letter is an expression of reaction in one university; it is an appeal to students of the other university to join us in our stand. We call upon the students of our conference to join us in the active promotion of racial justice, thus making the Midwest an example to the nation of an area of student concern and non-compliance with the constitution to those students who are continually struggling for their human rights.
Signed. "Civil Rights Council"
SCHOOLS RECEIVING the above letter are the Universities of Colorado, Oklahoma, Iowa State, Nebraska, Kansas State, Missouri and Oklahoma State.
Bob Nebrig, Leavenworth senior a spokesman for the Civil Rights Council, said yesterday letters similar to the one to Big Eight schools will be mailed to the National Student Assn. Similar letters will also go to southern universities participating in student "sit-ins" and the National Student Christian Federation, he said.
Nebrig said the group's protesting is not an anti-Dalby drive. He said:
"DALBY IS NOT the real issue. The real issue is supporting a nonviolent method of protesting against segregation. 'Sit-ins' show southern students are not complacent. 'Sit-ins' are making the American people realize segregation is something more than a problem dealing only with school attendance."
Nebrigal said no officers have been named for the Civil Rights Council. He said the students on the council are thinking of continuing the organization next fall.
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LAST SEMESTER 65.5 per cent or 455 of the 718 taking the exam passed it. The passing percentage for the spring semester of 1959 stood at 60.2.
Complete English Figures Kept Quiet
The number taking this spring's examination fell 30 below last semester.
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The English Proficiency Examination is required for all students enrolled in the Schools of: Education, Fine Arts, Journalism and Nursing; the department of architecture and architectural engineering and the College.
Those exempt from the examination include: those who passed English 2H with the grade of B or better; those who passed English 1 and 2 with an A; and those who passed English 1H with a B or better and English 2 with an A.
The examination was held on March 2.
THEMES were graded according to standard points of grading including mechanics, organization, paragraph structure, diction, content and effectiveness of purpose.
Each individual theme may have been graded by as many as four senior members of the English department staff passing from one instructor to the other until it was either passed twice or failed three times.
Costello Gets Court Review
WASHINGTON—(UPI) —The Supreme Court today agreed to review a denaturalization judgment against Frank Costello, former king of the underworld now serving time for federal income tax evasion.
The high court will hear arguments in Costello's case some time during the term starting next October. A written opinion will follow.
The second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the judgment last Feb. 17.
Denaturalization is usually the prelude to deportation. Costello came to the United States from Italy at the age of four in 1895. He is serving his five-year tax evasion sentence in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
The government said the raspy-voiced gangster obtained his citizenship by fraud in 1925. He listed his occupation as "real estate" when he was actually a bootlegger, the justice department said.
22.000 Sign for Stevenson
NEW YORK—(UPI) -The New York Adlai Stevenson for president committee has announced more than 22,000 persons signed petitions during the weekend to draft Stevenson for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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