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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. May 4. 1960
GETTING THE COUNT—Counting the ballots for next year's treasurer of All Student Council are, l. to r., Lynn Anderson, Atwood junior, new chairman of ASC; Ron Dalby, Joplin, Mo., junior, the president of the student body, and Mary Sue Childers, Merriam junior, new secretary of ASC.
Qualified 'Sit-down' Support
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and KU students locally and not those of a national issue.
The ASC is a legislative body and not involved in a moral issue. There is no need for action at all.
The true principles of integration and civil rights were being overstepped by the methods now being used. Sidowns only cause an infringement on other's rights.
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Six Students Win Cash for Designs
Six KU students in architecture have won cash prizes in a competition sponsored by the Structural Clav Products institute.
Thirty-five students in the Design IV class submitted drawings for the problem, which was a design for a senior elementary school.
In addition to providing $150 for prizes, the Structural Clay Products Institute is making another $150 available to the department of architecture for an academic scholarship in 1960-61.
Monty M. Robson, Wichita junior,
won the first prize of $50. David G.
DeLong, Emporia junior, received
second prize of $40. Harry Rowe,
Willow Springs, Mo., junior, won
third prize of $30.
Honorable mention and $10 awards were earned by Jim D. Morelan, Lawrence senior; Frank E. Zitzlaff, Prairie Village junior, and Jack C. Dysart, Lawrence senior.
Better Late Than Never
BURDEN, Kan. — (UPI) — Mrs. Elmer Tredway of Burden had to pay two cents postage due recently on a post card bearing a one-cent stamp. But the post card bore the one-cent postage legally.
The catch was that the card had been mailed in Topeka April 22, 1949, when post cards required only one-cent postage. The 11-yearate card notified Mrs. Tredway that reports of the Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary were due in Topeka immediately.
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The question is not integration or segregation but the methods used.
A five minute recess was then called in order to draw up resolutions.
During the recess, Harry Shaffer, assistant professor of economics and president of the Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy, and several students entered the meeting
Resolutions Proposed
When the meeting was resumed several resolutions were proposed whose main theme was the condemnation of any incidents or demonstrations in Lawrence.
These were immediately pounced upon by the visitors who pointed out their inadequacy.
Fred Morrison, Colby junior, unorganized independent representative, then proposed the first of his two resolutions affirming support of integration and the laws of the U.S. It passed by a 13-3 vote.
Several members asked whether this would be sufficient clarification of the issue.
After further discussion, the second resolution was adopted and passed unanimously.
"I think we've gotten the idea of our position across. It's the idea that counts and not the number of words you said it in."
Ron Dalby took the floor once again to commend the Council on their action and concluded:
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How Not to Do It
An unorganized group of 24 students and four faculty members decided at the same time the ASC endorsed integration, to give students the chance to sign a petition which reads as follows:
"We students of the University of Kansas, in opposition to the adopted resolution of the Big Eight student body presidents conference, are in favor of student "sit-in" as an effective, non-violent means of securing justice and equal rights for all."
This petition will be in the KU information booth from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow and Friday. Copies of the petition have been delivered to several of the organized houses on campus.
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Robert Nebrig, Leavenworth senior; a member of this unorganized group concerned with racial relations, said the petition was adopted in order to ascertain the true expression of KU students toward "sit-ins."
The group met last night in the Kansas Union following talk of a meeting of KU students interested in racial relations and problems. Four of the students at the meeting were Negroes. Twenty were white,
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Copies of the signed petitions are to be sent to the All-Student Council, the National All-Student Council and the other Big Eight universities.
Alan Pickering, instructor in the School of Religion, one of the faculty members at the meeting, said the petition definitely meets with his approval and he hopes students will react in an enthusiastic spirit.
The All-Student Council last night said it supports integration in principle and supports any lawful method for accomplishing it. The Council accepted a resolution which read:
Petition Opposes Big 8 Resolution; Students May Endorse Integration
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"Be it resolved by the All-Student Council that we do not support the action of any group or person which is contrary to the laws of the United States or the state of Kansas.
The council also adopted this resolution:
"We support integration in principle and support any lawful method for accomplishing the same."
"Be it resolved by the All-Student Council that we do not support "sit-in strikes" unless there is a substantive question involved, i.e., unless persons are actually deprived of their civil rights at the place in question.
"We do not support sympathy strikes."
student and program secretary director of the KU-Y, said at the meeting of the unorganized student group:
Verna Godman, Lawrence special
Several members of the group said they thought the KU student body did not know the factual conditions behind the "sit-ins."
"We of this group believe sit-ins necessary because of injustices of subtle things that make a Negro feel less than human. An article in the March 31, 1960 issue of Reporter Magazine helps explain why the "sit-ins" are really needed."
The first paragraph of the passage from the magazine article quoted James Lawson, the ordained minister who recently was expelled from the Vanderbilt School of Divinity for what that chancellor called Lawson's avowal of intent to continue a program of civil disobedience by coaching Negro students in 'sit-in.'
It read:
"Progress has come but it hasn't begun to touch some of the common-places of life that affect the Negro deeply, the normal but subtle things that bite at his internal life, that he feels make him subhuman."
"For an example, Lawson mentioned a time when he and his fiancee were downtown shopping and wanted a cup of tea about four o'clock. 'It was such a normal thing to do,' he said, 'and then we realized it was impossible. That's why the Negroes were ready for this,'
" 'The Negroes,' Lawson went on, 'are tired of middle-class methods of seeking our rights. The legal redress, the civil-rights redress, are far too slow for the demands of the time. The sit-in is a break with the accepted tradition of change, of legislation and the courts. It is the use of a dramatic act to gain redress.'
"The Negro demonstrators carried printed reminders with them; Remember the teachings of Jesus Christ, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King . . . remember love and nonviolence."
Nebrig's View
Nebrig told why he favored the student "sit-ins."
"I feel that 'sit-ins' are justified because a person who owns a business does not have eminent domain in his business transactions. He must conform to a higher law, which is that of the Constitution that guarantees equality of opportunity for all men. This is even equal opportunity for all men to eat.
"Since two-thirds of the world's population is colored and the balance of power in the world rests in the hands of the colored, the United States no longer has the luxury of waiting 106 years to solve its race problems.
"Kenya, as one of its citizens has told me, will decide its political alliances within five years."
"I know that in the Soviet Union
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