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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Jan. 22. 1960
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GIHR May Reorganize in Spring
The Group for the Improvement of Human Relations (GIHR) folded fast year because of a lack of student leaders, but there is agitation to reorganize this spring.
Alan J. Pickinging, instructor in the school of religion who sat in GIHR meetings last year, said a new "accommodations" law passed last year does not permit any discrimination because of race or religion in any place.
"Perhaps the time has come to test this law. We do not want to go out and create an incident, but we would like to do something," he said.
GHR Fights Discrimination
The GIHR works for ending racial discrimination. In 1968, Negro and Caucasian students (visitation parties) entered local restaurants and waited quietly until they were either served or refused.
If refused, the students spoke to the proprietor, then printed and circulated his statement in a news- letter.
GHIR co-chairman Linda Kay Bodie, class of 1959, said KU students should be informed of racial discrimination and act on their own consciences.
"If the student cares and knows that a restaurant does not serve colored persons, the student could speak to the proprietor or not patronize the place," she said.
Candidates Sweat Wisconsin Primary
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Sen Hubert H. Humbrey (D-Minn) said today his Wisconsin presidential primary battle with Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass) "will play a significant role in the ultimate decision at the Democratic convention."
But, he said, "quite frankly, primaries will not settle the Democratic nomination."
Kennedy announced yesterday on a flying trip to Milwaukee and Omaha that he would enter the April 5 Wisconsin contest and the May 10 Nebraska primary. Kennedy said the presidential prospects of the loser in the Wisconsin race "would be finished."
Humphrey agreed in a recorded TV interview. He said the Wisconsin battle, next door to Minnesota, "surely will be an advantage to Sen. Kennedy if he wins and it surely will be a decided disadvantage if he loses."
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The Rev. Mr. Pickering said the past leaders of the group either have been graduated or have married and do not have the time to participate.
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The Rev. Mr. Pickering said that in the past, faculty members went to GHIR meetings but did not act as leaders.
"It was basically a student movement. Students did a very effective and tremendous job while they were in action," he said.
"I do not think the faculty members would start a student organization (GIHR) this spring for the students, although faculty members were interested in the nonviolent, calm, non-flag-waving pressure the group used.
"We (faculty) would join them (GHHR), of course," he said.
GIBR Trained for Role
In 1958, the GIHR even had training sessions. A graduate class in human-relations volunteered to train GIHR members to approach discrimination-suspected restaurants in a series of six hours of lectures and role playing.
The Rev. Mr. Pickering said that students would have to start another organization, but that he had talked to the KU-Y about it.
KU-Y President Barbara Boley, Kansas City, Mo., senior, said YM-YWCA (KU-Y) activities have slackened since Christmas because of final examinations.
"It (adoption of GHR by KU-Y) has not been discussed. We will have to discuss it in the formality of the group (KU-Y) before I can say much. Of course, if the group (KU-Y) is interested, that is another thing," she said.
Volunteers Compose GIHR
The GIIR last year believed ma work on a local level will help better racial relations in the United States. It was a voluntary organization and had no list of members.
They had opposition.
E. R. Zook, secretary-manager of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, met with the group on Nov. 13, 1958 and said that a boycott on segregated restaurants is not the answer to the racial problem in Lawrence.
"As a business community we must sit down and discuss the problem. Lawrence has made its only progress by doing it this way," he said.
He did not mention what progress
Driver Population Up
Lawrence had made at that time.
DETROIT — (UPI)— Another 30 million drivers are expected to take to American highways over the next 15 years, according to government forecasts.
Zook Did Not Want Boycott
He said;
The predictions are for 111 million drivers by 1975, a 35 per cent rise from the present 82 million drivers.
"I am not clear in my own mind as to whether boycott has a place in our society.
"The solution to the problem is a constant educational program with some insistence but not 'dateline' insistence."
The GIHR again found opposition Nov. 18, 1958, when the ASC voted down a proposal for an ASC committee to study the race problems in Lawrence.
Terence Arthur Davis, Frontenac senior, said that the GIHR might become a political football, no matter what its intentions.
"There are few race problems on the campus, and oil-campus problems can be more effectively handled by a group not associated with the ASC, such as the GHIR," Davis said.
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mittee could do is inform the students of the discrimination problem in Kansas. Many of them do not seem aware that we have one."
A 13 to 9 vote forced the GIHR to go it alone, and it kept plugging away.
"One of the things an ASC com-
The GIHR reported gains in eliminating discrimination on Dec. 16, 1958. It said several Lawrence restaurants which earlier had refused service to certain people had discontinued the practice.
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