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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, December 13, 1968
Students examine racism while at NSA conference
By SUSAN BRIMACOMBE
Kansan Staff Writer
Several University of Kansas students spent part of their Thanksgiving vacation examining institutional racism at a National Student Association (NSA) conference.
Nine KU delegates, sponsored by ASC, traveled to Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana to meet with 290 college students from various U.S. universities. The group met in workshops, said Dave Awbrey, KU delegate and Hutchinson junior, to compare programs, tactics and ideas concerning racism and
Peoples' Voice resolved last night to disrupt Senate Code elections unless their code, which calls for 50 per cent student representation on the University Senate, is placed on the ballot.
The 17 persons who met at the Wesley foundation agreed they would accept the election results only if their code is on the ballot.
They did not elaborate on the particular methods they would use to disrupt the election, which is expected to take place sometime before the spring semester.
Senate Code vote may be disrupted by Peoples' Voice
Representatives from Voice plan to present their code to ASC and the Senate Council in hones of getting it on the ballot.
Voice also passed a proposal to form a guerilla theater group, be headed by Don Jenkins Jr., Kansas City, Mo., junior.
Discussion centered around the use of this group to disrupt military recruiting activities in the Kansas Union.
The theater group will stage its frist rehearsal at 7:30 Wednesday in Fraser Hall lobby.
voice also made plans to distribute leaflets next week to inform students that the organization is still alive.
drew conclusions after discussion sessions.
Awbrey said workshops began with extensive self-evaluation where delegates examined changing values concerning racism at an individual level.
"We later expanded discussion," he said, "to specific programs—comparing and contrasting."
The NSA delegates arrived at general conclusions applying to the universities' role in racism problems, and KU students brought home specific suggestions for our own campus.
"Students must be aware of racial prejudices," he said, "however, regardless of individual convictions, discrimination will occur. Unless institutions change, demonstrations will continue until the structure is reexamined in the light of social progress."
The delegates generally concluded, Awbrey said, that a massive change in America must start at the University level.
In regard to KU, Kansas delegates said the University is shallow to sanction such institutions as fraternities and sororities and allow Lawrence to discriminate.
"We must affirm a social conscience," Awbrey said, "by starting with education. Instructors must exend curriculum to include courses on race relations and personal relations before the institution becomes effective."
The nine KU conference delegates hope to see their efforts materialize this spring after work with the University Human Rights Committee. The committee, composed of five faculty and five student members will work with the conference results when they tackle local problems, Abwbrey said.
KU students who attended the conference volunteered from a group of 25 graduates and undergraduates who are presently involved in racism research groups at KU. The students are: Beth Lindquist, Waverly, Iowa, junior; Dennis Bosley, Dighton junior; Khris Avery, Topeka freshman; Don Schleske, Valley Stream, New York, senior; Ginny Sloan, Sioux City senior; Bob Howard, Wichita senior; Mike Warner, Lawrence graduate student; Dave Awbrey, Hutchinson junior and Morni Leoni, associate minister at the Wesley Foundation.
Graduate student scores misery, injustice in Brazil
Jose Fonseca, Brazilian graduate student, spoke on "Brazil: The Hope and Danger of the Future" yesterday in the Kansas Union Parlor "A."
Fonseca opened his lecture with a brief background of Brazil and then discussed the many problems within the country.
"The problems we have are much greater than the good," he said. "I can't just talk about one single item or one single problem."
"Illiteracy is a crucial problem to the social framework," he said. "Approximately 55 per cent of the people in Brazil are illiterate."
He further explained that the school systems in Brazil are as bad as can be imagined.
poverty becomes another big problem.
Stemming from the illiteracy.
"The national income per capita is less than $250 a year," Fonseca said.
While 92 per cent of the population is Catholic, he explained that religion is another problem.
He said, "In Brazil, Catholicism and black magic are so close that many times they can't be separated. The strength of the Church is almost as great as the military."
Fonseca discussed the problems of the population explosion and racial discrimination also.
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)—Striking students and their faculty supporters picketed San Francisco State College yesterday as police proceeded with arrests of militant leaders.
Students picket at Frisco State
While taking some student activists into custody, officers were hit by small barrages of rocks and sticks. None was hurt.
At least 10 persons were arrested, including a faculty member.
Nearly 1,000 of the school's 18,000 students turned out for a noon rally on the commons in the heart of the campus. They were joined by 80 members of
the American Federation of Teachers holding an "informational picket" for the second straight dav.
Under orders from Acting President S. I. Hayakawa police officers surrounded the state college commons to prevent an invasion of campus buildings .
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Expert says South Korea has close ties with U.S.
Tracing the rise of communism in North Korea, Jun-yop Kim, visiting professor of history at Princeton University, spoke yesterday in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Kim, who is the associate director of the Asiatic Research Center of the University of Korea in Seoul and a specialist in Chinese and Korean communism, said the United States and South Korea have close connections. The command raids of the North Koreans into Seoul and the Pueblo incident which involves the United States with North Korea draw the South Koreans and Americans together, he said.
Kim said, "The communist movement began outside of Korea and was not organized in Seoul until 1945. There are several factions of the Communist party: The Soviet Citizens' faction, the Manchuria Guerrilla faction, the Yenan faction and the KCP faction."
The Manchuria Guerrilla faction leaders are now in power, Kim said. He said the North Koreans have a militant policy toward South Korea.
"These leaders were guerrillas during the Japanese occupation, and I regard this as an indication of their types of personalities. They hope to unify Korea by force," Kim said.
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