KANSAN
79th Year, No.55
Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, September 9,1968
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
Blacks wait; quiet
ST. LOUIS (UPI) - Negro students at Washington University took special pains yesterday to keep their demonstration in the university's accounting office orderly pending a hearing on a list of black student demands today.
In an unusual move, Chancellor Thomas H. Eliot commended the black students for their "extremely responsible" conduct during the sit-in which began last Thursday night.
Checkpoint set up
TEL AVIV (UPI)—Israel ordered yesterday checkpoint restrictions on vehicles along the occupied west bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip on the Mediterranean Sea in moves to curb infiltration of Arab terrorists and saboteurs.
HHH post offer
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The liberal Americans for Democratic Action Sunday invited Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey to return to the fold as its vice chairman.
In a resolution passed at its national board meeting, the organization said it "most cordially and warmly invites its former national chairman . . . to resume leadership in ADA and his previous as vice chairman."
CYR meeting held in Topeka
About 200 university students from throughout Kansas met this past weekend in Topeka during the second annual Collegiate Young Republican (CYR) Issues convention.
The convention met to pass resolutions to establish CYR policy for the upcoming year. Various resolutions were discussed and voted upon during the convention.
The University of Kansas CYR's entered several resolutions. Among those which passed were resolutions to abolish the military draft, end capital punishment, and advocating a vote concerning liquor by the drink.
One resolution brought by the University of Kansas resolution committee which did not pass, advocated revoking laws forbidding the use of marijuana.
The resolution was killed in the Internal Affairs committee. Mark Edwards, chairman of the committee and a KU member of CYR, said the resolution was defeated by conservative members from the Pittsburgh, Kan, and Kansas City areas.
Ewards Emporia junior said, "I presented all the arguments and none of them were disputed. There just wasn't any question in their minds—thats all there was too it."
The conservatives in the group considered the resolution representative of the "far left." Edwards said. He said some members believed the proposal had little chance of being brought up in the legislature and would be frowned upon by the senior Republican party.
One resolution which was accepted by the convention recommended more student participation on the Kansas Board of Regents. It called for student body presidents to be given honorary positions on the board which controls the purse strings for all state schools.
Photo by Bill Conklin
Military Ball on the 'moon'
Anne Henry, Prairie Village freshman representing Corbin hall, was crowned queen of the 1968 Military Ball, Friday night.
The Kansas Union Ballroom was decorated as a moonscape and invaded by about 300 formally dressed ROTC cadets and their dates.
Miss Henry said her coronation came as a surprise to her. "My roommate first entered my name as sort of a joke," she said. Miss Henry said she was impressed by the reception the cadets gave her, and she guessed the joke was on her.
A large paper-mache globe hung in the center of the room and stars sparkled in the blackness of space on the walls. The cadets and their dates danced on the surface of the moon to the music of a four-piece band from Ft. Leavenworth.
The runners-up were Sandra Hoagland, Palo Alto, Calif., freshman, representing Gertrude Sellards Pearson, and Lorlyn Seebinder, Tonganoxie sophomore, representing Naismith Hall.
The candidates were se-
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Forgotten ones introduction
Indians, Negroes problems similar
"The dropout rate among Indian students is twice the national average while the level of formal education (about five years) is less than half the national average." Carl T. Rowan-syndicated columnist
varl T. Rowan—syndicated columnist
By DAMON LASHBROOK Kansan Staff Writer
(First in a series)
Robert F. Kennedy called the Indian "the forgotten American." What Americans have forgiven also is that the Indian is plagued with the same problems as the Negro.
But while the Negro is concentrated in the ghetto the Indian is lost in the remoteness of rural America.
While a few Indians enjoy the security of financial stability, they are generally poor. Recent Senate subcommittee hearings reveal the Indian's average annual income is less than $1000 and is as low as $489.99 on one reservation in the Southwest.
Even in areas where the reservation is reasonably productive Indians can't afford to develop the land on a competitive scale.
"The Indians rent their land and take jobs in town
because they can't afford to buy machinery," said a Kickapoo student from western Kansas.
"Our town's just a tourist attraction and most everyone works in the handicraft factories here," said a Cherokee girl from South Carolina.
During the summers many retail their culture to the tourist in the form of model villages, dances, and handicraft.
Their homes reflect not only their culture but also their incomes. While the tent has been abandoned on the plains, the Indian has resorted to shacks of tin, lumber and adobe and sometimes shoddy trailers.
On one reservation in Arizona, reports the "Tucson Daily Citizen," 1500 or 1600 houses are officially regarded as sub-standard. In the urban areas the Indian fares little better.
Many Indian children are raised by relatives said Wallace Galluzzi, principal of Haskell Institute in Lawrence—an Indian school.
Some are abandoned by parents seeking jobs in factories or as migrant workers off the reservation. Some are raised by relatives because their parents have social problems.
"My parents were just some people who came to
"Normally the Indian is raised with little discipline from within the home and they are even encouraged to be oonya—a practice usually frowned upon by our staid educational system," said Mrs. Rosalie Wax, KU anthropologist and authority on Indian education.
see me," confides an Indian student raised by his grandparents while his parents were factory workers in a large city in the West.
Educators unaware of this tradition are often unable to cope with the Indian student either because of his unruliness or unresponsiveness, she said.
Many Indian students go to schools—public, private and governmental—often unsympathetic or blind to the Indian's culture, his peer group structure and the problems he faces within and without this structure, said her husband, sociologist Murray L. Wax.
According to latest government statistics, of the 140,000 school age Indians (6-18 years), two-thirds go to public schools. Of the 55,000 (1967) students in Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools, 39,000 are in boarding schools or live in dormitories of the BIA. These students are often separated from their families
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The forgotten land
Photo by Gary Mason
The plight of the American Indian, if not forgotten, is surely misplaced in the minds of today's society. Above is a "too" typical setting of an Indian home.