KANSAN
79th Year, No. 53
Thursday, December 5, 1968
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
--go to the white folks in our behalf later."
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
Warren to keep judgeship
NEW YORK—President-elect Richard M. Nixon disclosed yesterday that U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren had agreed to his request to stay in his post until completion of the present term of the Supreme Court next June.
In Washington, Warren issued a brief statement saying, "The statement released by the president-elect is in accordance with our conversation of yesterday and I will be happy, at his request, to serve until the end of the present term of court."
Students protest in N.Y.
NEW YORK-A smoke bomb explosion caused minor damage in a Queens high school yesterday, the third day of student protest against making up time lost during the recent teachers' strike.
A day-long rainstorm ended demonstrations in the focal Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district in Brooklyn and other scattered areas.
Police nab machines
ELIZABETH, N.J.-Police swarmed into dozens of stores yesterday under orders from the mayor to confiscate children's gumball machines that dispense cloth patches reading "Legalize Pot."
The patches, which picture a stringly-haired, bleary-eyed judge with a cigarette hanging from his lips and the pot caption printed underneath, are dispersed encased in small plastic barrels.
Calm restored
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-Student demonstrators dispersed yesterday when confronted by a skirmish line of 400 police at San Francisco State College.
There was no violence in contrast to wild melees that erupted on the campus the past two days.
The militants staged a noon rally in defiance of stiff regulations imposed by acting President S. I. Hayakawa. Then, they twice circled the commons in the heart of the tree-studded campus before dispersing.
While the rally was attended by about 2,500 persons, only 1,000 joined in marching four-abreast around the commons. They made no attempt to invade buildings or attack police.
Three Arrested
At least three demonstrators were arrested in isolated incidents to bring to 45 the number taken into custody since Hayakawa reopened the campus Monday under his "hard-line" policy.
The worst violence in the school's history occurred Tuesday when 33 were arrested in repeated clashes with police.
About 450 club-swinging police several times routed demostrators armed with metal bars, table legs, bottles, rocks and sticks.
Prior to the rally, Haykawa turned down demands by Negro civic leaders to remove police from the campus and cancel classes for a convocation to settle strike issues.
"He told us if we could be good he was going to do what the white folks wanted done," declared assemblyman Willie Brown. "If we are good for a while, he would then
Two Hour Rally
The stormy, off campus session ended abruptly with Hayakawa walking out after saying he would like to talk to them again Thursday. The Negroes then went to the campus where some addressed the two-hour rally.
Hayakawa was called "Uclee Tojo Tom" by fiery Ruth Hayward of Merritt College, a predominantly Negro school in nearby Oakland.
"If you set foot in a classroom again under these circumstances, shame, shame, shame on you," she told the rally.
The strike was originally called by the Black Student Union to protest the suspension of English instructor George Murray, a Black Panther who urged minority students to carry guns on campus as
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protection against "racist administrators."
The BSU and another minority group, the Third World Liberation Front, later made 15 demands which included the reinstatement of Murray and acceptance of all Negro applicants, regardless of qualifications.
Demonstrators invaded classrooms and generally disrupted campus activities with violence and firebombs in an attempt to enforce the strike. Former President Robert Smith closed down the campus Nov. 13 after a melee between police and activist students.
Smith resigned last week under fire from Gov. Ronald Reagan and the state college Board of Trustees, and Hayakawa was appointed as acting president—the third man to head the turbulent campus this year.
Violence hits Italy in prelude to strikes
ROME (UPI)—Thousands of striking workers and students waving leftist flags and portraits of Mao Tse-tung stormed through Italian cities and towns yesterday, smashing windows and attacking police in a violent prelude to a massive strike today.
Angry crowds pummelled police in Naples before reinforcements beat back the crowds. A second demonstration erupted in the city after dark and 1,000 persons
From hippie to Greek
Smoking pot here widespread
Bv JOE NAAS
Kansan Writer Staff Writer
(The last in a series of two titles.)
Pot knows no social barriers at KU.
In addition to off-campus apartment dwellers, many fraternity men, sorority women and dorm residents smoke marijuana frequently.
"The use of grass isn't confined to the hip community," a West Coast sophomore said. "Nobody in my group could be called a hippie."
He said the group of friends which gets together to smoke at his apartment includes a fraternity man, a member of one of KU's athletic teams, and a faculty member.
Not everybody at KU is smoking marijuana. But the idea that it is only smoked by a handful of long-haired radicals is equally false.
"Grass is everywhere on this hill. Everybody's smoking it," he said.
"I know at least 15 guys in my house who smoke pot," a Kansas City senior and fraternity member said.
Another fraternity man, a junior from a small Kansas town, said an increasing number of men in his house are trying pot.
"Five of them turned on for the first time during the Thanksgiving vacation," he said.
Both men said they never smoked inside their fraternity houses.
"Pot smoking is sure as hell not a fraternity organized function." one of them said.
Another student said, "There
is very little problem obtaining marijuana here. The Better quality grass comes from Mexico and California and usually costs between $12 and $15 for a lid."
A lid is about one ounce of mariuana.
One student who was interviewed said Lawrence has been saturated with Mexican grass this fall.
He said the price can go up to as much as $20 if the supply in the area is low.
But he added that there is always plenty of Kansas grass around, which sells for $5 to $10 per lid.
"There have been droughts since I've been at KU," he said.
Most people don't buy the Kansas grass anymore, he said.
He said he and his friends found some growing on campus one day last year. They went up on the Hill that night and picked it.
"It wasn't bad grass either," he said
But many students don't even bother with Kansas grass.
"It's easy enough to just go out and pick it yourself."
"A lot of times you don't get anything but a sore throat from that stuff," said a junior coed from Kansas City.
She and her roommate, also a Kansas City junior, said they get their marijuana from a friend who lives in San Francisco.
"It's cheaper than buying it from local sources." one said.
Students interviewed assert it is not hard to purchase marijuana at KU. One only has to
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marched on police and government offices, throwing bottles of red dye and rocks. Many carried portraits of Mao and Josef Stalin. This time police did not intervene.
In Rome, hundreds of riot police were mobilized in anticipation of more violence during the strike, to protest officials' failure to provide higher wages and other social benefits. One government already has fallen because it was unable to meet the demands.
The rampage began after Sicilian police shot to death two demonstrating farm workers Monday and has grown each day, with clashes reported yesterday in Naples, Florence, Milan, Genoa, Trieste, Trento, Bari, and other cities and towns along the length of the Italian peninsula. More than 180 persons have been injured.
But throughout the violence leaders of Italy's major political parties have been reported making progress toward formation of a new government that can handle the crisis, the worst in eight years.
As the mobs rampaged, the 24-hour strike called for Rome and the metropolitan area showed its muscle. Traffic in Rome was jammed and officials forecast a breakdown of vital services when
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SUA not planning third Bowl flight
Student Union Activities (SUA) is not sponsoring a third flight to the Orange Bowl in Miami, Irv Robinson, Prairie Village sophomore and SUA Special Trips chairman, said yesterday.
"There is no third flight because the field house couldn't guarantee another 160 football tickets; they are almost sold out," Robinson said.
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