Students end two-day ASC fast
Two days after they began their fast in support of the All-Student Council (ASC) Educational Opportunity, 15 KU students last night ended their diet of fruit juice and clear water.
In KU's residence halls nearly one quarter of the 4,500 students who ate dinner chose the fast meal of beans and cornbread rather than regular fare, shows a preliminary count by J. J. Wilson, KU housing director.
The 35-cent price difference between the cost of the fast meal and the regular meal will be donated to the ASC Educational Opportunity Fund by the University. Total receipts have not been counted.
Student leaders who participated in the complete fast commented that they suffered no ill effects except hunger pains and a little fatigue.
"To tell the honest truth, you get hungry," said Rick Von Ende, chairman of ASC and Abilena, Tex., graduate student. "Last night it got bad," Von Ende said. He broke down and ate a bowl of rice.
Early yesterday morning, faced with five books to read for a course, Joe Goering, student body vice president and Moundridge junior, broke his fast.
"It got so that I couldn't concentrate," Goering said.
Another of the fasters, Cathy Seitz, Fort Bragg, N.C., junior, said: "I wasn't really hungry. I slept all day. I bought a jar of Tang. I don't know if that was cheating but it has more vitamins than orange juice."
In a Kansan survey at McCollum Hall, more than 80 per cent of those who chose the beans and cornbread meal
In the Kansas Union cafeteria, Philosophy 15 students discussed John Stuart Mill at a dinner meeting without dinner. The two members who bought a meal sat at a separate table.
were women. Several sororities served no evening meal last night and donated the cost of the meal to the fund which will be used by the ASC to help underprivileged students reach colleges. Most fraternities, a fund official said, continued their regular meal but collected donations.
In Gertrude Sellards Pearson, a freshman women's residence hall, 348 women chose the fast meal—more than in any other hall.
"More girls are sensitive to this kind of thing," Mary Ellen Burke, Kansas City, Mo. senior explained.
"I actually think the meal was better than the other one."
"Girls are more compassionate than men," Nancy Dunton, Areadia junior said.
Frank Zilm, St. Louis junior, stood at the end of the cafeteria line at McCollum Hall counting fast meals. Many students took the cornbread and beans, Zilm said, but took a dessert or vegetables. Their meal could not be counted. Zilm asked donations from students as they emerged from the line.
However, he ignored Arab students who could eat only after the sun goes down because they are fasting. During this month (Ramzan), on the 19, 21, or 23, some part of the Koran was believed to be revealed to Mohammed.
79th Year, No.49 The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Friday, November 22.1968
ROTC study begins
By STEVE HAYNES Kansan Staff Writer
Campus police may be the only persons wearing uniforms on campus soon, depending on the outcome of two studies of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) underway here.
Committees of the University Senate and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are now beginning studies of the entire matter of ROTC on campus and college credit for ROTC courses as a result of a request presented to the groups last April by 13 students and faculty members.
Members of Peoples Voice, some of whom signed a letter which initiated the current studies, have mentioned ROTC as the next problem with which Voice would deal.
it is not clear, they said, just what
Voice would do.
The committee investigations now under way could lead to the abolition of ROTC on campus or the end of academic credit for ROTC, as some Voice leaders and faculty members have demanded.
Harold Orel, professor of English and chairman of the College educational policies committee subcommittee on ROTC, said his committee will discuss the problem of the College giving academic credit for ROTC courses. He indicated other schools in the University would have to deal with this question individually.
Ambrose Saricks, chairman of the University Senate Council, said the Senate committee would investigate the history of ROTC at the University of Kansas, whether ROTC
should have a place here in the future, and whether credit should continue to be given for ROTC.
Both committees said they plan to hear the opinions of students and faculty during their studies. The College committee has already begun to seek these opinions.
Several persons spoke before the committee yesterday and a letter has been sent to all members of the College faculty by acting Dean Robert P. Cobb asking them to submit their views.
Orel said he had received only 10 letters, but expected more. A meeting has been scheduled for Dec.5 to hear those who wish to speak to the committee.
Opinions seem to be about equally divided between pro and anti-ROTC, Orel said. Suggestions
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Brad Smoot wins fresh class election
Freshman elections ended last night with a coalition led by Bradley Smoot, Sterling freshman, sweeping all four offices.
Smoot will serve the freshman class as president with George Pierson, Kansas City, vice president, Martha Fankhouser, Lyons, secretary, and Patsy McCoy, Topeka, treasurer. Sandy Johnson, Overland Park, and Mary McGovern, Kansas City, candidates for freshman women's representatives to All-Student Council (ASC) were elected
Announcement of the coalition's sweeping victory was made at 9:10 last night after the computerized results were tabulated by members of the ASC elections committee.
Smooth, in Wichita for a debate tournament, was not present when the results were posted in the Hawklet, in the basement of Summerfield Hall.
Excited members of the coalition said they were ready to start work now on freshman class business.
"We've won the election, but now we have to earn what we've achieved," said Pierson.
"Participation is our main goal," he said, "but we also want to organize some type of serious project. We also plan to send out a freshman newsletter based on dialogue rather than monologue."
Members of the coalition agreed that Smoot deserved most of the credit for their victory.
"Brad came to KU from a small town. He was the only one from his high school graduating class to come here and he didn't know anyone," said Miss Fankhauser.
"He made a tremendous effort to get around and meet a lot of people."
Four coalitions and one independent candidate for president ran for the class offices.
Dean Taylor rehearses cast
With Hoch Auditorium nearly empty Dean Emily Taylor and cast rehearsed their "surprise" act for the Project Concern variety show to open 8 p.m. tonight.
With only the directors, Gina Bikales, Shawnee Mission sophomore, and John Young, Shawnee Mission junior, and backstage crew present (the student cast was asked to leave the room) Dean Taylor presented the act that surprised even the directors. The surprise, in part, was the addition of cast members. At the rate Dean Taylor was recruiting faculty and administration into show business, the University could be in trouble. Those now in her act include: Dr. Raymond Schwegler, Student Health Center director; James Surface, provost;
Francis Heller, dean of faculties;
William M. Balfour, dean of student
affairs; and, Charles H. Oldfather,
professor of law. Chancellor W.
Clarke Wescoe will not be in the
show because he will be out of
town.
The dean of women would not let the cast see her act, nor would she disclose its contents. "It's a surprise," was Dean Taylor's only comment.
Of course, then there's the orchestra for the show—a Dixieland jazz band. The Gaslight Gang has done all the arranging for the show and even wrote a song called appropriately enough "Simple Joys."
Oh, yes, one can't leave out those
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Motley crew
Photo by Greg Sorber
Prof. Charles Oldfather of the Law School provides the accompaniment for Dr. Schwegler, Dean Balfour, Dean Taylor and Provost Surface during a scene from "Simple Joys," which opens tonight in Hoch Auditorium.
KU law grad aids Harrison By JUDI DIEBOLT Kansan Staff Writer
Chester Lewis, former KU student body vice president, and a graduate of the KU law school, has returned to Lawrence as defense counsel for Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Harrison. Harrison is director of the Ballard Community Center.
Lewis, a Wichita attorney, recently resigned as vice president of the Natoanl Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Lewis spoke to the Black Student Union last night in the Kansas Union Forum Room. White students and the press were denied seating at the speech.
"I guess the black students decided that we should talk it out by ourselves. We were talking in depth about problems that face blacks. They felt we could talk about their hangups better if whites weren't around."
In an interview later, Lewis commented on the exclusion of white students and the press at his speech:
Lewis expressed disappointment with the "liberal, white middle-class college student" working for civil rights.
"The white liberal will work for civil rights but he can't get it through his thick head that he belongs to prejudiced organizations like fraternities, Lewis said. "He continues to live in prejudiced suburbia. He's not really making any progress toward the black cause at all when he does this."
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UDK News Roundup Chief, three others die in Wichita fire
WICHITA, Kan. (UPI)—Four firemen, including Fire Chief Tom McGaughey, died last night under tons of debris from a collapsing roof while battling a second alarm fire in a downtown automobile agency.
In addition to McGaughey, 55, the victims were Jimmy L. Austin, 25, Merile C. Wells, 45, and D. J. Mishler, whose body was later discovered buried under the rubble.
Heavy smoke covered the city and forced several thousand spectators away from the scene at the Yingling Chevrolet Company.
Sirhan may have chromosome test
LOS ANGELES (UPI)—The attorney for Sirhan B. Sirhan, accused of the murder of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, said Thursday he was considering "chromosome" sanity tests for his client.
Russell E. Parsons said in an interview on a local radio station that he might seek the tests to determine if the 24-year-old Sirhan was biologically "pre-destined" to violence.
Some genetic experts have testified in murder trials that men with a chromosome count of "YYY" rather than the normal distribution of "XY" are "super males" with a hereditary compulsion that leads them to criminality.