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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, October 28.1968
KU procedures attacked
"Many of us got blackmailed last spring into thinking we might have another Columbia-type uprising complete with barricades across Jayhawk Blvd," said Calder M. Pickett, professor of journalism, at Saturday's Fraternity Affairs Conference.
Addressing the luncheon session of the conference, Pickett criticized modern college students, KU's enrollment procedures, large classes, poor lecturers and Peoples Voice.
About 120 KU fraternity men attended the IFC-sponsored conference in the Kansas Union.
Other guest speakers were Ray Roberts of Kansas Fraternity Management, Provost James R. Surface, Glen Hahn, Kansas City tax attorney, and Jay B. Strayer, assistant to the dean of men.
Peoples Voice has kept several teachers from doing their jobs, Pickett said. He said he has spent as much as 14 hours a week meeting in the Senate Council considering their proposals.
"Voice has even closed its meetings to the student press," he said, "even though, in my opinion, it was the Kansan that made Voice what it is.
Surface said that student opinions on the affairs of the day fall into a continuum. At one end of the continuum, Surface said, students feel the system is rotten and want to tear it down. At the other extreme, they feel this is the best of all possible worlds.
"I, as a teacher, have wondered in recent weeks if I want to spend the rest of my life in an atmosphere of uproar."
"Fortunately only a small minority occupy these extremes," he said. "Most of the students fall some place in between."
Protestors removed
STILLWATER (UPI)—Police Saturday forced 11 peace marchers to get out of the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade but about 30 other students were allowed to carry peace signs on the sidewalk.
City and campus police stopped the 11 marchers about halfway through the parade and told them they would have to get out of the march line because they were not officially entered.
The peace march was supposed to be a formal part of the parade until the student senate voted in a special session not to allow the protestors to participate.
Surface said that fraternity men hold many positions of leadership on the campus, but this is not simply because they belong to fraternities. It is because of the quality of men they are.
Pickett disagreed with the white racism course being sponsored by the University Christian Movement. He said racism is not an attribute just of whites and a study of white racism is not the answer to the racial problem.
After criticizing enrollment procedures, large classes with poor lecturers, course prerequisites, and some graduation requirements, Pickett suggested that every University department create a student advisory board to cope with some of these problems.
In concluding his speech, Surface offered two warnings to fraternities.
"Do not become a counterrevolutionary group and attempt to crush dissenting groups," he said. "This can only create a rebellion.
"Don't cop out," Surface also warned. He cautioned fraternity men against isolating themselves and taking no part in the issues of the day. That is not the essence of leadership which fraternity men should provide, he said.
Strayer devoted his speech on membership selection to a discussion of integration in fraternities. "Fraternities must look at
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a man's qualifications instead of the color of his skin," he said.
He also criticized the unanimous vote of "black ball" rule most fraternities have as detrimental to integration.
'Reconditioning' does not disrupt
Maintenance work and painting, which are nearing completion in Bailey Hall basement, have not disrupted normal operations of affected offices, said Mrs. Paul B. Lawson, manager of the Kansas Film Service.
The Bailey Hall projection room and adjoining film service offices, which arrange educational films for all departments, have not canceled any films because of the maintenance work.
"While the projection room was not usable." Mrs. Lawson said, "films were moved to regular classrooms."
The painting is part of "routine reconditioning" by the Building and Grounds staff, Mrs. Lawson said. It is the first such work that has been done since Bailey Hall was remodeled for use by the School of Education in 1955.
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