'Biafra Lifeline' draws 200
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VIGIL
Photo by Mike Gunther
For 24 hours this weekend, beginning Friday noon, more than two hundred people demonstrated their concern by marching in the "Biafra Lifeline" at the Kansas School of Religion. The march was not limited to KU students. Lawrence residents and students from nearby colleges also partook in the vigil.
For twenty-four hours they marched. With placards by day and candles by night, under a warm noon sun and in bitter cold night. They marched.
By FRED PARRIS Kansan Staff Writer
Kansan Staff Writer
Blacks and whites, faculty members and students, Americans and foreigners, Christians and non-believers, pre-school toddlers and gray-haired adults, fraternity men and self-styled radicals.
They marched, with one thing in common—they cared.
They cared that half a world away, 12,000 children would have starved before they were through.
For 24 hours this weekend, from Friday noon to Saturday noon, more than 200 people participated in the "Biafran Lifeline" vigil in front of the School of Religion.
Inside
Inside the School of Religion, other persons attended a teach-in. Outside, they marched.
While many of the vigil participants were KU students, numerous persons from Lawrence and other communities took part.
A busload of students from Tonga-
noxie came Friday afternoon. Twenty girls from St. Mary's College in Leavenworth stayed from 6 p.m., until after midnight. Junior and senior high school students from Lawrence and Topeka demonstrated as well.
As the evening progressed, the number of vigil participants swelled. From 25 persons at 8 p.m., the ranks of the marchers grew to more than 40 by 10 p.m. By midnight, more than 50 candle-bearing marchers were cirling in front of the School of Religion.
We Shall Overcome
From 11 p.m. to 1:30 in the morning, the marchers were accompanied by guitar playing, folk song singing students.
Shortly after midnight, more than 70 singers and marchers linked arms in a double circle and sang "We Shall Overcome."
All through the night, despite a raw wind and rapidly dropping temperatures, the number of vigil participants remained steady. At 2 a.m., there were 40 persons outside with candles. Two hours later, when the rest of Lawrence was dead and dark, 40 still stood watch. Figure 9.8.30.
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From 2:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m., the vigil
Monday, October 28,1968
79th Year, No. 30
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
English 1,2,3 classes may be larger next fall
By MARLA BABCOCK Keppen Staff Writer
Revisions providing for larger sections of required English courses and for more experienced instructors, might be instituted next fall pending the outcome of current debate in the Freshman-Sophomore English Committee.
James A. Gowen, professor of English and a member of this departmental standing committee,
This semester there are 191 sections of English 1,2 and 3. There are 20 to 25 students in each
said the proportional decrease in graduate instructors, lack of classroom space and reduced funds here caused a squeeze on the effectiveness of required English courses.
The aim of the department of English, Gowen said, is to offer beginning courses that are "not just adequate, but good."
section. Of the 103 assistant instructors responsible for these classes, nearly 50 have had no previous college teaching experience.
Gowen said the draft is probably the greatest cause of the experienced instructor shortage. The department has had to hire first-year graduate students to replace instructors who have been drafted.
"If the draft continues as it has
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KU graduate student in speech and drama speaks about his cousin Julian Bond and the problems facing America. See story, page 14.
Photo by Mike Gunther
HORACE BOND
Londoners protest war
LONDON (UPI)—Thousands of demonstrators staged the biggest anti-American protest in British history Sunday and scuffled with police trying to keep them from storming the U.S. Embassy. A homemade bomb wrecked the John F. Kennedy memorial at Runnymede.
Several windows in the embassy building on Grosvenor Square were shattered with flying bricks as more than 30,000 persons marched through the chilly streets of London for hours, constantly chanting such slogans as "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh" and "Down with American imperialism."
Massive security precautions and a force of nearly 17,000 police equipped with helicopters and patrol boats prevented the demonstration from turning into a riot.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy described the bomb attack on the granite Kennedy memorial at Runnymede, where the Magna Carta was signed, as a "wanton act which seems incredible in this day and age." The memorial to the assassinated President, erected in May 1965, may be damaged beyond repair.
Stone Split
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Weather
Clear to partly cloudy today through tomorrow. A little warmer temperatures today and tomorrow. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph today. Highs generally around 60. Lows tonight lower 30s.
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
NEW YORK (UPI)—New York City firemen, following the lead of the police who decided Saturday to abide by the law and end an "epidemic" of "Hong Kong Flu," voted Sunday to end their slowdown.
Now only the 52,000-member United Federation of Teachers (UFT) was still out on strike in the New York labor crisis that had threatened to push the city into chaos.
'Epidemic' is off
The firemen, who, like the police, had been trying to force the city into reopening contract negotiations, had been refusing to do anything but answer emergencies.
New Jersey hit?
TOKYO (UPI)-North Vietnam said Sunday its batteries scored direct hits Saturday on the U.S.S. New Jersey, the world's only active service battleship. There was no confirmation from American headquarters.
"This was the first punishing blow to the New Jersey since it was sent to Vietnam at the end of September," the official North Vietnam news agency (NVA) said.
The broadcast, monitored in Tokyo, said the Communist shells "inflicted damages" on the World War II battleship.
A Defense Department spokesman in Washington said, "We have no information here that the New Jersey has been hit."
Hint second shot
MOSCOW (UPI)—Twin Soviet spaceships one manned and the other pilotless—streaked in orbit around the earth Sunday night, and Radio Moscow hinted they may have company in space soon.
While cosmonaut Col. Georgy Beregovoi, 47, slept in space for the second night, resting up for a promised hard day of exercises Monday, the Soviet radio said more spaceships were on the launch pads.
Tass reported that Beregovoi had done "extensive maneuvering" in his spacecraft, rendezvousing for the second straight day with the unmanned Soyuz 2 spacecraft shot into orbit secretly on Friday.
Despite the cosmonaut's reported approaches toward Soyuz 2, there was no indication he attempted a linkup between the two spacecraft.