THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Student tells of his 'gay' life
By MIKE SHEARER Kansan Staff Writer
Heterosexuality can be cured.
So said a KU undergraduate when asked if he has ever sought psychiatric help for his homosexuality.
"Why should I? Neither homosexuality nor heterosexuality is a disease, and even though they can cure either one, there's no reason to," he said.
Ralph (not his real name)
sat across from me in a Kansas Union cafeteria booth talking about KU's gay life and his own sex life.
He spoke with the quiet assurance of one who believes he is right, glancing over his
shoulder frequently to make sure no one else was listening. He referred to the males to whom he is attracted as "beautiful people," so even if our conversation had been overheard, it might have been mistaken for the confidences many men share with other men about their heterosexual lives.
Somewhat defensive to inquiries about a gay community at KU, Ralph said there is a bar which many KU homosexuals frequent.
He also said there are certain restrooms and other areas on campus where homosexuals make contact.
"It is sad that two adults have to talk through john dividers to find out each other's sexual disposition, but
that's the way many meet. People should be able to ask others to their faces what their sexual interests are," he said.
He said, however, he has little trouble telling whether someone is gay. The instinct was acquired after years of "watching boys watch girls."
"The ones who watch boys are usually gay," he said with a smile.
Ralph, who has attended two other colleges not in the Midwest, said KU is a much more difficult place to be a homosexual, because people at KU "are not open. They are afraid of themselves."
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Lawrence, Kansas
"Homosexuals trying to lead a straight life are the unhappiest people in the world" (16)
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Friday, October 25, 1968
ASC to choose committee
Chancellor selection
By KIT GUNN Kansan Staff Writer
A student advisory committee to help select a new chancellor will be elected Tuesday by the All-Student Council (ASC) Rick von Ende, Abilene, Tex., graduate student and chairman of ASC, said last night.
Von Ende said six students from the Lawrence campus will be elected at the weekly ASC meeting from applications submitted to the ASC office before 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
A seventh member will apparently be selected by students at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, he said.
Von Ende said application forms for committee membership were available in the ASC office in 105B in the Kansas Union. Applicants may appear before ASC Tuesday night for interviews if they wish, he stated.
The seven-man committee, once formed,
"will solicit names of candidates for chancellor.
especially from students," von Ende said. Requests for names of candidates will be sent to personnel at various universities and other persons known to committee members, he said.
When adequate lists have been compiled by both the student committee and the six-man faculty chancellor selection group, elected two weeks ago, a six-member joint committee will be formed to narrow the lists to five names, in order of preference, von Ende said.
Although the composition of the joint committee has not been determined, "my feeling is that it will have four faculty members and two students," he said.
Von Ende emphasized that until the joint committee is formed the student group will work independently. "They will essentially do the same thing as the faculty committee," he stated.
Arthur H. Cromb of Mission Hills, chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents chancellor
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Sketch by Mike Shearer
Bond fills Ballroom
By LINDA LOYD Kansan Staff Writer
An audience of more than 2,000, ranging from hippies to scholarly professors, jammed the Kansas Union Ballroom last night as soft-
spoken Julian Bond articulated hopes for a better country.
Spilling from the ballroom balcony and sardined in the aisles, the standing, applauding crowd greeted the Negro Georgia legislator amid several "Bond for Presiden" signs.
Photo by Mike Gunther
JULIAN BOND AT KANSAS UNION BALLROOM
"This has been a peculiar year," the civil rights leader said. "We have seen less violence in the streets from black power, more student activism on campus and the rise of black consciousness."
Politically, this has been a strange year, too, Bond said. "For the first time last summer, Americans had a choice. One was denied his chance at the presidency by assassination, the other by democracy. We approach the November election faced with a choice between tweedle-dum, tweedle-dee and ex-Gov. Wallace being tweedle-dum-du," the legislator said.
"The Democratic party has nomi
The trinity of Presidential candidates confronting Americans this year includes one man whose life is "smear and deception," Bond said, "whose vice presidential running mate is an insult to white and non-white."
Representing the American Independent Party is another candidate, "Hillbilly-Hitler" whose running mate is a "trigger-happy tin soldier."
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Lynda Bird Robb gives birth to baby girl
BETHESDA, Md. (UPI)—A 7-pound, 8-ounce baby girl was born early today to Lynda Bird Robb, President and Mrs. Johnson's elder daughter, at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Mother and daughter are reported doing fine.
The Johnsons quickly cabled the news to Lynda's husband, Marine Capt. Charles S. "Chuck" Robb, serving at Da Nang, South Vietnam, and telephoned the other grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. James S. Robb in Milwaukee.
The President also said pictures of the infant were being sent to the father with Gen. Lewis Walt, assistant Marine Corps commandant, flying to Vietnam today.
"It was a dream come true," Johnson said, beaming, as he announced the birth while passing out
Weather
Fair and warmer weather is predicted for today and tomorrow. Winds should be five to 10 miles per hour from the south. Chance of precipitation is 10 per cent.
cigars and munching from a big box of chocolates at the hospital's presidential suite.
Both the Johnsons had hoped for a girl cousin for Patrick Lyndon Nugent, 16-month-old son of younger daughter, Luci.
Mrs. Johnson, at her husband's side, said no name had been chosen for the granddaughter. "I am so glad, relieved and happy," she said.
"We are very happy and the baby is quite normal." Johnson said.
The baby was born in the fourth floor obstetrics department at 12:03 a.m., EDT, with five Navy doctors in attendance.
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
50 students suspended
BERKELEY, Calif.-The University of California late yesterday threw out of school 50 students who were arrested earlier in the day when 500 police broke up a sit-in behind barricades at a classroom building.
The swift and stiff discipline was an effort by the university administration to head off any further law-breaking demonstrations on the campus.
Sweden grants asylum
STOCKHOLM—Sweden granted asylum today to 10 more-American servicemen. It raised to 115 the GIs who have left their military posts and been taken in by this neutral nation on "humanitarian grounds."
Court denies appeal
TOPEKA, Kan.—Condemned Kenneth Kilpatrick's legal avenues of escape from the gallows narrowed today.
The Kansas Supreme Court yesterday denied three motions'in the latest appeal of the confessed killer-rapist of 17-year-old Linda Callender at Hutchinson.