KANSAN
79th Year, No.27
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, October 23,1968
LEONARD HARRISON "Things are going to change in our lifetime."
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Negotiators meet
PARIS—U.S. and North Vietnamese negotiators failed today to reach agreement on conditions for a bombing pause. But U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman said—and then denied—they would meet again Thursday.
Harriman told newsmen after emerging from the 27th publicly announced meeting at the former Majestic Hotel: "We have adjourned our meeting and we are going to meet again tomorrow." It would have been an unprecedented special session.
But the chief North Vietnamese delegate, Zuan Thuy, said just minutes later that the next meeting would not be held until next Wednesday—apparently meaning a week's delay in the Hanoi reply to Washington peace efforts.
Soviets begin pullout
PRAGUE-Sonic booms and jet contrails filled the blue skies over Prague and truck convoys wound through suburban roads Tuesday in the promised pullout of Warsaw Pact occupation forces from Czechoslovakia.
The withdrawing troops left behind a resurgent Stalinist faction in the Communist party strong enough to challenge the reform leadership of Alexander Dubeck and to mount an anti-Semitic campaign.
N. Viet demand release
TOKYO-North Vietnam demanded Tuesday the U.S. free all prisoners "without any conditions or any agreement between the two sides."
A Hanoi government statement broadcast by the Vietnam News Agency VNA said its "citizens" were arrested illegally and should be freed immediately.
The statement was issued Tuesday, one day after the U.S. had released 14 North Vietnamese naval personnel captured in June 1966. U.S. officials said they were the last in U.S. hands but others are held by the South Vietnamese government.
--livable for all people," Harrison said. "22 million black people in this country can't keep watching a dream be deferred."
Harrison talks to black power
Addressing himself to black power, Leonard Harrison told approximately 250 people in the Kansas Union Forum Room last night "We've got to come to grips with the problem of white America."
Harrison, director of the Ballard Center in Lawrence, spoke on "Black Survival" in part of National Affairs Week.
The problem lies not in the black community but in the white community, said Harrison. "The problem is next door to you in white suburbia where Wallace stickers are pasted on mailboxes."
Whites preach freedom and democracy but hypocritically remain silent when black men and children are beaten and hung, he said.
"Things are going to change in our lifetime," Harrison said.
A new black man has emerged out of the stereotype which white Americans have so desperately clung to for over three centuries.
This new black man is a "hostile with a rationale." He is primarily a product of the northern ghetto who grew up in the lower, lower class amid police brutality and white exploitation, said Harrison.
He is preoccupied with the status of being black and is concerned with all non-whites in the world. This new black man is skeptical of help from white liberals and takes a "do-it-yourself" approach.
"The new black man can no longer call for nonviolence," said Harrison. "We have walked hand in hand with whites while singing 'We Shall Overcome' and have been bitten by police dogs and beaten with billy clubs. We now know this was a mistake."
Harrison said the white man should not be surprised at this new movement because "to not hate the oppressor is not healthy and not human, so the black has a right to hate."
The new black man doesn't hate individual whites but he dows hate the white power structure—the establishment, he said.
Harrison called on the black society and asked it to come out of its self-hatred.
"Get those wigs off your head and quit trying to identify with the oppressor," he said.
"It's time for black people to realize this is their movement. Only through self-determination and reevaluation of our values can we reach to the stars," said Harrison.
"I am convinced that America is incapable of rising up and leaving out the full meaning of the dream," he said.
"The Black people are the only people who can rise above the materialistic society to create a new society that a man can live and die in."
"We've got the brain-trust, the material resources and everything we need to make this country
In a question and answer session after Harrison's speech, he was asked if there is a place for the white man in the black power movement.
"Yes, there is a place but that place is in white surburbia and not down there in the black community," answered Harrison.
When asked what effect George Wallace as president would have on the movement, Harrison replied: "I don't think America will call on Wallace at this time. Wallace is a decoy on the sidelines, ready to be used if necessary.
"The problem is not with Wallace but with Agnew who has made himself very clear."
Student plans protest of Lawrence car tax
A group of KU students is protesting the $10 car tax which the people of Lawrence will vote on Nov. 5.
The leader of the protest, Bob Ertman, Pittsburgh senior, called a meeting in the Kansas Union last night for interested persons.
Two people showed up.
One was Ertman. The other opposed the protest.
The Lawrence city council has proposed the tax be levied on every car in the city. The measure will appear on the Nov. 5 ballot.
"That means KU students will be contributing approximately one-third of the tax money for street improvements in Lawrence," Ertman said.
The tax is designed to repair residential streets, and we maintain students don't use the residential
streets enough to warrant such a high tax, he said.
"We have no objection to paying part of the tax, but if we pay $10 apiece the city will get about $90,000 from us," Ertman said. He thinks that is too much.
Ertman said Collegiate Young Republicans, of which he is this year's campaign chairman, is sponsoring the protest movement. When asked why the CYR has become involved in the protest, he replied, "Any tax is a political issue, so there is no reason why we shouldn't become involved."
Ertman said his group plans to pass out handbills near the polling places on election day.
"We hope to get the people of Lawrence concerned about the plight of KU students in this matter," he said.
ASC rejects amendments asks 15 per cent of Senate
By JOHN GILLIE Kansan Staff Writer
A package of five amendments to the proposed Senate Code calling for 50 per cent student representation on the University Senate and Senate committees was rejected by the All Student Council (ASC) last night.
Four members of the Independent Student Party (ISP) were the only ASC members to vote for the amendments.
The equal representation of student and faculty on the Senate is the principal difference between the minority and majority reports coming from a 12-man Committee on University governance which drafted the proposed code this summer. The majority report asked a 15 per cent representation.
The Senate Code, which will be accepted or rejected by the ASC next week, closely follows the majority report's recommendations.
The ISP issued a statement following the defeat of the amendments:
"The four ISP members voting in a bloc attempted last night to enlarge the role students will play in the institution that controls their lives. We note with varying degrees of amusement and concern that attitudes of apathy and disinterest which for so long have plagued student government here at KU are institutionally assured in the new University Senate. Our hope, in the final analysis, rests with those student political organizations which see as their goal meaningful restructuring of the University governance to reach our proclaimed goals of social justice and personal freedom."
Bob Howard, Wichita senior and married and unorganized district
See ISP page 16.
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