Campaigning in KC
Foes catch HHH barbs
By MIKE SHEARER Kansan Staff Writer
Vice president Hubert Humphrey, who has been nursing a sagging campaign, had some political wounds licked yesterday by warm crowds in Kansas City, Mo.
Humphrey, looking tired but sounding vigorous, found few hecklers and many political friends waiting for him at a downtown rally with about 10.000 supporters.
With only three weeks until election and with every major poll showing Humphrey still trailing Republican Richard Nixon, Humphrey's campaign has taken on an almost desperate tone.
Humphrey found a receptive audience for his verbal barbs flung at both Nixon and former Alabama Gov. George Wallace.
The crowd cheered as Humphrey called Nixon, "Dick the silent," "Richard the chicken hearted” and the one who has had “his political face lifted so many times I can't tell which one is the new Nixon."
Among the labels which Humphrey attached to Wallace were "George the loud" and "Sheriff Wallace."
"Now I'm not running for sheriff. I'm running for president," Humphrey said.
Humphrey went on to say law and order would be achieved by raising police salaries, improving police training and recruiting more policemen. He criticized Wallace's law and order plank by citing Alabama's murder rate during Wallace's governorship when Alabama had the highest murder rate in the nation.
He also criticized wages and education in Alabama under the governorship of Wallace.
Humphrey beckoned to his Republican opponent Nixon, "Come out from
under the bushes, Richard," and said Nixon is afraid to meet him in a debate because of Nixon's record on education, civil rights and medical care for the elderly is undefendable.
Humphrey's hard-hitting, name-calling campaign has found less receptive crowds than those in Kansas City, but
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Humphrey demonstrated to the Kansas City crowd his technique in answering cries from the audience.
When Humphrey told the crowd he was "laying it on the line," a member of the crowd yelled something in reply. Humphrey pointed at the person and said, "That must be too good for him."
"Give 'em hell, Hubert," yelled another man during Humphrey's speech. "You bet I will." Humphrey replied.
"and I'll tell you why: I'm fighting for you, your families and your kids."
Addressing himself to two persons carrying Wallace signs, he said, "Yes, you've got those two signs down there and that's the last two votes you'll get here."
Before Humphrey tore into his two opponents, he greeted fellow democrats on the speaker's stand, including Missouri Gov. Warren Hearnes, New Jersey Gov. Richard Hughes, Kansas senatorial candidate William I. Robinson and Kansas congressional candidate from the second district Bob Swan.
Among the sign wavers greeting Humphrey were members of Missouri Student Coalition, who yesterday issued a statement urging supporters of Sen. Eugene McCarthy, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and the late Sen. Robert Kennedy to support Humphrey.
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79th Year, No. 22 The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas Wednesday, October 16, 1968
Lacked quorum
ASC voting postponed
By TOM WEINBERG Kansan Staff Writer
An amendment to the proposed Senate Code which would establish 50 per cent student representation on the University Senate was presented at last nights ASC meeting. Voting on the amendment was postponed until a quorum of ASC members was reached to vote on the proposal.
The amendment was submitted by Bob Howard, married unorganized representative from Wichita, and member of the Independent Student Party.
Howard, representing the minority view said: "It is our responsibility to accept the minority report. This is necessary to create a community. To establish an identity for the students, it is necessary to do so on an equal basis.
The proposed Senate Code would abolish the ASC and replace it with student representation on the University Senate. The proposed code would also establish 15 per cent student representation and 85 per cent faculty representation.
"Education is a matter of having responsibility in a real manner. I don't see how having only 15 per cent student representation is going to bring about this responsibility. We have to talk about what is right, and what is democratic representation."
An amendment to the proposed Senate Code which would establish a representative of the black students and a representative of the foreign students to be permanent members of the student senate, an amendment to establish student representation by living groups and University groups, and an amendment to set up a committee on Off-Campus Housing were also discussed at last nights meeting.
The minority report, introduced and supported by Voice, asks for 50 per cent student representation on the University Senate.
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts rain and thundershowers today and continuing into tonight. Temperatures should be not quite so warm today and much cooler tomorrow. Today's high should be near 70 and tonight's low in the lower 50s. Precipitation probability is 70 per cent tonight and 30 per cent tomorrow.
The amendment to establish a representative of the black students and a representative of the foreign students to be permanent members of the student council was ruled unconstitutional by ASC members.
The amendment was ruled unconstitutional by the ASC chairman Rick von Ende. Von Ende said: "You must create a division for all types of students, not just one certain group. This bill creates a special category and that makes it discriminatory."
"It gave me no pleasure to deal as I did. The only reason is that it was not a legal amendment. I think if it were rewritten it would be overwhelmingly accepted. I hope the day never comes when black students aren't represented. I believe that a minority committee should be looked into."
Duke Brown, fraternity representative from Kansas City and one of the submitters of the bill said: "Although I was an origator of this amendment, I realize that by putting this into the Senate Code, you are taking the honor of getting in as a student or an individual. I personally don't want anything handed to me."
Brown, is the only Negro member on the ASC.
John Lungstrum, Law representative from Salina said: "Why can we look into the Senate Code to set up a possible committee on minority groups. The idea of having a negro and a foreign student as members is great, but it does not achieve the end to its merits."
The amendment setting up a committee on Off-Campus Housing was passed at the ASC meeting.
Jeanne Dixon denies prediction of killings
The amendment to the proposed
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KU coeds can rest easier tonight. The Washington D.C. office of Jeanne Dixon, well-known prophetess denied the rumor that Mrs. Dixon had predicted the slayings of 10 to 12 coeds of a large midwestern university tonight or tomorrow night by a pick-ax predator.
KU coeds can rest easier tonight.
Two KU coeds Lynn Morgan, Emporia sophomore and D'Lee Bangs, Ottawa sophomore, worried by the rumor called Miss Dixon's office for a confirmation or denial of the rumor.
As soon as Miss Morgan identified herself as a KU coed Miss Dixon's secretary told her she knew why Miss Morgan was calling and there was no basis for the rumor.
"Miss Dixon would never predict anything like that," the secretary said.
"I can't believe that college girls would believe this," the secretary said, "but we've had plenty of call about it."
The same prediction had been rumored at universities in Texas, Oklahoma, and Illinois.
There was also a rumor that a pick-ax had been stolen from the Museum of Natural History.
Both Lawrence and University police, as well as museum officials denied that any such theft had occurred.
Mrs. Frank Shavlik, assistant dean of women, noted that coeds in Corbin, Ellsworth, GSP, Lewis, Hashinger and Naismith had been upset over the rumor.
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Wallace is on Ohio ballot
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court yesterday ordered George C. Wallace's name placed on the Ohio presidential ballot, assuring the third-party candidate a ballot status in all 50 states.
In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled that Ohio's laws, under which Wallace had been barred from the state's ballot, imposed "an invidious discrimination" against third parties, denied Wallace equal protection under the law and tended to give the Republican and Democratic parties "a complete monopoly."
Nixon still won't debate
ST. LOUIS—Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey has not received a reply from Richard M. Nixon to his debate challenge and only a qualified "yes" from George C. Wallace, but Humphrey said Tuesday he would hold on to the time in hope Nixon will say "yes."
Negro walkout continues
CHICAGO—Thousands of Negro high school students walked out yesterday in the second consecutive day of mass demonstrations. Several protesters were arrested for stoning or scuffling with police.
Bands of students marched on the board of education building, civic center and the central police station to air complaints of racial discrimination after a rash of fire alarms—most of them false—emptied school buildings.
At least 21 students and one adult were arrested for throwing rocks, vandalizing police cars or flouting police orders.
Hecklers greet Nixon in KC
KANSAS CITY—Richard Nixon, Republican Presidential candidate, was greeted by about 2,000 supporters chanting "We want Nixon, We want Nixon," as he arrived at Kansas City Municipal Airport last night.
George Wallace, third party candidate, has accepted Humphrey's invitation.
The anti-Nixon demonstrators were apparently refering to his refusal to accept Hubert Humphrey's challenge to debate.
A few hecklers yelled "debate, debate, debate" at the candidate, but Nixon fans drowned them out.
Speaking in Knoxville, Tenn., earlier yesterday, Nixon said the "overriding political purpose" of the United States is to achieve peace with "progress and freedom."
"In the pursuit of peace, we must apply all of the resources at our command," he said.
Nixon greeted supporters at the airport, then went immediately to his suite in the Hotel Muehlebach.
He spoke before a Future Farmers of America Convention and to a rally at Kansas City Union Station this morning.