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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 8, 1963
LHS Board talks over walkout
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Medley said Negro literature and poetry would also be considered for the English program.
Floyd Horowitz, representing the American Civil Liberties Union, called upon the board and citizens to view the black students' demands as "part of an ongoing nationwide trend."
Several KU students also spoke of the sociological and national implications of the LHS race problem.
Rick Atkinson, Belleville graduate student, called the school board and LHS teachers racist, and said if the board, administration and teachers do not act now they will be like Nero fiddling while Rome burned.
Don Jenkins, Kansas City junior, who called himself "one of those uppity niggers," spoke to those "supposed to be Christians," saying, "You owe it to yourselves to know what these black people are about." He said a Negro history course would benefit both Negroes and whites.
Jay Barrish, Kansas City, Mo. graduate student, responding to the Lawrence Education Association commendation of school officials' handling of the walkout, said, "If Lawrence teachers were sensitive to the problems then they would have walked out with them (the black students)."
An LHS teacher, who said he had 150 students, asked, "Do I leave 145 students to walk out with five? I think not. That's not what I'm paid for."
Rev. Junius Hambrick, pastor of the Ninth Street Baptist Church, asked the audience, "How would you like to have been taught Negro history all your life and nothing about white history?"
Responding to a faculty member who had said he had been teaching a number of years at LHS, Rev. Hambrick said, "We can go wrong so long, it seems right."
Negro major will resign
TOPEKA (UPI)—A Negro Air Force major said Monday he is resigning from the service because of discrimination and restrictions on his activity in civil rights.
Maj. Lewis Olive, a 1955 West Point graduate, told a news conference in a Topeka law office he will submit his resignation Tuesday.
The 37-year-old father of four said he is taking the action "because of conditions in the Air Force which do not allow me to maintain the position I want to,
and because the Air Force is not sympathetic to Negro airmen or officers."
Olive, who has been stationed at nearby Forbes Air Force Base for the past two years, said, "It is not now possible for me to say the things I should say, and wear this uniform."
The major would not answer some questions on specific incidents on advice of his lawyer, Hal E. Desjardins, of Topeka, who was standing nearby. Neither would comment on whether legal action was anticipated.
Official Bulletin
Christian Science Organization, 7.30 per-
scription Testimony Meeting,
Danforth Chapel
TODAY
Linguistics Colloquy. 7:30 p.m. Prof.
George Wedge, KU. "How the Good
Abbott Got a Bad Name: Wit and
Science" with Century Grammar,
"10 Blake"
SUA Special Film 7.30.pm "Gates
sUA Prene. Rene Clair. Dychc Audi-
tology"
Humanities Lecture. 8 p.m. Nicolas
Louis, University of California,
a New World." University Theatre
Carilion Recital. 7 p.m. Albert Gerken.
Classical Film, 7 and 9 p.m. "Republic
Roman Polanski, Kansas Union"
*The New York Times*
Faculty. Recital. 8 p.m. Robert Stanton, oboe, Swarthout Recital Hall.
Bus line not public
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—The University of Missouri yesterday denied it was running a public bus line and asked the state Public Service Commission (PSC) to dismiss a suit against it.
On Sept. 26, Missouri Transit Lines asked the PSC to order the university to stop its Moberly-Columbia bus run. The company contended the university had started the service in order to transport employees between their Moberly homes and the university.
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