UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
760 dead in India flood
CALCUTTA, India—Authorities said yesterday landslides and floods in northwest Bengal state have killed at least 760 people. Newspaper reports placed the toll at more than 2,000.
One of the hardest hit areas was the big tea producing town of Jalpaiguri where floodwaters forced residents to climb trees and roof tops to escape rain-swollen rivers running wild. Some of the floodwaters were filled with poisonous snakes.
Wallace HQ firebombed
RIDGECREST, Calif.—Two fire bombs yesterday caused "moderate" damage to the recently opened Wallace for President headquarters in a community near the China Lake Naval Ordnance Test Station, authorities reported.
Dick, Ike visit in hospital
The fire bombs, detonated in the predawn hours, broke all the front windows of the building, burning some office furniture and the floor.
WASHINGTON—Richard M. Nixon yesterday visited former President Dwight D. Eisenhower at Walter Reed Army Medical Center where the five-star general is recuperating from his seventh heart attack. "He seemed pleased that my campaign was going well." Nixon said.
The former vice president said Eisenhower read a newspaper for the first time Monday and was very much aware of the issues and the progress of the Republican campaign drive.
Airline frisks patrons
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-A jetliner flying nonstop from New York to Miami landed here Monday night and its 22 disgruntled passengers were searched for weapons when a caller reported the plane would be hijacked.
"This is strictly a precautionary measure," said Donald Sharrow, Northeast Airlines' Jacksonville station manager. "We can't take any chances on something like this."
KANSAN
79th Year, No.16 The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Tuesday, October 8, 1968
LHS board attacked, praised over walkout
Charges of white racism clashed with the opinions of many "tired taxpaying citizens" in a tense bout last night at Lawrence High School auditorium.
By MIKE SHEARER
The Unified School District No. 497 Board opened its regular meeting to discuss with more than 1,500 persons, both black and white, Lawrence High's racial situation. Several KU students and faculty members attended.
Petitions were presented to the board by parents of the Negro students who walked out of LHS Sept. 25, by the Lawrence Human
Kansan Staff Writer
Relations Commission and by the Lawrence Positive Action Committee which supported the basis for the black student protest.
About 50 black LHS students walked out of the high school last month after presenting administrators with a list of eight demands, including adding black history to the curriculum and changing the system of choosing cheerleaders to speed the selection of Negroes. All of the students had returned to classes by Sept.30.
Another petition, signed by 601 citizens described by their spokesman as "tired taxpaying citizens," and a statement unanimously endorsed by 450 Lawrence Education
Association members commended school officials for their handling of the Negro walkout.
After meeting with the citizens for two hours, the board adjourned to its chambers in the administration building adjacent to the high school to act on other board matters.
At the conclusion of the meeting, the board voted to put board member Rees Jackson in charge of originating a plan for improving communications between the board and members of the Negro community.
ASC architecture bill is undergoing revision
The All Student Council bill to establish a student committee on architectural structures is undergoing revision, following Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's veto last week.
The petition submitted by the Negro parents and read to the crowd endorsed both the methods of protest and the eight demands of black LHS students.
Joe Goering, Moundridge senior and student body vice president, said the bill was vetored because it was too general in nature.
The committee was to be composed of 14 members; six from the School of Architecture, six at-large
Frank Zilm, St. Louis, Mo., junior and large men's district representative, and Charles H. Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design, are currently working on the rewording of the proposal. Goering said.
The original architectural bill provided for a permanent committee on architectural structures to work independently and in cooperation with other student organizations.
representatives, and two non-voting architecture faculty members.
The bill did not specify whether the 12 voting members would be faculty or students.
Kahn said the original bill "is a responsible one. However, there are things in it that needed revision and work."
Goering said that the bill with its revisions might possibly be ready for tonight's ASC meeting.
The petition denied remarks by Principal Bill Medley that black students had not cooperated fairly in establishing a representative black group to meet with school officials.
If the bill is submitted tonight, a new vote must be taken by members of the ASC. If the revised bill is accepted, it will be re-submitted to Wescoe.
"The responsibility for action was laid squarely on the laps of the administration and they chose to ignore it," the petition said in part.
Medley told the crowd that all of the issues brought up by the students were being channeled through either the Student Council, administration or faculty.
In response to the black students' demands for inclusion of Negro history into the curriculum, Medley said current LHS history courses would cover Negro history this semester and a Negro history course would begin second semester "when (interest in) enrollment is sufficient."
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Students unhappy
Kitchen help organizes
Dissatisfied student cafeteria employees in KU's residence halls are forming a student labor union.
The Student Cafeteria Workers' Union (SCWU) includes nearly 300 dishroom and serving line employees, the labor union coordinating committee said last night.
Cafeteria workers will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Lewis Hall cafeteria to organize SCWU. Dick Thorn, Mission junior; Red Kline, St. Joseph, Mo., sophomore and John Cadwalader, Mission sophomore, form the coordinating committee.
Immediate committee appeals are:
- Free meals for non-residence hall employs.
- Additional employees to aid the labor shortage.
"Safety conditions-at Lewis Hall, anyway-leave something to be desired," Thorn said. "People are continually slipping."
- Improved safety conditions.
SCWU may ask for higher wages in the future, Thorn said. Student cafeteria workers presently earn $1.30 per hour.
The students hope to obtain free meals because food bills alone consume half their pay checks. Kline explained.
"There just aren't enough people to take care of the dishes and crap coming through the windows," Thorn complained. Oliver Hall and Gertrude Sellars Pearson are the worst, he said. "I've talked with people at GSP and they've thought about organizing a similar group before now."
The University is taking unfair advantage of student cafeteria workers, the committee said, referring to the supply and demand of abundant labor.
After deciding to organize a student labor union two weeks ago, the committee has contacted all residence halls and obtained a majority of the cafeteria employees' support, they said.
The groups stressed that the formation of SCWU has no connection with other campus organizations such as SDS and Peoples Voice.
Although cafeteria employees sign an agreement stating they won't conspire to overthrow the Kansas government and will work to the best of their ability, organization of a student labor union doesn't violate this agreement. Thorn said.
"We've discussed the matter with several law professors and there is nothing illegal about our organization. However, the state is not obligated by law to bargain with us." he said.
The committee indicated no immediate plans for protest. "We would strike only as a last resort," they said.
WEATHER
Considerable cloudiness and mild today with a chance of thundershowers or rain this afternoon and tonight. Partly cloudy Wednesday. Cooler tonight and Wednesday. South winds 20 to 30 miler per hour today. High mid 70s. Low tonight near 50.
SOME DAYS NOTHING GOES RIGHT
A beautiful autumn day was spread before Mike Goodrick, Overland Park senior, as he strolled across Mount Oread toward Bailey Hall. Barely a wisp of cloud in the sky and balmy no-jacket temperatures to melt a student's soul—and a wad of gum upon which an unsuspecting heel may tread.