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79th Year, No.15
The University of Kansas
Monday, October 7, 1968
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WEATHER
Fair this morning, increasing cloudiness and warmer with south winds 15 to 25 mph this afternoon. Considerable cloudiness with a chance of showers developing tonight and occasional rain on Tuesday. High today mid 70s. Low tonight 50 to 55. Precipitation probabilities less than 5 per cent today, 20 per cent tonight and 30 per cent Tuesday.
Photo By Mike Gunther, Chief Photographer
FOLK TRIO IN CONCERT
Popular folk singing group Peter, Paul and Mary perform at a benefit Saturday in Topeka for Congressional candidate Bob Swan of the Kansas Second District.
P,P & M campaign for local Democrat
By LINDA LOYD
Kansan Staff Writer
Two beards and a bright, young blonde gave a "Swan song" benefit for Second District Congressional candidate Robert A. Swan Jr. in Topeka Saturday.
Folskinging trio Peter, Paul and Mary performed only 45 minutes after a late flight and hectic drive from Kansas City. An hour after they arrived in Topeka's Municipal Auditorium, the folk group returned to Kansas City for another concert.
In gold-rimmed glasses, beige levis, a gold sweater and striped jacket, 30-year-old Peter Yarrow was the first of the trio backstage in Topeka. "Get that sound straightened out," he ordered from the stage a few minutes later. "Bring
this up—one, two. Bring them both up—one, two."
Paul Stookey, taller and quiester of the two bearded folkniks, nervously lit a cigarette and choked down a cup of coffee as he tuned his guitar: "Give me an F, Peter."
"It's nice to see that even THEY get nervous," one KU coed behind stage remarked.
"In the last six months the entire concept of politics has changed," Yarrow told the young crowd of nearly 1,000 persons.
Last to arrive in the stage wing was silken-haired Mary Travers, wearing a loose burgundy knit dress, fresh pink lipstick and a generous smile.
"There is a grass roots movement of people to be a part of moral decisions our country is making."
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Seniors teach Western Civ
By REBECCA MASSEY
Kansan Staff Writer
Western Civilization instructors do not have to be graduate students and this year six undergraduates are instructors for the Western Civilization discussion program.
James E. Seaver, director of the department of Western Civilization said, "Naturally the bulk of instructors are graduate students. The idea of the Western Civilization program is to provide economic aid for them."
Seaver said that interested students fill out an application on which they list three faculty members for references. These faculty members send in letters of recommendation and the student is then interviewed by the department, and his transcript is checked.
"Usually the undergraduates have to be outstanding or make an overwhelming impression at the interview," Seaver said. "And we insist that undergraduates finish the Western Civilization exam before teaching."
"We meet every Monday afternoon—sometimes to discuss problems, or listen to speakers," Seaver said.
"We try to improve the depth of the instructors in their knowledge of the subject to be covered in class. A professor from the School of Religion talked on Augustine one week," he said.
Seaver said that sometimes they play tapes of a class period, then discuss what the instructor did, or what he should have done.
Doug Taylor, Hutchinson senior and Western Civilization instructor, said that he was aware that undergraduates were occasionally accepted as instructors, so he applied for the position.
Taylor said that he was then granted an interview. The interview consisted of a discussion of his academic interests and some questions over the reading which indicated how academically well-equipped he was to teach.
He said he didn't feel it was a handicap not to have had teaching experience before going into the Western Civilization program.
"I think you can talk, perhaps more freely. The students are not so afraid of you since you are also a student. I took the Western Civilization discussion and comprehensive two years ago and I know what it's like, while graduate students from other universities have to feel it out."
Plan includes all Lawrence
The University Committee for Urban Action acted Friday to include the Lawrence community in its program of aid to urban areas.
Meeting with Leonard Harrison, director of the Ballard Community Center in North Lawrence, and Mrs. Georgella Lyles the committee made plans to:
- Find an organization to co-sponsor a low-rent supplementary housing project planned by the Ballard Center.
- Approach the Lawrence City Commission about passage of a resolution supporting lowrent housing projects.
- Coordinate student participation in individual renewal projects in North and East Lawrence.
A co-sponsoring organization must be found before a Federal Housing Authority (FHA) loan for the proposed low-rent housing project can be secured, Harrison said at the meeting. He said the project will contain from 100 to 200 units: a 100-unit complex will cost an estimated $1.3 million, he said.
Also required by the FHA, Harrison said, is a resolution from the City Commission supporting low-rent housing. The resolution, which has been on the agenda for three weeks, does not commit the city to any phase of the project but shows "moral support," he said.
Charles D. Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design and chairman of the committee, said he would attend the City Commission meeting tomorrow afternoon to encourage passage of the resolution.
Racial issue tops LHS board agenda
Racial problems at Lawrence High School will top the agenda of the Unified School District No. 497 Board meeting at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the administration building, 2017 Louisiana.
School board members said last week the meeting would be moved to the auditorium of the high shool, next door to the administration building, if a large number of persons came.
The board said last week, after declining to discuss the racial issue in a closed meeting with architects, that the racial topic would be placed first on tonight's agenda.
By United Press International
Czech heads may resign
PRAGUE (UPI)—Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek and three other top Czechoslovak leaders threatened to resign rather than submit to the tough demands made by the Kremlin in last week's talks in Moscow, informed Czechoslovak sources said Sunday.
The sources close to the senior leadership said a full meeting of the 190-member Central Committee of the Communist party would be summoned either on Monday or Tuesday to hear the report of the delegation which went to Moscow for the negotiations with Soviet leaders.
It will be at the plenary meeting that Dubcek, President Ludvik Svoboda, Premier Oldrich Cernik and President Josef Smrkovsky of the National Assembly will decide whether or not to resign, the sour ces said.
The 44-passenger Aeromaya Airways turbojet was flying between hideaway tropical resort islands that are heavily frequented by American tourist clientel, but the airport authorities refused to release a passenger list or give any immediate details of the hijacking.
Mexican air liner hijacked; in Cuba
MERIDA, Mexico (UPI)—A Mexican airliner was hijacked Sunday over the Carribean and forced to land in Cuba, Merida Airport authorities announced.
They said the plane was believed making a hop between Isla Mujeres and Cozumel, of the resort islands just off the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.
They confirmed the plane had definitely been forced to land in Cuba, but added, "We can say nothing to the press for the time being."
Strike threat in NYC again
NEW YORK (UPI)The city Board of Education, acting with teachers threatening their third strike in five weeks, last night suspended a local board in a predominantly Negro and Puerto Rican section of Brooklyn for refusing to reinstate 83 white teachers.
The school board's decision to suspend the local board for 30 days came after a three-and-a-half hour emergency meeting and on the heels of a threat by Albert Shanker, president of the 55,000-member United Federation of Teachers (UFT), to pull teachers out of the classrooms Tuesday or Wednesday if the 83 were not reinstated.
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