Grapes draw wrath
By FRED PARRIS
Kansan Staff Writer
California grapes, the target of a national boycott, are nevertheless still being served in KU residence halls.
The boycott stems from the refusal of California grape growers to permit migrant agricultural workers to vote whether they want union representation.
A number of stores in metropolitan Kansas City are participating in the boycott. Mayor Illus Davis of Kansas City, Mo. and Mayor Joseph McDowell of Kansas City, Kan., have issued proclamations urging citizens to boycott the fruit.
origin. Certain to boys KU's grapes are supplied by three area wholesalers: Garrett's of Lawrence, Reich's in Kansas City, Mo. and Food Supply Co. in Topeka. Spokesmen for each firm said the grapes they sell KU are from California.
Dietitians at three of the sight campus dorms said they were not aware of the boycott. The other five said they knew of it, but had not considered its implications here at KU.
Oliver dietitian, Mrs. Alice Jeane Harrison said, "We provide what the students want, so far as grapes go."
Robert Bustos, boycott co-ordinator for the Kansas City sarea, said most migrant families earn less than three thousand dollars a year, despite everyone in the family, from_eight year olds to grandparents, work up to twelve hours a day in the fields.
"Workers are housed in unheated, vermin-ridden shacks," Bustos said. "No provisions are made for sickness, education of children or on-the-job accidents. Disease is rampant and physical abuse by supervisors is common. If a man is injured on the job, he is fired immediately. Once the harvest is over, the workers are driven off the farm."
Bustos, who has worked in the fields himself,
says a union will help bring the migrant workers a decent standard of living. He said he is supporting the boycott so "my children will have a better life in American than I had."
Boycott supporters in this area include the NAACP, the National Council of Churches, the AFL-CIO, and the GI Forum, Bustos said. The four Catholic bishops of Kansas have also voiced their support, as has Archbishop Helmsing of Kansas City, Mo.
Committees have been formed in Topeka and Wichita to put the boycott into effect in those two cities. Bustos said.
Other backers of the boycott include Sen. Eugene McCarthy and Hubert Humphrey, Bustos said. It was strongly supported by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, he added.
Among Lawrence supermarkets, Rusty's, Safeway, and Dillons report they have not been affected by the boycott and are continuing to sell California grapes. A spokesman for the local A & P store, however, said it received a call from its regional office in Kansas City last week saying no more grapes would be arriving. A & P is one of the chains participating in the Kansas City boycott.
So far, the boycott has been most successful on the East Coast, Bustos said. Markets in New York, Boston and Pittsburgh have been virtually cut off. In the Midwest, the boycott is showing its effects in Minnesota and Illinois.
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau has predicted variable cloudiness today through Thursday with cooler temperatures tonight and tomorrow. Today's high should be in the lower 80s and tonight's low near 50. Precipitation probability is 20 per cent today, 10 per cent tonight and near zero Thursday.
Wednesday, October 2, 1968
79th Year, No.12 Lawrence, Kansas
by United Press International
UDK News Roundup
Sextuplets born in England
Hanoi criticizes HHH
PARIS—Hanoi has dismissed Vice President Hubert Humphrey's qualified promise to halt U.S. air raids against North Vietnam as a statement that was too conditional.
One of the children, a girl, died shortly after birth, but the doctor who delivered them said the others were in "really very good condition."
BIRMINGHAM, England—A Birmingham housewife today marked her 30th birthday by giving birth by Caesarian section to sextuplets, four girls and two boys.
ASC probes Senate plan
The All-Student Council (ASC) spent three hours last night questioning a representative group from the 12-man faculty and student committee which drafted the proposed Senate Code.
The recently drafted code contains proposals for reform of student government, including greater student participation in University policy-making and membership in governing bodies.
ASC would be abolished under the proposed restructure and be replaced by a Student Senate with membership of about 15 per cent in the present University Senate. The existing Faculty Senate would remain a part of the recommended University governing body.
The revised code requires a two-thirds majority vote in ASC for passage. Then the document would have to be approved by the University Senate Council, the University Senate and finally by students in an all-school election.
Proponents of the review committee said they believed the campus was being ruined by the lack of a coordinated architectural master plan.
Two ASC representatives were appointed by Scott Brown, Wichita junior and University Party president. Chris Morgan, Lawrence law student, will fill a vacancy in the married unorganized district and Patsi Murphy, Conway Springs junior, will be journalism school representative..
Minority report revised
Dissenters change certain demands
Authors of the dissenting report of the Student-Faculty Committee on University Governance withdrew contradictory proposals yesterday, said Voice member Jay Barrish, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student.
The major difference between the majority and minority reports was the percentage of student representation proposed in the recommended University Senate. The majority report calls for about 15 per cent; the minority report seeks 50 per cent.
The students have made the following changes:
In the section headed Recommendations, the following has been stricken out:
No. 4 That the position of Chancellor be filled by an individual elected by the University Senate.
No. 5 That there be voting members of the University Senate represented on the Board of Regents.
No.10 The Associated Women Students (AWS) should be abolished.
No. 7 The policies of the Physical Education Corporation should be controlled by the University Senate.
No. 6 The policies of the Memorial Union Corporation should be controlled by the University Senate.
In the section headed Redirection of the University's Social Responsibilities, the following has been omitted:
No. 11 The superfluous offices of the deans of Men and Women should be abolished.
No. 9 The free distribution of birth control information and materials by Watkins Memorial Hospital.
No.10 The encouragement of the Human Relations Committee to deal with all areas of discrimination and human torment.
The changes are being made to consolidate the report and to place greater emphasis on the most important aspects of the report, the committee members said. Mrs. Atkinson and Berkowitz said equal representation for students in the formation of a viable University community, and the redirection of the University's social responsibilities are primary concerns.
"It must be made clear that the issues dropped from the report will continue to remain necessary if we are to achieve a truly equal and responsible University community," they said.
Noses say
'Potter Lake stinks'
Kansan Staff Writer
By JOHN GILLIE
Karen Staff Writer
Potter Lake, KU's institutional love seat, stinks. Couples who usually frequent the shores of the 2-acre pond are moving up the slopes to avoid the stench. The smell comes from the south end of the lake when the wind direction is right.
lake where the wind whispers From their vantage point 20 to 50 yards away couples can just enjoy looking at the lake. But Potter is perhaps now no better seen than smelled. Several dozen beer cans float in the scummy green water and rafts of detergent drained from the Chi Omega fountain are covered with twigs and ice cream wrappers.
A half-bald tire sits partly covered by water in the north end near the dam and a plow is submerged by the west shore.
merged by the west shore.
But for Potter this mess is an almost traditional tragedy. Rufus H. Thompson, professor of botany, explained whenever the water is low in the lake, as it is now, vegetation in the south-end catch basin begins to decay. The gases given off in the process, hydrogen sulfide and methane, produce the aroma
Thompson said that this gaseous mixture is perhaps better known as swamp gas—the flying saucer variety.
Thompson identified the green scum floating in the lake as a type of blue-green algae. He said that this often forms after a long period of warm, dry weather.
In a lake like Potter, fed only by storm drains and fountain overflow, stagnant water creates problems. Beer cans don't sink until a storm roils the water and fills the cans.
Leo Ousdahl, assistant superintendent of the physical plant, said that the buildings and grounds department does nothing to remove the debris from the lake. Ousdahl said that his department just lets it sink.
The lake became so filled with sediment and debris ten years ago that it was drained and excavated. Contractors found several automobile hulks on the bottom and the muck had reduced the depth of the lake from its original 16 feet to six feet.
Botanist Thompson speculated that it would be years before Potter is again cleaned. It was 47 years before the University cleaned Potter the first time. So until a storm stirs the water, the beer cans sink and the algae and other vegetation die, Potter will continue to drive lovers from its shores.
HABITAT OF THE LOCHNESS MONSTER?
No, this is not a lake in Scotland. It is KU's own Potter Lake with all the muck and mire floating therein. The particular swirls pictured above are a blue-green algae which seems to inhabit the lake water at the present time. Some of the debris on the bottom of the lake near shore can also be seen.