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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Fridav. September 27,1968
KU group meets to discuss LHS
By JARYL AMBLER
and STEVE HAYNES Kansas Staff Writers
Black students boycoting Lawrence High School told a KU group last night to "do their own thing."
The group, calling itself the "Concerned Citizens Crisis Coalition," met as an ad hoc committee at 7 p.m. yesterday at the Wesley Foundation to support the boycott. It included members of Peoples Voice, Students for a Democratic Society, campus ministers, faculty members and other "concerned" students.
The group discussed the causes of the boycott and ways of aiding it until 9:30 p.m., when it adjourned to await word from the black students who were meeting at Ballard Community Center in North Lawrence.
When the meeting resumed at 10 p.m., those present were told they should worry about their own problems as white members of the community.
Don Jenkins, Kansas City, Mo., junior and a member of Peoples Voice, said there was no way the group could help the LHS students.
During the first part of the meeting, discussion centered around the reasons for the walkout and ways to support the LHS students.
Several persons, including Michael Maher, associate professor of zoology, and Jay Barrish, Kansas City, Mo., senior, both active in Voice, were extremely critical of the way Carl Knox, superintendent of schools, had handled the situation.
Knox has declined to meet with the LHS students as a group, maintaining each student is an individual with different problems which must be met with individually.
His action in refusing to immediately grant the students' demands was named at the meeting as the immediate cause for the demonstration.
Those attending the meeting
were divided as to how to aid the students.
Mrs. Morni Leoni, campus minister for the Wesley Foundation, said that the group should do whatever it was asked to.
"If they need a thousand bodies, I'll be down there and I'll do my best to see that they get their thousand bodies. But, if they say to stay the hell out, I think we should stay out," Mrs. Leoni said.
Others agreed, calling for a sit-in at LHS today or the presentation of a petition to the high school administration supporting the boycott.
Someone said the group should not involve itself with the LHS problems, but should concentrate on their own problems. Negroes, they said, have their problems—whites have theirs.
A peaceful demonstration was suggested.
"We ought to be there and we ought to make it clear that if things don't change, we're going to do something a lot more demonstrative on Monday," Barrish said.
When word came from the Ballard center, discussion of tactics was continued.
At 11:30 p.m. the meeting broke up, the group having decided to provide baby sitters for the parents of the black students when they gather at LHS today and to meet at 7 p.m. tonight at the Wesley Foundation.
Columbia opens quietly and with minor protest
NEW YORK (UPI)—Columbia University opened its fall term Thursday in an atmosphere of calm, underscoring Acting President Andrew Cordier's belief that the number of students intent on disrupting campus life is "decreasing by the day."
The campus was quiet through the morning Thursday. The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which paralyzed the University last spring, was able to muster only 40 persons for a demonstration Wednesday.
The demonstrators, protesting expansion by the University which they said is driving residents from Morningside Heights homes, dispersed after a brief march.
Mark Rudd, leader of the SDS on the Columbia campus last spring, left Thursday for Boston to begin a two-week speaking tour.
Cordier expressed his view of the situation in an address taped last week and telecast by closed circuit Wednesday night to Columbia alumni meetings in 27 places around the country.
"There are those, there have been those, who would disrupt University life. That number, happily, is decreasing by the day."
Cordier, formerly executive assistant to the late U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, has been acting as president of Columbia since Grayson Kirk retired from the post last month.
Reports of the upcoming Association of University Residence Halls (AURH) leadership dinner, Fall Festival and various committee activities were heard Wednesday at the first AURH meeting.
AURH leaders discuss residence hall activities
There are two new programs this year, Butch Lockard, Raytown, Mo., junior and AURH chairman, told the 31 committee chairmen, hall presidents and representatives present. One of these is an academic committee which hopes to establish faculty visitations and an orientation program for new instructors. Also offered for the first time this fall is a special class in human relations open to elected resident hall officers.
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Connie Finch, Bartlesville, Okla., junior and leadership chairman, discussed the leadership dinner at 6 p.m. Saturday in Lewis Hall which is to be a
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The housing board consists of research and communications subgroups which "bridge the residence halls and administration," Salvey said.
The purpose of the dinner is to allow hall officers and representatives to become acquainted with officers in other halls and to introduce the leadership program. "Seminars in Campus Concerns."
Possible seminar topics, Miss Finch said, include student rights and the role of the residence hall in academic, cultural and social development of the individual student.
Steve Salvey, Mission junior and housing board chairman, told of future plans of the housing committee and labeled this year "a year of change and planning."
The AURH leadership committee has planned a leadership brochure announcing the seminars which will contain quotations from faculty members on various aspects of university life.
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"We plan to conduct a survey on coed residence halls this fall to learn what students think about it," said Dave Ballard, Carlsbad, N. M., sophomore and housing board member.
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