KANSAN
79th Year, No. 9
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, September 27,1968
* UDK News Roundup
by United Press International Chrysler deceases hike
DETROIT—Chrysler Corp., criticized by the White House and fearful of losing sales to its competitors, cut back price increases for the third year in a row.
The announced hike of an average of $84 per car on its 1969 models was reduced to an average of $52 Thursday by Chrysler, smallest of the "big three" auto companies.
Olympics seen safe
It was the third year in a row that Chrysler had been the first of the auto companies to set a new price structure and, as in the past two years, it adjusted its figures downward after the Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. posted smaller price increases.
MEXICO CITY—President Javier Barros Sierra of the University of Mexico engineered a shaky peace on the campus today between police and rioting students.
Mexico City enjoyed its first overnight period of relative calm after three days' fighting killed at least seven persons and threatened the Olympic Games opening here in two weeks.
Avery Brundage, chairman of the International Olympic Committee, said in Chicago he did not see "one chance in one million that the Olympic Games in Mexico City will be called off."
Ballresigns, to help HHH
UNITED NATIONS—George W. Ball's resignation as U.S. envoy to the United Nations stole attention today from U.N. Secretary General Thant's plea for an East-West summit. But diplomats said Ball's action may have helped arrange such a summit.
The ambassador quit Thursday, saying he wanted to free himself to aid Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey's Democratic presidential campaign against Republican nominee Richard M. Nixon.
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Negroes will meet with LHS officials
BY MIKE SHEARER Kansan Staff Writer
Lawrence High School's 30 dissident Negro students and their parents decided last night to return to school today as a group for a confrontation with school officials.
The decision to return en masse was made after a day of classes at a black student's home and a meeting between Carl Knox, superintendent of schools, and representatives of the Negroes who had walked out of the high school Wednesday morning.
The students hoped to talk today both with Knox and Lawrence High Principal Bill Medley, who returned from Minneapolis, Minn., late last night.
Medley's outer office, the school's main office, sports a framed quotation by William Allen White: "Liberty is the one thing we cannot have unless we give it to others."
The students planned to recommend immediate action on three of their eight demands before returning to classes:
- Election of a Negro cheerleader and a student council decision on changing the system of selecting cheerleaders.
- Creation of a black student union to meet during school time as Lawrence High's Student Council does.
- Inclusion of the Negro history course which was promised last April in the curriculum.
"This does not mean we have forgotten the other five demands," said Beverly Southard, 408 Indiana St., who was among those in the Wednesday walkout.
Miss Southard said the other demands, including those for an African exchange student, more Negro coaches and teachers and a change in the system of electing school royalty, would by pressed later.
Evicted students given sympathy
By JUDI DIEBOLT
Kansan Staff Writer
Floyd Horowitz, KU associate professor of English has offered to
BULLETIN
KU's Council for Progress fund drive has topped 12.3-million-dollars, Stanley Learned, Bartlesville, Okla., announced at a meeting of that group this afternoon. Learned, national campaign chairman, said at the Kansas Union that he is confident that the 18.3-million-dollar goal will be reached by next year.
obtain legal aid for two KU students. The students, Steve Parker, Rochester, N.Y., junior, and Bob Menadier, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, must either shave their beards and cut their hair or face eviction from their West Hills apartments at the end of this month.
Horowitz yesterday told Menadier's roommate, Jim Griffith, Leawood, junior, he was going to contact a lawyer and the Civil Liberates Union to possibly prevent their eviction.
(See support and sympathy page 10.)
About five white persons attended the Thursday night meeting.
Administrators had earlier said they would not discuss the group's grievances until each student had returned to school individually with his parents.
Both Director Max Stalcup, who was acting in the absence of Medley, and Knox said Thursday they would be willing to meet with the students as a group but that they also wanted to meet the students as individuals.
Knox met with local ministers, citizens and adult representatives of the students yesterday afternoon following his meeting with Miss Southard and Chester Lounie, who has served as a part-time counselor at LHS.
Leonard Harrison, director of the Ballard Community Center, in North Lawrence told Knox that black students need a black cheerleader and pictures of black heroes on the walls so they can have someone with whom they can identify.
Knox replied, "Leonard, I am saying this is bigger than color. This is Americanism."
He said he did not want to create "dualism" by supporting any kind of separation of Negro and white students.
"I am not sympathetic to a black union. I would prefer a union that would include both blacks and whites." Knox said.
He said he thought most black students really didn't want "rigged" opportunities.
"We've got a system going for us that is so good, that has so many merits and values about it that we don't want to throw it out without something to replace it," he said.
Schools are "the greatest place in the world for real democracy to grow and thrive," Knox said.
"If the method had worked, we wouldn't be here today," Harrison said.
Disagree on representation for the University Senate
By Jim Gilhousen Kansan Staff Writer
The student body president said Thursday night 50-50 student-faculty representation on the University Senate would create division.
A professor maintained faculty should retain the most power in University affairs.
A member of Peoples Voice said it would mean equality.
Representation became the overriding issue in last night's Interfraternity Council-sponsored forum in the Kansas Union on the newly-proposed University Senate Code.
The topic was discussed by a panel composed of Ambrose Saricks, associate dean of the Graduate School and chairman of the Student-Faculty Committee on University Governance; Clif Conrad, Bismarck, N.D., senior and student body president; Charles Oldfather, professor of law; and Peoples Voice members Jay Barrish, Kansas City, Mo., senior; Rick Atkinson, Belleville graduate student; and Mrs. Elizabeth Atkinson, Lawrence senior.
"We have been stressing a University community," Conrad said, "but I don't think seating 50 per cent students and 50 per cent faculty on the University Senate will represent a real community. In that case, rather, they will become separate estates."
However, Barrish countered, community means equality.
He stressed that during meetings of the Student-Faculty Committee on University Governance this summer there was absolutely no firm line of separation between the students and the faculty represented. This, he said, is simply a microcosm of what would occur if there were 50-50 representation in the SENate.
"There has been an implicit fear among faculty and administration that students are not able to accept 50 per cent responsibility for running the University," Barrish said.
Then he pointed a finger at apathy among the faculty. On a Faculty Senate of 550 last year the average attendance was only 70 or 80, he said.
Saricks corrected him, claiming the attendance was usually between 100 and 150.
Oldfather, although silent throughout much of the meeting, at one point argued strongly on the ratio of student and faculty representation.
Members of the faculty, he said, are generally here for a longer time than students. They have a long-range commitment to the University and should therefore have a larger voice than students in matters which so directly affect their lives.
A general opinion referendum was proposed by Atkinson, so that the All-Student Council, the Senate Council, and the University Council will know the feelings of the University community before they vote on the adoption of the code.
He proposed a vote for either the majority report, the minority report, or for no change at all in student government. Both students and faculty would vote under his recommendation.
BEVERLY SOUTHARD "We walked out together and we'll go back together."