CRC Criticizes Wecoe's Stand On Civil Rights
By Fred Zimmerman
The newly-elected chairman of the Civil Rights Council last night criticized Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's statement on housing discrimination.
Dr. Wescoe issued the statement after a meeting Monday with four other administrators and five members of the CRC.
Steve Baratz, Lawrence graduate student and the new chairman, told the council;
Before the meeting Monday the chancellor prepared a statement which he issued after the meeting The statement said in part:
"THE CHANCELLOR was given a moment when he could have made a significant move for civil rights—and he didn't do it. The torch was passed but not accepted."
EMILY TAYLOR, dean of women,
Donald K. Alderson, dean of men;
J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories;
and James E. Gunn, administrative assistant to the chancellor, attended the chancellor's conference along with Carolyn L. Skull, Lawrence sophomore; Marion S. Barry, Memphis, Tenn., graduate student;
Alan D. Latta, Wichita junior; Barbara L. Rice, Kansas City junior, and Sheila B. Tate, Kansas City, Mo., freshman of the council.
"In non-University housing listed with the University . . . the University will not condone discriminatory practices, but it will not and cannot interfere in the rights of the private citizen to choose the person to whom he wishes to rent his property."
The members of this committee asked that the CRC close last night's meeting to the press before they would make their report to the council.
MISS SHULK SAID, "This meeting should be a thinking and planning session. We prefer to be perfectly free to talk. Those of us who visited the chancellor do not want to quote him."
Bruce Wright, Salina sophomore, said, "But this is a civil rights organization and one important civil right in this country is freedom of the press."
The group voted 8 to 7 to allow reporters to remain.
The Lawrence Journal-World and the Kansan each had a reporter at the meeting.
THE COMMITTEE of five then asked for a short recess so they could plan their report concerning
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Daily hansan
58th Year, No. 99
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
People to People-KU Peace Corps
Thursday. March 9, 1961
Foreign Student Plan Initiated
KU students were challenged with "an opportunity unmatched in history to create better international understanding" last night.
Sam Montague, chairman of the National Hallmark Foundation, said:
"You have a chance to create understanding right here at home without having to join the Peace Corps. We should open up our homes and hearts to foreign visitors, not just show them the American way of life."
MR. MONTAGUE was speaking at the first campus People to People meeting. Present were Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, Dean Clark Coan, four foreign students and about forty-five campus leaders.
"One of the great things the University can do is to become engaged in international affairs," Chancellor Wescoleo said, "and through this association help ease international tensions. I consider this to be one of the greatest areas of possible accomplishment for the University."
After the discussion the group made plans to organize a central committee for action in a people to people program. An organizational
meeting was scheduled to be held within the next two weeks.
MONTAGUE TOLD the group the People to People program was established in 1956 by Eisenhower. He said there is a program in Kansas City to take care of foreign visitors. The visitors are taken into homes and are given an opportunity to talk with persons of common interests.
"The important thing is not to show them the American way of life, but to really get to know them as individuals," Mr. Montague said.
THERE ARE 12 college graduates
Vox Selects Election Slate
in all of the Congo," said William F. Dawson, Kansas City, Mo., junior and chairman of the meeting.
"The people who come to the U. S. go back as the leaders of their countries and it is really dangerous if they leave with a misunderstanding. Kwame Nkrumah, the premier of Ghana, was educated in the U. S. and is now strongly pro-Communist."
By Ron Gallagher
The General Assembly of Vox Populi last night stamped unanimous approval on a list of nine candidates proposed by the party's executive council. The slate was completed this morning with the announcement of a candidate from the School of Pharmacy.
The Vox candidates for the ASC school districts are:
Jay Deane, Kansas City sophomore, men's representative from the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Carol McMillen, Coldwater junior, women's representative from the College of Liberal Arts; Verne Gauby, Grand Island, Neb., School of Law; Roy Deem, Joplin junior, School of Business; Gerald Buttron, Lancaster junior, School of Engineering.
LoRee Antenen, Bazine junior,
School of Education; Ron Gallagher;
Fort Scott junior, School of Journalism;
Tom Kurt, Pratt graduate
Student Lashes 'Leftist' NSA, Upholds Riot Film
A student leader lashed out at the "leftist" tendencies of the National Student Association and the opponents of the film "Operation Abolition" last night.
Scott Stanley, Bethel law student and a member of the national board of directors of Young Americans for Freedom, made his charges against these groups in an hour long talk at the KU Young Republicans meeting last night.
STANLEY DESCRIBED the Young Americans for Freedom as a youth organization of conservative political belief with 67 chapters and a membership of 21,000.
cies of the NSA were "ideological." Stanley said "it's just the fact that they aren't informed" that makes the "leftist" tendencies possible.
In an interview after his speech,
Stanley said the "leftist" tenden-
HE SAID he based his statement on the reports of Carol Dawson, legislative assistant to Rep. Donald Bruce, R-Ind., and Howard Phillips, director of Young Americans for Freedom and president of Harvard College's student body.
Attacking what he termed charges that the film was not accurate and complete, he said:
Stanley described "Operation Abolition" as "merely a record of what happened at San Francisco."
Aslom Faridi from Pakistan spoke on the problems that most foreign students have in America. "We are very shy when we first come here and can't discuss with American students even the smallest problem like how to use the telephone. So we have to keep our problems to ourselves.
student, Graduate School; Ezequiel Munoz, Topeka junior, School of Pharmacy; Charlotte Masters, Advance, Mo. junior, School of Fine Arts.
The campus political organization Tuesday evening nominated Max Eberhart, Great Bend junior, for student body president and selected Larry Moore, Topeka junior, for the vice presidential spot.
JACK DUNBAR, Agency, Mo. senior and vice president of Vox, represented the Executive Council of the party in a motion to approve the group introduced last night. The General Assembly passed Dunbar's motion endorsing the group by acclamation.
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The General Assembly approved a motion to authorize the Executive Council to make the final decision on this candidate to eliminate the necessity of meeting again to ratify the completed slate.
VOX PRESIDENT Jack Roberts, Kansas City junior, said, "The slate of candidates we are presenting is the end product of a lot of work put in by Vox."
Roberts discussed the People-to-People banquet he had attended before the Vox meeting. He urged that Vox investigate the possibility of participating in a program for better assimilation of foreign students at KU.
"I think we have a great opportunity to expand our activities by supporting the People-to-People program," Roberts said.
Faridi feels that there is a need for more social groups at KU.
"The KU International Club is one of the best I know. The programs they plan are fine, but how many American students belong?
"The International Club should be the basis of this program. By having American students participate, we could learn as much about your culture as you could about ours. Most of our countries are isolated and not exposed to different cultures. What we need to know are the little things about the American way of life."
FARIDI SAID THAT by bringing foreign students into American homes, visitors could best learn what Americans are like.
"I had read a lot about America, but after coming here I realized I knew nothing as do most foreign students. I thought all Americans were millionaires and that all people in Chicago carried guns. It is only after being here for some time that one realizes we are all human beings."
LUIS MAYOR, Placetas, Cuba,
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Forum to Discuss African Problems
Two African students will discuss "Which Way Will Africa Turn" at the Current Event's Forum at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
KU, Cadets Debate Market
Resolved: That the United States and Canada should establish a common market.
This question was debated last night by Howard Graves and Bud Coddington from the United States Military Academy on the affirmative side and Louis Lawrence, and Leland Cole, Great Bend seniors, taking the negative stand.
"Our friends have given us reasons, logic and facts why we should adopt this program with Canada, but we want quotes." Cole said.
The Negative: (KU)
"Our friends sound like they want us to annex Canada," he continued.
"The adoption of free trade between the two countries would mean Canada might lose its identity and it would become another 'banana republic' such as the Central American countries feel they have become." he said.
"If the proposed movement of labor and people were to take place, what would stop the Canadian workers from entering the U.S. and working for lower wages than our present scale," Cole asked.
"THEIS WOULD be a tremendous undercut for American standards,' he said.
Lawrence, in his constructive speech, said 59 per cent of the exports from Canada to the U.S. were duty free.
THE PRODUCTS on which there are tariffs are farm products.
"If the tariff were removed from wheat, the small American farmer would be annihilated," he said.
"If this happens, we will be storing our own wheat at $1 million a day, and eating Canadian wheat," Lawrence continued.
"We must use common sense and direct our money where it will do the most good—keep it in our own country."
He referred to Harper's magazine and quoted:
"A plan to establish a common market between the U.S. and Canada would accomplish three things," Coddington said.
The Affirmative: (West Point)
"It would improve political and economic relations between the two countries, remove artificial trade barriers, and make the West stronger in resistance against the Sino-Russian bloc," he continued.
Graves said: "We would set up a council for the formulation of policy, and a commission for the administration of that policy. The last requirement would be substantial relocation funds for the relocation of labor and capital.
"We seem to be in the same boat," said Graves referring to Candada, "so why not try rowing in the same direction?"
"We've been accused by our Kansas friends of taking a theoretical approach," said Graves.
"True the economic principle of comparative advantages is theory, but its application is practical in every sense. It would mean both countries benefit from the goods which they are able to produce.
"IF ALL BARRIERS were removed, the free flow of goods, persons and capital, would, as my colleague and I have pointed out, improve the relations, the prosperity, and the stature of both sister countries in the eyes of the world," said Graves.
"CERTAINLY," said Coddington, "we do not want to annex Canada as our friends on the negative side imply, and we don't want to destroy our high standard of living.
YOU LISTEN HERE—Louis Lawrence, Great Bend senior, listens intently as Howard Graves, West Point cadet, emphasizes a point in his constructive speech at last night's debate.