Staff photo by Bill Stephens
Early or late? Someone still seems to have the Christmas season in his heart, even though the Twelve Days have passed. Perched on the top of Naismith Hall, now under construction, this tree can be seen for quite a distance. Someone is either confused about the time or, perhaps, is experimenting with a new calendar. What we could use right now, though, is another Christmas vacation!
Student Credit Stands Good With Lawrence Merchants
By Jerry Kern
The KU student is well sought after by Lawrence merchants and banks. He should be. According to a recent survey, the total annual income of all students at KU is $26,526,183.00. This amount suggests a very strong trade population; and it is as many local merchants will attest. However, there is a problem. How much credit can merchants recognize in a non-local group so young and so mobile?
Webster's Dictionary defines credit as the influence or power derived from enjoying the confidence of others. For the KU student, there seems to be a question about how much financial
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confidence is placed in him by Lawrence bank officials, merchants, and even by the University.
ACCORDING TO Douglas County Under Sheriff Wayne Schmille, the percentage of KU students who are prosecuted during the year for insufficient fund or forged checks is very small.
"Students themselves do not create a special credit problem," he continued. "But there are always a few rotten eggs. Merchants are so used to cashing checks for anyone who even looks
like a student, that, indirectly, the student is a problem.
"WE HAVE BEEN having trouble with students stealing another student's ID card. If this situation is not corrected, it could cause trouble for the legitimate student. We also have some students who load us up with bad checks when they know they are leaving and won't be back.
Many students who cash bogus or insufficient fund checks simply are not concerned about it, Schmille said. "When they receive notice of such a check, they hope it will be forgotten and they can get away with it. However, after they graduate, we get a warranty for their arrest which doesn't impress prospective employers. Each year we receive hundreds of inquiries on students for prospective jobs. If we have in the records that a student has a $10 insufficient check against him, that student most likely will not get the job," he said.
**OUT-OF-STATE** students cannot be extradited for a misdemeanor. Anything less than $50 constitutes a misdemeanor. However, any forgery is a felony and enjoys the privilege of extradition. Most insufficient fund checks written by students are misdemeanors.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No. 65
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Shastri Dies
Tuesday, January 11, 1966
India Mourns Death
NEW DELHI—(UPI)— India's saddened millions today received the body of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, man of the people whose final hours were spent in pursuit of peace for a nation which has seen little but hardship and war.
The young socialist official referred to a division within the
A crowd estimated at 30,000 thronged New Delhi Airport for the arrival of a Soviet III18 proplet plane which returned Shastri's body from Tashkent, U.S.S.R., where he succumbed earlier today of a heart attack.
RECEIVING THE body of the 61-year-old Prime Minister were Indian President Dr. S. Radhakrishnan and Shastri's eldest son, Hari Krishnan. It was placed on an open gun carriage flanked by six generals as the vast crowd, many weeping and others shouting "Long live Shastri," pressed forward for final glimpse of the dimunitive statesman.
Shastri's face appeared serene
Calls for Withdrawal
Socialist Slams Viet War
"The administration," whom Jones referred to on one occasion as Uncle Lyndon, "knows the anti-war movement can force it to stop the war," he said, and gave the draft-card burning law and distorted press releases as indications of their opposition.
Complete withdrawal of American troops, not negotiation, is the only solution to ending the Viet Nam war, according to Lew Jones, a member of the National Council of Young Socialists' Alliance and the Committee to End the War in Viet Nam.
Jones, speaking last night before about 30 persons in the Forum Room, commented on the strengths and weaknesses of the anti-war movement and its effect on the Johnson administration.
He gave the logic of the war as a desperate attempt by the rulers of the country to stop world-wide colonial revolutions. Motivated by fear, the rulers may get bolder, Jones continued, and spread the war all over Southeast Asia and, ultimately, into China.
"TO CALL FOR negotiation is exactly what Johnson wants. He has power, prestige, and money and will incorporate the movement into his own call for negotiation. It will merely mobilize
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"I have difficulty understanding the argument for negotiation. To my knowledge, no war has ever ended at a negotiation table but only temporarily quieted." Jones explained, giving Korea and Laos as examples. "A negotiated peace is only a guarantee of a wider war later."
"THE OFFICAL administration version is different," Jones explained, "because if the truth were known the American people would not allow themselves to be used as a tool for such rotten ends."
movement as to its objective, urging negotiation or withdrawal.
in death, reflecting the diplomatic triumph of Tashkent, where he signed a historic peace pact with Pakistani President Mohammed Ayub Khan just 12 hours before he was stricken.
It will be cremated in Hindu rites Wednesday near Shanti Vana—the Woodland of Peace on the banks of the Jumna River. It was here that Shastri's predecessor —Jawaharlal Nehru— was
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cremated 18 months ago before Shastri was sworn in to succeed him.
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts a low tonight in the upper 30's, becoming mostly cloudy. It will be mostly cloudy and mild Wednesday.
EN ROUTE to New Delhi by jet airliner for the funeral were ranking government officials from throughout the world, including Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and former U.S. Ambassadors to India John Kenneth Galbraith and Sen. John Sherman Cooper, R-Ky., as official representatives of President Johnson.
Home Affairs Minister Gulzarilal Nanda, 67, was sworn in earlier today as interim Prime Minister, a sorrowful task he undertook once before on the death of Nehru.
ASC News
The All Student Council will consider an appropriation of $100 requested by the College Intermediary Board at its meeting today, at 7 p.m., in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
The request was made in the form of a resolution to the Council. The money, if granted, will be used to finance a trip by the Board to the University of Michigan to investigate the residential college system being tested there.
Gary Walker, Wichita senior and chairman of the Board, appeared before the Council at its last meeting to explain the reason for the request.
HE SAID THE residential college system is a method of education, used primarily at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England, where both students and faculty live and attend class in the same building.
MIKE McNALLY, Bartlesville, Okla., junior and ASC chairman, referred the resolution, at that last meeting, to the Finance and Auditing Committee for consideration, since the ASC Constitution requires this for any motion for appropriation of a sum in excess of $50 which is not on the regular ASC budget.
THAT COMMITTEE'S decision and a vote from the Council on the request are both expected in today's meeting, McNally said.
McNally added he will appoint a committee to investigate and rewrite the elections bill, ASC Bill No. 2 of the ASC Constitution.