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kansan
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
76th Year, No.21
Weather
Thunderstorms are expected to spread over the area tonight, continuing until late tomorrow morning, according to the U.S. Weather Bureau. Low tonight will be 60 to 65 degrees.
Monday, October 18, 1965
Capitol Protest Likely
Critics of U.S. foreign policy, encouraged by weekend demonstrations which drew thousands of persons into the streets of American cities to protest the war in Viet Nam, looked ahead today to a march on Washington.
A nationwide "call to mobilize the conscience of America" by marching on the capital was issued in a handbill circulated in Chicago Sunday night at an anti-war meeting.
MEANWHILE, THERE were indications of a possible investigation into the operation of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), one of the participants in the demonstrations. The group has started a campaign to encourage servicemen and draft eligible men to become conscientious objectors and avoid military service.
The date for the proposed march on Washington was Nov. 27, the day after the conclusion of a scheduled four-day convention of the National Coordinating Committee to end the war in Vict Nam, which directed the weekend protests.
Frank Emspak, chairman of the National Coordinating Committee, hailed the demonstrations from his headquarters in Madison, Wis., and said there would be similar action in the future.
"I THINK THE government got the message," Emspak said. "The message was that a very large number of people disagree with American policy in Viet Nam. Our expectations were wonderfully fulfilled."
Emsapk said demonstrations were held in about 80 cities and more than 100,000 persons participated. Before the weekend, the committee had predicted demonstrations in more than 100 U.S. cities.
The two largest demonstrations were held at New York City, where an estimated 13,000 persons paraded up Fifth Avenue, and in Berkeley, Calif., where a march to the Oakland Army Terminal was twice turned back by police.
SPU Joins Viet Nam Protest
By Lee Byrd
Lawrence had its share of action this weekend as nationwide demonstrations and marches against American involvement in Viet Nam rocked the country.
Thirty members of the KU Student Peace Union protested the Viet Nam draft at the Lawrence Selective Service Office Saturday morning, while tens of thousands of demonstrators — mostly students-marched, sang, and attended teach-ins at Berkeley, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles.
KU-STUDENT faculty committee also held a teach-in Saturday afternoon while Gen. Maxwell Taylor and the U.S. State Department issued statements disdaining the "teach-in" movement.
The local events started this way:
After a night in which Viet Nam demonstrations, principally supported by the National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Viet Nam and the Students for a Democratic Society, had virtually dominated the news, the KU SPU appeared at 9:30 Saturday morning in front of the Selective Service Office.
AT FIRST, only 12 persons started a picket with signs that
DOWNTOWN DISCUSSION—A passerby debates the value of draft laws Saturday with a
Photo by Lee Byrd
student demonstrator during the SPU picketing of the Lawrence Draft Board.
Six Vie for Homecoming Crown
The six finalists in the 1965 KU Homecoming Queen contest were announced late last night.
Martha Yankey, Wichita senior,
Kappa Kappa Gamma.
They are: Melinda Cole, Miami, Okla., senior, Chi Omega; Nancy Edwards, Lawrence senior, Delta Delta Delta; Patricia Ann Slider, Lyons sophomore, Ellsworth Hall; Kathleen Strayer, Shawnee Mission junior, Kappa Alpha Theta; Carol Jo Weber, Raytown, Mo., senior, Gamma Phi Beta, and
THE PANEL of judges for the contest is composed of four KU faculty members and three Lawrence residents. They are William Conboy, chairman of the department of speech and drama; Clifford Ketzel, associate professor of political science; Wade R. Stinson, athletic director; Dr. Mary Hatfield, physician at Watkins Hospital, and Lawrence residents Mrs. Duane Schwada, Al Hack, and Corlett Cotton.
Student voting for homecoming queen will be all day Friday at the information booth and at the pre-homecoming Queen's Dance, 8 p.m. Friday. Music for the Queen's Dance will be provided by the Rivieras, who recorded "California Sun."
Notables Assemble to Honor McCollums at Hall Ceremony
The largest residence hall in the midwest was dedicated Sunday in honor of two of KU's most outstanding alumni, Elmer V. and the late Burton McCollum.
Elmer McCollum and his wife, Ernestine, were guests of the hall for a special brunch and then attended the dedication ceremonies.
McCOLLUM SAID that as a high school and college youth he had three "dormitories." First, following school, he would go to a local newspaper office where he would stretch out on the rolls of newsprint for a quick nap.
After he completed his job there, he would go to the gas offices were he studied before and after lighting half the gas street lamps of Lawrence.
When he had completed turning the lamps out about midnight, he would walk to his mother's farm, about 15 minutes from campus.
THE NEW hall was built at a cost of over $3
million and houses 1,100 men. It is the last of five halls built on top of "Daisy Hill."
About 500 people attended the official dedication ceremonies.
Also on the slate of speakers were Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, and Robert G. Smith, Monett, Mo.. junior and hall president.
"I can truthfully say this is the high moment of my 87 years," McCollum said. "I have a brother who thoroughly deserved the monument you have created in his name and mine."
ELMER McCOLLUM, professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, is the discoverer of vitamins A and D.
"This building cannot immortalize Dr. McCollum. His works have already done that," Chancellor Wescoe said.
The men of the hall presented Mrs. McCollum a dozen red roses. Mr. McCollum was presented a color photograph of the building with the McCollum Clan's tartan as background.
Miss Edwards is publicity chairman for Delta Delta Delta, and is serving on the Associated Women Students Fashion Board. She is also active in Kappa Phi and is majoring in elementary education.
MISS COLE, majoring in psychology and human relations, is president of Chi Omega. She is active in Student Union Activities and People-to-People. Miss Cole attended Cottee College, Nevada, Mo., for two years before coming to KU.
Miss Slider is majoring in apparel merchandising. She is active in Collegiate Young Republicans, Vox Pouli, and the KU-Y.
MISS STRAYER, a freshman residence hall counselor, is serving on the AWS Fashion Board, and is active in SUA, KU-Y and People-to-People. Spanish is her major field.
Miss Weber is majoring in secondary English education. She is vice-president of AWS. She is standards chairman of her living group and is a member of Mortar Board. This year she is serving on the Dean's Advisory Board.
Miss Yankey, majoring in art history, is rush chairman of her living group. She is a member of the Jayhawker staff, AWS Senior Privileges Board, AWS Fashion Board and the Chancellor's Hospitality Committee.
read "End the Draft" and "I Won't Fight in Viet Nam." Two SPU members handed out leaflets which criticize the draft and the U.S. policies in Southeast Asia. The number of demonstrators gradually grew to about 30.
At approximately 10:30, George Kimball, Boston junior, attempted to join the demonstration with a sign bearing on obscurity. A Lawrence policeman instantly spotted Kimball and arrested him.
Kimball was taken to the Douglas County jail and booked on a charge of "gross public indecenty." Bond was originally set at $1,000, but was later reduced to $500. He was released after posting the bond. A KU-SU spokesman said the incident was not part of the SPU demonstration.
About an hour later a Lawrence man topped a morning-long debate with one demonstrator by punching him on the chin.
A policeman quickly arrived while several demonstrators tried to calm the man. The 17-year-old demonstrator, a KU freshman, declined to sign a complaint against him.
Another man who appeared about 75 stopped at one end of the line and stared for a moment at the nearest SFU member. "I fought in World War I and World War II," he said, "and I want you to know that I agree with you."
He then accepted a sign which read "Reform the Draft," and joined the picket line for a few minutes.
Luis Mayor, graduate student in economics, appeared to be the strongest critic of the U.S. role in Viet Nam. "The United States has forgotten its own revolution," he said, "and now it has reached a static position of opposing revolutions in general."
Saturday afternoon, the KU Student-Faculty Teach-in Committee, sponsored by KU Students for a Democratic Society, the SPU, and the KU Committee to End the War in Viet Nam, drew 200 students to a teach-in in the Union.
COWAS MODY, political science instructor, seemed the strongest supporter of the U.S. position. He maintained that victory in Viet Nam is necessary in order to keep Red China in check.
Robinson On ASG Council
KU now has a national executive council member in the Associated Student Government of the U.S.A.
Bill Robinson, Great Bend junior and student body vice-president, was elected regional chairman of Region Number Five of the ASG at their second national convention last weekend at Purdue University.
THE ASG, active in all 50 of the states, was founded to aid the development of more effective student governments on college campuses by providing for the exchange of concepts, ideas, and programs.
It recognizes as acceptable voting members any American institution of higher learning whose curriculum consists of four academic years; and as affiliate members (non-voting) any American institution of higher learning whose curriculum consists of two academic years.