Extremist Papers Stir ASC Action
By Robert Henry
A deluge of extremist literature being received by KU campus political leaders has stimulated a resolution which will be presented to the All Student Council at its next meeting.
Since early December, several ASC members and the leaders of Vox Populi and University Party have been receiving publications regularly from various extremist groups—despite the fact they have not solicited these publications.
The resolution, to be submitted by Russell Cummings, Topeka graduate student and ASC men's large residence halls representative, is directed against the National Renaissance Party, the distributor of the recent wave of extremist literature on campus. Cummings and Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B.C., senior and student body president, both worked on the resolution.
THE RESOLUTION states that ASC representatives do not wish to receive this material, and that the ASC will send to the National Renaissance Party a request to discontinue such mailings.
In addition, the resolution calls for the ASC to check with local postal authorities to see if any action can be taken to assure that the mailings to ASC members will be discontinued.
"The resolution's intent is not to choke freedom of the press; it is simply a protest against this type of literature," Stewart explained Wednesday.
John B. Harris, Lawrence post master, said yesterday that certain types of extremist literature might fall under some provision of the postal regulations dealing with improper mail. He pointed out that by law he may not offer an opinion on improper mail.
"IF THE RECIPIENT thinks the literature is improper, he should send a copy of it, and a written statement of the objection, to me," Harris said. "I will then forward it to the postal inspector for this region, and if he thinks it is improper the publisher will then be charged with violation of postal regulations," Harris said.
Harry Bretschneider, Kansas City, Mo., senior and secretary-general of the University Party, has been receiving copies of the literature.
"THE VAST MAJORITY of the people would be repulsed by this kind of propaganda—so much of it is irrational," Bretschneider said. "The appeal is to emotional prejudices which might exist in a person, and not to reason." Bretschneider said. He said he regretted his name being on such mailing lists because it might imply he is sympathetic to the extremist views.
The publications are being sent to the campus political officials, addressed to them by name and their political title. No one knows how their name got on the list, but some theorize that the student directory might be the source for the mailing lists. The student leaders have been
receiving nearly the same kind of literature—all being mailed by the National Renaissance Party (NRP)
One of the publications, a newspaper entitled The Free American, calls itself "America's only Nazi Newspaper." Although the newspaper proclaims itself independent, it declares its support for the American Nazi Party and for the candidacy of Lincoln Rockwell for President.
An examination of The Free American reveals it to be harshly anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, anti-Communist, pro-fascist and pro-white supremacy. It is published at least four times yearly in New York City with Dan Burros as editor.
ANOTHER NEWSPAPER-TYPE publication being received is The Councilor, printed in Shreveport, La. In its four pages it attacks Negroes and Communists. The issue of Nov. 19 linked Robert Kennedy, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, and Martin Luther King with the Communist cause.
The attacks continue in literature published by the NRP, whose headquarters are in New York City. Combining editorial comment with burlesque cartoons, the NRP publicizes its Anglo-Saxon supremacy point of view. The NRP charges the "Anglo-Saxon and Gentile Community" is being victimized by the Jewish race, the Negroes, and the Communists.
Another publication warns white parents against allowing their children to attend camps where their young minds can be warped by camp directors who believe in close friendship with Negroes. In this appeal, the NRP line preaches white supremacy, Negro inferiority, and maintenance of the purity of the white race.
Among the camps and youth movements which the NRP says are most dangerous are the YMCA, YWCA, Scout camps for boys, and Scout camps for girls.
IN ANOTHER PUBLICATION by the NRP, the Jewish race is strongly attacked and portrayed as the real enemy of the United States from within.
An advertisement from the National States Rights Party, Birmingham, Ala., offers an anti-Jewish book for sale which they claim tells how the Jews have accumulated wealth at the expense of the sweat and toil of the "White Christians."
Student leaders who have been receiving this kind of propaganda were unanimous in denouncing it.
MIKE MINER, Lawrence senior and ASC chairman, said that he sometimes receives literature from the American Nazi Party (ANP). "You name it and they hate it," Miner said of the ANP. "It bothers me to have my name on their mailing list—it might look as if I believed as these groups do." Miner said. He said the various kinds of extremist literature he receives do not have any intellectual appeal, only emotional value.
Daily hansan
62nd Year. No. 69
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Churchill Seriously Ill; Suffers Cerebral Clot
Friday, Jan. 15, 1965
The medical bulletin issued just before 9 a.m. CST today said:
LONDON — (UPI) — Sir Winston Churchill, Britain's 90-year-old great statesman, suffered a stroke today.
HE HAS BEEN ailing with the problems of age. When he turned 90 last Nov. 30, he appeared at the window of his home and appeared chiper as he gave his famous V-forvictory sign to a cheering crowd outside.
His doctors said he was seriously ill.
A medical bulletin said he suffered a cerebral thrombosis—or a blood clot on the brain. This was complicated by a circulator's weakness.
Members of his family rushed to his bedside.
One of the callers at Hyde Park Gate was Viscountess Asquith, who spent 15 minutes inside.
Asked how she found Sir Winston,
she replied: "He is very peaceful."
The stroke was Churchill's third during his lifetime. In addition to weathering two similar illnesses, the old warrior has survived three heart attacks, eight bouts of pneumonia, and several broken bones.
The aged statesman, who as Prime Minister rallied Britain and the western world to victory in World War II, was stricken at his home in London's fashionable Hyde Park Gate section.
"After a cold Sir Winston has developed circulatory weakness and there has been a cerebral thrombosis.
"A further bulletin will be issued at 4 p.m. CST tonight."
THE BULLETIN was signed by Lord Moran and Lord Brain, two of Britain's most distinguished medical men.
A cerebral thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot that prevents circulation of blood in a blocked area of brain tissue.
Lord Moran, who is 82 himself, has been Sir Winston's physician for many years. Lord Moran is an authority on diseases of the brain and the nervous system.
A MEDICAL SPECIALIST asked to comment on the bulletin said:
"The phrase 'circulatory weakness' is disturbing. It can mean Sir Winston's condition is very serious. The cerebral thrombosis means a clot in one of the arteries of the brain."
Lord Moran, who saved Sir Winston's life when he was stricken with pneumonia during one of the World War II Big Three Meetings, read the bulletin from a slip of paper as he stood on the doorstep of the Churchill town house at 28 Hydle Park Gate.
He refused to expand on the wording of the bulletin itself.
Churchill has been susceptible to colds all his life, and even the slight-
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early we won't have as much to do in the end." Miss Olsen said.
"The way we we've started, we're having 30 to 45 minute rehearsals every night," Cheri Olsen, Hinsdale, Ill., sophomore, said. Miss Olsen is one of the leads in the Alpha Chi Omega-Sigma Phi Epsilon production of "How the West Was Won," or "Let's Give It Back to the Indians."
"We're hoping that by starting
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LEADS CHOSEN for the Alpha Chi Omega-Sigma Phi Epsilon skit are: Scarlet—Joan Danielson, Leawood junior; Lil—Cheri Osher; Sherid~Richard Danielson, Sioux City, Iowa, junior; Indian—Mike Ferrari, Prairie Village sophomore; Percy~John Erickson, Kansas City senior; and Fred—Mark Condon, Kansas City, Mo., freshman.
IN THE ALPHA PHI-Alpha KappaLambda production of "The Spouse That Roared," those playing the leads are: The Dutchess-Beth Heppes, La Grange, Ill., junior; Alice-Lyn Rambo, Kansas City, Mo, senior; The Leader—Bill Sampson, Topeka freshman; The Duke—Bruce Bikales, Prairie Village senior, and the Jester—Steve Vilmer, Shawnee Mission senior.
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est one is treated as serious, especially in view of his advanced age.
THE OLD STATESMAN had been persuaded by his family and doctors not to run for re-election to Parliament last year. The main reason for his retirement was his inability to move about as the result of an injury to his leg.
On June 28, 1962, he fell while getting out of bed in his Monte Carlo hotel room and broke his left thigh bone. Doctors set the leg in a two-hour operation and placed the leg in a plaster cast. He developed blood clot in the leg and his condition was complicated by a bronchial infection, but he overcame this mishap and returned to London.
In mid-November 1960, Churchill had fallen on a rug in his London home and had broken a small bone in his back.
These injuries, plus failing hearing, declining eyesight and inability to get around without help, slowed him down and confined him to the quiet life, which he found boring. All his life had been at the heart of great action—as soldier, war correspondent, statesman, painter and writer.
UNTIL HIS LAST years, he made regular appearances at his two favorite "clubs"—the House of Commons and "the other club."
"The other club" was a society of distinguished drinking and eating friends which Churchill co-founded in 1911 as a place to meet outside the "real club"—Parliament.
Neighbors watched from nearby windows as the visitors arrived.
Afternoon newspapers reported under headlines "Sir Winston Unwell" and Sir Winston "not very well."
Sir Winston has been under medical supervision for several years and a trained nurse stands by at all times. He seldom goes out of his London nome.
STAFF members at Churchill's home referred calls to his personal secretary, David Montague Brown.
"I can not say anything at the moment," a member of the household said. "You will have to contact Mr. Montague Brown later this afternoon."
She said Brown was expected to be available later in the day.
Sir Winston's son-in-law, Christopher Soames, sprinted up the steps of Churchill's home shortly after 12 p.m. and left before Lord Moran arrived.
Competition, Pressure Cause Student Illness
Bv Jane Larson
It is 2 a.m. and a KU student slumps over his book trying to cram the last bit of information into his head.
Although the hour is late and his evelids are heavy, he refuses to quit —or, more appropriately, he is afraid to quit.
This is a picture of today's college students—the competition so keen and the pressure so intense that he is driven to work harder and longer than most college students of the past.
THE UNIVERSITY world into which he is thrust demands almost a 24-hour student, competing with the keenest of his peers.
William A. Binns, clinical psychologist at Watkins Hospital, said yesterday, "The university age group, ages 18 through 22, have the highest incidence of emotional illnesses."
University he is faced with pressures from his studies, social commitments, and his newly acquired independence.
HE FORMS HIS own value system and takes on responsibilities and commitments which force him into adulthood in some respects, yet leave him a child, dependent upon his parents, in other ways.
When the new student enters the
The university years deal with a crucial junction in his life where the student is forced to make important decisions which can affect his entire future.
Dr. Sydney O. Schroeder, directing psychiatrist at Watkins Hospital, said, "It is a time when the student is changing, a sudden change. He has more independence and is trying to establish his identity in his own right."
In trying to establish a unique identity for himself the student often reverts to rebellion. He feels that in order to be individualistic he must
believe the opposite of others, whether they are his true feelings or not. Here an identity crisis may develop.
Although the new-found freedom can cause problems, one of the greatest pressures the student faces throughout his entire college career is the push on grades and academic performance.
"THE ILLNESS interferes with the work," Binns said, "rather than the work causing the illness. Only very rarely does the student become ill because he is unable to meet the demands of the studies."
"In all my years of treating students," Dr. R. I. Cauteson, director of the student health center, said, "I've never seen a student become physically ill of studying too much. It's not the school work they become sick on, it's the other things."
Mrs. Roberta Holder, part-time psychiatric social worker at Watkins Hospital who believes that academic
If the new student comes from a small town, as do so many of the KU students, he may find the anonymity and largeness of the KU campus quite frightening and upsetting.
pressure is one of the major causes of student disturbances, said, "For the freshman who has found high school easy, or has not studied hard, college is a rude awakening."
"I THINK KU has high academic standards and the student feels this. He can't expect to do as well at college with the same amount of work as he did in high school," Dr. Schroeder said. "Sometimes this is quite a blow and he finds it hard to accept."
If the student had done well in high school he has the added pressure of the expectation from his family and home town. He feels he must live up to these previous standards.
Not only is the academic adjustment necessary, but the constant
push to be accepted by one's peers and to find a comfortable spot in the living group.
"The new student faces a huge adjustment problem." Mrs. Holder said. "The transition from a small school to such a diffused area, such as KU, does cause problems. There is the pressure to make friends and feel a part of the whole university, even though it is an unfamiliar situation."
THE SOCIAL adjustment of a student depends upon the flexibility of his character. Many problems arise when the student is from a small homogeneous town, where most of the people have similar ideas. The diversity of the university can almost cause a cultural shock.
"At the university the people don't go by the ground rules," Binns said. "He has to reformulate his ideas of the world. For a basically healthy person he finds adjustment relatively easy."