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Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
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77th Year, No.19
See Weather—page 9
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, October 13, 1966
—UDK Photo by Gary Whitney
THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH Senior class officers appear satisfied with sweatshirts. How do other seniors feel? See related story, page 3.
CRC rejects ce HRC in race test with beauty salon
CRC rejects censure
By DAN AUSTIN
A test case of racial discrimination in Lawrence mentioned in last night's Civil Rights Council meeting is the result of activity by the All Student Council Human Rights Committee (HRC).
Carl Struby, Leawood senior and HRC chairman, said the HRC had sent a Negro woman student, Beth Cox, St. Louis, Mo., junior, to a Lawrence beauty salon on Sept. 26.
Miss Cox, who had telephoned for an appointment to have her hair washed and set, entered the salon at 3 p.m. After a 25 minute wait, Miss Cox was told by a salon employee, "We are not trained to do your kind of hair."
THANKING THE BEAUTY operator, Miss Cox left the salon. Three days after the incident, the HRC chairman sent a registered letter to the salon advising them of the situation and quoting an amendment to the 1965 Kansas Civil Rights Act which makes it illegal for beauty operators to refuse service on the basis of race.
Struby reported last night that she is preparing to do so.
THE MANAGER of the salon said that there were no operators in the shop trained to work with Negro hair.
"We do manicures and other services for Negroes, but we don't want to mess up their hair," the manager said.
There are two cosmotology schools in Kansas but one does not train operators to manage Negro hair. A check with the state cosmotologist revealed that special training is needed for Negro hair.
"THIS IS a test case," commented Struby, "and it is not just this establishment we are after.
"We want an interpretation of the new Kansas Civil Rights Act," he added. "There is no blanket ruling whether a salon must staff operators trained to set Negro hair."
The HRC will send particulars of the case to the University Human Relations Committee this week.
By BETSY WRIGHT
A motion to publish a letter censuring Donald Alderson, dean of men, failed unanimously at last night's Civil Rights Council (CRC) meeting.
The letter concerned a statement allegedly made last spring by Alderson. At that time, a Negro girl, having been refused service at a Lawrence beauty shop, brought her case before the CRC.
Neil Stone, CRC president, said: "Last year Dean Alderson assured us that the University Human Relations Committee (UHRC) had filed suit against the beauty shop. They hadn't. We had ended the demonstration (against the beauty shop) because the University was supposedly acting in good faith, but they weren't."
AFTER A statement by Norman Baxley, ASC Human Rights Council (HRC) member, regarding last year's case and an HRC sponsored test case this fall, CRC members veted publishing the formulated letter.
CRC members voted to concentrate on the beauty shop issue instead, and elected to send their own members to Lawrence shops to test the issue before taking further action.
Election of officers for the coming year was then held. Chosen were Margaret Linton, Leavenworth freshman, president; John Peek, Brooklyn, N.Y., graduate student, vice-president, and Shirley Wilburn, K.C., Mo., junior, secretary-treasurer.
The Council also discussed proposals to start an education center in North Lawrence and heard a report by Baxley on developments in an HRC Lawrence housing survey.
Fire Alderson Stickers Appear
With commando-like tactics, a group of KU students covered portions of the campus early this morning with signs reading "Fire Alderson—Discard the Dean of Men."
The signs—of the bumpersticker type—were printed and distributed by Don Olson, Lawrence junior and chairman of the
WHAT'S INSIDE
Calling for the removal of Donald K. Alderson, KU Dean of Men, the signs had been planned by Olson for nearly a month.
Students for a Democratic Society, and several friends.
EDITORIAL—Too many cooks in the ASC. See page 2.
"I'm openly declaring war against him." Olson commented, "because of his attitude towards students.
"He (Alderson) has been unfair in his dealings with students," Olson said.
**SPORTS** — Betas take first gridiron defeat in nine years. See page 7.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said, "The juvenile approach of this action is something I would not care to comment on at this time.
By 9 a.m. today all the signs on campus buildings had been removed. About 750 were printed.
"Defacing of public property is a serious matter," the Chancellor added.
Alderson said he had no immediate comment on the stickers.
They had been placed on his home and mail box at 1920 Maine St. this morning.
OPEN WAR
Staff photo by Bill Mauk
These signs were found on doors of several campus buildings and living groups this morning as part of a campaign by Don Olson, chairman of Students for Democratic Society, to remove Dean Alderson. Olson said he was "declaring war" on Alderson because of his unfair dealings with students. The signs were removed before 9 a.m.