Uproar Subsides On Cal Campus
BERKELEY, Calif. — (UPI) -The "Free Speech" uproar on the University of California campus subsided today after the faculty suided with students demanding the right to freely advocate on campus any cause—legal or illegal, violent or non-violent.
If the proposal, approved by the faculty yesterday in an 825 to 115 vote, is accepted by the university administration and by the Board of Regents, no rules will be enforced on campus political activity and speech except those dealing with the "time, place and manner" of such activity. Those aspects will be regulated only to the extent necessary "to prevent interference with the normal function of the university."
Leaders of the student revolt which brought near chaos to the campus in the past week hailed the decision of the Academic Senate, the official organization of the permanent faculty.
THE "FREE SPEECH Movement" (FSM) approved the faculty proposal "with deep gratitude." Mario Savio, its chief spokesman, said he "could not imagine the Regents overruling an 8-1 vote by the Academic Senate."
But President Clark Kerr said the faculty proposal "involves such basic changes in the policies affecting all campuses of the university" that he would not comment further on it until he has met with the 17 other Regents. Their next meeting is scheduled to be in Los Angeles Dec. 18.
At their last meeting, the Regents liberalized rules on political activity on campus but insisted that the university would not permit the campus "to be used as a base for organizing illegal activity."
LAST NIGHT THE FSM called off its demonstrations, but Savio issued a warning that unless the Regents accept the faculty proposal there could be more trouble.
When the decision of the Academic Senate was announced, thousands of students who had gathered on the
'Jobs, Family Not Related'
There is no correlation between the Latin American student's employment and the family economic situation, Jean Labbens, professor of sociology at France's Lyons Institute, said yesterday at a sociology lecture.
Speaking on student employment in Latin America, especially Central America, Prof. Labbens explained that student employment is not always taken up because of financial need, but in accordance with the culture's social structure.
It is more or less expected of the Latin American male to take a job when he enters the university, Prof. Labbens said.
THOSE STUDENTS WHO WORK, he said, do not necessarily reflect the financial status of the family. In fact, there is a larger percentage of students from the higher income bracket with jobs than those from the more needy families.
"The university does not produce the number of graduates required to fill some posts," Prof. Labbens said, "and so they have to be filled with students."
"FEMALE EMPLOYMENT is practically negligible," Prof. Labbens said.
However, the situation varies drastically when it comes to the female student. he said.
Probably the reason for this, he said, is that few Latin American females exceed or attain the university level of their education.
One of the most common positions occupied by students is that of the technician, he said.
IN MAPPING OUT THE courses taken by university students one must first try to know what the employed students do and what type of work allows them to study, Prof. Labbens said.
campus broke into a cheer. They held an impromptu street dance around a Christmas tree in the Plaza which has been the focal point of the "Free Speech" rallies.
One of the key points of the faculty proposal was that there should be "no university disciplinary measures against members of the organizations of the university community" for activities prior to yesterday.
SAVIO SAID afterward he hoped the faculty will go farther than that and try to have criminal charges dropped against 768 students who were arrested for an all-night sit-in last week.
"I can't imagine the state punishing these people who have done this great thing for the university," he said.
Vespers Hail Yule Season
The 40th annual Christmas Vespers with tableaux involving more than 400 students will be given twice on Sunday in Hoch Auditorium. Starting times for the vespers, which have attracted more than 6,000 persons, will be 3:30 and 7:30 p.m.
The School of Fine Arts presents the vespers, which include the major music organizations along with tableaux arranged by the art departments.
Half-hour carillon recitals on the World War II memorial bells, played by Albert Gerken, KU carillonneur, will precede each performance at 2:45 and 6:45 p.m. Sharing these times will be brass ensembles playing carols from the outside balcony of the auditorium.
Music will be by the University Concert Choir, the Chamber Choir, Chorale Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, and L. E. Anderson, professor of organ.
This year's tableaux will be "The Prophet," "Carolers," "Three Shepherds," and "Nativity," designed by four members of the drawing and painting department. They are Raymond Eastwood, professor; Nick Vaccaro, associate professor; Robert Wright, instructor; and Robert Green, associate professor.
The vespers are open to the public, free of charge. A free-will offering for the Christmas Vespers Scholarship Fund will be received and used for scholarships for students in art and music.
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62nd Year, No. 54
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, Dec. 9, 1964
Wilson Prepares To Sell Nuclear Ideas to Europe
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— British Prime Minister Harold Wilson wound up two days of Washington talks today and prepared to try to sell European allies a series of broad proposals for more collective control of Western nuclear power.
Wilson told a news conference before flying to Canada that he regarded his talks with President Johnson as a "complete success." He said there was agreement on "guidelines" of how to proceed with allied discussions.
In the meeting with reporters, Wilson appeared to soften some of his opposition to the controversial U.S. proposal for a 25-ship NATO nuclear fleet.
The prime minister said he had been misinterpreted, in reports before leaving Britain for Washington, as being "irrevocably opposed" to international crews on such a fleet. And he described as exaggerated reports that Britain was concerned
that West Germany would obtain a "finger on the nuclear trigger."
Wilson declined to spell out exactly what the broad British proposals are for increased allied nuclear coordination. He plans to do this before the House of Commons next week on his return to London.
In the talks here Wilson won approval from President Johnson to try to sell his ideas to other members of the alliance.
Johnson agreed, meanwhile, that the United States would not, for a limited time at least, press its own proposal for a nuclear-armed fleet
The British proposals are reported to envisage a much larger allied
The weather bureau predicted increasing cloudiness tonight and partly cloudy skies with rising temperatures tomorrow. The low tonight is to be 25.
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force including land and air components and a scaled-down naval fleet.
Wilson said his discussions with Johnson "very much" represented the beginning of a renegotiation of the Nassau agreement between former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the late President John F. Kennedy.
Under the Nassau agreement, Britain undertook to contribute to NATO its Polaris submarines on the basis that it would have the right of withdrawal under certain circumstances.
Wilson said today "we are now moving forward in a progressive series of proposals."
His remarks were interpreted as indicating that he had advanced suggestions that Britain would offer its Polaris submarines to some kind of multilateral force within NATO on a no-recall basis.
Education, Pearl Harbor Topics Win First of Potpourri Contests
The second half of the Speech I Potpourri given each semester with contestants from Speech I classes participating, will be at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser Theater.
The contest is in two sections on different nights. Eight students compete against each other each night, and a winner or winners is chosen each night.
The Monday night round was won by Adrian R. Clark and Anthony R. O'Bryan, both Kansas City freshmen.
BOITE CASTON, assistant instructor of speech and drama, and master of ceremonies, presented speakers' gavels to the two winners. Clark spoke on education, and O'Bryan recalled the Japanese at room Rosel Harper 23 years ago.
Clark spoke on education. O'Bryan recalled the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 23 years ago.
"Education creates individual thinkers," Clark said. "It is the
foundation upon which future civilizations are built."
"The world is the greatest hall of learning ever made, and its inhabitants are the greatest teachers," he said.
Frederick W. Weller, Prairie Village freshman and contestant, was interrupted by applause during his humorous speech on James Bond. Commenting on the sale of 30 million James Bond books, Weller said, "It took Shakespeare 300 years to
O'Bryan-said, "Today Pearl Harbor stands as a monument not only to the dead, but to the living as well. When the sunken battleship 'Okahona' was finally raised, the salvagers found writings on the walls left by men who had lived in the capsized ship until the day after Christmas."
sell that many books, and he could write."
THE OTHER FIVE contestants and their topics were as follows: Stephen Schirmer, Bonner Springs freshman, evolution of man; Bonnie Beissecker, Topeka freshman, parodies; Stephanie Caple, Fort Leavenworth freshman, contact lenses; George Semeniuk, Brookings, S.D., freshman, life; Kenneth Reeves, Kansas City sophomore, neutralism.
The 16 contestants for both rounds of the potpouri were selected from 50 students representing each Speech I class. A panel of speech instructors eliminated all except the 16 finalists last Thursday.
Monday's winners were selected by the members of the audience, comprised mainly of Speech I students who were required to attend.
Pace Leisurely
Professor
By Mary Dunlap
"The return to the tensions of American life is an unpleasant experience. All of us still think back to the leisurely pace of Polynesian life and the overwhelming beauty of the islands."
Carlyle S. Smith, professor of anthropology and curator of anthropology at the Natural History Museum, is now compiling and revising materials and information gathered at the ancient Polynesian burial and living site of Pekia. Pekia, located on the island of Hiva Oa, French Polynesia, was excavated by Prof. Smith from August, 1962, to January, 1963.
In Moscow, at the International Congress of Arthropological and Ethnological Sciences, August 3-10, 1964. Prof. Smith described Pekia.
On August 13, 1963, Prof. Smith,
his wife and two children flew to
"PEKIA CONSISTS of a group of stone platforms and terraces partly on ground level and partly on a hillside," he said. "According to tradition, the site served as an assembly area for all the tribes in the valley."
Enjoys South Seas Study
Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia, to make preliminary arrangements for the trip to the island of Hiva Oa.
Roger Rose, Lindsborg 1963 graduate who acted as field assistant for the expedition, met the Smiths in Papeete. Joining the group also were Yoshiko Sinoto and Marimari Kellum of the B. P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu. The field equipment had been sent in by ocean freight; additional purchases filled out the remainder of the supplies.
PROF. SMITH SAID many changes have affected the city since his earlier visit as a member of the Norwegian expedition led by Thor Heyerdahl, later celebrated in the best-seller, "Aku-Aku."
Numbers of tourists have invaded the city via the jet airstrip; inflation has risen from the money spent on the filming of "Mutiny On the Bounty"; and the French government now uses the city as a base for supplying other bases with H-bombs. As a result, the city is filling with military personnel, including
AT THE END OF the first week in September, the "Taparo," a 150-foot motor vessel set sail, with the Smiths aboard, for a tour of the Marquessas and the Tuamotus, Copra, or dried coconut meat, was its object; the passengers aboard were of secondary importance.
members of the Foreign Legion, cars, buses, trucks, motorcycles and bicycles.
"The people of the island have changed only slightly, and manage to retain their native charm," he said. On Tahiti, the Smiths were able to tour the island several times, and attended a "tamarra," a native feast similar to a Hawaiian lauu.
Excavation at Pekia developed into a complex job requiring five local laborers to clear it. Beneath the
Eighty passengers, old men and women, tiny babies and schoolgirls, crowded the decks of the "Taparo" as it zigzagged through coral atolls. Nine days and 800 miles northeast of Tahiti, the "Taparo" anchored at Atuona, beneath the 3920-foot peak of Hiva Oa. The party went ashore in a whale boat.
first platforms were other pavements. Although, on the whole, artifacts were rare, many pig bones were found. The most prevalent artifact, however, was the basalt adze.
PROF. SMITH'S children studied at the government school each morning and worked on their American studies in the afternoons. Both children gained a good comprehension of French.
"They were heroes at school the first week they were back home," Prof. Smith said.
The return to Papeete was no less exciting. Because of a lack of space on the liner, "Oceanien," the Smiths were assigned to a tent on a hatch. Sharing it with them were a retired gendarme, the chief of the island of Taiolae, two boys and a young Chinese mother and baby. Within 48 hours, they were in Papeete once more.
On January 12, they arrived home in the midst of a snow storm—just a day away by jet from Tahiti and temperatures in the 70's and 80's.
"Perhaps we will all go back someday," Prof. Smith said.