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Tuesday, May 18, 1965
62nd Year, No.138
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
STUDENT PROTEST MARCH — Two architecture students carry the black "funeral" wreath presented to the KU School of Architecture from Kansas State's Architecture Department. The wreath headed a protest march of 70 last night to Fraser Hall. The march was in protest to the proposed construction of the new Fraser Hall.
Student March Protests Design for New Fraser
By Larry Ketchum
The latest move in a continuing student effort to change the proposed design for new Fraser Hall occurred last night as about 70 KU students participated in a protest march from Strong Hall to Fraser.
At 6:30 p.m. the demonstrators gathered in front of Strong Hall. Many carried signs, wore "funeral" black arm bands, or wore buttons protesting the proposed building. A few of the demonstrators carried signs while riding motor scooters in the march.
From Strong Hall the demonstrators walked to Fraser. They circled the building three times, and halted in front of the main entrance.
A BLACK WREATH, presented by the Kansas State University Department of Architecture to the KU School of Architecture, was placed on the steps. The placards of the demonstrating students were placed around the wreath.
Some of the signs read: "Are Outhouses and Apathy Symbols of KU?","The Entire World Is Laughing,""Wanted: Campus Master Plan," and "60-Day Delay and Symposium." A few of the signs were mounted on T-squares.
JERRY RAEDER, Prairie Village junior, read a letter addressed to Bernard Frazier, professor of architecture, from Theodore Seligson, Kansas City architect. In the letter, Seligson expressed his dislike for the proposed plans for Fraser saying. "... (new Fraser) is one of the worst examples of architecture I have seen." Seligson said there are many good architects throughout the United States and that the university should use them
Yesterday, the student demonstrators had marched from Marvin Hall during class breaks to Fraser Hall publicizing their protest. The climax of the protest was the wreath-laying ceremony last night.
U.S. Bombs Reds
Communist Targets Hit
SAIGON — (UPI) — Six battalions of South Vietnamese troops today launched a pincer action against a Communist base near the border of North Viet Nam. Intelligence reports indicated the camp is used to train infiltrating soldiers from the Communist North.
A North Vietnamese broadcast, monitored in Tokyo, claimed that "many waves" of U.S. planes bombed and strafed targets on Communist territory Monday and that one F 105 fighter-bomber was shot down over Nghe An Province. There have been no announced U.S. air raids against North Viet Nam since Wednesday.
After the letter was read, Jon Putnam, Leawood junior, made a short speech on new Fraser Hall. "We feel that new Fraser is very functional and solidly constructed.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said of the demonstrators, "For people that presume to be a part of a profession, I find this to be very unprofessional."
when designing new buildings for the campus.
FAR TO THE SOUTH, Communist guerrillas captured the entire 60-man garrison of a government hamlet Monday and killed or wounded 28 Vietnamese who tried to drive them out.
The marchers then went back to Marvin Hall and dispersed.
TWO COMPANIES of provincial troops rushed to the relief of the beleaguered hamlet, but were badly mauled. The spokesman said 11 members of the relief column were killed, 17 wounded and 38 missing. The Viet Cong captured 100 weapons and withdrew into the jungle before a second relief force reoccupied the hamlet Monday night.
Wescoe disagreed with the student demonstrators who want private architects to design university buildings, rather than state officials.
A U.S. military spokesman said the guerrillas overran Phu Long hamlet in Binh Thuan Province, 100 miles east of Saigon, in a daring daylight raid.
One Vietnamese militiaman was killed and another wounded before the hamlet fell. The guerrillas captured the entire garrison of two militia platoons, each numbering about 30 men.
A separate but similar Viet Cong attack in the same general area Monday was less successful.
THE STUDENT demonstrators want a 60-day moratorium on construction of buildings at KU in order to reconsider the current building projects.
"There can be no moratorium if the university is to operate. This is not a minor matter. The delay in construction of a building is detrimental to the operation of a university." Wescoe added.
THE DEMONSTRATORS have the following ideals, according to Keith Youngstrum, Prairie Village junior and a spokesman for the group:
- To save and use old Fraser—as the KU Alumni and Endowment offices.
- To have a 60-day construction moratorium to reconsider the current building projects.
- A KU master plan—done by professional contract by nationally known planners and architects.
- Move new Fraser Hall off of the hill below Blake, thus solving the research and classroom problems and affording it a more permanent site.
Weather
Tomorrow will be fair with cooler temperatures forecast by the weather bureau. High tomorrow will be in the upper 60's. Winds will be northwesterly between 10 and 15 miles per hour. Skies will be partly cloudy overnight. A low in the 50's is expected.
Civil Rights Case Presented to Jury
By Joan McCabe
The defense attorneys, for three of the 110 persons charged with disturbing the peace in a civil rights demonstration outside Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's office March 8, announced today they had decided to present no testimony.
Charles S. Scott, one of the seven defense lawyers, said all witnesses for the defense were being discharged and that the defense would limit its presentation to closing arguments.
Scott made his statement after Judge Frank R. Gray overruled a defense motion for a directed verdict of acquittal.
The three persons are Elbert Rinkel, Scott City, and Pamela Smith, Kansas City, former KU students, and Walter Bgoya, Ngara, Tanzania, senior.
Selection of the jury took two and one-half hours. The jury consists of 11 men and one woman. Two of the jurors are Negroes.
ATTORNEYS FOR THE DEFENDANTS are Chester I. Lewis, Wichita, and Fred Phelps, Topeka. Ralph M. King Jr., Douglas County attorney, is the prosecuting attorney for the state.
In opening statements yesterday, King said the state would prove that the "defendants willfully and unlawfully disturbed the peace of the chancellor's office in that they did obstruct the normal functioning of the office and did refuse to leave the office upon the request of the proper authorities."
THE DEFENSE stated further that the secretaries told the chancellor that they were not being disturbed. They also said the students went with the law enforcement officers peacefully and that several students who were not involved in the demonstrations were taken to jail.
The defense stated they would show that at no time was any aisle blocked during the demonstration, at no time was any appreciable noise made, that leaders admonished the others in the group to remain silent throughout the demonstration, and that at no time did any student enter the chancellor's private office.
The first witness for the state was Douglas D. McCleery, a photographer for the sheriff's office. Two photographs taken by McCleery of students in the reception area of the chancellor's office were entered as evidence.
During cross examination, the photographer testified that the pictures were taken after the students had been told by officers at the scene that they were under arrest.
McCLEERY STATED THAT the students left the office and entered buses peacefully.
Following the noon recess, testimony was heard from Keith (Contributed on page 6)
Education Bill Discussed
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Southern governors and congressmen agreed today they cannot block an order to desegregate schools receiving federal aid and decided instead to seek modification of the order.
They said the alternative would be serious damage to the southern school system.
THE GOVERNORS of eight southern states met with most of their House and Senate members behind closed doors for two hours in the caucus room of the Cannon House Office Building.
Gov. Carl Sanders of Georgia, who was instrumental in arranging the meeting, told reporters afterward that the mood of the southern group was not defiant.
He said the consensus was that the law must be obeyed and that no one present was optimistic about repeal of a recent desegregation order issued by the U.S. Office of Education.
THE ORDÉR said that school systems must desegregate at least four grades next fall and must submit plans for complete desegregation by 1967 to qualify for continued federal assistance.
Sanders said the southerners feel the education office has exceeded the directive of Congress and has imposed "confused and unrealistic standards" which jeopardize public education in some southern areas.
It was agreed at the meeting that each governor would pick one member of his state's congressional delegation to work with the governors' group in seeking modification and clarification of the desegregation ruling.
THE RULING as it stands, he said, embraces many points that are not clear. He said it is confusing, for instance, whether school faculties must be integrated. The question of integrated bus travel also is left up in the air, he said.
"The governors recognize that we are a nation of laws, not of men," Sanders said. "We are going to abide by the law and act as responsible representatives of the people we have been elected to represent."