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University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 3.1965
Park Plaza South
The first instance of discrimination by a Daily Kansan advertiser has been confirmed by the University Human Relations Committee. Friday morning the Daily Kansan received the following directive from the UHRC:
"... That the University Daily Kansan be notified that the University Human Relations Committee has found, on April 29, 1965, following the receipt and investigation of written complaints, that the rental facilities at Park Plaza South are not available to all students on the basis of individual merit. We, therefore, direct the University Daily Kansan, and all other campus publications, to reject advertisements from Park Plaza South until further notice."
PARK PLAZA SOUTH HAS BEEN ONE of the prime targets of the Civil Rights Council. At the present time, members of CORE, the NAACP, and the CRC, are picketing the Park Plaza South apartments.
The incident which, presumably, has given rise to the demonstrations and the directive from the UHRC involves Gloria Carillo, Gainsville, Fla., graduate student, who was allegedly refused an apartment after she had paid a $10 deposit.
It appears that the rental policy of Park Plaza South has been investigated thoroughly. Mildred Dickeman, assistant professor of anthropology and a member of CORE, said that "both CORE and NAACP have been in negotiations with the owner and manager since February."
THE DIRECTIVE TO THE UDK was immediately complied with. Friday morning a three column by eight inch advertisement from Park Plaza South was removed from the UDK. And until the UDK receives further notice from the UHRC, all Park Plaza South advertisements will be rejected.
Jim Vestering, the owner of Park Plaza South, has made no comment regarding the present situation. As the demonstrations and the UDK's compliance with the directive can be of little benefit to Park Plaza South, we hope that Vestering will recognize the benefits to be derived from a non-discriminatory rental policy.
Such a policy will not only be good for business, but it will set an example for other Lawrence businesses which might be following similar discriminatory practices.
The People Say..
Dear Sirs:
IT SEEMS THAT NOWADAYS nearly everyone has some kind of cause to celebrate or demonstrate about. Just about everything is being picketed, save yards, and sooner or later the fencing team will probably take care of that. Any more it appears that it is "wheezin'" (after long marches and fruitless argumentation), instead of reason, that prevails. Indeed, one individual went to work for the railroad as an engineer, and after one of the old chair cars had been burned decided to demonstrate because, in his words, one of the coaches had been fired.
Voltaire urged us all to cultivate our gardens—not to act like the vegetables therefrom. Certainly, if the product is any indication of the quality of the "plot," then perhaps it should be fertilized, but not with minerals: there is already enough rock there.
After reflecting on the college and world scene, one is impressed with a number of things. As of recently a diploma doesn't mean that you can lay bricks (or did it ever), but that you can throw them. The Home Economics Department has more home demonstration units
than it can manage. The Independents still chide the Greeks with, appropriately, barbed tongues. Some individuals are finding new and unique ways of donating blood to our boys in Viet Nam—God help them. The President is still in the elevator business, but now is building escalators for Southeast Asia. And the UDK is refusing Chinese membership on the news and editorial staffs in an attempt to discourage the yellow journalism that has been so rampant as of late.
But I suppose all is well. The Campanile is back on time—or at least it was yesterday. And after all, come to think of it, we can still go to class to learn.
Sportively yours,
Martin W. Myers
Newton senior
Dear Editor:
IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE Mr. Sutherland's comment that the KU of 1928 had a "liberal tradition." Is this the same KU that bowed to political pressure and accepted a budget that merely maintains the status quo in the face of rising enrollments? Is this the same KU that passively permits racial discrimination (despite pious pronouncements) in its associated social groups? Is this the same KU that takes for its architectural inspiration a 1936 Monopoly hotel? On the other hand, there are positive trends. The athletic administration has shown itself willing to make any sacrifice to preserve . . . just what eludes me at the moment.
Thomas Sajwaj Kansas City, Kan. Graduate student
Editor:
OUR TRACK TEAM NEEDS equipment. Recently the students at Kansas State voted an increase in tuition of several dollars in order to aid the football program. A mere 25-cent donation from every KU student would amount to $2,500.00, enough to buy new shoes, practice uniforms, and competition uniforms for every member of the track team. Let's do it. Put a collection box in the Kansan front office and give it a little publicity, and it'll work. I'm enclosing money for myself and three other students. (One dollar was enclosed in the letter. Ed.)
Yours truly,
John F. Rylan
El Paso, Texas
In Viet Nam
Better Press Relations Expected
By Phil Newsom
UPI Foreign News Analyst SAIGON — Newmen covering the war in South Viet Nam have been having a frustrating time of it, but military press officers here say things soon will be better.
One of the difficulties is that this is a war without a front and the scene of action is unpredictable.
Another is that travel except by military transport is difficult and sometimes takes time to arrange.
A third has been a clash of personalities stemming from the correspondents' belief that some sources within the American military command have been considerably less than frank with them.
Difficulty at Da Nang
The chief difficulty has arisen at the Da Nang air base 385 miles northeast of Saigon. It is at this base that the United States has concentrated its airpower for strikes against Communist North Viet Nam. Usually anywhere from 15 to 30 newsmen are in Da Nang.
The frustrations set in in earnest when the Americans announced that newsmen would be permitted on the base only by pass and then only when escorted.
The newsmen were also banned from officer and NCO clubs.
In the case of the ban from the base, the Americans at first announced it had been demanded by the South Vietnamese. The South Vietnamese denied it, but said they would concur with American wishes.
Attempts to undo the situation proved difficult because the Vietnamese, once having imposed the ban at American request, now told the Americans to make up their minds.
Ordered by Americans
It then became known that the ban had in fact been ordered by the Americans.
Press information officers in Saigon overruled the Da Nang edict on the clubs and ruled that newsmen could visit the clubs if "invited."
Must Follow Rules
The pass system at the base remains in effect, but the Americans promise that escorts no longer will be required.
Newmen will be allowed to talk to pilots, other officers and enlisted men freely if they follow established ground rules. These rules in
Specifically, the correspondent agrees not to publish any material which is bona fide military or national security information.
general apply to security subjects and are about the same as those used in World War II.
For example, a current argument within the military establishment itself concerns the reconnaissance drones which are sent flying out over Red China.
However, the fact that this is not a recognized war makes interpretation sometimes difficult.
One high ranking officer contended that a newspaper picture of the drone violated security rules even though the picture itself had been distributed by the Red Chinese after one had been shot down.
Another equally high-ranking officer declared that since the Red Chinese obviously now knew all about the drone, the information was being withheld only from the American people.
So far as this correspondent knows, the argument still rages. But as a rule of thumb, it is generally agreed that once information is known to the enemy, it is no longer classified as security.
"I See The Telly Is Dropping Lungsmoke"
License for What
One of the oldest gags about rural America is the country bumpkin who confides to his city friends "that we don't need much to do around here—if we can watch the freshmen home from college." Today, the young idiots, rabble-rousing liberals and spoonfed patsies who don't know any better don't even wait to get home to show off. Their unthinking behavior is to be found on every campus.
We don't mean the flask-toting jazz babies from two generations ago, nor the goldfish-eating panty-raiders of a generation ago. At least their frolics were relatively harmless. Today's youth are dancing about more dangerous flame and inhaling even headier wine than the brutal bathtub gin of 40 years ago.
A COLLEGE STUDENT IS APT TO TRY ANY "ISMS" that come along. They always have. Then, in a few short years, bitter experience generally knocks most of the foolishness out of their heads. But the nutty cults that are growing on modern campuses make students pawns—of even bigger nuts, subversive organizations and movements which go beyond normality.
The difference now is that the world is at war in a battle for minds. It is a new kind of conflict, for this day and age at least. Failing to settle issues of strength and power in two wars, the battle has ebbed to brush fires flaring now and then in the terms of fighting as people have known it—and conflagrations in ideology. Being susceptible, young and inexperienced, college youth are natural targets for the new kind of warmongers.
THE YOUNGSTERS HAVE HEARTS READY to bleed and lack the discrimination to find a worthwhile cause.
All of this we can tolerate, to a degree. What must be stopped are the collegiate expressions of freedom, the stupid professors who leap upon the stage to attack a recognized speaker's views, the young instructors who quit—with well-prepared public statements charging "restrictions" and "violations of constitutional rights." In effect, they are trading a promise of future personal power and today's publicity for an end of rights and freedoms. We believe students have no more license to revolt than have any employee or agent to attack his boss—and expect immunity. Like any person who goes against conventions, those who seek to subvert must be prepared to pay the cost of their self-expression. And they must expect the censure which is sure to come, if they persist in proving their own stubbornness, stupidity and ignorance.
The KU rioters should be expelled, the professors fired and each made personally liable for whatever trouble comes from their acts. -R.T.T.
(Reprint from the Russell Daily News, Russell T. T. Ownsley, publisher.)
Dailiji Hansan
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