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] Students Rally to Easton's Support
By Glen Phillips (Sports Editor)
A group of about 350 students gathered on the front steps of Strong Hall at 11 o'clock last night to protest the dismissal Tuesday of KU track coach Bill Faston.
This peaceful rally followed hard on the heels of a more violent display of feelings Tuesday evening when some 200 students burned an effigy of Athletic Director Wade Stinson and chanted "We want Easton."
The students began congregating at curbside in front of Strong Hall but soon the crowd grew so large that they moved up the walk to the
doors. Ben Morrison, Quinter second year law student and member of the Kansas legislature, told the students they had been asked to come to the rally to show that the students supported the movement to have Easton reinstated.
LARRY RHEAMS, Lompac, Calif., senior, a broad jumper on the track squad, spoke for the senior members of the track team. He told the group that the team as a whole would issue a statement today.
John Lawson, Kansas City junior, a promising distance runner for the Jayhawks, told the crowd that Easton had done so much for him that he felt it was his duty to get up before the crowd tonight and explain what the team and others were trying to get done. He explained that petitions requesting the reinstatement of Easton were being circulated by members of the track squad.
According to Lawson, the petitions will be distributed to all residence halls, fraternities, and independent living units. There will also be copies placed at "strategic locations" around the campus.
THE PETITION SAYS: "We, the undersigned students and faculty members of the University of Kansas, protest the firing of track coach Bill Easton. We request that he be restored to his former status as track coach and director of the Kansas Relays."
Former ace distance man tor KU, Wes Santee, also spoke at the rally, representing a group of alumni which is trying to arrange the reinstatement. He told the group that he had been talking with alumni from all over the state, and even some from out-of-state, all day.
Santee said. "It is a pleasure for me to represent coach tonight. This is a man who has dedicated his life to people like you and he certainly appreciates your presence here tonight. I think it is ironic that the situation is happening as it is. You often hear of a coach being fired for losing games, but you seldom hear of a coach being fired for winning.
"THERE IS A great deal at stake here besides Bill Easton and the track team. Most universities have trouble keeping someone like this. It seems that the administration has seen fit to take care of
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—Photo by Harry Krause
HERBERT APTHEKER . . . Advocates Marxist government in U.S.
Marxism Declared Only Hope for U.S.
The reality of Marx offers insights and ideals that America desperately needs if it is to cope effectively with reality and realize its great potential, a leading spokesman for American Communist Party said yesterday afternoon.
By Harihar Krishnan
Speaking about the promises of Marxism. Aptheker said, "Marxism is dedicated to the long and hard struggle to eliminate poverty,
Herbert Aptheker, national director of the American Institute for Marxist Studies in New York City, spoke on "Communism: Menace or Promise?" before an audience of about 350 persons whose presence in the Big Eight Room created standing room only at the Minority Opinions Forum.
Weather
Friday will be warm and partly cloudy, according to the weather bureau. The low temperature tonight will be around 60 degrees and the high tomorrow in the 80's.
human indignity, racism, cultural deprivation and above all—in this era—war. Marxism knows and emphasizes that these goals are common to those held by partisans of enlightenment and upholders of the great religions."
OF THE PERSISTENT evasions in which the Americans have indulged, Aptheker complained, the most important has been the persistent flight from a moral and intellectual confrontation with Marx
"The main accusation against communism by all communications media amount to it being charged with being an alien conspiracy designed to overthrow the government of the United States."
"When it said that the constitution of communism repudiates this, it is called expedient, and dismissed as self-serving and a mere camouflage.
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The accusation is based on the false assumption that communistic revolution must necessarily be accompanied by violence, he added.
Daily hansan
62nd Year, No. 120
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, April 22, 1965
Voting to End Today As Vox Charges Infraction
Heavier voting expected today after a lighter-than-estimated turnout yesterday of 2.152 voters in KU's spring election had not developed at midmorning.
Voting will end today at 6 p.m. when the polls close. Mike McNally, Bartlesville, Okla., sophomore and elections committee chairman said he expects a vote today exceeding the one yesterday.
Counting will begin about 7 p.m. in the statistical service center in Summerfield Hall.
Results will be posted in the Hawklet after each race is decided with the student body presidential and vice-presidential race last to be counted.
This final count should be finished about 4 or 5 a.m. Friday.
THE VOTE BREAKDOWN by the schools was 770 for college men, 545 for college women, 220 for engineering,100 for graduate school, 180 for education,120 for fine arts, 80 for business,65 in the law school,40 from pharmacy,and 32 from the journalism school at 10 a.m.
The unofficial total was about 350 votes under McNally's estimate vesterday morning of 2.500.
Totals showed only 50 more students voted today than yesterday. The total today at 10 a.m. was 448.
The first official campaign complaint of the spring election will soon be filed against Dave Trotter, Bartlesville, Okla., junior and University Party (UP) candidate from the Business School. McNally said.
THE COMPLAINT will be lodged by Vox Populi and Jon Hope, Kansas City junior, Vox candidate from the Business School.
letter on the desks of three class rooms in Summerfield.
It alleges that Trotter placed about 100 copies of a campaign
Campaign rules prohibit the display or posting of campaign material on the campus proper.
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McNally said he made a special effort to inform Trotter of the rules and that this distribution was considered the same as posting or displaying campaign literature.
Jim Frazier, Topeka fifth-year pharmacy student and president of Vox, said, "It's an absolute infraction. This just isn't up to Hovle."
No action could be taken by the elections committee until after the election, McNally said.
If the committee finds there was a violation, it will be taken to student court, McNally said.
HOPE SAID if he won the election the charge would be dropped
Harry Bretschneider, Kansas City, Mo., senior and secretary general of UP, said, "Basically it's very petty.
"Their (Vox) candidates have been doing the same thing," he said. "If they file a complaint, we can file one too."
Trotter could not be reached for comment.
A number of official operations occurred behind-the-scenes before the first ballots could be cast yesterday morning at the polling places in Strong Hall, the Kansas Union and Murphy Hall.
The All Student Council Elections Committee and its two cochairmen, Mike McNally, Bartlesville, Okla., sophomore and ASC representative (Vox, fraternities) and Bill Henry, Leawood junior and ASC representative (UP, fraternities) are in charge of printing ballots, setting up and running the
polling places, and other operations.
Henry said that over 33,000 ballots were printed over and after spring break by the state printer in Topeka. The ballots for student body president and vice-president, and for the ASC referendum required the largest amount, about 6,500 apiece.
Strong Hall is the main headquarters for the election with two voting tables and two phones, one is linked to the Murphy phone and, the other, to the Union phone.
McNALLY SAID costs of the election are paid from ASC funds and from the filing fees which each party and candidate must pay to run.
Each party must pay $5.00, each party candidate must pay $1.00, and each unaffiliated candidate and class officer candidate pays $1.50. He said the filing fees amounted to $73 in this election.
McNally said that he believed the filing fee should be raised to $5.50 per candidate because the funds now are inadequate.
McNally was asked if his committee had encountered any problems in printing ballots.
HE SAID his committee had to "equalize" a ballot for the graduate school candidates yesterday morning before polls opened. He explained that the UP candidate did not have "UP" by his name like the Vox candidate did because of a printing error.
He said that putting "UP" on the ballot with a pen would "call attention" to that candidate. With the permission of both Vox and UP leaders, McNally's committee decided to put a black dash over the Vox label and one over the spot where the UP label should have been.
Model UN Convenes Tomorrow
Eight resolutions concerning world problems will be presented at the KU-Y Model UN when it opens at 9:30 tomorrow morning in Hoch Auditorium.
Raymond Everett Lisle, deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of Public Affairs in Washington, D.C., will speak at the opening session.
John Sharp, Lawrence junior and advisor of the Western Aligned Asian block, said the assembly also will try to amend the agenda.
THE SCHEDULE of resolutions to be presented is tentative as the resolutions can be amended and changed by the delegates. The eight resolutions are:
- To admit Red China as proposed by India.
- To take action against Portugal because of its African policies.
- To censure Israel.
- To vote on Viet Nam, as proposed by Ethiopia.
- To take action against Indonesia for aggression as proposed by Malaysia.
- To return islands to Japan which were seized as booty of war.
- To revoke voting rights of nations in arrears on their dues.
- To consider action on Kasn-mir, as proposed by Pakistan.
"The question of Indonesian aggression is a relatively new and vital matter," said Sharp. "It would
be unfortunate if the Model UN did not get to consider it as it is a definite threat to world peace."
RICHARD WHITE, Wakefield, Mass., junior, is president of the General Assembly. Patsy Goins, Marysville senior, is secretary general. Floor secretary is Sandra Lessenden, Topeka senior, and chair secretary is Beverly Barrett, Colby junior. Edward Hibbard, Eureka junior, is parliamentarian.
A diplomatic banquet will be held at 7:00 tonight at the Holiday Inn. Tickets are still available at the KU-Y office. A diplomatic reception will follow the banquet at 8:30 for all delegations.
Viet Cong Strikes; Wounds U.S. Marine
The wounded Marine was evacuated by helicopter along with his two comrades.
SAIGON — (UFI) — Communist guerrillas ambushed a patrol of 50 U.S. Marines near the Da Nang air base today. One Marine was wounded in a bitter 10-minute battle—the first clash between Leatherneck forces and the Viet Cong.
Doctors at the 9th Marine Brigade Hospital said the wounded Marine suffered a slight scalp laceration when he was nicked by a Viet Cong bullet. The Marine and the two heat prostration victims
were pronounced in good condition.
The Marine patrol, a platoon-sized unit, was jumped by the Viet Cong about noon four miles beyond the defense perimeter ringing the big American air base.
The guerrilla force pinned down the Americans with heavy small arms fire. The Marines fired back but there was no indication that any Viet Cong were killed or wounded. The Communists withdrew and the Marines continued the patrol, making no effort at pursuit.