Council Refuses CORE Requests
The All Student Council refused last night to grant permission to the Lawrence branch of the Congress of Racial Equality to establish a booth on campus to solicit funds for the organization's trip next week to Jonesboro, La.
The group, which plans to rebuild a burned church in Jonesboro, is about $850 short of funds, according to Carol Borg, Manhattan senior, and CORE member. Miss Borg presented the request to the Council, adding that she had been instructed by Dean Laurence C. Woodruff, ASC adviser, to obtain the Council's permission for CORE's fund solicitation.
Mike Miner, Topeka senior, and ASC chairman, said he thought approval for proposed fund-raising drives should come from the University Events committee. The ASC had no jurisdiction in the area, Miner said.
AFTER DEBATE on where approval of fund-raising drives must come from, other than that for the Campus Chest which is covered in the ASC bill book, the Council voted to send the request to the University Events committee.
"I really appreciate that the Council has taken so much time to tie its responsibilities into a neat package of red tape," Miss Borg told the Council after the vote.
Miss Borg and Mike Willard, Ft. Scott sophomore and ASC member, (Vox—fraternity) then left the meeting to check on permission for the drive.
Willard returned and told the Council that he had called Dean Woodruff on the matter. Willard said Dean Woodruff placed jurisdiction with the ASC and not with the University Events committee since it was a "money drive" and not a "money-making drive."
A RESOLUTION, submitted by Hugh Taylor, Stoke-on-Trent, England, graduate student (UP—graduate school) was defeated when it failed to receive the necessary two-thirds vote.
After the vote, Miss Borg received about four dollars in donations from several ASC members.
In other business the Council passed resolutions stating:
- That the ASC chairman send letters to the seven Kansas legislators, and Congressmen Gerald Ford and John McCormick, and the postmaster general asking support of a House bill proposing a commemorative postage stamp honoring KU's centennial.
- That the Traffic and Safety committee investigate possibilities with university officials of increasing motorcycle parking space on campus.
- That the ASC elections committee authorize a spring primary if necessary in the coming elections.
- That a "roving poll watcher" from each party be at each polling place to insure correct election procedure in spring elections.
- That the administration and architect on New Fraser Hall be asked to reconsider the building's design and consult with the KU architectural department.
A resolution which proposed establishment of an ASC committee to meet with the newly formed Class Officers Board to discuss the possibility of establishing a voluntary fee payment for all classes was defeated.
The Council passed three amendments to Bill #3 dealing with ASC executive committees.
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ASC Bill and Petitions Criticize Fraser Plans
An All Student Council resolution and many petitions have added to the criticism of the planned new Fraser Hall.
The ASC adopted a resolution criticizing the plans for new Fraser Hall last night.
IT WILL REQUEST the officials to reconsider the current plans and revise them to better fit the image of KU. It will also suggest that James Canole, state architect, consult with KU's department of architecture on the design of new Fraser.
The resolution will inform the Board of Regents, the university administration, and the architects involved "of our concern, dismay and alarm at the current design for the building."
The new structure, to be completed in 1967, was designed by Canole, T. R. Greist, of Topeka, design consultant; and Brown and Slemmons. Topeka, who did the working drawings.
Details of the new hall were announced Monday. Since then they have met with much criticism by professors of architecture, architectural students and the student body.
MRS. JOANN HULL, teaching assistant in German, and Walter Hull, assistant instructor of English,
MRS. HULL SAID, "Reaction (to the petition) has been favorable. Eighty petitions are out." Mrs. Hull said she would like to collect the petitions Friday so they could be sent to the Chancellor and the Board of Regents before spring vacation.
IN A PRESS RELEASE Monday, Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor for operations, said, "The possibility of creating a building completely unrelated to the past was discarded. Almost every member of the public who commented on the problem urged that new Fraser retain a resemblance to the old building."
started circulating a petition yesterday against the acceptance of the new Fraser Hall plans.
"The state architect is our employee. We pay him and he should serve us." Mrs. Hull commented.
David Hermansen, associate professor of architecture, said of the building, "I think it's probably the most abominable pile of masonry since the pyramids of Egypt. You couldn't stretch the word of architecture to include that building. If a sophomore submitted the building as a project, he would flunk," Hermansen said.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
U.S. Suffers Heavy Toll AsGuerrillasDownAirlift
Wednesday, March 31, 1965
SAIGON — (UPI) — Communist Viet Cong guerrillas today shot down three U.S. helicopters flying Vietnamese soldiers into a major battle only 30 miles from the big American air base at Da Nang. Two U.S. Marines were killed and 16 other Americans injured.
THE TOLL IN the helicopter assault today was one of the heaviest American casualty tolls in a single action. Death of the two Marines and a U.S. Navy pilot announced today by the Pentagon brought the toll of American combat dead in Viet Nam to 316.
U. S. and South Vietnamese planes struck again in North Viet Nam, hitting the Hanoi regime's air defenses for the second consecutive day. The raids were carried out despite increasingly tough statements by Communist China.
The three downed helicopters crashed within a 50-minute period while flying Vietnamese troops into the guerrilla stronghold for a search operation aimed at reducing the Red threat to Da Nang, some 350 miles northeast of Saigon.
MAJ. GEN. JOSEPH Moore, commander of U.S. Air Forces in South Viet Nam, said today's air strike was directed against Communist air bases on the North Vietnamese mainland and radar installations on coastal islands in the South China Sea.
Military sources said the continuing raids are reducing North Viet Nam's ability to ward off future strikes to a shambles. Nearly 40 American and Vietnamese planes obliterated a North Vietnamese airbase Tuesday.
PEKING RADIO reported today it had shot down a U.S. drone reconnaissance plane over the Communist mainland and said it was "watching with close attention the military provocations of the U.S. imperialists." It said Tuesday U.S. jets strafed two Chinese fishing boats and hinted at possible reprisal.
The weather will be fair and warmer tonight with a low temperature between 35 and 40 degrees. Tomorrow's weather will bring increasing cloudiness, the weather bureau predicted.
TODAY'S RAID apparently was not in retaliation for Tuesday's terrorist bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon.
Weather
An American military spokesman at Da Nang said the two Marines were aboard an H34 troop carrier brought down by ground fire 35 miles southeast of the base.
THE GOVERNMENT-sponsored protest was held just 24 hours after a Viet Cong terror squad exploded a huge bomb at the embassy, killing two Americans and 15 Vietnamese. Fifty-two Americans and 109 Vietnamese were injured.
The airlift was described as a search-and-destroy operation involving Vietnamese infantry, paratroopers and M113 armored vehicles.
The Da Nang base, 365 miles northeast of Saigon, is the jumping off point for American and Vietnamese air strikes against North Viet Nam.
In Washington, the State Department said Tuesday night its casualty figures showed two Americans and 11 Vietnamese killed and 183 persons injured, 54 of them Americans. Forty-two of the injured were reported in serious
In Saigon itself, 2000 Vietnamese staged a rally to protest Tuesday's terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy which killed at least 17 persons and wounded 183.
condition, among them were seven Americans.
It was almost business as usual today at the shattered five-story embassy building a few blocks away.
"We're operating under full steam—normal capacity," an embassy spokesman said.
"OF COURSE, WE'RE not using the whole first floor where the consular section was," he added. "And I don't know when we'll have glass in the windows."
Workmen swarmed over the building making temporary repairs. He said telephone and electric service was fully restored.
Almost every embassy employe
(Photo by Don Black)
HIGH WORK — Workmen perch precariously atop the 250-foot KU smokestack as they work to complete repairs on one of Mt. Oread's highest points.
reporting for work today carried marks of Tuesday's blast. Many wore slings on their arms. Some had their heads swathed in bandages covering cuts sustained from fliving glass.
President Johnson announced Tuesday he was asking Congress for money to build a new embassy as "one more symbol of our solidarity with the people of Viet Nam."
Johnson said the bombing was "a wanton act of ruthlessness."
ADMINISTRATION officials said the bombing would result in increased U.S. air strikes on military installations in North Viet Nam and stepped-up offensives against Communist guerrillas in South Viet Nam.
Observers here said some type of massive retaliation seemed certain.
North Viet Nam was waiting for the expected reprisal. The official North Vietnamese news agency said the target "may even be Hanoi," the capital.
REPORTS FROM Washington, however, said the President has ruled out for the time being any American air raids on Hanoi.
President Johnson is grimly determined to press even more fiercely the battle against the Viet Nam Reds. But he has ruled out for now any single spectacle stroke in retaliation for the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon.
The Chief Executive said Tuesday that the terror bombing of the embassy — "this wanton act of ruthlessness" — only reinforced American determination to "continue and to strengthen" aid to South Vietnam.
Johnson planned to confer today or Thursday with his ambassador to South Viet Nam, Nam. Maxwell D. Taylor. He has not seen Taylor since the general arrived from Saigon for consultations Sunday.
THE PRESIDENT'S FAILURE to meet with Taylor during the past hectic two days puzzled diplomatic observers. But officials contended that no significance should be read into it.
They claimed that Johnson wanted Taylor to complete his talks with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and other top officials before coming to the White House for a talk with the President.
Taylor, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, conferred late Tuesday with Rusk and was on the secretary's schedule again this morning.
Dixie Congressmen Support Klan Probe
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—South-
WASHINGTON—(UP) U.S. ern members of the House Committee on Un-American Activities were confident today the panel's investigation of the Ku Klux Klan would draw strong support throughout the South.
Rep. John Buchanan, R-Ala., said the Klan represents only a "very small group of people in Alabama and the investigation will show the world what a tiny minority they are."
Persons in his district have felt for a long time the Klan may be responsible for those "who preach violence and hate" in Alabama, Buchanan said. The "over-whelming majority" of Alabamans are for the inquiry, he added.
Committee Chairman Edwin E. Willis, D-La., who announced the investigation Tuesday, said it may
be weeks or months before public hearings are held. He said a subcommittee probably will hold these hearings after staff members finish their investigation and closed hearings are held.
Buchanan said he would be happy to serve on the subcommittee, adding that he did not expect to suffer politically for participating in the investigation.
Rep. William M. Tuck-D-Va., a former Virginia governor and second ranking member of the committee, said he supported the investigation. He called the Klan a "crackpot" group composed of "rednecks."
In announcing the inquiry, Willis said the preliminary investigation of the hooded order indicated that Klanism is incompatible with Americanism."