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University Daily Kansan
Monday, March 22, 1965
CORE Holds Class For KU Volunteers
Rv Harry Krause
A field training session was held yesterday for 30 KU volunteers who are participating in CORE projects in Louisiana during spring vacation.
Mike Lesser, CORE field secretary, outlined procedures for voter registration and listed the various dangers to participants in the program. He gave demonstrations of non-violent defensive techniques, and described the community life volunteers might expect.
The volunteers are planning to leave Lawrence either April 2 or April 3. They will go to Monroe or Baton Rouge, La., where they will be divided into groups and then go to Jonesboro, Bogalusa, and other Louisiana communities.
Lesser said that CORE's original purpose in Southern integration had changed somewhat.
"At first, we were interested mainly in Negro voter registration and desegregation of public facilities. This has been broadened to now include the organization of Negro communities so they have a vehicle for expressing and enforcing demands that will change the economical, educational, and political status of Louisiana," he said.
He continued, "CORE projects are now oriented toward this community organization which is aimed to fulfill the individual needs of each community."
Lesser said that there is a certain amount of danger involved in all of these projects. He reported that
CORE workers have been arrested for disturbing the peace, resisting arrest, vagrancy, loitering, and criminal anarchy.
"In all these cases, the charges have been concocted and have been subject to reversal by the federal courts." Lesser said.
Lesser gave an analysis of the Louisiana voter registration form and told the volunteers how to assist Negroes filling them out. He said that the requirements for filling out the forms correctly varied from parish to parish (parishes in Louisiana are equivalent to counties in Kansas) and sometimes from day to day.
He said that the forms were very ambiguous and illustrated his point by giving an example. One of the questions on the form asked the applicant to indicate his mother's maiden name and occupation. "What the voter registrar wants is your mother's maiden name and your occupation. If you give your mother's occupation, you are disqualified." Lesser said.
Volunteers acted out various civil rights activities and Lesser played the role of what he called "the typical Southern sheriff."
Some of the volunteers formed a picket line and Lesser and two "deputy sheriffs" subjected the pickets to what he termed "harassment." This included pushing, shoving, verbal attacking, and questioning.
Later, a volunteer demonstrated to the group the best method of protecting one's body while undergoing
beatings. Protection of the face, kidneys, groin, and neck were demonstrated.
Volunteers were told that they only have to provide law officers with their name, age, and address. He said that other information should come from the CORE lawyers retained by the organization.
Lesser told the volunteers that they might be jailed and described Southern jails as "rotten, with sparse meals, beatings by white prisoners, and filthy conditions."
Corbin Cook Forgets Food, Incites Alarm
charges," he said, "are tipped off by the law officers and beat up the civil rights workers in their cells."
NON-VIOLENT RESISTANCE-KU students and Lawrence citizens bound for Jonesboro, La., to reconstruct a church learned techniques of non-violent resistance yesterday. The Jonesboro project is sponsored by the Lawrence branch of CORE, which held the first training session yesterday.
Lesser described the Negro community in Jonesboro, where the workers will help rebuild two Negro churches burned down in January, as a very religious area, with high emphasis on proper behavior and discipline. He said that contact with the white people of the area would be antagonistic, at best.
The smell of roasted bat dogs filled the air as about 20 girls were evacuated from Corbin Hall South on Saturday night.
The volunteers will be housed in Negro homes in Jonesboro, and, according to Lesser, will receive some protection from violent elements.
Assistant Fire Chief, O. D. Brubaker, ordered the trucks home when he found out the cause of the alarm.
With sirens screaming and lights flashing, a pumper and a hook and ladder truck from the Lawrence Fire Department answered an alarm at Corbin at 11:15 p.m.
"A cook in the basement left a pan of hot dogs on the stove and forgot them while watching television. There was lots of smoke, but no fire," he said. Brubaker said there was no damage to the women's residence hall.
Official Bulletin
KU Bahai Club. 8 p.m. Jean Randazzo will speak on "Politics." Kansas Union. Number Music Series. 8 p.m. Dani Z windwind Quintet. Swarthout Reital Hall.
Physics Colloquium, 4:30 p.m. Dr. Paul Levy, Brookhaven Nat. Lab., 155 Malott. Student Peace Union Open Meeting, 7:30 p.m. Kansas Union
TODAY
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m. Danforth Chapel.
TOMORROW
Catholic Masses, 6:45 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Sainthood. Confessions before and during mass.
Education Lecture, 9 am. Dr. Albert J Mazurkiewiez, Lehigh U., Kansas University
(Photo by Harry Krause)
Inquirers Class, 7:30 p.m. Canterbury House, 1116 La.
Anthropology Colloquium. 1:30 p.m.
Creean, K-Matee Univ.
502F D雍 Hall.
Physics Colloquium, 4:30 p.m. Dr.
Cesare Buceli. 15 Malot.
American Society Class-Intensive Engi-
nance American Foreign Relations 42N Strong.
Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship, 7 Inter Campus, Kansas Union. The Nature of God<sup>1</sup>.
Christian Science College Organization,
7:30 p.m. Danforth Chapel.
Lesser said that white male civil rights workers receive the worst treatment in Southern jails. "The whites who are jailed for charges such as drunkenness and other
University Women's Club-University Newcomers, 8 p.m. Scholarship Style Newcomers, 8 p.m. Sas Union. The Prairie Room in the Union will remain open for the show.
massachusetts Casual Dress.
A.I.A.A. Meeting 7:30 m. C J
coach meeting meeting
KU Business Wives. 7:30 p.m., 1007 Massachusetts, Casual Dress.
Episcopal Holy Communion, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
Members of the KU volunteer group will be selected later this week for the Louisiana project.
Wesley Foundation Community Wor-
orld 6:15 p.m. Methodist Center, 1314 Orgad
Teaching Candidates: Interviews scheduled for Tuesday, March 23; Missouri, Kansas City Center School Dist. No. 58, elementary only, 117 Ba.; Missouri, Kansas City Center School Dist. No. 58, secondary only, 106 Ba.
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