—Drawn by Dick Flood
"Us campus politicians have a great deal of power."
Council Group Asks Recognition of UHRC
The All Student Council Committee on Committees and Legislation recommended last night the withdrawal of a bill to establish a discriminations board and instead, recognize the present University Human Relations Committee (UHRC).
The recommendation will be made to the ASC at its meeting tomorrow.
Byron Loudon, Kansas City senior, in expressing the view of the committee, said the proposed board and UHRC were similar in their basic purposes of investigating all discriminatory practices.
IN REPRESENTING the opinion of the Civil Rights Council, Nate Sims, Pasadena, Calif, senior, and CRC co-president, endorsed this recommendation.
In place of the bill, the committee recommended that the UHRC be recognized to arbitrate complaints of discrimination. This will also be brought before the ASC.
The committee also supported an amendment to Human Rights Bill No. 7 which would restrict advertising in the University Daily Kansan.
The amendment would prohibit the UDK's including phrases in ads which suggest racial discrimination, and accepting advertisements of housing not listed on the University housing list.
THE COMMITTEE also decided to advocate two other amendments be added to this at the ASC meeting.
These would prohibit the UDK or any other student publication from accepting advertisements which the UHRC feels are discriminatory.
It would also require these publications carry a format on their masthead stating that the accommodations, services, and goods advertised are offered to all students regardless of race, religion, or national origin.
Sims said the CRC was satisfied by the progress made by the ASC committee and felt they were taking positive steps.
JOHN SUHLER, Cross River, N.Y., senior and Kansan Board chairman, said, "It seems to me this is unnecessary legislation. The section on accommodations is already covered in the section concerning all advertisements. It's just repetitious.
"This is a difficult and detailed matter. However, we are resolved on one thing: the ASC has delegated the authority to the Kansan Board to govern all policies of the UDK," Suhler said.
"Generally, the Kansan board has felt the ASC has ulterior motives," he said. "They seem to be trying to establish who has authority over the UDK.
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62nd Year. No. 99
The story is simple. A man, returning home at 4 a.m. from a costume ball, is ridiculed by his wife for putting on airs. The argument develops as he turns the conversation towards comparing her less-endowed figure to that of a beautiful model he saw at the ball.
During the bickering, every subject that has been a sore point between them in their short marriage life comes to the front. Suddenly, they are interrupted by a messenger who tells them that the wife's mother is dead.
Barnyards And Boudoir Plays Shown
Monday, March 15, 1965
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
The second play, "Feu la Mere de Madame," or "Madame's Late Mother," appeared to be a bedroom farce, but in reality it was a bitter ridicule of marriage. As Feydeau himself said, "In all the calamities that strike the world, the foolish equal the horrible."
The University Theatre stage went from barnyard to boudoir last night as Le Treteau de Paris presented two one-act plays in their original French versions direct from Paris.
Feydeau showed, through his young couple, that people create their own private hells by their dealings with others.
The productions, "Poil de Carotte" by Jules Renard and "Feu la Mere de Madame" by Georges Feydeau, were given as a part of the seventh college and university tour in America under the auspices of L'Association Française D'Action Artistique of the French governmen.
"Poil de Carotte," or "Carrot Top," is a psychological drama combining equal parts of comedy and tragedy in the personages of a tyrannical mother, an indifferent father, a misunderstood son, and an out-spoken maid.
Bound together by a common sorrow, the couple forget their differences. But, they soon discover that the messenger has come to the wrong house and that her mother is not dead after all. Then the insults start again. The hacknied arguments are resumed as the curtain falls.
This area's weather forecast is clear to partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with increasing cool temperatures. The low for tonight is predicted to be between 25 and 30. The high tomorrow is predicted to be in the middle 40s, the weather bureau reported.
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'Selma Wall' Down To Register Voters
SELMA, Ala.—(UPI)—City police today removed a 30-foot long wooden barricade called the "Selma Wall," put up to stop hundreds of white and Negro civil rights demonstrators from marching on the county courthouse.
"Today is voter registration day. If they want to go down and register, they can," said Public Safety Commissioner Wilson Baker.
Baker pointed out Dallas County is under a federal court order to speed up the registration process.
THE BARRICADES WERE removed at 7 a.m., EST, after the demonstrators had maintained another all-night vigil they first took up last Wednesday at a point on Sylvan Street in a Negro housing area.
About 100 demonstrators, some of them wrapped in colorful quilts, were still standing in the line when the barricades were taken down. A cheer went up when the wooden planks were removed.
All through the night at least 100 whites and Negroes were on the line, changing shifts and singing or listening to speakers. During the night most of the highway patrol cars were removed.
The demonstration on Sylvan Street began as a prayer vigil and protest in the fatal beating of the Rev. James Reeb, a 38-year-old white Unitarian minister, attacked by whites last Tuesday night.
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. was to return to Selma today to lead a memorial service for Reeb who had come to Alabama in support of King's voter registration drive.
There was no immediate indication that the removal of the barriers signaled the end of the vigil in its 109th hour.
Negro leaders fell to arguing about their next move, a march on the registrar's office at the courthouse.
"We will move as a body," said Hosea Williams, an official of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). "We will move in the group that has stood here together since this began."
SOMEONE IN THE CROWD asked Williams who he was and what authority he had.
Williams identified himself as an official from the SCLC and added, "I'm as close as you can get to being Dr. King without being Dr. King."
At Montgomery, a federal court hearing resumes today on Negroes' attempts to get an injunction against state officials who prohibited them from staging a march from Selma to Montgomery. At least 28 witnesses were scheduled to be heard.
RUMORS THAT TROOPER commander Al Lingo had been fired touched off discussion in both the Negro and white communities of Selma.
Petitions were circulated in downtown Selma demanding that Lingo be kept on the job. Lingo was in command when troopers broke up a planned "freedom walk to Montgomery" last Sunday with clubs and tear gas.
The rumor that Lingo was out was greeted enthusiastically in the Negro community and by white demonstrators who have come here from across the nation.
Tensions apparently eased when Mayor Joseph Smitherman and Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark announced Sunday afternoon that Negroes had been granted permission to hold the memorial service for the Rev. James Reeb in the city's stadium.
(See related story on page 9)
West Civ Positions Sought After by 60 Applicants
About 30 graduate students were interviewed this past weekend for some 16 teaching positions in the western civilization department.
Professor James E. Seaver, director of the department, said last night that another 30 students have submitted their transcripts since they could not come to the interviews. It is from this field of 60 applicants that next year's 16 vacancies will be filled, Prof. Seaver said.
Seaver said. "Our process of interviewing and the qualifications that we see have not changed since the program's inception in 1945. Because of the broad nature of the program we expect the students applying to have a rather broad coverage of courses in liberal arts—courses in history, economics, political science, philosophy, sociology and psychology." department they come from." Prof.
"Many of our instructors have come from the School of Engineering, the English department or the chemistry department," he said, "but their breadth of readings gave them a broad educational background and that's what we look for. The bulk of our applicants and instructors, however, come from the departments of philosophy, history, political science and sociology."
Concerning the instructors' obligations, Prof. Seaver said they are expected to prepare and to direct eight discussion sessions a week, and to administer examinations. The 35-member staff also assists in the comprehensive examinations.
"I THINK THAT a very good element of the program," Prof. Seaver said, "is that it gives graduate students an opportunity to earn money through instructing
and thus helps them to continue their study.
"Our aim," Prof. Seaver said, "is to acquaint students with the major problems of life in the 20th Century through an understanding of the philosophical, sociological and political influences on history for the last 500 years."
Most schools in the United States have some kind of a general orientation program of this type, Prof. Seaver said, to form and to assign a basic group of readings common to most students. Some teach it as a history of civilization, while others present it as a background to history, he said.
OUR PROGRAM at KU is more oriented toward philosophy," Prof. Seaver said, "It does not put an emphasis on dates and facts like many other universities. Two other differences between our program and other's are that we have discussion groups and students
here have to do more work on their own.
"These discussion groups are a great advantage." Prof. Seaver continued, "Because students learn better this way." He added, "We strive to influence controversies and arguments and thus to stimulate thought, not to make up the students' minds for them. I think that they learn more and better this way than by hearing people talk about it.
CONCERNING changes in the program, Prof. Seaver said, "A
"Lecturers usually have a tendency to overwhelm the students' independent thinking," Professor Seaver continued, "We don't aim to propagandize for a specific religious or political point of view; we want to inspire the students to make up their own minds. . . to open new windows in various directions to pursue their education."
few of the readings may be changed but basically the program will remain the same, for next year. However, the year after next we may have some significant innovations." He did not know at the moment what they would be.
As for the complaint by students of too much reading for too little credit, Prof. Seaver said he felt that the amount of reading for western civilization has been equal to that of any other course offering the same amount of credit.
"We give less credit for juniors and seniors on the comprehensive," he continued, "because we want to discourage students' postponing the test and because students having encountered the same material in other courses will have an unfair advantage on undergraduates."