Daily hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
62nd Year, No.95
Tuesday, March 9, 1965
Arrests No Curb on Demonstration
(Photo by Harry Krause)
SIGN CARRYING PICKETS—Arrested demonstrators were greeted by sympathetic picketers as
they were unloaded from buses at the Douglas County Court House parking lot last night.
Special Meeting Called ASC to Discuss Sit-ins
Discussion of yesterday's civil rights sit-in demonstration is expected to be a major topic of discussion at tonight's special ASC meeting.
The special meeting, to be at 7:30, will also consider bills from committees, a report on Traffic and Security, and the University Daily Kansan's advertising policies.
The meeting, proposed by Lee Ayres, Park Ridge, Ill., graduate student (UP—unmarried, unorganized), is to allow time for the bills which both UP and Vox representatives have wanted to introduce in the Council.
"There is a growing feeling that we are rushing important things through," Ayres said.
HE EXPLAINED that in recent meetings bills are introduced but have no time to be read and discussed.
The ASC passed a bill to set up
weekly meetings at its meeting last Tuesday night, but the bill has not yet been signed by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe. Ayres said he felt that the Council should meet again tonight.
The Council is also scheduled to hear a report on the Traffic and Safety committee from its chairman Tom Ruzicka, Leawood junior.
MIKE MINER, Lawrence senior and ASC chairman, said he anticipates a discussion of the civil
Bulletin
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced in a special press conference held at 10 a.m. that the All Student Council Bill No. 7 had been passed and signed by him at 8:15 a.m. It is now being returned to the president of the All Student Council.
Many See March
Traffic Patrol
"It's like Homecoming weekend." This is how Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B.C., senior and student body president, described the steady flow of traffic which streamed past the corner of Jayhawk Boulevard and Lilac Lane during the civil rights demonstration last night.
Stewart and Mike Miner, Lawrence senior and chairman of the All Student Council, directed traffic at the corner for over an hour. They were trying to keep the traffic out of the demonstration area during the march.
THE ONLY VEHICLES permitted to enter the area were those representing radio and television stations.
"We're trying to keep the demonstration orderly." Miner said.
The majority of the cars were merely spectators, Stewart said.
The demonstrators marched into Lilac Lane in front of Fraser Hall.
continued past Watkins Hospital, Blake Hall and the chancellor's residence. The marchers in groups of three paraded past the chancellor's residence and then returned to Jayhawk Boulevard.
As cars began to turn into Lilac Lane Stewart planted himself in front of them and explained that he was trying to keep the demonstration as peaceful as possible.
"LAWRENCE CITIZENS, KU students and newsmen have all been by to take a look," Stewart said.
NEITHER MINER or Stewart wore overcoats, and were constantly moving, stamping their feet, rubbing their hands and smoking cigarettes to keep warm.
"I was nearly hit by a Ford a few minutes ago," Stewart said, moving in front of a car.
rights sit-in of yesterday at the Council meeting and discussion of the University Daily Kansan's advertising policies as set up under the Kansan Board constitution.
The KU police were on the scene but remained in a jeep parked on Lilac Lane.
BOB STEWART, Vancouver, B.C. senior and student body president, contacted a few hours after Miner, said that he "believes the question on the demonstration will come up tonight . . . and that there certainly will be some kind of resolution, but I couldn't tell you what it will be."
Stewart said that Miner had just brought him the bill at the Sigma Chi house and he had signed it. He said the bill would go to the Chancellor this morning.
AT 10 P.M. YESTERDAY, a spokesman at the Wesley Center, said that Stewart and Hugh Taylor, Stoke on Trent, England graduate student (UP, graduate school) had talked to the group there and asked them to negotiate their grievances
Gene White, Mission senior, and chairman of the ASC publications board, and John Subler, Cross River, N.Y., senior and president of the Kansan Board, both stated that there is no clause in either the ASC Constitution or the by-laws of the Kansan Board which deal with the kinds of advertising the UDK may receive.
SUHLER EXPLAINED the official standing of the Kansan Board on this matter which was passed unanimously at its board meeting on Feb. 24, 1965, with the knowledge of Chancellor Wescoe, Bob Stewart, and Mike Miner.
Weather
The low tonight is predicted to be about 20 to 25 degrees. Wednesday will be partly cloudy and colder.
The weather bureau is predicting variable cloudiness tonight, with the possibility of light rain or snow. It will turn colder tonight with northwesterly winds of 10 to 20 miles an hour.
About 57 students resumed civil rights demonstrations in Strong Hall at 8 a.m. today. They sat silently in the corridor outside Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's office.
Lawrence D. Morgan, chairman of the state Board of Regents, said today that Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe of the University of Kansas has the regents' "full support" in his handling of the current protest by Civil Rights groups over racial discrimination by fraternities and sororities.
It has been announced that Nate Sims, Pasadena, Calif., senior, and George Unseld, Louisville, Ky., senior, will meet with Chancellor Wescoe this afternoon at 4:30.
Sims originally asked Wescoe to speak before the entire group of about 130 demonstrators assembled on the second floor of Strong Hall. The seller Wescoe replied, "I'll meet with two of you."
The students marched up to the corridor in pairs from the rotunda after receiving instructions from Nate Sims, Pasadena, Calif., senior, and George Unseld, Louisville, Ky., senior.
In an interview this morning, Sims said he expected 600 students to participate in the demonstration today. He offered no conclusions as to what may happen later in the day.
Sims said the demonstrators plan to return each day until their demands are met by the Chancellor. He didn't estimate how long this might take.
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Wescoe States Past
Chancellor W. Clarke Weseco issued the following statement last night with regard to the demands of the Civil Rights Council;
"1. The University does not sanction discriminatory policies of any kind. The work of this administration to remove the bars that distinguish between students by reason of race or creed is too well known to need further restatement.
2. That there is no mixed fraternity and sorority housing is clear; that this is a matter of express policy is clearly not the case. Rather it seems to me a matter of individual decisions in a situation all of us inherited but out of which we are slowly working our way.
3. Students are assigned to practicing teaching positions on a basis of individual choice and administrative decisions at the local school level. If there have been instances of a student being sent against his will into a racially discriminatory situation, the committee I propose to appoint will investigate. No complaint about this has ever reached me.
4. The Kansan Board and the All Student Council have been investigating the question of Kansan advertising at my request.
5. The University Housing office has no staff for investigation. We depend, naturally, upon any student who feels he has been treated unfairly to report such incidents to our off-campus Housing Committee. There have been only two such complaints in the past three and a half years.
6. I have hoped to sign a proper human rights bill before now, but that hope has been frustrated by the form, not the content, of the bill last presented to me.
For previous statements by the Chancellor, see Page 2.
I SYMPATHIZE WITH the feelings of those who choose to demonstrate them in this way. I can understand their motive in offering themselves as a sacrifice in what they consider a worthwhile cause, but, I cannot approve their actions, nor do I feel that they are in the best interests of better relations toward which we have been working.
These young men and women are not freedom riders through a hostile land where no one will discuss their desires and work with them toward a mutually desired end. Discussions have been continuing since long before many of them entered this institution, and men have been working at the problem since long before many of them were born.
Now these young men and women want to stop talking and start acting; but their action may well help build back up a wall other men have been working to take down, stone by stone.
WE MUST NEVER stop talking, we must never stop working together, and we must suspect the words of those who would urge us to do otherwise. These young men and women force me to do things I do not wish to do but that I must do to continue the operation of this University. Their unwillingness to listen is one of the most unhappy aspects of this somber situation. I had hoped for better responses from a KU student group. I had hoped we could establish facts; I had hoped that minds were still open to reason. I had hoped we could work together; I hope we still can.
Lest anyone be in doubt as to where I stand, let him read my speech to my own fraternity—a plea for brotherhood for all."