Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
62nd Year. No. 86
Wednesday, Feb. 24, 1965
Douglas Will Meet Students, Tour Law School. Give Talk
Students will be able to personally meet and talk with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas tonight at a reception in the southwestern lobby of the Kansas Union
The reception will follow his lecture, "The Rule of Law and Survival," at 8:15 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium where a question and answer period, following the lecture
Justice Douglas, who was recently in the news following his dramatic rescue from the side of a snow-covered mountain in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico, combines a love of the out-of-doors and a genuine interest in law and people with a busy career on the bench.
JUSTICE DOUGLAS will visit the KU Law School immediately after his arrival in Lawrence, on the invitation of Dean James Logan of the Law School. He will attend an informal reception there, followed by a question and answer session with the students and faculty.
A press conference in the Kansas Union will follow the Law School tour.
The 66-year-old justice has served on the Supreme Court since 1939, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him to the position of associate justice.
Born in Maine, Minn., in 1898, he graduated from Whitman College, Walla, Walla, Wash., and taught school in Yakima, Wash., before
taking his law degree from Columbia.
HE SERVED AS A MEMBER of the faculty of the Columbia Law School in 1924-28, and on the Yale Law School from 1928-36. While serving as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, he was tapped for his present position on April 17, 1939.
Justice Douglas has written many magazine articles, as well as legal case books on corporation finance and bankruptcy. Many of his 14 books are concerned with his travels throughout the world.
William O. Douglas
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CRC Plans Pickets For Douglas Speech
The Civil Rights Council (CRC) plans to demonstrate tonight outside Hoch Auditorium prior to the speech which is to be given by Justice William O. Douglas.
"SPECIFICALLY the CRC notes the continuance of discriminatory off-campus housing practices which humiliate Negro, Jewish, and foreign students," the handbill states. "The University has declared its intention to sever all ties and lend no assistance to private owners of off-campus housing who practice discrimination."
By Joan McCabe
The CRC stated in a handbill to be distributed during the demonstration that they have chosen "this occasion of the appearance of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, noted champion of civil rights, to deplore discriminatory practices in the University community."
The group wishes it clearly understood that the CRC is not demonstrating against Justice Douglas, but rather against the University administration's policy on civil rights.
The CRC feels that this policy is weakly enforced and that the KU fraternity and sorority system continues to discriminate on the basis of race and religion in the selection of new members.
It was announced today that the Lawrence Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) will support "physically, financially and morally" the demonstration tonight by the CRC and the position taken by the CRC in its released statement. Some of the members of the CORE group are expected to take part in the demonstration.
Some of the book titles are good clues to the extensiveness of his legal and political interests, as well as his hobby of roaming the world. For instance: "We the Judges," "Democracy and Finance," "North from Malaya," "A Living Bill of Rights," and "My Wilderness."
Justice Douglas recently published an article entitled "America's Vanishing Wilderness," which told of the waste and loss of our natural resources.
IN THE CLOSING WORDS of the essay, he wrote: "We inherited the loveliest of all continents. We should bequeath it to our grandchildren as a land where the majority is disciplined to respect the values even of a minority."
"Those values are aesthetic or spiritual and they reflect the principle that beauty is an end in itself, and that Man will find relaxation, renewed strength, and inspiration in the wilderness of the earth," he said.
This Spring The Last For Old Fraser Hall
Justice Douglas' visit is sponsored jointly by the All-Student Council and the Student Union Association.
By Eric Johnson
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced today that Fraser Hall would be closed at the end of the Spring semester and razed as soon as possible after that.
The balcony of Fraser Theater was closed yesterday at the recommendation of State Architect James C. Canole. The seats are being removed and dismantled.
In a prepared statement the chancellor said, "Along with Mr. Canole, Vice Chancellor Lawton, and Mr. Nichols, I have inspected the walls, the cracks, and the foundations, and along with them I can testify that Fraser's condition is not a matter of a few major points of deterioration that can be repaired."
When Fraser Hall is razed, Carruth-O'Leary Residence Hall will be renovated to house the offices and classrooms now in Fraser.
"We want to do as little renovation as possible with the thought that one day it will be used again as a residence hall," Chancellor Wescoe said.
JAMES C. CANOLE, the state architect, said in a written statement, that it is mandatory that Fraser be evacuated during the excavation for the new Fraser Hall.
No date was set for the razing of Fraser, but it was stressed that it should be done as soon as possible. The date for demolition is also dependent on the necessary appropriation of funds.
The chancellor said the 200 students in Carruth-O'Leary will be housed in the new McCollum Hall.
The chancellor paid tribute to Fraser Hall, the oldest building on campus when he said, "Only the artisanship of the men who built it and the supportive maintenance of the succeeding years have enabled it to survive as long as it has."
IN 1872 Fraser was built on a foundation of clay and shale and most of the building is constructed with wooden supports. Canole feels that the recent construction of Blake Hall and the addition to Watson Library, "took its toll on old Fraser."
Canole felt that heavy construction on the new Fraser Hall could possibly cause the building's collapse. Canole described the re-use of Fraser after the construction of the new Fraser as "too questionable to plan for other than total loss of this building for use after the spring semester."
Barring "unexpected natural phenomena" Canole said Fraser was safe to be used to complete the present semester. Canole warned that certain walls should be checked regularly for movement and further settlement though.
Large lecture classes held in Fraser Auditorium now would probably have to be moved to Hoch Auditorium or Swarthout Recital Hall.
The study of the condition of Fraser Hall came at the request of the Kansas State Board of Regents.
U.S. Jet Bombers Blast Viet Cong For First Time in South Viet Nam
SAIGON—(UPI)—American pilots are flying U.S. jets in combat for the first time in South Viet Nam.
U. S. B57 light jet bombers struck today at concentrations of Viet Cong troops north of Saigon where the Communists mounted one of their most critical drives of the war.
It was the first time the Americans have flown their jets in such actions within South Viet Nam, although U.S. jets have hit targets in Laos and have carried out American strikes against North Viet Nam. Previously, the U.S. jets had been limited to reconnaissance missions within South Viet Nam, and propeller-driven planes had been used for combat.
In the stepped up Communist offensives today three Americans were killed and nine wounded. Heavy South Viet Nam troop losses also were reported.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy said B57 bombers joined with American F100 Super Sabre jet fighter-bombers in strikes against "large" concentrations of Viet Cong troops along the Binh Dinh and Pleiku provinces. There was no immediate report on the results.
Weather
KU students can expect warmer temperatures tomorrow with fair skies. No precipitation is expected.
The Topea weather bureau predicted a low tonight for Lawrence and the eastern section of the state near zero. Light north-northwest-erly winds will accompany the dropping temperature.
The southwest corner of the state can expect a low of 20 to 25 tonight with the thermometer rising tomorrow moving east Thursday.
Heavy snow still prevails over most of the highways in the eastern half of Kansas. Snow fell over all of the northeast of the state and as far west as Concordia.
The announcement of the introduction of the B57s in the war against the Communists came against the background of reported diplomatic moves to negotiate a settlement, a cease-fire call by a powerful Vietnamese Buddhist priest, and the shakeup in the South Vietnamese military command.
LT. GEN. NGUYEN KHANHI, who was stripped of his strongman role in the wake of the abortive coup last week, flew here from Dalat and prepared to leave for virtual exile as "roving ambassador."
President Johnson has opened the door a crack to negotiations in the Viet Nam war—but only to the extent of giving tacit consent to diplomatic soundings by the British.
Fundamentally, there appeared to be no change in U.S. policy, which has rejected any negotiations that would simply call for an American withdrawal from South Viet Nam and leave that country vulnerable to Communist takeover.
PRIME MINISTER Harold Wilson told the House of Commons that the British government was "deeply concerned" over Viet Nam and hoped it could play a part "in helping to resolve the present problem and to arrive at a basis for a peaceful settlement."
"To this end," Wilson said, "we have been actively engaged in diplomatic consultations of a confidential nature."
The State Department replied in a
highly guarded one-sentence statement:
"THE BRITISH and other governments have been in touch with us with respect to our attitude on South Viet Nam, and we have naturally given them a full account of the situation and our views."
The U.S. statement did not specifically say negotiations were talked about between Washington and London. It was understood from reliable sources that the British effort was directed at sounding out the United States and the Communists to see if their positions contained mutual points or any prospects of conciliation.
To put it another way, the British were seeking to determine whether the time is ripe for negotiations.
IN DIPLOMACY, this is the standard first step toward any talks.
Reports from London today said Communist China was prepared to participate in Viet Nam peace negotiations but opposed to any preconditions for the talks. These reports said North Viet Nam also appeared ready to talk, but also without conditions.
Soviet Ambassador Serge Vinogradov paid an urgent call on President Charles de Gaulle late Tuesday and expressed his government's "serious concern," over developments in Viet Nam. He referred especially to retaliatory American air strikes against Communist North Viet Nam.
It was reliably reported that Vinnogradov specifically told the French president Russia would agree to reconvene the 1954 Geneva conference in order to reach a settlement in Southeast Asia.