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Summer Session Kansan Friday, July 29,1966
ONE PEE, ONE VOTE
Rally 'round th flag
A Kansas editor and former member of the Board of Regents has kept a critical eye on rising student fees.
Salina Journal editor Whitley Austin (a financially distant relative) suggests that the honorable farmers and bankers who compose the august Regents may soon reach a crisis point as they turn to Kansas students for cheap financing. In fact, it appears that Austin is formulating a soaped-down crusade against the board he once chaired.
BUT MAYBE THAT CRUSADE ought to be souped-up instead of soaped-down. And although the Salina editor was surely glib when he said it, the idea of ONE FEE, ONE VOTE doesn't wax badly at all.
Think about it. ONE FEE, ONE VOTE.
The consequences of such a movement would make the Chicago riot seem like an SUA picnic.
For example, the gray manes of the Kansas House could go back to building interstate highways instead f sweating the Kansas Statute that says no "t i tion" shall be asked at any state institution of h e r education.
THOSE FA RMERS AND BANKERS mentioned earlier could come out of those pungent closed-door m meetings and hightail it back to their respective farms and banks.
Student government, a high point of campus humor to all sa e the poll sci majors, could break its chains and start legislating, content in the knowledge it had something to legislate about.
You student is could all come over to Flint Hall and wat h the lights in the Buildings Across the Str et go out, one by one. (Or vice-versa.)
IT WOULD BE STANLEY LEARNED, Mrs.
Spencer and t e KU student body against the world.
Yes, it's frii Intening. But think about it when you pay your "fees" or whatever next fall. ONE FEE, ON E VOTE.
Dan Austin
East New York is a place of fear as racial tension keep erupting
By Richard V. Oliver
By Richard V. Oliver
United Press International
United Press International NEW YORK—East New York is a frightened white man who parks his 1957 sedan on different streets, hoping that his new battery and tires will not be stolen again.
East New York is a pretty young Puerto Rican girl in a tight pink skirt standing at the corner of Sutter and Pennsylvania Avenue, trying to ignore the rowdy Negro youths who wolf whistle and taunt her.
Like many other areas of this city-like Harlem, Berford-Stu-
vesant and Brownsville—East New York is block after block of dismal, decaying tenements. Packs of half-naked children play in the streets.
YET LIKE MANY other neighborhoods—like parts of Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx-East New York has tree-lined streets shading newly built two-family homes, bright and pleasant 14-story public housing projects, cheerful parks and playgrounds and spanking new schools.
East New York about eight miles from Times Square in mid-Manhattan, is a neighborhood in flux. The status quo is precariously balanced. The past pulls one way, the future tugs another and the present inches along from day to day.
Last week the whole structure collapsed in the worst racial violence this city has seen since the terrible Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant riots of two summers ago.
ALL OF THESE policemen are looking for the slightest sign of a spark, the trigger that might set off another round of racial trouble.
AND TODAY EAST New York is an armed camp ready for anything yet prepared for nothing.
Ironically, last week's violence began outside a meeting of community leaders seeking ways to ease the racial tension that had been troubling the neighborhood.
Since World War II, whites in increasing numbers have steadily
Cautious policemen patrol the streets in threes, their bright blue riot helmets dangling from their belts. "These things just make good targets," says one officer. Many carry extra ammunition.
Police emergency service and communications vehicles are manned every few blocks. Radio cars and unmarked sedans carrying plainclothesmen cruise along East New York's streets.
moved out of East New York while, at the same time, more and more Negroes and recently, Puerto-Ricoans moved in.
AT THE CENTER of this area however, a group of whites, mainly Italian-Americans, steadfastly maintained their ground, shrinking almost daily.
As a result, a kind of buffer zone has gradually been formed on either side of Livonia Avenue over which the elevated subway trains make their noisy way back and forth to Manhattan each day
To some in East New York Livonia Avenue is not just a buf — fer but a barrier, a racial wall built by fear and ignorance.
"THEY DON'T WANT colore folks shopping over there," sai an elderly Negro woman. "We g to our stores and they go t theirs."
"They ought to stay in their own neighborhood and leave alone," a white man said, looking across Lvivia Avenue.
Yet to others, white, Negro an Puertorican, there is no boundary; it exists only in the minds of those who want it exist.
The boundary lines may vague, but the extent of East New York's racial intolerance is not.
In another area a white yout standing with a group of your toughs, yelled at me: "Hey, COR worker, nigger lover, nigg lover."
"HEY, WHITE, goin' print sort more lies in the paper," a Neg youth snarled at me.
The East New York-Brown
ville sections of Brooklyn just a few years ago were notorious f or their teen gangs and gang wa s.
Today, however, the gangs a re loosely knit but organized eth i-cally.
With such racial tensions in mind, a group of East New York's community leaders, including several Negroes, gathered ast Thursday night at Frank's Restaurant, located on New Orleans Avenue, a few steps from Livonia
SUCH IS THE CASE with t ne group known as SPONGE So iety for the Prevention of Negro es Getting Everything. A rac ist group of white youths of Itali n, Irish and Polish backgroun ls, SPONGE came into the pub lic eye during the 1964-65 New Y o rk World's Fair when they picke ed against Negroes.
By most accounts, SPON E was the catalyst for last week k's violence in East New York.
Avenue and the last stop on the elevated subway.
OUTSIDE THE SMALL tavern a group of 40 white youths who identified themselves as members of SPONGE chanted: "Two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate."
Shortly before, Mayor John Lindsay dropped in on the meeting to confer with the local leaders, seizing the occasion as an opportunity to establish new communication between whites and Negroes in the area. Lindsay left Frank's at about 9 p.m.
During this time, the crowd outside grew steadily to about 250 persons, most of them white and some joining in the Sponge chants.
THE CHANTING could be heard for blocks, apparently attracting a group of about 40 young Negro toughs to the area.
The rival groups spotted each other and immediately began shouting curses. Police moved in to separate them but street fighting broke out. The Negroes, badly outnumbered, retreated across Livonia Avenue.
Tuesday, Eric Dean, the boy who had wanted to see the mayor, was buried.
A short time later, 11-year-old Eric Dean, a Negro, was walking toward Frank's, where, according to his mother, he wanted to get a glimpse of Mayor Lindsay.
A BLOCK FROM his home, a shot ripped into the boy's chest. He had been hiding behind a newsstand during a volley of shots by a sniper armed with a 25-caliber semi-automatic pistol.
About 300 Negroes gathered around the body but a quick-thinking police sergeant averted a possible riot at that point by telling the crowd young Eric had fainted. The boy was dead on arrival at Brookdale Hospital.
Then, as word of the Dean boy's death began spreading, the crowds grew into mobs. Bricks, bottles and firebombs began flying from rooftops and hurtling through store windows.
There were a series of sporadic incidents Friday night and early Saturday, including the arrests of 25 persons and the shooting of two Puerto Rican men, fired on from a passing car.
THE POLICE MOVED swiftly. Within minutes, 350 men had been rushed from other borroughs to break up the violence in Brooklyn. By the next night, an extra 1,500 policemen were patrolling the East New York area.
Coach in'32 gets KU note
Could you imagine a letter arriving at the White House today addressed to "Mr. Herbert Hoover, President of the United States?"
One just about as unlikely came to Allen Field House this week for "Mr. Brutus Hamilton, University of Kansas Track Coach."
The letter, opened by mistake, came from an old-time Kansas track fan now living at St. Petersburg, Fla.
HE WAS STIRRED by the recent world record feats of Kansas running star Jim Ryun and offered this salute to Hamilton:
"Congratulations on having another record-holder and great miler on your track team. Jim Ryun is not only a fine runner but a fine fellow.
"There was another of your Kansas boys who really made a name for himself...Glenn Cunningham."
Hamilton was the Kansas track coach in 1930-31-32, leaving KU (while Hoover was still president) at the end of Cunningham's sophomore year to become track coach at California. He retired at Cal last year after an illustrious career that included coaching the 1952 United States Olympic team.
CUNNINGHAM, WHO SET the world mile record at 4:06.7 two years after Hamilton left Kansas, was the last American to hold it until Ryun regained the mark recently with his fantastic 3:51.3 at Berkeley, Calif.-where Hamilton coached for more than three decades.
Bob Timmons, the present Kansas track coach, was only 7 years old when Hamilton left KU. Timmons got a chuckle out of the letter and had it forwarded on to Hamilton in California.
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