ACLU member speaks to SDS
Academic freedom for students is a major concern of the Kansas Civil Liberties Union, a member told a meeting of Students for a Democratic Society yesterday in the Kansas Union.
"Student rights is a real knotty problem." Walt Blackledge, managing editor for the Alumni Association at KU and member of KCLU, told SDS members.
Blackledge said KCLU is concerned with three main subjects at present. The first is the film censorship law, which was recently declared unconstitutional in a Shawnee County court decision.
The third is the hospitalization and commitment laws, particularly regarding the mentally ill. There is a statute committing offenders to institutions for an indeterminate period, Blackledge said, and often people are detained long after they have been rehabilitated.
THE SECOND IS capital punishment, to which the organization is opposed. Four out of seven executions in the U.S.A. last year were carried out in Kansas, he said.
Blackledge also mentioned the recent "smut act" that has been passed in Lawrence. He says he
Spring yearbook to be distributed
The third edition of the 1966 Centennial Jayhawker will be distributed between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in the rotunda of Strong Hall next week.
To pick up this Spring edition, students need only their Jayhawker receipt, said Steve Meyer, Leavenworth junior and Jayhawker distribution manager. Students wishing to pick up a cover or copies of the first or second editions will also need their KU-ID, said Meyer.
regards it as unconstitutional under the first amendment of the Constitution. Speaking of sex, he said, "Other societies have learned to live with it much better than we have."
THE STATUTE IS too vague, he said. He asked who decides what is obscene, what is disgusting, what arouses passion?
Blackledge said KCLU has become a target of the far right because it has at times defended communists and their civil liberties. "But we also have defended John Birch members and their civil liberties," he said.
"Kansas is a bit more right than most of the country and therefore a bit less concerned about civil liberties."
Soothsayers to perform
The Soothsayers, whose latest hit is "I Don't Know," will appear at the Daisy Hill Street Dance Saturday, 8-12 p.m. in the Hashing Hall parking lot.
"We wanted a function where everyone could come. Because the dorms are near we should get a larger percentage to attend, said Beth Stukenberg, Des Moines, Iowa, junior and chairman of the committee.
The band has appeared with The Astronauts, Johnny Rivers and will be appearing with Herman's Hermits in Denver.
The dance is jointly sponsored by Ellsworth, Hashinger, Joseph R. Pearson, McCollum and Templin Residence Halls, she said. Admission is free.
Former head of UN forces to speak on Irish movement
The origins of the movement believed to have resulted in the recent bombing of the Lord Nelson statue and memorial column in Dublin, Ireland, will be discussed at the Kansas Union. The lecture will be part of the annual meeting of the American Committee for Irish Studies.
The annual event which started with an 8 a.m. registration today will continue through tomorrow. About 200 persons are expected to attend the conference co-sponsored by KU's departments of English and history and University Extension.
CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN, now the Albert Schweitzer professor of humanities at New York University and former commander of the United Nations forces in the occupation of the Congo, will be the annual speaker for the conference.
Speaking on "1916—Fifty Years After," Conor Coruise O'Brien will refer to the blasting of the Dublin memorial to the British naval hero, Lord Nelson, whose sea
victories contributed much to the eventual defeat of I apoleon coincided with the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of an Irish republic. The revolt against Britain failed at the time but freedom was eventually attained.
ACTING A liaison personnel for the annual conference are Harold Orel, professor of English and Aldon Bell, assistant dean of the College, from the history department.
Among the distinguished foreign conference participants are Robert W. Greaves, visiting professor of history from the University of London, and Donald C. Savage from Loyola College in Canada.
Sixteen American universities and colleges will also be represented.
6 Daily Kansan
Friday, May 6, 1966
THE RED DOG INN presents "THE SPRING SHOW OF SHOWS" starring
The 10 finalists for Miss Lawrence-KU will be revealed at 3 p.m. today at Central Junior High School.
Miss Lawrence-KU finals tonight
EDWIN STARR and his band
— Famous For Agent 00-Soul, S.O.S., and Headline News
Also Featuring
— Miss Beulah Roberts
— The Kansas City Idols
The Blades
Preliminaries held last night served as a dress rehearsal of to-night's pageant. The winner will ride in a parade in Ottawa.
Saturday, May 7th at the Red Dog Inn
642 Massachusetts
8-12 Midnight
810 W.23rd St.
8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
FRIDAY THE UGLIES
SATURDAY ANN BREWER & THE FLAMES
PIZZAPUB
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