Wallace's win
In the first elections held in the South since the passage of the 1965 Civil Rights Act Negro voters are already making themselves felt at the polls. The 1955 Act permitted federal registrars to register voters for local elections.
At least one Negro won the Democratic nomination for the Alabama legislature and three in sheriff's races in Wednesday's Alabama primary. About 230,000 Negroes are eligible to vote in the state, and the number of Negro voters has doubled since the passage of the voting rights act of last year.
On the other hand, George Wallace's wife received the Democratic nomination for governor, indicating that the state as a whole is not yet willing to accept integration. State Attorney General Richmond Flowers, who is considered a
racial moderate, finished a poor second, receiving only a third the number of votes that Mrs. Wallace had.
The victory, which undoubtedly moves Wallace closer to an eventual Senate seat or third party states' rights bid in 1968, is unfortunate but it is not likely to impede for very long the civil rights movement in the South.
A number of white candidates from counties that had Negro majorities actively sought Negro votes, which it was apparent that they needed to win, and state wide a bloc of over 200,000 voters is too large to be ignored.
Last year's civil rights law will have even greater effect on Southern politics in future years.
Justin Beck
Snoopers invade privacy rights
Revelations of the past few days have shown a shockingly callous disregard of the right of privacy of individuals both by reputable business concerns and the federal government. Two highly publicized cases are typical:
Ralph Nader, author of "Unsafe At Any Speed," a devastating critique of unsafe automobile construction, was harassed by a private investigating firm employed by the legal department of General Motors. This had been done without the knowledge of GM President James M. Roche, who publicly apologized to Nader before a U.S. Senate subcommittee investigating auto safety.
Equally shocking was the order issued by the State Department's Passport Office to U.S. embassies abroad asking them to maintain a surveillance on Harvard historian H. Stuart Hughes, grandson of the late Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, when he visits Paris and Moscow later this year. The order was issued at the request of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The order has since been cancelled. But State Department spokesmen have indicated that if the FBI makes such requests in the future, they may be honored. And Miss Frances G. Knight, head of the Passport Office and a notorious reactionary, is furious at the exposure of her bureau's activities.
These are merely samples of what has become such a scandalously prevalent practice that Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach is on the verge of asking Congress for a law to prohibit wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping entirely, whether by private individuals or law enforcement agencies.
of privacy is either a tort (a civil offense for which damages may be collected) or a crime, or both. Perhaps the current notoriety may lead to action to strengthen this right of every citizen — St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times.
The right to privacy is more than a euphemism. In virtually every state, either by statute or by judicial precedent, the invasion
Regulate hecklers not demonstrators
In his lecture to the University chapter of the American Association of University Professors last week, student academic freedom expert William W. Van Alstyne pointed out a fallacy of restricting protesters because of violence inspired by their actions.
Too often, Prof. Van Alstyne said, universities move to place restrictions on demonstrators because their peaceful actions kindle more violent behavior in others.
The regulations should be made against those engaging in violence, not the demonstrators, Prof. Van Alstyne said.
UK made the kind of mistake Prof. Van Alstyne referred to in restricting pickets to the area across the street from Memorial Coliseum after the Founders' Day incident, in which peaceful demonstrators from the Students for a Democratic Society were pelted by eggs by anonymous students.
It would seem that the egg throwers, not the demonstrators, should be subject to University regulation as they—not the demonstrators—were responsible for
creating an incident which interfered with the legitimate educational function of the University.
The University, like any other restrictive body, cannot use threatened violence as an excuse for denying rights to any citizen or group.
By limiting their activities to a specific area and barring them from the area before the Coliseum without adequate justification. University officials have interfered clearly with the rights of demonstrators.
Unless the University had alleged and proved that the SDS demonstrators themselves, not considering their hecklers, had interfered with traffic or entry and exit from the Coliseum, they had no right to exile the protesters across the street.
Quite likely the banishment interfered with the effectiveness of the protest. As most persons approached the Coliseum on the side of the street on which the women's dormitories are located, a person would have had to cross the street to obtain copies of the literature the SDS members were distributing.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
'WELL, ILL TELL YOU WHY I'M DROPING OUT OF SCHOOL
DROPPING BECAUSE ALL THIS UNLEID EMERGENCY ON ACADEMIC
SCHOLARSHIP HAS KILLED MY INCENTIVE TO LEARN.'
The University has the obligation to protect the peaceful expression of ideas on its own campus, but restricting actions against orderly demonstrators instead of their disorderly hecklers is hardly an adequate means of doing so.
—Kentucky Kernel
Two KU students won first and second places in the regional technical paper conference of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at the University of Arkansas.
Two students given awards
Frank E. Gordon, Hutchinson senior, won first place. He received $100 and a trip to New York next fall to a winter meeting of ASME where he will present his paper, "The Design, Development and Operation of a Numerically Controlled System."
Second place went to David R. Turner, Wellington senior, for his paper, "Automation in Flastic Fabrication."
Ten universities were represented by 18 student speakers from the four-state region of Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas.
"Did The Music Man Say When Our Instruments And Uniforms Are Coming?"
WALTERBLOCK
THE UNION POST
Lower age for voters in proposed amendment
A Constitutional amendment which would set 18 as the legal voting age in all of the 50 states has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Charles L. Weltner, Democrat, from Georgia's Fifth District.
The proposed amendment is now before the Judiciary Committee. It is time that the measure be considered by the Congress.
America is a young nation. In the not too distant future, over one-half of our population will be less than 25 years old. Right now, 8 million young men and women are between the ages of 18 and 20.
In speaking for his proposal on the floor of the House, Weltner declared:
"These young Americans represent the United States across the globe as Peace Corps Volunteers. They labor in slums, hospitals and schools in the struggle against poverty. They represent the nation before the world in Olympic competition and international conferences. They man the lines of defense around the world. And, most important of all, they are fighting—and dying—in Southeast Asia.
"These young people," he continued, "ages 18 to 20, have proven themselves worthy of the awesome tasks we place upon them. They are a generation of dedication and ability.
"They can do many things, but there is one area where they are excluded. For except in Georgia and three other states—Kentucky (18), Alaska (19) and Hawaii (20)—they cannot vote.
"They can fight and die . . . but they cannot vote.
"They can represent this nation in some remote outpost of civilization . . . but they cannot vote.
"They can sacrifice their time and energy in ministering to others... but they cannot vote."
A Congress so firmly dedicated to the principle of voting rights should now move to extend the franchise to these young Americans.
Representative Weltner's resolution, a simple proposition stating that "No citizen of the United States who is 18 years of age or older shall be denied the right to vote by reason of age," faces a long, hard road ahead. Its fate rests with the opinion of the American public. Persons of all ages, and especially those between the ages of 18 and 20, should lend Weltner their support by telling their congressmen they agree with the Georgia representative. University of Washington, D.C.
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