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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No.102
WEATHER:
COLDER
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Details on Page 12
Friday, March 18, 1966
DRAFT EXAM
Quiz samples out
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— "If 2 erasers cost 6 cents, how many erasers can be bought for 36 cents?"
If you don't know the answer to that one, brother, erase that 2S college student draft deferment classification and write 1A.
THE ERASEI QUESTION, the answer is 12, is one of 30 sample questions contained in a Selective Service "Bulletin of Information" made public yesterday. It is for college students who want to take a three-hour test on May 14, May 21 or June 3 that may help them
stay in school and out of the Army.
Test scores will be sent to the local draft boards of all students involved. The results will help the boards decide whether students should be permitted to remain in college under a 2S classification, or be re-classified 1A.
The Selective Service system's decision to conduct the tests was made when it seemed possible that some students might have to be drafted to meet manpower requirements for the Viet Nam war. The Army hinted Tuesday, however, that such a step might
not be necessary because of the increased pace of voluntary enlistments.
THE TESTS WILL BE GIVEN at 1,200 locations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the Canal Zone. They were drawn up and will be administered by Science Research Associates of Chicago.
Strict rules were laid down for all students voluntarily deciding to take the examination. Everyone will be fingerprinted in advance "to avoid the possibility that any unauthorized person might take the test."
AWS to reconvene to discuss more rules
After a ten day recess, the Associated Women Students (AWS) regulations convention will reconvene Tuesday. It will consider business left unfinished after the March 12 convention.
Scheduled from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom, the convention will be open to everyone.
Related story, page 6.
ACCORDING to Carolyn Hoke, Prairie Village senior and convention chairman, the first order of business will be signouts. This issue was partially completed at the first meeting.
At that time, freshman and first-semester sophomore signouts were made obligatory or mandatory depending on the individual living group.
After signout business, the convention will discuss other proposals in the order they are presented from the floor. Miss Hoke said. There is no set agenda.
"THE DELEGATES can bring up anything they want us to pass a resolution on," she said.
Probable topics are women's closing hours during summer school, the AWS honor code, women's visiting hours in men's living groups and men's visiting hours in women's living groups.
The delegates may change or amend any resolution passed at the March 12 meeting.
Closing hours were the principal business resolved at the last meeting. Motions proposing no closing for seniors, junior and second-semester sophomores were passed. First-semester sophomore hours were set at 11:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday and midnight Sunday.
Anyone found cheating will be dismissed from the examination and his draft board notified. No one will be allowed to bring "textbooks, notes, sliderules or other aids" into the examination room.
All resolutions adopted by the regulations committee have to be approved by Emily Taylor, dean of women, the AWS Senate, the Council on Student Affairs and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe before becoming official University policy.
STUDENTS WANTING to take the examination must get the "Bulletin of Information" from their draft boards and make formal application. When they take the test they are to bring along two No. 2 pencils which "should be sharpened and ready for use."
Battle for minds, Viet expert says
NEW CONG TRAIL
SAIGON — (UPI)— The Communists have set up a new "Ho Chi Minh Trail" through the demilitarized zone to funnel men and supplies from North Viet Nam into the south, military intelligence sources said today. The sources said use of the trail had resulted in a "strong build-up."
The disclosure came as a U.S. military spokesman reported the Communist death toll in battles with U.S. and Australian troops sweeping War Zone D 30 miles from Saigon had reached 335 with the discovery of 20 more Viet Cong bodies today.
One of the nation's leading specialists on Viet Nam last night called Viet Nam "a long history of misopportunities," and said that the present conflict there is not only a political and military war, but a socio-economic disaster.
Bernard B. Fall, professor of international relations at Howard University in Washington, D.C., was speaking before a capacity audience at Dyce Auditorium.
"You can do anything with brute force, but you can never have stability with it," Fall said.
DISCUSSING THE "Prospects for Counter-Action Insurgency in Viet Nam," Fall traced the present East Asiatic conflict to the 1954 Geneva cease-fire treaty and to the provisions in these accords.
"The treaty was violated all the way through, by both sides," he said.
Fall remarked that even though "no other treaty is so sacred," it was broken by South Viet Nam under Diem.
"Diem had managed to make Viet Nam a petty dictatorship which was not built against the Communists," he said.
THE 1956 DEADLINE for national elections passed and the United States was encouraged by the relative "stillness" on the "other side." Fall said.
"The U.S. was thinking that they would take the idea of no elections lying down. This was another delusion."
Fall, a 1966 George Polk Memorial Award winner, said at that time, the United States could have adopted three alternatives:
- Transform Viet Nam into a fortress.
- Create a viable situation similar to that in Germany, where trade would continue, but the communists would be told that elections would be postponed.
- Make South Viet Nam a
"subversion proof," by improving the country politically, socially and economically.
STARTING WITH Algeria, he referred to the fact that the deadline given to most wars is three years, and that Viet Nam has been no exception.
"McNamara predicted a solution for the Vietnamese conflict by the Christmas of 1965. What happens is that a one-year prediction seems too short, five, too long for public acceptance, so three years is a nice deadline," he said.
Fall, who served in the French underground for two years during World War II, illustrated his lecture with a series of maps, results of his own research in East Asia. He showed that Viet Nam was submerged despite Diem's regime.
"The minister of the interior knew about guerilla cells and units in the south," he said.
PROF' FALL'S research has led him to conclude in the late 1950s: "The war was going on, that someone was coordinating that war and that one government was losing it.
Fall quoted a U.S. officer as saying recently:
"Viet Nam," he said, "a long history of misopportunities."
"Ten years ago we could have gained the acceptance of the people by merely issuing a decree of land reform. Five years ago we could have paid for the land. Now, according to military men, we must pay for the land with blood, acre by acre."
Translating Simmonne de Bouvoir, who wrote about the struggle started in the Medieval Ages to fight the "useless mouths," Prof. Fall told his audience "What are we fighting for, anyway? If there are no more useless mouths, what are we doing here? Freedom cannot be a billboard for killing others."
CURTIS McCLINTON Former KU football star
McCLINTON TO GREEKS
Star asks social shift
"What is your attitude?"
That is the question Curtis McClinton, former KU football star now playing with the Kansas City Chiefs, left with KU Greeks when he spoke at the annual Greek Week Banquet last night. Approximately 1,000 students, representing KU fraternities and sororities, packed the Kansas Union Ballroom for the dinner and festivities.
Related story, page 5.
McCLINTON SAID he is proud to have been a Jayhawk, and praised the outstanding records of the basketball and track teams this year. He said in the 100 years of its growth, KU's greatest assets have been its people and their attitudes.
"But I am not proud, however, that the pigment of a person's skin can cause two separate fraternity areas, and little or no off-campus housing for Negroes," he added.
He said although it is said the nation's greatest asset is its diversity, discrimination, enforced by informal agreements, is the "sole remaining barrier to successful integration of American life."
"MANY PEOPLE accept the idea that 'social' discrimination is voluntary," he said, "and use the argument that if bald-headed men or pigeon-toed women want to form an exclusive club, that this is their democratic right.
Democratic rights, McClinton said, are no longer in effect when they extend to the point of infringing on the democratic rights of others.
"However, most of this discrimination is not voluntary; whether in a fraternity, sorority, or community country club, the admission requirements were set up long before we get there."
He told the audience, as "the leaders of tomorrow," attitudes must be changed before behavior can be changed. The attitude to be overcome, he said, is the indifference and prejudice in the community.
"WE MUST EMPHASIZE economic gains together, toward an open society," he said. "Our welfare is in proportion only to our ability to establish a total democracy."
Following the dinner, McClinton was asked about his opinion on the future of integration in the Greek system.
"It will take strength and internal fortitude on both sides," he said. "People will have to overcome the policies and controls so that members really have a free choice in selecting other members."
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