Students air opinions
By Judith Faust
Speakers stepped behind the lecture one at a time and talked—about the administration, student wages, regulations. The 75 people in the Trail Room of the Kansas Union listened. Some assented, a few disagreed, most just sat.
The Hyde Park Forum, sponsored by the Student Union Activities (SUA) Forum Committee, held its first session yesterday. The Forum, headed by Barbara Dewey, Lincoln, Neb., freshman, is designed to be an airing place for student ideas on any issue.
JIM REYNOLDS, SUA activities adviser, said the idea of the Hyde Park Forum is to provide an informal setting for KU affiliated people (faculty, students, administration or staff) to discuss, criticize or commend.
Student opinion, from the lectern, and in discussion afterward, was widely varied. One young man criticized the administration,
centering his speech on the newly formed Committee on Student Affairs. Another commended Provost James Surface for what he called "an honest attempt to answer the questionnaire presented to him by students."
A YOUNG WOMAN told a story about a mythical organization, All Brown-eyed Students, and its effect on an imaginary university in its attempt to protect its members.
The Hyde Park Forum will be held weekly, Thursdays at 3 p.m., in the Trail Room in the Kansas Union. To keep some order in the program, speakers are asked to sign up with Miss Dewey or in the SUA office on the first floor of the Kansas Union.
Reynolds said he hopes the interest will be as lively at KU as it is at the University of Nebraska. He said with a favorable response the program will be expanded to two days a week.
Mott's death in Russia ruled suicide by Reds
MCSCOW —(UPI)— The Soviet government, ending months of silence on the strange death of Newcomb Mott, ruled Thursday that the former Sheffield, Mass., book salesman committed suicide en route to a Soviet labor camp.
A 26-page Kremlin report of its two-month "thorough investigation" of Mott's death was presented to U.S. Embassy officials who forwarded the document to the State Department in Washington for translation and evaluation.
THE EMBASSY REFUSED to discuss the contents of the Soviet report or comment on the suicide-ruling itself, saying all further announcements would be made in Washington. The report was not
scheduled to arrive in Washington until Monday.
The Russian report, however, apparently did not differ from the Soviet allegation immediately after Mott died that he slashed his own throat Jan. 20 aboard a Siberian-bound prison train. The United States had asked for proof of this allegation.
Mott was headed for a Russian labor camp to serve out the remainder of an 18-month prison sentence for crossing the Soviet-Norwegian border last September without a visa.
Daily Kansan
Friday, March 11, 1966
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Stunt kidnapping university prank
CAPETOWN, South Africa—(UPI)—Fun-loving university students today released the sons of Rhodesian Premier Ian Smith and Loyalist Gov. Sir Humphrey Gibbs, who were "kidnaped" Thursday as a college prank.
The student kidnapers reportedly made an anonymous phone call to a newspaper Thursday saying that Kenneth Gibbs and Robert Smith would be released if their fathers met with them "over a glass of beer . . . to discuss Rhodesia's problems."
THE ELDER SMITH in Salisbury dismissed the kidnapping as a "joke" and the Rhodesian governor volunteered that "all students are crackers, crazy." The stunt was believed staged to publicize the university's annual "Rag Week," a week of pranks and general hell-raising.
The elder Smith is the leader of Rhodesian's white-dominated regime which unilaterally declared its independence from Britain. Gibbs, refusing to recognize the Smith government, remains in Salisbury as the crown's representative.
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