Professor seeks a better mankind
By Elizabeth Rhodes
Richard Burke as a man concerned with his fellow man. The chairman of the Lawrence chapter of Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), and assistant professor of human relation; at KU, Pref. Burke's activities and his life revolve around what he can do to improve the lot of mankind.
Speaking with an accent native to his birthplace in New York, he gave an account of his life as a pacifist and a conscientious objector.
PROF. EURKE'S INTEREST in
social movements begun during the second semester of his freshmen year at City College of New York. A massive student strike was called protesting the anti-Semitic and racist views of two professors. In an action larger than the recent Berkeley demonstration, the students struck for a week. Burke was one of them.
"This struck a spark emotionally and intellectually in me," he said.
In his following undergraduate years Buke had a "flirtation with the Young Progressives."
Young Republicans will choose queen Saturday
KU's candidate for the title is Jody Loyd, Newton sophomore. She was nominated by a judging committee comprised of state senators Tom R. Van Siekle, National Young Republican chairman, and Ed Reilly, Young Republican national committeeman.
THE NOMINATION was based on pictures submitted by three KU women. Competing with Miss Loyd were Sue Tyler, Bartlesville sophomore, and Patty Slider, Lyons sophomore.
Beauty and politics will be joined Saturday when Kansas Collegiate Young Republicans elect a queen at their annual convention.
The annual convention will be at the Town House Motor Hotel. Delegations from several colleges
Later he joined CORE because he said he "might be effective in using some of my pacifist ideas."
He did not stay in this movement because he said he discovered it to have totalitarian and Communist learnings. Burke emphasized that such ideologies are not to his liking.
BURKE WAS ONE of the founders of the Boston chapter eight years ago. Four years ago he helped found the Lawrence chapter. Lawrence CORE is not a campus organization, he emphasized. Membership is open to anyone in the area.
was Mohandas Gandhi, the Indian pacifist leader who preached non-violence, Burke said.
rently doing research on the author in his spare time.
Burke also admits a liking for the Beatles, especially their recent movie "Help." It has a freshness, a vitality that counteracts some of the machine-like stodginess of our society," he said.
Burke said he is interested in politics "in an abstract sort of way." It is difficult to be effective in varied areas, he feels, so he concerns himself primarily with civil rights.
His next political encounter was with socialism. Becoming a "non-doctrinaire socialist," he chose to develop his ideas on his own. During this time he did not become active in socialist groups.
Camping and canoeeing with his wife and three children take up much of his summer free time. They like to go to the Ozarks, where, according to Burke, the streams are especially suited for canoes.
as well as with state and national representatives will attend.
"Trying to have relationships with other people that are open, honest, authentic, and loving," is his primary interest as a human being. He admitted that this is much harder to achieve in practice than in statement.
CURRENTLY HE IS a member of the Unitarian Fellowship. For a number of years he has been interested in liberal religious movements. "It is important for people to ground their social consciousness and philosophy in a larger philosophy of life," he said.
JODY LOYD KU's CYR queen candidate
STUDY IN SOUTHERN FRANCE
THE KOREAN conflict erupted about this time, and Burke was "emotionally and intellectually revolted by the killing." He said he had been struggling with concepts of war and peace, and now he became a conscientious objector. He served his two years service at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Illinois state Sen. Don Rumsfeld, Sen. Reilly and Mike Getto, former national representative of Young Republicans, will judge the queen contest.
An undergraduate liberal-arts year in Aix-en-Provence FRENCH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE EUROPEAN STUDIES ART & ART HISTORY MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES Classes in English and French satisfying American curriculum requirements Institute students enrolled at the University of Aix-Marseille founded in 1409 Students live in French homes Tuition, trans-Atlantic fares, room and board, about $1,950.
HE LISTS Henry Miller as his favorite author. Having read most of his works, Burke is cur-
While in college he started a pacifist club, and was one of the founders of the War Resistance League. People he met in these groups were members of CORE. They influenced him greatly, he said.
His real influence, however,
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