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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan
76th Year, No. 78
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, February 14, 1966
UP Backs Wage Aim Of Labor Movement
By Karen Henderson
University Party supports the newly formed Student Labor Organization (SLO), according to an official statement issued by the party leaders last night.
The formal statement:
"THE GOALS of the Student Labor Organization are in accord with UP policy and last spring's platform. Neither the number of jobs nor the wage scale has kept up with the rising costs of attending college. We suggest that both party members and the student body as a whole examine and support the SLO wage hike proposal."
Mike McNally, Bartlesville, Okla., junior, and member of Vox Populi executive council, said the SLO has been discussed by the council, but he had no statement to make.
"WE DO NOT expect this to become a partisan issue between parties," said Mike Youngblood, Prairie Village sophomore and UP vicepresident. "The function of the party is to endorse student interest."
KU does not officially recognize the organization because of the Board of Regents ruling on discrimination, Laurence C. Woodruff, Dean of Students, said.
Until the ruling stating there will be no discrimination in the organization is endorsed by the SLO, the group cannot be recognized," he explained.
THIS RULING WILL be discussed at an SLO rally at 7:30 p.m. today in the Kansas Union, said Carl Bangs, Prairie Village junior and secretary-treasurer of the group.
Four speakers will appear at the meeting. They are Joe Knight, Quinter freshman and SLO president; Mike Youngblood, UP vicepresident; Eileen Wilcox, Lawrence senior, and Gene Bonney, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student and a Methodist minister.
More than 130 students have joined the SLO Bangs said, and members are still being recruited in scholarship and residence halls.
VIET NAM, SOUTH
War Hits on Two Fronts
War on two frouts—the Viet nam conflict and the civil rights battle in the South—was the topic of a panel sponsored by the KU Committee to End the War in Viet Nam Saturday in the Kansas Union.
"We are here to discuss the proposition that Viet Nam and civil rights are not two separate issues," said Rich Hill, Lawrence junior and member of the Viet
Nam Committee and Students for a Democratic Society.
OTHER SPEAKERS were Prof. Richard Burke of the Human Relations Department, and Don Hughes, instructor at Wichita State University. Burke is an advisor to the Lawrence chapter of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), and campus counselor for conscientious objectors.
Poet Allen Ginsberg, who gave
Students Gather To Donate Blood
By Judith Faust
Faces in the Kansas Union lobby range from pale to flushed, from apprehensive to panicked. Students assembled there are either stoically brave, or just a little scared. They're waiting.
The lobby today, Tuesday and Wednesday will be transformed to an arm of the Department of Defense in a blood drive initiated by KU students.
THE USUAL FURNITURE has been moved out of the south end of the lobby and a combination hospital-canteen has taken its place. Five medical tables with gleaming equipment, beds for the donors, nine nurses, and a doctor have taken over one end of the room, while at the other end donors are refreshed by volunteers manning two large coffee urns and a table of sandwiches and soft drinks. An assembly line of typewriters is busily turning out registrations and medical histories. The center is quiet, organized, and efficient.
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, originator of the KU drive, has enlisted the help of the other KU fraternities in conducting the campaign for the Defense Department. The goal is 1,000 donations of blood. About 800 students have pledged donations.
MRS. JO BYERS, director of the Douglas County Red Cross, said, "When the movement among college students across the country to draw blood began, the Defense Department came to the Red Cross, setting us a goal of 40,000 units of blood by March 1. As of January 15, drives across the country had netted 32,000 units. We hope to raise the total to 33,000 units in our drive here."
The donation center, directed by the Red Cross, will be in operation until 3:15 p.m. today, and from 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday.
a reading Thursday in the Union, spoke briefly. He urged the audience not to escalate any violence in their movement, but instead to work for understanding and intelligent discussion of their position.
MRS. BYERS COMMENTED that the drive is quite a large-scale operation. About 50 people will be required to staff it, including doctors, nurses, and volunteers. A blood-mobile, nine nurses, and two clerks were sent from Wichita to help the Douglas County Red Cross in conducting the donation center.
Mrs. Byers said distribution of the blood will be up to the Defense Department, and not all of it will go to "war zones." Some will be made into fractions, and some will stay in military hospitals; distribution will be controlled by need.
"Nothing worthwhile is going to be accomplished through force by any faction," he said.
PROF. BURKE offered four points of similarity between the two conflicts:
Both conflicts betray attitudes of exploitation, superiority, and contempt toward oppressed people on the part of the United States.
Both illustrate American attitudes toward violence because we are willing to condone killing of both Negroes and Viet Cong.
Both illustrate that just as bureaucracy breeds bureaucracy, so violence and injustice breed violence and injustice.
Both are wars in which people are killed and injured and families separated.
Prof. Burke encouraged students to "plague both your houses, the Communists and the West" by forming a third camp to condemn the other two. He emphasized that students do their work through peace.
Hughes, a Negro, said the situation in Viet Nam and the treatment of the Negro here are manifestations of racism in America.
Date Machines Join Valentines
The man who chronicleled the Kennedy administration in the best-seller "A Thousand Days" will speak at KU at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Hoch Auditorium.
Schlesinger To Talk Here
Arthur M, Schlesinger Jr. is a Pulitzer Prize winner and former special assistant to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. The lecture, sponsored by Student Union Activities, will concern foreign affairs and the Kennedy administration.
Bu Eric Morgenthaler
In a possible searching for last-minute valentines, more than 50 students turned for help to Datadate, KU's new programmed date-matching service, in its first 24 hours of existence.
"We've had tremendous response," said Jim Stephenson, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student and a founder of the KU program. "Remarkably, the applicants have been about equally divided between men and women."
ALTOUGH NO MATCHES will be made until about 200 questionnaires are sent to Datadate, the program founders are confident this mark will be reached soon.
If the response to the program continues to be enthusiastic, the organization will begin using computers soon to process the questionnaires.
Stephenson said programming of the system is nearly complete and a computer could be employed within the week.
ONCE A NAME is fed into the
Weather
computer, it will be left there for nearly a year. Three matches will be guaranteed the applicant, but he may receive more as new possibilities arise.
The U.S. Weather Bureau forecasts clear to cloudy skies tonight through Tuesday and continuing cold temperatures. The low tonight will be near 15 degrees.
The Datadate questionnaire is divided into three parts:
- Physical characteristics — those of the applicant and those he seeks in a date.
- Attitudes toward organizations and society, such as views about drinking and dancing.
- Personality and philosophy, probing the applicant's ideas ranging from religion to the nature of man.
Spencer said the questionnaire goes deeply into the applicant's personality and preferences.
"Physical characteristics are just a beginning. Compatability in a date goes a lot deeper," he said.
"EVERYBODY SEEMS TO be excited with the idea," said William Spencer, West Chicago, Ill., graduate student and a co-founder of Datadate.
"Applications are coming in from all over the place; they haven't been confined to any one type of living group," Spencer said. "We've heard from people in residence halls, apartments, fraternities and sororities. It shows that people are catching on to this as a fun thing."
(Copies of the questionnaire may be obtained by sending $2 to Box 2, Daily Kansan, Lawrence, Kans.)
-Staff photo by Bill Stephens
POISE AND SPEED—Sophomore Jo Po White, making his varsity debut against Oklahoma State University last Saturday night, waits to make his move. White's hard playing defense sparked the Jayhawks to a 59-38 romp over the Cowboys. See related story page 4.