Students Band In Labor Union
The Student Labor Organization, dedicated to raising the wages of University-employed students, was to begin a membership drive today.
There are few members as yet, said Carl Bangs, Prairie Village junior and secretary-treasurer of the group.
"BUT WE expect a large response." Bangs predicted.
According to a Student Labor Organization press release, the minimum wage scale for students employed on campus is 70 cents and the maximum wage is $1. The University hires high school and Haskell Institute students because many KU students do not find the wages now being paid adequate, the release charged.
Because "cheap labor" is being used, prices should be lower, but this is not the case. "Prices are equal to or higher than prices outside the area served by student labor," the released state.
THE ORGANIZATION seeks:
- Use of the federal minimum wage standard in student pay scales.
- Cessation of the practice of hiring high school or Haskell Institute students in order to maintain a low scale of student pay.
- Job priority for KU students and student wives.
- Listing of job openings by the University Employment Office, the Kansas Union, and the Union Bookstore with the Student Labor Organization, which would maintain a list of members wanting jobs.
"Similar goals will be sought in respect to individual employers downtown," Bangs said.
"THE BASIC thing is the wage scale. If we can better the students' economic position we will work toward that too."
The other officers are Joe Knight, Quinter freshman, president, and Michael Jennison, Wiesbaden, Germany, sophomore, vice-president.
The idea for the organization originated at the beginning of last semester. "We talked to quite a few students and sounded out support," Bangs said.
The group's press release states: "The only way that we can change this exploitation of student labor and purchasing power is through the organization of students for the purpose of guarding their own economic interests."
Rock Chalk Tryouts Set
Tryouts for Rock Chalk master of ceremonies will be held Thursday night at 7:30 in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union, Allen Purvis, Topeka sophomore and in between acts manager, said.
"The tryouts are open to any interested students," Purvis said. "All that is required is a good speaking voice and good stage presence."
Those trying out will be interviewed and also required to read a selection and tell an original joke. Purvis added.
Rock Chalk will be held March 3,4,and 5, in Hoch Auditorium. This year's theme is "That's Entertainment." Bill Boulware, Leawood senior, is Rock Chalk producer.
Because religion is relevant to life today and tomorrow, an Ecumenical Institute has been included in the list of activities planned for KU's Centennial celebration, James E. Gunn, administrative assistant to the Chancellor, said.
ECUMENICAL EVENT
ALSO INCLUDED as a major participant is Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, director of Inter-religious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee, New York.
The institute, planned for May 1-3, will be open to both students and faculty. It is being sponsored by KU and the Kansas School of Religion, headed by Dean William J. Moore.
Church Unity Is Goal
The institute will be directed by Joseph Sittler, professor of theology, University of Chicago; and the Rev. Dan O'Hanlan, professor of theology, Alma College, Los Gatos, Calif.
All three attended the recent Ecumenical Council at the Vatican, and are prominent in national religious circles.
The theologians' goals are:
- To clarify thought about the ecumenical movement.
- To consider most recent developments such as those associated with the Vatican Council.
- To look for future church guidelines with the help of religious leaders.
THE INSTITUTE WILL be divided into three days of speeches and panel meetings. Dean Moore said the May 1 meeting is of greatest interest and importance to students. It is a general introduction to the discussions of the next two days. Tentatively, the theme will be "Religion in American Life: Retrospect and Prospect." Sittler will deliver the main address.
The meetings on May 2 and 3 are primarily for theologians. They will present a "very extensive study of the ecumenical movement at the present time, and one would need contemporary thinking in theology," Dean Moore said.
HE ADDED that the ecumenical movement is primarily a Christian movement which "draws attention to the totality of the human situation," and seeks to further greater understanding
and brotherhood between the denominations of Christianity.
KU's Centennial Celebration committee accepted the Institute "as a way of dealing with an important expression of American life, worthy of inclusion," Gunn said.
USSR Plans Lunar Push
It was selected to complement programs planned for the Intercentury Seminary because they will also have as a theme, "Man and the Future."
MOSCOW—(UPI)—Soviet scientists, jubilant over the successful conclusion of Luna-9's historic moon mission, today drafted plans for the next steps in Russia's man-on-the-moon program.
Kremlin officials predicted these steps could include:
- DEVELOPMENT OF rockets to land and take off again from the moon.
- Scout spaceships carrying cosmonauts in a lunar orbit to select suitable landing sites.
- Landing of dogs or other living organisms on the moon's surface.
The United States hopes to reach the moon by 1970. But first, American scientistists must duplicate Russia's historic soft landing of an instrument package on the lunar surface. The first U.S. Surveyor moon shot is scheduled after April 1 but before the end of June.
Russian scientists said Luna-9's successful landing last Thursday proved the "lunar surface is safe for landing."
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