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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 77 of its 101 Years
77th Year, No.131
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEATHER
The United States Weather Bureau predicts clear to partly cloudy skies tonight with temperatures in the lower 50's.
Tuesday, May 9, 1967
Police photograph vigils?
By PAUL HANEY
A KU professor today told the Kansan he interviewed a "Lawrence detective" during a peace vigil in South Park who said he had been taking photographs of students participating in the vigils.
Robert E. Nunley, associate professor of geography, said the man identified himself as Detective Sergeant Kenneth Harmon of the Lawrence Police Department.
Harmon, contacted by the Kansan, said: "I took no pictures Sunday; I had no camera. I was down there." He said he was there to maintain order in the event the silent protestors were harrassed.
ASKED WHETHER HE HAD ever taken photographs of students participating in a vigil, Harmon said, "I would rather not comment on that. I have personal affairs like everyone else."
Nunley provided the Kansan with what he said was photographic proof of the incident. The
Campus Police Chief E. P. Moo mau today told the Kansan a university patrolman photographed students participating in a peace vigil "about a month or six weeks ago."
KU Chief:
'routine pix'
However, he said the photographs were not developed and no others have been taken, and that the patrolman was not under orders from him or the administration to take the photographs. He said the photographs were taken "as a matter of routine" because the identity of the group was not known.
"WE OCCASIONALLY photograph assemblies on campus until
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color film he provided has not yet been processed.
He said he took a camera to the park after several students complained to him they were being photographed during the weekly vigil as a group and individually.
DAVID BARENBERG, Clayton. Mo. sophomore and one of the vigil participants, said he noticed
a plain-clothes man "sitting in a blue-green Plymouth with several radio antennas" taking photographs at the first vigil six weeks ago.
Police Department was notified about plans for weekly vigils prior to the first vigil.
Barenberg said the Lawrence
The vigil is sponsored by the Kansas Peace Forum. One sign is displayed: "Silent Vigil for Peace in Vietnam." About 25 persons usually attend.
Nunley. "questioning the right of police to go around photographing people," drove to the park and spotted a man sitting in
He said the same car and man have appeared at other vigils and demonstrations.
NUNLEY BEGAN photographing the man. After two clicks of Nunley's shutter, the man started the car and left.
a blue-green Plymouth with "short wave antennas."
Later the man returned, Nunley said. Nunley said he approached the man and asked if photographs
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Look! Up in the sky—it's a UFO
By JOHN HILL
"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane! It's . . . it's . . an unidentified flying object!"
"Yeah, and I don't know what it is either!"
Two men who were working in Lindley Hall about 11:45 last night reported seeing what was later described as "a yellow glowing ball about the size of a street lamp seen a couple of blocks away."
THEY JOKED that a second one might appear. A second one appeared.
Norman Steinman, University City, Mo., junior, reported seeing it at 12:25 from Lindley Hall parking lot.
"It came from the north and swung in an arc over the dorms on Daisy Hill. It hovered there for three or four minutes and then started breaking up." Steinman said. "Two cars were coming up 15th Street and stopped, so they must have seen it too."
up the air inside. Supported by a wire frame, these structures rise quickly and soar around before disintegrating.
Probably the best explanation came from a fraternity representative who explained how some fraternities have been making identified flying objects from old plastic laundry bags by heating
ONE McCOLLUM HALL resident reported that "a burning rag that may or may not have been inside a glass jar was thrown out of a window about that same time."
Flying saucers often look amazingly like weather balloons.
but Robert Douglass of the Topeka Weather Station felt that the sightings could not have been balloons from their station.
Douglass said, "but it couldn't have been us since we just sent one up, and it should have blown south of KU."
"WE SENT one weather balloon up this morning about 12:30."
"Say . . .," he said, "how's the drinking situation there?"
Ramparts' editor here
Scheer to speak on 'patriotism'
ROBERT SCHEER
The managing editor of Ramparts magazine will speak Friday at KU on "Toward a New Patriotism."
Editor Robert Scheer's visit is sponsored by the Kansas Peace Union and the KU Vietnam Committee.
The speech and a discussion period will be held in the Kansas Union Forum Room at 8 p.m.
New Left Spokesman
Scheer is a spokesman for the "new left." He made an unsuccessful bid for U.S. Congress in 1964. He has traveled in Southeast Asia and is preparing a book on the Vietnam Lobby to be published this summer, and is the coauthor of "Cuba, Tragedy in Our Hemisphere," and author of "How the U.S. Got Involved in Vietnam."
A letter to members of the two sponsoring organizations asked for contributions to finance Scheer's visit because his expenses will be "about $400" and "the Kansas Forum's bank account is thin, to put it mildly."
A Lawrence box number (997) was listed as the mailing address for contributions.
Letter signed by KU Profs
The letter was signed by Hamilton Salsich, assistant English instructor; Frederick Mitchell, assistant professor of history; and Leroy Chittenden, 1110 Miss.
Mitchell is listed in the magazine as a contributing editor.
Bob Scheer attended college at C.C.N.Y. and Syracuse University in New York. He was a teaching assistant in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Study reveals KU social structure
UDK SURVEY REPORT
By DON WALKER
"Snob Hill" recently underwent the scrutiny of 209 KU students to discover what counts in Oread society.
Their observations were drawn together and correlated by four undergraduate psychology majors in a paper entitled "Social Class Saliency at the University of Kansas."
THE RESEARCHERS ARE Geraldine Garretson, Greendale, Wis.; senior; Michael Atwood, Kansas City junior; Steve Olsen, Abilene junior, and Chand Basker, Topeka junior.
From questionnaires distributed to a representative sample of residents of fraternities, sororities, men's and women's residence and scholarship halls and apartments, they found it is where you live that says most about who you are.
"We suspected this from our pilot study to determine the basis for distribution of the questionnaires," Olsen said. "When asked to name the important difference among students, our
pilot subjects mentioned place of residence most frequently."
RESIDENCE AS A FACTOR in social class was expressed most often in the actual experiment with 62.5 per cent of the subjects listing it. Social affiliation ("who you run with") ranked second with 44.7 per cent, and social involvement (participation in campus activities) was third at 17.3 per cent. Ambition and dedication was expressed by 15.4 per cent of the 109 men and 100 women, to rank fourth.
The experimenters did not ask the subjects to evaluate social classes or the importance of factors. Olsen emphasized.
"We only wanted to know what the factors were," he said. "We did not try to see how they weighed.
"ORIGINALLY WE WANTED TO describe the social class structure at KU," he said, "but we realized it could not be objective until the factors determining class were defined."
Social class in cities has been studied since the 1930's, he said, but it has never been defined for universities.
The student social psychologists also concluded social class is not salient in the majority of KU students' minds; that is, they are not preoccupied with it.
ALTHOUGH THE EXISTENCE of a social class structure was affirmed by 89.4 per cent of the subjects, it prevailed in the minds of only 43.3 per cent.
A subject was considered to be preoccupied with social class if he gave the same answer to the questions "What do you think are the most important differences among KU students?" and "What are the most important factors in social status at KU?"
"Students are not only aware of a social structure here." Olsen said, "but they seem to know where they fit in it, since 76.9 per cent were able to place themselves in the structure they formulated."
OLSEN FEELS HIS GROUP'S conclusions are valid and that from the now-defined factors in social class, it is feasible to depict an actual social scale for universities.