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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 77 of its 101 Years
77th Year, No.115
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Monday, April 17, 1967
Passes 11 issues
KU UN hums
By JOHN MARSHALL
The 1967 KU Model United Nations may have set a record for number of issues discussed by any collegiate Model UN in the country.
Last Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the Model UN dealt with 12 different resolutions—and one twice.
"At the Oklahoma model UN, we dealt with only four resolutions," Bob Ward, Wichita junior and KU Model UN president, said.
"AT THE NEW YORK model UN, only three were dealt with." Ward said.
"Usually," Ward said. "half the time in a Model UN is spent discussing parliamentary procedure, but this year at KU, we spent 90 per cent of the time debating the issues.
"I'm very satisfied with this year's model UN. Those people came to work, and they did it," he said.
Of the 12 resolutions that came to debate on the floor of the general assembly, only one was defeated—Red China was again refused a seat.
With 68 nations present for the final vote, the Red Chinese issue, and the 2/3 requirement was thwarted by a 26-26 tie, with 16 abstentions.
ANOTHER MAIN item of debate was the Vietnam issue. A resolution requesting 1) the removal of all U.S. troops and bases from South Vietnam; 2) the bombings of the North to cease and a cease-fire to begin as the first condition for settlement of the war; 3) that a fact-finding mission be sent to North Vietnam and South Vietnam to obtain a "satisfactory basis for negotiations."
The resolution was submitted to the General Assembly by the Special Political Committee.
Debate on the issue of Vietnam and a vote on the resolutions were both canceled Saturday because of erratic discussion of the Vietnam issue by the UN Security Council. The General Assembly may not discuss an issue at any time while it is being discussed by the Security Council. The Security Council was chaired by the USSR.
SOUTHERN RHODESIA and its Prime Minister, Ian Smith, were condemned by the model UN for not "perpetuating the freedom for all Southern Rhodesia . . . and not allowing equal representation of the majority of suppressed Africans."
The UN Trusteeship Council went further by saying in a resolution that Prime Minister Smith's regime represented a white minority rule over the Africans.
The resolution also slapped at the British government for not taking sufficient steps to return the Southern Rhodesian government to "the majority of its citizens."
The model UN Political and Security committee submitted a resolution appealing to each of the "nuclear states" to cease Continued on page 3
IFC extends rush
The KU Interfraternity Council (IFC) has voted to extend the fall semester formal rush period from three to four days.
By RUE CHAGOLL
Reasons for the change are to extend the period of "real rush" and to ease the pressure on rushees by shortening the days, Pete Woods small, Shawnee Mission sophomore and IFC vice-president for rush, said.
Politicos to debate tonight
Candidates for the major KU student body offices will debate tonight at 8 in Ellsworth Hall lounge.
Participating in the University Daily Kansan-sponsored debate will be student body president candidates Kyle Craig, Joplin Mo., sophomore (University Party), and Ken North, Shawnee Mission sophomore (Vox Populi party).
BRIAN BARKER, ENGLAND graduate student (UP), and Guy Davis, Prairie Village junior (Vox), both candidates for student body vice-president, will also appear.
All KU students are invited.
The candidates will debate campus issues, election platforms, and political questions presented by a panel of UDK staff members. Questions will also be obtained from the audience.
The debate is being presented as a public service by the UDK as an interested body, according to Joan McCabe, Lawrence senior and UDK managing editor.
Voting for all offices will be Wednesday and Thursday.
Vietnam war critics stage march to post protest mail
By MERRILY ROBINSON
KU demonstrators joined thousands of their New York and San Francisco counterparts Saturday in a march protesting the war in Vietnam.
Between 80 and 100 people participated in a mail-in demonstration here Saturday. Men, women and children of all ages left South Park at 1 p.m.
They walked slowly and silently down Massachusetts Street to the U.S. Post Office at 7th and Vermont, where they mailed letters of protest to President Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and other federal officials.
ABOUT FOUR SIGNS were displayed, saying "mail-in vote—end the war now."
After the letters had been posted, the marchers made the return trip up Massachusetts
The demonstration proceeded largely without incident. On the return trip, an unidentified man who declared he had been in the 1st Cavalry in World War I ran down the line and seized and tore up three signs. The marchers picked up the pieces and walked on, displaying them.
MOST OF THE SPECTATORS, though, just stood and watched the marchers go by. The expressions on their faces varied. One man said, "Bunch of bums," to the marchers.
Another man spat on the sidewalk in front of the demonstrators and said, "Commi-lovers."
Street to South Park and then disbanded.
As the parade neared its end, a group of children suddenly ran out of a store and pushed exploding cap guns into the faces of the passive marchers.
HAMILTON SALSICH, KU assistant instructor and chairman of the Vietnam Committee, said he was well pleased with the demonstration, but he was "just a little disappointed with the police force."
The mail-in was sponsored jointly by the KU Vietnam Committee, the Kansas Peace Forum and the Student Peace Union. The total membership of these groups has been estimated at 150.
Salsich said the Lawrence Police Department had promised extra patrolling policemen along the parade route as insurance against any violent counter-demonstrations.
"During the whole march, I didn't see one policemen," Salsich said.
"So many rushees waste then time the first day visiting the larger houses which are by that time nearly filled. Then they've one more day before pledging begins in which to visit other houses," Woodsmaid said.
UNDER THE NEW SYSTEM, which will go into effect next fall, pledging may begin on the third day instead of the second as has been the custom previously. At that time houses which are full may withdraw from participation in formal rush for the remainder of the periods.
Also, rushees will be released automatically from all remaining dates as soon as they have been pledged. Until, now, releases for new pledges had to be obtained separately from each house remaining on the rushee's schedule.
It has also been proposed to change the length of dates during formal rush and to arrange them so that they get progressively longer as the week goes on.
"This will give the rushes more time to spend at the houses in which they are most interested as the pledging time nears," Wood-small said.
THE FINAL DECISION on this proposal has been left to the IFC
Executive Committee, which will meet Tuesday to decide on the issue.
"We hope to have the early dates shortened to something like an hour the first day and maybe an hour and 15 minutes the second and so on, getting progressively longer." Woodsmall said.
"It will be better for the rue-
ees this way because they'll be
able to get more sleep during the
week and spend less time each
day in rush," he said.
"IT WILL ALSO be to their benefit because they'll have more dates before pledging begins.
"They only had something like 10 dates before pledging began in the past and now they'll have about 19," he said.
A five-man panel composed of "prominent KU Greeks" will meet with rushees on the morning of the second day of rush to lend advice and answer questions. Woodsmall said.
Also at the meeting, it was suggested that the IFC seek assistance from the KU Congress on Student Affairs (COSA) attempting to change rules on residence hall contracts so that rushees wi not be obligated to live there prior to rush week.
Dorm president hits bus service
By PAUL HANEY
Improved campus bus service is being sought by the president of Ellsworth Residence Hall.
Zuhair Duhaiby, Saudi Arabia junior and a member of the All Student Council (ASC), said a fare increase last fall from 10 to 15 cents did not result in better service as promised by the bus company.
Duhaiby indicated he will work to organize a student city affairs committee to deal with irregular time schedules, overcrowded buses and extension of bus service to later hours.
DUHAIBY, WHOSE ASC term ends next fall, said he will wait until after next week's ASC elections to introduce resolutions.
He has done preliminary work with the KU and city administrations. City officials said a city affairs committee would be welcomed, Duhaiby said. The committee would consist of five elected ASC members appointed by the chairman of the council. Duhaiby said bus transportation from the Daisy Field residence hall area to the main campus continues to be a problem during the morning.
Buses are usually filled to their seating capacity at the first stop, Ellsworth Hall. When the buses arrives at Lewis Hall there are as many people standing as sitting, he said.
FREQUENTLY, he continued, the doors must be closed to passengers when it is impossible to "move to the back of the bus." As many as five students stand in the front wells of the buses as they turn onto 15th Street.
Duane Ogle, general manager for the Lawrence Bus Co., admitted there is a problem, but "I don't know what to do about it."
He said there's the choice of having passengers stand and making a profit or adding buses and going out of business.
Ogle said the first morning buses usually carry only 10 or 12 passengers. He said students should "string themselves out" and not wait for the last buses.
THE PEAK LOAD time is between 8 and 8:30 a.m., and the problem becomes acute in rainy weather because of what he calls "rain birds"—students who ride only when the weather is bad.
"Those rain birds get on the bus first and our regular customers get abused," he said.
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