Platforms out UP hits Vox issues four points white paper
University Party's platform for upcoming spring elections covers four main points involving parking tickets, open houses, ASC revisions, and speaking programs.
UP feels that many of the present committees are non-functional and overlap other organizations. "By getting rid of some of the less important committees, the council might begin to mean something," Craig said.
ONE EXAMPLE of a committee revision would be COSA. UP feels that having ASC members on the Council would alleviate most of the secrecy and confusion concerning COSA.
The most important plank in the platform concerns revision of the All-Student Council (ASC) committee system.
Craig said, "By changing this and other committee systems, the Council may mean more than
Kyle Craig, Joplin, Mo., sophomore and UP candidate for student body president, explained the platform.
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Man indicted on LSD sale, possession
WICHITA — (UPI) - A former Wichita State University student today faced federal charges of illegal possession and sale of the hallucinatory drug LSD, and possession of marijuana.
James H. L. Ewan, 21, former political science student from Pasadena, Calif., and currently a resident of Pittsburg, was named in what officials said was the first indictment involving LSD to be returned in Kansas. Judge Wesley E. Brown set bond at $2,500.
Ewan was suspended from the university in February for alleged violations forbidding possession of drugs in university housing. He had been quoted in October as saying he had been named "boo-boo" in charge of a lodge of a religious group advocating use of LSD.
Ewan did not appear before the grand jury but five Wichita State University students and two persons identified as undercover agents were called into the grand jury room.
A Vox Populi party "white paper," made public earlier this week, calls for extensions of student power through establishment of two student organizations.
Ken North, Shawne Mission sophomore and Vox candidate for student body president, the main author of the Vox paper, said the party's platform is mainly concerned with "expansion of executive responsibility." More than two-thirds of the platform consists of proposed changes in KU's executive branch.
The paper, "Student Power at Kansas University," explains party platform proposals and outlines what Vox officials term "shortcuts to power"—a revitalization of student government by getting more students involved.
ALSO IN THE Vox platform is the establishment of a Department of University Services, which would include students in executive positions to supervise student housing, disciplinary appeals and interests within the University.
North and his running mate, Guy Davis, Prairie Village junior, and six other Vox candidates for All Student Council (ASC) positions will run on the "white paper" platform in the spring elections April 19 and 20.
The other Vox candidates are Gerry Riley, Kansas City sophomore, college men; James Dreebelbis, Woodland Hills, Calif. senior, engineering; Terry Eidson, Kansas City junior, education; Bill Kissel, Overland Park sophomore, journalism; Jeff Peterson, Moline, Ill., sophomore; and Gordon Wood, Pittsburg senior, business.
Vox candidates will ask for the formation of a Kansas Student Federation made up of representatives from state colleges and universities who would lobby for student interests before the state legislature.
THE PROPOSED student federation would possibly be composed of class officers, North said, as an additional duty of their office. Its primary goal would be to lower the Kansas minimum voting age to 18 years.
"I think that when 18-year-olds are held legally responsible for their actions, they should be allowed to determine the legal codes they are held responsible to." said North.
The Vox platform calls for a
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 77 of its 101 Years
The new ID's have been expected for several weeks but were delayed because the design of the cards and the complexity of the system.
"It's up to the department head to keep track of the keys we issue. If the chairman asks for master keys, we issue them."
"KU has a real serious key situation," Leo E. Ousdahl, assistant superintendent of the physical plant, told the Daily Kansan yesterday.
HELYAR SAID it was hoped that the new system could go into use by next fall.
A man unlocked the door to the women's lounge in McColum Residence Hall Monday and said: "Hi. I have a master key."
NEARLY TWO DOZEN larcenies have occurred in KU buildings since February. It is suspected that in some cases master keys were used to gain entrance to buildings, offices and even desks.
"WHAT THEY DO WITH them, we don't know." Ousdahl said.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Thursday, April 13, 1967
Who's got the master key?
A master key apparently was used to gain entrance to Watson Library and new Fraser Hall March 22 when $33 was taken from desks. A master key to Strong Hall was taken also.
When the student checks out a book, an IBM card coding the title, author and book number is inserted into the machine with the ID, and the computer records the checkout.
"STUDENTS MAY pick up the new card by turning in the old one," he explained.
The new KU ID cards, which will be programmed into IBM computers, will be distributed in Watson Library starting next Monday, said assistant library director James Helyar.
The department is billed for the keys, he said.
Civil rights lecture enlivened by music
By MERRILY ROBINSON
Earl Farley, head of library systems, and Dr. William Kelly, associate registrar, have been
Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., told and sang the story of the American civil rights movement from "Montgomery to Montgomery" for approximately 200 people last night in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Tools valued at more than $100 were stolen March 21 from Fowler Hall; there was no evidence of forced entry.
Question of the day
Under her direction, the audience joined in singing several songs. A final singing of "We Shall Overcome" brought the audience to its feet to join hands and sway to the music.
Attired in an ankle-length peach-colored satin gown, Mrs. King described the civil rights movement her husband had spearheaded from its 1955 beginnings in Montgomery, Ala., in which Negroes walked for 381 days, rather than be forced to sit in the back of a city bus.
Asked how unauthorized persons could obtain master keys, Ousdahl said, "We'd like to know."
"WE WALKED," she said, "and to keep our spirits up, we sang." "Walk Together, Chillun" and "My Feet are Tired" illustrated the sentiments of those days.
New KU ID cards to be out Monday
We officially become IBM numbers Monday,
He said it is very expensive to
"We are distributing them as a convenience to the University." Helyar said. "The specific distribution point will be the lower level of Watson.
He said master keys are issued only to deans, department chairmen or division heads.
Lawton said. "Security is everybody's business." He urged that anyone who knows of "misuses of trust and responsibility" contact the traffic and security office or the buildings and grounds office.
working on the project. Since the idea was initiated more than two years ago.
"rekey" buildings. He said that it would cost several hundred dollars and would take several days to equip Flint Hall with new locks.
R. KEITH LAWTON, Vice Chancellor of operations, said it is necessary to issue many keys when "running an educational enterprise."
"We must accept the judgment of the head of the academic division," he said. "It's their responsibility to see that the keys are used discretely."
Kelly explained that they have been laboring on a design for the card since September. They also had to develop a material capable of withstanding four years of use—and abuse—by the student and suitable to be run through the computers hundreds of times.
MRS. KING WAS brought to KU through the efforts of Mrs. Amino Bose, India graduate student, who had seen her perform. Her appearance was sponsored by the KU-Y, Student Union Activities, Council of Churches, Church Women United, Inter-Residence Council and Theta Chi fraternity.
Mrs. King said proceeds from the concert would go to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which her husband heads.
"The beauty of our movement is that it is not just a Negro movement. It is a people's movement," she said.
"And when we marched into Montgomery from Selma, my father said, 'this is the greatest day in history for the American Negro.' He voiced what we all felt," she said.
"Seeking for a City" told in song Mrs. King's feelings about the Washington march. "Washington came closer to being the fulfillment of a long-standing dream than anything I had ever experienced," she said.
"THE NEW CARD will serve the same basic purpose as the old one." Kelly said, "and sometime in the future other departments and agencies besides the library at KU may be using the computer system."
"We are experiencing a worldwide revolution," Mrs. King stater, but with a song from Langston Hughes "No Golden Stair," she cautioned: "So boy, don't you turn back/ Don't you set down on the steps/ Cause you finds it kinder hard.
--DK Paolo by Tom Collins
RELAY FINALISTS
The three finalists in the 1967 Kansas Relays Queen competition pose in Memorial Stadium.
They are Karen Renstrom, Omaha, Neb., junior majoring in speech pathology, Jane Lindquist, Kansas City freshman majoring in elementary education, and Sherry Hogan, Hutchinson junior majoring in physical therapy.