Silent vigil
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About 30 KU students and faculty members gathered outside Watson Library yesterday to stand silently, protesting the war in Vietnam.
from noon to 1 p.m., but very few people stayed for the full hour. Two signs were displayed. They read "silent vigil for peace in Vietnam."
Protesters ask peace
The peace vigil, sponsored by the Kansas Peace Forum, lasted
Only one of every 1,000 fish eggs laid in the ocean becomes a mature fish, the rest being ...ate by predators. Daily Kansan Friday, March 17, 1967
The award to KU totaled $602,925 for construction of a new humanities building.
KU received one grant and two went to Kansas State.
The governor made the announcement after a conference with Farris Bryant, director of the Office of Emergency Planning, who flew from Washington, D.C., to confer with Docking on federal-state relations.
HAM SALSICH, assistant instructor in English and spokes-
Gov. Robert Docking announced yesterday that more than 4 million dollars in federal grants will be awarded to Kansas junior colleges, colleges, and universities through the Kansas Higher Education Facilities Commission.
Kansas State received $91,963 for a biological sciences building and $761,250 for a library.
Kansas college grants total over $4 million
THE GRANTS WILL amount to $4,066,657 with $2,216,016 going to colleges and universities and the remainder to junior colleges.
"WE ARE EXTREMELY pleased to be able to make this announcement today." Docking said.
"We consider this a fine tribute to our Kansas colleges and universities. I'm sure they will be able to put it to good use," he said.
The funds are to become available to the schools in the next several weeks.
at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Hoch Auditorium.
Panel members for cartoonist Chuck Jones' Arts Festival presentation next Tuesday have been announced by Richard D. MacCann, professor of Radio-TV-Film section.
Fanel members will be MacCann; Prof. Arvid Jacobson of the Design Department who teaches courses in cartooning; John Nance, assistant instructor in Radio-TV-Film, and Charles Kraemer, Lawrence senior in Design.
Announce panel members
Jones, currently with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is the creator of the Academy Award-winning cartoon, "The Dot and the Line," and of the recent television special, Dr. Suess" "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." He will speak
Jones will show "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," some of his best short subjects and some advance "pencil reels" of his upcoming "The Phantom Tollbooth."
man for the committee, said spectator reaction was "very good."
"I think it's one of the most effective things we've had on campus to protest U.S. policy in Vietnam," Salsich said. "Passersby were very polite. I think people are less likely to argue with silent protesters.
"Sometimes, words just don't do the trick."
Salsich said the Thursday vigils and similar ones to be held from 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. Sundays in South Park would continue until the war is ended.
"There will be at least one person in front of the library every Thursday until then," he said.
Schools urge thumbs up on cigarette bill
Leroy Chittenden, Lawrence senior and Peace Forum member, said Lawrence is the 111th known U.S. community in which weekly silent peace vigils have been staged. The first was begun a year ago in California.
Students from KU, Wichita State University, and Kansas State University will converge on the Kansas House state affairs committee at 1:00 p.m. Monday to support a bill legalizing the sale of cigarettes on state campuses.
KU's Collegiate Young Republicans (CYR) will present the legislators with petitions urging passage of the bill. Approximately 4,000 students have signed the KU petitions.
Student governments at five of the six state schools, including KU's ASC, have passed resolutions supporting the bill.
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