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78th Year, No.131
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Friday, May 10, 1968
Rocky spurns outdated war policy
'Close call'in flight
HIS TRADEMARK
Conflicting stories arose Thursday concerning the reported near-collision of a plane carrying New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and eight other passengers, and a plane owned by the Erhart Flying Service of Lawrence.
An aide to the governor said the pilot of Rockefeller's twinengine Beeecraft had to veer sharply to the right at full power to avoid colliding with a plane approaching from the other side.
Both planes were approaching the Lawrence Municipal Airport to land when the incident occurred.
But Miss Sue Bartley, a secretary at the airport who was watching the two planes approach the field, said there was no near collision.
"There was about a half mile between the two planes, and both were heading north, with the Beechcraft flying at a higher altitude than the other plane."
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, Republican presidential candidate, waves at the cheering thousands in Allen Field House Thursday, with his familiar pose—a raised hand as Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe looks on.
The governor's aide, however, said there was only about a quarter of a mile separating the two planes.
Miss Bartley said there apparently was a mix-up in arranging transportation for Rockefeller from Manhattan, and Erhart's Service sent a plane there to bring the governor to Lawrence.
Racial question arises
The KU Human Relations Committee met Thursday night with representatives of Negro students protesting the absence of a Negro pom-pon girl.
The lack of courses in Negro history, the lack of Negro representation on the coaching staff and the ratio of Negro to white instructors also were among protest issues discussed.
The Negro students presented a petition stating the demands to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe last week. Wescoe met secretly with the protesters and the committee on at least three occasions.
In a related move apparently planned for several weeks, 15 Negro members of the KU football team failed Thursday afternoon to attend the last spring practice prior to Saturday's scrimimage game.
The decision to boycott practice was not based on any discrimination against football players, it was said, but "we want a Negro girl to represent us on the pom-pon squad." Don Shanklin,
starting Jayhawk tailback and a spokesman for the group, said.
Later Thursday, the Human Relations Committee announced rehearsals for a Negro pom-pon girl will be held Friday and Monday and tryouts Tuesday. The girl will be selected by an 11-man committee which is to include at least one Negro judge.
"A vacancy has occurred on the pom-pon squad through the resignation of one of the squad members for personal reasons," William A. Kelley, associate dean of the School of Law and a member of the Human Relations Committee, told Negro representatives. The vacancy will be filled by a Negro girl.
Vince Bilotto, field assistant of the Alumni Association, said Sandee Glenn, Shawnee Mission junior, has resigned her position on the squad because of plans to marry this summer. Pom-pon rules prohibit married participants.
Junior women given off-campus housing nod
The four alternate pom-pon girls usually are given the opportunity to fill a vacated position,
Junior women students at KU, beginning this June, may live in off-campus housing, according to a recommendation approved Thursday by the University Administration.
Present KU policy permits only senior women students or women over 21 to live off-campus and not in residence halls, sororities and University-approved housing.
but Bilotta said the girls agreed to relinquish that right "in recognition of the tensions in our country today on the civil rights issue."
"We figure it's only right. We represent our race and our school in football, basketball and track but still we didn't have a pompon girl," Shanklin said.
The Inter-residence Council issued a report on the opinions and attitudes of junior women regarding a proposed extension of housing privileges. It was reported that "freedom to live where they pleased" was found very desirable by most of women questioned.
The change in the Student Handbook will be as follows:
The Negro athletes would be
("Add Junior") and Senior women with the consent of their parents, and women over 21, may elect to live off-campus or in University-approved housing.
Parental consent forms are available in the Dean of Women's office, 220 Strong.
By Sandy Zahradnik Kansan Staff Reporter
New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller Thursday attacked U.S.military policy in Vietnam as outdated, and said the foreign policy concepts which dictated that policy do not apply today.
Campaigning in Allen Field House, Rockefeller also cited Senator Eugene McCarthy for bringing youth back into political life.
The youth of the U.S. were becoming discouraged and were shying away from politics, Rockefeller said, until Senator McCarthy's New Hampshire campaign brought them "surging back."
"I think we owe Senator McCarthy a lot," he said.
Almost every mention of the Vietnam war brought applause from the 15,000 students who agreed with the governor's stand that negotiation not escalation is the solution to the conflict.
Rockefeller said U.S. military policy in the war largely has been to fight traditional military battles, instead of changing to meet the needs of the Vietnam war, and protecting the villages.
As a result of this policy, he said, people in South Vietnamese
villages are exposed to terrorist attacks.
"In many areas, the South Vietnamese government has control during the day, and the Viet Cong control the area at night," he said.
The New York governor-turned - Presidential - candidate
See photos, page 10
said the United States must give the South Vietnamese people a stable government at the local level if Vietnam is to build itself up.
During the peace negotiations, the United States must find a way to protect the villages of South Vietnam, he said, "so that the North Vietnamese don't think they can just push us out and run over the country."
Rockefeller said the Vietnam war had become too Americanized, and the South Vietnamese should take a greater part in the war.
"We've got to let them stand on their own two feet," he said.
The governor said the South Vietnamese people must be given the chance to choose the "kind of government they want."
Repeating what he said before 11,000 K-State students at Ahearn Fieldhouse in Manhattan, the gov-
See Rocky Spurns, page 12
The members of the faculty-student committee that will recommend ways of implementing student participation in University affairs have been appointed.
The 12-member committee will organize next week and meet during the summer to study placement of students on Senate committees that affect students, which was among demands made last week in a letter to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe. Saricks stressed that student representation on committees was not the sole means of greater student self-government that would be examined.
Faculty members of the committee: Ambrose Saricks, professor of history; Raymond Goetz,
professor of law; Marlin D. Harmony, associate professor of chemistry; Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science; John W. Pozdro, professor of music; and Harry E. Talley, associate professor of electrical engineering.
Student members: Clif Conrad, student body president and Bismarck, N.D., junior; Al Martin, former student body president and Shawnee Mission senior; Rick Mabbutt, graduate student from Shoshone, Idaho, and Elizabeth Atkinson, Lawrence junior (both members of Student Voice); Carol Sue Stevenson, Leawood junior; and Joe Goering, Moundridge junior and student body vice president.
A GREAT HURRAH!
Gov. Rockefeller, who addressed about 15,000 persons in Allen Field House Thursday, urges the jubilant crowd to be seated. The New York governor in his speech demanded an end to the present "unfair" draft system and criticized U.S. Vietnam policy. The address was delivered amid a political convention atmosphere with partisan placards and ascending balloons in the background.