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78th Year, No.128
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, May 7, 1968
Photo by Bruce Patterson
CROWD AWAITS
Hamilton Salsich, assistant instructor of English, prepares to address about 500 KU students gathered in front of Strong Hall Monday morning. The students came to hear student and faculty reaction to the resolutions passed by the University Senate Council and the All Student Council Sunday.
Reactions and responses
'Voice' explains position
`By Jerry Bean Kansan Staff Reporter
Reactions, reasons and responses to a meeting staged in front of Strong Hall were almost as varied as the 500 persons who gathered there for 55 minutes Monday morning.
Representatives from the group called "Student Voice" came to make their positions better known and to explain their commitment to sit-in next year if students were not granted votes in the University Senate.
The general Voice attitude was one of we'll wait and see, and if demands aren't satisfied by September, it's time to go outside of the established channels and resort to a sit-in. Some squawked of a sell-out, but most seemed to realize the University structure has been operating too long in the present manner for changes to result in a week.
Speeches were made by student leaders and interested students. One student council member explained after the meeting that the student body had helped stop a sit-in.
"The entire structure of the University was challenged to be responsive to students. A concentrated effort on the part of student government as shown by the attendance at the meeting, rose to meet the challenge, not as an end but as a beginning of constructive progress and change throughout the structure," Rusty Leffel, Prairie Village sophomore and fraternity representative, said.
Another student seemed bewildered that a group would even consider protesting. "It's kinda amazing that these people are so bored that they have to protest against something. This close to finals I have better things to do." Charles Gaynor, Ottawa senior, said disgustedly.
Many students came out of curiosity or expecting to see a sit-in. "I came to get a look at those guys who are calling themselves the voice of the students," said a blonde coed who refused to be identified.
lutions passed by the All-Student Council and the University Senate. Most seemed to agree that a mechanism to provide a student
BULLETIN
Several of the speakers evaluated the importance of the reso-
See 'Voice' explains page 12
WASHINGTON — The Senate Conference Committee on Excise Tax was to have met at 2 p.m. today to consider the $10 billion tax increase and $4 billion cutback in federal spending that could affect the $1.9 million appropriation for the Humanities Building at KU.
An aide to Sen. Frank Carlson, R-Kan., said this morning that no indication has been given as to what cuts would be made.
He said however, that three areas have been exempted—the Vietnam war, the Social Security Trust Fund, and the veterans.
"We have real fiscal problems but this matter is not settled," Carlson said this morning.
REV. TOM REHORN Demonstration moderator
Rocky to speak at KU Thursday
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, will speak at 12:30 p.m., Thursday in Allen Field House, Clif Conrad, Bismarck, N. Dak., junior and student body president, announced Monday.
Plans to meet the governor's plane are still incomplete and will be announced Wednesday. Classes will be dismissed to enable students to attend. Rockefeller's appearance is sponsored by the All-Student Council and the University Convocation Committee.
He received surprising write-in support in the April 30 Massachusetts Presidential Primary—the day of his long-expected announcement. He captured 34 votes for the first ballot at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, August 5, by polling more votes than Massachusetts Gov. John A. Volpe, who expected to win easily as a favorite son candidate.
In a major foreign policy address in Philadelphia May 1, the New York governor asked for a reversal of the "Americanization" of the Vietnam war effort and the convening of a council of Asian nations to work for economic progress and political stability in the area.
Rockefeller will appear at KU after speaking at Kansas State University earlier that morning. He will arrive in Lawrence by a light plane about 12:15 p.m. and will leave by 2 p.m.
He said the United States' position in a negotiated settlement should be an "acceptance in the political life of South Vietnam of any group seeking its objectives through the political process—rather than by wrecking it by force or subversion."
He said he plans to spend the remaining weeks before the GOP convention "bringing before the people the dimensions of the problems as I see them and how I believe as a free people we can meet them."
"The war must offer a more positive cause and challenge than be a mere call to anticommunism," he said.
The governor announced his candidacy in Albany April 30, saying he decided to fight for the office because of concern over "the gravity of the crises that confront the American people."
Rockefeller has substantial
Wescoe foresees growing progress in student representation struggle
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said the apparent acceptance by Student Voice of the student-faculty committee proposal as "an effective mechanism to create better relations" was demonstrated Monday in front of Strong Hall.
Wescoe, commenting after the group of about 500 students and faculty members had disbanded, said he felt the reaction from the group was a sign of "constructive action toward a desirable end."
"I feel now that the processes of student government can swing into action," he said.
"It is clear that the students of this University have made invaluable contributions: they have been heard from and heeded, and they have been effective in the establishment of policy at KU." he added.
The chancellor praised the work of Ambrose Saricks, chairman of the University Senate Executive committee, and William Balfour, dean of student affairs, for their hours of work toward a solution to the problems of student-faculty coordination.
Saricks, Balfour and Joe Goering, student body vice-president, pushed for the formation of the 12-member committee composed of six faculty members and six students. The student members are to be appointed by the president and vice-president of the student body.
NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER
The committee would ostensibly explore ways in which students might be placed in a more representative position in the University Senate and the Senate Council. Saricks said.
Saricks said the new faculty-senate committee could be chosen and in session within a week.
support among GOP governors, who as a group lean toward the moderate and liberal end of the scale more than congressional Republican leaders do.
Rockefeller's decision to run came as no surprise. His timing did. He had been expected to announce his candidacy soon after Michigan Gov. George Romney bowed out of the race February 28. Romney challenged the National GOP Governors Conference to find another candidate, but the conference ended without official support of Rockefeller. At the time, Rockefeller said he would not seek the nomination, but would accept a draft at the convention.
Football tickets are now on sale
Season tickets for next fall's home football games may be ordered at Allen Field House this week from 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. daily.
Students must present their KU-ID cards and pay a $5 fee for each ticket. Refunds of the fee must be applied for in writing to the Athletic Seating Board of the All Student Council prior to Sept. 1, 1968.
In order to sit in their class sections, students must order their tickets according to a priority schedule.
Students who will be seniors during the fall semester applied Monday and graduate students, including current seniors who plan to continue at KU as graduate students, apply today. Students who will be juniors during the fall semester may order their tickets Wednesday and sophomores will apply Thursday.
Group applications will be limited to 25 and will be given priority according to the student of lowest classification.
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts clearing and colder weather tonight with northwest winds of 15 to 25 miles per hour. Wednesday will be partly cloudy and colder. Low tonight will be in the lower 40's. Precipitation probability is 20 per cent tonight and 10 per cent Wednesday.