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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, April 30, 1968
Rowan cites news boycott as success
Syndicated columnist Carl Rowan in a Kansas Union Forum Room press conference Monday said Negroes in Memphis have mounted the first successful newspaper boycott in America's history.
Many Negroes in Memphis, Rowan said, felt newspapers were hostile to Negro interests, the outcome of the garbage workers' strike, and efforts of Martin Luther King Jr., to solve the racial and social tension in that area.
Rowan said, the newspapers did "rant and rave against Dr. King's efforts."
Because of this, Rowan said, Negro militants began to take a very hostile look at the Memphis press and the press in that area. And Negroes have quit reading the newspapers in protest. However, Rowan went on, the effects
of the Negro boycott on the visual media are negligible.
"I don't think that the television media in that area has editorialized on the racial situation nearly as much as have the newspapers."
Following a question concerning the recent racial tension generated by the assassination of King, Rowan said that in those instances, only a minimum of force should have been used to curb the tension.
Washington, in Rowan's opinion, was the only racially distressed city which followed this example.
KU gets $44,920 grant
A $44,920 U.S. Public Health Service grant has been awarded to KU for the study of host selectivity in mites and ticks.
Joseph H. Camin, professor of entomology, is project director. While he is on leave this semester, V. Eugene Nelson, assistant professor of entomology, is in charge.
the study of many organisms, among which is the "rabbit tick," the primary vector of tularemia among rabbits.
Nelson said the project entailed
"We want to find out what factors are involved in host selectivity by such parasites," Nelson said.
Odors, movement and heat all are being investigated, Nelson said.
"In Washington there was no violent outburst of sniper fire which injured dozens of people; there were no policemen who shot on sight the first Negro they saw carrying a pair of tennis shoes," he said.
"And, on the same token, we didn't have a situation in Washington where Negroes were overturning and burning white men's cars at every streetcorner," Rowan added.
"We cannot assume that we can put enough force on the streets, armed with guns and tear gas and say to the Negro, 'Your rebellion is silenced,'" he said. "This only invokes more tension."
The process of understanding the real problems facing the Negro community, and the solutions to those problems are not found in using guns and bayonets to curb racial tension and violence, he said.
Press-
of a panel that commented on Rowan's speech. Other members of the panel were Ben Bagdikian, press critic from Washington, D.C., and Hodding Carter, editor and publisher of the Delta Democrat-times, Greenville, Miss.
Continued from page 1 USIA director, Rowan said, while trying to explain the "nobleness" of American intentions to the Vietnamese. The U.S. government had to show the South Vietnamese the "nobleness of American intentions," and show U.S. resolution to the North Vietnamese, while at the same time persuading the North that the United States did not intend to destroy that country.
Lindley, special assistant to the secretary of state and former chief of Newsweek's Washington bureau; and Norman E. Isaacs, executive editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The three journalists were part
Tuesday, April 30, 7:30 p.m. Forum Room
Journalists awarded plaques for journalistic merit before Rowan's remarks were Irving Dilliard, former editorial editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Ernest K.
PURRANQUE a Farmer
Dr. J. Clifton (anthropology)
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