Tuesday, April 16. 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Corps Week brings recruiters
A team of Peace Corps recruiters will be on campus this week during KU's Spring Peace Corps Week as part of a nation wide search for volunteers.
Four returned volunteers will have a special office in Room 305, Kansas Union, UN 4-3774. They will provide information about all phases of the Peace Corps program and discuss opportunities with individual students.
In addition to the special office, information booths will be open all week in the lobby of the Kansas Union and the basement of Strong Hall from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Application forms, to be completed and returned at the time the applicant takes the Peace Corps placement test, may be obtained either at the information booths or at the special office.
The placement tests will be given at 11 a.m., and 4 p.m., and by appointment. Wednesday through Friday in Room 305, Kansas Union. The test is an aptitude test aiding the Corps to determine the best job and location for an applicant. It does not determine the acceptance of an applicant, and students who take the test are under no obligation.
"Give Me A Riddle," an experimental film about Nigeria by David Schickele, will be shown at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
A general Peace Corps discussion will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in McCollum Hall. Along with other phases of the program, applications, acceptance and training of volunteers will be discussed.
The deputy director of the Peace Corps, Brent Ashabranner, will arrive Thursday to visit various KU officials. He will participate in a talk concerning the "Peace Corps in Southeast Asia" at 4 p.m. Thursday in Room 305, Kansas Union.
"Married Life in the Peace Corps" will be discussed by Mr. and Mrs. Rod Angle, return volunteers from Panama, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Room 305, in the Kansas Union.
Former members of the Peace Corps who are visiting KU are Jon Keeton, Cincinnati, Ohio, who served in Thailand; Jess Wells, San Diego, Calif., who was in the Philippines; Phil Yocum, Sacramento, Calif., former volunteer in Liberia; and Carol Cull, San Francisco, who served in Malaysia.
Kansan changes
You'll note we have a rather unusual front page. We're bragging.
This is the first issue of the Daily Kansan printed on the new Goss Community offset press, a delightful creation—to the student editors, not necessarily to the pressmen—which will allow the Kansan to print anything we can photograph.
Before Spring Break, equipment owned by the Kansan or the Printing Service, which prints the Kansan, limited photo reproduction to a picture eight inches by 10 inches. The Kansan's engraving machine limited the size; the Goss Duplex, a 1953 machine designed for something besides photo reproduction, caused the black blobs once called pictures, in the Kansan.
There are some disadvantages. We can't blame bad pictures on the press now.
The Kansan will continue to look basically the same. Type faces and headline styles will remain the same.
But the pages are $1\frac{1}{2}$ inches longer, and as soon as we figure out exactly how to work the new press, we'll try some full-color pictures (and a few other tricks) now and again.
Tension, fun highlight break
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts variable cloudiness and mild through Wednesday. The low tonight should be in the lower 50s. Precipitation probabilities are 40 per cent for tonight and 30 per cent for Wednesday.
Ready or not, KU students flocked back to the campus for Monday morning classes after more than a week of lazily lying in the Florida sun, sightseeing in Europe, taking in New York City's go-go clubs—or just plain going home to see the action on the home-front.
WEATHER
By Carla Rupp Kansan Staff Reporter
Charl Binkleman, Omaha junior, claims after six days of "party, party, party, I was really ready to leave Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and come back to KU." She said the place seemed like a "giantic sex symbol—a mass thing" to her. There was such a free "I don't care" attitude prevailing at Ft. Lauderdale, she said. "The beach was really an eye-opener. I saw nice people, but also prostitutes, beach bums and you name it!"
Hating to come back to KU after sightseeing Europe was Michael Toyne, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, and Dick LeClaire, Leawood sophomore, whose father's work for Trans World Airlines (TWA). Both flew to such places as London, England, and Copenhagen. Denmark; during KU's Spring Break, so naturally they said they hated to cut short their tour of Europe.
Four KU students "goofed off" in New York City, N.Y., going to the Electric Circus, a psychedelic club, and then to the Bitter End in Greenwich Village.
Ling Pong, Taipei, Taiwan, junior, Joe Goodman, Overland Park sophomore, Judy Bell, Kirksville, Mo., junior, and Marty Grogan, Oberlin senior, visited the eastern city. "We all ran out of money and used a credit card to get back to KU," Pond said.
Linda Boone, Kansas City junior, who went to Baton Rouge, La., to visit her aunt and uncle, said she was not especially glad to come home for the weekend because of the Kansas City curfew. "But I was really ready to get back to KU and get some studying done when I came back Sunday night," Miss Boone said.
Another girl who stayed at home was Cathy Cain, Sublette junior, who said, "Oh, I just went home and drove the tractor for my dad." She said she hardly made it out of Sublette except for being a bridesmaid at a girlfriend's wedding.
KU students who went home to Kansas City said they didn't
particularly enjoy part of their vacation because of the rioting and subsequent curfew.
"I had to stay at home almost every night between Tuesday and Saturday night because of the curfew," Becky Chenoweth, Overland Park junior, said. "It was really pretty bad, but, I didn't want to get arrested," she said.
Miss Chenoweth said the atmosphere in Kansas City was tense. Her brother, she said, went to an area near the Plaza to play tennis. But they noticed National Guardms stationed at every corner, and cut their game short when they heard snipers were in the area.
Daley 'disappointed kill order not issued
CHICAGO — (UPI) — Mayor Richard J. Daley said Monday he was "disappointed" that police Supt. James B. Conlisk Jr. did not issue "shoot to kill any arsonists" orders during Chicago's riots last week.
Instead, Daley said he learned "every police officer out on the beat was supposed to use his own decision" with regard to shooting arsonists and looters.
A spokesman for Conlisk said the superintendent had no comment.
At a news conference, Daley said he told Conlisk "very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued under his (Conlisk's) signature to shoot to kill any arsonist or any one with a Molotov cocktail in their hand in Chicago because they're potential murderers."
Daley said he was surprised only 16 persons were arrested specifically on arson charges. "Anyone who doesn't think it was a conspiracy should go out and take a look at it," he said.
The mayor also said he ordered Conlisk to instruct policemen to "shoot looters to detain them."
"A looter is a burglar," the mavor said.
The mayor said he expected his investigating committee to report its findings to him in 90 days. He also said he will "take action to improve the police department."
At least 11 persons died during the three days of rioting in Chicago which followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
U.S. awaits reply on peace talk site
HONOLULU —(UPI)— President Johnson said Monday the United States still has had no official reply from North Vietnam on proposed sites for the start of peace negotiations.
Asserting that "precious time" is being lost, the President said the United States is eager to get on with the task of peace making. At the same time, he said, attempts to attain peace through negotiations must be accompanied by continued military strength.
The President spoke at the Iolani Palace government house shortly after he arrived this afternoon for conferences later this week with U.S. military commanders and South Korean President Park Chung-Hee.
A group of antiwar pickets appeared at the Iolani Palace while Johnson was speaking. The crowd booed the pickets, at one point interrupting the President.
On the road from the airport to the palace, crowds gave Johnson a warm aloha.
Thousands of gaily dressed school children were in the crowd, and some of them carried signs reading, "We're with you LBJ" and "Let's stay with LBJ."
As the motorcade reached the ancient Chinatown section of the city, the President's black bullet-proof, bubble-top limousine was showered with colored confetti tossed by bystanders along the street and on rooftops.
Hawaiians turned out to greet Johnson despite overcast skies and an occasional light rain.
On leaving the palace, the motorcade headed for Waikiki where the crowds were thinner and more subdued. One spectator ran to Johnson's car and handed him an ice cream cone, which he accepted.
The motorcade ended at the walled, pink estate of the late industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, which sprawls over 7.5 acres on a peninsula near the extinct Koko Head Volcano.
Johnson was to stay at the estate during his Honolulu visit.
In his brief address at Iolani Palace, the President said: "As of now, we have had no response or comment from Hanoi—other than radio statements—about any of the locations for the preliminary peace talks that we have suggested."
Johnson, who will meet here Wednesday with President Park Chung-Hee of South Korea, said: "I have come to Hawaii this time principally to meet with President Park . . . the leader of our brave ally, South Korea."
South Korea, with 50,000 troops in Vietnam, is the largest U.S. ally in the war.
The remarks about maintaining Allied troop strength appeared to
be directly aimed at occasional threats from South Korea to pull its forces out of Vietnam unless Korean interests are recognized by the United States.
Johnson said he came to Honolulu early to meet with Adm. U.S. Grant Sharp, commander in chief of U.S. forces in the Pacific, and to discuss the military situation in Vietnam. Johnson met with Sharp just a week ago at Camp David, Md. Adm. John McCain, Sharp's successor as Pacific Commander, will also be attending the meeting.
Heller tape to be played
Instant replay it isn't, but those who missed the April 2 student meeting with Francis Heller concerning the military's presence on the KU campus, or those who need to refresh their memories, can listen to a tape recording of the meeting at 7:30 tonight at the Wesley Foundation.
At the meeting, Heller, acting provost and dean of faculties, told about 20 students the presence of the military on this campus in no way hinders a student's opportunity to learn.
The tense dialogue which followed dealt with the presence of ROTC programs and military recruiters on campus, military-funded research carried out by KU faculty and the possible role of the University as a dissenting voice in a mixed-up society.
Pom-pon clinic is at 7 tonight
A training clinic for prospective KU pom-pon girls is scheduled for 7 p.m. today in the Allen Field House, Vince Bilotta, field director for the Alumni Association, said today.
Bilotta said other training sessions will be held at the same time on Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
He said that semi-finalists will be selected from the group on Thursday. This group will enter another school on April 23 in the field house. A second such session will be April 24 at 7 p.m. in Robinson Gymnasium.
Eight regular pom-pon girls will be selected along with four alternates from this group at the April 25 session.
Bilotta said that practice sessions for the yell leaders will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Robinson Gymnasium.
NEW UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN PRESS
The new Goss Community offset press runs off a trial copy of the Daily Kansan. Pressman Harlan Dankenbring checks the inking on one of the cylinders. The press is shown here "idling" at 5,000 copies per hour
more than the Kansan's old press could print running at top speed. Today's Kansan is the first edition printed on the new press located in the new Printing Service building on 15th Street west of Iowa Street.