Wednesday, April 3, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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RFK groups merge; organize campaign
Two student groups supporting Kennedy merged Monday night to form the Kansans Committee for Kennedy. John Case, Arlington, Va., senior is chairman of the unified group.
The size of the group has increased in the span of a week from 80 to 120 volunteers signed up for assignments.
The committee plans to send a petition around to faculty members asking for Kennedy support signatures, contact Kennedy supporters on other campuses in Kansas, begin a fund raising campaign to collect money for expenses and publish a newsletter.
A trip to Nebraska is definitely scheduled for May 14. Case said, "We have already made arrangements for transportation and have 35 cars available," he added.
Case tried to contact Kennedy representatives, but found the Kennedy campaign offices quite unorganized Monday. He said the regional Kennedy representative will be sent to Kansas shortly.
The Kennedy supporters were quite enthusiastic and optimistic after Johnson's speech, because they said Kansas had given its support to the president prior to his speech. Convincing the people to support Kennedy now will be a lot easier, they said.
They also said the McCarthy supporters were not very strong anyway.
A previous member of KU for Alternatives attended the meeting to keep check on the Kennedy supporters' movements. The alternative representative, Bruce Peterson, San Diego graduate student, said he was now a McCarthy supporter.
"One of the ways to increase support for Kennedy is to get the state party leaders to campaign for Kennedy on a large scale." Herman Lujan, assistant professor of political science and committee adviser, said.
Wescoe approves 2 bills on eve of ASC elections
The All Student Council (ASC), at its last meeting before elections, announced that two bills presented to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe for approval have been approved.
One was an amendment to ASC bill number two, concerning zoning procedures and elections which said that the candidate's name shall be placed on the ballot followed in subscript by the last names of the remaining members of the candidate's coalition.
The other bill concerned the establishment of a campus relations committee which will publish a newsletter about what happens at the ASC meetings.
There were other bills presented to the Chancellor, but these
were all that have been returned to the Council.
No new business was brought before the ASC.
Premier features Edgar Snow film; lecture will follow
Following the film, Snow, an expert on China, will speak on the latest developments in Red and Nationalist China.
His visit to KU is sponsored by the People-to-People organization.
The documentary film, "One-Fourth of Humanity," filmed by Edgar Snow during his visits to China, will be premiered at 7:30 p.m. April 3 at Hoch Auditorium.
Snow is in a unique position to explain his views on China since he is personally acquainted with Mao Tse-tung. In 1965 he talked with Mao for many hours in what is believed to be the only interview Mao has granted since the Chinese People's Republic was founded in 1949.
Snow returned to China in 1930. Twenty-five years earlier he was first to meet and record the story of the revolutionaries who were destined to change the face of China.
Snow traveled more than 12,000 miles on his 1960 trip visiting some areas barred to most visitors from non-Communist countries.
He spent nine hours with Mao Tse-tung and his interviews with Premier Chou En-lai were also long and candid. He talked to hundreds of other people all over the country including students, artists, prisoners, soldiers and an emperor.
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