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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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78th Year, No.108
The representatives stopped in Lawrence because "opposition to the draft is common on a university campus and that is a minimum prerequisite for a radical party." Haag said.
A new political party may have arisen at KU Thursday. More than 50 signatures were obtained in support of a radical group organized at a table across from the Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union, said a representative of the Peace and Freedom party.
23. early organizers of the ninemonth-old party, are traveling to rally support for a radical political party currently aming at college campuses.
A student newspaper serving KU
Two representatives of the party stopped in Lawrence, on the way from California to Chicago, because it was, they said, the only Kansas campus which they knew possessed active radical elements.
by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said Negro sanitation workers, whose seven-week-old strike is the issue that burst into violence, would march again today.
About 100 of the demonstrators have marched late each day for weeks. King said the march would be held today, but police indicated there was a possibility it would not be allowed.
Generally the party is content to organize without candidates. In California and Pennsylvania.
King came to Memphis Thursday to lead a massive, 3,000-man march. It went down Beale Street in an orderly manner until hundreds of young Negroes broke away and began clubbing police and smashing windows, launching the nation's worst racial violence of the year.
National Guard patrols Memphis
John Haag, 37, and Jan Gordon,
Ah, Spring. The time when a young man's fancy turns—and evidently a young woman's, toe. 'Tis a time for studying near Potter Lake—even until those wee smalls. See the Kansan's pictoral tribute to Spring at KU, pages 8 and 9.
Radicals catch KU fancy
See Radicals page 16
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Friday, March 29, 1968
IT FEELS SOOOO GOOD
But civil rights spokesmen led
A 16-year-old Negro looter was slain, 62 persons were injured—three by gunfire—and 300 arrested Thursday. Arsonists set fire to nearly 150 buildings, police said.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. —(UPI)— Police and National Guard tactical units today sealed off Beale Street, an avenue of shattered glass and looted shops, in an effort to prevent a second day of Negro rioting.
Officials reported that the burning and looting which raged through the night dwindled and finally halted at dawn.
"We are at war in Memphis," reported Fire-Police Director Frank L. Holloman.
Al Capp's barbs fly freely at Festival performance
Nothing seemed sacred to sardonic Al Capp, who lampooned everything from Bobby Kennedy to the "Peanuts" comic strip Thursday at KU.
Capp, whose strip "Li'l Abner" appears in more than 1400 newspapers, says he gets most of his comic strip ideas by "reading the newspapers and cleaning them up."
Government spending, especially welfare and Peace Corps programs, was hit by Capp at a press conference at the Virginia Inn Thursday morning.
"It is absolutely ridiculous for the U.S. Government to send millions of dollars and Peace Corps volunteers abroad when men, women and children in this country are starving," Capp said.
"I really do admire Americans who buy sewer systems for people in Lima, Peru," Capp quipped, "when these same Americans don't have plumbing that works in their own homes."
Striking at America's "Fraudulent foreign policy," Capp said his view on Vietnam, that "anyone who shoots Americans is no damn good," is unpopular with the college students.
Capp said the big question being asked on college campuses is "When does the next bus leave for Toronto?"
Referring to student demonstrators, Capp said, "To those students trying to attract attention, I say America is not prepared to have lunatics trying to run our society."
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts clear to partly cloudy skies tonight and Saturday. Temperatures should continue to be unseasonably warm. The low tonight should be 50 to 55. Precipitation probabilities are less than five per cent through Saturday.
--the students for a Democratic Society—only with motorcycles."
Capp, who is looked upon by his press agent as a man with an opinion on everything and an expert on nothing, said he gets $3,000 for an appearance on a college campus, and "that's the only way I could endure one of them."
He seemed to endure his Thursday night Festival of the Arts performance at Hoch Auditorium, and the sarcasm flowed freely.
Wearing a dark blue pin-stripe suit, Capp wisecracked answers to more than 30 questions on folk heroes and non-folk heroes.
He said KU turned Robert Kennedy into a folk hero last week, "so let him be a hero. I can't stand to see a billionaire sulk."
When asked why Bonnie and Clyde are folk heroes, Capp asked, "Is it because they are the dirty Bobby and Ethyl?"
Capp seems to enjoy his own wry humor—he laughed heartily along with his audience.
When asked why Snoopy was more of a folk hero than Charlie Brown, Capp said, "Peanuts is simply pornography—there's too much sex and violence in the strip."
AL CAPP
But he did think the Hell's Angels were folk heroes.
"Anyone who disagrees with them is kicked in the groins," he said. "The Hell's Angels are like
Capp said he thought the next folk hero would be Teddy Kennedy—"It's his divine right."
On non-heroes, Capp said wearing an American soldier's uniform immediately eliminates all chances of becoming a hero.
"The GI's uniform once was honored, but now is despised by so many people," he said. "The American soldier is currently not a folk hero because people's minds are so poisoned."
"Martin Luther King isn't quite a hero to all Americans," Capp said, "since he mistook his being
Sec Capp page 16
Ella sings Festival finale
Ella Fitzgerald, the renowned "first lady of song," will present the finale to the 1968 Festival of the Arts at 8 p.m. Saturday in Hoch Auditorium.
For more than three decades Miss Fitzgerald has been an international favorite among jazz lovers—musicians and listeners alike.
"Ella is more than a singer. She's an instrument," bassist Ray Brown, her second husband, once said.
And composer-conductor Henry Mancini has said he "wouldn't
mind conducting an orchestra of Ella Fitzgerald."
Miss Fitzgerald often turns to an instrument-like approach in her singing. Her versions of "How High the Moon" and "Airmail Special" are famous for their scat takeoffs. After singing a verse or two of the lyrics, she sails into an extemporaneous scat ad-lib of nonsense syllables in much the same manner as a jazz instrumentalist will play an ad lib chorus.
Miss Fitzgerald credits her suc-
See Ella page 16
Sit-in at Strong to protest KU military links
By Joanna Wiebe Kansan Staff Reporter
A group of KU students and faculty members has organized a sit-in in the office of Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe next Tuesday afternoon to protest "the University's increasing complicity with the military establishment," a planning group said Thursday.
"In this protest, we are primarily dealing with the problem from an educational standpoint, not a pacifistic standpoint," said Hamilton Salsich, assistant instructor of English and one of the sit-in organizers.
The members of the group said they are aware of the Lawrence ordinance against sit-ins on state property. If police should arrive to halt the demonstration, they plan to passively resist the law and remain in the chancellor's office. Some of the persons planning to participate in the sit-in have said they would be willing to go to jail.
The members of the organizational group—Salsich; Jay Barrish, Kansas City senior; Patrick Corti, Kansas City senior; and Rick Atkinson, Belleville senior—
agreed that the "functions and purposes of the military establishment are directly alien to the stated functions and purposes of this educational institution."
An expected turn-out of about 35 to 50 students plans to confront the Chancellor with four demands, which are outlined in a statement prepared Thursday evening.
- that the University ban all military recruiters from the campus. "The existence of conscription destroys the illusion that the military recruiters offer a free choice to students," explains the statement.
The demands:
- that the University forbid all military research projects on the campus.
- that the University abolish ROTC programs on campus. "The University should not take such an eager part in the training and the glorification of violence and destruction." they said.
- that the administrators of the University and the board of regents "face squately" the educational
problems created by the draft laws, and "take a public stand against the intrusion of the draft onto the campus."
The members of the group agreed the chances are slim that their demands are going to be granted as they stand.
However, it's an old proverb in the resistance movement that protestors should aim as high as they can before they begin working toward compromises Salsich said.
Salsich stressed that the sit-in participants will be requested to remain non-violent.
"Our physical presence and our discussions with the Chancellor for several hours on Tuesday will be our protest," he said.
"We will come with a respectful anger," he added.
A meeting of those persons planning to participate in the sit-in will be held at 7:30 p.m., Monday at the Wesley Foundation.