Thursday, March 28, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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New political party seeks members here
By Joanna Wiebe Kansan Staff Reporter
Representatives from the ninemonth-old Peace and Freedom Party, which has its base in California, will talk to KU students Thursday about starting a local chapter of the party.
John Haag and Jan Gordon, Peace and Freedom Party organizers, will be stationed at a table across from the Hawk's Nest at 11 a.m. today in the Kansas Union.
"We would like to organize a local club of like-minded persons who could make some commitments to the party." Haag said Wednesday night. "We would like this organization to be open to both non-voters and voters as the California local groups are."
The party was placed on the California ballot Jan. 2 after 105,-000 voters signed a petition to establish the party. This figure surpassed the legal requirement of 67,000 signatures.
The Peace and Freedom Party was organized in California last June. The first members were registered June 23 in Los Angeles after a riot protesting a local appearance by President Johnson.
"We consider ourselves the political arm of the movement," Haag said, referring to the groups
which oppose the Vietnam war and the draft system.
The party advocates unconditional withdrawal from Vietnam as the best way to end the war. It also says that minority communities should be controlled by the persons in the community.
Haag added that the party supports student power as well as black power.
"Americans should control the institution which controls their lives," he said.
Haag and Miss Gordon are on a trek across the nation from California to Illinois and have visited campuses in Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado.
"We have had fairly good response to our visits, coming in unexpected places like Las Vegas where everyone told us no one was interested in resisting the war." Hang said.
He said the only hostility they encountered was from a Laramie, Wyo., citizen who asked Haag to get a haircut.
Their journey will end in Chicago.
Haag and Miss Gordon plan to recruit party members in the Midwest—primarily Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin—for the next several months.
637 foreign students now attending KU
There are 637 foreign students from 84 countries enrolled in the degree programs at KU this semester.
Clark Coan, dean of foreign students, said this is a small decline from the fall figure of 643 but well over the 605 of last spring. However, the all-time high of 93 nations came a year ago.
In addition there are 81 foreign nationals attending certificate courses at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
Nationalist China has the most students at KU,67,with India's 65 close behind.
Other lands with 10 or more here are: Venezuela, 46; Iran, 33; Saudi Arabia, 29; Thailand, 22; Germany and Hong Kong, 20 each; Korea, 19; Columbia, 18; Japan, 16; Great Britain and the Philippines, 13 each; Bolivia, 12; Mexico, 11; Turkey, 10.
Men far outnumber women,
535 to 102. There are 334 graduate
students, 202 undergraduates,
and 101 are in the Intensive English
Center. Asia is represented by
343 students; the Far East by
255; Latin America by 141; Africa
by 46; Australia by 1; Canada and
Mexico by 19; and one considers
himself stateless.
MOSCOW —(UPI) — Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, died Wednesday in the training flight crash of his jet plane, the Kremlin announced today.
Crash kills first cosmonaut
Unofficial reports reaching Moscow said the short, stocky, snub-nosed "people's cosmonaut" was killed in the fighter he regularly flew to maintain his pilot's proficiency.
The Kremlin proclaimed plans for a hero's funeral in Red Square Soviet communism's highest honor—and burial in the Kremlin wall.
The nation plunged into mourning for the smiling blonde young man—he celebrated his 34th birthday only 19 days ago.
Moscow radio repeated the official Kremlin bulletin:
"The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the presidium of the Supreme Soviet parliament and the Council of Ministers of the USSR are deeply grieved to announce that Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut, died tragically March 27
KU museum to teach new youth groups
Ponds, woodlands and prairies will be the classroom this summer for the first Summer Workshops for Young People, sponsored by the Museum of Natural History at KU.
Alfred D. Bjelland, museum taxidermist, is the coordinator and instructor of the workshops, which will be open to fourth, fifth or sixth graders. Enrollment will be limited to 12 students for each of the three, two-week sessions—July 8-19, July 22-August 2, and August 5-16.
Sessions will meet at Dyche Hall from 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday. Tuition for each session will be $25.
The program is designed to promote understanding of the diverse animals and plants in the area—how they live, depend on one another and relate to man's best interests, according to Phillip S. Humphrey, Museum director.
Freshman Class Party March 30th
featuring
BOB KUBAN and the IN-MEN
★ "The Cheater"
★ "The Teaser"
★ "You'd Better Run"
★ "Harlem Shuffle"
at the
National Guard Armory
FREE to Members of the Freshman Class Students without Freshman Card-$2.00 each
as a result of a disaster during a training flight in an aircraft. Engineer Col. Vladimir Sergegin perished in this air crash."
The fall of the shy idol hit the Soviet people with the full impact felt here nearly five years ago when John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
FREE BEER
Surviving Gagarin were his wife Valentina, who has said she never knew he was in the space race until neighbors rushed in one day and shouted that the radio was saying Yuri was in space. Married in 1957, when he was a fighter pilot, they had two children, Yelena, 9, and Galina, 7.
HARRAH'S
LAKE TAHOE, NEVADA
One of Nevada's largest casino-restaurant operations is again offering summer employment to college students.
live and work at beautiful Lake Tahoe-the west's recreational wonderland.
all types of casino and restaurant positions available.
must be 21 years old—present draft cards or birth certificate. good appearance and grooming required.
Informational orientation Sunday March 31st at 4:00 p.m. Kansas Union Pine Room, Appointments and details available in Room 206, Strong Hall
Traditionally correct for casual wear, the Bates Floater $ Knock-A-Boot $17.95
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319 MASS.