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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, March 8, 1968
Ex-Vox chairman changes to UP; hopes to run candidat es for ASC
The last chairman of the defunct Vox Populi party, Bill Kissel, Overland Park junior, decided Thursday night to run candidates with the UP party in the spring All-Student Council (ASC) elections.
Because 9-year-old Vox won't enter candidates in the spring elections, the party will be officially dead. Under ASC ruling, this is the last election in which the nearly inoperative party can run candidates.
Kissel said his coalition has attracted several candidates with definite ideas for the improvement of KU student government. He could have decided to run these candidates on a Vox platform, but he decided against this because Vox has been out of the public eye for so long, he said Wednesday.
There are other ways in which the coalition's candidates could
run, Kissel said. He decided not to reorganize Vox under a new name because "it's party politics that's getting ASC down," he said. Forming a new party would only create student apathy, he said.
The large expense, about $900, which a party must spend in an election also discouraged Kissel from reorganizing Vox or forming a new party.
Kissel rejected the option of forming an unofficial "interest group" composed of students from ASC and other concerned individuals. This idea was abandoned because he believes more reforms can be worked out through the official machinery of ASC.
In a Thursday night meeting, UP party leaders accepted Kissel's proposal to run candidates on the UP slate, providing the candidates meet qualifications, Kissel said Thursday.
An evaluation of Kissel's candidates will be made in a Sunday morning meeting of UP members and members of Kissel's coalition.
A complete state of UP candidates will be drawn up at the Sunday meeting. UP plans to run several candidates for many seats in order to give students a wide choice in the elections.
The UP platform will be released after the Sunday meeting. It has been indicated that the platform may be quite general to allow candidates to express their individual ideas and promises to the student body.
The platform may include some of the ideas about KU student government which Kissel mentioned in a Wednesday interview. He discussed a plan to improve ASC living district representation and had suggestions for the improvement of Kansas Union services to students.
Judge refuses to overrule Hershey
WASHINGTON -(UPI)- A federal judge has ruled that draft Director Lewis B. Hershey's controversial letter on drafting student demonstrators was an advisory opinion, not a directive to local draft boards.
U. S. District Judge George Hart Thursday dismissed suits seeking to have the policy overturned, saying in his ruling that he could not reverse a policy that did not have the force of law.
Hart indicated he would not approve of any official regulation
ordering local draft boards to induct students they deemed guilty of "illegally" demonstrating against the draft.
Hershey's letter told local boards that students who participate in "illegal" draft demonstrations should be stripped of their deferments and put at the top of the induction list. He did not define what he meant by "illegal."
The suits were brought by the National Student Association (NSA), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Campus Americans for Democratic Action
(CADA) and 15 student body presidents. They said they would appeal Hart's decision.
The students charged that Hershey's Oct. 26, 1967, letter to the nation's 4,084 local boards was an unconstitutional attempt to stifle student dissent against the administration's Vietnam policy.
In his oral decision, Hart said the letter had "no legal effect whatsoever" and was not binding on local boards. He said it merely reflected Hershey's personal opinion.
Parking fines—
Continued from page 1 the first ticket and $5 for the rest.
"The student with four or five tickets really gets hit too hard. I think a large fine is necessary but the scale should be lowered, charging $3 for the first six, and then slapping it to them with a $20 fine." Clif Conrad, Bismarck, S.D., junior and Association of University Residence Halls president, said.
KU hasn't been forced to be really tough, Conrad said. Some schools charge up to $50.
Sara Bly, Arkansas City senior and president of Collegiate Panhellenic Association, said. "I never
would have questioned the constitutionality of KU's fining system, until I heard of the Arizona ruling. I wouldn't have thought of it because the fines are levied on KU property."
Peter Monge, Wichita junior and president of Independent Student Party, said, "In light of the Arizona decision, it would seem that the Board of Regents' delegation of the right to fine students for parking violations would deprive the student of due process of law."
If KU is going to continue their progressive fining system, a reevaluation of where students can park their cars at night is necessary, Craig said.
U. S. losses-
Continued from page 1 Vietnam. Another 117,680 have been wounded. The totals in Korea were 33,629 killed and 103,284 wounded.
In action Thursday allied troops killed at least 138 Communists in the biggest battle in a month on the north-south Vietnam border where a new U.S. military command took charge today to meet a threatened 70,000-man Red offensive.
U. S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops today hunted the remnants of the North Vietnamese battalion they caught Thursday in a pincers squeeze two miles northeast of the Leathern neck border command post of Dong Ha, spokesmen said.
They said the Marines suffered 15 men kfilled and 124 wounded and the government troops "light" losses in smashing into the North Vietnamese force and driving
them against a blocking force of Marines.
U. S. commanders called it the biggest border battle since a Communist tank assault overran the special forces camp at Lang Vei, just south of the surrounded Marine fort of Khe Sanh Feb. 7.
In Saigon, Gen. William C.
Westmoreland announced he was
placing Army Lt. Gen. William B.
Rosson in command of the Army
1st Air Cavalry Division and the
Marine 3rd Division directly facing
the 70,000 North Vietnamese
which American intelligence said
are poised for Hanoi's biggest
push of the war.
In other developments, U.S. pilots flew 109 missions—the most since 117 missions Feb. 4—against North Vietnam Thursday. Among their targets were the Hanoi radio communications receiver station 10 miles south-southwest of the capital and the Van Dien battery plant, seven miles south of Hanoi.
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