THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan A student newspaper serving KU
The CHOICE '88 voting procedure at KU will be the same as the procedure for voting in campus election said Jack Rowe, Kansas City, Mo., junior and chairman of the KU CHOICE '88 committee. The only thing students will need to vote is their KU-ID.
KU students, along with students from over 1050 other colleges and universities, will have an opportunity to vote for their choice for president of the United States April 24.
CHOICE '68 will offer the voting students a ballot bearing the names of 14 possible presidential candidates plus three referendum issues.
A question on the course of military action the United States should pursue in Vietnam has possible answers ranging from immediate withdrawal of American forces to an "all out" American military effort.
Rowe said he hoped CHOICE '88 would not only create interest in the presidential campaign among students, but also among groups supporting particular presidential candidates.
"Here's a place where a group like Citizens for Rockefeller or some similar group can show results." Rowe said, "or how the Students for a Democratic Society or Student Peace Union can influence people on the referendums."
pendent); Mayor John Lindsay of New York City (Rep.); Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota (Dem.); Richard Nixon, New York attorney and former U.S. vice - president (Rep.); Sen. Charles Percy of Illinois (Rep.); Gov. George Romney of Michigan (Rep.); Gov. Ronald Reagan of California (Rep.); Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York (Rep.); Harold Stassen, former governor of Minnesota (Rep.); and George Wallace, former governor of Alabama (American Independent).
Two of the three referendum questions deal with American involvement in Vietnam. The third deals with the priorities of government spending in the "urban crisis."
The second Vietnam question concerns the bombing in North Vietnam. The possible answers include a spread of opinion from 'permanent cessation' of the bombing to the use of nuclear weapons.
The candidates which will appear on the CHOICE '68 ballot are: Fred Halstead (Socialist Worker); Sen. Mark Hatfield of Oregon (Rep.); President Lyndon Johnson (Dem.); Sen. Robert Kennedy of New York (Dem.); the Rev. Martin Luther King, civil rights leader (inde-
The "urban crisis" referendum asks which of five urban needs should receive highest priority in government spending: education, job training and employment opportunities, housing, income subsidy, or riot control and stricter law enforcement.
Candidates announced in CHOICE '68 poll
Hashinger Hall women finally were allowed to wear slacks to dinner Monday, after more than four months of pleading with the dean of women's office for dispensation. Joy Kerr, Wichita senior, left, and Gwen Goddard, Great Bend senior, were two of the dozens of women who took advantage of the rule and behaved, wonder of wonders, like the "ladies" who by fiat used to wear skirts at every weekday dinner.
AND THEY DIDN'T THROW FOOD
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Tuesday, February 20.1968
Wescoe says rumors are false
Speculation about Wescoe's taking the UCLA job was apparently based on the close friendship between Wescoe and Murphy, who was KU chancellor until 1960.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe today said reports that he plans to leave KU are false.
KUMC employes stage demonstration for sick pay
A flock of possibilities presented themselves after UCLA Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy resigned last week, indicating at various times that Wescoe would go to UCLA, would go to Washington or even would stay put.
"I am not interested in going anywhere," he said emphatically. "If I had planned any move I would have told the proper officials in plenty of time.
However, a source close to Murphy's UCLA office told the Kansas Monday that Murphy had suggested UCLA Vice Chancellor Charles Young as his successor. The source added that "Wescoe seemed ruled out" as a possible choice.
By Ron Yates Kansan Staff Reporter
Another rumor, persistent since September, claimed that Wescoe might take a post with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). This rumor was bolstered by Wescoe's recent appointment as chairman of an
The non-professional employes of the University of Kansas Medical Center were on the KU campus Monday protesting low wages, lack of workmen's compensation and the once-a-month pay period at the Medical Center.
"The protest was made by and for the non-professional employees at the Medical Center," Neal Thursby, international representative of the Public Service Employees Local Union 1132, AFL-CIO, said.
Thursby said Medical Center employs now receive a minimum wage of $1.38 an hour. He said employees receive their paychecks only once a month, which causes considerable hardship on people who must meet installment payments during the course of the month.
HEW advisory committee studying the "growing partnership" between the federal government and the nation's universities.
With the January resignation of HEW Secretary John Gardner, there were even indications that Wescoe might be in line for Gardner's post. Although an HEW official scoffed at this, saying, "The name Wescoe sure doesn't ring any bells with me," a Washington reporter for a national newspaper—familiar with Wescoe's name—suggested that if Wescoe "were to take any HEW post," it would be the cabinet position.
Union members want to raise the minimum wage scale for state employees to $1.60 an hour, Thursday said. He said probably nothing would be done during this session of the Kansas Legislature to raise the minimum wage.
The Federal minimum wage for employees of hospitals and schools is $1.15 an hour as of February 1, 1968. During the next three years, on the first day of each February, the minimum wage scale will increase 15 cents a year, finally reaching $1.60 an hour in 1971.
Thursby said the Kansas Legislature is now considering House Bill No. 2013 introduced by Joseph McCissick, D-Wyandotte, which calls for bi-monthly pay periods for state employees.
Kansas Legislators are paid twice a month as are most employees of private firms. Thursday said it would cost the state about $20,000 a year to change over to a twice-a-month pay schedule which would include all state employes.
"In Missouri, the starting scale for state employees is $1.80 an hour." Thursby said. "They also have workmen's compensation which Kansas does not have." Thursby said the wage increase demand did not seem "unreasonable."
"Right now, if an employee at the Medical Center would get hurt and could not work, nothing would be done for him," he said. The injured employee would take his claim to a University board "which hears compensation cases and he might get enough money from them to pay the doctor's fees." Thursby said.
Thursdays added state highway department employees are covered under a workmen's compensation plan which far outdistances Medical Center benefits. Benefits received by Medical Center employees include uniforms provided by the state along with paid vacations.
In June 1967, employees at the Medical Center staged a walk-out which lasted three days. As a result, employees received a five per cent wage increase.
"Five per cent on $10,000 a year is all right, but five per cent on $3,000 a year is not so good." Thursby said in reference to the low wages received by Medical Center employes.
Asked if his union is soliciting support from KU instructors, Thursday said: "We do not solicit teachers because they always seem to be able to take care of themselves at the bargaining tables."
The union will meet Friday in Kansas City to decide where they will picket next.
Bulletins
MOSCOW —(UPI)— A North Korean diplomat said today the crew of the U.S. Navy intelligence ship Pueblo "will be punished."
"Having committed crimes in one country, they will get the punishment provided by the law of this country," North Korean Embassy Counsellor Zang Ie Zoom told a news conference.
Fyongyang Radio previously hinted that the crew members might be punished but was not as blunt as Zoon.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk has warned North Korea against any punishment.
NEW YORK —(UPI)— Federal marshals and city detectives arrested H. Rap Brown, militant black power advocate, today on a federal warrant from New Orleans.
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Brown was taken into custody at his West Side Manhattan apartment and brought to the Federal Court House in Foley Square. He was specifically charged with appearing at a rally in Los Angeles Sunday with another black power extremist, Stokely Carmichael although Brown was under a federal court order not to leave New York City without court permission.
A Justice Department spokesman said Judge Lansing L. Mitchell of the U.S. District Court in New Orleans revoked Brown's $15,000 bail on a federal firearms charge and ordered the leader of the Student nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to appear before him immediately.
Authorities said Mitchell asked Brown's bail be cancelled and he be extradited to New Orleans or new bail of $100,000 be set for a later appearance in New Orleans.
POPP returns to KU
Maybe it means "Phooye on Pot Parties." And then again it might mean "Push over Purple Pride." But then maybe it means . . .
Whatever it means, POPP is back.
For those who don't remember POPP, it's the button with the many meanings which was "pooh-poohed" by the Chancellor late last October when it was offered for sale before the KUK-State football game.
Now, five days before the KU-
K-State basketball game, POPP
and the student who invested $300 in the venture are back. He attends another university and the buttons are being sold by 15 distributors for 75 cents each at the various living groups. Several businesses have also set up POPP displays.
Last semester, the Chancellor asked the distributors of the button not to dispense the buttons "in the interest of the University's dignity." The button-pusher complied, and was stuck with more than 3,000 of the buttons.