Friday, February 16, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Georgia troopers fool protestors
SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga.—(UPI)
—State troopers escorted school buses to an all-Negro elementary school by a back route today, slipping by demonstrators who had planned to throw themselves in front of the vehicles.
The young Negroes inside the buses looked straight ahead and seemingly paid no attention to the protesters.
A roar of shouts went up from the 50 demonstrators, including seven white University of Georgia students, when they realized they had been outmaneuvered.
Today marked the third consecutive day demonstrators have turned up at the Social Circle Training School to protest against alleged inferior conditions at the school.
Despite the demonstrations, about half the student body of 435 students has turned up each day.
When the demonstrators discovered the buses had used a back route, one of the protesters shouted at the 33 state troopers lined across the school yard: "By Monday, I don't care which way you come, we'll be everywhere."
Before the buses arrived, Newsweek reporter Andrew Jaffe was roughed up by Walter County Sheriff Jesse Still and Deputy Ronald Sorrell when he attempted to take photographs of the two officials.
Major Porter Weaver, Georgia's highest ranking uniformed state trooper, replied: "We're here to maintain law and order and we'll see that's done Monday, Tuesday or any other day."
Peace Center draws draft-wary students
By Robert Burdick Kansan Staff Reporter
Conscientious objection, draft law advice, and instructions on how to emigrate to Canada are all part of the service given by the staff of the Lawrence Peace Center.
Started last November by a group that participated in the National Vietnam Summer Group, the center is affiliated with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker peace organization.
"We're here to help people understand the draft laws," Mrs. Steve Heeren, secretary of the Center, said.
Draft counseling apparently is wanted, because recently people have been pouring into the Center seeking information on appeals, conscientious objection and even emigration to Canada, Mrs. Heeren said.
"We don't advocate going to Canada but we do have information on how to emigrate if a person wants it," she said.
Mrs. Heeren thinks most people don't know their rights concerning draft laws, which "don't always follow rules."
"Draft boards differ when defining requirements. Some boards will grant deferments on grounds that others will not," she said.
One of the Center's basic functions is to inform persons about the requirements for a conscientious objector's deferment.
"Most of the people who come in want conscientious objector information," said Nancy Langsdorf, a secretary at the Center.
formation, said Nancy Langsdorf, a secretary at the Center. To assist in this area the Center has formed a group of ten draft counselors.
"The procedures to follow in becoming a conscientious objector are complicated and a draft counselor should know them very well," Mike Maher, a member of the Center's board of directors, said.
I think we can help a lot of people get their questions answered. It takes a lot of work to become a conscientious objector. You really have to come to terms with what "you think," Mrs. Heeren said.
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KU visual bureau spans film era
The Bureau, which furnishes movies and equipment to KU classes, and films to outlying schools, and organizations in other states, was founded in 1923. Its work began before that time, said Fred S. Montgomery, director since 1936.
"I worked here as a student in the early 1920s and at that time the Bureau also had some of the first 35 mm films," Montgomery recalled. "We were the only distributors west of the Mississippi River for the Museum of Modern Art Films. We also distributed the old history series, the Yale Chronicles."
The passage from silent films and stereoicon slides to 16 mm color-sound movies and video tapes describes the life-span of the Bureau of Visual Instruction at KU.
Film editors work in the KU Bureau of Visual Instruction preparing some of the more than 25,000 reels of film that the bureau sends to schools each year. The 45-year-old bureau supplies films to nearly 45 states.
Today's Bureau lists 3,500 film titles in its catalog for off-campus use, and another 500 in the campus library of frequently-used college-level films. In addition, more than 2,000 films are rented yearly to supplement the on-campus library. It is the largest film library in the United States supported primarily by fees.
"We send between 25,000 and 30,000 reels of films to schools each year." Montgomery said. "The majority go to Kansas and surrounding states, but we also cover 40 to 44 states each year.
"The Bureau's primary function is to pioneer in the area of audiovisual instruction, so we have introduced new methods and materials of instruction throughout the years. We maintained a tape library until last July. Now they are inexpensive enough for most
Video tapes are coming into wide use and the Bureau has purchased equipment to train KU's student teachers and faculty members in the proper techniques.
schools to own their own equipment and tapes," Montgomery said.
"Dial retrieval" systems, Montgomery said. With such a system, a student sits in a "study carrel" in his living group or classroom and dials for information from the library or language laboratory.
"One fraternity house at KU—Sigma Nu—is wired for dial retrieval," Montgomery said. "When the new humanities building is finished, fraternity members will be able to dial the language laboratory for the desired learning tapes."
"We realize that most of our equipment will be outdated in five years," Montgomery said. "But we feel it is important to be teaching these techniques now."
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