Thursday, February 15, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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'Honored' by protest at Union
Pickets don't offend Rhodesian
Photo by Moe Behrayesh
RHODESIAN SPEAKER QUESTIONED
George Kuria (right), Nakuru, Kenya, senior, questions H.J.C. Hooper, Rhodesian information officer, during Hooper's Wednesday afternoon speech in the Kansas Union. Hooper's Minority Forum speech concerned the unrecognized independence of Rhodesia and the United Nation's economic sanctions imposed on her.
"It was an honor to be picketed by African students," said H. J. C. Hooper, of the Rhodesian Information Office in Washington, D.C., after his speech Wednesday afternoon in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
Members of the KU African Club picketed in front of the Union before his speech and attended the talk carrying signs opposing the Rhodesian white-minority government policies. Hooper spoke to the Minority Opinion Forum on "Rhodesian Independence and Two Years Later."
"This isn't unusual." Hooper said. "I've been picketed before. It makes me feel important to think someone is concerned enough with my country's position to demonstrate against it."
The United States is a free country and even people like Dean Rusk, secretary of state, are nicketed, he said.
The 20 to 30 KU African students in the demonstration carried signs such as "The blood of black Africans shall curse your conscience," opposing the treatment of Negroes in Rhodesia.
Hooper said Rhodesia is not a racist nation.
"Everyone is equal under the constitution," he said. "Black Rhodesians are eligible to vote if they meet the constitutional qualifications."
Qualifications for voting in Rhodesia are property ownership, education and income. Hooper said.
"These qualifications are based on the principle that voting is a privilege, not a right," he said. "Our government wants proof of achievement before a person can vote."
To be eligible to vote in Rhodesia, a person must own between $700 and $4,600 in property; and must earn between $300 and $2,200 or be chief of a tribe or head of a village with more than 20 families.
KU professor to Oklahoma to talk on physics
As part of a nationwide program to stimulate interest in physics, a KU physics professor will lecture Monday at Central State College, Edmond, Okla.
Ralph W. Krone, professor of physics, will lecture, meet with students and assist faculty members.
Krone leads a KU research team which has received more than $1,250,000 in contracts from the Atomic Energy Commission.
Photo contest deadline Friday
Entries in the contest, which is sponsored by Student Union Activities (SUA) and Kappa Alpha Mu, national photojournalism society, must be submitted with a $2 entry fee at the SUA office at the Kansas Union.
The deadline for entries in the campus photo contest is 5 p.m. Friday.
He said Rhodesian officials look forward to the day the world no longer looks at Rhodesia in terms of race.
Average income for the Negro Rhodesian is $360. Average income for white Rhodesians is 10 times that amount, Hooper said.
All entries must be mounted. Winners will be announced after the judging Feb. 18 at the Kansas Union. The winning photos and top two or three photos in each category will be displayed at the Union from Feb. 19 to March 1.
"Rhodesia is a unified country," Hooper said. "The problems of race come from without, not from within. There are no signs of rebellion within the country."
Rhodosis declared unilateral independence from Great Britain
Anthropologist to speak on Indians
A KU anthropologist who recently conducted research in American Indian education will present some of her findings at a forum March 1 and 2 at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
Rosalie H. Wax, associate professor of anthropology, is one of
several persons, including Leo Bennett, U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, speaking at the forum.
Her husband, Murray L. Wax, professor of sociology, will serve on a reaction panel, responding to the various speeches.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
County Clerks School. All Day. Kansas Union.
Deadline, '88 Graduate Fellowships,
Scholarship Applications. All Day.
Deadline, Fall '68 Scholarship Applications. 5 p.m., 26 Restong Hall.
Han.
French Church 7 p.m. "Dissay of a
Country Priest." Dyche Auditorium.
FRIDAY
"These sanctions have failed to destroy our government," Hooper said. "Instead, they have helped to unify and strengthen it."
7. Che Auditorium.
Indoor Track, 7.
Northsigma State, Colorado. Allen Field Hill
Lebo Institute
University Women's Club.
"Haskell Indian Dance Club." Public Invited. Auditorium, Haskell Institute.
Nov. 11, 1965, but her independence is not recognized by the United Nations. The UN has declared Rhodesia a threat to world peace and has imposed a series of economic sanctions against the country.
Experimental Theater. 8:20 p.m.
"Crumbling Citadel."
College Life 9.p.m. Speaker: Vincent Miller. Sigma Chi House.
County Clerks School. All Day. Kansas Union.
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship,
7 p.m. Paul Steeves, "Character and
Work of Jesus Christ." 829 Mississippi.
Social Work Field Instructors. All Day. Kansas Union.
Deadline, Entries in Photographic Contest. All Day. Kansas Union.
Popular Film 7 & 9:30 p.m. "A
Paperback Book of theoche Auditorium"
Foreign Film 7, 3:40 p.m.
Experimental Theatre. 8:20 p.m.
"Crumbling Citadel."
Hooper said the Rhodesian Information Office was established to present the factual situation in Rhodesia.
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"My government felt the United States should have access to truthful information about Rhodesia because it is involved in the UN." Hooper said. "This information is not being presented by Great Britain."
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