Ellison Declines Action Nomination
By Mike Miller
One of the four All Student Council candidates announced last night by Action turned down the party's nomination this morning.
Nolen Ellison, Kansas City junior, declined the party's nomination from the School of Education.
He said, however, he will run for the ASC seat as an independent candidate.
"I am interested that my ideas be brought forth in the ASC and not those of any particular political party," he said.
HE CONTINUED. "I am not a Negro running for office, but quite naturally my views on housing, discriminatory clauses and discrimination in general will be different because I am a Negro seeking rightful opportunity to express my ideas.
Action's platform appears on page 4 of today's Kansan.
"I would be capable of running as an individual and not as a Negro, but because I feel capable and because I am a Negro, my ideas should be worthwhile.
"I feel that in an election, a man should be judged on his ideas and not on preconceived ideas concerning some particular party affiliation." Ellison explained, "I do not want to run to promote any particular organization, but to represent my views on the ASC."
THE THREE OTHER candidates Action announced as running on the still unrecognized third campus political party last night are:
Don Warner, Topeka junior, College men; Robert Serra, Frontenac, School of Law, and Hans Krause, Caracas, Venezuela, Graduate School.
Harold Johnson, Ft. Leavenworth senior and vice president of Action, said that if the group did not get formal recognition by the All Student Council, the candidates would be run on a non-partisan ticket but still receive the backing of the Action members.
Apportion Ruling By High Court
WASHINGTON - (UPI) - The Supreme Court ruled today that voters can sue in federal courts to correct unfair apportionment of seats in state legislatures.
Justice William J. Brennan Jr wrote the landmark decision.
The decision ordered a special three-judge panel in Nashville to hear a lawsuit started by a group of Tennessee who complained that their votes were diluted by malaportionment of the general assembly.
The case, however, is likely to have ramifications far beyond Tennessee. In most states, city residents complain that they are grossly under-represented compared with voters living in rural areas.
The Tennessee complainants sued under a 1871 civil rights law which allows an individual to go to federal court if a state is denying him a federal right.
In today's decision Brennan held that the issue raised in the Tennessee case was not political in the legal sense.
The ruling was a victory for the Justice Department, which sided with the complaining voters. The government had argued that only federal action could achieve a more equitable apportionment of lawmakers among city and rural districts.
They said that about 37 per cent of the voting population of Tennessee see now controls 20 of the 33 members of the state senate; and about 40 per cent of the voters control 63 of the 99 members of the house.
The three-judge Nashville court previously had dismissed the case on grounds that federal courts have no jurisdiction over the dispute. This action was based on a 1946 Supreme Court decision that apportionment cases are "political" and therefore outside the province of federal courts.
THE ASC CONSTITUTION requires that 10 per cent of the student body be active (card carrying) members of a political party before the group will be given ASC recognition.
Johnson said Action has received more than the required number of signatures to a petition requesting that the group be recognized by the ASC. He indicated, however, that since this petition did not require that the students signing it be potential Action members, the petition has no bearing on formal recognition.
The group is now selling membership cards at 25c apiece, but Johnson said, "At this time, I don't think we'll have the necessary 1000 cards sold."
IN EARLIER SUGGESTING that the party charge 50c for the membership cards, Charles Menghini, Pittsburgh senior and one of the party's organizers, explained that
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OAS Leader Captured; Rebels Quickly Quieted
Two All Student Council officers last night said the proposals of Action, KU's proposed third political party, to widen the scope of student government are impractical.
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"First of all, when the petitions were started we made ourselves available to the persons circulating the petitions. There are certain forms and regulations which all petitions must meet before they can be accepted. Many persons who signed the petition later said they were not aware of what they were signing.
Action's preamble called for the ASC to explain why a referendum on the student seating plan was not presented to a student vote after 2,500 persons had signed petitions.
"Action's plank on the student-administration relationship is really an allegation against the administration. They infer that there is censorship of the campus newspaper, that there are stingent regulations on campus speakers and unnecessary social regulations."
"THE MEMBERS of student government are fullfilling what they consider to be the proper function of student government. There is a definite discrepancy between the two viewpoints, that of UP and VOX as opposed to Action's, on the jurisdiction of student government." Palmer said.
ASC Leaders Hit Action Proposals
ALGIERS, Algeria — (UFI) — The French government today announced the capture of former Gen. Edmond Jouhaud, a key leader of the outlawed Secret Army Organization (OAS), and wild shooting broke out shortly afterward in the streets of Algiers.
"Edward Shaw, Alexander Fomin and Robert Love have made speech-
ice devices that allow an idea of administrative regulations on speakers," Palmer said.
Palmer said the administration does not have control over the social regulations.
Max Eberhart, Great Bend senior and student body president, and Jerry Palmer, El Dorado senior and ASC chairman, said that from looking at the platform, Action's leadership is composed of interested but uninformed students. (Both men are members of VOX.)
Jouhaud and three associates were captured yesterday in Oran, and OAS commandos attacked a gendarmerie barracks in a futile attempt to free them. French forces fought off the attack, but one gendarmie was killed and a number of gendarmes and marines wounded.
"Furthermore if they (Action) would look into the situation they would find out that the social regulations are set by the students. They are set by the Associated Women Students and the ASC social committee."
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PALMER SAID THE inference that the administration imposed restrictive regulations on speakers is not consistent with past events.
Max Eberhart gave an explanation.
Fair to partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow. Some fog again tonight east and central. Warmer this afternoon. Continued mild tomorrow with the lows tonight in the 30s and the highs tomorrow in the 60s northeast to near 70 southwest.
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not meet the requirements that all petitions have to conform to. As a result they could not be accepted."
"The furor started before they were informed on the specifics of the seating plan. After they became familiar with it they felt that it was the best of the alternatives available. That the originators did not bring up the referendum again this fall serves to support the feeling that the plan was satisfactory to the persons originally circulating the petitions." Palmer said.
is under sentence of death for his role in the "generals' rebellion" of last April, was a crippling blow to OAS hopes for keeping Algeria French despite the cease-fire agreement signed a week ago. Jouhaud was flown to Paris.
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Stung by the seizure of Jouhaud and other defeats, the European extremists of the OAS have resorted to mass demonstrations by civilians. It was during one of these demonstrations that the shooting started in Algiers.
French troops and police smashed the demonstration in a roar of gunfire that killed at least 15 persons and wounded an estimated 40 more.
OBSERVERS NOTED that the demonstration came on the heels of defeats inflicted on OAS commandos in bloody street fighting in Algiers and Oran in the past few days. They said it appeared the Europeans who want to keep this North African land forever French were trying to force a solution in their favor now through mass demonstrations of civilians similar to those which accompanied the Algiers revolts of May 1958 and January 1960.
But the forces of President Charles de Gaulle broke up today's move in a flurry of gunfire, inflicting heavy casualties on the demonstrators.
THE CAPTURE of Jouhaud and the decisive moves in putting down the demonstrators were evidence of the government's determination to crush the OAS defiance of the ceasefire arrangement.
The arrest, announced both in Algiers and Paris, was a major triumph
for the French government in its effort to wipe out fanatical European settler resistance to Algeria's march toward independence.
Jouhaud was right hand man to OAS leader Raoul Salan, another former French general, and one of the figures in the "generals revolt" in Algeria last April.
FRENCH OFFICIALS said Jouhaud was captured during a house-to-house search by troops sweeping through the big western Algerian port city of Oran yesterday.
Four other persons were arrested with him and also flown back to Paris. One was reported to be a woman. Another was reported to be a former Foreign Legion major named Camelin.
All were lodged in Paris, in Sante Prison.
Jouhaud and Salan escaped at the collapse of their pocket revolt last April. Two of their colleagues, Gen. Maurice Challe and Gen. Andre Zeller, surrendered.
JOUHAUD AND SALAN were tried in absentia, found guilty and sentenced to death, but it was believed Jouhaud now would be put on trial again.
French officials said Jouhaud had been found hiding in an Oran apartment under the name of "Monsieur Gerber."
Besides depriving them of leadership, Jouhaud's arrest was a stunning blow to the morale of the European extremists battling to sabotage the cease fire between France and Algerian nationalists.
Decreasing Financial Support Could End Performing Arts
By Richard Bonett
(This is the first article in a three-part series on the financial troubles confronting the performing arts in the United States.)
Americans grappling with the cold war, a nuclear arms race, dizzying space developments, and a myriad of other questions are hardly aware of another problem facing the country: What to do about the performing arts.
The problem is at the root of a battle that has been brewing under the surface of the country's cultural life for the past decade and a half.
The first open skirmish took place last summer in New York City when musicians of the Metropolitan Opera Company threatened to quit the orchestra unless they received a substantial pay raise. For a time it appeared that the famous opera company's season would have to be canceled.
AT THE LAST MINUTE, Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg stepped into the controversy to personally arbitrate a settlement, granting the musicians more money. The crisis was met, but the malady lingers on.
The problem is simply this: the performing arts in America—opera, symphony, ballet, and theater are hanging onto the financial ropes as their means of support become more and more inadequate.
Brushing aside an expected amount of emotionalism from partisans in the fight, few persons contest the existence of the problem. The fighting begins over proposed remedies.
After studying the Metropolitan Opera situation last year, Secretary Goldberg reported:
"THE PROBLEMS OF THE performing arts in America today are not the problems of decline. They are problems of growth: a growth so rapid, so tumultuous, and so eventful as to be almost universally described as an explosion..."
While the artistic "explosion" may be at the core of the over-all problem, the ramifications are so many and complex that often even the "experts"
seem to run off on tangents in trying to explain the situation.
To find out just what the facts are, the Select Subcommittee on Education of the House Committee on Education and Labor, under the chairmanship of Rep. Frank Thompson Jr., D-NJ., held a series of hearings in November and December in New York, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco.
Appearing before the subcommittee in New York, Leopold Stokowski, one of the nation's foremost symphony conductors before he retired several years ago as conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony, said:
"The future of the arts in America is in great danger. The Philadelphia Orchestra almost did not begin this season; the Metropolitan Opera season began late, and it looked as if it could not go on at all. All operas today are under-rehearsed and not well prepared."
STOKOWSKI CONTINUED, "We have (in America) a conflict between quality and quantity. Many performing artists have to have two professions, music and something else. This subtracts from their quality because it takes a lifetime of study to be a good artist."
The maestro's concern was echoed by Herman Kenin, president of the American Federation of Musicians, who told the subcommittee that fewer than one-fourth of the union's 268,000 members are able to earn a livelihood in the profession.
Even these figures are misleading to some degree. A considerable number of union musicians fall in the category of "weekend" musicians, reasonably proficient performers who make up the many local bands and orchestras scattered around the country.
The men and women in this group are often music teachers, salesmen, housewives, bankers and bartenders, who may have been more active as musicians in their youth and whose love of music keeps them attached to it as a hobby.
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