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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
59th Year, No.107
Wednesday, March 21, 1962
YAF Supports Wescoe Raps Civil Rights Council
The Young Americans for Freedom voted last night to condemn the Civil Rights Council and to support the recent stand of Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, that "moral problems cannot be solved by coercion."
The text of the resolution, introduced by Jay Deane, Kansas City, Kan., junior and YAF vice chairman read:
"BE IT RESOLVED: That the Young Americans for Freedom urges all organizations to select their members on the basis of personal qualifications.
"That the University of Kansas Young Americans for Freedom condemns the Civil Rights Council for
its attempts to restrict individuals' rights over themselves and their property and for the consequent insult by it to the dignity of the individuals it seeks to aid.
"And that the University of Kansas Young Americans for Freedom supports the stand of the University of Kansas Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, that moral problems cannot be solved by coercion."
IN OTHER ACTION last night, the YAF approved a constitutional amendment to establish the position of executive secretary which would be appointed by the officers.
Commenting on the resolution.
Gendarmes Battle OAS In Oran and Algiers
ALGIERS, Algeria — (UPI) — French gendarmes in armored cars fought a running battle through the streets of Oran today with grenade-throwing European extremists.
First reports said there were "several casualties" in the clashes in the big West Algerian port city which is a stronghold of the underground Secret Army Organization (OAS).
OAS terrorists also were active in
Winter Costs Money But Spring Is Here
Winter is expensive and exasperating. Harry M. Buchholz, superintendent of buildings and grounds, said today.
But today was the first day of spring. The weather was balmy and the forecast was for a bright day with temperatures going to the 50s. No ice or snow—just good weather.
"We used 250 tons of sand and one ton of salt this winter," he said. Statistics compiled by his department further revealed the use of 500 pounds of a chemical de-icer and about 3,000 man hours of work.
"This winter was one of the worst we've had in my recollection," he said. "We can do without another one like it for a long, long time.
"Fifteen pieces of equipment were used to fight the ice and snow, including sand trucks, tractors, road maintainer and a snow plow. Thirty sets of tire chains were worn out.
"Maybe next winter won't be quite as bad," he said hopefully.
Algiers. One Moslem was killed and five wounded—including four women and a child when a grenade was thrown into a native quarter. There were other bombings and shootings elsewhere.
The death toll in the mortarshelling of a Moslem crowd in Aligiers was mounting steadily, making it the most murderous single incident yet attributed to the European extremist organization.
Police sources said at least 20 more Moslems had died from wounds suffered when six mortar shells exploded among a group of unsuspecting men, women and children near Algiers' main mosque yesterday. It brought the toll in the shelling to 24 dead and 59 wounded.
European farmers in rural areas were stocking up on food and arms in fear of retaliation for OAS attacks on Moslems throughout Algeria.
The mounting death toll in Algiers raised the total of casualties in the wave of violence since the cease-fire was declared Sunday between France and the Algerian Nationalists to 128 dead and at least 108 wounded It was the biggest toll for any comparable period since Jan. 1.
which will be sent to the CRC, the All Student Council, the Human Relations Committee of the ASC, the chancellor, the Board of Regents, and the University Daily Kansan, Deane said:
Weather
Generally fair this afternoon and tonight, becoming partly cloudy Thursday with scattered showers and thunderstorms likely east and south-central Kansas by Thursday night. Colder southeast this afternoon. Warmer north-central tonight and over most of Kansas Thursday. Low tonight in the 30s. High Thursday in the 60s.
"Any attempt by any groups to control the use of property and the use of lives outside the individual is contrary to the basic individual integrity of any human being."
HE ADDED that recent CRC action is "against man's inalienable rights and is against the principles upon which our organization (YAF) is founded."
Charles Menghini, Pittsburg senior and CRC co-chairman, said in a telephone interview that the clause urging selection of members on the basis of personal qualification "is precisely the goal that the CRC is working for."
Don Warner, Topeka junior and CRC member, said;
"It is not just the rights of individuals over themselves and their property that is involved; it also involves the rights of those who are being discriminated against because of race."
Warner said that the CRC is not restricting the individuals' rights over their property because "this ultimately includes fraternities and sororities which are clearly subject to university regulations."
"THE QUESTION," he said, "is not the right to choose with whom one associates, but whether we have the right to make race the basis of this choice."
Deane, who introduced the constitutional amendment for an executive secretary at the March 6 meeting, explained that the new office is to meet the need for the performance of administrative details. He said that Marick Payton, Lawrence resident and former YAF chairman, should be "highly considered" for the position.
Payton resigned last Thursday so the YAF could become officially recognized by the administration. University regulations state that heads of University organizations must be enrolled at KU before those organizations may be recognized officially.
Also at that meeting, Timothy M Woodbury, Kirkwood, Mo. junior, was elected chairman to fill the vacancy created by Payton's resignation.
Walter Kollmorgen, professor of geography, has accepted the position of faculty adviser to the YAF.
UNIVERSITY PARTY PLANS CAMPAIGN—Tom Hardy, Hoisington junior, University Party co-chairman and one of the vice presidential candidates (left), discusses the party's platform with Gerald Kepner, Wichita junior and UP candidate for student body president (center), and Jim Anderson, Lawrence senior and party co-chairman.
Candidates Chosen By University Party
The University Party (UP) last night announced candidates for the coming All Student Council elections, approved a platform, and ridiculed Action's proposed platform.
Gerald (Kep) Kepner, Wichita junior, was announced as the party's candidate for student body president. The vice presidential candidates will be Thomas Hardy, Hoisington junior, and Patricia Wilson, Kansas City junior.
THE PARTY'S OTHER CANDIDATES ARE:
School of JournalismDaniel B. Marshall, Lincoln junior; School of Pharmacy-Marsha Wertzberger, Kansas City, Mo., senior; School of Business-Melvin Bloomfield, Fort Scott junior, and Graduate School-Larry Jones, Larned.
College men—Blaine King, Emporia junior, and Charles Whitman, Shawnee Mission sophomore; College women—Kay Cash, Fairview Park, Ohio, sophomore, and Sandy Bornholdt, LaCrosse sophomore; School of Education—Constance Fry, Prairie Village junior, and John Jones, Neodesha junior; School of Engineering—Gerald Memming, Merriam junior, James Lewis, Kansas City, Mo., junior, and Michael Swink, Prairie Village junior;
THE PLATFORM SUPPORTS the activities of the ASC's Human Rights Committee and advocates "the elimination of prejudices in individual attitudes."
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P-T-P Ambassadors Tour a Growing Giant
By Bob Hoyt
The People-to-People student ambassador program is growing into a tangible giant involving students in Big 8 schools, government officials and KU alumni in Europe.
It was announced at the P-t-P meeting last night that as much as $100,000 may be handled through the KU P-t-P office in the form of travel payments for the European tour this summer. The office here will act as a clearing house in making flight arrangements for students in all Big 8 schools.
LOVELL (TU) JARVIS, Winfield junior and chairman of KU P-t-P, said, "We want to emphasize that this is not just a student flight to Europe. It is now a student ambassador program.
Members of KU P-t-P are now in the process of setting up facilities to handle the funds.
"The students who will go on the P-t-P tour will have certain people to contact when they arrive in Europe, and they will be expected to know what P-t-P is about, and what it hopes to accomplish."
Students on the tour will spend two days in Washington before leaving for Europe. The department will exercise no control over the program, however.
DURING THE 2-day Washington stay, state department officials will act in an advisory capacity to help students prepare for questions they may be asked about United States foreign policy and international politics.
The objective of the student ambassador program is to further international understanding through student-to-student contact. This is based on a P-t-P philosophy that complications arising between friends can be settled more easily than those between strangers.
Seven hundred KU alumni living in foreign countries have been approached by P-t-P. Approximately 300 of them live in Europe. They will meet the arriving student ambassadors and provide transportation and lodging.
THE AMERICAN students will spend the first week of a proposed 2-month tour in West Germany as guests of the West Berlin government. They will meet their student counterparts in P-t-P, and will live in these students' homes.
"This idea has a two-fold purpose," according to James Murray, Leawood sophomore and chairman of the student ambassador program.
"It will add to the moral support of West Berlin students, and let American students have a first-hand view of a nation preserving its freedom."
All arrangements will be made beforehand to insure the best use of time spent in Germany.
THE ORIGINAL plan for the foreign student ambassador program made provisions for only one plane load of students. Interest has grown until 800 American students are expected to participate this year, and a much larger number next year.
Murray said that, "since the flight program has grown to its present capacity of including the Big 8 schools. KU can now reopen its flight list to all those interested."
A down payment for the flight may be made any afternoon, Monday through Friday, from 1 to 5, at the P-t-P office, room 113 in the Kansas Union.
Maupintour travel agency helped get the student (Continued on page 8)