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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
59th Year, No. 105
Monday, March 19, 1962
French, Algerian Forces Join to Oppose Rebels
By Joseph W. Grigg
PARIS—(UPI)—Seven and a half years of war between France and Algerian Nationalists formally ended at noon today. They immediately joined forces to crush opposition by the Secret Army Organization (OAS) which is trying to keep Algeria French.
The OAS struck the first blow with a massive general strike that wrapped the major cities of Algeria in tomb-like silence.
It was like the calm before the storm. French officials and Algerian nationalists alike foresaw a bloody struggle still ahead before real peace could be achieved in the big north African land.
A cease fire was signed yesterday between French officials and Algerian rebels to go into effect at noon today (5 a.m. CST).
IT MEANT THE formal end of fighting between the French army and Moslem guerrillas which has bled France of more than $15 billion and cost the lives of 17,250 French soldiers, 141,000 Algerian rebels and 200,000 civilians.
It meant that before the year is out Algerians will have a chance to establish an independent nation ruled by Moslems.
French newspapers cheered it. French government officials and Algerian rebel leaders expressed satisfaction. But the leadership of the European extremists in Algeria vowed to fight on to destroy the pact and try to keep Algeria French. A real peace for Algeria seemed
A real peace for Algeria seemed to be a thing well into the future.
THE OUTLAWED European OAS formed a new "resistance council" headed by former Gen. Raoul Salan to continue the fight against the independent, Moslem-ruled Algeria. This established the new battle lines.
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Weather
Spring-like weather returned to Kansas Sunday,following a gradual warmup over the western part of the state the latter part of last week.
Balmy weather will continue for the next few days with intermittent showers and thunderstorms prevailing over the southeast and extreme eastern parts of the state.
Board of Regents Member Calls J-School a 'Disgrace'
A member of the State Board of Regents charged Friday that the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information at the University of Kansas is "a disgrace."
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and KSU President James A. McCain appeared at the meeting to oppose Austin's motion.
Whitley Austin, Salina publisher and board member, introduced a resolution at a board meeting which would have reduced the KU school of journalism to a department and placed the Kansas State University department within the English department. The motion was tabled.
"WE SHOULD LOOK to your school for leadership but we're not getting it." Austin told the chancellor. "The journalism school is a disgrace. It hurts me to say I have any connection with a journalism school like we run.
"Visiting lecturers come to the school once then wash their hands of the thing. We need quality. I've had lots of experience with your graduates," he continued, "and those who graduate in journalism fail in other disciplines. We do not have
competent instruction at the school today. Some teachers are good, but there are many who are not."
"I would hate to snuff out the career opportunities we've now of-
J-School Wins Award
The KU School of Journalism was the highest scoring university in the February feature writing competition of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation national contest. Fred Zimmerman, Lawrence junior, placed second in the individual competition based on an interview with a Negro student, Moses Gunn. Arthur C. Miller, Pittsburg junior, placed 16th with an interview with John Ise, professor emeritus.
The KU school was named the nation's top journalism school last year by a board of independent judges in the first Hearst Foundation awards competition.
be made without consideration by the department and school heads involved and consultation with faculty members. He emphasized that the matter was brought to the board's attention without his recommendation.
He discounted Austin's theory that journalism instruction would have been given more prestige by making the school a department.
fering in technical journalism," President McCain told the Regents.
"Journalism's prestige has been elevated by its being a separate school," Wescoe said. "I'm not convinced your proposal would increase the quality of instruction."
CHANCELLOR WESCOE told the board he felt the move should not
He indicated that he felt the matter should have been discussed with him before being proposed before the board. He said it struck him, "like a bolt out of the blue."
AUSTIN SAID HE was trying to help the school by concentrating journalism professional instruction within the state at the state university.
The school was named the outstanding school of journalism last year by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. The award is one of the most prized recognitions given to
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Torch Lighter Opens Greek Week -
WILLIAM DOTSON. Jamestown senior and member of the KU track team, lights the torch on top of the Chi Omega fountain after he and seven other track men carried a similar torch in a relay race from Topeka to Lawrence. The
event opened Greek Week. Sixteen fraternities participated in chariot races. Phi Kappa Sigma wen the races. Sigma Chi and Tau Kappa Epsilon placed second and third respectively. Greek Week ends Sunday.
Wescoe States Views on Bias
By Dennis Bowers and Walt Blackledge
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe told more than 350 students and faculty members last night that individual action, not University pressure, constitutes the best way of dealing with discriminatory fraternity clauses at KU.
He participated in a two-hour open meeting of the Human Rights Committee. The meeting, held in the Kansas Union, attracted both fraternity members and unaffiliated students, as well as the faculty members.
Thirty minutes after the meeting formally ended, at least a dozen small clusters of three or five persons were still squabbling under the pink, blue and white lights of the Big Eight Room.
Chancellor Wescoe sparked discussion with opening comments restating his position on discriminatory clauses and what the University will do about them. He said:
"I do not believe in restrictive clauses. I believe restrictive clauses should be removed, and as promptly as possible. I don't think any man should be judged primarily on the basis of what his color may be or on the basis of what his religion may be."
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THE CHANCELLOR expressed his feeling that orders and rules issued by the University would not be the best solution to the problem. "Discrimination rests in what a man thinks and what a man feels, and no written word can change it," he said.
He said fraternities on the KU campus were not firmly bound by restrictive clauses in national constitutions. He said:
"There is, to the best of my knowledge, no chapter on this campus that cannot waive that clause if it desires to do so at the present time, without any further action by the student body, the faculty or the University and its Board of Regents in any way."
Chancellor Wescoe again stated his belief that those who oppose discrimination can best fight it by the examples they set for other students. He said:
In speaking about the criticism directed toward fraternities which depicts them as "miserable," the chancellor said he believed in the fraternal system. He added:
"NO ONE has ever come to me on this campus to speak about this matter or anything closely related to it, with one exception, who has ever lived in a truly interracial situation. I think this is regrettable."
"I believe it has made positive contributions, not only to this University but to other universities, not only from the standpoint of student housing, but also of social life and other matters on this campus as well as others across the country."
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HE SAID critics of fraternities seem to be talking of the organizations as they were in the past. There is a need to recognize what they are today, he said.
"Most of them have changed. They really aren't any longer the happy, social clubs that they used to be. Most of them now, fortunately for the academic situation, are dedicated to scholarship," Chancellor Wescoe said.
When Chancellor Wescoe had outlined his position, Brian Grace, Lawrence sophomore and HRC chairman, asked for discussion and questions from students and faculty members present.
Don Warner, Topeka junior and president of Wesley Foundation, said to the chancellor, "The universities of Wisconsin and Colorado have brought pressure to bear on Greek organizations to remove their discriminatory clauses. I would like to know how much you think these universities have avoided discrimination more than the University of Kansas."
Chancellor Wescoe answered, "I think it fair to say, the reasons that some of these fraternities have changed these clauses and constitutions relate to the actions of the universities. But I think that the very changing of those words, in essence, changed nothing."
HE CONTINUED, "I don't think if you go to the University of Wisconsin or the University of Colorado you would see any difference between it and the University of Kansas. I talked to the presidents of both those institutions and I can say that their situation is the same that ours is."
Brian O'Heron, Lawrence senior, asked the chancellor if he did not think his decision on refusing to recognize outside housing who discriminate because of race or creed was contrary to his stand on making a similar decision with fraternities who have discriminatory clauses.
Chancellor Wescoe said that sororities and fraternities were private organizations and that they do not advertise for members. He said that he does not think his stands are contrary to each other.
Harry Shaffer, assistant professor of economics, said, "As I understand what you have said, the University thinks that discrimination in fraternities and sororities is wrong but that you would do nothing about this. Am I to believe that the University also believes that other immoral acts are perfectly all right in fraternities and sororities and that the University would not do anything about other immoral acts?"
CHANCELLOR WESCOE answered, "Mr. Shaffer, that's a specious argument. I don't know whether you discriminate or not and I don't think you know whether I do or not either. I don't think you know if these youngsters who are members of fraternities and sororites discriminate either. They have the right in my opinion to select those with whom they wish to live, as you do.
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