CRC Acclaims Wescoe Action
By Terry Murphy
The Civil Rights Council last night passed a resolution commending Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe for agreeing to participate in an open Human Rights Committee hearing this Sunday.
An hour-long discussion preceded the passing of the resolution.
SEVERAL CRC MEMBERS OPPOSED THE ORIGINAL draft of the resolution saying it could easily be understood as "poking fun at the Chancellor."
Charles Menghini, Pittsburg senior and CRC co-chairman, agreed, saying the purpose of the draft was "number one, to commend the Chancellor and, number two, to poke fun at him."
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Two amendments to the original resolution were defeated before a newly worded draft was accepted.
The accepted resolution reads:
CHANCELLOR WESCOE:
"The Civil Rights Council wishes to commend you for your recent decision to discuss in an open forum with students and faculty the subject of discriminatory clauses. This forum will be of great benefit to the understanding and avoidance of racial discrimination at KU."
CRC co-chairman Charles Menghini, Pittsburg senior, reported that 500 signatures had been obtained on a petition asking the Chancellor to meet with the CRC to discuss discrimination at KU.
Previously the Chancellor had told the CRC that the proper channel for such matters was through the Human Rights Committee, an ASC committee set up to handle such matters.
In other action the CRC stated its stand on administration policy concerning discrimination at KU.
"In regard to the Chancellor's statement on discriminatory clause we are reminded of a similar statement concerning the issue of offcampus housing. Eventually there was a change in the university' policy.
"NOW, IF A HOMEOWNER DISCRIMINATES, he or she shall not have the privilege of registering on the university's housing list.
"A consistent policy of any university should be to oppose nationality and racial discrimination wherever it exists. Moreover, it is entirely consistent with the policy of off-campus housing to withdraw the privilege of recognition from any student living group which discriminates on the basis of race, color or national origin.
"We feel that a decision in this area should be made jointly by the administration, the faculty, and the All Student Council.
"WE ARE ASKING THAT THE LATTER two groups be included in this decision because they have closer contact with the students and usually have a better understanding of the problems which minority groups have to confront.
"Therefore, be it resolved that we ask the All Student Council and the Faculty Senate to urge the administration to make an immediate decision to withdraw university recognition from those living groups which have discriminatory clauses (in their constitutions or by-laws) by the fall term of 1965."
Spokesmen for Wesley Foundation, the Methodist student organization, said that presently discrimination is practiced in the assignment of roommates in dormitories.
In other action, Barbara Rice, Kansas City junior and CRC secretary, reported that Emily Taylor, Dean of Women, has agreed to meet with CRC members next Monday.
THE SUBJECT OF THE TALK IS TO be on alleged discrimination by the University in selection of roommates in women's dormitories.
The administration said recently it would not assign persons as roommates who would not be "compatible."
Brian O'Heron, Lawrence senior, brought up a question as to the procedure for next Sunday's forum.
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A lack of communication between the administration and students was responsible for the recent controversy over the three-man room systems proposed for J. R. Pearson, Templein, and Carruth-O'Leary Halls.
This was the position taken last night by Donald K. Alderman, dean of men, as he spoke to residents of J. R. Pearson Hall.
Dean Says Controversy A Mistake
DEAN ALDERSON SAID the administration had not considered the new system a "big thing," and had not anticipated controversy over the issue.
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Dean Donald K. Alderson
"From now on," he said, "we will try to improve our communications and we should be able to solve more of our problems with less controversy."
Dean Alderson announced last Thursday that the three large men's residence halls will provide 150 rooms for triple occupancy next semester. He said the same price for room and board will be charged men in three-man rooms as would be charged those living in double rooms.
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Controversy arose when residents in the three halls received a notice from James G. Middleton, assistant to the dean of students, announcing the triple occupancy rooms and equal room-and-board rates. Students protested at the time because there was no additional word from the administration concerning room-and-board rates, and because the dorm counselors had been told of the new
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KU-Y Skit Decision Due
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The final decision whether the winning Kappa Sigma-Delta Delta Delta Rock Chak skit was taken from the original production, "Medium Rare," will probably be made tonight.
Jim Scholten, Salina senior and director of Rock Chalk, said the decision has been turned back to the KU-Y Cabinet from the Rock Chalk committee for the final word.
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"YES. I THINK a definite decision will be reached," Scholten said. "There is always the possibility of it being turned back to us (the Rock Chalk committee), but I'm hoping this won't happen."
THE KU-Y CABINET which will make the decision is the group which sponsors and has complete control over the entire production of Rock Chalk.
"I want to get this matter cleared up; I'm planning to have it solved tonight," he continued.
the skit, "Medea," being taken from "Medium Rare" was brought up last week after a member of the faculty informed the KU-Y that the skit here was very similar to one being produced at the Happy Medium Cabaret in Chicago.
The KU-Y wrote last week to the theater in Chicago requesting a copy of the original script but was unable to obtain one. Scholten said the Chicago people were unable to release the script because of a contract governing the use of the script.
BOTH THE FACULTY member and a student have been questioned by the KU-Y and have revealed that the two presentations of the skit are very comparable.
The only comment to date from either of the houses involved is that they had not "had any knowledge of a professional performance of the story of 'Medea'" before the skit was given here.
SCHOLTEN EXPLAINED that the KU-Y has not sent its copy of the script presented here because it would mean being without it for several days.
Scholten explained that the Cabinet will act as an arbitrating jury in the case and will levy punishment, if seen fit.
Scholten said the reason for the delay in coming to a decision is because of the conflicting schedules of the Cabinet members.
"I personally think a comparison would only confirm what we already know." Scholten said. "Some of the lines have already been confirmed."
The reason for the exchange of scripts is to attempt a comparison further than that given by the two who have seen both productions.
SCHOLTEN SAID the Rock Chalk committee has compiled the facts and a recommendation for the KUY Cabinet to consider in their decision at the special meeting tonight.
Election Squabble At Demo Meeting
AYLWARD SAID the membership cards may have been given out to replace 16 Young Democrats whose names had been omitted from the list of eligible voters compiled by the election committee.
Factional strife broke out in the Young Democrat's election meeting last night.
Also elected on the Bennington slate were John Young. Salina law student, vice president; Gloria Mays, Lyons junior, secretary,
Barry Bennington, Cheney junior, was named new president but Peter Aylward, Ellsworth junior and a candidate for the office, said he intended to investigate the possibility that the faction running Bennington had handed out membership cards to his supporters prior to the meeting.
and Michael T. Thomas, Ft. Riley junior, collegiate council representative.
He said he had affidavits from seven persons not on the elections committee's voting list who are legal members of the Young Democrats.
Aylward said freshman Young Democrats living in Corbin Hall were omitted from the list. He said he learned of the omission by sending a girl to each floor meeting to get names of Young Democrats there.
"THIS IS CLEARLY a fraudulent election unless these persons are given the right to vote," said Aylward.
Cary Conklin, Hutchinson second-year law student and elections committee chairman, said some cards may have been misplaced in factional squabbling last semester.
Aylward then asked Jane Bell, Gad Godesburgh, Germany, freshman, if she had bought a membership card during enrollment. She said that she had. Her name was not included in the voting list.
CONKLIN INMEDIATELY de- manded that Aylward produce the number of Young Democrats he said were omitted from the list.
At this point, Verne Gaubay, Grand Island, Neb, third-year law student and chairman of the meeting, intervened saying, "The chair will acknowledge that an error has been made."
HE THEN SAID members omitted from the voting list would be allowed to vote if they were present and could show their membership cards.
Gauby then asked Aylward why he had not brought the matter up before the election. He asked if Aylward was trying to embarrass the club's administration.
Aylward replied, "This is more than a slight mistake. I'm not trying to embarrass the club but just point out deficiencies in the administration."
JIM LAWING. Lawrence graduate student, added, the "supposedly impartial elections committee chairman" delivered the campaign address for the opposing slate of candidates. Lawing said the issue was not brought before the committee because of feeling that it would not be handled fairly.
Gauby said, "The only thing we know is that they (the memberships) just got lost."
JOHN YOUNG, Salina first-year law student and candidate for vice president on the Bennington slate, replied that the responsibility did not lie entirely with the elections committee. He said that if the members in question were interested in the Young Democrats they would have heard of the meeting by word-of-mouth, as he had, and would have come to the meeting to defend their rights.
As the discussion began to cool slightly, Conklin walked into the room with the ballot box under his arm and announced that the Bennington slate had made a clean sweep of the election.
OAS Extremists Terrorize Algiers
ALGIERS—(UPI)—"Six of you have been condemned to death by the OAS!"
This was the voice of terror speaking in Algiers today.
The words came from European extremists who invaded a Moslem quarter social center here. They were addressed to the 18 men they found inside, who stood lined up against a wall.
Then the Secret Army Organization (OAS) terrorists marched the six—three Europeans and three Algerians—to the yard and lined them up against a wall.
A VOLLEY OF shots rang out and the men crumpled as the bullets struck. Miraculously, one man survived the "execution."
The brazen OAS attack was only one incident in a series of European extremist actions in Algeria during the day as the OAS spread its terror, angered by the impending cease-fire agreement between France and the Algerian rebels that is destined as a first step in making this territory an independent nation.
Yesterday, 21 persons were killed and 31 others injured in violence involving both Europeans and Arabs.
THE EXECUTIONS and slayings in the Moslem quarter here and violence in other parts of Algeria brought the casualty toll since Jan. 1 to 1,662 dead and 3,811 wounded.
Earlier today OAS commandos pulled up to a bus stop in Algiers. A man jumped from the car and began shooting with a submachine gun, spraying the crowd at belt level from left to right.
SCREAMING men and women tried to escape, eye-witnesses said, but the bullets killed 10 and wounded at least six.
The gunman then returned to the car and drove slowly away.
The gunfire shattering the dawn brought crowds of Moslems into the still semi-dark streets.
Veiled women chanted their eerie "yuyu" death wall as they sat on the steps and balconies of their little white houses.
French army units sped to the scene. While wailing ambulances arrived to pick up the dead and wounded, the soldiers closed off the Moslem section. When the crowds of surging, angry Moslems threaten en to erupt into violence, soldiers fired shots into the air.
Terrorism has become commonplace in Algeria's cities. Yesterday, a crowd of white-collar workers returning to their jobs from lunch paused in the Rue de Gueydon. They looked, most of them indifferently, at a corpse on the curb.
The dead man was an Arab. One of the policemen blocking off the street suddenly moved into the crowd and said: "All right, all right, move along, it's all over."
Weather
Mostly fair this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow. A little warmer tomorrow. Low tonight 15 to 20 West to 20s East. High toorrow upper 40s East to 50s West.