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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 1, 1962
Human Relations Group Discusses CRC Action
By Bill Sheldon
Three members of the All Student Council Human Rights Committee expressed three different opinions last night on how to deal with the Civil Rights Council's (CRC) move to eliminate discriminatory clauses in fraternity constitutions.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe last Friday referred the CRC to the ASC committee, saying that this committee would deal with the matter rather than the administration.
THIS COMMITTEE, formed last spring, has been relatively inactive on discriminatory matters and has not yet met to discuss definite action on the matter.
Brian Grace, Lawrence sophomore and acting chairman of the committee, said he and Max Eberhart, Great Bend senior and student body president, are planning to meet with the Chancellor this week to plan a course of action.
"The matter will certainly cause an investigation by our committee," Grace said. "Action is necessary and we will be willing to listen to complaints and then take some form of action."
Grace explained he would not be certain of what action his committee would take until after the conference with the Chancellor.
ROBERTA JOHNSON, Joliet, Ill., senior, and member of the committee, said she feels the committee should ask outside help in finding a solution.
"I suggest that our committee take advantage of the professors and people who have studied racial and ethnic problems, people who have really worked with problems like this," she said.
Miss Johnson pointed out that the relative inactivity of the committee was due to the lack of something to work on.
The only other chance the committee had for action was eliminated before action could be taken.
Grace explained that the committee spent two weeks last semester investigating the University policy on discrimination and presented a petition to the ASC requesting that sit-ins and similar activities be curtailed.
"WE TRIED TO open barber shops, and we had a plan, but it didn't develop because it wasn't allowed to be brought up before the ASC," Meeks said.
"I suppose there was more important business," he continued.
The three committee members also discussed the actions taken by the CRC in trying to get the Greek discriminatory clauses removed.
"I'm not sure what the CRC's aims are," Grace said. "Apparently they are trying to destroy the clauses, but this won't stop discrimination. It would only be a moral victory.
"MAYBE THE GOAL OF the CRC is to obtain a pledge of faith from the fraternities," Grace said.
"Apparently the clauses themselves are bad for the Greeks," he continued. "It is the right of the individual houses not to pledge a person because of race or religion. The fraternities are private organizations and I have to agree with them when they say that they are private clubs," Grace said.
Grace said he has not personally decided how he stands on the removal of the clauses.
Meeks said he feels the aims of the CRC are "good and obvious."
"I don't think the CRC's aims are to stir up tension, but to alleviate problems concerning discrimination," he said.
REFERRING to an earlier statement about handling the situation quietly. Meeks said:
"The dividing line between me and the CRC is in the methods. We (the committee) would try to be somewhat more tactful, seeking a solution more smoothly. I'm not against the basic aims of the CRC, because they are the same as our committee's."
"But it is better for the CRC to do it openly because it can and is getting the job done," he said. "We don't have our ideas worked out yet. Sit-ins and freedom rides are good until a better method is discovered."
Meeks also voiced his personal opinion about Greek clauses.
"I DON'T BELIEVE clauses should be present," he said. "They violate basic principles of the American people and the ideas of brotherhood."
Grace added that minority groups attending KU also have rights and that these rights are being stepped upon to some extent.
"The administration cannot force Greeks to pledge anybody they don't want." Grace said.
Meeks answered:
"TRUE, NO ONE from a minority group will pledge a white frat, nor a white a Negro frat. Still the clauses shouldn't be there. They look bad.
"Whatever the purposes of the clauses are, i. (discrimination) would happen anyway," he continued. "Anybody can still discriminate in his own mind, whether the clauses are there or not.
"Attitudes have to be changed more than the clauses removed. But the removal of the clauses would be a start toward changing attitudes."
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(Continued from page 1) the position the administration has taken."
BRIAN GRACE. Lawrence sophmore and chairman of the All Student Council Human Relations Committee (through which the Chancellor suggested the CRC channel its actions) was present at the meeting.
Grace, after saying he was not representing the Human Rights Council, said the Human Rights Council has not met since the latter half of last semester because, in his opinion, there was no reason for such a meeting until now.
"However, there will definitely be a meeting next week some time," he said.
Grace said the Human Rights Committee had not talked at all about discriminatory clauses in Greek constitutions. He said again he was not speaking for the Human Rights Council but that he thinks the Council will take definite action soon.
DON WARNER, Topeka junior, asked Grace if he thought the Human Rights Council would take any proposals to the Chancellor which the Council itself might oppose.
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"Yes, definitely." Grace said. "Anything the CRC decides will be listened to with interest.
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CHARLES MENGHINI, Pittsburg senior and co-chairman of the CRC, said that the only time the Human Rights Council functioned was in the past off-campus housing incident.
"Many people think that because we have a Human Rights Council on the campus there is no need for the CRC," Menghini said. "This is totally wrong. If a committee doesn't do anything or even meet, what good is it?"
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"Our job is to hear as many sides to the question as is possible," he said. "What the Chancellor wishes to do and what we will do may be two different things, meaning we are not under his thumb."
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Jeff Bohr, Great Bend junior, said to Grace, "The Human Rights Council is established to inquire into the area of discrimination, right? Then you will have to see the Chancellor and check into his stand."
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Dean Woodruff also expressed the hope that Coan would finish the work to complete his degree.
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Football coach Jack Mitchell was enroute from Chicago and could not be reached for comment. Don Fambrough, assistant coach, was surprised by the decision.
"THERE IS NOTHING that I can say," Fambridge said. "This is the first that I have heard about it. Coach Mitchell is out of town and any comment from the coaching staff would have to come from him."
James F. Gunn, administrative assistant to the Chancellor, amplified the University's statement concerning the ineligibility of Coan. Gunn stated that he was not authorized as a spokesman for the Senate Committee, and that his statement was merely a personal interpretation.
Mr. Gunn said that to his knowledge the Senate's ineligibility ruling hinged upon an agreement between Coan and the San Diego Chargers concerning travel expenses.
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understanding that the Chargers would pay the expenses. After he did not sign a professional contract, he discovered that the payment of the expenses was in violation of NCAA regulations and therefore paid for the trip himself.
MR. GUNN SAID that in his understanding the committee ruled Coan ineligible because the "spirit of the agreement" removed Coan's amateur status.
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Coan has been a center of controversy since transferring to KU from Texas Christian University in the spring of 1959. Due to a variety of injuries and suspensions, the Pasadena, Tex., halfback has only played in eight college games.
The Big Eight faculty committee ruled on Dec. 8, 1960, that he was ineligible due to a ruling by the NCAA that he had been illegally recruited by Houston oilman Bud Adams. The Big Eight ruling resulted in Kansas' having to forfeit their last three 1960 conference football games and cost the Jayhawks the league championship and a trip to the Orange Bowl.
COAN MADE HEADLINES last spring when he suffered a broken leg in spring practice. The Big Eight ruling had made Coan ineligible for the first four games of the 1962 season. The injury kept him out for the entire season.
Coan said that he planned to sign a professional football contract now that his college playing days are finished. He has been drafted by the Washington franchise in the National Football League and by the San Diego franchise in the American Football League.
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