THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, April 25, 1969
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
79th Year, No.118
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Discrimination charged
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has filed its first suit in Kansas against job discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The suit charges that the Gustin-Bacon division of Certain-Teed Products Corp., a Kansas City, Kan., firm discriminates against non-white in hiring, assigning jobs and testing and promoting to supervisory positions. It also names Local 41 of the Teamsters' Union as a defendant.
De Gaulle faces fight
PARIS - Fighting for his political life, President Charles de Gaulle today mounted an eleventh-hour campaign for his national reforms. Public opinion polls indicated they will be defeated.
De Gaulle, 78, and president of France since 1958, readied a final appeal to the country on French radio and television tonight. Government sources said it would be short and dramatic.
Heaviest strikes recorded
SAIGON - American B52 bombers followed up their heaviest strikes of the war with five more runs last night and today against Communist troops bivouacked along the Cambodian border northwest of Saigon.
House calls Wheeler
WASHINGTON - The nation's highest uniformed military officer was summoned to Capitol Hill today to explain publicly why, after North Korea seized the Pueblo, an American plane was sent on a reconnaissance mission unarmed.
Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was called before an open hearing of the special House armed services subcommittee.
Beer resolution passed Regents to decide finally
For six years, students at the University of Kansas have been trying to draw the Kansas Union beer issue to a head.
With a favorable vote by the student body on an opinion poll conducted in this week's general election, a final decision by the Board of Regents may, in the near future, decide to leave the sale of beer in the Kansas Union up to 'campus option,' said Rick von Ende, Abiline, Tex., graduate student and All-Student Council chairman.
The argument for sale of beer on campus centers around a Kansas law which makes possession of intoxicating beverages on state property illegal. At the same time, however, the law says 3.2 per cent beer is not intoxicating, thereby permitting its presence on campus.
In these referendum votes, students seemed less than enthusiastic. WSU students favored beer on campus by only 228 votes. Another state school defeated a beer referendum, and one campus petitions showed more students against than for beer on campus.
Because of different attitudes on other campuses, the Council of Presidents requested Wichita State University to conduct a survey of Big Eight and Big Ten schools.
"Our vote on the issue will be forwarded to the Board of Regents, along with a letter from Frank Burge, Union director, telling how easy it would be to convert the Union to a beer-serving function," von Ende said.
He added the Regents should not be "pushed" on the issue because of the small details which need to be worked out.
Victory for ISP
Chancellor-elect of the University, E. Laurence Chalmers, pauses briefly in the Hawklet at Summerfield Hall to congratulate Marilyn Bowman, left, and David Awbrey, right, ISP candidates who were elected vice president and president of the student body yesterday. Chalmers was at KU for a one-day visit yesterday.
Photo by Ron Bishop
ISP wins by slim margin
David Awbrey and Marilyn Bowman, running on the Independent Student Party ticket (ISP), were elected president and vice-president of the student body last night by a narrow margin.
A record voter turnout, heavier than it has ever been, brought 4,970 students to the polls.
Progressive Student Alliance (PSA) candidates Mark Edwards, for president, and Rick von Ende for vice president, received a total of 1,881 votes, 106 ballots less than the victorious ISP candidates. Campus Coalition (CC) candidates Russell Leffel for president and Frank Zilm for vice president received 1,102 ballots.
Weather
Flashing peace signs and waving flowers, the ISP candidates and supporters met Chancellor-elect Laurence Chalmers, who was in Lawrence for a brief visit yesterday, after the results of the presidential and vice presidential race were announced at about 11 p.m.
"Our first action will be to convene the Student Senate as soon as possible," said Awbrey, Hutchinson junior. "We want to deal with the disturbances and demonstrators in Strong Hall Wednesday-we want to get the University together."
After congratulating the candidates as they stood in the midst of a raucus crowd in the Hawklet in the basement of
Clear to partly cloudy and warmer with south winds 20 to 30 miles per hour today. Increasing cloudiness and mild with a chance of showers or thunderstorms tonight turning cooler with occasional rain tomorrow. High today mid 70s.
Summerfield Hall, Chalmers commented on KU's recent demonstrations. A University such as this should welcome peaceful demonstrations, he said.
"But it is really a challenge to keep a small segment from pushing over the whole apple cart." he said.
Chalmers assured the ISP leaders that he had followed the election campaign, and that he had read the ISP position papers distributed during the past weeks.
In the race for Student Senate seats, ISP culled the highest single number of seats, 26. PSA garnered 11 seats, and CC picked up three. Students running independently of any party fared well, drawing 13 seats on the senate.
Of the numerous small
associations and coalitions of candidates, the most effective seemed to be the Graduate Alliance (GA) which swept through the graduate school race, picking up all of the 14 seats.
Chuck Loveland, Riley senior and All-Student Council (ASC) election co-chairman, said yesterday's vote was "more than double the vote in any previous years."
Leffel and his running mate, Zilm, St. Louis, Mo., junior, said they were not going to fade out of the KU political picture.
PSA candidates Edwards and von Ende had no comment for the press on their defeat, or their plans for next year. All four resolutions on the ballot passed.
ISP takes 26 Senate seats
Following are the finn tabulations in the Student Senate and class elections Wednesday and Thursday. Winners are denoted by asterisks.
School of Architecture
*Jay R. Simon (ISP), 59*
*Robert M. Bruno (ISP), 54*
*Joseph E. King (CC), 43*
Business School
*David R. Myers (CC), 37*
*Donald W. Trotter (Ind), 29*
Ken Stromquist (Ind), 14
John A. Naramore (ISP), 26
Harold Goss (Ind), 21
Terry J. Summer (Ind), 23
William D. Bateman, Jr. (PSA), 24
School of Education
*Carol Leek (PSA), 213
*Nancy Short (PSA), 160
*Sharon Harr (PSA), 165
*Bradley O. Oliphant (PSA), 164
*Mark A. Corder (PSA), 175
*Betty A. Mattingly (PSA), 156 (tie)
*Barbara Nash (PSA), 156 (tie)
*Larry E. Scott (PSA), 163
*Pamela C. Poyter (PSA), 165
*Kenneth W. Wiley (PSA), 161
Jo Dunnick (CC), 120*
Linda Burton (Ind), 145
Jane Waldron (ISP), 129
Midell McKaughan (PSA), 89
Linda K. Riedel (ISP), 127
Marlane R. Shanker (Ind), 87
School of Engineering
*William R. Sutton (ECO), 152*
*Steven H. Salvy (ECO), 122
*Harvey L. Goldberg (ECO), 122
*John H. Plump, Jr.(ECO), 128
*Richard Barrows (EA), 120
*Dave Sindeler (EA), 129
Jeff Anderson (Ind), 90
George A. Baldwin (ECO), 115
Greg Alleman (ECO), 103
Edward D. Brady (Ind), 116
Michael M. Sipe (FA), 118
Michael A. Proxus (Ind), 70
Stan New (Ind), 76
Steven E. Smith (Ind), 92
Fernie F. Smith (IAI)
School of Fine Arts
* Gloria Polschultz (CC), 137
* Gary L. Bond (PSA), 165
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Chalmers will go to KC meeting
Chancellor-elect E. Laurence Chalmers will attend a regional meeting of the Special Committee on Liberal Studies today and tomorrow at the Plaza Inn Hotel, Kansas City, Mo.
The organization is an affiliate of the Association of American Colleges.