ASC to poll Union beer
By RICHARD LOUV Kansan Staff Writer
An opinion poll will be included on the April 23-24 general election ballot to determine student opinion on the sale of beer in the Kansas Union, the All-Student Council (ASC) announced last night.
Von Ende said if the decision has not been made by the time the ballots are counted, the poll could affect that decision.
"Pressure has been mounting from both sides on the Kansas Board of Regents. If the Regents decide that beer can be sold in the Union, this would be a meaningful poll," said Rick von Ende, Abilene, Tex., graduate student and ASC chairman.
"A poll like this probably would not be automatically in favor of beer in the Union," von
Ende said. "At Emporia State Teachers College (KSTC) petitions were circulated in order to get beer into the Union. More signatures were collected on a petition against beer in the Union that for it."
He said 3.2 beer is a cereal malt beverage and not an alcoholic beverage. Kansas stipulates that alcoholic beverages cannot be sold or distributed on campus.
Von Ende said other campuses also have run into some negative student reaction.
Frank Zilm, St. Louis junior, said that in a Student Union Activities (SUA) phone poll, 71 per cent of those students called said they would favor beer in the Union.
Poll favors beer
"Frank Burge, Union director, said that if beer were to be sold in the Kansas Union, facilities
could be set up at least by next year," von Ende said.
He said the facilities would probably be a carpeted room with booths where students could have beer and sandwiches.
Satellite union
"If they put a place like that in the Union it wouldn't be every man for himself like the local taverns," von Ende said.
The ASC also passed a resolution that withholds support for the proposed Satellite Student Union until more information is received.
The resolution, submitted by Zilm, contends that the present site, north of Allen Field House, would isolate the new Union from students going to and from class.
Zilm said N-Zone, at the corner of Naismith and 15th Street, and north of the presently proposed site, would receive more pedestrian circulation.
Presidio affair discussed
Gathered in a small circle last night on the floor of Wesley Foundation, approximately 50 students discussed how they best could respond to the "military injustices" carried out by the Army in the Presidio 27 affair.
The Presidio 27 were inmates at the Army's Presidio Stockade in San Francisco who protested the slaying of a fellow inmate when he tried to walk away from a work detail. The Army in reaction to the group's protest set up general court martial hearings to try the men on charges of mutiny.
Of the first three men tried, the average sentence was 15 years imprisonment at hard labor to be served in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.
"What we don't want is another X-Zone tunnel because of the lack of master planning by the University," Zilm said.
At the meeting possible demands and strategy were debated.
Talks centered around a planned demonstration at Leavenworth. Some persons thought the group should make specific demands concerning the prisoners, while others thought a broader approach protesting military practices in general would be better.
It was decided that further investigation of student attitudes, the area around the
penientiary and activity of other student organizations was needed.
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A second meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. April 8 at Wesley Foundation.
The resolution asked for a written statement to be presented at the next ASC meeting by Vice-Chancellor Keith Lawton and Frank Burge, in view that the new Union will be financed by students at the University, Zilm said.
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