Parties state issues
Awbrey runs; lists platform
The official Independent Student Party (ISP) platform was released yesterday, as well as a reaffirmation of the ISP candidates.
David Awbrey, Hutchinson junior and ISP presidential candidate, said his running mate is Marilyn Bowman, Merriam junior, and a candidate for Student Senate is Collene Collins, Quanah, Tex., junior. In guaranteeing that Miss Bowman, Miss Collins and he were running on the ISP ticket, Awbrey denied a statement reported Monday in the Kansan contrary to this.
Commenting on the ISP platform, Awbrey said, "we can't play a personality game, these things have to be said."
The platform, which offers a "new pattern of student involvement," suggests courses of
action for three areas of national interest: ending of the Vietnam war because it is illegal, inhuman and immoral; the elimination of the Selective Service System because it is an insult to a nation of free men, and the freeing of black militants Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver, who represent the imprisonment of blacks by a white society.
Awbrey referred to the platform as a "relevant campaign" saying the ISP was "facing issues as they are."
Of the KU-oriented platform issues, ISP proposes that academic credit for ROTC courses should be eliminated and that all campus military recruitment take place in the Military Science Building.
In reference to federal grants for University research, ISP suggests (Continued to page 16)
Coalition group sets up plank
The Campus Coalition, headed by Rusty Leffel, Prairie Village senior and student body presidential candidate, announced its platform today.
The Coalition's platform is divided into four sections: academic affairs, campus affairs, extra-University affairs and internal affairs.
Under academic affairs, the Coalition proposed revisions in the Western Civilization Program and comprehensive examination; changes in foreign language and other requirements; more freedom of choice in freshman English courses; a more effective advisory system, and an expansion of the pass/no credit option, the calendar of the University and enrollment procedures.
"The academic affairs platform is based on the belief that freedom of choice will allow us as students to shape our own individual educational programs geared more closely to our own needs within the University." Leffel said.
The Coalition's campus affairs platform proposed a plan for architectural development of the campus; tighter control by students of student activity fees; use of the Roy A. Roberts endowment for a Distinguished Speaker Series; greater University commitment to financially and educationally disadvantaged students; a renewed effort to remove progressive rates on fines for parking tickets; relief of the problems of Watkins Memorial Hospital, and
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
79th Year, No.98
Wednesday, March 19, 1969
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Communists hit Da Nang
SAIGON Communist rocket squads battered Da Nang today, killing or wounding 35 persons in residential and military sections of the nation's second largest city.
Near Saigon, Allied armor, infantry and aircraft killed 224 Communists in what could be the largest operation of the war.
WASHINGTON - The United States and the Soviet Union have begun preliminary discussions on reopening consulates in each other's countries that were closed in 1948 at the start of the cold war.
Nixon favors aid cut-off
Soviet troops attacked
In a dispatch filed from a village in the Damanskis Island area, Col. Sergei Borzenko said Soviet forces observed the lights of truck convoys on the move following the latest Chinese attack, apparently indicating preparations were under way for another battle.
MOSCOW - A Red army colonel yesterday reported a new Chinese attack Monday night on Soviet forces stationed along the troubled Usurri River frontier. He said the Chinese were using the cover of darkness to move more troops into the area.
U.S. dicusses consulates
WASHINGTON President Nixon believes the best way to cope with campus disorders is to cut off federal financial assistance to disruptive students, it was reported yesterday.
After a White House meeting with Nixon, Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen and House GOP Leader Gerald R. Ford said the President favors stricter enforcement of existing laws providing for withholding of aid funds.
'Discrimination' ruled in Inn case
By RICK PENDERGRASS
Kansan Staff Writer
TOPEKA — Both sides were brought into the open last night in the issue involving complaints of racially discriminatory practices at the Holiday Inn of Lawrence.
Responding to complaints filed with the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights (KCCR) the commission announced yesterday, that Gary Anderson, manager of the Holiday Inn of Lawrence was guilty of practicing racial prejudice in the operation of the motel.
The KCCR met to review complaints that Anderson fired Mrs. Della Hamilton Oct. 28, and if so, whether his action was brought about by racial prejudice.
In an exclusive Kansan interview, Harvey Feldman, senior vice president of Inn Operations, Inc., owner of the Lawrence Holiday Inn, said last night he does not agree with the findings of the commission.
Bill Simons, 701 Illinois.
spokesman for a group who identify themselves as Concerned White Citizens of Lawrence, and who staged a combination sit-in picket demonstration at the Holiday Inn Sunday, said the group submitted several demands to Robert Brock, president of Inn Operations, Inc.
Submits demands
Simons said the demands included immediate rehiring of Mrs. Hamilton and immediate dismissal of Anderson.
The group was represented in the KCCR conference yesterday by the Rev. Thomas Rehorn, director of the Wesley Foundation; Hoy Steele, Lawrence graduate student; Courtney Jones, Lawrence resident, and Simons.
KCCR was represented by Homer Floyd, director of the commission, Mary C. Hill, supervisor of compliance, and Frank Ross, field representative.
Inn Operations, Inc. was
represented by Anderson and Feldman.
Gives account
Jones gave this account of the conference: "The four representatives of the group met from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with three members of the KCCR, the senior vice president of Inn Operations, Inc., and the manager of the Lawrence Holiday Inn.
"After explaining the functions of the commission and the provisions of the Act against Discrimination, Floyd began a review of the commission investigation of the complaint signed by Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. White (two other former employees of the Holiday Inn). Their allegations were read and discussed in some detail by everyone present. In addition, much of the corroborating evidence gathered during the course of the investigation was presented and discussed.
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Inside the UDK
State Senate acts on drugs See page 5
Delinquency in Lawrence See page 13
Faculty to vote on ROTC issue See page 14
Photo by Jay Cooper
What's this? Could it be . . .?
See picture on page 11.