THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
79th Year, No. 93
Wednesday, March 12, 1969
Campus politics are in turmoil
See Story on page 2
New in the Kansan
UDK World News See page 12
Med Center is to resume work See story on page 6 Wescoe Hall-a myth?
See story on page 20
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
U.S., Korea trade fire
PANMUNJOM, Korea U.S. infantrymen guarding the western sector of the Korean truce line traded hundreds of rounds of machinegun and rifle fire with North Korean soldiers yesterday only a few miles from this village where a meeting of the Korean Military Armistice Commission was underway.
Ray begins term
The United Nations Command said 2nd U.S. Infantry Division troops suffered no casualties in the two-hour firefight. Communist casualties, if any, were not known.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — James Earl Ray, convicted and sentenced in an
"instant trial" Monday, was led in chains into the Tennessee State Prison yesterday to begin serving a 99-year term for murdering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Ray will spend at least 30 years in the state prison before, at the age of 71, he will be eligible for parole. Should he be released then, he could be required to serve eight years remaining on a 16-year term at the Missouri State Prison, plus any additional time he may be given for escaping from that institution.
Venezuela president
CARACAS — Rafael Caldera yesterday became the fourth freely elected president of Venezuela, succeeding Raul Leoni in an austere inaugural ceremony before a joint session of Congress.
In the brief ceremony, Caldera became Venezuela's 33rd president and began the nation's 44th constitutional period. He is the first to take over the chief executive's reins from a rival political party.
Cardinal resting
BOSTON - Cardinal Richard Cushing yesterday was reported resting comfortably in a hospital where he was being treated for bronchial congestion.
The 73-year-old Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston was "comfortable and obtaining some much-needed rest," a spokesman for St. Elizabeth's Hospital said, Cushing, the spokesman added, was also "undergoing tests and observations on his general health."
Tryouts are closed to press
By PHYLLIS JONES Kansan Staff Writer
Vince Bilotta, director of the KU alumni association, attempted to bar a University Daily Kansan reporter and photographer from the preliminary pom-pon tryouts last night in Allen Field House, saying the tryouts were "closed to the public."
"The tryouts are not open to anyone," Bilotta said. "This policy has been in effect for five years."
The event was covered, however, from the Field House balcony, and from persistent attempts to view the tryouts held on the basketball court from the sidelines.
Wade Stinson, athletic
director, who learned of the reporter's presence after the tryouts were completed, said,
"If I had known you were here,
I would have told you to leave and insisted that you left."
Neither Stinson nor Bilotta explained why an event held on University property, concerning a large number of students involved in a University-directed event could not be covered by the University press.
Bob Hartman, Oceanside, N.Y., junior and KU yell leader, said this was the policy because of the girls who were participating.
"Many girls haven't told their friends they are trying out, so if they don't make it, they don't want their names or pictures in the paper," Hartman said.
Of the 146 coeds who bounced and kicked before about 10 judges,30 were selected as semi-finalists.
Although judges tabulated the votes last night immediately after the tryouts, Stinson said the names were not available for release to the press.
"We don't know their names yet, just their numbers," Stinson said. "You'll get your story when the time comes for the story."
After the numbers are matched with the names, each candidate's grades will be checked to determine eligibility.
Each candidate must then make up her own cheering routine for the finals, from which eight pom-pon girls and four alternates will be selected.
Photo by Ron Bishop
Pom pon tryouts