UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Sealab aquanaut dies
SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND, Calif. - Man's most ambitious effort to conquer the depths of the sea was jeopardized yesterday by the death of an aquanaut on the ocean floor 610 feet below the surface.
Berry M. Cannon, 33, a civilian electronics engineer from Panama City, Fla., died of cardiac arrest as he was about to enter the Navy's 70-foot long Sealab III at the 610-foot depth from a transfer capsule. It was the first death since the Navy began its manned undersea exploration with Sealab I in 1964.
Nixon backs W. Berlin
BERLIN — West Germany claimed the full backing of President Nixon yesterday for its plans to hold an election next month in West Berlin, despite Communist restrictions.
Almost simultaneously, the Soviet news agency Tass reported from Moscow that Communist party chief Leonid Brezhnev had pledged complete Soviet support to East Germany's demand that the elections be held elsewhere.
Rocky to Latin America
WASHINGTON President Nixon announced that New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller will pay a series of visits to Latin America on his behalf, beginning in April.
Grier, Unruh testify
LOS ANGELES — Two witnesses yesterday told how they fought off a frenzied crowd cursing and screaming to get at Sirhan B. Sirhan and take vengeance for the shooting of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
Gigantic former football player Roosevelt Grier and Jesse M. Unruh, former speaker of the California assembly and chairman of the Kennedy for president campaign, testified.
Lord to dedicate library
FULTON, Mo. — Lord B. Earl Mountbatten of Burma, a member of the royal family of the United Kingdom, will speak May 7 at the dedication of the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library at Westminster College in Fulton, the school announced yesterday.
The college was the site of Churchill's famed "Iron Curtain" speech of 1946.
Nixon, Dobrynin meet
WASHINGTON President Nixon and Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin conferred for the first time yesterday at an hour-long meeting. It was believed they at least touched on major East-West differences.
Mafioso buried
NEW YORK — Vito Genovese, the American Mafia's "boss of bosses," was buried in an outlying section of New York City yesterday after a New Jersey funeral which attracted almost as many FBI agents and detectives as relatives and friends. About 100 persons attended the requiem high mass at St. Agnes Church in Atlantic Highlands, N.J.
KU's new Senate Code, termed the most revolutionary and progressive innovation in university politics in the country today.
Senate Code faces vote
By MARTHA
MANGELSDORF
Kansan Staff Writer
KU students will go to the polls
tomorrow and Thursday to vote on
Polls will be open during class hours in the Kansas Union lobby,
Pact strains Peru relations
Bv United Press International
An American tuna clipper, the San Juan, which put into an Ecuadorian port after being shot at by a Peruvian gunboat Sunday was ordered fined as a poacher Sunday but slipped away, the State Department said yesterday. At the same time Peru and the Soviet Union signed a trade agreement hailed by the Peruvian government as the end of its traditional economic reliance on the United States.
The conclusion of the pact further chilled Peruvian-American relations, already sorely strained by the Peruvian seizure without compensation of an American owned oil company and the seizure of the California tuna boat.
"The opening of a new commercial front; the end of an era in which our trade was channeled in only one direction," said Peruvian Foreign Minister Gen. Edgardo Mercado, commenting on the new agreement.
The signing of the new trade pact came less than three weeks after Peru and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations. The full extent of the agreement is expected to be made known shortly.
In San Diego, the American Tunaboat Association said the San Juan skipper, Vernon Bowman, radioed that he fled the port in a small whaling boat and was fired on twice by cannon en route to his
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Strong Hall rotunda and Murphy Hall. Students must present their KU identification card to receive a ballot.
"Passage of the Senate Code will give students the power to participate as an effective, constructive force in all levels of University affairs as they have never been able to do before," said Rick von Ende, Abilene, Tex., graduate student and All-Student Council (ASC) chairman.
"A simple majority of those who vote will pass the Senate Code." Bob Stoddard, Shawnee Mission junior and ASC member, said. "But there is a vote of confidence in numbers. A strong student showing at the polls will indicate to faculty, administrators, and other universities that students want to participate and become more effective, responsible and respected in university policy making."
"For successful passage and workability of the Senate Code students must participate both in the elections and in the restructuring of University government," von Ende said, "for from now on the University can become what students want it to be."
The Senate Code was conceived when a 12-man committee began organizing for better student
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79th Year, No. 77 The University of KansasLawrence, Kansas Tuesday,February18,1969
Black athletes progress
By FRED PARRIS Kansan Staff Correspondent
To thousands of sports fans, KU's black athletes are distantly seen stars. Beneath the glossy exterior, however, lies a specialized group of individuals with problems and experiences all their own.
For many years, the black athlete at KU was viewed as a paid performer. Bringing "honor" to the school and pride to its supporters, he used his talents to reap conference championships and more.
In exchange, the black athlete received room and board, a chance at the pros and the privilege of "going to college."
an academic education, if it was considered at all, ranked far down the line.
Boycott!
This was the past, a not so distant past. Now, times have changed—or are changing.
have changed or are changing.
Some trace the new spirit back to May 9, 1968. On that day, 15 black football players boycotted the final spring practice before the intravarsity scrimmage.
The primary purpose of the boycott, its leaders announced, was to obtain the appointment of a Negro cheerleader—but it reflected other grievances as well.
In July of 1968, two months after the boycott, another blow was struck at the athletic status quo. In a controversial Sports Illustrated series on the exploitation of black athletes, two KU football players, halfback Don Shanklin and guard Willie McDaniel bluntly discussed problems they had faced in KU sports.
Black athletes here, the two players charged, suffered from various types of discrimination. These included an arbitrary quota system aimed at black players, a lack of consideration by players and physical abuse by a white coach.
Progress since then
Today, six months and one football season later, the situation of which Shanklin and McDaniel complained is changing.
And black athletes have noticed the difference.
"There has been a definite switch in attitudes by the coaches," says Darryl Bright, Maywood, Ill. sophomore and KU defensive end. "They're trying. They're trying very hard."
Another player who sees progress is Shanklin. The boycott and articles, he believes, created understanding rather then empathy.
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Stepping stone to the pros
Halfback Don Shanklin gazes at the Memorial Stadium turf where he captured a few fleeting moments of glory. He, and many other black athletes at KU, are only recently finding similar recognition in other areas of the campus and off of it.