UMKC students planning Kennedy memorial forum
By GLORIA VOBJEDA
Kansan Staff Writer
Student leaders at University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) are proceeding with plans for the first Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Symposium despite opposition from one member of the University of Missouri Board of Curators.
Among speakers scheduled for the three-day forum are Sen. Eugene McCarthy, 1968 Democratic presidential hopeful, Harry Edwards, leader of the Olympic boycott, and Charles Evers, national civil rights leader.
"The Curators have planned a meeting for 10 a.m. February 9 at Columbia, Mo., to hear the opposition," said Trisha Sherman, secretary of student activities.
Only one curator, William H Billings of Kennet, Mo. has voiced opposition to the symposium scheduled for Feb.
Shurtz Quartet will be featured at Jazz Forum
The first meeting of the Student Union Activities (SUA) Jazz Forum at 2 p.m., Sunday in the Kansas Union Big 8 Room will feature the Mike Shurtz Quartet.
The Mike Shurtz Quartet is lead by Shurtz, Lawrence senior, and pianist.
Roy Browne, SUA Jazz Forum chairman, said the Jazz Forum was established as an experimental outlet for jazz communication and study.
"There are no jazz courses offered in any school at KU" said Browne.
Browne said he feels the forum will offer organization to jazz interests as well as an "outlet for stifled expression of jazz."
He said he hopes that there will be enough interest shown in the Jazz Forum to "grease the wheels for providing jazz courses."
The Jazz Forum, Browne said, will welcome anyone. Meetings of the Forum will be informal and will involve guest lecturers, groups and jam sessions.
Sardonic actress is dead at age 63
NEW YORK (UPI) - Actress Thelma Ritter, who achieved fame after age 40 in wisecracking film roles, died yesterday at Queens General Hospital after a 10-day battle to survive a critical heart attack. She would have been 64 on Feb. 14.
GI drops from ranks
DELIA, Kans. (UPI) — A prisoner being transported from Ft. Leavenworth to face pre-trial confinement at Ft. Riley, Kan., parachuted out of a plane near here yesterday. Searchers later found the chute, but Pvt. Donald H. Till was missing.
The pilot of the single-engine U6 Beaver, Capt. William D. Felton, said Till, 24, "began acting up," and complained the craft was going to crash. Felton said he told the prisoner to put on his parachute, so he could lean back slightly. But when Till put on the chute, he opened the door and jumped out.
13 to 15 in Pearson Hall on the UMKC campus.
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The curators had passed on the symposium Jan. 24, although they said they did not support it. However, Billings has been mounting a campaign since then to stop the symposium.
The symposium will feature speakers representing all shades of liberal and leftist opinion including black leaders, government officials and former Kennedy aides.
Allard K. Lowenstein, newly elected Democratic member of the House of Representatives will give the keynote address entitled "American Dissent," at 8 p.m. Feb. 13 in Pearson Hall said Diane Fryer, assistant director of student activities.
The first morning session, 8:30-11:30 a.m. Feb. 14, will feature three speakers. Martin Griglak, labor leader who has served on the staffs of the late Kennedy brothers, and Sen. Eugene McCarthy will speak on "Origins of American Dissent." Paul Jacobs, consulting editor to Ramparts magazine, will discuss "Origin and Themes of the New Radical Movement" and Staughton Lynd, a former history professor at Yale, will speak on "The Origins of American Radicalism."
Miss Fryer said each speaker
The afternoon session Feb. 14 will feature three speakers on the same topic, "Dissent in Foreign Policy." They are Irving Howe, professor of English at Hunter College and editor of Dissent magazine; Tom Hayden, founder of Students for a Democratic Society, and Prof. Zbigniew Brzezinski, authority on Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and director of Columbia University Research Institute on Communist affairs.
will give an initial presentation to raise questions for a panel discussion, which will follow.
Dr. Benjamin Spock will speak on "Dissent in Foreign Policy" at 8 p.m.
An all-black panel will be featured 8:30-11:30 a.m. Feb. 15. Panel members and their topics include Charles Evers, civil rights leader, "Effective Politics and Dissent for Minority Groups;" the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Southern Christian Leadership Conference official, "Dissent in the Community: The Poor Peoples' Campaign," and Harry Edwards, leader of the Olympic boycott, "Black Separatism and Politics."
After an afternoon workshop, the symposium will close with a concert by folk singer and composer Pet Seeger at 8:30 p.m.
BONN (UPI) -- The West German government plans to bar all supersonic flights over the nation's populated areas because of potential "severe damage to
health" caused by sonic booms. Transport Ministry State Secretary Holger Boerner told Parliament Wednesday.
West Germans restrict jet flight patterns
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