Says group lacks human concern Rehorn rebukes student group
BY JOHN GILLIE Kansan Staff Writer
The Rev. Thomas Rehorn, director of the Wesley Foundation, yesterday issued a denunciation of a campus radical organization, the First Ataud Romantic Tautological Society, saying, "Their name indicates who they are and what they stand for."
Rick Atkinson, Belleville graduate student and vice president of the society, discounted Rehorn's statement saying, "Nobody listens to Tom Rehorn. What's he done anyway?"
Rehorn's statement came after the organization passed out literature at enrollment indicating that the group was sponsoring a film series at the Wesley Foundation.
Rehorn said the group had not obtained his permission to use the foundation's facilities.
The literature carried a quotation from Adolf Hitler and a warning that "Nixon's out to get you!" The group asked support for a demonstration against Marine recruiters in the Union today. The demonstration failed to materialize.
Rehorn's building has often been the site of Peoples Voice and Students for a Democratic Society meetings. Rehorn himself has been instrumental in organizing white and institutional racism courses at KU.
Rehorn said the group was not serious in their efforts for social change and hindered the work of sincere and honest liberals. He said that the organization was formed for "the mere venting of spleen." He called the organizers of the group "phony revolutionaries."
The society was formed shortly before Christmas and passed
The first day of enrollment the group set up a table in the Union to inform students of the revolutionary KU Guerilla Theater. During this first day, Rehor reported, society members distributed crude hand-written notes.
out poetry spiced with four-letter words at the appearance of Columbia University activist, Mark Rudd, in the Kansas Union Ballroom in early January.
"I don't want to be associated with them for the same reason I don't want to be associated with the Marines," Rehorn said. "Both indicate no concern for basic human values."
"I've written this group off," Rehorn exclaimed. "They won't even talk to me. I hope I can engage these guys in real debate, now."
Rehorm officiated at Atkinson's wedding and wrote a letter to Atkinson's draft board testifying that Atkinson is a conscientious objector.
Atkinson said the society was formed to promote revolution. He said the group had so far "blown a few minds," and he warned the society would move when the public least expects it.
The group made no formal statement about Rehorn's denunciation. "The statement would be too obscene for the UDK to print," Atkinson said.
The group sarcastically lists a professor on leave of absence as its sponsor and a University administrator as its scholarship chairman.
Officers are elected at the spring equinox, according to Don Jenkins, Kansas City, Mo., junior and society president. The group's operating funds are "donated by friends and appropriated from the world around us," Jenkins said.
New liquor bills presented
TOPEKA, Kan. (UPI) — Five Wichita Republicans yesterday introduced a bill in the Kansas Senate which would allow cities to permit consumption of liquor on the premises of a municipal auditorium or airport.
Wichita recently opened its huge civic
The bill would allow a city to pass an ordinance by a four-fifths vote to allow the exemption to the state's liquor control act.
center, which would fall under the exemption allowed by the bill.
The sponsors were Sens. H. E. Healy, Vincent E. Moore, Jack W. Robinson, W. E. Woodard, A. F. Casado and Ben Foster.
Three other bills, all introduced by the State and Local Affairs Committee, dealt with membership fees, closing times and the club tax.
One bill would eliminate the $2.50
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guests membership fee hotels and motels are now required to charge one-night guests for use of the club. Another raises the maximum tax against a club from $250 to $500.
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The third bill would prohibit members from being on the premises of a club between 3 a.m. and 9 a.m. on weekdays and from 3 a.m. to noon on Sunday. Currently, the bill merely prohibits sale of liquor during those hours.
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Nixon urges treaty
WASHINGTON—President Nixon yesterday urged the Senate to proceed promptly with ratification of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
Nixon, who opposed ratification of the treaty during the election campaign last fall following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, said condemnation of the Russian action had not changed.
Sirhan jury sworn in
LOS ANGELES - The jury in the Sirhan B. Sirhan murder trial was sworn in yesterday and the defense and prosecution immediately began firing questions at prospective alternate jurors.
The selection of the alternates is expected to take a week, with opening arguments to follow.
FCC proposes 'fag' ad ban
WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed yesterday that cigarette advertising be banned from radio and television on the ground that smoking causes "an epidemic of death and disabilities."
Cardinal still in self exile
VIENNA — Austrian Cardinal Franz Koenig said yesterday that Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary refuses to leave the U.S. embassy in Budapest until the Hungarian government annuls his conviction for alleged treason.
US ioins four-way talks
WASHINGTON - The United States yesterday accepted a French proposal for four-power talks at the United Nations to seek some effective means to solve the explosive Middle East situation.
Code vote date set
After a four month delay, University of Kansas students will vote on the new University Senate Code Feb.19 and 20.
The new code, passed Tuesday by the University Senate, has been a topic of controversy for the past semester. Members of Peoples Voice have called for even more radical reforms.
The proposed code would replace the present University Senate Code and the Constitution of the Associated Students of the University of Kansas and replace the present University Senate Code and the Constitution of the Associated Students of the University of Kansas and replace the present University Senate (the
Photo by Hi Blomquist
'Oscar, you shouldn't have said that'
Roy Sorrels, left, and Neal Fenter, right, star in the University Theatre's production of Neil Simons "The Odd Couple." Sorrels plays Oscar and Fenter Felix in the comedy that will play through Sunday in the University Theatre in Murphy Hall. See review on page 5.
The new University Senate would be made up of a Faculty Senate and a Student Senate to act on faculty and student matters, respectively.
faculty governing body) and All Student Council (ASC—the student governing body) with a joint University Senate to act on general matters.
The new code was passed by the Senate after little more than an hour's discussion by the faculty members present, said Ambrose Sarieks, chairman of the Senate Council and assistant dean of the Graduate School.
Only tenured faculty and administrators are currently represented in the Senate.
Regents must consent
To take effect the code must be approved by the student body next week and by the Board of Regents. Saricks said he expects it to be approved by both without a hitch.
The ASC passed the final version of the code Jan. 7. This version was essentially the same as the one proposed last fall by the Student-Faculty Committee on University Governance.
This committee was formed near the end of the Spring, 1968 semester as a result of demands made on the administration by
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