Lawton Tells ASC More Traffic Rules, Officers Necessary
Keith Lawton, vice chancellor for operations, told the All Student Council last night that more security officers are needed to control the increasing number of automobiles that lead to traffic congestion on the campus.
The ASC had called the special meeting to hear Lawton after several members had complained that the parking permit fee hike was "discriminatory" against students in the large residence halls.
In a brief summary, Lawton explained the reasons for the recent increase in parking permit fees from $4 to $10 and further parking restrictions on eight central campus zones until 11:00 p.m.
LAWTON SAID THE automobile is not considered a necessity for an education and therefore the "user must pay."
Lawton said the philosophy has been to "give as much as long as we can." Increased restrictions have been very slow in coming, but there will eventually have to be more restrictions, before things get out of hand. he said.
"This is being done for the protection of the right of the student to get his education, not for driving his automobile everywhere he wishes." Lawton said.
THE MAIN REASON for the increased parking permit rates is the real necessity for more security officers to handle the increasing traffic problem, Lawton said. He said the present force was unable to handle the number of traffic violations, and eight additional security officers will be hired.
Several council members had suggested a registration fee be charged instead of increasing parking permit fees.
The increase in parking permit fees was "chosen as the most even, fair way to spread the cost on a broad basis." Lawton said.
CHARGING FOR AUTOMOBILE registration is more of a "captive" situation because the state law requires every car be registered even though the student may not utilize parking facilities, Lawton said.
As for restricting central campus zones to faculty members until 11 p.m., Lawton said it only involved eight zones with 281 parking spaces.
Lawton said that since there are over 7,000 automobiles registered for students, the removal of 281 parking spaces was not great restriction.
In the only other business considered by the council, a controversy developed over five presidential appointments to the Union Operating Board.
BOB STEWART, BARTLESVILLE, Okla., junior and student body president, failed in one attempt to receive the necessary two-thirds vote approval by the council on his appointments to the Union Operating Board. A second attempt to call for the vote was frustrated when members of Vox Populi failed to answer a roll call, which fell one member short of a quorum, making the council unable to act.
The parliamentary move by Vox council members, in effect, tabled the appointments until the next meeting but it sparked protests from Stewart and University Party members.
Stewart said he had not intended to make the appointments last night until he learned that the Union Operating Board was having its last meeting of the year before the next council meeting.
"I WANTED THE new members to have the experience or at least one board meeting before next year," Stewart said.
Brian Grace, Lawrence senior, said afterwards: "Mr. Stewart has made these appointments at the last moment and has attempted to gain our approval without our full knowledge of the qualifications of these appointees. He also didn't have the qualification sheets with him."
Stewart said it was not necessary to have the qualification sheets, since "every one of the people (appointees) have fine qualifications, and have been interviewed. It is not the council's responsibility to pick these people. If they had any objections tonight, they should have made them.
"I will make over 100 committee appointments, and I hope the council will accept my integrity and judgment," Stewart said.
Grace said the request for a roll call, was a "move to end a special session which normally would not take place and which was not intended for the ratification of committee appointments."
Action Secret on Bomb Note
The college career of the KU senior who left a "bomb scare" note at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house Tuesday night remained a secret today.
Local law enforcement officers took no action against Michael Mount, Wichita senior, in connection with the matter.
Donald K. Alderson, dean of men and acting chairman of the disciplinary committee, said the senior was given a hearing yesterday. He was scheduled to meet with university officials again today.
"It was a long afternoon," Dean Alderson said. The committee deliberated for four and a half hours on the case.
"I WILL NOT BE RELEASING the name of the student, or saying what action was taken," the dean said. That is the policy of the disciplinary committee.
The dean did, however, say that writing the note was "a very serious act and the disciplinary committee's action shows an awareness of the fact."
As to bomb scares in general the dean said, "The university will take a mighty dim view of this in the future."
Kay Walker, Park Ridge, Ill. junior and president of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, said they do not plan to press charges against the senior.
"It was turned over to the police and the university is taking care of
it," Miss Walker said. She said she believed the scare note was merely a "prank."
JAMES R. COLLINS, ACTING chief of the Lawrence police, said they would not bring charges against the senior either. "He came in voluntarily," the chief said. "He was one of the boys we were checking on."
Mrs. Nova Sperry, Kappa Kappa Gamma housemother, said the sorority had received no more bomb threats.
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Dean Woodruff, dean of students and chairman of the disciplinary committee, commented on the seriousness of bomb scares at the university. "By their nature they disrupt the operation of the university, its research, study, and classes," he said.
61st Year, No. 134
Wednesday, May 6, 1964
LBJ Assails Opponents Of Civil Rights Measure
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— President Johnson today assailed opponents of the Senate civil rights bill who claim the legislation is only a political gimmick.
Johnson said those who make this claim "are doing a gross injustice to the basic convictions of a democratic society."
The President made the remarks in an address prepared for delivery before the annual meeting here of the influential Advertising Council. The speech started a heavy day for the President, including a 4:30 p.m. (EDT) open-air, televised news conference at the White House.
Johnson told the council, which last year donated more than $100 million to public service advertising, that the most dangerous threat to America is public apathy.
STRESSING THE HEALTH of the nation's economy, the chief executive said that "almost every day brings more good news about the economy, and many people have been surprised by what this free enterprise system is doing."
"I am concerned, however, with some other aspects of America today," the President said. It was in discussing various phases of the economic picture that he mentioned the civil rights bill.
Johnson said he did not want Americans to "retreat from their responsibilities," and he said that if citizens burn their energy "on irrelevant and trivial causes—on purposes that serve only their own narrow interests—democracy will inevitably suffer."
Skies will be partly cloudy this evening with thundershowers likely tonight, according to the Topeka weather bureau. Tomorrow's weather will be fair and continued mild.
Moderate westerly winds will prevail tomorrow. The low tonight will be in the 60's. The high tomorrow will be near 80, the weather bureau said.
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For that reason, he urged the Advertising Council members to devote themselves this year "as private citizens to specific programs which will raise the quality of life in America."
"THE WAR ON POVERTY is going to succeed, for example, only if people like you are in the front lines," Johnson said. "There is hardly a community in this country where poverty does not have some beachhead, and the hardest battles are going to be fought right in your home town."
"I can say the same thing about the civil rights legislation now before the Congress," Johnson said. "Those who say this is a political gimmick are doing a gross injustice to the basic convictions of a democratic society; that men cannot live unto themselves alone; that the right kind of democracy is bound together by the ties of neighborliness."
Speaking as "one Democrat who can honestly say that some of my best friends are businessmen," Johnson asserted:
"Surely enlightened businessmen believe that all members of the public should have an equal chance to vote for public officials and to send their children to good public schools and to contribute their talents to the public good . . .
"SURELY ENLIGHTENED businessmen believe that all members of the public should have equal access to facilities open to the public. Surely enlightened businessmen believe that all members of the public should be equally eligible for federal benefits that are financed by the public.
"Nine Americans have already died this week in Viet Nam. I do not know if they were white Americans-or colored-or Catholics-or protestant-or Jewish-or if they had any professed religious belief at all.
"I do not know if they were from New York—or Georgia—or Puerto Rico—or New Mexico. I do not know how old they were—or what they wanted to do with their lives.
"BUT I DO KNOW THIS. I don't want to wake up tomorrow morning wondering if I have done anything to make what they died for come true."
For the late afternoon news conference on the spacious south lawn of the White House, Johnson came up with yet another new twist for his frequent meetings with newsmen. He invited them to bring along their wives and children.
The kids and the womenfolk will not be allowed to ask questions, however.
Johnson's busy schedule before the news session included a ceremony before noon for the award of young American medals for bravery. And he also arranged for the new ambassadors from Rwanda, Mauretania and Panama to present their credentials at half-hour intervals.
Third Jayhawker To Be Distributed
The third issue of the KU Jay hawker will be available to students at the information booth tomorrow and Friday.
Students must show their orange fee receipts for the fall semester in order to receive the edition according to Tonto Mays, Lyons junior and business manager.
The third issue, previous issues and the cover may be picked up 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. both days.
Mays said the final edition of the Jayhawker would be available in late May.
Senate Begins Civil Rights Vote Late Today
WASHINGTON—(UPI) The Senate starts voting late today on its first amendments to the civil rights bill.
The timing of the long-awaited vote became a critical matter for Senators invited to accompany President Johnson on his second Appalachian inspection tour tomorrow and Friday.
Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield, D-Mont., told a reporter: "I hope no senators, regardless of their position on this bill, will leave the floor. If the President has invited them I hope they do not accept."
THIS WAS the 49th day of debate on the Housepassed bill to ban discrimination in voting, education, employment, unions, public accommodations and use
of federal funds.
Most senate leaders doubted that voting on jury trial amendments could be finished tonight. Democratic whip Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minn., estimated it might continue until Friday. GOP leader Everett M. Dirksen, R-Ill., suggested that if this happened, the final jury trial voting might not come until next week.
Mansfield, Dirksen and other leaders scheduled their second bipartisan conference today in an effort to reach agreement on three classes of amendments to the bill. Partial agreement was reached yesterday on technical revisions.
First of the jury trial votes was scheduled on a proposal by Sen. Thruston B. Morton, R-Ky., to re
strict the jury trial requirement to criminal contempt under the civil rights bill.
THE SECOND VOTE WAS to come on an amendment by Sen. John Sherman Cooper, R-Ky. It also would provide for jury trials, but limit them to certain sections of the bill. In the sections dealing with voting, schools and public facilities, jury trials would be permitted only at the discretion of the judge.
Then the Senate was expected to pass on a Mansfield-Dirksen amendment as a substitute for Talmadge's broader proposal. The substitute would require a jury trial in any criminal contempt case under the bill if the total penalty exceeded 30 days in jail or $300 fine.