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Jacksonville Race Unrest Seen As Unorganized and Aimless
By United Press International
By United Press International The racial blowup in Jacksonville, Fla., apparently is one of those seemingly aimless things that come during a period of general turmoil and unrest. It is like a tornado that suddenly spews off the rim of a hurricane.
With the rock and bottle throwing, shootings and death in Jacksonville, some facts need to be kept in mind:
- With 46,000 Negroes in the city's population, only about 1,500 were involved at the height of the current violence.
- There was no apparent organized effort with specific complaints, goals and motives.
- On the surface, this appeared to be the eruption of large scale vandalism and rowdyism.
The Jacksonville trouble was triggered by the conviction and sentencing of 20 Negroes charged with violation of the state anti-trespass law at local segregated restaurants.
The incident was picked up by young Negroes, mostly high school students, as an excuse for some wild blowing off of pent-up emotions. Like forest fires that begin with a single match, this one could become dangerous.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sent its Southern executive, Mrs. Ruby Hurley, to Jacksonville in an effort
Students Asked to Name Fink Award Candidates
Students are asked to nominate candidates for the H. Bernard Fink Award, an annual prize of $1000 for distinguished undergraduate teaching, says Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
Chancellor Wescоe said in a letter to the academic deans, nominations should be made by April 20 so that the recipient of the Fink Award could be announced at commencement.
Anyone in the university community can submit nominations to an anonymous committee that awards the prize. The nomination should be accompanied with sufficient evidence to give the committee a starting place for evaluation.
NOMINATIONS SHOULD be addressed to the Fink Award committee in care of the chancellor, the letter stated.
The anonymous committee on the award, in a communique, set out these following guidelines for those preparing nominations:
- Teaching, in keeping with the spirit of the award, is defined as meaning "to educate, or draw out
and to develop harmoniously the mental and moral powers of other individuals. The teacher is one who points the way, encourages effort, removes obstacles and creates a setting that provides opportunities and incentives for effective learning. There is not teaching except as learning takes place in another person.
- THE NOMINEE should be a teacher who helps students develop attitudes that stimulate effective learning, who provides experiences that stimulate the learning process, who encourages the student to be self-reliant, and develop his own values.
- "Excellence in teaching, a matter of subjective judgment, in the skillfulness with which the student is guided toward understandsand toward making meaningful contributions to the world about him," the communique said.
A copy of the communique, "Thoughts on Learning and Teaching," may be obtained in the chancellor's office, Chancellor Wescoe said.
to cool off the situation before the flames get really out of hand.
Monday, March 30,1964 University Daily Kansan
THE JACKSONVILLE situation is somewhat complicated by the fact that Mayor Haydon Burns is running for the office of governor this year. Burns, nominally classified as a moderate, is one of six candidates on the Democratic ticket.
Burns will have to depend for much of his support on the vote in North Florida which is considerably more segregation-minded than South Florida. The major now has thrust upon him at the height of an election campaign an angry racial crisis that puts the demonstrators in direct conflict with state and local laws.
Burns has sworn in 496 firemen as special officers to cope with the racial problem and has publicly rebuked the demonstrators. He said their actions would "not be tolerated" in Jacksonville. He said small groups would be allowed to picket and would be permitted to parade.
The city's racial climate has been fairly good except for sporadic outbursts. But it also has its militant element, on both sides of the color line.
Official spring semester enrollment at the University of Kansas is at a new high of 11,749, up 9.2 percent or 986 over the 1963 spring figure
Enrollment Hits New High
Leading the rise was the Graduate School, up 334 to 2,359, although greater percentage growths were experienced by the smaller Schools of Business, Pharmacy and Law.
Further evidence of the concentration of the KU student body at the post-graduate and junior-senior levels is the increase of 403 seniors and 151 juniors, bringing those classes to 2,151 and 2,017 respectively. On the Lawrence campus there are 2,388 students at the post-graduate level compared to 2,170 classified as freshmen.
Enrollment on the Lawrence campus is 10,717, up 880, and at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City 1,032, up 106.
Registration in the schools of the University is: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 4,631 (+242); Graduate School, 2,359 (+334); School of Education, 1,176 (+84); School of Engineering and Architecture, 1,156 (+70); School of Medicine, 897 (+50); School of Fine Arts, 613 (+25); School of Business, 545 (+96); School of Law, 173
(+28); School of Pharmacy, 132
(+25); School of Journalism, 101
(+6).
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