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University Daily Kansale Tuesday, March 3,1964
Rights Group Lays Plans ForPicketing
The Civil Rights Coordinating Committee (CRCC) was established Sunday night to act as the steering committee for the picketing of Greek Week and Sigma Nu social fraternity during the Inter-Fraternity Council's (IFC) spring rush weekend.
The CRCC is a product of the Civil Rights Council (CRC) and KU Liberal Action Committee and exists for the purpose of working to remove discriminatory clauses and practices from all social fraternities and sororities at KU.
George Ragsdale, Lawrence senior and chairman of the CRC, was named as chairman of the CRCC.
"We plan," Ragsdale said, "to contact interested organizations on other campuses and ask them to pick their respective Sigma Nu chapters in order to convince the Sigma Nu's national office that their locals should be allowed to choose their brothers as they see fit."
CRCC's present activities were outlined as:
To circulate a petition to the students asking them to register their concern about the discriminatory clause in the constitution of Sigma Nu at KU and the de facto segregation of most social fraternities and sororites at KU.
Definite plans are being made to picket the Sigma Nu at KU during the Inter Fraternity Council's spring rush March 21 and to picket Greek Week March 28.
CRCC invites any organizations or students to join them in its cause.
The first mention that CRC and KULAC were going to join for the picketing was at the International Club meeting Saturday night during a civil rights panel discussion
Members of the steering committee of CRCC are: Art Spears, Kansas City junior; Truman Holman, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore; Bert Rinkel, Scott City junior and president of KULAC; and Doug Hager, Hutchinson senior.
Planning Starts For KU Relays
Although the KU Relays officially begins April 17, the Kansas Relays Committee has already begun planning; committee chairmen and new freshman members have been appointed.
Chairmen of the student committees are:
Bob Guenthner, Augusta senior and Bruce Hall, Coffeyville senior, cochairmen; Jeffrey Baxter, Raytown, Mo. junior, and George Benson, El Dorado junior, office managers; William Flannagan, Scott City junior, parade chairman; John Gradirer, Leawood junior, queen's chairman; and Robert Winn, Leawood sophomore, publicity chairman.
In addition to selecting the committee chairmen, the following freshmen were appointed to the committee:
Ken Whitenight, Lawrence, Rick Harrington, Terre Haule, Inud, David Hall, Coffeyville, Richard Hoener, Prairie Village, James Whitaker, Little River, Michael Grady, Leawood, Ted Haggart, Salina, and Martin Holmer, Wichita.
the freshman committee members were selected from a field of 50 applicants.
These committees will work with head track coach Bill Easton and will be responsible for much of the organizational work. They will process the applications, send them to other universities, and prepare the program as the applications are returned. Bob Guenthner, co-chairman, said.
This year the relays are expected to attract teams from all over the nation as well as individual track and field standouts. Guenther said.
"The KU Relays is the only 'Big Three' relays in which the office work is done by the students," Guenthner said. "In the Texas and the Drake relays the office staffs are specially hired."
The track and field events of this year's relays will be April 17 and 18 in Memorial Stadium.
There's Nothing Like 1,750 Drunk Elephants
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — (UPI) — Harassed game rangers in South Africa's famed Kruger National Park are trying to cope with 1,750 tipsy elephants.
The elephants have been disgracefully drunk for the last five weeks from eating the yellow fruit of the Marula trees which dot the game reserve.
Elephants, it seems, are rarely mean drunks but their alcoholic hijinks already put one man in a hospital and their annual binge has another week or two to run.
THE MARULA bears fruit for six or seven weeks each year. It has a cloyingly sweet, very rich flavor. Africans use it to brew a particularly potent beverage.
The elephants use a simpler process. They lumber from tree to tree, stuffing the fruit down their gullets. It ferments in their stomachs and shortly they are "loaded."
They wander red-eyed through the park, waving their trunks happily from side to side and looking for more Marulas.
"They very rarely get aggressive," a National Parks Board spokesman said, "and they never get paralytically drunk. They are just like any human being after five or six drinks."
A "TANKED-UP" elephant,however,is an unpredictable beast.Like a human being in a similar condition,he can become violently angry over a minor frustration.
An African railway worker named Judas is recovering in a hospital from his encounter with a herd of piee-eyed pachyderms.
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Judas was riding his bicycle, a bit unsteady himself after drinking Marula beer with some friends, when he came upon the elephants. They, too, had been imbibing of the sweet fruit.
THE HERD leader plucked Judas from his bicycle, tossed him into a
bush and flattened the bicycle with one stamp of his massive foot. Then he calmly turned to a nearby Marula tree and munched more fruit.
Two days later, near Kruger National Park headquarters at Skukuzan an African farmer narrowly escaped injury when his dog barked at a passing elephant bull, which was
under the influence. The bull glared blearily at the animal, then charged.
breathty at the animal, then charged. The dog ran into its master's grass hut for safety, followed by the indignant elephant.
Moments later, the satisfied bull elephant lurched off into the bush, with a complete grass hut around his neck like a collar.
The Classical Film Series
presents
Night of the Hunter
Directed by Charles Laughton Script by James Agee
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Wednesday, March 4 Fraser Theater Adm. $.60
Advance Single Admission Tickets NowOn Sale at Student Union
Old Spice-with that crisp, clean masculine aroma!