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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Feb. 12, 1964
Bircher Smears Late President
CHAMPAIGN, III. — (UPI) — A John Birch Society leader who said Americans would learn to "curse" the late President John F. Kennedy, worked today on another article outlining the lessons of Kennedy's assassination.
University of Illinois classicist Revilo P. Oliver said Kennedy was slain because he fell behind in a Communist timetable for taking over the United States.
Oliver's article appeared in the February issue of American Opinion, official magazine of the John Birch Society. He said he would publish another article on the same subject in the March American Opinion.
HE SAID IN the 16-page article that Kennedy's memory would be "cherished with distaste."
Robert H. W. Welch Jr., founder
of the society and editor of the monthly publication, said the article was a "superb commentary."
"And if the international vermin succeed in completing their occupation of our country," Oliver wrote, "Americans will remember Kennedy while they live, and will curse him as they face the firing squads or toil in a brutish degradation that leaves no hope for anything but a speedy death."
OLIVER SAID Kennedy did much for the "Communist conspiracy," but was falling behind a scheduled date of 1963 for the "effective capture of the United States" and he was "rapidly becoming a political liability."
Oliver, a member of the Nationa Council of the John Birch Society since the society was formed, has been on the University of Illinois
faculty since 1937. He is considered an outstanding scholar in classies and has held Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships for advanced study.
Oliver said Kennedy "procured his election by peddling boob-bait to the suckers." He said Kennedy supported the Central Intelligence Agency in "a fake invasion of Cuba designed to strengthen our mortal enemies there," and collaborated with Soviet Premier Khrushchev in a "phony embargo," to provide cover for transfer of Soviet troops and weapons to Cuba to use against the United States.
OLIVER SAID Kennedy arranged to subvert and sabotage the nation's defense.
Lee Harvey Oswald, charged with Kennedy's murder, was trained in a "school for international criminals" in the Soviet Union, Oliver said, and
was brought back here "in open violation of American law, by our Communist-dominated State Department."
Oswald was arrested as a suspect in the attempted shooting of former Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, Oliver said, but was "released through the personal intervention of Robert F. Kennedy," the attorney general.
OLIVER SAID the Communists' plans for a "domestic take-over after Kennedy's death were frustrated when Dallas police caught and identified Oswald."
Preparations seem to have been made for "rioting and murder throughout the country," Oliver said. He ridiculed the view of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that Oswald was acting alone when he shot Kennedy.
Law School Requires Hard Work, Student Warns Chancery Club
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Speaking to a meeting of the Chancery Club in Green Hall last night, Terry Elliot, Fort Scott third year law student said, "one of my former professors said studying the law is like eating a ton of sawdust every day with no butter."
"But," added Elliot, "when you develop on investigation outlook, add your own butter."
The Chancery Club, a professional organization for students interested in the law profession, heard Elliot stress the hard work involved in getting a law degree.
LAW SCHOOL curriculum was outlined, and Elliot told about a professor who taught a difficult law course.
"On looking at the final exam of the course, one student became sick to his stomach and dashed out of the room. But he came back took the test and made a passing grade." Elliot said.
"Such tenacity is vital to obtain a law degree at the University of Kansas," Elliot continued. "You will have to take courses which at first seem dry and boring, but which provide a valuable background for understanding complex, contemporary law," he said.
In studying law." Elliot advised, "learn in generalities, but be able to apply these generalities to specific instances."
"IT IS IMPORTANT to know particular laws, of course, but it is
Early Morning $1,000,000 Fire Routs Sleeping College Women
COLUMBIA, S. C. — (UPI)—A wind-whipped fire gutted a dormitory and two other buildings at Columbia College early today forcing hundreds of pajama-clad women into pre-dawn sub-freezing weather.
Property damage was estimated at more than $1 million.
College President Wright Spears said the rooms of 350 students at the women's college were destroyed, but no one was injured and all women were accounted for.
THE WOMEN, many with hair in rollers, huddled in blankets in the early morning darkness. Some wept. Most students went to the college chapel, which served as a temporary shelter from the 28-degree weather.
The blaze gutted East Dormitory, which housed more than half the college's students; Main Building, which was the college's old administration facility and still housed its business offices, and a building housing the music department and auditorium.
In all, Spears said, the Methodist-supported college lost a third of its physical facilities.
Spears said defective wiring apparently started the fire in Main Building. Scores of firemen fought the fire from building to building for more than four hours before it was contained.
CLASSES WERE SUSPENDED
until Monday. Students without rooms telephoned their parents to come get them. Most asked that they bring along a change of clothes.
The college's student center, infirmary, dining room and theater—all adjacent to the gutted buildings—were not damaged.
Night watchman Tom Connelly noticed the blaze shortly after 3 a.m. in the old Main Building. The college's alarm system failed to sound, so he entered the adjoining East Dormitory and shouted warnings.
Connelly got Ann Murphy, a student from Batesburg, S. C., to go through the two-story dorm with him awakening the sleeping women. Few had time to grab more than a housecoat and a blanket.
"But we got up in a hurry and left. Everybody was real calm and nobody panicked. We didn't see the fire until we were outside.
"WE DIDN'T KNOW what was happening at first," said Carolyn Roberts. 19. a sophomore.
"I lost everything—my clothes, my books, all my things—and so did everyone else in the dorm."
A strong wind whipped the fire from Main Building, a stately three-story structure with columns, to the music building and East Dormitory.
Fleming Hall, another dormitory connected to East Dormitory, was threatened by the flames.
even more important to be able to recognize if there is legal action necessary, and where to find the law to confirm the action," Elliot stressed.
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Elliot pointed out that there are very few people who can meet the requirements for law school who can not get through law school.
He then reminded the group of the law school requirements, which are a minimum of 90 hours and 90 grade points, based on the three point system.
"IF AN undergraduate has the grades to be admitted to the school, then he probably has the intelligence to get a law degree," Elliot said.
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"Fifteen hours a semester is considered an average load," Elliot added.
UNLIKE MOST OTHER courses at KU which have two or three one-hour examinations and a two-hour final, law school courses require only one examination, four or five hours long, at the end of the semester. Elliot said.
"The purpose of these long examinations, in my opinion, is twofold: First, they require the student to look for the complex, in-depth problems which may be involved, and second, they require the student to fully explain himself, in clear language required by the law profession," Elliot said.
"The assassination of Kennedy may have been necessary as the only means of avoiding, or even long deferring, national scandals so flagrant as to shock the whole of our brain-washed and hypnotized populace back to sanity." Oliver said.
OLIVER TOLD a reporter he did not believe his article or his affiliation with the Birch Society would in any way endanger his job. The Assistant to University President David D. Henry said neither he nor the president had seen the article.
Prof, Samuel K. Gove, president of the Illinois chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said Oliver's article "sounded a little irresponsible."
However, he said if the university should decide to dismiss Oliver, "I think we could get concerned. There are statutes governing the procedures to be followed in such instances—he should be given an opportunity to be heard. We would insist that these procedures be followed."
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