Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 23, 1963
51st Year, No.12
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
ROMEO, ROMEO—G. L. Johnson, 16, of Lakin, and Elizabeth Bates, 16, of Lawrence, practice the balcony scene from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." The entire cast for the production is drawn from high school students attending the 26th Annual Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
ASC Advisory Plan Aims to Help Students
This Fall for the first time students as well as faculty members will act as advisors for enrollment.
Juniors and seniors in the major divisions of the university, chosen last Spring by the All Student Council to be members of the newly created Student Advisory Board, will be available for consultation with undergraduates beginning Sept. 13, two days before enrollment.
THE STUDENT advisors will be located in Strong Hall, the Kansas Union and possibly the freshman dormitories during the week of enrollment and in a room in Strong throughout the school year.
Greg Turner, vice-chairman on the All Student Council and a Seattle, Wash., senior, who originated the plan in the Council last year, said that an emphasis will be placed on helping freshman students with enrollment problems.
He cited instances of students in the past who have been misguided by fraternity or sorority members and others in their choice of courses
THE STUDENT Advisory Board an auxiliary group to faculty advisors will attend a preparatory instruction program before enrollment begins. It will concern enrollment procedure, school requirements and other information.
According to several of the student advisors, one of the main jobs of the group is an "interpretive" one.
"Manytimes students — usually freshmen—are confused by academic terminology used by their faculty advisors and are reluctant to admit they don't understand." one student advisor said.
"And often students don't feel as free to discuss problems with a faculty member as they would with a student. Our purpose to provide accurate information in answer to questions they might have and to correct any faulty information given by other uninformed students."
Summer Finale Stars Campers
High school students attending the Midwestern Music and Art Camp supply the cast for the final production Thursday and Friday of the summer theater at the University of Kansas.
Two 16-year-olds, G. L. Johnson of Lakin, and Elizabeth Bates of Lawrence, play the leads in William Shakespeare's classic love story, "Romeo and Juliet."
PROF. JOHN PAUL, visiting director and lecturer from Phoenix College in Arizona, is directing the play.
The production culminates six weeks of instruction and practice in acting and stage crafts for students in the theater division of the camp. The play is scheduled to open at
The play is scheduled to open at 8 p.m. at Murphy Hall.
A group of about 160 Negroes and whites singing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and carrying signs, brought the racial problem into focus in Lawrence Sunday.
Sunday Protest March Focuses Local Problems
By Kathy Vaughan
The march, which had been planned for sometime, included leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Felicia Oldfather, who recently was jailed in Albany, Ga., for participating in integrationist activities.
White and Negro observers watched from nearby houses and parked cars while the group passed out signs saying Equal Employment, I Want to Swim in Lawrence, Equal Housing, and Not One Is Free Until All Are Free.
MARCHERS organized at St. Luke AME Church, 9th and N.Y. Streets, about 12:15 p.m., following the church service. Many whites were present before the services dismissed.
As the procession prepared to begin marching, a spokesman for the group addressed the group saying, "We call upon you to make this a peaceful demonstration. We're ready to go now."
POLICE FOLLOWED the group in cars as they marched west on Ninth and south down Massachusetts to the courthouse where N.A.A.C.P. leaders gave speeches.
Many people walked on the sidewalks to get to the courthouse and others followed in a car caravan. The marchers traveled the middle of the street.
Negroes passed out papers which stated the reasons the march was held to people walking and those sitting in cars stopped by the procession.
The papers said that racial discrimination is a moral issue, and listed five reasons the march was held:
- To make the people of Lawrence more aware of the nationwide struggle for the complete emancipation of the Negro.
- To raise a signal of warning that if one group of citizens can be denied equal opportunity and freedom, then no group is free.
- To honor those martyrs who have given their lives for this cause, "the victims of assassins in the night": Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Moore, Miami, Fla., 1951, Rev. George W. Lee, Belzoni, Miss., 1955, and Medgar Evers, Jackson, Miss., 1963.
The final two reasons listed local problems.
- The employment situation in Lawrence: the N.A.A.C.P. pledges to work for a policy of open, nondiscriminatory hiring, ending job discrimination and opening equal job opportunities for all.
- The housing situation in Lawrence: "We ask an end to the policy of racial containment in housing, and the end of all discriminatory practices in this area.
N. A.A.C.P. leaders Rev. H. Calvin McMillan, president of the local chapter, Rev. Frank Brown, past president of the chapter and a member of the executive board, Harold Stagg, chapter vicepresident and chairman of the march planning committee, gathered on the steps of the courthouse. Rev. Paul Davis of the Plymouth Congregational Church was also present.
"WERE NOT GOING to wait 100 years to bring freedom to Lawrence," was one of the statements made by a Negro speaker.
The speeches dealt with the housing situation in Lawrence and local employment problems.
It was stressed that a Negro should not be placed in a higher position because he is a Negro but neither should he be kept back because he is a Negro.
One speaker asked the listeners to check and see if there was one clerk or typist in city hall or the courthouse. He also asked them to check the stores and supermarkets in Lawrence for Negro employees.
Reviewing the containment policy which keeps Negroes in certain housing sections, an example was given of a woman who was subjected to social pressures because she is the only Negro on her block.
After the speeches, George Walters, president of the Kansas City branch of the N.A.A.C.P., Mrs. Alfreda Brown, secretary of the local chapter, and Felicia Oldfather, were introduced.
Campus Numbers To Change Aug. 4
The telephone number switch over that the campus has been anticipating for six months will take place August 4. Afterwards, the present three digit university extension numbers will be replaced with four digit numbers with the prefix UN 4-.
The main value of the change, said Dean George B. Smith, is that telephone calls coming into the campus can be dialed directly.
"IT WILL NO longer be necessary to dial VI 3-2700, the University number in order to reach a department of the University," he said.
The three digit extension number will be obsolete beginning sometime during the night of Aug. 3. For calls across the campus the new four digit number also must be used.
Using the new number of the University Daily Kansan newsroom as an example, this is how the system will work: A student living in an off-campus residence such as a dormitory would dial UN 4-3646 to reach the newsroom. An instructor using a campus telephone would dial 3646 without the UN 4 prefix.
Dean Smith said that preliminary directories listing faculty, department heads and key administrators and stickers with individual number changes will be mailed to those persons listed at both their office and home addresses by July 31.
LOCAL PROTEST MARCH—This is part of the group of approximately 160 persons who Sunday marched to the Douglas County courthouse in an effort to focus attention on discriminatory practices against Negroes in Lawrence.