Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
60th Year, No.139
Friday, May 10, 1963
HRC to Sample Racial Feelings
Using the opinions of 488 students as a base, the Human Rights Committee of the All Students Council is attempting to establish a picture of civil rights at KU.
Last week the HRC sent a questionnaire to a five per cent random sampling of KU students, asking them to answer questions about minority groups.
The names of the students who received the questionnaires were selected from the total enrollment by an IBM computer. Five hundred names were selected. Twelve of these had no addresses.
If 60 per cent of the questionnaires sent are returned, the results can be tabulated with 90 per cent accuracy. Frank Thompson Jr., chairman of the HRC, said.
THE IDEA began last year when the HRC sent out a questionnaire. The results were so inaccurate and controversial that the HRC report to the ASC was rejected.
Because of the fate of last year's petition, a questionnaire whose results were reliable, was one of the primary goals of the HRC this year.
The job of writing the questionnaire was assigned to Arthur W. Bouville Jr., Kansas City freshman who worked with Ray P. Cuzzort associate professor of sociology, on the job.
"THE MAIN PROBLEM was finding out what problems existed so we could ask questions about them," Douville said. "Quite a bit of the time I spent on this project was in library research."
Douille said that he met with Prof. Cuzzort five times to go over the questions he had written. Prof. Cuzzort made changes and suggestions to help make the tone of the questions as impartial as possible.
The questionnaire was divided into two parts. The first asked for the degree of personal relationship which the students answering the questions would allow with a person that ask such things as whether it is in poor taste for a white girl to date a Negro, whether a Negro should enwho was English, Italian, Chinese or Negro.
The second part consisted of 14 statements about racial situations ter an all-white church, and whether
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Bornholdt Elected Vox Populi Head
Tom Bornholdt, Topeka junior, was elected president of Vox Populi for the coming year at a brief meeting of the party's general assembly last night.
Bornholdt thanked the assembly members for their support during the past year. He told them the party will continue to have intelligent opposition, and that the party must view this year's success as a challenge for the future.
The new Vox chief said after the meeting he had no definite plans for next year as yet. He made the following temporary appointments:
Jim Frazier, Topeka junior, executive vice-president; Jon Waller, Overland Park junior, campaign coordinator; and Dick Miller, Kansas City junior, elections committee chairman.
Independent student appointed to the executive council of the party include Frazier, who will be chairman; Waller; Linda Ritter, Brock, Nebr., junior; Bill Reese, Hiawatha junior; and Lew Ann Ogle, Kansas City freshman.
Greek members of the committee are: Jon Alexiou, Mission sophomore; Rodney Kuehn, Topeka freshman; Susan Mustard, Wichita junior; John Pepper, Lenexa freshman; and Gene White, Arkansas City sophomore.
Gigi Gibson
'Boyfriend' to Play Here for Last Time
A French maid at a school for young ladies is making arrangements for the upcoming Carnival Ball.
That telephone call will open "The Boyfriend" at 8:30 tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall, just as it will open the play May 20 in Tokyo, Japan.
Gigi Gibson, Independence sophomore, will play Hortense, the maid. Polly Browne, the lead, will be played by Sharon Scoville, Kansas City junior. Tom Woodard, Des Moines, Iowa, sophomore, will play Tony, her boyfriend.
Performances in Japan, Korea, Formosa, Hawaii, Okinawa, the Philippines, Guam, and possibly Taiwan and Viet Nam, are scheduled for U.S. troop units based in those countries.
First directed by Sidney Berger, assistant instructor of speech and drama, the play will be managed on tour by William Kuhlke, instructor of speech and drama and theater assistant.
U.S. Angers Haiti; Refugees to Stay
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti—(UPI),
Haiti accused the United States today of truing to destroy it as a republic and notified the Organization of American States it would not let seven men in political asylum accused as assassins leave the country.
DUVALIER SAID bluntly the seven men involved were enemies of the state and not political refugees. He identified them as having participated in a recent assassination attempt against his children.
The Haitian defiance of OAS demands that all of the more than 100 political refugees in asylum in Port Au Prince be allowed to leave the country was contained in a message sent the hemisphere body by President François Duvalier.
The OAS mission was reported to have warned that it would take counter-measures against any Haitian attempt to put obstacles in its way.
Top OAS officials said privately in Washington that Haiti was opposing a planned new on-the-spot inquiry by an OAS team into charges by the neighboring Dominican Republic of government repressions and abuses of diplomatic norms.
THE HAITIAN FOREIGN Ministry charged in an official statement yesterday that "a plot by the United States Government to destroy Haiti's democratic institutions" was behind the current crisis.
The United States flew 158 more American residents of Haiti to safety in Miami yesterday, ending the first phase of a withdrawal program attributed to the "deteriorating" situation in Haiti.
A strict curfew remained in effect last night in Port Au Prince and there was no indication of new antigovernment violence.
A U.S. naval task force stood by offshore yesterday while two commercial flights took out the 158 Americans, bringing the total in the two-day evacuation operation to 353. Of this number, 220 were U.S. Government dependents ordered to leave by the State Department.
The only government dependent remaining in Haiti was Mrs. Raymond Thurston, wife of the U.S. ambassador.
Legislators Kill Graduate Aid
The Kansas Legislative Council yesterday voted to kill a KU program operated in cooperation with the Ford Foundation, to provide scholarships for legislative internships.
The council, a study committee made up of legislators from both the House and Senate, voted 12-11 in support of a recommendation made by it Rules, Procedure and Budget Committee to end support of the program.
THE COUNCIL felt it was not in the best interests of the state to be spending funds for out-of-state interps.
Rep. Charles Arthur, R-Manhattan, speaker of the House and vice-chairman of the committee, said the committee members did not feel the state would benefit from the $6,000 the program would cost.
"Many of them leave Kansas after they have received the training," Arthur said of the interns.
Sen. Steadman Ball, R-Atchison, led supporters of the intern program. He said KU and the University of Oklahoma were the only Midwestern schools to receive Ford Foundation cooperation.
He felt it was an honor to both KU and Kansas to have been selected to participate in the program.
THREE INTERNS are in Topeka now in the program's first year of operation. Under provisions of the program, the state and the foundation were to split the $4,000 cost per student for 10-month study
grants.
The program was designed to supplement formal academic study by providing practical experience in the legislative process for graduate students interested in careers in teaching, law, journalism and public service.
The interns worked on assignments with members, committees, and staffs from the Legislature and Legislative Council and pursued a program of advanced study in the legislative process.
Robert Alderson, Prairie Village is the only KU student serving under the program this year. The other two interns are from St. Louis University.
STUDENTS FROM KU, Kansas State University, and the University of Wichita applied for internships this year. The KU applicant was George Blackwood, Baldwin first-year law student.
Blackwood could not be contacted for comment last night.
Earl Nehring, assistant professor of political science, said last night the internship candidates were well qualified. He felt the council decided not to provide the funds because of financial reasons.
Prof. Nehring said as far as he knew, the work of the present interns in Topeka had been satisfactory.
"I think anytime a Ford Foundation grant is, in effect, ended, it doesn't do the University any good. But, beyond that, I don't know what effect it will have," he said.
Race Riots End; Agreement Near
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — (UPI) A "last time" deadline for new civil rights demonstrations passed quietly today while Negro and white leaders tried to agree on a four-point desegregation program.
"Things are about worked out but there are still some minute problems to be dealt with." integration leader Martin Luther King Jr. said late last night.
HE DENIED reports that all Negro demands had been met.
King had set 11 a.m. EDT today for new Negro demonstrations, which have sent more than 2,200 participants to jail in a month of racial strife, if the demands had not been met.
But the hour passed quietly. Only a few Negroes were on the streets. A park around which many of the demonstrations have raged was deserted. A mass meeting was set for later in the day at the 16th Street Baptist Church.
The stumbling block in the settlement was a demand for the release of 600 to 800 jailed Negroes.
TIED TO THAT was the question of dealing with the suspensions against young Negro children who skipped school to take part in the demonstrations.
King had told a news conference yesterday, "This is the last time we will set a deadline. We must reach agreement (this morning) or the demonstrations will resume.
It was disclosed that some Alabama national guardmen, apparently with the approval of Gov. George Wallace, had been deputized as state highway patrolmen to bolster the police force on duty here. State troopers moved into the city earlier in the week to augment local authorities.
An estimated 1,200 officers — more than 3 times the size of the city force — were available for duty should trouble erupt.
Some of the guardsmen, wearing khaki helmet liners and carrying pistols in holsters marked "U.S." were asked yesterday about their presence.
"We are not supposed to say anything" one guardman said.
A SPOKESMAN for the white business leaders negotiating with the Negroes emphasized that the businessmen "cannot negotiate" on the point of releasing the demonstrators from jail.
The spokesman said all the group could do was to recommend some kind of settlement on that issue.
The Rev. Andrew Young, one of King's aides, said he expected most of the Negro prisoners to be released from jail later today.
"No demonstrations are probable odav." Young added.
King, Young, the Revs. Ralph Abernethy and E. L. Shuttlesworth went into a closed strategy session during the morning.
One of the problems surrounding the release of the demonstrators was the severity of the charges. Most were jailed for parading without a permit. However, others were charged with hurling rocks and bottles and with carrying pistols or knives.
Weather
The weather will be partly cloudy and cooler tonight with scattered showers and thunderstorms likely early in the evening. Clear weather is forecast for late tonight and Saturday. The low tonight will be 55-60 degrees. The high Saturday will be in the 70's.