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Student referendum vote small
Less than 20 per cent of the student body turned out to vote Tuesday on the student referendum issues. Those who did cast ballots rejected the use of student fees for the building of Wescoe Hall, but approved the use of fees for the construction of new student health facilities.
Hoffman speech set tonight
Abbie Hoffman, author of "Revolution For the Hell of It" and member of the Chicago Seven, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Allen Field House.
Hoffman, who has been called a cross between Lenny Bruce, Che Guevara and Robin Hood by his yippie cohorts, will stop at KU on his way to the West Coast, said Kathy Nelson, Lincoln, Ill., senior and chairman of the Student Union Activities (SUA) Minorities Forum. Miss Nelson said Hoffman would also speak Thursday night at Marymount College in Salina.
Calling himself a "cultural revolutionary," Hoffman has stated in his writing that he believes violence is inevitable in the clash between the emerging culture and the dying one. He has said he believes that the new culture should be defended by any means necessary, including the use of self-defensive violence.
He is the author of various underground press articles under numerous pseudonyms and has also authored "Woodstock Nation," which he dedicated to his fellow revolutionary, Lenny Bruce.
In the biographical sketch "Woodstock Nation," Hoffman's "notable" history is described as beginning when he was a student
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at Brandeis University where he studied under such men as Herbert Marcuse and Maurice Stein. He attended graduate school in psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and was a psychologist at Worcester State Hospital for two years.
In 1962 he campaigned for peace candidate Stuart Hughes in a senatorial race. From this point on Hoffman became active in the civil rights campaign, the anti-poverty campaign and, most prominently, the anti-war campaign.
In 1967, Hoffman met Jerry Rubin, who encouraged him to play a role in the March on the Pentagon. He and others worked out the scenario for what was called the "Exorcism of the Pentagon" and recruited people to strike in Washington
"Woodstock Nation" states that
since the march on the Pentagon Hoffman has been "hounded by neanderthal forces in the Pig power structure," including the FBI, Chicago and New York Intelligence divisions, local police forces and the courts.
The self-termed "Yippie nonleader" was recently convicted on charges of crossing state lines to incite a riot during the Democratic Convention.
Summing up his political beliefs in "Woodstock Nation," Hoffman says: "We shall not defeat America by organizing a political party. We shall do it by building a new nation—a nation as rugged as the marijuana weed born from the seeds of the Woodstock Festival.
"This nation shall be built on love, but in order to love we must survive and in order to survive we must fight."
Diplomatsto leave
GUATEMALA CITY (UPI) — The Guatemalan army promised "harsh and fast justice" Tuesday for the kidnap-murderers of the West German ambassador, but the terrorists remained at large and a whole exodus of foreign diplomats appeared likely.
lomatic staff. Four diplomats have been assassinated in Guatemala in recent years and other embassies were reported trimming their staffs.
West Germany, angered at the murder of Ambassador Count Karl I von Spreti, announced it would withdraw its entire dip-
Troops and police still searched for the killers and the country remained under a state of siege similar to martial law. Rumors of possible coups circulated through the city. The military warned Monday the public should be aware of such rumors.
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adjacent to Allen Field House?"
Those voting yes totaled 1,251,
those voting no 1,476.
The question of financing the union from student fees, perhaps as much as $6.50 a semester, was rejected even more soundly by a vote of, 2,200 to 505.
The satellite union had been considered as early as 1964 to meet the needs of the population explosion towards the southwest portion of the campus. The building, which had been estimated to cost about $1.8 million, was termed "a modest service center" by Frank Burge, director of the Kansas Union. The negative vote Tuesday apparently means the construction will be delayed indefinitely, because it was to be financed entirely by student fees.
Another major project receiving a negative blow in the referendum was Wescow Hall. By a vote of 1,886 to 828, voters gave a negative answer to the question of whether $7.50 per semester in fees should be used to help finance the new Humanities Building.
Wescoe Hall has been projected to cost nearly $8 million, with nearly $5.5 million from state and federal funds and the remainder to come from the increase in fees. The building question was included in the referendum through petitions turned in by David G. Miller, Eudora junior.
According to a statement of the University Planning Board, there is no way of funding the project other than through an increase in student activity fees. Dean of faculties Francis Heller said a negative vote by the students means there will be some second thoughts on proceeding with the project, although several members of the Board of Regents have indicated the students' opinions have little to do with the funding of projects for the University.
A broader question asking if students agreed with the policy of using student fees to help finance academic building received only 649 yes votes. Opposition to this idea gained 2,075 votes.
The question on whether the Western Civilization Comprehensive exam should be eliminated as a requirement for graduation from any school of the University was supported by a vote of 2,226 to 497. Course determination was also involved in a special ballot which juniors and seniors in the College received, asking if they favored the elimination of general requirements such as language and speech as prerequisites for graduation. Those supporting the elimination of such requirements numbered 443, with 252 voting against elimination. The two questions above were merely opinion questions, with no authority, beyond the force of an expression of student feeling.
Two other questions, "Do you favor immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam?" and "Do you favor an immediate end to the military draft, replaced by a voluntary army?" were placed on the ballot by the steering committee of the Student Mobilization Committee.
Both immediate withdrawal and an end to the draft were supported. Withdrawal was favored by a vote of 1,715 to 965, and a volunteer army by 1,864 to 833.
Although the purpose of the referendum was chiefly to express student opinion, the refusal of students to support fee increases for the satellite union, and academic buildings including Wescoe Hall will likely have a damping effect on immediate go aheads on their construction.
Prairie park controversy begins anew
MANHATTAN (UPI) — The decade-old fight for a prairie national park in Kansas came to life again here Tuesday during a seminar sponsored by Kansas State University as part of its "environmental awareness week."
Participants were Sen. Jack Steineger, D-Muncie; Rep. Byron Brooks, R-Manhattan; Mrs. Viola Dodge, an Olsburg rancher and E. Raymond Hall, professor of systems and ecology at the University of Kansas.
Steineger authored a resolution in the 1970 legislature to establish a commission to work for such a national park in Kansas. It died in a conference committee.
Steineger said a section of tall grass Kansas prairie must be preserved for future generations. "Our generation should not be the generation that had the last chance and failed," he said.
Hall said tall grass prairie is almost gone in some other states. He said the minimum amount of land would be an area about six by seven miles or 30,000 acres. It would take about one-sixth of one per cent of the state's grass-land, he said.
Mrs. Dodge said the movement for a prairie national park began in 1958. She said that in 1963 at Kansas State there were U.S. Senate hearings on the proposal, which was finally tabled. She said the area envisioned increased during the years from 34,000 acres to 60,000 acres.
She said the proposal of such a park offends many ranchers.
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