Fire-bomb discovered
An attempt to start a fire behind Strong Hall was thwarted Sunday afternoon when University Traffic and Security patrolmen discovered a Molotov cocktail.
"A Seven-up bottle containing some sort of flammable liquid was found by the East door of Strong Hall," said Keith Lawton, vicechancellor of University operations.
The bottle was stuffed with a soaked rag and a book of matches was discovered nearby. Lawton said University Police were currently testing the liquid solution.
Building site proposed
"If the student body votes to have a new building to serve its health service, it will probably be located on the south side of Sunnyside Avenue between Illinois Street and Robinson Gymnasium," Francis H. Heller, Acting Provost at the University of Kansas and co-chairman of its Planning Board announced today.
Students at the University vote Tuesday, April 7 on a number of matters including whether new student fees should be authorized to finance the construction of a new health service facility.
"The precise placement of the building would depend on detailed engineering studies," Provost Heller said, "and the plans must, of course, receive the approval of the Board of Regents."
The location was recommended to Chancellor Chalmers by the University Planning Board.
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Singer explains-walking around, America is not going to do this to us."
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After she received a standing ovation at Haskell, she returned to the stage and said, "I love you too." Then she sang more songs, including the hard-hitting "My country 'tis of thee people are dying."
She concluded her concert by reminding the audience, "If you really want to get anything done, you've got to do it yourself—not let your roommate do it."
Miss Ste. Marie then went on a tour of the Haskell campus with members of the Student Council. She listened as the students talked about their troubles in an institution of the government.
While talking with a group of students, she announced opportunities being initiated for Indians. Among these was the creation of an Indian theater specifically for the display of Indian arts, and to depict Indian history as it really happened.
Among these was the creation of an Indian theatre specifically for the display of Indian arts, and to depict Indian history as it really happened, not as the white man has written it.
She made an appeal to students interested in theatre to come and work as light technicians, costumers, dancers, painters, writers and business workers. The theatre is to start in June, and after a year of organization they will probably open. She added they were beginning two touring companies for the Indian arts.
She added she is writing a cookbook of food which was prepared here before Columbus came. She also told them it was becoming, "very un-hip among younger Indians to drink."
As a final action to help the students get something going to help the Indian, she offered to help sponsor a conference at Haskell, and to help them get speakers. When asked what sort of topics they would like to have, they all nodded agreement on one discussing the communication with the white man. She got many volunteers to start work on the conference.
In an earlier interview, Miss Ste. Marie discussed
her disillusionment with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). She said Indian people did not need to be handled by an alien society.
"We would be more capable of handling our own day-to-day problems, because we would be more dedicated. We would put 27 hours into the job," she said.
She added it was not a racial issue, but a matter of empathy. "The BIA cannot train a person to be an Indian," she declared.
Miss Ste. Marie also discussed termination, which she said was a policy being perpetrated by the government. She described it as a method of reclaiming Indian lands by making the American public think reservations were so squalid that Indians should be relocated.
"We don't want to be relocated," she declared.
"Reservations aren't squalid, they're just poor. Americans read that the BIA has received $60,000 and think 'Good, the Indians are being taken care of.' What they don't know is that the money never reaches Indians. It pays the salaries of BIA employees."
She said few people know that Indians must have BIA permission to draw money out of their trust funds, and added Indians were subject to the same tax and draft laws as other Americans, but were not allowed to manage their own financial affairs.
Miss Ste. Marie said the government had good intentions of training Indians to assert themselves, but said that when they did they were jailed.
Most of her friends, she said, were now in jail with no way of paying bond, for "trespassing" in a BIA office. She said they were arrested after making suggestions and demands on behalf of three Indian women who had received deserved promotions.
She said Indians had the right to reclaim land such as Alcatraz, which had been loaned to the government.
"I can't see how we can be called unpatriotic for simply taking back what is rightly ours after the government has stopped using it. The time to stretch is here. Everyone is ready."