Muskie to speak here
Senator Edmund S. Muskie, D—Maine, will speak at the University of Kansas, May 8.
The 1968 Democratic vicepresidential candidate confirmed his KU appearance Tuesday morning with Mike Dickson, Atchison senior and president of KU's Collegiate Young Democrats.
"We have to handle the time
and price details yet," Dickeson said. "Dean Heller is working on the source of money." he added
Muskie has not announced the topic of his speech yet Dickeson said but, "I'm trying to get him to make a speech like he gave in his political campaign."
Dickeson said one reason he asked Muskie was because he was a contender for the 1972 Democratic nomination for the Presidency. "I think this campus deserves and should get top political leaders at least once a year," Dickson said.
"I was really impressed with him," Dickeson said, "He never beats around the bush answering anybody. Even when he gets a loaded question, he told that person, he thought it was loaded; and then he answered it."
Wescoe Hall returns to appropriation bill
Student fees may be used to help finance Wescoe Hall as the Kansas Legislature decided to reconsider the decision to remove it from the appropriation bill.
Legislative appropriations for the $8 million building are bottled up in a legislative conference
Draft center target plan
ST. LOUIS (UPI)—The Peace Action Committee said Tuesday it plans to hold demonstrations Thursday at the downtown draft center and three suburban centers.
The spokesman said the group plans "the usual picketing and leafleting, but in addition these demonstrations, at the draft boards will include guerilla theater—activities which attempt to enact the effects of the behavior being protested."
The protests are part of the National Antidraft Week, sponsored by the New Mobilization Committee to end the war in Vietnam. Special emphasis is being placed on Thursday as "a day of public actions," a Peace Action Committee spokesman said.
committee and won't be considered until Monday.
"In this case," he said, "such guerilla theater activities would include appropriate costuming, such as death robes, enacting the sounds and gestures of killing and dying.
The Kansas House stopped consideration on the hall last week because of the objection to using student fees to help the financing. In addition they ceased consideration on a power plant and science building at Wichita State University and a recreational facility at Fort Hays State College.
Featured luncheon speaker for the seminar is, James Logan, former dean of the KU law school and 1968 primary candidate for the Democratic nomination of U.S. senator from Kansas.
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This action won't mean, however, that the bill will pass but merely that it will be reconsidered. The committee must make the final decision on the fate of the hall. If the committee is unable to resolve the differences between the houses of the legislature, funds won't be provided, at least not during this session of the legislature.
Dickeson announced Muskie's visit and plans for a State Issues Seminar at last night's CYD meeting. The seminar, Dickeson stated, would be held April 4 in the Kansas Union.
Other speakers include: Bob Brock, Topeka businessman and former Kansas campaign manager for Robert F. Kennedy; Robert N. Woodson, director of Kansas penal institutions and former superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol; James Titus, professor of political science; Louis Douglas, professor of political science at Kansas State University; Tom Van Cleave, Governor Docking's special assistant on tax and Senator Harold S. Herd, senate minority leader in the state legislature.
Calcutta torn by communist riots
CALCUTTA, India (UPI) Communists rioters armed with bombs, guns and knives battled police and anti-communist Indian workers in Calcutta and elsewhere in West Bengal State Tuesday. The Indian army was placed on alert as the violence spread.
The violence erupted during a general statewide strike called by the Marxist Communist Party to protest the resignation of West Bengal Chief Minister Ajoy Mukherjee Mukherjee, leader of the non-Communist Bangla Party, resigned to protest the failure of the Communist-dominated state government to curb political murders, looting and arson allegedly committed by the
Marxists.
His resignation forced the collapse of the caolation government, which included 14 different parties, and raised the threat of imposed presidential rule by the federal government in New Delhi.
The Marxists sent goon squads into the streets of Calcutta to make sure the strike was enforced. Shopowners pulled down their metal shutters, public transport stopped, offices and schools closed and railways canceled all services as mobs placed boulders on the tracks.
There were numerous clashes in Calcutta between the rampaging mobs and workers opposed to the strike. Fighting also was reported in other nearby towns.
Photo by Rick Pendergrass
Begorra! It's a leprechaun!
The luck o' the Irish will be with this leprechaun if no one steps on his tail. A group of KU Irish, of all nationalities, braved the chill on the Hill Tuesday to stage a St. Patrick's Day parade down Jayhawk Boulevard.
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Hampton said the court ordered Awbrey, as student body president, and Miller, as co-chairman of the Election Committee, to carry out the court's decision since Awbrey had stated it would be impossible to get the Student Senate Executive Committee together in time to put out the referendum.
"Our decision was not against the Student Senate Executive Committee. It was to uphold the Election Committee's original decision to have the ballots placed on this week's ballot," Hampton said.
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