Awbrey says 'not possible'
Referendum ordered by court
By WILLIAM MORRISSEY
Kansan, Staff Writer
The Student Court Monday night in a 7-0 decision upheld an appeal to leave the Wescoe Hall petition on today's ballot.
John Hampton, Lawrence second year law student and chief justice of the court, then ordered David Awbrey Hutchinson senior and student body president, as president of the Student Senate to carry out the order of the court and add the referendum to today's ballot.
Richard von Ende, Abilene, Texas graduate student and vice-chairman of StudEx, and Awbrey issued a statement to the Kansan in answer to the court's decision.
"The question of a referendum that would repeal the action of the Student Senate is no longer possible because those seeking the referendum question did not comply with the following requirement for referendum elections.
"They did not have signatures equal to 10 per cent of the student body.
"They did not turn in petitions within 2 weeks of the action by the Student Senate.
"The StudEx was empowered both through implied authority in Senate Codes and by delegated authority from the Student Senate at the March 4 Senate meeting to formulate any referendum questions it deemed proper for today's election.
"With that in mind StudEx committee on March 11, met and decided no referendum questions would go on today's ballots.
"We so empowered the Election Committee, as a result the Election Committee did not have ballots printed up concerning referendum questions for today's elections."
The court's decision was: "We feel the May, 1969 Senate Code was clearly thought by everyone to be controlling. No one knew the by-laws were in existence. We consider this a very strong point. Secondly if the by-laws are looked at we feel StudEx abused their discretion because there wasn't an emergency. We feel the StudEx has power but only in emergency. Otherwise they don't."
The initial appeal signed by Dan Beck, Mission junior and student body vice-presidential candidate, charged the Senate Executive Committee had
Beck's charges included:
"fraudulently postponed the referendum."
- Not all members of the StudEx were notified of an emergency meeting of the StudEx March 11, in which the referendum was taken off the ballot.
- No emergency was cited as section 6 of the 1969 Senate Code states.
- The StudEx did not have the power to supercede a simple majority of two-thirds of the Student Senate.
The controversy began after David Miller, Eudora senior and student body presidential candidate, circulated a petition calling for a referendum after the Student Senate voted Feb. 11 to issue a $7.50 fee per student-per semester to help with the state, pay bonds on Wescoe Hall.
At a Wednesday emergency meeting of StudEx Awbrey moved the referendum questions be on an April 7 ballot in a special referendum election. (Continued to page 16)
Notice!
h Year, No. 100 The University of KansasLawrence, Kansas Tuesday, March 17, 1970
The Monday issue of the Kansan contained an editorial by Mike Shearer endorsing one candidate for student body president.
80th Year, No.100
This editorial expressed the opinion of one person and was not necessarily the opinion of the paper or other Kansan staff members.
Officially, the Kansan has not endorsed any candidate or party, and it will not do so. The reader should understand the editorial was Shearer's opinion and not the Kansan's.
—Ken Peterson Managing Editor
UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
Bill to provide free heroin
NEW YORK-In an attempt to minimize Mafia profits from illicit drug traffic and eliminate crime by addicts, Rep. Bertram L. Podell, D-N.Y., announced plans Monday to increase legislation which would provide free heroin for addicts.
Troop removal refused
MOSCOW—Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia delayed his departure for Peking again today upon receiving Soviet promises to help him resist "imperialist provocations" and keep his nation neutral and sovereign.
The one-day postponement coincided with reports from Phnom Penh that Viet Cong and North Vietnamese officials, in their meeting Monday with the Cambodian foreign minister, refused to discuss the removal of their estimated 40,000 troops from Cambodia.
WASHINGTON - Government crackdowns on air pollution have largely backfired by hiding pollution sources and producing "pervasive bluish and grayish hazes . . . over at least half of the United States," according to a veteran atmospheric scientist, Vincent J. Schaefer.
Air pollutants lighter
Rivers pushes arms loan
WASHINGTON-A censored transcript today provided some of the answers behind the latest congressional effort to supply controversial arms to Nationalist China.
The transcript showed Chairman L. Mendel Rivers, D-S.C., almost singlehandedly brought about the House Armed Services Committee approval of a loan to Taiwan Formosa of three surplus, conventionally powered, attack submarines.
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Veteran heckled during 'Sensitivity' speech
By JEFF GOUDIE
Kansan Staff Writer
Lt. Col. Jack Mohr, communist prisoner during the Korean War, was pelted by marshmallows Monday night when he spoke on the topic "Sensitivity training-an adaption of the brainwashing of mind control techniques."
Mohr said while he and a Catholic priest, who was later murdered, were in China they were subjected to the "communist art of psychopolitics, or the art of controlling the thinking of other people."
Mohr said because of his first hand experiences and because he had worked frequently with war prisoners,he felt he was qualified to speak about sensitivity training.
He visited the California Eslen Institute at Berkeley in 1961, Mohr said, which was the first institute to use sensitivity training. He said he found the institute practicing a "behavioral science."
The process which the Institute was practicing was similar to the process used in Korean prison camps, Mohr said. The similarities include group numbers, seminar format, and breaking down of personal defenses, he said.
The goal in brainwashing is to relax personal defenses, while in sensitivity training the goal was to a more permissive atmosphere. Mohr said.
Brainwashing, Mohr insisted, is achieved by a type of favor and reward technique. He compared this with the reward of group support which the individual received in sensitivity training.
Mohr offered two quotes which, he said, accurately described sensitivity groups and communist encounter groups. "Consistent practice of self criticism is another hallmark distinguishing our party from all other parties,"—Mao Tse Tung. Carl Rogers, administrator at the Western Behavioral Scientific Institute,—"Sensitivity training is a means of altering the basic structure of Individuals."
Americans have failed to notice the
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Photo by Ron Bishop
Lt. Col. Jack Mohr and identified flying objects
Marshmallows pelted the member of the John Birch Society who spoke Monday night in the Kansas Union Woodruff Auditorium. Lt. Col. Jack Mohr spoke on "Sensitivity training, an adaptation of the brainwashing of mind control techniques."
Vote!
The polls for students elections open today and Wednesday from 8 to 6 p.m. at Strong Hall, Murphy Hall and the Kansas Union. Polls will also be open from 7 to 10 p.m. at Gertrude Sellards Pearson, Oliver and Ellsworth Halls.