Photo by Ron Bishon
And the fire blazed on . . .
The area's dry conditions turned a farmers field burning incident into a major blaze Sunday which consumed nearly 60 acres by midnight. The blaze occurred seven miles north of Lawrence in Jefferson County, a sheriff's officer reported. The fire could not be fought, the officer said, because the township has no fire department.
Student party started
A new student power movement called Incorporated Student Power was formally created Friday at a Kansas Union news conference.
The party will be incorporated under the laws of the State of Kansas and governed by a board of directors. The board will coordinate the work of four subordinate groups and their functions.
- Student Power Inc.-a labor pool of concerned students involved in social action.
- Human Resources Commission—a board to coordinate action committees involved with such projects as ecology improvement,
zero population growth, women's rights, the peace movement, etc., and to implement campaign goals.
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- Independent Student Party the political arm, to give force in student government to the proposals of Incorporated Student Power. The party is to be reorganized under the direction of a representative steering committee, which will coordinate legislation in the Student Senate.
- Communication and Education Commission—the publicity organization; it will include a press bureau and newsletter division.
Peter George, Tuckahoe, N.Y. law student and Independent Party candidate for student body president, talked about the goals of the party.
"Students in America have developed into a distinct social class. Unfortunately, student power
movements in the past have been based on the assumption that this student class is quantitatively different from all other social classes. Because of this, their demands and energies have been directed towards power solely for the advantage of students," he said.
"Incorporated Student Power views the student class as but one, albeit important class, within society. Incorporated Student Power will make demands and will direct it's energies toward the improvement of society. Not student society, not black society, not white society and not even American society, but the society of man," he said.
Incorporated Student Power plans a conference in April which will include representatives of major Kansas colleges and members of other Big Eight schools.
Senior candidates state platforms
The class of 1971 can choose between Randy Andrews, Wichita junior, and James E. Nichols, Hiawatha junior, for its senior class president.
Andrews, an advertising major, said his platform has four major planks. He said he will seek to have class officers included in the Student Senate. With senior class officers in the Senate, work can be done toward creating intern programs in fields that do not presently have them. Also Andrews hopes to initiate discussion of the value of the Western Civilization comprehensive examination.
Andrews said he plans a full schedule of class parties. He is also interested in a class project to improve Watkins Hospital,
Andrews said he is working on a project that would give due-paying seniors 10 to 25 per cent discounts on purchases from selected local merchants.
Nichols, a political science and philosophy major, said his platform is very class-oriented. He said he hopes to learn class ideas through a monthly newsletter
which will include a returnable questionnaire.
Nichols said three parties are planned, and he hopes to extend Senior Day to Senior Week. He said plans have been made for a fund raising concert. The proceeds would be donated for the improvement of Watkins Hospital.
He said he also favors lowering class dues to $10. Even with the reduction, the senior class will have an efficient operating budget. Nichols said.
Running on the Andrews' coalition are Ed Wood, Wichita, for vice-president; Kathryn Bruning, Overland Park, for secretary; and Patrica Riley, Pratt, for treasurer.
On the Nichols' coalition are Steve Childs, Fowler, for vicepresident; Patricia Rich, Leawood, for secretary; and Suzy Bocell, St. Joseph Mo, for treasurer.
Andrews was a Freshman and Sophomore Class Congress representative, a member of the Junior Executive Committee, sergeant-at-arms and pledge trainer at Delta Tau Delta and SUA Popular Film publicity cochairman.
New Mobe to act
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The group that sponsored last November's massive antiwar protest in Washington plans to use the law and abuse the law this week to create havoc at draft boards in at least 70 U.S. cities.
For the first time since protests against the war in Vietnam became nationally coordinated, the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (New Mobe) is openly advocating civil disobedience.
The plan of the New Mobe is two-pronged, to stage sit-ins to block draft board entrances in about 70 of the more than 100 cities planning antidraft demonstrations and to "strangle the draft system in its own bureau-
racy" by following the letter of the law.
"Civil disobedience means people will be having nonviolent sit-ins at induction centers and draft boards, blocking entrances to those building," a spokesman for the New Mobe said.
A spokesman at draft headquarters here said it has not made any suggestions to draft directors in the states on how to cope with the harassment activities.
That action is planned for Thursday, the climax of the period of activities and coincidentally the day the Senate Armed Services Committee opens hearings on the nomination of Curtis Tarr to become the new director of the Selective Service System.