Candidates blast referendum action
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out expeditiously and in conformity with the provisions in this CODE . . . it shall act on behalf of the University Senate and Council in all matters requiring expeditious action, and shall make appropriate reports of any such action."
Von Ende said, "In the last
Student senate meeting the Student Senate impowered SenEx to determine what referendum questions would be on the ballot, how the question would be worded, how the information pertaining to the questions would be dismininated and when the questions would be submitted to the voter."
Miller and Beek said, "The purpose of a referendum procedure is to by-pass an irresponsible Student Senate action."
Von Ende said this statement was "misleading retoric" and the purpose of the referendum is to permit students to give their opinions and to consider actions
of the Student Senate, but it doesn't mean the Student Senate is irresponsible.
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in charge of the ecological problem since he claims he's such an authority on the subject. And I'll place Mr. Ebert in charge of the Haskell Studies program since he's such an authority on that. And then we can get something done with student government through the Independent Party."
Ebert's appeal did not last long however as the question of abolishing the Western Civilization comprehensive came up. Several times during the evening, candidates accused each other of "missing the boat" on certain issues. The western civ
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Ebert then asked the candidates to refrain from defamming the other candidates on the premise of character. He drew applause when he asked the candidates to devote their comments to the issues.
issue came up again, however, only this time with laughter and applause as George said, "It seems as though for the first time this evening Mr. Beck has missed the boat."
Awbrey earlier had said there should be a Wescoe Hall referendum because the students, through due process, had requested it in a verified petition, but that the referendum could wait until April so sufficient information could be distributed to the student body informing them of the total question.
Beck's argument stated that each party went into office after promising abolishment of the Western Civilization program but failed to meet that promise. George said, "It's up to each individual school how they want to handle the problem. It's not up to the whole student body. The University Senate can't do it either."
On the question of women's rights, George said, "The basic problem here is to get the women informed of their rights. We probably have 25 to 35 women in our party but overall I don't think that women are as interested as men."
Ebert said, "We feel the pinch of discriminatory policies toward women. We advocate women's liberation and are against the prejudices held against them. I think this should be researched by qualified authorities."
Beck then said, "First of all, we don't have any women on our platform but let me say this, some of my best friends are women. Since I'm not a woman I don't expect to get pregnant in the next year and I don't expect any of the women I date to get pregnant in the next year. Therefore I don't see how we can guarantee a medical health center and guarantee an end to women prejudice because that is a very real problem and we can not promise to solve it."
The final questions consisted of the satellite union, a new hospital and increasing tuition fees.
Prior to the vote to include all referendum questions on the April 7 ballot, von Ende had listed several reasons not to put the vote on Wescoe Hall on the regular election ballot: the time element which is insufficient to inform the student body of all the ramifications of the question; the fact the Kansas legislature has not yet acted on the bill pending before it; and the printers need the ballots by today to be ready for the regular election.
Tuesday the Kansas House passed a motion deleting Wescoe Hall from a bill which would allow for the levying of bonds to cover building costs for campus construction. Previously the bill had been approved by the Senate in its original form. The bill is now in a joint-House-Senate conference committee to iron out differences of the separate versions passed by each legislative body.
This year's legislative session ends Friday, and it is not known yet if the bill will be passed. If the legislature does decide that student fees can be used to help
finance Wescoe Hall, the students will be able to vote on the issue in the special election.
In February the KU Student Senate had voted to allow student fees to be used to help finance Wescoe Hall. However, Miller turned in petitions with over 1400 valid signatures to force the referendum. The petition makes it necessary to submit the question to the voters within 30 days, but the April election would meet this requirement.
If the legislature will not allow students to help finance the humanities building, there may be no reason for a vote, said David R. Miller, Hays senior who is chairman of the elections committee.
The other five questions which will not be on the ballots March 17-18 are:
Do you feel Western Civilization should be required for graduation from any school of the University?
- Do you favor an immediate end to the military draft, and replacement with a volunteer army?
- Do you feel there should be general requirements (other than the requirements for majors) for graduation from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences?
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- Do you favor a $3.50 a semester fee increase to support construction of a satellite student union?
Mississippi. Earlier the other body was identified as Ralph Featherstone, former national program director for SNCC's predecessor, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which Brown headed.
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Do you favor a $10 a semester fee increase to support the construction of a new University Health Center?
Authorities said Payne and Featherstone were killed when an explosive they were transporting — probably nitroglycerine — blew up.
Local authorities have theorized they intended to blow up the Bel Air courthouse but were killed when the bomb was prematurely triggered—possibly by shortwave radio waves from state police cars or by the victims trying to set its fuse.
The two deaths precipitated a five-day postponement Tuesday of Brown's trial which had not yet gotten to the jury selection state. He is charged with arson
Brown's attorney William Kunstler, said he thought the two men were murdered.
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and inciting to riot in Cambridge where two blocks were burned after Brown spoke to blacks there in 1967.
The trial started Monday and Brown slipped out of sight the same day in New York, saying he was going to Maryland. Some authorities believe he may have left the country.
Adding to the uneasiness felt by Cambridge residents, Kunstler warned that there is a possibility of more bombings and said the changes against his client "ought to be dismissed" under the circumstances. He said the case was "being perpetuated out of utter stupidity."
There were no injuries in the courthouse blast, which happened at 12:01 a.m. EST. The explosion tore out a huge chunk at the top corner of the 100-year-old building and hurled debris 100 feet into the street.
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