LHSU presents demands
A radical "leftist" representing the Left Handed Student Union (LHSU), spoke Thursday in front of Strong Hall to approximately 75 persons and afterwards marched into Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr's office and presented a list of demands denouncing discrimination against left-handed students.
The LHSU representative, Ernie Bauer, Clay Center senior, said, "For 4.000 years left-handed people have been discriminated against. The left-handed people of America have been ignored and subjected to thoughtless defamation of character and physical and mental slavery," he said.
"Who knows how many tenhanders have been killed in Vietnam because the M-14 was designed for right-handers," Bauer said.
He said the word left had implications "that cut into the very soul of a conscientious left-handler's heart. Why, the Latin for left is sinister," he said. "Telephones, watches, men's shirts, water fountains, and the way waitresses set tables are all designed to degrade and humiliate the left-hander," he said.
He said educational opportunities for lefties had been stiffed because books were bound on the left and from first grade to Ph.D.
the left-hander is placed in right-handed desks.
"It takes a contortionist left-hander to be comfortable in those monsters," he said.
Bauer said, "Even Jesus Christ himself was a left-hander."
"the kunckles of a left-handler right hand are always bloody from right-handed pencil sharpeners," he said.
A list of demands to be met by Dec. 1, 1970 was presented to the Chancellor including: the installation of left-handed desks in each classroom to be placed at the front of the room; the establishment of a Left Studies Program as large as other programs
in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, with a full staff of professors to be hired and fired by the left-handed students; the supplying of the Kansas Union bookstore with left-handed books and writing supplies; and the folding of the Daily Kansan front page to where left-handers want it.
Bauer demanded a left-handed Homecoming Queen, six left-handed cheerleaders and pompon girls, the hiring of left-handed Associate Deans of Men, Women, Students and Student Affairs; that $15,000 be allocated for a left-handers lecture series and film; and that 15 per cent of next year's freshman class be left-handed.
be laughing when they blow that wall out for a left-handers classroom."
With a smile, Bauer said to the Chancellor, "You see sir, we are a minority group. We think it very inappropriate to talk of appropriateness. We want action!"
Chalmers said, "It is difficult for me to perceive the problem."
Bauer retorted, "You see, there is another derogatory remark."
Chalmers asked when the group would be back and Bauer answered he was not sure since his group only operated in good weather, but finally said they would return in 48 hours.
Bauer said again that this was only a beginning and that he had support not only from other left-handed members but also from "radical sympathetic righties."
Susan Atkins talks with Manson has second thoughts about testifying
LOS ANGELES (UPI)—Susan Atkins, who turned police informer in the Tate murder case, talked with accused hippie cult leader Charles Manson in jail Thursday and afterwards indicated she had second thoughts about testifying against him at the trial.
Bauer then marched out of the Chancellor's office with his small band of followers, one of whom was carrying a sign reading backwards, "Why the right hand of God?"
The 21-year-old Miss Atkins spent an hour and 15 minutes conferring with Manson across a table in the attorney's room of the Central County jail with her lawyer, Richard Caballero, present.
Her testimony before a grand jury in November led to the indictment of Manson, herself, three other girls and another male member of the cult on charges of seven murders and conspiracy to murder.
As she was led out of the jail en route to the women's jail, the young woman was asked whether she would take the witness stand and repeat the grisly account she has told of stabbingss and shootings last August at Sharon Tate's home and the residence of a wealthy grocer and his wife.
"That's none of your business," she snapped.
Caballero said that Manson had a sharply different philosophy about how the defense should be conducted from the course he would take and that if Miss Atkins could not follow his advice he would have to withdraw as her attorney.
"She is going to think about those differences," Caballero said. "As of now, I am still her attorney."
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The lawyer was asked whether the 35-year-old Manson, whom Miss Atkins previously described as having a hypnotic command over the cult, had tried to persuade her to let him call the shots for the defense.
"No, he told her to do what she thought was right," Caballero said.
The long-haired Miss Atkins had been Manson's particular girlfriend and he had nicknamed her Sadie Glutz. They had not seen one another since more than two dozen of the "Manson family" were rounded up in Death Valley in October.
Miss Atkins was clad in a faded prison den dress. The pair laughed and grinned at each other when they first came face
Nearly $2 million has been approved by the Highway Department for construction on a three mile strip of a four lane highway to replace a section of K-10, Joe McCourt, resident engineer for the State Highway Commission, said Thursday.
Part of K-10 to improve
"This is only the beginning," Bauer said. "If these demands are not fulfilled, we left-handed students promise to give ourselves hernias laughing at the other inane demands of other campus groups."
Asked what they talked about,
Miss Atkins said;
McCourt said the Highway Department planned to start construction on this section inside the city limits and continue it for three miles east of Lawrence.
Buford M. Watson, Lawrence City Manager, was pleased about the construction and he hoped that K-10 would someday be rerouted around Lawrence. He said this would "lessen the traffic accidents on 23rd Street."
to face but they could not touch. There is a partition about 18 inches high in the middle of the table.
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She said she was glad to see him and hoped they would meet again soon. After testifying before the grand jury, she said she was "afraid Charley will conjure a vision" to harm her but Thursday their friendship seemed restored.
Cabalerro said he could not comment on whether one of his biggest differences with Manson was over whether Miss Atkins should testify. He had said previously he had urged her to tell the full story to the grand jury.
The lawyer was asked whether, without "Miss Atkins' testimony, the state could convict the "Manson family." "I don't know," he said.
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