Printing service explains walkout
By MARILYN McMULLEN
Kaasan, Staff, Writer
Three men, acting as spokesmen for the employees of the University of Kansas Printing Service, gave reasons Thursday for their walkout on Feb. 17. On that day the printers walked off their jobs and refused to print Harambee, the newspaper of the Black Student Union (BSU)
Coeds to aid funding for scholarships
Each individual woman student and women's living groups have been asked to participate in projects to build the AWS memorial scholarship fund. Continuous monetary support for the fund also comes from alumni and friends of the University of Kansas and the University Administration.
Kathy Nemeth, Oberlin sophomore and chairman of the Scholarship Money's Our Purpose (SMOP) Committee suggested the possibility of selling stationary to make money for the Scholarship Fund at a recent Associated Women Students (AWS) Forum meeting.
The AWS Memorial Scholarship Fund was started in December, 1948, when two organized living gorups donated money to a scholarship fund instead of exchanging Christmas gifts. The fund was established in memory of two KU women, Geraldine Cuddy and Fredrika Ekblad, died in an automobile accident. The scholarships are now given in honor of those two women and other KU women students whose University careers have tragically ended.
Originally the scholarship was a cash grant of $50. Recently, each award has covered a full year's tuition.
Each year at Honors Night the new recipients of the AWS Memorial Scholarship are announced. These students are selected by the SMOP committee on the basis of demonstrated scholarship, contribution to campus and financial need. Applications are now available at the Dean of Women's office at 220 Strong.
Rock Chalk continues for staff
Rock Chalk is still happening for many of the staff members,
Many staff meetings also will continue to be held and the entire program will be analyzed for the purpose of improvement, said Kathy Colton, Omaha junior and producer of the 1970 Rock Chalk Revue.
She said interviews for the producer of the 1971 Rock Chalk Revue would be held in 2-3 weeks, and a new theme would be decided late in the spring of this year.
The 1970 Rock Chalk Revue showed many signs of a job well done, said Tom Moore, director of the KU-Y, which sponsors the event.
Moore said two aspects of this year's production impressed him. He said the show went at a much better pace than in past years and the activities were more entertaining because of the length.
Moore said he was also impressed with the attitude of the people involved in Rock Chalk, especially the backstage crews. "Never before has the stage crew shown such talent, on stage and off stage." Moore said.
18 KANSAN Mar. 6 1970
John Verberg, Harold Fox and Carl Shankland, who work in the composing room of the printing service, expressed the views of the employees on incidents occurring before and since the walkout. They also discussed a letter which Shankland wrote to the editor of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World on behalf of the employees.
Verberg, who signed the letter, said he did so because Shankland lives in Topeka and Lawrence residents wishing to comment on the letter would have a harder time contacting him. He added that he had received over 70
phone calls and letters concerning the walkout and the letter.
The printers, said Shankland, did not think material such as the allegedly obscene poem in Harambe should reach the print service. He said the printers thought faculty advisors should stop "filth" before it reached the printers.
his definition of obscenity were derived from Webster's.
He added that the printers thought students were merely testing faculty members by attempting to print obscene words which should have been deleted from copy.
the printers to print the editorial.
The printers are still concerned with legal action which could be brought if they were required to print the poem. According to their attorney, the Kansas statute dealing with the prosecution of printers includes printing anything which is obscene, immoral, lewd or lascivious. As yet, obscurity is the only category which has been ruled on.
The printing service, according to Verberg, has returned copy to the University before the Harambee incident. A recent editorial which appeared in the UDK was sent back to the Kansas Board of Directors. The board instructed
Shankland said the walkout was not a racial issue. The employees of the printing service did not think anyone should be allowed to print "that kind of thing" (the Harambee) whether he was black or white.
The employees enlisted the services of a Lawrence attorney five days ago in case legal action is taken. The attorney, who wished to remain unnamed, has been advising the employees of possible legal action which could be taken despite the decision of Attorney General Kent Frizzell that the poem in Harambe was not obscene.
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Shankland said the printing service employees did not know how the attorney general's decision could have been reached if