Harambee status uncertain
Controversy continues
For the second day, the Black Student Union (BSU) met with KU administrators in an attempt to get the BSU's controversial newspaper, the Harambee, approved for University publication.
Tuesday's developments included five separate meetings;
- Tuesday morning the BSU, David Awbrey, student body president, and staff members of the Daily Kansan met for 30 minutes to discuss the dumping of Kansans into Potter Lake Monday afternoon.
Photo by Rich Pendergrass
- Noon Tuesday the BSU, Kansas staff members, and student government leaders met with Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. in a question and answer session.
- Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. the University Senate Executive Committee (SenEx) met in special session and unanimously passed a resolution placing full responsibility on any "person, board, or other agency which determines the form and content" of any publication funded through or produced by a University agency.
- Tuesday afternoon the Chan-
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Chancellor answers questions on BSU paper
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., discusses censorship and answers questions concerning the Black Student Union's newspaper Harambee, during a meeting Tuesday with BSU members, student government leaders and Kansan staff members. The meeting was one of five held Tuesday to discuss the status of the BSU paper.
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Wednesday, Feb. 25, 1970
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80th Year, No. 86
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Three to run for top office
George
The main programs of the Independent Student Party (ISP) involve two areas, the student as a student and the student as a citizen.
"We hoped we could lay out a general framework," Peter George, Tuckahoe, N.Y., first year law student and ISP candidate for student body president, said, "as non-partisan as possible. Our program has broad and general ideas from which we can operate on later. We didn't lay the program out in priorities."
The emphasis of the student as a student is on the issue of women's rights on the campus and national level.
George said the University discriminates actively against women, an example was there were not many women professors.
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Bill Ebert, Topeka junior and student body presidential candidate for Alliance, outlined the party's major issues in a Kansan interview.
"Basically," Ebert said, "We're aiming at a higher standard of education involving the total educational experience at KU."
"All we're going to talk about," Ebert stressed, "are the things we can accomplish at this University." Ebert named ecology and academic reform as two of Alliance's most important issues.
Ebert said that another area Alliance stressed was academic reform. "We're concerned with the college requirements. These need change so that students may exercise more choice in choosing their
"Ecology," Ebert said, "demands the student's immediate concern."
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Ebert
Miller
David Miller, Eudora junior, will be seeking the position of student body president in the March 17-18 campus election. He along with student body vicepresidential candidate Dan Beck, Shawnee Mission junior, will be running as independents.
Miller said one of the issues would be Wescoe Hall because the student senate approved a student fee increase to finance it without the students voting on the bill.
"Why didn't the students have a chance to vote?" asks Miller.
He said he favored use of a referendum to cope with the problem. Unless we take it to the state legislature now,he said,we may be paying for other campus buildings.
Miller also wants to abolish the Western Civilization Comprehen-
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