Population group to meet
An organizational meeting for the KU chapter of Zero Population Growth will be held today at 7:30 p.m. in Parlor C of the Kansas Union,
The formal chapter organization will be set up and plans will be made to inform the public of Paul Erlich's next appearance on the Johnny Carson show and of Erlich's lectures in Lawrence April 28. Erlich is a professor of biology at Stanford University and specializes in population biology. He is president of the national Zero Population Growth organization.
Zero Population Growth, Inc. is a national organization formed to bring the crucial issue of over-population to the attention of the public and state and federal legislators. The two most important methods for achieving the goal of world-wide zero population growth are active lobbying in legislatures and in Congress for legislation to control population and advertising which will popularize the two-child family and alert the general public to the dangers of population growth.
The meeting is open to the public.
Noted ecologist to speak
Barry Commoner, noted for his work in the field of ecology, will be heard through closed-circuit telephone at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at 203 Bailey Hall. He will speak on "The Crisis in Environment."
The broadcast, which will originate from Washington University in St. Louis, will be carried to many universities throughout the Midwest. Commoner is a microbiologist and chairman of the botany dept. at Washington University.
As a founder and a leading exponent of the science information movement, Commoner has helped establish the Committee on Environmental Information. He is also author of the book, "Science and Survival."
In the past year he has written numerous articles and has traveled extensively to U.S. colleges. In each instance, Commoner's message is that "the price of pollution could be the death of man." Commoner and his fellow associates put their faith in man's ability to reform when confronted by compelling facts. "Once you understand the problem," said Commoner, "you'll find that it's worse than you ever expected."
After Commoner's speech on environment, students will be able to ask him questions by use of a two-way relay system installed in Bailey Hall. The program will be taped, and will be replayed at 3 p.m. Friday, February 6, in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Carswell likely to be confirmed
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate Judiciary Committee heard new allegations about Judge G. Harold Carswell Tuesday, but voted against further hearings to give him a chance to rebut charges he was hostile to the civil rights of Negroes.
The committee's 9-6 vote was seen as a sure sign that a majority of the 17-member group favored approval of President Nixon's second nominee for the Supreme Court seat vacated by Abe Forta.
But committee liberals, led by Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., succeeded in stalling fast committee action on the controversial nomination. Bayh was instrumental in the rejection of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr., for the court last December.
The committee met privately to consider the nomination after hearing Joseph L. Rauh Jr., a civil rights attorney, denounce Carswell as "a closed-minded segregationist judge" whose civil rights opinions were unanimously reversed 15 times by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Nixon named Carswell to that court seven months ago.
"There is a serious question of whether converting a public golf course to a private facility was a criminal act. . There is a possibility a criminal conspiracy existed." Rauh testified.
Rauh also charged that Carswell may have engaged in a crime in helping organize a segregated golf course in Tallahassee, Fla., in 1956, six months after the Supreme Court ruled public golf courses must integrate.
Carswell was U.S. district attorney in Tallahassee when he invested $100 and became an incorporator in the golf club. He later was refunded $76 and dropped out.
Carswell back to rebut his charges if he could.
Founding the table, Rauh begged the committee to invite
"If Judge Carswell were worthy of the Supreme Court, he would demand the right to come back," Rauh said. He described the nominee as "a Judge Haynesworth with a cutting edge. . a bitterness and a meanness that Judge Haynesworth didn't have."
Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., who is opposed to any change in the way presidents are elected, opened a filibuster which lasted until enough senators had drifted away to deny the committee a quorum to conduct business. The meeting then broke up.
Sen. James Eastland, D-Miss., said he hoped to call his committee Wednesday or Thursday.
In its closed session, Bayh insisted that the committee first act on its pending business—Bayh's constitutional amendment for the direct popular election of presidents.
Block drawing to be held
Block ticket drawings for the twentieth edition of Rock Chalk Revue will be held Thursday, Feb. 11, and tickets will go on public sale Feb. 17.
The block drawings can be made by any group with a minimum of 20 persons. Tom Moore, KU-Y adviser, said the drawings were open to all students, not just living groups. Moore also said each group should have a second choice of ticket prices in case the first choice was unavailable.
Tickets will go on sale Feb. 17 at the KU-Y office and at the Information Booth on Jayhawk Boulevard. Moore said students could get the best tickets for the Friday night performance because the Saturday night show is traditionally sold out.
Use Kansan Classified
Book contest scheduled
LATE HOURS:
10 KANSAN Feb. 4
1970
Union Ballroom
The Captain's Table is now open until 2:30 in the dim, dark morning.
The Elizabeth Snyder Book Awards Contest will be held this spring and judging will begin about the middle of April.
6:45 P.M.
Barbara Backus, assistant special collections librarian at Spencer Library, said the contest is for students with book collections centered on any theme and is designed to encourage young people to read.
This year the contest will be divided into graduate and undergraduate student divisions. The local winner will receive $100 in books and a chance for the $1,000 prize awarded to the national contest winner.
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