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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 3-6-1968 The B-G News March 6, 1968 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The B-G News March 6, 1968" (1968). BG News (Student Newspaper). 2181. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/2181 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. The B-G News Serving a Growing University Since 1920 Wednesday, March 6, 1968 Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 52, No. 71 .% Elections Today * Candidates Talk On AWS Issues By ROSEMARY KOVACS felt she had to follow her con- would Implement the plan if elec- M.waging Editor stituents' wishes. ted, though she said she would work University women will have to In an Impromptu press confer- to get It operating smoothly. decide today on who will lead ence of the two candidates at yes- Asked why she was so In favor them as president of the Associ- terday's Legislative Board meet- of the four-point plan (which would ation of Women Students and who ing, Miss Veverka expanded on allow women to choose between will represent them on Legisla- her reasons for voting against it. dorms with no-hours or no-gov- tive Board next year. She cited the many questions she ernment setups), Miss Smith an- AWS elections are scheduled received from the women about swered assuredly. "Theplan pro- from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to- the plan, indicating a communica- vides the women with a choice, day as 19 candidates will vie for tions gap somewhere in AWS. She and this is how their wishes can officer and class representative also criticized the way the bill be carried out." positions. was handled by the board. After finally being pinned down The biggest choice for the wo- Even though AWS studied and de- on the question of how she would men Is whom to select as head of bated the plan for nearly two Improve communications in AWS AWS. Running on the platform of months, Miss Veverka said "We since she criticized It, Miss Vev- giving AWS a "new direction and (AWS) didn't have enough time to erka said newsletters between of- re-evaluation" Is Bea Smith, a study the bill." ficers, dorms, and representatives Junior in the College of Liberal She did not expound on how she (Continued on Page 3) Arts and presently Junior class representative. Her opponent for president is Fran Veverka, a second semester Dr. Burnette Resigns Post senior In the College of Liberal Arts and a two year veteran of Dr. Harvey L. Burnette has Legislative Board. She feels the announced his resignation as dir- "Women students should be rep- ector of the University Health Cen- resented rather than ruled." ter, effective July X. 1968. This Is the second time the two Dr. Burnette said that he has women's philosophies will be in been thinking about accepting a opposition. Miss Smith, chairman position at the University of South AFRICAN BOOKS - More than 100 books on African govern- of the no-hours research commit- Carolina for a year. His new tee, was one of the committee position will be director of the Stu- ment, politics, history, culture, and tradition or* on sal* in the members In charge of originating Promenade Lounge of the Union. The book sale is being held the four-point plan and who urged dent Health Center and a member in connection with African Week at the University and is spon- of the advisory staff for a new Its passage. medical school being planned by sored by the World Student Association. Some of the books on The plan passed Legislative the University of South Carolina, sale are "A History of South Africa," "Witchcraft and Sorcery Board after much discussion by in Rhodesia," "Great Britian and Germany's Lost Colonies." only a few votes. Dr. Burnette said that he Is not All books are published by the Oxford University Press and Miss Veverka was one of the leaving because of anything at the women voting against the plan. University Health Center but be- range in price from $1.75 to $12. The book counter will be open She said she voted against It not cause the new position offers him from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily until Sunday. Books which are not necessarily because she was a challenge. "The Health Center sold will be donoted to the University Library. (Photo by Glenn against It but because her housing here Is great, and I've been happy Eppleston.) unit was opposed to It ajid she working here."Dr. Burnette said. He has been a member of the University medical staff since 1960 and director of the Medical Cen- Dr. Harvey L. Burnett* King Expects Support ter since 1964. Currently Dr. Burnette is serv- By DON MCKEE King's two-day trip that Included thy, but the Congress Is not re- A graduate of the University of ing a second term as president Associated Press Writer four stops produced Indications of flecting the mood of the nation. South Carolina and the Medical of the Ohio College Health Associ- ATLANTA^ Ga. (AP) ~ Dr. Mar- perhaps considerable middle and So we must go over the heads of College of the State of South Car- ation. He is also a trustee and tin Luther King Jr. says he is upper class financial support Congress and appeal to the con- olina, Dr. Burnette was a general Executive Committee member of among Negroes, but at the same science or self-interest of the practitioner In North Carolina for the Wood County Mental Health confident he will get strong sup- 12 years. port for his plan to raise an time a reluctance or outright re- people." Clinic. army of the poor to camp In Wash- fusal of some of the Negro lead- ington. ership to Join the campaign. "I am convinced we will have In tangible results King's staff greater response to this than any- collected some money and pledges Boycott Petition Circulated thing we've ever undertaken," King for more at rallies and private said after a recent trip to Mis- meeting. Plans were made for a sissippi and Alabama where he met followup trip and some of King's mixed reactions. aides talked of expanding their King disclosed that he Intends recruitment to 23 states. to camp with his poor people's One of King's close associates, army for at least two months in the Rev. Andrew J. Young, said the nation's capital beginning about after a private session in Edwards, April 21, demanding actlonbyCon- Miss., "I would say the grass- gress to provide Jobs or Income roots are for it 200 per cent, but for the poor. the leaders raise questions about His initial search for support Congress, whether or not the coun- took him first to Mississippi for try Is too sick to do anything about a session with Negro leaders and It. There is a degree of despair then to Alabama, where he began among the leadership." his civil rights career 13 years Reservations about the under- ago by leading a Negro boycott taking were expressed by Law- of segregated city buses in Mont- rence Guyot, chairman of the Mis- gomery. sissippi Freedom Democratic Party which plans another chal- Now again, King expects to en- lenge of the state's delegation to list the masses: tenant farmers the 1968 Democratic National Con- who have been kicked off the plan- vention. tations; others out of Jobs; the un- "If It definitely Involves poor deremployed, and all the sympath- people and addresses Itself to ec- izers who will Join the army. onomic deficiencies and the right "We want you to sign up and say to dissent" said Guyot, "then I that you will go to Washington," would be In favor of it." King told a church rally at Selma, But Guyot said he opposed any Ala., the setting for his 1965 voting "single purpose or political ends rights drive that produced Con- that are addressed especially to gressional action. the U.S. Congress." "This isn't going to be an easy King's campaign seeks to create enough public support to pressure struggle," he acknowledged. The HERE'S PETITION - Bill Weis, Student Coun- resentative Tom Parrish said yesterday that at issue is not segregation, such as it Congress Into action on such pro- posals as a guaranteed annual In- cil Representative from Darrell Hall, shows a least 2,500 students had already signed the was in 1963 when King led the Bir- petition urging students to boycott University mingham, Ala., drive that brought come. petition, but he estimated that Council members the Civil Rights Act of a year "Many groups are now In the housing to residents of Founders Quadrangle. circulating the petition had only been able to later. Nor, King said, Is the Is- mood for a guaranteed annual In- Interested observers are: Mary Beth Moffett, contact 60 to 70 percent of the residents of each sue political as It was In Selma come," King said. "There Is a Sharon Binger, and Elaine Lumbrezer,all fresh- dormitory. three years ago. national climate that Is very heal- men in the College of Education.