T" Tl Wednesday Evening, April THJCECY The South's Outstanding College Daily 10, 1968 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON LIX, No. Vol. 133 Blacks And Whites Meet Separately On Urban Crisis By DANA EVVELL The Urban Crisis Committee came to one decision Tuesday night next time black and white leaders will meet together. There will not be one meeting, a white one, being held at Second Presbyterian Church while another meeting, a black one, is going on at Pralltown Community Center. Almost 750 people crowded into Second Presbyterian at 7:30 p.m. to hear the Lexington crisis aired by clergymen and community leaders. "Let me tell you, brothers, the crisis does exist and you will feel it," said Rev. Craig the Church Community Service. Rev. Frederick son, a white minister who lives in predominantly Negro Pralltown, continued, "I think if Negroes see us set up one more study commission we've had it." "The people of good will of our community are going to have to come out to reassure our black brother that we have faith in mortal lege. I ... ifJi .in. ' y-- " I; , I 1 I Keroel Photos by Dick Ware Urban Crisis Meeting William Bingham (left), a representative from the Mack Coalition which had met earlier, receives a standing ovation as he steps forward to speak to the white gathering of the Urban Crisis Committee held Tuesday night in the Second Presbyterian Church. UK professor Lawrence Tariey (right), joins hands with John Conipton. from () juration Reconciliation of the Urban Emergency Program, as the group sings several verses of "We Shall Overcome." Calif giate Frew Service Two-Pa- rt Program The program was divided into two parts, the first consisting of introductory remarks made by members of the Urban Crisis Committee (of minister) and other community leaders. The second half of the program was a statement of priorities of the Negro community presented by the leaders of the Black Coalition after their meeting in him." Plans for the two meetings evolved shortly after Friday me- - The funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King was marked on college and university campuses around the country Tuesday with memorial services, vigils and sympathy marches. A large number of schools cancelled classes entirely, while others called off classes for part of the day. Students from as far away as California traveled to Atlanta to attend the funeral. Interracial SG Polls Polling places and times for v oting in the Student Government elections today are as follows: Student Center, S a.m. to S p.m.; Commerce Building, S a.m. to 4 p.m.; Complex, Blazer and Donovan cafeterias, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Students must present their ID to vote. Candidates for SC president are Jolui Cooper, Herbert Creech and O.K. Curry. Vice presidential candidates are Wally Bryan and Linda Rogers. contingents from some southern scliools, including Vanderbilt in Tennessee and University Clemson University in South Carolina, made the trip to Atlanta for the funeral. Although most of the activities connected with the funeral were peaceful, there were some relatively militant demonstrations. At the University of Michigan, for example, about 150 black students blockaded the doors to the administration building early this morning, allowingonly black students to enter. The demonstrators presented a list of demands to university President Robben W. Fleming, including a demand that a Martin Luther King Jr. scholarship fund be set up, and the demand that there be an endowed chair for a black professor. They also said black representatives should be employed on the university's admissions staff and on its athletic staff. While a group of white students picketed in support of the black students' demands, President Fleming and alocalNAACP official discussed them with lead- - Nearly 3,000 copies of Tues- 7 p.m. Tuesday night. A light blue and white 1963 Chevrolet .was seen driving out of the Student Center parking lot with a Ijox inside containing numerous copies of the paper. The license number of the car was taken, and the owner was found to be a resident of Shaw-neetow- n. Pralltown. Delayed by lengthy debate over their demands and means for achieving them, the representatives of the Black Coalition did not arrive until after 9 p.m. Greeted by a standing ovation, William Bingham, chairman of the Pralltown Community Interest Group and one of the leaders of the coalition, apologized for not having a structured state- a few blocks down street. University Police were informed of the incident, and they are working on the case. When the Kernel learned of the missing papers, pressmen were called back to work at 8:30 p.m. to print 5,000 more issues which were distributed to the Student Center and the Complex dormitories. Vice President for Student fairs Robert Johnson said he was "concerned aljout the incident" and offered full cooperation with the Kernel in investigating the matter. freed. Mr. Newton, and discussions on the race At two schools Amherst College in Massachusetts and Carle-to-n College in Minnesota students and faculty members began a fast in memory of Dr. King. According to a spokesman at body has agreed to give up some Continued on Pace 7, Col. 1 Continued on Pace 7, Col. 1 a member ., ' .it i ficials. In New Bninswick, N. J., following yesterday's march by more than 1,000 students from Rutgers University and its sister Douglass ment of demands. The young Negro with tie and collar loosened, said the other meeting at Pralltown had started out on a bad tone because of the use of the term "Black Coalition." Mr. Bingham said that many Carleton, about half the student of the militant Black Panther party, has been charged in the October 1967 slaying of an Oakland policeman. The march, which was sponsored by the Peace and Freedom party, took place without violence, although the marchers did not succeed in getting to negotiate with Alameda County of- school, prob- lem. '' " f , w - - .' ' J . College, into the city to protest discrimination there, students held a strategy session to plan further action. racism was set up at Rutgers over the weekend. t In the New York and Chicago areas, most major colleges and universities cancelled classes entirely. In at least one instance, though, the cancellation was the result of student pressure rather than action by the administration. Students at the Washington Square campus of New York University held a demonstration to demand that classes le called S ... k . Af- The owner of the car report ed to the Kernel that a friend of his had asked for a ride because "someone is after me. "Theowner then left the unidentified rider ers of the demonstration. After President Fleming announced that he thought the demands were "reasonable," the students ended their blockade. An estimated 3,000 marchers, most of them students at the University of California at Berkeley, took part in a march from the Berkeley campus to the Alameda County Courthouse in nearby Oakland, where they demanded that Huey Newton be An emergency committee against Kernels Stolen Tuesday the day's Kernel were taken from their stands between 4:30 and For King Hold-Servic- es Crest-woo- d Christian Church explained that at that time both black and white leaders had decided the separate meetings would behest. Some 'Militant9 Demonstrations Many-- Colleges James Lollis of Rev. Fred-erickson- V services for Dr. Martin Luther King at Transylvania Col- - V ; A ) Kernel Photo by Howard Maton oir. Racial Discussions When NYU President James Hesger agreed to their demand, he also announced that he was setting aside all class time prior to 4 p. in. Wednesday for seminars l r I Won! This is how Mary Jo Anderson looked when she was proclaimed Miss Lexington Tuesday night. She also won a talent award for her modem dance routine. Miss Anderson is a senior history major at UK. Other University coeds among the finalists were Patricia Beasley, Neysa Routt and Carolyn lloneck. *