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THE HILLTOPPER
ST. EDWARD’S
UNIVERSITY
Austin, Texas, Friday, April 10, 1964
Number 15
Four Pages
Price Ten Cents
Volume 48
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Senate Rejects Plan
To Send 14 To NFCCS
Bro. Joseph Cain
Receives Aid-Grant
SEU Publications to Present
Awards at 1 st Annual Banquet
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Reverend Sims makes a point in Thursday’s council session as
a crowd of SEU men watch.
Such was what happened Thurs-
day morning at the city council
chamber in the Municipal build-
ing. The reference to the mayor
was to Mayor Lester Palmer, who
yesterday morning was in an Aus-
tin hospital, victim of physical
exhaustion after a -week-long fili-
buster by Negro leaders of the
Austin community.
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After the council left, Reverend
Sims sat down in the mayor’s
chair and the Negro attorney,
Volma Overton, president of the
Austin chapter of the NAACP,
made the announcement that since
Mayor Palmer was unable to func-
tion, that his proxy had left his
job and since the council had neg-
lected their responsibility, Rev-
erend Sims would act as mayor of
Austin so that this city will not
be without a mayor.
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The committee on human af-
fairs reported that a petition for
the procurement of civil rights in
the city of Austin was signed by
150 people who were approached
by members of SAC at the Black
Like Me conference held on cam-
pus and also at Twin Oaks shop-
ping center. The list of signatures
was presented to the Bishop of
Austin and to the Austin city
council.
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Mayor’s chair after the council had left. St. Edward’s students
observe in the background.
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there will be the awards presenta-
tion which will include inscribed
plaques citing the two outstand-
ing contributions to Writing 3,
five for outstanding service to
The Hilltopper, and three for the
Tower. In addition, The Hilltopper
will present special awards for
the single best news, sports, and
feature article of the year. An
award will also be given for the
best photograph of the year.
At the banquet, each student
publications member will be given
a pin designating which publica-
tion he worked for or the r sition
he held.
Judges for the awards are, for
The Hilltopper, Brother Edmund
Hunt, CSC, chairman of the di-
ance,” and stated that Hill had
actually helped to “accentuate
the problem.”
Professors Ready to Help
Meanwhile the ten-man pro-civil
rights group of St. Edward’s fac-
ulty members are, in the words
of the spokesman, “prepared to
help the Negro leaders with the
filibuster. Mr. Claude Nolen, as-
sociate professor of history, and
a member of the Catholic Inter-
racial council set up by the Bishop
of Austin, said that “trouble does
necessarily exist as long as seg-
regation prevails.”
What is going to be the out-
come of the filibuster? For one
thing, the Negro community is
not going to compromise, for they
cannot compromise or wait very
long for rights that are already
theirs as human beings. As the
spokesman said in a letter to coun-
cilwoman Long: “Time is running
out. The patience of the Negro
and white citizens of Austin is
not unlimited. The injustices are
everywhere visible to those who
will open their eyes. Action is be-
ing demanded now, not next week,
not next month, not next year.
Not after federal legislation, may
I add. To wait for federal action
or to wait for voluntary integra-
tion is not the solution. The first
may never come or come too late.
The second has patently failed in
Austin as everybody knows.”
sophomore science major from
Austin.
Brother Raymond Fleck, CSC,
president, and Brother William
Denton, CSC, director of Uni-
versity publications, will announce
next year’s editors at the ban-
quet.
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By Luis Luis
“I move to postpone this meet-
ing until the mayor comes back,’’
said Emma Long, councilwoman
of Austin, Texas. But Reverend
Wesley Sims, a prominent Negro
leader of the Austin community
“will not yield the floor for any-
thing.” Then, the four members of
the city council that were present
walked out of the council room
and left Reverend Sims, who
would not yield the floor, speak-
ing: "we do not have a responsible
council to take care of business,
but we still are adjourned.”
The results of the academic
questionnaire were enumerated
by Leo Juneau, who demonstrated
the great diversity of opinion ex-
isting between freshmen and sen-
iors.
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For Research Work
Yesterday Brother Raymond
Fleck, president of St. Edward's,
received a check from the Brown-
Hazen Fund in the amount of
$3,000 as a grant-in-aid for Broth-
er Joseph Cain’s research pro-
gram entitled “Nitrogen Utiliza-
tion in the Genus Chlamydomo-
nas.” The grant has been made by
the board of directors of Research
Corporation of New York city on
recommendation of the fund’s ad-
visory committee.
The grant is intended to be a
contribution to the academic and
scientific program of St. Edward’s
University.
In general, the money will be
used to purchase additional items
of apparatus and supplies which
are necessary to the expanding
program of research in the nutri-
tion of micro-organisms.
vision of humanities; Brother
Dunstan Bowles, CSC, assistant
professor of English, Jim Kulleck,
junior science major from San
Juan, Texas; Jeff Burns, fresh-
man humanities major from
Houston, Texas and Col. Ralph
Pearson. Editor Frank Bratina
and moderator Brother Carrol
Angermeier, CSC, will do the judg-
ing for the Tower selections.
Writing 3 judges are Bob
Wallick, senior humanities major
from Corpus Christi, Texas; Bro-
Charles Andersen,
Professors Form Group
Tied to these happenings at
Municipal building was last
week’s action of a group of St.
Edward’s university professors
that decided to form a group in
order to take positive action in
the current civil rights campaign
in Austin.
The group’s spokesman, told The
Hilltopper that the St. Edward’s
group’s main aim was to do some
positive things on campus and
elsewhere about civil rights “like
encouraging the appointment of
Negroes and Latins on the staff
and faculty of the University and
doing something about the fili-
buster.” The group supports the
NAACP in its attempt to have
the city council pass an anti-
segregation ordinance with a pu-
nitive provision. The spokesman
made clear that this group of St.
Edward’s professors does not
speak or act in name of the Uni-
versity; they simply are acting as
concerned Catholic individuals
with a serious problem faced by
the local community.
A month ago, after a. report of
a citizens’ committee set by the
city government, the city council
defeated 4-1 a statement that the
city council was against discrim-
ination, councilwoman Long cast-
ing the only favorable vote. A
week later, after some pressure
by civil rights groups, the council
reversed itself, and passed the
same resolution 4-1 with council-
man Ben White casting the dis-
senting vote. Then the NAACP
preposed that the city council
pass an ordinance that would for-
bid discrimination in a variety of
public places; a fine of up to $200
was provided for those establish-
ments violating the ordinance.
The actual filibuster of the city
council started Thursday of last
week when the NAACP saw that
the city council was not going to
take any action on an effective
desegregation ordinance unless
sufficient public pressure would
move them to act. The filibuster
has continued since, with daily
recesses. Tuesday, April 7, it was
agreed to have a recess Wednes-
day to see if the city council
could reach an agreement with
the Negro leaders. Also on Tues-
day, the filibuster was momenta-
rily interrupted when state ex-
senator Hill shouted to Mayor
Palmer that the filibuster ought
to be stopped. A prominent Negro
in the NAACP called Mr. Hill’s
attitude an “outburst of ignor-
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By Marty McLaughlin
The members of The Hilltopper,
Tower, and Writing 3 staffs have
been invited to the student publi-
cations banquet which will be
held in the University dining hall
Sunday, April 12, at 7:00 p.m.
Brother Simon Scribner, CSC,
University vice-president and
moderator of Writing 3 will act as
master of ceremonies and will
present the evening’s guest lec-
turer—Mister James Kelly jr,
former editor of the Lone Star
Catholic and presently managing
editor of the Texas Business Re-
vue and Industrial Expansion,
both monthly publications for the
bureau of business research at the
University of Texas. His topic
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The main event on the card of
the SAC Senate meeting Monday,
April 6, was a knock-down, drag-
out fight concerning the appropri-
ation of $100 to the National Fed-
eration of Catholic College Stu-
dents. The NFCCS submitted a
request for $100 to pay for two
nights’ lodging for 14 people to
enable them to go to a convention
in San Antonio. The opposition,
led by senior senator Jorge Es-
parza, immediately pointed out
that the amendment to the SAC
constitution only provides for
three people in any campus aca-
demic organization to be subsi-
dized. President Bob Singel stat-
ed that the NFCCS is not consid-
ered in the amendment cited be-
cause it is not an academic or-
ganization but really an extension
of student government. Although
Father Maurice Johnston, OP, di-
rector of student affairs, ex-
plained the purpose of NFCCS
and said that the sending of these
people would benefit the entire
student body, the requisition was
not approved. Immediately after
this defeat, the Senate members
unanimously endorsed the $40 re-
gional dues required for admis-
sion into the NFCCS each year.
The members who voted against
the proposal all agreed that some
students should go, with the back-
ing of SAC. The number 7 was
supported by everyone and $50
was appropriated to defray their
expenses.
In other rounds of action, a
$666 budget for the Spring formal
was approved, as was $100 for the
Texas Club dance.
A tangle arose when John Ba-
rajas, sophomore senator, was ap-
pointed to head a special commit-
tee to investigate the possibility
of closed retreats in place of days
of recollection. The struggle was
eliminated by placing him on the
Religious committee.
Barajas also gave a report on
his findings concerning the possi-
bility of SEU getting into the
Tri-College council in San An-
tonio. It seems that St. Mary’s
voted against SEU when a re-
quest for admittance was en-
tered, while OLL and Incarnate
Word okayed the appeal. Later,
both the girls’ schools nixed the
petition after hearing a declama-
tory speech from the president of
the Tri-College council, who hap-
pens to be from St. Mary’s uni-
versity.
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