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Wednesday, October 12, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Senate debate State contenders give views about sovereignty,self-will
By Barbara Joseph Kansan staff writer
Self-determination and sovereignty were the two catchworms yesterday at a debate between the two groups of students at Haskell Ind Junior College.
"Unless Native Americans are allowed to practice self-determination, this is a black or Hispanic alive can feel safe under our present form of government." said Mike Duree, President of the state Senate. second district.
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State Swen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, said he stood ready to provide state assistance to Haskell only when the college asked for it.
DutPree said "self-determination"
and "sooner than ever" that the people by
the people directly affected by those decisions, and not
by those traditionally thought to be
powerful.
Candidates for the 2nd District of the Kansas Senate, Democrat Muke Dipre (left) and incumbent Republican Wint Winter Jr., field questions during a debate yesterday at Haskell Indian Junior College.
"I believe in the sovereignty and self-determination of American Indians," he said.
Student Senate Council. Five students asked the candidates one question each. The candidates then had to answer three questions. The also gave four-minute opening statements and made three-minute closing remarks. About 40 people
The hour-long debate at Stidham Union was sponsored by the Haskell
"I am more sincerely than my opponent on the issue of self-determination. 'DuPree said.' And the voice I heard didn't don't come from a fonged tongue.
Throughout the debate, DuPree took the offensive.
Much of the debate focused on a Bill Winter introduced in 1985 that would have made the federally-funded college more accessible to students and programs. The bill died in 1986.
DuPree said the bill's hidden agenda was to abstent Native American rights and confessure their lankedness to the government Trafficway. He said the bill also spurred discussion about opening up Haskell to non-Indians through night jobs.
Winter said the bill had nothing to
do with self-determination, but instead would have made Haskell eligible for money other junior colleges received.
DuPree said that if elected he also would work to repeal a bill that gives
Winter said he was concerned with educating people because more jobs would require college degrees in the year 2000 than do now.
the state jurisdiction over crimes committed on Indian reservations.
After the debate, Daniel Postok, Haskell sophomore from Tulsa, Okla., said he thought a lot of people would open oppose up Haskell to non-Indians, but he thought it would bring in more money for the college.
'Peanuts' deletes use of 'savage'
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS - CBS has dropped references to American Indians as "savages" in a "nautical" cartoon show about Thanksgiving because of complaints from a group of Native Americans, a CBS executive said yesterday.
Altieri said the change was made to comply with the Concerned American Association of Minneapolis and the CBS affiliate in Minneapolis, WCCO-TV. She said no comment was given.
The word "savages" has been deleted from the script for "The Mayflower Voyagers," said Carol Patterson. The book practices for CBC in Hollywood
The "Peanuts" special is scheduled to air Oct. 21 as part of an animated miniseries called "This is Aperica Charlotte Brown."
Tom Cossins, a consultant for WCOTV, said that, among other things, the cartoon portraits Indians and their ancestors trapped in trays the Indian Squanto, who befriended the Pilgrims, as a "grateful supporter." The kidnapping was kidnapped by an Englishman
KU scientists studied Ice Age art
By Cindy Harger
When three KU professors said they would study an ivy statute to determine whether it was an authentic Ice Age carving, they would become a puzzle that would consume their entire summer.
They also didn't realize the subject of their work would be featured in this month's National Geographic.
KU scientists, Edward Zeller, professor of geology and physics and astronomy, Wakefield Dort Jr., professor of geology, and Gisela Dresshoff, courtesy assistant professor of physics and astronomy, will visit the centimeter-tall male head, which is shown on the cover of this month's National Geographic, is an authentic carving about 26,000
years old.
"We started trying to answer the question: Is it a total fake or possibly authentic?" Dort said.
"It was very frustrating." Zeller said. "The problem was that we could do almost nothing to the statuee. We were not allowed to put it in a vacuum or cut it. We did it but we had it to be non-destructive."
For Zeller and the other scientists, that frustration became a challenge. They were out to solve a problem together small clues, reasoning about it.
"It's hard not to succumb to the temptation to play Sherlock Holmes," Zeller said.
The mystery of the statutee began when Alexander Marshack, a prehistoric art expert from New York City contacted Zeller when he learned of the KU scientists' work in dating prehistoric bones
In early April, Marshack brought the statuette to KU for 24 hours so the scientists could study it in the radiation physics laboratory of the Space Technology Center at NASA. The instrument contains an instrument that measures low-level radiation, which most laboratories across the country don't have.
Marshack previously had taken the carving, which was excavated about 100 years ago in Czechoslovakia, to experts at the Peabody Museum of Harvard University and at the British Museum in London. But the still he had no solid proof that the carving was authentic.
"We spent the entire day brain-storming, reasoning, and studying it under a microscope." Dort said. "By the end of the day we were convinced that it was indeed authentic."
Dresshoff said that they worked long hours every day from May until the end of August. He noted that many broken pieces and chips of the statue (or levels of radiation which had occurred during the lee Age.)
"We were never concerned about the age of the ivory. We knew it was old and fossil material." Zelzer said. "You could buy it for a few dollars, or very old ivory. We needed to find what was the age of the carving."
Wakefield Dort Jr., professor of geology, left; Gisela Dreschhoff, courtesy assistant professor of physics and astronomy; and Ed Zeller, professor of geology, physics, and astronomy, used alpha particle spectral analysis to determine the age of the carving.
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