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Friday. February 13, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Exhibits, speakers and dinners to highlight Black History Week
By ANITA SHELTON
Staff Writer
Exhibits, speakers and dinners are part of the activities planned to commemorate National Black History Week in the next few weeks at the University of Kansas.
Black Caucus, an organization of black students who live in Ellsworth Hall, the International Club and the department of African studies, will all sponsor programs.
Black History Week was first observed in 1926 and begins the second Sunday in February. The week begins with the births of both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
AUTHORH BLACK HISTORY Week is
February 9-13 this year, the Black Caucus
will schedule its event on February 18 Karla Moore, Black
Caucus president, said yesterday.
More said the week was delayed because of the symmetrical break.
"We had been making tentative plans before the semester break," Moore said. "After we got back and everyone settled down we got started on the planning."
several activities are planned for the Carcassius game. The Caucus has had six scheduled games, including Player Services scheduled.
of Kansas City, Mo., for 7:30 Tuesday night in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union. If the group can't come, a movie will be shown at Ellsworth, she said.
MEMBERS OF THE February First Movement will speak at 7 Wednesday night in the Forum Room of the Union. There will be a lecture on the history of the night in the Lewis Hall cafeteria, followed by a party for Caucus members. And on Friday there will be an Art Exhibit from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Ellsworth Hall lobby. A guest from the hall residents will follow, Moore said.
All activities will be free.
The International Club will have an African dinner at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21, Alberta Wright, African Club member, and the part of the International Club, she said.
The dinner will be at the Westminster Center, 1204 Oread. Admission to the dinner will be $3.50 for singles, $6.00 for couples and $1.50 for children.
WRIGHT SAID the dinner would include six African dishes prepared by African women. African artifacts will be displayed and there also will be a drawing and an African dance demonstration in which the audience will participate, Wright said.
Bad checks written during enrollment periods are a bigger problem now than in the past, according to Charles Burrows, University of Kansas associate controller.
Leniency on bad checks lasts just so long at KU
He said yesterday that the increased number of bad checks was probably due to general economic stress.
The department of African studies began business in 1932, and it lasted nine months before the Black History Month.
"We have some aces in the hole we can use against this problem," Burrows said. "If I check down, they'll be telling me that his fees still haven't been paid."
"March 5 is our special day," Burrows said, "After that a student's enrollment at KU is officially cancelled if he still hasn't made his fee payments."
THERE IS A $10 FINE on fees not paid before Feb. 20 and a $25 fine on fees not paid before March 5, he said, which usually gets late students to pay their fees.
"We give students every opportunity to
wear it, but after March 5 we really go after them."
A student isn't accused of passing a bad check to KU, but he is faulted for not completing his enrollment payments, according to Burrows.
A party will be given at the Union after the dinner, Wright said. The party will be free, she said, al'though there will be a charge for beer.
BURROWS SAID that between 200 and 250 checks written during spring enrollment were returned by banks because of insufficient funds.
Of the students who wrote the checks, the enrollment numbers cancelled in March, he said.
"Most finish their payments before March 5." Burrows said.
Some of the returned checks have to be run through again because of banks' clerical errors, Burrows said. The comptroller's office checks with a bank to make sure that an account has insufficient funds before contacting the student who wrote it.
Jacob Gordon, chairman of the department of African studies, said the new lecture series had the same two goals as the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History. Inc.: to help promote better understanding of history and to bring about harmony between the races by interpreting one to the other.
IF A STUDENT graduates and leaves Lawrence in debt to KU, there are still things that the University can do, he said.
Students invited to open forum
Cancellor Archie R. Dykes and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, will meet with interested students in an open room in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
The meeting is one of a series of open meetings during which students can express questions or concerns to Dykes and Shankel.
"We can block him from getting his transcripts until he finishes his payments," Burrows said. "Say a senior graduates, leaves and has not paid $125 for his dorm."
"We'll turn it over to Students Accounts Receiving Book, who'll send three letters to the former student over a period of a couple of months, reminding him of his debt."
EDWARD BEASLEY, professor of black history at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and an official of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Inc., also spoke last night. Gordon said the department planned to have another lecture this spring and two a year beginning next fall.
If the debt still isn't paid, the KU Board of Regens will turn the account over to a collection agency in Wichita or Kansas City, Kan. Burrows said.
"I'm not sure how they collect, though I doubt that they break arms or something," he said. "But I'm sure that they can make payments for someone who refuses to pay his debt."
Marijuana bills to be discussed
Tom Duncan, Kansas director of the
Marijuana Organization to Reform
Marijuana Law
Legislative bills to reduce penalties for marijuana possession in Kansas will be publicly discussed at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Lumineum Library, 707 Vermont.
The Kansas Legislature is currently debating two bills that would decriminalize
Marie Stewart, a member of Black
students at the school, black students
benignified from the program.
"We try to involve all black students and African students in the activities." Stewart said. "The black faculty have also been a big help."
Stewart, a Salina sophomore, said the observance of a black history or black awareness week was a tradition at Ellsworth Hall.
"The FIRST ONE that I know of originated about two years ago when Ellsworth Hall had an International Night," she said. "The black students decided to take it further and scheduled a series of meetings a week that were related to black studies."
Moore said the work for the week was being done by Black Caucus members. All art works and talents also would be those of KU black students, she said.
Some local merchants are loaning clothes to the organization for the fashion and talent show. Moore said. African clothes are also loaned to the organization.
Stewart said the highlight of the week would be the soul food dinner.
"It it's fun and it's a challenge to cook for 50 to 60 people." Stewart said. "Besides the best part of the dinner is when you get to know the servers, you runners you even learned and just dig in."
STEWART SAID much of the food was being provided by the food service. The ribs and other food, and materials for the week, would be coming from an allocation from the Ellsworth Hall Government, Stewart said.
Moore said there had been a long, hard struggle before they were allocated the money. Approximately $700 was given to the Caucus for the week.
stewart said the week was good, but that it was only a sample of what was possible. "I think it's a shame that black people have to wait until Black Awareness Week before they can receive the money to do something," she said.
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will be offering a large selection of
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Banana Crepes or Creme de Menthe Parfait
Nineteen dollars and fifty cents.
Appetizer
Entrees
Pepper Steak a La Caprì, Rice Pilaf a Tender beef tallow slices in a rich wine sauce. Shrimp Scamp = Jumbo shrimp simmered in a special herb butter sauce and
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Chicken Breast a la Eldridge—Boneless breast of chicken simmered in a rich wine
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To Sirin-choice of 10 ounce sirin oil, charcoal broiled to taste.
Top Sirion—choice of 10 ounce top sirion, charcoal broiled to taste.
Six dollars and ninety-five cents.
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Reservations requested.
Student assault reported
The student told police that she was assaulted once on campus as she left a building and once as she left her apartment. She said that the male member of the group held her arms behind her back while the females beat and scratched her.
A KU student was assaulted twice Tuesday by a group of men and women, the KU Police Department yesterday.
She said the assaults occurred because she refused a request to "discuss some problems with" some members of the group.
She suffered facial bruises, scratches and possible fractured fingers.
She said that some of the attackers were her relatives and that she had been assaulted before by members of the group.
Schooners are coming to the Hawk Monday, Feb. 16
Paid for by Action Coalition
on Feb. 18-19
Mark Booth-Jr. Class Pres. Paula Busch-Jr. Class Sec.
John Benge-Jr. Class V.Pres. Becky Young-Jr. Class Treas.
You Have Said It With Flowers, You Have Said It With Candy, You Have Said It With Cards. This Year Say It With Cheese!
BE MY VALENTINE WITH A CHERRY GOURMANDAISE WEDGE From
The Stinky Cheese Shoppe
809 1/2 West 23rd Next to McDonald's Mon.-Sat. 10:30-6 Thurs. open till 7:30 842-7434
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