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Thursday, June 21, 1973
University Daily Kansan
'Round and 'Round We Go
Children play on a merry-go-round in South Park before a Band concert of the band.
concertes are sponsored by the Park and Recreation Department and the Ameri-
Fired KU Assistant To Get New Hearing
The U.S. District Court of Kansas City will have to reconsider its decision denying Gary D. Jackson a hearing before the Kansas Board of Regents.
Jackson was fired from his job as assistant to the dean of men and black studies instructor after Topeka police reported he had purchased a large quantity of ammunition on July 26, 1970, the day after Rick Dowdell was killed in Lawrence.
The decision reached by the Denver court Saturday required the Kansas City court to
Jackson has been trying to bring his dismissal before the Kansas Board of Appeals, which sent a letter City had ruled that Jackson had no right to be bared before the Regents, but the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver has rejected the lower court to give Jackson a new hearing.
Jackson, whose dismissal caused a great deal of controversy at the University of Kansas was a strong advocate of black students' rights.
little better." he said at the time.
"I think there are plenty of student problems that need to be looked at by the administration, such as the need for more math, less math, or just better understand the problems of black students as
His dismissal came at a troubled time in KU's history. The Board of Regents had questioned the ability of then Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. to handle student disorders during the spring and summer of 1970.
By KATHY HODAK and JOHN CHIZA
Thirty undergraduate interns will begin preservice training Monday for a new teacher education program that is designed to prepare students for work with children of different schedules.
Kansan Staff Writers
Juniors Train for Teacher Corps
The program at the University of Kansas is called Multi-Cultural, Multi-Racial Education, which was established by Congress in 1965 under the Higher Education Act. M. Evelyn Swartz, professor of education, and Herbert W. Baldwin, director of the directors of the University programs.
Teacher Corps is a nation-wide program designed to give children of low-income families better educational opportunities and to improve teacher education. There are now about 90 Teacher Corps projects in 36 states.
KU'S PROGRAM IS unique because it covers areas in two states, Kannas and Missouri, and extends into both a large city and is held as a small city, Swartz said Wednesday.
Multi-Cultural, Multi-Racial Education is a two-year program that involves 30 interns and six experienced teachers who will function as team leaders. The 30 interns will be divided into six teams at the end of the first year. Each team will consist of one team leader, and one representative from the community in which the team will be teaching.
Preservice is a period of orientation for teaching, the schools and the communities involved in the program. Two phases of preservice will take place this summer on campus.
Each team will be assigned to one of six elementary schools and communities, two in Lawrence and four in Kansas City. Mo. The Lawrence schools are Pickney and Cherry. Mo. The Kansas city schools are Knotts, John J. Pershing, D. M. Pinkerton and Troost.
THE FIRST PHASE, which will run from June 4 to August 10, is for the six team leaders. During this time, team leaders are being taught to assume an active role in university affairs. Students take the intern's liaison with the University, school and community. Swartz said.
The second phase, which will begin Monday, is a seven-week training session for the 30 interns who are beginning their junior year in school. These students will be assigned to which team to which they will be assigned in the fall. Self-directed learning skills and the prin-
Each intern will receive $90 a week throughout the two years of the program. An additional $15 a week will be allotted to the intern for each dependent. Team leaders will be employed by the school district in which he works.
cibles of team development will also be taught.
A PROPOSAL OUTLINING KU's Teacher Corps project and requesting federal funds was prepared by Swartbilt last year. The proposal was accepted by Washington upon first application.
Swartz tailed her purpose was two-fold in writing the proposal. Her intention was to assist the School of Education in developing something different from other programs and to assist in recruiting education majors from minority groups.
After the project was approved for funding in May, a committee was set up to recruit and select team leaders and interns. The committee was composed of University personnel, school district officials, and community representatives.
PARTICIPATING SCHOOL districts submitted the names of possible team leaders to the selection committee. One man and one woman were chosen. Of the six men, four were women.
Swartz said she received at least 90 local areas applied for interns. Many nonlocal applications were referred to her from the Office of Student Recruitment and Referral at Ormaha, Neb.
Priority was given to local applicants of minority groups. Men were chosen over women because there are so few male children in elementary education, Swartz said.
AN INTERN'S TIME will be divided among the University, the school in which he teaches and the local community. His Greek will add up to about 60 or 70 hours.
The focus of the intern's course work at the University will center on multi-culture education. Courses necessary for teaching are taught in English and may also be an integral part of the curriculum.
"The multi-cultural component of the intern's education is important," Ruffin said "because it provides insights into inner city living and the behavior patterns of low-income cultural groups. Such insight is necessary so that文化genocide can be
avoided."
SWARTZ SAID THAT studies would be self-paced and individualized as much as possible. A certain competency would be expected of each intern. When a certain degree of proficiency had been reached, the intern would then move on to the next task.
Teacher education must address itself, Swartz said, to a child's total environment, which extends beyond the walls of the classroom.
To accomplish this goal, both team leaders and interns are expected to live within the community where they teach. In addition, they must attend at least 10 hours in community service.
Minority Group Enrollment Up
The University of Kansas, through the office of Admissions, is making the following changes to students:
Marsailh R. Jackson, assistant director of admissions, said Wednesday that he visited Kansas high schools, concentrating on those in Kansas City, Wichita and Topeka, as part of his efforts to improve communication office was in constant communication with high schools from other states as well.
When asked if he felt minorities were any less qualified to attend college because of their educational background, Jackson said his minorities received the same education as what all the high schools in Kansas are integrated except Summer in Kansas City.
Jackson said that he told high school students that they could secure a good education and return to help their local communities. Because any student who graduated from a Kansas high school would be eligible to attend KU, Jackson said he told them what they should expect here and answered any questions they had.
Jackson added, however, that some students who desired to come to KU were deficient in college preparatory programs. KU does offer compensatory classes to such students, but they do not receive credit for the classes.
Jackson said that there was an annual increasing trend for minorities to attend college and that this fall semester's enrollment could be the largest so far.
Revivals: Charismatic or Chaotic?
By NANCY COOK
By NANCY COOE
Kansan Staff Writer
I attended two different church services this week. One was at my home town church—a beautiful almost-new building with a lot of big cars parked in its parking lot. The other was at a Lawrence church just as beautiful and even newer.
The format of the services in the two churches was similar. Both services included the singing of hymns, listening to a sermon and giving an offering.
At my home town church, the message of
But the messages and the audiences in the services were very different.
Student Architects Design Indian Center
The architecture team offers free architectural services to lower income groups. University of Kansas students and five VISTA volunteers make up the group which works out of the former Coach House Hotel in Kansas City, Mo.
A University sponsored service group, Architecture Community Team', is designing a community center in South Dakota of Sioux Indians as one of its latest projects.
"We work as a team. Everybody gets out of their own ego and down to the collective," said Joe Vaughan, one of the team members.
The社区 community center will be located in a place to hold Indian ceremonies, festivals and
At the Lawrence service in the First Presbyterian Church, the message of the sermon and of the whole meeting was that Jesus was the one who needed was the baptism of the spirit.
the sermon was that the church needed to change. The speaker did not say in what way the sermon was supposed to be.
The team traveled to South Dakota to investigate the Sioux's needs in relation to the community center. ACT decided a building with a dome would best satisfy the Indians' sociological and psychological needs.
Vaughan said, "We are, as a team, trying to midwives—letting the building give birth to them."
The team hopes that construction of the building will begin next spring. The team plans to return to South Dakota to oversee the progress.
Another ACT project involves a non-profit organization of Mexican-Americans that is trying to get a good low-cost housing development in Kansas City.
The people at the first church service responded by dutifully singing hymns and dutifully slipping dollar bills into the collection plate.
Vaughan said ACT is working with them to construct a low-cost, pre-fabricated house to fit on a narrow lot. The people house themselves in sections, he said.
The long range plan and purpose of ACT is to involve local architects, educate lower income people and eventually phase itself out. Vaughan said the team was meant to be involved in planning started, after which ACT would cease to be just an architectural service.
Vaughan said, "Our ultimate goal is to flower out into a multifaceted organizational service that wants to serve a community service group eventually set up community workshops.
The people at the second service didn't respond; they participated. They sang rather than numbed and even inserted a few "Amens" into the sermon.
The occasion for the first service was the routine arrival of a Sunday morning. The occasion for the second service was a sort of charismatic revival called Christ for people working in the crusade was in Lawrence for meetings Wednesday and today.
Some may say that the reason for comradeship at the second meeting was that revivals always arouse people's emotion. They might add that after the revival, everybody goes back to their normal dutiful ways.
Well, this must not have been a typical revival. I had met some of the people who were at the meeting before. They were always the wav they were at the meeting.
In the singing during the meeting, several people spontaneously raised their arms in gestures of praise. Those same people are the ones who because the sun is shining, "Praise God!"
Doing either of those things in my
hometown church would be a cause for shock.
But it seemed to me that the people at the charismatic meeting were much happier than the one in the office.
The reason for the happiness I cannot testify to. The speaker at the charismatic
Blacks Not New to American Musicals
Bv HOLLIE I. WEST
BY HOLLEY R. WES
The Washington Post
meeting said that in order to obtain it, one had to be saved and one had to be baptized in the spirit. I have done neither of those things.
But I do see the difference in the services. In high school, I dreaded going to church. I went to church because it’s a very occasional thing. But I enjoyed the charismatic meeting. At that meeting, we sang spontaneously and danced, pamperment. I didn't want to stop singing.
To me, the whole difference between my home town church and the charismatic meeting (and the Jesus movement that it represents) is the difference between a public faith and a private one.
WASHINGTON—From a cursory gaze, the history of American musical theater would appear to be almost an all-white saga. But black participation, though limited, has become obvious in recent years.
The conventional thought is that this increased black involvement is new. But it can't. Blacks were performing in the and music scene before the digital books for musicals throughout the '20s.
There were still black productions around the turn of the century. Most closed quickly for lack of an audience. But at least one "Shuffle Along" in 1921 and 1922 enjoyed a run of more than 500 performances and the springboard for many black performers who were to become outstanding artists for several decades afterward.
Their remembrances are not only of this show but of their careers, and those of other black musicians, in the 1890s and early 1900s.
The show, which introduced the song "I'm Just Wild About Harry," capsulated much of the spirit and energy of black life in the post-World War II era, humour and zippy music about race politics—is warmly recalled by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissile, the show's composer and lyricist, in "Reminiscing with Sissile and William Bolcom (VIRKING Press. 25."
IT WAS the most successful and widely performed piece of musical theater written by a major producer.
In the production were Josephine BARRE,
as a chorus girl, singer and dancer Florence
Mills, Paul Robeson, violist Hall Johnson,
who was to found a famous choralle and
oboit Symphonic Grant Still, who went on to
compose symphonic music.
The first church is not public in the sense that its members stand on street corners and it is public in the sense that they are, but it is public in the sense that it is concerned with public things. The speaker talked about the church, not what was wrong with society and what was wrong with
It's a book laid with careful attention to detail and knowledge of the large sweep of musical history in this country, Kimball, former curator of Yale University's American musical theater collection, and author of two books that writers speak for themselves. The authors interject their own comments occasionally to provide historical perspective.
The book is crammed with lively and memorable photographs of performers, sheet music, advertisements and reprints of newspaper reviews. This memorabilia helps open up a previously ignored chapter in the story of American music.
THE BOOK INCLUDES photographs of the youthful Sissle and Blake, the ethereal Florence Mills, showgirls of the 20s, Ethel Waters, the comedy team of Flourmoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles and the elegant James Reese Europe.
Sisile and Blake, who began as a team in
writing by "It'S All Your Fault" for
Europe apparently was a genius at organizing. He founded the Clet Club, an organization for booking musicians and artists in Europe. He had black artists from dishonest agents and waiters. His strong ethnic feeling about black music, as reported in an interview article in the New York Evening Journal, led to many contemporary black nationalists.
The speaker at the charismatic meeting talked about private faith, about what it is like, personally, to have a belief. The people at the meeting showed their private faith and told them an impression when the ones who talked about making an impression didn't.
Sisley, born in 1899 in Indianapolis, came from middle-class stock (his father was a Meb沥他 minister and his mother a man of faith officer), which accounted for his urbanity.
HIS VIEWS, which emphasize the particularities of black experience, such as an emphasis on race and gender.
Sophie Tucker, trace their own lives from childhood to the present.
Both men are still active. Blake, who came along at the tail end of the Ragtime era, has reaped benefits from the revived interest in that music. He is in great demand for concerts and television appearances and still composes in the ragtime style.
Despite their differences in background and temperament, Sissie and Blake came together by so ne strange chemistry. In the first stage of their partnership the most important person was James Reese Europe, the magnetic conductor-composer who won fame for taking jazz to Europe as leader of an army band.
BLAKE, BORN in 1838 in Baltimore, was the son of former slaves. His formal education was limited, but his musical ability was natural and quick. He is also a charming reaconture, as his reminiscences attest.
He was primarily a vaudeville performer before teaming with Blake and I danced a dance.
Of the latter, critic George Jean Nathan castigated the show's producers for disbemowling it by trying to update it. Writing in the New York Journal-American, he wrote that "the producers (producers) ever put the show on again, what they best do is throw away all the
In this regard, critics were sometimes no more enlightened than audiences about human courtney. Alan Dale, reviewing his book *The American in 1921*, described the production
Sissie and Blake drifted toward vaudeville and then to musical comedy after their mentor's death. So came消失 of the musical comedy chocolate Dandales." The latter was not accepted by white audiences and critics, (primary supporters of any musical comedy in those days) because it veered off into the racial stereotype of the former.
"semi-darkytot that emulates the 'white' performance and--goes it one better . . .
The book was devoted to darky politics, but it had some humor."
SISSLE AND BLAKE went their separate ways for a while in the early '30s. Sissle tried living and performing in Europe; Blake preferred this country.
They teamed up again later and their published collaborations ran through 1952. Few people perform the large body of Sissle and Alison's performances, respects, their material is a fascinating relic of a bygone era. The songwriters' most popular show, "Shuffle Along," has gone through two revised versions, one in 1933 and the other in 1952. Sissle-Blake team, and the other in 1952.
Europe was the most influential black musician in New York until he was murdered in 1919 at the age of 38 by an erased performer in his orchestra.
Both men grew in stature. Sissle led a successful dance orchestra, which at one time included Lena Horse as vocalist; Blake continued writing and performing. The song was the lyrical "Memories of You," still a standard in popular music.
Their saga goes on. Sissle makes in-frequent public appearances but not as a performer. Blake is still an enchanting artist.
many variations and present it exactly as it was in 1921. It is, if anything, a nostalgic show, and you can't work up any nostalgia by dressing up a favorite old aunt like a bobby soxer . . . it was, as I said, have we seen it before. I went to see it no less than five times—and it might still seem at least a good show if they left it alone with its story of small-town politics instead of its altered one about an army post in Italy, with its imbecile Negro humor instead of its changed sentimental tone, and instead of politely tamed stage action."
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