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Wednesday, March 29. 1972
University Daily Kansan
Black Studies Program Uses Interdisciplinary Approach
Kaisan Photo by MARC MAY
Includes African, Afro-American and Caribbean Studies
KU Black Studies Are Varied
By JAMES COOK
Kennedy Staff Writer
Swahili I, Elementary Swahili II
Racism and Reaction, and
courses offered by the University of Kansas department of Africa
Student and faculty demands for more 'relevant' courses began in the late 1960s and provided the impetus for the expansion of such as those offered by KU's department of African studies.
Although African studies at her universities concentrate on African history, KU's program combines African Afro-American and American studies.
Jacob U. Gordon, chairman of the African Studies Program, said in a recent interview the committee had instructed ministries roots, and a dichotomy which often exists in such programs. Gordon said KU was probably the only university that had a program that combined the three areas.
KU'S PROGRAM also is unique because it stresses an interdisciplinary approach integrating black studies with courses and programs on the black way of life.
Gordon said several departments, including the department of African studies, including the departments of history, American studies, Latin American studies, geography, English, sociology, and psychology.
The KU department of African studies and the UCLA Center for Afro-American study has a survey to assess the directions black studies were taking. The study indicates such results are not set pattern. Some focus on culture, others on research and still others follow a departmental route.
Along with its unique program, KAU's African studies program also assists Kansas school systems, penal institutions and communities by providing advice on problems and human relationships.
"OUR GREATEST task right now." Gordon said, "to help schools and colleges throughout the country, we begin to understand their problems.
Critics of ethnic studies say the courses offered are fads that quickly lose their appeal.
Last year 500 students enrolled
in African studies courses at KU each semester. This year that number has almost doubled and now offers a bachelor's degree.
Although some critics say a black studies program will lead to a chain of academic studies with low academic standards, many argue that is part of a major social problem should be studied. Supporters of black studies also point to the need for an understanding of黑历史 and the "a part of the human story."
All areas of the university are effected by budget cuts. New departments, especially the arts, require problems adapting to such cuts.
"One of my greatest tasks," Gordon said, "is to prevent raids
"Black professors are in great
competition and the school that
can pay the bills must con-
tinue with larger universities
such as Northwestern and UCLA
A black professor with a new degree, Gordon said, is paid more than an experienced white professor who may have written his own books. He's more than enough professors but, because there are few professors of African studies, the new professors can shop for the best
on our faculty. To get black professors you must practice reverse discrimination. It's hard to get people to understand that.
"I HAVE to convince the administration that the University must divide areas of priority and reorganize
"but the values are far beyond mere academe. We now have a different program which leads to mutual benefit. But I have to communicate that ability to respond adequately, considering the lack of resources in our school."
"Just because a professor is in best means he know anything," Gordon said. "The blackest prof of them all may be the most."
investments. Ethnic have academic value if the University can afford to get people who have expertise," Gordon said.
Even with sufficient funds, there is still a problem acquiring professors with a background in black studies, Gordon said.
from "white" institutions with no black studies program and, as a result, had no understanding of the field.
Gordon said national failure to recognize and understand "basic black problems" has made it hard for some administrators to understand problems the new study program must face.
Many white students, Gordon said, now enroll in African study courses.
"They usually don't say anything the first few class meeting, and they." And they shook do all their meetings. Most of the whites are surprised to find that I'm not wearing an Afro and making militant
"Once the semester gets going things open up. In the end most of the students enjoy the course."
GORDON SAID many black professors received their degrees
Four Blocks Along Massachusetts To Be Redeveloped This Summer
Editor's Note: This is the second of two articles about the downtown redevelopment of Lawrence.
By CHRIS MILLER
Kansas Staff Writer
If all goes well, the downtown area of Lawrence will undergo major renovations this summer.
The Osawatime redevelopment also employs "sawtooth" curbing, similar sloping of the rock crosswalks, and landscaping.
A similar reconstruction of the central business district has been done on a smaller scale in Osawatomie.
Initiated in 1966, the project in autocamat was completed in the spring of 1970. The development of $176,299.25. The redevelopment area a block in width.
Activities to Begin For New Senators
Elections and a)] the campaigning and politicizing that accompany them are over for another year at KU. But for those who were successful in the recent contest, the work has just begun.
BY HAL RITTER
Kansan Staff Writer
Dillon was chairman of the Finance and Auditing Committee during the past Senate term and was also the chair of four nonassentors as members.
"As far as I'm concerned we're going to have to help have from outside the Senate or else it would just be too much work." Dillon
Dave Dillon, newly elected student body president, said earlier this week that the first meeting of the new Senate would be and that a workshop for new senators would be held this weekend.
Dillon said during the remaining weeks of the spring semester the Senate would be concerned with the 1972-73 activity fee budget and with the committee committees and chairmen.
By HAL RITTER
Dillon said that interested persons could obtain committee applications in the Senate office in the Kansas Union and, that the applications had to be filled out interviews could take place.
THE SENATE began accepting a petition for committee membership, he said, and he emphasized that the positions were open to any KU member.
Lawrence project, involving an area a block in width and about 100 feet long. The project begins June 1, with completion by October. The estimated total cost is $465,000.
He said the project involved only changing the slope of the street and repaving it, concerning parking lots and parking lots, and land-scaping. Landscapeaping, he said, involved planting trees and shrubbery and affixing perennial hedges in benches and drinking fountains
Gordon L. Schrader, city manager of Osawatomi, said recently that when the plan was over, the downtown area was in a poor state of repair, with cracked curbings, poorly painted streets, and cracks.
THE SENATE meeting next
wednesday will be a joint meet-
ing of the old and new Senate, Dillon
said. Among the first business on
the agenda will be to elect three
members of the senate among those that were not
reelected and to elect 10 U.S.
University Council, he said.
SCHRADER SAID that 17 of the downtown property owners had voluntarily redone their buildings conjunction with the city's project.
Dillon said a handbook with a model lease and explanations of resident liabilities and how to address housing problems was needed.
Dilton ran for student body president on a platform that promised to address the area of student services. He said many of his ideas would not work in a school setting after his programs had been further developed during the summer.
The type of development employed in Osawatomi is, Schrader said, particularly because there redeveloped being done within the original configuration of the town. He noted that the streets could not be changed, and the existing buildings could not be removed, this reconstruction would have been more difficult.
If enough money is available, Dillon said he hoped the Senate could retain a lawyer to aid him off-campus housing disputes.
A model lease for off-campus housing residents is one project Dillon said he hoped to "get down on paper during the summer."
Schrader said that although there was a possibility that the city made a federal funds to help finance the project, the city made no application for either federal or municipal funding. The said, was financed solely with
MUCH WORK has been done concerning the theory of a model lease, he said, but no one knows what work when put into practice.
The biggest problem apartment complex residents face is recovering deposits, and residents of houses have difficulty earning landings to house in a safe condition, he said.
Costs for improvements fronting on the owners' property were assessed to individual owners, and owner paid for any new sidewalks, all plantings and 20 per cent of the cost of repaving out to the center of the street near the area his building fronted.
IF, FOR EXAMPLE, Schrader said, a building had a frontage of 100 feet, the owner paid for all new sidewalk laid within that 100 feet, all trees and bushes planted along that 100 feet, and 20 per foot. A separate street along the street along that 100 feet, out to the center of the street.
Most of the owners and managers of businesses, were, according to Schrader, in favor of the project. He said 75 per cent of the owners had signed a petition requesting the project. Buildings were demolished then, he said, comprised 90 per cent of the project area.
individual merchants' and city funds.
Property owners who rented the building said he, so that nearly one third of the cost of the project was实际上 paid by merchant in the deal.
OWNERS OF downtown buildings, contributed 31 per cent, $4.852 77, towards the total cost of the project.
Plans for the Lawrence project call for the city to pay the entire cost of changing the shop of the building and the funds will finance new curbs and guttering, new sidewalks, coatings and seeping. The installation of some
underground utilities in
imphibian management with
federal funds. (Underground utilities were not a
osatomega development.)
LAWRENCE'S DOWNTOWN merchants will pay only for any new sidewalks laid along their store's frontage and any face-lifting they may choose to do to own stores on an individual basis.
Schrader said that given the opportunity to begin again as the city had in 1986, he would favor a market center and discounted the idea of a pedestal mall, saying that most of the local businessmen had not even been around.
By DONNA DALE
The Peace Education and
Committee, a volunteer com-
mittee and sponsoring workbo
about the war, will have a
vigil this week to educate
students and suggest action about
peace.
Kanxan Staff Writer
A slide show on the automated
a show was shown on Monday,
and Tuesday, with a repetition
of the slide show, a
slide show of the Carson
Cavaliers Nine," Daniel
Berrigan, are planned for today.
Thursday is Friday. The play
will be on Saturday.
Nancy Jorn, head of the
office, made sure the
turnout for the slide show had
been quite good. She said
admission was charged only for
the slide show.
11:30 a.m. — Grassroots Politics, Betty Jo Charleton, International Room.
Political Action, L.
All Day — Vietnam Veterans Talk about War, members of the 10:30 a.m. Political Action, Lane Baily, Youth Caucus,
Indochina War Workshops Planned to Suggest Action
Political Action, Lane Baily. Parlor C..
12:30 p.m. — Motivating
Ourselves and Others for Peace
Action Coalitions, John Wright,
Michael Snyder, and Vince
The Soviet Union, and World
The Soviet Union and Vietnam Thomas Larson, Parlor C.
1:30 p.m. — Political Action, Lane Baily, Parlor C.
Resistance: The Harrisburg Trial, Rick Carrier and Dave Hunt, Parlor C.
2: 30 p. m. — What Can a Person Do? Anne Moore, International Room.
3:30 — Peace Candidates-
Campaigning for McGovern,
John Pole, International Room,
Amnesty, Innermost Steffen and Don
Barnett.
7:30 p.m. The military
museum, please come to Weiss,
International Room. No
attendance as a personal Lifestyle, Des
signed in advance.
Nonviolence, Kansas City, Mt.
Thursday Workshops:
10:30 a.m. — War and Fascism
Raf Sanchez, Parlor C.
7:30 p.m. — Film, "Winter Soldier Investigation," Jayhawk Room.
12:30 p.m. — Nonviolent
Tactics in Working for Peace,
A Church in Warriors A. The
Church in War, Warriors A.
Tim Miller, Parlor C.
10:30 a.m. — Nonviolence as a
Personal Lifestyle, continued.
The Draft, Bill Cutler, Parlor C.
10:30 a.m. — Nonviolence as a
Personal Lifestyle, continued.
Parlor A. Grassroots Politics,
Betty Jo Charleton, Parlor C.
1:30 p.m. — Nonviolent
CLEARWATER BEACH. FLA-
(AP)- Life under high social
stresses may make people more
sensitive to cancers, a sextensi-
al Tuesday
For instance, "Oh Mommy, this child may miss me from the title is really a Brewer and Shipley political song about how it says right here that a REAL OK has a revo lation. Now at least as a great line, but taken in the context of the song in which he buoyed a great line, good time number, if it becomes not sinister, not fearful, good time such terms, it does a bit to warm the heart, doesn't
Or consider the beautiful
"Song From Plate River";
General Custer. And his last
stand,
"go the lines."
Tarkio Road, Mike Brewer and Tom Sipmieri's third album, Surra, shows them to be a solid and unpretentious country folk duo, writing brilliant as they are ennobled with their refrains and humble melodies. On top of this, they have had the good fortune to work with Gravenites) and well known musicians as Mark Nafatin on keyboards and Jerry Garcia on pedal steel. There is nothing complex here – no 12 level attempts at Dylanesque guitar wizardry – but in the end, it's probably a saving Brewer and Shipley come off as human beings and it gives that album a quiet grace that makes them achingly strive for in the coming months and never forget.
framed by beautiful images of cold and desolation; turns itself into a sweetly lit room, where a lovely Lady Like soul which a lovingly Lady Like aretha could have a ball. A smile, much like much the same vein, with a chorus that stays with you long after you leave the house. Over The Line' is one of the more perfect statements of where those all important in the United States today.
I think it was Pete Johnson, writing long ago in the book about John Braden's sadly neglected album on A&M and a music that had the ability to call up other eras, times long since变着花样 on the face of Fear For Love. For Music, music had the ability to work in much the same way, recreating an existed somewhere around the turn of the century, a kind of Indians was still clean and fresh when railroads sprung and when trains were time when all of us (at least in retrospect) seemed to be a kind of front nostalgia, if you will, probably a product Cassidy movies that endlessly paraded across our lives, too heavy, its soft of nice needed them, and now, when things are getting just a little heavier, its soft of nice needed them.
TARKIO ROAD, Brewer and Shipley (Kama Sulra KSBS 2024)
3: 30 p. m. — Tax Resistance, Otto Zing and John Weismuller, Parlor C.
2:30 p.m. — Nonviolent
Tactics, continued. Parlor A.
What Can a Person Do? Anne
Moore. Parlor C.
8:00 p.m. — Encountering Our World, Danforth Chapel.
Tactics, continued, Parlor A. Reparations, Dutch Stoltz, Parlor C.
ROLLING STONE/FEBRUARY 4
At any rate, that's the reason I like Brewer and Shipley. Whatever your opinion, you will likewise LENNY KAYE
ROLLING STONE
Brewer & Shipley
In Concert
With Funk 'N' Punch
Sat, April 8th
Hoch Auditorium
Tickets at Kief's And
Student Union-SUA Office
"Shake off the Demon"
at Kief's only $2.99
Friday:
10:30 a.m. — Vigil for Peace and Reparation, grove outside Danforth Chapel.
8 p.m. — "The Automated Air War," Dyeche Auditorium.
8:30 p.m. — "Trit of the
Catsville Nine," Nine.
Ministries Building, 1242 Oread.
It will also be presented Saturday
and Sunday. Tickets for the play
may be purchased at the door.
SUA Flights to EUROPE
$299
$\textcircled{1}$ Chicago-Paris May 30, 1972
$\textcircled{2}$ Chicago Aug. 1, 1972
Chicago-Paris May 30, 1972 $299
Paris-Chicago Aug. 17, 1972
NYC-Luxembourg May 23, 1972 $210
Luxembourg-NYC July 24, 1972
NYC-Luxembourg May 21, 1972 $210
Luxembourg-NY-Cug. 16, 1972 $210
Full Payment Due April 17th
For further information, contact:
SUA Office, Kansas Union
864-3477