Friday, July 23, 1971
University Summer Kansar
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Busing Answers Integration Need
Bv REGINA AHRENS
anymore, when the topic of racial integration is discussed, the conversation will eventually lead to busing; the recent attacks against black students seemed to impure an equal racial balance in schools.
This conclusion held true when 11 campers: five whites, four blacks, and one Chicano (Mexican-American), were invited to join in a game. The group's comments are from those participants who comments are from those participants who
were familiar with the realities of busing. Allen was the only white, the other four are
Coming to the journalism camp from Kansas City Central High School which is 100 per cent black. Forestside Purrell said some students were handed from her school in her freshman year.
"I heard a bunch of them who really hate it," she said. "But two years later they had gone back and the boys went."
Michael Richmond, a speech student from Bogaloca, La., is in the same situation.
about coming back to Central."
EDITORIALS
Racial Unity Needed Now
Rv REGINA AHRENS
We've got to get it together. We'll "all Godchildren of the world" and it will time we have.
And if it takes a man-made vehicle called a bus then it gets on it. let's get moving!
In the South they've tried to force it. In the North it's long overdue.
in this way. As long as I see a black man and he looks dark and erkie to me, or I see a white man and he looks soft and spoiled, I'm bound to be leery of him and resent him. But if you put me in a desk next to him, and ask him to ask him to lend a mencil, or if we seek a black man
math problem, there is hop. Because from
that moment I have moved that bridge over
unknown waters and found myself face to
face with the man, a colorless man, a
mirror of myself.
All right, so you want the measures to be less drastic than a half hour ride across town. You have my black friend the schools I have and my other opportunity for education that I have, and let him pull himself up to my bed and long it is going to sit and wait, with the cardboard boxes.
"In 1968 they forced integration," he said.
"They closed down all the black schools and all the blacks were bused to white schools because the whites felt their children wouldn't be safe in a black neighborhood and there wasn't enough parking space on the campus for their children's cars—it was in the paper."
I'll go to his school, and he can come to mine, and we'll share all that we have.
Prejudice in America
By STEVE WHITLOCK
Niggers, chinks, spooks, slopes, gooics, digos, dagos, greasers, kings, mingis, spoils, boochs, jigs-a-boys, honkies, and all spell the same thing, discrimination.
Fourteen to sixteen per cent of the white population of the United States still consider African Americans a racial group.
American suburbs are still posted with FOR WHATS ONLY sims.
Dr. Irving Jackson, a prominent New York physician on a visit to a city in the Southwest, conducted an experiment by walking through a white residential district. In a two-hour period, he was called more than 30 insulting names by "respectable" citizens.
In mid-June, the Supreme Court came out on the other side in a decision concerning the public swimming pools of Jackson, Miss. By a five to four court, the court ruled that Jackson
had not violated any civil rights laws by closing its nools instead of integrating them.
In a dissenting opinion, Justice Bryan White wrote that he had "had little doubt" that the closings were an official "pronouncement that Negroes are somehow unfair to swim with whites." Black felt it necessary to warn from the dangers of being taken as encouragement for the closing of public schools to evade integration, a tactic long since outlawed. But distinguishing between pools and schools sidesteps the point that perhaps no distinction should be made at
In a country devoted to complete equality, that goal cannot be reached until the people realize the futility of their discriminatory practices against their fellow man and find themselves in a tainted eyes to use through the transparent exterior of white, black, yellow or brown.
Blacks Develop Skill Of Mind Over Matter
By FLORESTINE PURNELL
Understanding... **strength** ... trust
intelligence... love... life. Blackness is a state of mind, considered the ultimate in a state of "original concept" is assumed forgotten
Brothers and sisters don't have to be dashik clad, AfA-sporting, Dradia-cilldriving individuals. Their skin may lack ebony hair but their muscles can achieve all things through self-expression.
Understanding should be ever present. One has to understand that it is not entirely a person's fault if he is prejudged against race, religion, or sex. Bigotry, prejudice, and discrimination have to be understood as pitfalls of our society. Eventually these things will die.
Strength . . . a black mind has to be strong enough to withstand the element of time, the time it takes for ignorant people to become more aware of their own potential. A black mind has to be strong enough to keep a
Ignorance may be bliss, as the old saying has it, but a black mind needs intelligence to raise himself up in the world and keep himself together. With enough intelligence, there are ways to combat injustices through courts and laws. Without knowledge of these laws, more wrongdoing could happen, and needed and these ways would do nothing but cause more complicated problems.
A black mind has to trust and have faith in his fellow man. He must remember that laws against discrimination were passed for his benefit and that the people responsible for the passing of these laws were not all of the same skin color.
body from becoming violent when it perceives an injustice and keeping cool when all around.
Life and life must go hand in hand; for without life there is nothing and life without love would be cold and indifferent. A love for all of man is definitely needed to have understanding, develop strength, learn to trust and achieve intelligence.
Lizabeth Looney, journalism, sees no point in the busing approach adopted in the city of
"They're closing down all the schools in our neighborhood and sending us over to their white schools," she said. "I live down the street from a high school and they bus me way over to the other side of town, three miles out of my way.
"They're going to close down the black grade schools and bus the grade school kids
"What they should do is bus both, equally the same ratio; some whites to black schools and some blacks to white schools," she remarked.
Michael Van Rans, a journalism student from Wyandotte High School in Karsas City, Montana.
“If busing is to be done,” he said, “the blacks should be based from their schools to white schools, for the simple fact that most schools have better facilities than black schools.”
Don Allen, a debater from Denver East High School, says having in his school led to the decision.
families moved so their children would be closer to the school they attended, he said.
He admits that there was a lot of trouble eight years ago, when integration was first introduced.
"It was bad," he said, "they had riots, they in the police, there newsmen get beat up."
But, after two or three years, the trouble had subsided. Today, he said, all organizations and functions in the school are totally integrated.
A Man for Equality
Bv MICHAEL VAN ROSS
Most Negroes think of President Lincoln as one of the most outstanding men in the history of the United States for his work in ratifying the 13th Amendment of the Constitution. Taddeus Stevens, a White Republican Congressman, is another man that Negroes consider to be one of the most outstanding men in the history of the United States; but very few know of him.
Stevens, son of a farmer who abandoned his wife and four children in Danville, VL, limped on a clubfoot and was extremely sensitive to the smell of vinegar. He was determined to educate him. She moved to Peacham, VI, and took housekeeping jobs to enter him at the academy there. He excelled in history and honed his tongue into what he came to some the sharpest cutting edge in America.
In 1821 he represented a Maryland sung in Pennsylvania courts for the return of a Negress, Charity Bader, who claimed her husband the win. He the case; Charity was returned.
After Stevens graduated from Dartmouth College in 1814, he got a job teaching in York, Pa. and began to study law. Two years later he quit teaching and hung out his shingle in Gettysburg. Stevens was forever coming up against problems of runaways and human rights in the New England town from the only incident in which he supported "the peculiar institution" as he called it.
Because of this victory of narrow legisman over what Stevens considered basic human rights, he can be trusted.
When Stevens entered the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1833, he shocked politicians by saying in public exactly what he thought. He called opponents fools. And he always blasted slavery. As a member of the 1837 Constitution of Pennsylvania, he refused to sign the new constitution after the word "white" was inserted in front of "freeman" as a voting requirement.
Once an enemy met Steven on a narrow path and smarted, "I never step aside for a lad."
Stevens moved out of the way saying, "but I always do."
Clients flocked to Stevens, and he became rich. By the late 1830s, he had gained commanding stature in his state. He was elected to congress in 1848. At congress he collided head-on with slavery's leading spokesman. Rep. Thomas Ross, for one, attacked him in a courtroom. Stevens listened, then rose—and the House discovered what true invective was.
There was a belief that slavery had to be tolerated, at least for a while, if the nation would allow it. But the Slave Act even ordered free citizens to help track down runaways. Stevens left Washington in BCS, at the end of his second term, predating that the compromise would have been ratified.
In 1838, as passions healed, his sense of duty caused him to re-enter politics. Elected again to the House of Representatives, he stood for president in 1842 and President Lincoln. When the fighting began,
Stevens limped around Washington, stuttering the nerve of the government, sparring
Stevens pressed Lincoln to free the slaves immediately. Lincoln could not agree. This became a sore point between the two men. As he did so, Stevens sent his Encouragement Proclamation. Lincoln, Stevens reassured abolitionist friends, was not a "battening ram" against slavery, but with his usual shrewdness and caution he is able to morder from the joints until the tower falls."
There were many clashes between Lincoln and Stevens over policy. Stevens' criticism was harsh, but he defended it by saying, "We are allies, and while the kisses of an enemy are deceitful."
When Lincoln's funeral tungged past changed anancer, Pa. Stevens stood by a railroad car in front of the mourners.
The war was ending, Stevens believed a strong hand was needed to keep Confederates from trying to restore slavery. Slave holders in the South had come up with a new concept of freedom into the Constitution.
The 133d Amendment, ratified during the war, had already abolished slavery but it continued citizenship to the blacks. After bitter controversy over the amendment, President Andrew Johnson—Congress came up with the 134th Amendment, which which not only made ex-slaves citizens, but gave federal citizenship.
Though he fought hard for the 14th amendment, Stevens wanted something stronger. He
set to work on the 15th Amendment, which although not ratified until after his death, specifically nailed down the right to vote for citizens of any race or color. He battled for the Freedom's Bureau Bill, which brought the bill through the South and whites of the South. He helped set up courts, backed by federal bayonets, to ensure that ex-slaves received their rights.
When Stevens rose to speak, he would matter as if talking to himself, while the House grew hushed in anticipation. Suddenly he would voice another force; voice would explode in tense, vurbulent language.
Stevens wanted to see all large plantations confiscated and ex-slaves given 40 acres. President Andrew Johnson publicly called the stevens in turn, called the President a knave and a fool. When one Congressman tried to hail the rupture by excluding Johnson as a "self made man," Stevens only snapped, "I relieves God of a heavy responsibility."
An impeachment trial followed, and the Radicals failed by one vote. Sick and disappointed, Stevens limped off to his Washington home. Seeing ex-slaves still felttered by ignorance and harmstrug by his race weoly incomplete.
On August 11, 1888, tended by two black nurses and his housekeeper, Stevens died. Thousands of common folk marched past his beer in the rotunda of the capital.
Weekend Camp Concert Schedule
SATURDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT
2:15 p.m.
Darrell Benne, Conductor Nancie Jewell, Accompanist
Revecy Venir Du Printeremps Le Jeun
Liebesliedier Walzer, Opus 51 Brahm
(Communiqué)
Wenn so Lind Dein Auge Mir
Am Donaustrande
O Wie Sanft Die Quelle
Neim, es ist Nr. Auszkommunen
Kathryn Taylor und Nancie Jewell, pianists
RED BAND
Ed. Bartley, Conductor
George Bartley, Conductor
Robert Foster, Guest Conductor
George Weiss, Guest Conductor
CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Gerald M. Carney, Conductor
A. H. Long, Guest Conductor
Alessandro, Guest Conductor
Dmitri Shostakovich
In The Stall Of The Night Porter-Hunter
*Is a Blue World Wright-Douglas
B Is Good To Be Merry Berger
Reflection Bright
Red Bed Rose Scotch arr. Shaw Arkley
...John P. Sousa
Coat Of Arms
Toccae Marriate
Mr. Poster, conducting
George Kenny
R. Vaughan Williams
Mr. Alessandro, conducting
Irish Tune From County Derry
Percy Grainger
Country Derry conducting
Festive Overture
Dmitri Shostakovich
Mr. Foster, conducting
Thunder And Lightning, Polka
Jean Sibellus
Symphony Two, 2 In D Major
Jean Sibellus
Black Horse Troop... Mr. Woise conducting
Mr. Boberg.conducting
turgical Music For Band ... Martin Malilman
I. Introit
11. Kyrte
12. Gioria
"Allehuia
25 or 6 to 4
The Damnation Of Faust . . . Hector Berlioz
mr. Long, conducting
Mr. Bartley, conducting
Chicago
Arr. Barnes
The Damnation Of Faus Hungarian March
SUNDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT
2:15 p.m.
CONCERT CHOIR AND CHAMBER CHOIR
Darrrell Benne, Conductor
Burt Allen and David Lewis, Assistant Conductors
Dennis Mercer and Nance Jewell, Accompanists
Requiem Mass, K268
A. Mozart
Intro and Kyrie Lacroymza
Dies Ires Domine Jesus
Tuba Mirum Hostias
Rex Tremendae Sanctus
Rex Coronatus Benedictus
Concatutas Agus Dei
SOLOISTS
Mr. Benne, conducting
Kathryn Taylor, soprano
Doreab扎贝塔, alto
Marc Marcaux, tenor
Bill Anderson, bass
ORCHESTRA
Clarinet:
Barbara Liley
Greg Baldwin
Bassoon:
Ann Somerville
Cathi O'Neill
Trumpet:
Keith Amstutz *
Pat Nurre
Trombone:
Robert Ford *
Jack Coleman
Frank Thompson
Tympani:
George Boberg *
Violin:
Jan Miller
Marion Scheid
Carolyn Young
Charlene Potter
Amelia
Jeanne Allen
Joanne Stanford
David Francis
*K.U. Faculty
Viola:
Mary Hoag
Alice Hammond
Cello:
John Kelly
Sandra Allen
Bass:
Charles Hoag •
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Gerald M Carney, Conductor
Victor Alexandro, Guest Conductor
Symphony No. 11 N B Minna, Jean Sibelius
First movement, alloy energetic
Mr Carney, conducting
Thus Spake Zarathustra, Tom Poem Richard Strauss
Of the People of the Hinterland
Of the Great Yearning
Of Hansees and Mr Mortines
Song of the City of the Dead
Concerning Science
The Convalescent
The Dance Song
Song of the Night Wanderer
Conclusion
(where more)
MR. CARNEY, conducting
SUNDAY EVENING CONCERT
M. Mansurio, conducting
Irish Tune From County Derby
Percy Grainger
conducting
7:00 p.m.
BLUE BAND
Robert Foster, Conductor
R. D. Lester, Conductor
Daughters Of Texas, March John Philip Souza
Youth Triumphant, Overture Henry Hadley
"Early in the Day"
Dr. Keith Amistad, corner sound
Irish Washerwoman Arr. Leroy Anderson
II Guayama          A Carlos Gomez
Crown Imperial           William Walton
Tampa Bay
Mr. Long, conducting
CONCERT BAND
Russell L. Wiley, Conductor
Victor Aiello, Prof., Conductor
Giulio Lam Titi
CONCERT BAND
Ranald L. Wiley, Conductor
Victor Alessandro, Guest Conductor
Overture To "William Tell"...G. Rossini
Mr. Wiley, conductor
Overture To "Rienzi"...Richard Wagner
Finnlandia...Jean Sibelius
Mr. Alessandro, conducting
1812 Overture
Pete Tachalkovsky
Irish Tune From County Derry
Arr. Percy Grainger