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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, March 17, 1971
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Students Study Inner City
By BARBARA SPURLOCK Kansas Staff Writer
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Twenty-nine University of Kansas students recently moved into urban Kansas City for four days in an "Urban Plunge" to the problems, anxieties, and feelings of people living in a city.
"Urban Plunge" was organized by the United Christian Mission, an ecumenical cooperative ministry and was held March 5. $10,000
Don Baldwin. Methodist minister of the United Ministries in Higher Education, said the church inside what it's like to live in an urban environment, and an attack on sensitive ones to people.
The group of students and ministry staff members divided into groups and went into the
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inner city of Kansas City, Mo.
Baldwin said it was a total experi-
mence of the senses.
Two persons arrested in the Feb. 26 drug raid were dropped by the Douglas County welfare office, amounts of money found in their apartments during the raids, according to John Derrick, a deputy sheriff.
Alan T. Marcum, 21, of 1280 Ohio and Kimberly Webster, 22, of 1309 Ohio were in violation of a regulation that requires recipients to report any income they accrue while on welfare. to the police report Marcum had $791 and Webster had $644.
Derrick said Friday that both cases could be considered crimes because of the fraudulent collection of welfare payments.
"WE WERE TO observe, smell, look at and talk with people of the city," Baldwin said. Plunge members were told to physical reactions such as increase in heartbeat or perspiration.
"We tried to find out what kinds of feelings the environment brought to us and to find out how it affected in the area." Baldwin explained
They talked to everyone they saw, including people walking aimlessly through the streets and people in power positions. They tried to encounter people working to improve city conditions.
An important benefit of the project is sharing among group members, Baldwin said. Each team member leaves lunch, and groups of six pooled their money. The group stayed at the Common Ground, a young center in Kansas that Kan. Youth share real time, share and discuss experiences.
The groups did not spend all their time in the inner city. They also studied people in middle and upper classes, aiki d'ailiwim's group went door-to-door to affluent residential area of Kansas City asking people to come and solve the problems. One woman who refused to open the door, but was forced to a curtain opening, said that secrecy in the problem was lack of communication.
ANOTHER GOAL of the project was to educate participants on the housing, transportation and educational facilities of the city. This knowledge would help the group make connections between city's institutions and help them to become more aware of their commitments, Baldwin said.
"It seemed so ironic," Baldwin said.
"TO SOLVE THE problems of the inner city, we must work in our communities, not in our eyes," she said. Those concerned with the inner city should go back to their own communities, she said, because people there of needed changes.
Janet Sears, executive director of KU-Y, went to Johnson County with her group.
Miss Sears said it was also encouraging to see people who were in the group were able to see realistically the situation of a
Chris Sims, Kansas City, Mo.
 junior who went on the Urban
Plunge, said, "The best thing I
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and seeing the world."
Kansas City residents who participated discovered a world
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they had never seen before when they made contact with certain facets of city life. Baldwin said.
BALDWIN SAID it was highly likely that participants would some day live in an urban or suburban area and it was appropriate for students to meet different people before they lived with them.
Kansas City, Kan., Mayor Joseph McDewell and Jena Pavelie, director of the Human Affairs department, dressed the group. However, the highlight of the plunge for Baldwin was a Sunday worship service at St. Mary Church where he heard Phil Lawson, a black minister, is best known for a radio broadcast of troops in Vietnam. He instructed the troops not to shoot the enemy as they were also a minority group.
Lawson said that in spite of all pains had blackened, they endured, they learned to "blackness" . He described the gift of social consciousness as a "gift of wisdom."
Lawson's non-movil approach to racial conflict. Baldwin said, encouraged Plunge members to continue work in that field.
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election because it is difficult for any minority candidate to take the job. He said it would be hard to win elections without election when there were seven candidates running, and in this case run-off election would be valuable.
Students on campus are wearing "We're No. 1" buttons bearing the letters "KU No. 1" in crimson, blue and white.
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Ridge White, Kansas City, Kan., junior and chairman of the We're No.1 Committee, said he got the idea for selling the buttons about two weeks ago. Sales began just before the Oklahoma State basketball game.
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"We sold almost 5,000 the first week," White said. "Then we had a business that nobody here was well. Things are just beginning to pick up again."
About 8,000 editions had been sold by Tuesday afternoon. "We plan to keep selling them right through the regionals," he said. "And if we win at Wichita, then we will be selling them at Houston."
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