University Daily Kansan, February 20, 1985
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CAMPUS AND AREA
1885 student bucked trend
First black grad set example
By DeNEEN BROWN Staff Reporter
In 1885, when most schools' doors were shut on black students, Blanche became the first black graduate at the University of Kansas.
This year the University of Kansas Alumni Association's minority relations program will commemorate the centennial of Bruce's graduation
Bruce graduated nine years before George Washington Carver and may have been the first black student to graduate from a school in the Big Eight, said Eunice Stallworth, administrative assistant and coordinator of minority relations programs at the Alumni Association.
Carver graduated in 1894 from Iowa State University, then called the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. He received a master's degree in agriculture. In 1896, he received a master's degree in agriculture.
OKLAHOMA STATE University's first minority graduate was a Creek Indian, who graduated in 1906. The student admitted to admit black students until 1948, and its first black graduate received a degree in 1951.
Oklahoma State, Kansas State University, the University of Nebraska, the University of Colorado and the University of Missouri keep no records on their first black graduates.
Stallworth said it was important the KU students learned about Ridge.
"B.K. Bruce, being the first black graduate, opened doors which are still open today," she said. "The University of Kansas was the only door open to him outside of black schools.
"Hopefully we can focus on the fact that KU was one of the first universities to integrate in a time when it was unimaginable and definitely not wanted." she said. "This will give us some direction from where we've come to where we go."
Bruce could be an example to minority students, she said.
"WHEN TIMES GET low they can say, B.K. Bruce made it in four years when it would have been easier to take up sharereckoning." she said.
Bruce, born in 1859 in Brunswick, Mo., began his education in a one-room school house in Howard County. He attended Lincoln University, an all-black school, in Jefferson City, Mo., before enrolling at KU.
After his graduation from KU, Bruce worked as a principal at Summer School in Leavenworth for 54 years. During his years in Leavenworth, Bruce gained a nationwide reputation for tutoring candidates to prepare them for West Point and Annanapolis academies.
Of the 2,000 students he tutored only three failed their entrance exams to the military academies.
The first black student to enroll at KU above the preparatory level was Lizzie Ann Smith. She enrolled at the University in 1876 but never graduated.
ALTHOUGH BRUCE was the first
bachelor to enroll, not the first
black student to enroll.
But enrollment at KU did not ensure equality. Many black students were not allowed to live in campus housing. Instead, the University provided them with a list of off-campus housing.
Most black students found rooms in private homes of black Lawrence residents. Many black women students lived as part-time domestic servants in white residents' homes near campus. A few students lived in large rooming houses for black students, at the corner of New York and New Jersey streets.
Price of illegal parking may rise
By MIKE GREEN Staff Reporter
An increase from 25% to $100 in the maximum fine for people who park illegally in handicapped spaces was approved unanimously on first reading by the Lawrence City Commission last night.
The commission's move was an amendment to the 1985 Standard Traffic Ordinance, which also was approved on first reading last night. The amendment would give a judge hearing a case the discretion to set any fine as long as it did not exceed $100.
The commission must approve the second reading before it becomes law.
Mayor Ernest Angino said the city faced a significant problem with people parking illegally in spaces
reserved for handicapped drivers. He said he felt strongly that something needed to be done to correct the situation.
THE COMMISSION also unanimously approved on first reading an amendment requiring children sitting in the front seats of trucks to wear a seat belt or other type of restraining device.
Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, said state law required children in the front seats of passenger vehicles. But the law does not apply to trucks.
Angino said he thought the city could use a stricter law.
Commissioner Howard Hill agreed, saying, "A restraint system for a child in the front seat of a pickup is vitally important."
of land north of 15th Street and east of Wakarusa Drive for a park.
In other business, the commission voted unanimously to buy five acres
FRED DEVICTOR, director of the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department, said that the park was already in use and that no plans had been drawn up.
"This is for the future growth of the city as it expands in that direction." DeVictor said. "Nothing may be done on this for the next five years."
City Manager Buford Watson said any park built at the site would serve a relatively small area. He said the land would cost $5,000 per acre.
Angino said the cost was reasonable.
Angino said the cost was reason able.
"This is in line with the long-range development of the city," Angino said. "I've got no problems with the $5,000-per-acre cost. This price will definitely go up in the coming years."
Official blasts plan for Furley site
takeover of the site. She said the order was unwarranted.
Sabol said the draft order came slightly more than a week before a scheduled discussion between the state and the site owner. Waste Management Inc. The two sides are considering a compromise cleanup plan similar to the EPA proposal, she said.
"The EPA makes the task a bit more difficult." Sabul said. "Now you have two agencies trying to get a problem solved."
By United Press International
During a news conference, the official, Barbara Sabol, secretary of health and environment, said Morris Kay, EPA regional administrator, had issued a draft order Saturday for
Sabol said both the state and federal plans called for millions of gallons of contaminated ground water to be extracted from beneath the site and disposed of in Oklahoma.
TOPEKA — The state's top environmental official yesterday criticized an attempt by the Environmental Protection Agency to take over the cleanup of a hazardous waste storage site near Furley.
The Furley dump has been closed since January 1981, when the EPA discovered that toxic wastes were leaking from the site. Since then, Waste Management has appealed a number of Sabol's orders relating to site cleanup and monitoring of ground water contamination.
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