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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, February 18, 1998
African-American History Month
DeLano Sheffield, Topeka junior, listens to Missouri State Rep. Lloyd Daniel in Alderson Auditorium. Daniel, a KU alumnus, was on campus last night to give a speech. Photo by Eileen Bakri / KANSAN
Speaker hands baton to youth
Bv Sara Anderson
By Sara Anderson sanderson@kansan.com
Konson staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Missouri State Rep. Lloyd Daniel challenged students to change the world last night.
Daniel spoke to 70 students at 7 p.m. at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union as part of African-American History Month.
Daniel's presentation, "Liberation Education: A Strategy for the 21st Century," began with a poem from his book and included a question-and-answer session with the audience. The event was free and open to the public.
"The purpose of education is to change the world, starting with the world between your ears," Daniel said. "The goal of education is to build a better world. Liberation education seeks to do more than just make money for colleges. We need a system that is designed to empower and make them stronger."
Lien Pham, Overland Park junior, said she enjoyed Daniel's speech.
"I just wanted to come and hear what he had to say about education in the 21st century and what we can do to change it," she said. "I liked how he said we can't be passive learners but need to be entrepreneurs."
Daniel said that problems plaguing the country were not the responsibility of individuals, but that the pressure to change fell on the nation as a whole.
"People are people everywhere." Daniel said. "Racism is the problem, not white people. Sexism is the problem, not men. The question is, in your position, what are you going to do? There is still a challenge to put people and their interests and rights ahead of the big boys, computers and corporations."
Jay Jegathesan, Tulsa, Okla., junior, said that listening to others was the only way to learn effectively.
"I don't necessarily agree with all he said," Jegathesan said. "He was a good speaker, and his point of view was educational. You have to get out and listen to get others' onions."
Daniel said that the pressure to change society fell on young people and that change was an ongoing process.
"If any social change in society will take place, just like in other eras, it will be led by younger people," he said. "The process is like a relay race, every generation runs their lap and then pops the baton into the next generation's hand. You will be called to meet this challenge, and I honestly think you will meet it."
Daniel is vice chairman of the Missouri House of Representatives Tourism, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Committee. He has taught at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, worked as a community development specialist, as a teacher with the Genesis Alternative School in Kansas City, Mo., and served as director for the Urban Economic Development Institute in Kansas City, Mo.
Black Student Union and Student Senate sponsored the speech.
African Americans discuss Jewish roots
By Tamara Miller
tmiller@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
By Tamara Miller
William F. Crowdy was a Lawrence resident who wanted to make a better future for African Americans.
Crowdy, an emancipated slave, developed a following by giving fiery sermons on the future of African Americans at the corner of Eighth and Massachusetts streets in the late 1890s, said Timothy Miller, associate professor of religious studies.
Miller will discuss the formation and current status of Black Jews since Crowdy's time at 3:30 p.m. today at the Regionalist Room in the Kansas Union. The free lecture is sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs and is part of African-American History Month.
Julius Williams, assistant director for the Office of Minority Affairs, said the lecture would expose the diversity within the African-American community.
"Most people would have thought all Black persons were Baptist or Methodist," he said.
The lecture is important to the Lawrence community because the African-American Jewish movement began here, he said.
"I think it will be a surprise to the whole campus that Lawrence was the place where all this evolved," he said.
Miller said the African-American Jewish movement was a result of Black nationalism, which began at the turn of the century.
"The first several decades after slavery. Blacks weren't making much
"What Crowdy was calling for was for whites and Blacks to worship together, but there was still a lot of opposition at that time."
Steven Jansen
Director,
Watkins Community Museum of History
progress," he said. "Life was still the American dream."
Steven Jansen, director for Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Massachusetts St., said that the movement spread across the United States and churches were established primarily along the East Coast.
The number of Black Jews in the United States has decreased throughout the years, and only 100 African-American Jewish churches remain, Jansen said. No African-American Jewish churches exist today in Lawrence, he said.
Crowdy founded The Church of God and Saints of Christ, the original Black Jewish worship center in Lawrence, in 1896.
Jansen said that the church began to split because of racial tensions and because Crowdy tried to integrate Caucasians into the church.
"What Crowdy was calling for was for whites and Blacks to worship together," Jansen said. "But there was still a lot of opposition at that time."
Commission raises cost of dead
Higher burial fees will benefit residence
By Jeremy M. Doherty jdoherty@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
The cost of burying a loved one in Lawrence increased during last night's City Commission meeting.
The commission voted unanimously to raise plot and burial fees at two of its cemeteries, Oak Hill, 1605 Oak Hill St., and Maple Grove, at the junction of U.S. Highways 24, 40 and 59. A third cemetery, Memorial Park, 1517 E. 15th St., is expected to undergo a fee increase soon, said Fred DeVictor, director of parks and recreation.
The increases would raise fees paid by residents and University of Kansas students on foundations and burials.
Mike Wildgen, city manager, said
the increases were intended to offset the costs of grounds maintenance and land.
"It's been five years since we last did this," Wilden said. "We do this every once in a while to bring things up to current standards."
DeVictor said that the increased rates would bring the city an estimated $12,000 to $15,000 annually.
"Our budget is about $215,000 every year, and we generate revenue from those rates," DeVictor said. "Those rates bring us about $80,000 to $90,000, and the remainder comes to us from tax dollars."
Also approved were price increases for lots on land newly acquired by Oak Hill Cemetery. The price of $375 per lot was raised to $400.
The fee hike will affect people who
are shopping for a headstone, said Al Yost, owner of Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, 601 Indiana St.
"If the fees go up, it means people will have to buy less expensive and maybe less pretty markers," Yost said. "You have to realize that concrete costs a lot. It's going to make quite a difference on our sale of markers."
Yost said that an inexpensive headstone would cost at least $800.
"They have to pay their labor minimum wage and cover their overtime costs. Sometimes you don't have any choice. It's a foregone conclusion that you'll have to raise prices from time to time." he said.
The cemetery rates last were raised in November 1993. Wildgen said the city was trying to maintain the industry standards.
"We have to keep up with those expenses." Wildgen said. "Death is a growth business."
Under the change, an abortion cannot be performed at the Med Center unless a woman's life is in danger or it is necessary to prevent "irreversible impairment of a major bodily function."
The bill, which takes effect July 1, also contains a change in governance aimed at making the hospital in Kansas City, Kan., more competitive with hospitals in the metropolitan Kansas City area.
The bill signed by Graves would prohibit more abortions from being performed at the Med Center hospital.
It creates a 14-member independent public authority to operate the hospital, separate from
Gov. Bill Graves signed a bill banning more abortions at the University of Kansas Medical Center hospital and changing how it was governed.
Other issues included the deal to build a $252 million auto speedway in Wyandotte County, which was the governor's signature away from becoming a reality, after the Senate passed a bonding bill. 28-12, and sent to Graves.
Graves will sign the bill in a ceremony, possibly the first week in March in Kansas City, Kan., said Mike Matson, the governor's spokesman.
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