UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, March 15, 1994
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Speaker urges young men to find role models
African Americans still seen in negative light, journalist says
By Stephen Martino Kansan staff writer
Society and the media still favor negative images of African-American men and not positive ones, a Chicago-based journalist said last night.
Ronald Childs, a former editor with the Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago and now a freelance writer, spoke at the Centennial Room of the Kansas Union. Johnson Publishing Company is the owner and publisher of Ebony Man, Ebony and Jet magazines. His speech was sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs, as its last presentation in celebration of Black History Month. Childs was scheduled to visit the University in February, but his trip was canceled due to bad weather.
Childs' speech focused on defining
success for African-American men. He said that it was often difficult to determine success because African-American men were not often allowed to fully express themselves.
"If a Black man stands up and says something unifying, people want him to take a seat," he said. "But an individual can indeed affect change."
Role models, Childs said, are the best way to show young AfricanAmerican men a proper direction to go. He said that Bernard Shaw of the Cable News Network, Bryant Gumble of NBC and Gen. Colin Powell were some of the best models the men could admire.
He also said that he was distressed that so much emphasis was put on athletic achievement when the best way to become successful was through an education.
"People need to explain to kids that the chances are better to escape the ghetto with a book than with a basketball," he said.
Childs said that an African-American man was successful when he had accomplished what he set out to do.
"You can choose to excel," he said. "But you must never forget to reach back down and help the people whose shoulders you once stood on."
Even though the program waspublicized as a speech about AfricanAmerican men, Ira Wright, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, said she thought the presentation had meaning to all African Americans.
"The problems he spoke about with the media are noticeable in local news," she said. "There is much more negative than positive."
The words of Ronald Childs were informative and inspiring, said Justin York, Denver, Colo., senior.
"It's important to hear about the media looking for contradictions to sell their products," he said. "We can make a difference, and we have to keep setting new goals when we achieve our old ones."
The chances of Haskell Indian Nations University receiving the $1.2 million increase it requested last week from Congress are slim, said Adrian Brown, Haskell Student Senate vice president.
By Denise Nell
Kansan staff writer
In fact, the school might actually lose $200,000 of its current funding.
Congress could cut funding for Haskell
Brown was one of five students who traveled to Washington, D.C., last week to make Haskell 1995 budget requests before the congressional Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Three Haskell Board of Regents members and Haskell president Bob Martin also testified.
"Even though we went up and presented a good case with hard data, it seemed our going there and testifying was just routine," he said.
Brown said that he got the feeling Haskell's budget was going to be cut regardless of the testimony. This year Haskell was given $200,000 extra to develop Haskell's first four-year degree in teachers education. But the Office of Management and Budget has proposed to cut that money from Haskell's 1986 budget.
According to the testimony, 25 students are enrolled in the program and more than 100 others have expressed interest.
Brown said he thought Haskell would have trouble successfully developing into a university because it was federally funded.
Jot song as Haskell is under the Bureau of Indian Affairs wing, it's going to be hard for Haskell to become the university we want it to be," he said. "It seems like I have a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., telling me what I should learn when it should be teachers and the board of regents that dictate it."
Hannes Combest, educational assistant to Martin,
said that Haskell was in desperate need of funding.
we keep getting money for the program and the program expansion, but then we don't get the money to maintain the programs," she said. "We need funds. We're on a real edge here."
The additional $1.2 million the students and board requested would be used to provide a computer network in Haskell's science and math programs, to provide a wellness program and training in treating substance abuse, to fund residence hall expansion and to provide updated food service equipment. It would also fund a program to offer courses via satellite communication.
In addition, Haskell requested authorization to design a new science facility. Haskell's current science laboratories have been in use since Haskell was a high school, more than 40 years ago.
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