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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 2, 1963
Campus Rights Coordinator Backs Fraternity Integration
(Last of a Three-Part Series)
By Fred Frailey
A Negro civil rights leader said last night Negroes want to see racial barriers dropped in fraternities.
"Discrimination such as this makes us feel that we are not free men," said Cordell Meeks Jr., Kansas City senior and KU civil right coordinator.
Meeks, past president of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and a counselor this year at Joseph R. Pearson Hall, believes, nevertheless, the decision of white fraternities to pledge Negroes should be made by the fraternities themselves, and not by the University administration.
"FORCED pledging of Negroes would be unwise," he said, "because it would break down the fraternity system and would really not get us anyplace. We would rather have white fraternities accept us because they want to."
Meeks is the only Negro member of the All Student Council's Human Rights Committee. As civil rights coordinator for the ASC, he also tries to keep the assortment of civil rights groups in Lawrence working together.
One of the few signs of open discrimination Meeks said he has found in Lawrence is in fraternities.
"WE WANT TO see segregation in fraternities end, not necessarily because we want to be members of white fraternities, but because we want to see open signs of discriminatory practices eliminated. We would feel more like the human beings than we are."
Meeks is a member of the only integrated fraternity at KU.
"A white member of Alpha Phi Alpha was graduated here in 1954 as a Phi Beta Kappa. Several other white persons have been members of my fraternity since then and several attended our rush parties this summer."
MEEKS IS NOT a pessimist. He believes people are realizing "prejudice is ridiculous."
"The day will come when one of the larger fraternities braves the storm and takes a Negro. When this happens, the others will not be reluctant to do the same," he said.
Blocking such a move now are
Students Meet With New Dean
Joseph W. McGuire, new dean of the Business School, was officially presented to his students last night at a meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Management.
This was the first meeting between the dean and the students since his arrival at KU from the University of Washington. Dean McGuire is best known here for his book, "Business and Society," which was used last summer in one of the senior business courses.
An informal discussion at the business society was primarily devoted to the dean's concepts of the role of a dean, the value of education in a business school, and his objectives for the KU School of Business.
"The role of a dean is basically administrative. It is his job to bind together the loose ends of the school." Dean McGuire said.
He added that he was impressed with the caliber of the faculty in the Business School, and how conscious they were of the students' needs.
Evaluating a business degree, he explained, "We teach, business as a separate curriculum because business is there like Mt. Everest. It is a growing and changing part of our lives."
He went on to point out that a business school is better equipped to give the picture of business as it is and will be, rather than its development and ancient history.
"We are training the business student for the future. If we trained him for today, by the time he used his knowledge it would be obsolete," he said.
McGuire concluded that the prime goal of the Business School is to educate the student, not to provide vocational training.
prejudice and fears by fraternities of not being accepted, Meeks said.
"It would be easy for me to say that if fraternity men were better educated to the problem of prejudice, it would disappear. But it's not that simple.
"I cannot conceive of any educational program that would convince a person that he should not prejudice another person because of his race. I do not think a prejudiced person would want to listen," he said.
JUST AS BIG a hindrance to the
Brass Choir To Perform In Far East
The KU Brass Choir will leave this spring for a tour of the Far East. The tour will be sponsored by the U.S.State Department.
The 18-member choir will play concerts in nine nations, starting in Karachi, Pakistan, in February, 1964, and ending four months later in Wellington, New Zealand.
IN EACH COUNTRY it visits on the tour, the choir will have its temporary headquarters in a town with the U.S. embassy.
Gary Watson, Formoso senior who will play French horn with a group, said an interesting feature of the tour is going to be the presentation of clinics by the choir.
The members of the choir will demonstrate their instruments, and explain how each of them is played
The tentative schedule of the tour includes concerts in Colombia, Ceylon, Rangoon, Burma, Bangkok, Thailand, Phnom-Penh, Cambodia, Saigon, South Viet Nam, Canberra, Australia and Singapore, Malaysia
EACH MEMBER of the choir will receive a daily allowance for meals, hotels, transportation and other expenses.
The program for the concerts will be a variety of music arranged for brass instruments. Marches, contemporary tunes and selections from Broadway hits will be played.
There will be particular concentration on the more disciplined music of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Kenneth Bloomquist, director of the group and assistant professor of band, said, "We hope to play the national anthem of every country we visit."
FOR PRACTICE, several KU foreign students recently attended a rehearsal and served as critics on the band's treatment of the anthems.
Also traveling overseas for the State Department, but to different areas, are the Duke Ellington band, the Jose Limon dance group, and the Robert Shaw Chorale.
Other college instrumental and choral groups who will make the trip include the universities of Illinois, Maryland, Southern California and North Texas State, and George Peabody College.
All the KU students going on the tour hope to follow careers in music. Most of them are 19 to 22 years old. The 18 members of the choir have a total of 158 years of experience on the instruments they play.
**STUDENTS who will make the trip are Clarence Awaya, Honolulu, Hawaii senior; Mike Berger, Springfield. Mo., sophomore; William Booth, Sedalia, Mo., senior; David Boyd, Leavenworth sophomore; Richard Ellison, Springfield, Mo. sophomore; Robert M. Gifford, Green City, Mo., senior, and Roy James Guenther, Breckenridge, Okla. sophomore.
William Hartman, Ponca City, Okla., junior; Don Hodges, Winfield freshman; Jon Irish, Leavenworth senior; Bill Lane, Winter Park, Fla. sophomore; Alvin Lowery, Winfield junior, and Kent Riley, Columbus senior.
Roger Rundle, Clay Center junior; Gary Lee Watson, Formoso senior; Linda Converse, Lawrence senior; Lita Snodgrass, Lawrence sophomore, and Charles L. Snodgrass, Lawrence senior.
end of fraternity segregation, Meeks says, is the fear of a Greek house to admit a Negro that it will be looked down by other houses.
"There is also the fear among fraternity men who would like to pledge Negroes that they will no longer be accepted by their own fraternity brothers." Meeks said.
In the summer before his freshman year, Meeks received a letter from a white fraternity inviting him to a rush party.
"I told my friends that this fraternity had asked me to a swimming party. They told me it was a mistake and that I would be wasting my time. I might have gone though, if my job hadn't prevented it," he said.
"Would I have joined a white fraternity had I been asked? Yes, if I had liked the fraternity and the men in it. But I wasn't asked."
Resignations,retirements,and current leaves of absence in the School of Engineering and Architecture have been balanced by the return of former staff members on leave, visiting professors, and new staff members.
New Staff Offsets Loss
New staff members who have accepted regular appointments at KU are R. R. Gatts, the new chairman of the department of mechanical engineering, and Assistant Professors Lewis Linzell, mechanics and aerospace, Don Daugherty, electrical engineering, and Joshua Pelleg, metallurgy and materials.
W. B. DUNCAN and R. F. Guenter have been promoted to assistant professors of architecture, and Nicholas Willems has been promoted to associate professor of engineering.
Five former faculty members who have returned from sabbatical leaves are D. W. Appel from the University of Michigan; K. H.
Lenzen from Iraq; J. C. Morley from Scotland; C. J. Baer from various parts of Europe; and K. R. Jones from Colombia.
Visiting professors for this year are Hajime Akashi from Japan; Anatol Zagustin from Russia; and M. S. A. A. Hammam from Egypt.
THREE STAFF members begin sabbatical leaves this fall. G. W. Bradshaw will be in California, Hillel Unz in England, and G. W. Forman will be in Kansas State.
In all, 15 losses have been replaced by 16 new staff members, either by appointment, visiting professors, or members returning from leave.
According to the office of the Dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture, the number of leaves without sabbatical, and visiting professors are higher than usual. However, the many exchanges between different countries and our academic institutions as well as industries augment the continual flow of ideas.
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