CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, February 20,1984
Page 8
Joe Wilkins III/ Special to the KANSAN
Phil Johnson, Omaha, Neb., sophomore, sits on top of a trash dumpster as fellow members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity help return it to the house parking lot. From left, David O'Brien, Arkansas City sophomore; Robert Rutsch, Kansas City, Kan., freshman; Don Pratt, Mission Hills freshman; and Aaron Ruston, Va., sophomore. The men were cleaned up after building the sets for the Feb. 23/25 Encore production.
Hughes exhibit shows KU ties
The 12-year-old boy felt had when the KU Jayhawks lost to either the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers or the Wisconsin Bulls in a Saturday afternoon football game.
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ Staff Reporter
But the football games at the University of Kansas later stood out as happy memories for the lonely black youngater living in a sea of racial
In his 1940 autobiography, "The Big Sea," Langston Hughes, a black American writer fondly recalled the callousness of "WALK HAWAII, JAX HAWKI KU!"
AND ALTOUGH Hughes might not have remembered the "Rock Chalk" cheer correctly, memories of his former surface in many of Hughes' works.
Because of Hughes' ties to Lawrence, and in conjuction with Black History Month, the Kenneth R. Spencer Research Library will feature Hughes' work in an exhibit that opens at 8 p.m. tomorrow.
Hughes was born in Joplin, Mo., in 1842, but he considered Kansas his hometown.
"I sort of claim to be a Kansas," Hughes told a KU audience two years before his death. "My whole childhood was spent here in Lawrence and Topeka, and sometimes in Kansas City."
He lived a lonely 12 years at 732 Alabama St., he said, because Lawrence was overrun with racial prejudice.
In 1903, Hughes' mother brought him to Lawrence to live with his grand- aunt.
THROUGHOUT HIS childhood, Hughes was isolated from children his own age and barred from the everyday activities that whites enjoyed.
'My whole childhood was spent here in Lawrence and Topeka, and sometimes in Kansas City.' — Langston Hughes, poet
In his seventh grade class, the teacher moved the blacks into a "Jim Crow row" that separated them from the rest of the class.
The only theater open to blocks was the Bowersock Opera House, Hughes said.
Even there, he and his friends were forced to sit in a gallery high above the roof.
Churches, hotels, and restaurants were also either segregated or closed to students.
Consequently, Hughes spent much of his time roaming about the KU campus, often exploring strange places.
Mark Scott wrote in "Langston
Hughes of Kansas" that Hughes used to visit the morge on campus and watch it run through a marsh.
MEMORIES OF his childhood experiences lasted a lifetime, and gave Hughes the desire "to be a writer and write stories about negroes, so that people in faraway lands would read them — even after I was dead."
been translated into several languages.
Some of his writings, including
annotated manuscripts, typewritten
scripts, autographed poems and
other works, are held in the
display at Spencer Library titled
"Llangoston Hughs — Black Genius."
The exhibit is the first display in a new Black Collection for the library's Kerkhof Museum.
The Kansas Collection already includes some items dealing with area black history, but the library is expanding its collection, Williams said.
Farmers gain extension on '84 sign-up deadline
"WE HAVE what we like to think of as a unique collection of Hughes' work," said Sheryl Williams, curator of the Kansas Collection.
"We'll also use this as an inauguration for a program to collect information and materials about blacks in Kansas and the surrounding area."
The black history collection includes cemetery records, photographs, bank books and a handwritten autobiography of a former slave.
By United Press International
Kansas farmers scored a victory Saturday with the announcement by U.S. Agriculture Secretary John Block of a three-week extension in the sign-up deadline for his farm program, state officials said.
Block announced in Des Moines, Iowa, that he was extending the period in which farmers could sign up until March 16.
The old deadline was Feb. 24.
Rep. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said Saturday in a statement issued to Washington. "By rights, the United States Department of Agriculture should be announcing the 1985 wheat program instead of monkeying around at the last minute with the program that affects this year's crop.
"BUT DESPITE that, we have won an important victory." Roberts said.
an important victory," Roberts said. The First District congressman said he was interested in a plan after Block realized that farmers were not signing up in the program.
John Block
Roberts said Block had also rescinded discriminatory acreage bases and cropping recommendations, leaving the program as it was last year.
"With the binding sign-up a full three months earlier than it was last year, with regulations that disenfranchised most of our Kansas producers, and with depressed prices, we had reached a point where fear and panic was replacing frustration and anger in farm country," Roberts said.
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A TRIBUTE TO THE PREVIOUS CITY COMMISSION
Because a squabbler quarrels, in the words of one dictionary, "noisily and to no purpose", one might reasonably conclude, after digesting the aforementioned statements, that the markedly different viewpoints which existed on the previous commission rendered it sterile. However, a look at that body's list of accomplishments conclusively refutes this thesis.
Mayor Longhurst's claim, found in the February 9th issue of the Journal-World, that the previous city commission often engaged in "lengthy squabbling", preceded by one day a Journal-World editorial entitled "Marathon City Sessions" which said that the "ultralong meetings . . . (which were) common" for the previous city commission "tend to eliminate citizens from the government process".
The previous commission
adopted the Downtown Comprehensive Plan.
—began the search for a developer of record
—effected the city's first written agreement with the City Manager.
—created the Downtown Improvement Committee.
—made two productive changes in the notorious benefit district financing mechanism.
—appointed a Natural Gas Rates Task Force which has provided the present city commission with some valuable information.
(and)—appointed a Historic Preservation Task Force.
While the previous commission always sought public input and worked with various local entities, the present commission ignored the expressed opinions of the Downtown Lawrence Association, Downtown Improvement Committee, a considerable segment of the public, and all those who contributed to the Downtown Comprehensive Plan, when it made the Town Center Venture Corporation our developer of record. This fateful move, which resulted from neither "ultra-long meetings" nor "lengthy squabbling", indisputably did "eliminate citizens from the government process" by overturning several of the previous commission's most momentous decisions.
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