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University Daily Kansan, February 7, 1984
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Beth Ridenour, 3311 Trail Road, left, gets an Oreo cookie in the mouth from Sandy Carson, RFD 3. Ridenour and other members of the staff in Bailey Hall stuck Oreo cookies on Carson's car as a practical joke in honor of Carson's birthday. Carson said that she didn't even like Oreo cookies.
Speaker recalls blacks' achievements
By MARY SEXTON Staff Reporter
Name after name tumbled from the memory of John B. Slaughter — some familiar, others never pledged to memory.
Crispus Attucks and Booker T. Washington Benjamin Banneker, George Washington Carver, Carter G. Woodson and Shirley Jackson. And always, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Then came the
recollection that stirred the emotions of his listeners. A black man first planted the American flag at the north pole, Slaughter said.
"We need to bring to the attention of all Americans, black and white, the contribution blacks have made, and also consider the ongoing problems face-
ed by blacks in education," the Topeka native said.
Despite a history of educational inequality, black Americans have made large-scale contributions to American society, Slaughter, keynote speaker for Black History Month, said Anderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Slaughter, who is chancellor for the University of Maryland at College Park, challenged students and educators to strive for excellence in education. Math and sciences hold the key to a better future for blacks in America, he said.
Slaughter called science the "spark of history" but asked who would light the torch.
He also warned his listeners not to neglect preparing for the future by looking for ways to improve education for blacks.
Most citizens are not informed enough to choose which technologies are worth developing, he said. This can only come about through taking a tough stand on educating blacks in math and sciences, he said.
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ACLU wants videotaping study
The Lawrence American Civil Liberties Union yesterday requested that the Lawrence City Commission sponsor a public study session to discuss the videotaping policies of the Lawrence Police Department.
By the Kansan Staff
Wildcat said yesterday that a study session attended by concerned citizens, civil libertarians, commission members and educators would best address the voiding tapeotap.
In a hand delivered letter to the City Commission, Daniel Wildcat, the Lawrence ACLU president, responded to the Lawrence Police Department's written guidelines for the taping of public events.
ing an incident in which a Latin American Solidarity protest was videotaped by the Lawrence police last November.
The guidelines were presented to the ACLU last week as a result of a request made by Wildcat in November, follow-
In his letter, Wildcat commended one of the guidelines, which allows the videotaping of events only if specific ordinances are being violated. Wildcat would prohibit the videotaping of events solely on the basis of the event itself.
crowds which police thought might become violent
However, Wildcat said one of the guidelines permitted the videotaping of
The guidelines state that one should make this judgement based on criteria such as the kind of event, the size of the crowd, prior history of the group and actions occurring prior to filming.
"It is difficult, if not impossible to imagine a demonstration which could be filmed under these guidelines," Wildcat said in is letter.
Howard Hill, a Lawrence City Commissioner, said yesterday that he had not yet seen Wildcat's letter, but that he believed the police have used videotaping sparingly, and have never used it to intimidate anyone.
Activism thrives in KU newsletters
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By PHIL ENGLISH Staff Reporter
Political activism is alive at the University of Kansas.
Praxis and The Plumber's Friend are two locally published newsletters that exist to keep political activism thriving, their editors said.
"Our main purpose is to get the various activist groups in Lawrence and on campus together to discuss the topics of interest we all have in the field, said Rhonda Neugebauer, Lawrence graduate student and editor of Praxis.
"We deal with professionals from women's groups, anti-nuclear groups and others, and try to get them to write articles for us to let the people of Lawrence know why they should be concerned."
SINCE THE FIRST publication of Praxis, in the spring of 1882, the editors have maintained a strict policy of political activism in their newsletter.
Eight editors, who all are KU students, publish Praxis sporadically. It costs 35 cents and has a circulation of about 300. The newsletter now averages one issue every five weeks. Neugebauer said. Praxis has no formal publication schedule but is printed only when funds permit.
"We publish some things that you could be killed for in another part of the world," she said. "People should read Praxis — because they need it."
Only persons devoted to world political issues may write for Praxis.
The newsletter's title means different things to different people. Neugebauer said that to her, it meant a journal of thought and action.
Webster's New International Dictionary defines "praxis" as a noun meaning action or practice.
"A PERSON MAY have a very good idea on an issue, but it doesn't mean anything unless the person is willing to take action," she said. "We want people to talk and listen to each other, not just mom and dad or the chancellor
and their professors."
"People might be scared because we hold strong opinions," Neuebauer said. "But it is only because our ideas need to be made public."
Taking action is important to the staff of Praxis. However, Neugebauer added that action through violence would run their credibility
ANOTHER LOCAL newsletter. The Plumber's Friend, edited by Tim Miller, lecturer in religious studies, examines the problems he sees with Lawrence politics.
"I write to avoid getting an ulcer, by
spitting out what is bothering me," he
The problems that Miller sees deal with the Lawrence political scene, and problems on the KU campus.
"I want to give the students another interpretation of current events," he said. "The things people read and hear about through the normal communication channels, deserve some additional commentary."
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