CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan. November 17. 1983
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Basic issues for blacks disregarded, prof says
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
American social policy has not addressed the fundamental problems facing the black underclass, a cause that U.S. visiting professor said yesterday.
William Julius Wilson, Langston Hughes professor of sociology at KU this semester and a professor of urban sociology at the University of Chicago, spoke to about 100 people in the Kansas Union last night on "New Challenges for the Civil Rights Movement."
MUCH OF HIS material was drawn from his next book, "TheHidden Agenda: Race, SocialDislocations and Public Policy inAmerica." The book is an important books, and is best known for "TheDeclining Significance of Race."
Wilson said that blacks had made much progress in the past 20 years, but that not all segments of black society had benefited equally.
"The relative rate of black progress since 1965," Wilson said, "has far exceeded any period since the turn of the century, despite the recent civil-right setbacks of the Reagan administration."
But in that period, the plight of the poor urban black has worsened considerably, as measured by the number of pregnant pregnancy and low aspirations.
BY 1890, he said, a few black leaders had recognized that some segments of the black population were losing, not gaining. Behind that decline was a disregard for economic and social trends in the planning of social policy regarding blacks.
Poor blacks who lacked the education and skills to enter the work force in the 80s and 70s gained little from civil-rights legislation, Wilson said, and the better-trained and educated blacks gained less than from a burgeoning economy that added more opportunity.
The result was a widening of the gap between poor blacks and the rest of society. Their plight today is not completely attributable to race. It is therefore cannot be solved through public policy based solely on race.
FOR INSTANCE, he said, the high unemployment rate of black teenagers would remain relatively unchanged "even if you could wave a magic wand and eliminate all racial prejudice."
implicit prejudice arises in situations, Wilson said, and is not the result of some imate perseverity. If the United States had full employment, employers would not discriminate because they would have to pay higher wages than their employment, they can better afford to discriminate against minorities.
Fundamental change would come through politics. Wilson said
The American political system, with its interest groups and ineffective parties, lacks the cohesiveness necessary to reach a consensus to protect the interests of employers and employees. he said.
"In the 1980s," he said, "the civil rights agenda will have to be expanded to address what may be the most difficult problem of all—the problem of societal organization."
"THE GENERAL philosophical basis for the freeze movement is that the destruction presented in this movie be prevented." Dolan said. "The movie promotes the idea that pacifism is the philosophy the American people should adopt. And that's a bankrupt philosophy."
The television movie "The Day After" supports the nuclear freeze movement and is anti-nuclear propaganda, the national chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom said yesterday, because it implies that a strong U.S. defense posture could lead to nuclear war.
By GINA K. THORNBURG Staff Reporter
Group says
Robert Dolan, the group's national chairman, spoke to about 150 people in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union as part of a symposium sponsored by the KU chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom.
He said that the United States could not make itself vulnerable by declining to build a strong defense system.
'Day After'
Dolan described a scene from the movie, which will be shown on ABC-TV on Sunday, that he said supported the nuclear freeze movement.
In the movie, he said, an American newsman interviews a Soviet ambassador. He said the ambassador told the newsman, "You call us provocative to keep 7,000 missiles and 260,000 soldiers on the other side of our border."
Dolan said, "We don't hear about any of the SS-20s on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Nor did we hear about Afghanistan."
High Frontier refers to a defense project that uses a space-based ballistic missile defense system that would be deployed on heads traveling toward the United States.
He said that the movie did not show both sides of the defense issue, because it only pointed out that the U.S. government advocated a strong determent system and did not show the military position taken by the Soviet Union.
"THIS MOVIE FOLLOWS verbatim the propaganda line espoused by the Kremlin and its agents of influence the enemy," he said. "And that is that a strong defense against terrorism backed by American power, is a threat to peace — a threat of nuclear war."
Because "The Day After" is part of an anti-nuclear propaganda campaign, Dornan said, the political action committee is negotiating with ABC officials to buy airline following the decision to present its side of the defense issue.
A member of the audience asked Dolan if the United States was exempt from mistakenly launching a nuclear weapon in the nation's first-strike capabilities.
"America has had first-strike capabil- ity for 20 years," he said. "But we're not a lot of it."
supports nuclear freeze
Another speaker, Robert Dornan, a former congressman from California, said, "There are a lot of things wrong with the United States, but starting war with them. I happen to think it's going to start with some madman in the Middle East."
DORNAN IS PRESIDENT of the political action committee for the High Frontier, a group that is promoting the High Frontier non-nuclear space-
He said that the movie implied that America was "as bad as the Russians" because the movie emphasized the U.S. government's desire to build a strong military, yet neglected to point such things as the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan or the gulag camps in Siberia filled with political prisoners.
THE BOOK THE committee will promote on its commercial is titled "High Frontier" and is written by Lt. Gen. Daniel Graham, former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency of the Department of Defense. He was scheduled to speak at the symposium but had to remain in New York to complete negotiations with ABC officials.
based defense system.
ABC officials, however, would not allow the committee to buy airtime to talk about its political stance, he said. The committee also will buy commercial time to sell books.
Students without travel plans may have trouble getting home
By ROBIN PALMER Staff Reporter
Many KU students from out of state might have a hard time getting home for Thanksgiving if they haven't made travel plans ahead of time.
Iana Benz, travel consultant for the Travel Center of Lawrence, said recently that students might have already waited too long to get flights home. Students should have begun scheduling their flights when they enrolled in classes at the beginning of the semester.
to arrange transportation home might have to struggle with coach or first-air
Students who have waited until now
HOWEVER, LAST-MINUTE planers still have hope because airlines add extra sections during holidays such as Thanksgiving.
Airlines will take a plane off a less traveled route and move it to a city where more travelers want to go. The extra sections are not advertised, Benz said, and are available only through a travel agency.
Benz said that Amtrak was also an option but was not as popular with students. Amtrak is a limited system that does not go everywhere, which can
cause travel rates to be more expensive.
Benz said Amtrak was popular with students traveling to Chicago because the route was direct. A train to Chicago Lawrence every morning at 5:40
HOWEVER, A PASSENGER can get to Dallas directly from Lawrence but has to take the train to Chicago and then backtrack to Dallas.
Amtrak also takes longer than airplanes
Greg Dalzell, Bakersfield, Calif., junior.
"It's just too far to drive or take the train considering the short amount of time, so I'm willing to pay to fly," said
Buslines, which usually have cheaper fares, are another option for students who cannot get a flight or reach their destination by Amtrak.
Reservations are not needed for either of the two main Lawrence bus lines — Trailways and Greyhound. Because of a Greyhound strike, Greyhound routes have not been running through Lawrence.
Students interested in taking the bus need to show up 30 minutes ahead of the departure time to buy their tickets.
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Mince meeting words.
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Kiss some turkey.
Turn those family faults into
scenery instead of eruptions.
Carve time for thanking God.
Do the dishes...the cook deser
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