University Daily Kansan, August 22, 1983
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Alumni building called a waste Students protest center
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
Joe Daucherty pointed across Oread Avenue to the K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center and shook his head. Daughter, a 1982 KU graduate, held a sign that said "Give the 'Boot' to the Neo-Colonial Investments."
"All this building is is a monument to profits for people. I know people who are having trouble getting grants and money for aid, and across the street there is a $5 million white elephant," he said.
Daugherty was one of about 100 protesters who gathered across the street from the center. Thursday evening to protest the newly dedicated center. They called the center a symbol of KU's ties to large multinational corporations that, they said, dealt in nuclear weapons, did business in countries that practiced apartheid and mined uranium on Indian reservations.
THE SPECTATORS carried signs, chanted "If fairness is apartheid, you can kiss my hide!" and watched a skit in which an actor portraying a KU student struggled to pay for his education while actors playing Adams and Chancellor Gene A. Budig toasted the building of the center with goblets.
"The building is symbolic of waste and the power of the elite," said Tara Edwards, Lawrence senior. "We should hold the Endowment Association more accountable for the money it spends."
Ten protestors, some of whom had been sitting on the steps of the center, toured the building after the protest.
They questioned the purpose of the building with tour guides and University of Kansas Alumni Association officials.
THE ORGANIZING GROUP, which calls itself the Ad Hoc Committee for KU Accountability, named numerous corporations in its protest, including Phillips Petroleum Co., Beech Aircraft and Kerr-McGee corporations.
Adams, the man for whom the center is named, was formerly president of
'All this building is is a monument to profits for people. I know people who are having trouble getting grants and money for aid and across the street there is a $5 million white elephant.'
Joe Daugherty 1982 KU graduate
Phillips. The center, a three-story building, was built and furnished at a cost of more than 85 million.
"In a time of budget cuts and declining standards for education," a prepared statement by the group said, "we should not have themselves a $5 million clubhouse."
The statement said that money controlled by the Kansas University Endowment Association was invested much as Phillips, Beech and Kerr-MeGee.
Todd Seymour, president of the
Endowment Association, said Thursday night that the center had not been built only with Endowment Association money.
"Funds used for construction were given specifically for that purpose — for construction," Seymour said.
SEYMOUR SAID that most of the contributions were by individuals and not by corporations. He would not comment on the protest.
Rhonda Neugebauer, Topeka junior and a spokesman for the group, said, "This is a symbolic $5 million monument to wealth.
"The $5 million that was spent for this building could be better spent on education. None of this business is belting KU.
Gary Smith/KANSAN "Boots" Adams
"The group is disgusted at the way this building was built and promoted." The demonstrators also chanted, "We don't want to pay for KUEA," and designated a site across the street from the center as the Nick Rice Memorial People's Park. Rice was killed in that area during campus unrest in the 1970s.
Barry Bernstein, Lawrence senior, played guitar as others protesting the K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center joined in song outside the new building Thursday evening.
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