Black Students Find New Role, Identity in University
Editor's Note: This is the first of a five part series dealing with the state of five KU ethnic minorities, the Mexican-Americans, Orientalists, Arabs and American Indians.
BY PHILIP AGSEN
Kansan Staff Writer
According to a report made at fall enrollment, there are approximately 323 black students enrolled on the Lawrence campus of the University of Kansas.
Through the years, the status of blacks bus changed from one of almost no participation in the University to one of active participation and interest.
In 1946, the All-Student Council voted to support any changes necessary to permit blacks to participate in what was then Big Ten football. The first black participation in sports at KU
In 1966, Robert Sanders became the first black faculty member hired on a continuing basis. Sanders in an assistant professor in biochemistry.
According to Philip Gary, director of the Office of Urban Affairs, there are about 20 office employees.
Francis Heller, vice-chancellor for Academic Affairs, said that Miss Milkred Watson, associate professor of social science at the University, considered the first black faculty member, but she taught on a part time basis. Until 1969, social welfare was taught in Kansas
In 1969, Gary became the first black administrator with his Urban Affairs post. The first black studies course four years later took him to the course, American Negro history, was created
from a small discussion class held the previous year. Since then, the Office of American Studies has been created, offering courses in African culture and history as well as courses concerning American blacks.
The creation of many black organizations has also helped the black community.
community.
The Black Student Union was organized and received University recognition in September 1988. It has played an important role in relation to relate and identify with the University.
The Black Veterans on Campus was formed in 1970 to work with veterans in the
"The organization serves to help veterans in school and the community to realize the benefits they can obtain through the Veterans Administration Authority," said Monty Beckwith, chairman of the organization.
This year the organization cosponsored a dance with the Ballard Center, and members have worked with the Center on other fund-raising projects.
The Black Greek Council serves to unite the black fraternities and sororites on campus, Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi and Omega Psi Phi fraternities and Alpha Kappa Alpha and Delta Sigma Alpha are members of the organization.
There are various academic organizations on campus designed to help students prepare for admission.
Among these are organizations for students in law, engineering and engineering.
There has been a shift in attitudes among some of the black students from one community to one the University and community to one of relation association with the University as a whole. "I usually try to associate with all groups on campus," said Karen Sanders, Memphis, Teen., junior.
"No one person should segregate himself to one group. If one segregates himself to just one group, he will not be able to relate to the outside world," she said.
John Harris, Chicago, ill. senior commented, "I would rather socialize with the entire University than just within my specific minority group."
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Soviets Kill Two Peace Proposals Aimed to End India-Pakistan Battle
By The Associated Press
The Soviet Union used the veto Sunday night for the second time in 24 hours to block a U.N. cease-fire appeal aimed at ending the India-Pakistan conflict.
proposal.
The Security Council voted 11 to 2 in favor of an eight-nation resolution, calling for a cessation of hostilities, but a negative vote by the Soviet Union killed the
Poland cast the other negative vote.
Britain and France abstained.
A similar U.S.-supported resolution was voted by the Soviet Union early Sunday.
Students Prepare to Fast In Protest of Welfare Cuts
The vote on the eight-nation resolution came after the council had rejected a Soviet proposal calling "for a political settlement in East Pakistan which would
By ERIC KRAMER
Kansan Staff Writer
Students wishing to participate in the emergency Service Council fast to be held December 14, 2016, will receive welfare payments must sign up today, according to Gayle Carlson, Manhattan District Attorney.
She said students could sign up in all residence halls and some scholarship halls from 4:30 to 6 p.m. She said the cost saved by offering about 60 cents, would be given to the council to aid Douglass County's poor in paying for rent, utilities and perishable goods.
She said the money would be paid directly to the utility companies, land lords and merchants and that the only administrative cost involved would be a small amount for the printing of posters for booches to aid the Council's fund drives.
She did not think people in Lawrence would starve to death as a result of the legislature's across the board cut on food and housing, and that people being "hooribly malnutrished."
SHE SAID THAT she hoped the fast would raise between $800 and $1,000 for the council. She said a fast held earlier this semester by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War raised about $400 for the blacks boycotting white business in Cairo,
one said that the council's fund raising activities were temporary and that the council was trying to help the families make it through the winter.
MANY PEOPLE, she said, are faced with paying their utility bills to keep the utilities from being cut off or buying food. She said that the cost of heating the homes of poverty families was high because of poor quality of the houses.
The council has recently joined a group
of similar organizations called the Kansas Welfare Coalition, which will lobby for an amendment to the Act.
Miss Carlson said one woman who called for assistance from the council said "Don't rush, I still have two slices of toast left." The woman actually had only two slices of bread in her house and was planning to live on these for another day, she said.
She said Morris Kay, Republican floor leader of the Kansas House of Representatives, will speak at 8 p.m. on Representatives, with focus on climate change in Kansas Union on the welfare budget cuts.
A third resolution, sponsored by Red China, condemned India for its role in the fighting on the subcontinent. At the request of the Peking representative, however, the resolution was not put to the vote.
She said the group was also doing something to influence the legislature.
She said that aid to dependent children recipients' payments were cut by 24 percent and that aid to the blind, aid to the elderly and disabled and other categories were also cut.
A WOMAN TOLD William Nesbitt, service supervisor of the Douglas County Wildlife Department, "I am going to have any children to go out and steal," she said.
The cut first showed up in welfare checks in September and the council started collecting money in mid October. She said the cut averaged 24 per cent per family and amounted to a loss of $20,000 a month to the Douglas County poor.
Earlier, Communist China and the Soviet Union clashed over Moscow's insistence that East Pakistan insurgents attacked a US base. The Russians finally dropped the proposal.
SHE SAID SHE did not know how long the temporary measures would remain in effect. A petition requesting Gov. Robert Decking to call the legislature into special session was circulated by the League of Women Voters and produced no results, she said.
nevitably result in a cessation of hostilities."
The group hit hardest were the people receiving old age assistance. She said there was a 68 per cent cut in this category of welfare assistance payments.
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With the matter of inviting a Banila Dile representative disposed of, Huang opened the main debate by urging support of a new Peking resolution condemning India for its role in the conflict on the sub-continent.
The Chinese resolution was the first ever submitted to a United Nations 'body by the People's Republic of China, launching a large-scale attack on Pakistan and urged all people to support the Pakistans. It also called for a cease-fire with troops from the Indian-Pakistan borders.
The proposal was handed in as members of the 15-nation council consulted privately in an effort to get agreement on a cease-fire and avert further Soviet vetoes.
Secretary-General U Thant asked for a temporary cessation of hostilities "in, in, in" the conflict to permit air aft to evacuate United Nations' and other international personnel. He proposed that the cease-fire be extended from 10:30 p.m. Dc. to 12:30 p.m. Dec. 7.
The backers of the new draft apparently hoped to get around Soviet objections by placing more stress on the need for restoring normalcy in East Pakistan and for repatriating the millions of refugees in India.
In a statement before the council Saturday night, Indian Ambassador Samar Sen said he had seen some of the drafts being circulated. He said India was trying to help the people of Bangla Desh by offering them financial assistance if India was to be told to stop doing so, "India would deliberately and resolutely have to say no."
The 15-nation council had before it a new draft sponsored by eight of the council's 10 nonpermanent members. Poland and Syria did not join in backing the proposal.
The Soviet Union, however, has thrown its full support behind India which, in turn, has expressed opposition to a ceasefire appeal.
Apportionment Base Changed
Increase in Activity Fee Voted Down by Senate
By RON WOMBLE Kansan Staff Writer
The Student Senate decided Sunday night that there would be no activity fee raise in store for fiscal 1973. The Finance and Auditing Committee had sponsored a fee which would have raised the fee $0 a year, bringing the total for a full-time student to $30 a year.
DAVE MILLER, student body president, and Brad Smotter, Sterling senior, offered an amendment to Finance Department paper with the present fee but based the apportionment of money collected on "the number of full-time students." The number of full-time students is computed by dividing the total from the fee by the $13 a semester charge.
The money is to be distributed to eight categories: (the first figure for each category is the amount for each full-time employee, and the second amount to be generated from that fee based on this semesters enrollment.) Student Senate Operating Budget, $1.50 or $45.00; Intercollegiate Athletics, $5 or $150.00; University Daily Kansan, $1.50 or $25.00; Courts Course Series, 80 cents or $24.00; Intramurals, 20 cents or $6.00; Campus Organizations, $1.55 or $18.50; and School Councils, 75 cents or $22.50. The action will cause will be in the allocations to the Student Senate and school councils. The Senate's operating budget for fiscal '73 will be $45.00, which is $11.00 less than
The Miller-Smoot amendment also calls
The allocations to the school councils will be based on the enrollment and the number of pupils.
for the allocation of $2,500 to school councils. The school councils are to allocate the funds given them within the school and by the Finance and Audit Committee.
Jerry Slaughter, Salina senior and member of the Finance and Auditing Committee, asked that council allocations be subject only to the restrictions imposed by the Cancellor and the Kansas Board of Regents instead of review by his committee as was called for in the Miller-Smooth amendment.
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Senate Votes Allocation To Continue Bus Runs
By MARY WARD
Kansas Staff Writer
The Student Senate voted Sunday night to subsidize the Lawrence Bus Company to assure some form of transportation for students during the winter months. The bus company had been scheduled to stop service to the campus area on March 17, but buses now will run throughout the final period and on weekdays from January 17 to March 17. Cost to the bus riders will be 10 cents per ride, which is half of the current bus fare. A committee was set up to study the possibility of extending the service beyond Wendy's.
The total amount of money allocated by the Senate for the bus subsidy was $15,184. This amount was based on the cost to run two buses for about eleven hours from McCollum Hall to Grudtrude Sellarsi Pearson Hall by way of campus and one
bus to run from campus to the Gatehouse apartment complexes and back for about twelve hours each day. There will be no bus running from campus to the downtown
The Senate is paying the bus company at a rate of $8.00 per hour of service.
The money collected from the fares will be deducted from the total amount of money paid by his boss company and the Senate, Dugge Ogle, president of the Lawrence Bus Company, said he thought enough people would ride the bus because of the amount of money the Senate would have to pay.
The Senate passed a bill requesting the Iranian Student Association to have its president submit evidence to the Senate supporting statements accusing the School of Engineering of discriminatory practices against foreign students.
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Sen. Pearson Tells of Shift In Priorities
BY JEROME LE and
Bv JEROME ESSLINGER
and CHRIS CARSTENSON Kansan Staff Writers
LEAENVORTH-Sen. Sen. B. Pearson, R-KAN, said Sunday night that a compromise between "public tolerance" and "private accountability" prompted a reordering of national priorities.
Speaking at St. Mary College, Pearson said that the change was brought about by a reversal in public awareness of the country's decision-making process.
"There is a new light for reform and redirection," he said.
Pearson said that public response to reductions in military spending and increases in expenditures for health, education, welfare consumer and environmental services, national appeal for government action to assure Americans a better quality of life."
"In 1963 defense spending consumed 48 percent of the federal budget while human resources consumed 52 percent, however, human resources led, 42 per cent to 34 per cent, with defense spending having assumed a lower proportion of the budget than at any time since 1960," he added.
Pearson said a new direction in politics had been produced by more responsible action on the international as well as on the national level.
"Hostility is being replaced by a sense of civility, of community and of reason," he
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Sen. James. B. Pearson . . 'quality of life' is important . .