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 U.S. states—Mexico, Mexico-Americas, Mexico-Blacks, Mexico-American- Orientals, Arabs and American Indians.
By PHYLLIS AGEN.
Kansas Staff Writer
Kansas Start Writer According to a report made at fall
In 1966, Robert Sanders became the first black faculty member hired on a continuing basis. Sanders is an assistant professor in biochemistry.
According to Philip Gary, director of the Office of Urban Affairs, there are about 20 schools in the city.
Francis Heller, vice-chancellor for
THE INDEPENDENT Study Center was contracted to provide 25 full or part-time instructors. In some instances KU faculty members took a leave of absence from the University to teach at Haskell. Other faculty members were hired on the basis of doctorate or master's degrees. An exception to this policy was the hiring of Indians who were qualified but did not hold a master's degree. KU did not hire the new faculty members, but merely identified these people for Haskell administrators. The actual selection was done through Haskell's general education department, headed by Bill Burgess, dean of instruction.
"KU provided this kind of help knowing that Haskell would eventually break free and develop its own teaching staff and its own identity," said Lazarino. He noted that it is not unusual for a sister institution to offer such help to a junior college.
Haskell has already begun to break away this year, only its second as a junior college. In almost every case this year the newly hired faculty members were both identified and hired by Haskell.
Law students supervised by Louise Wheeler, assistant professor of law, work with Haskell students who have legal problems or need advice on legal matters.
--literature, has taken leave from KU this year in order to work at Haskell. He plans a course on world literature with emphasis on eastern civilization since the roots of the Indian are in the eastern civilization. Similar courses are anticipated in sociology, anthropology, children's literature, Indian art and music and history.
KU HAS FILLED the role of consultant to Haskell in the new curriculum development, KU faculty led seminars during a conference for BIA residence hall personnel sponsored by Haskell and have conducted classes for the Haskell faculty on teaching the junior college student. The Independent Studies Center has also provided consultants for a wide variety of courses to be offered by Haskell.
Haskell is the only junior college in the country extending off-campus degrees. Through a federal grant Haskell is able to bring courses to people on reservations where Indians are given the opportunity to study in their own environment among their own peers. A great many women have taken advantage of these courses, making up 90 per cent of the students with the average age of the student being 48. KU's part in this has been to devise course material that could be used in off-campus teaching.
The Center is in the process of developing courses geared to the Indians instead of the western culture. These courses may in the future be part of Haskell's curriculum. KU has hired one of the top Indian scholars in the field of psychology, Joseph Trimble, Oklahoma City University, to develop a course that would be the equivalent to Psychology I. The difference would be that, although the same precepts would be taught, the examples would be oriented to the kind of problems that the Indian faces in society.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE of course development is in world literature. Richard Spear, associate professor and chairman of Oriental languages and
Another positive program between the two schools has also developed since Haskell has become a junior college. This is the direct borrowing agreement between the KU libraries and Haskell. KU libraries may provide material to Haskell faculty and students. Library cards are issued from the circulation department, giving the same borrowing privileges as KU students, said George Griffin, head of circulation of University libraries. The only exception to these privileges is that books are subject to immediate recall. If a KU student needs the same book he gets priority.
KU's SCHOOL of Law provides another service for Haskell students. Law students supervised by Louise Wheeler, assistant professor of law, work with Haskell students who have legal problems or need advice on legal matters. This program offers clinical experience to KU law students while at the same time it provides information and aid. The law students serve as advisers for students' questions on taxes, insurance, automobile registration and the draft, and they handle misdeemment and non-fee-generating cases. Also planned by the law school are seminars to inform students of their rights and responsibilities.
"To my knowledge, Haskell is the only junior college in the state that has this direct borrowing agreement with KU," said Griffin.
Since Haskell has broadened its educational opportunities, KU has helped formulate Haskell programs so that students can easily transfer to a four-year college or university. Perhaps through cooperative programs between the two schools, Indian students will become more familiar with the University and KU can anticipate more and more Haskell graduates coming here to finish their college educations.
Cooperation between KU and Haskell has given the Indian student the opportunity of benefiting from the best of both campuses.
Photo by Hank Young
The council has recently joined a group
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MANY PEOPLE, she said, are faced with the challenge of bills to keep the utilities from being cut. The utilities from being cut. She said that the cost of heating the homes of poverty families was high because of the lack of electricity.
security and secretary of the council
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 and brochures to aid the Council's fund
She said students could sign up in all residence halls and some schoolship halls to take classes on campus, but not preparing meals for the students, about 60 cents, would be given to the council to aid Douglas County's poor in paying for rent, utilities and persible
SHE SAID THAT she hoped the fast would raise between $600 and $1,000 for the council. She said a fast had earlier this semester by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War raised $500 for the trucks boycotting white business in Guro, Italy.
She did not think people in Lawrence would starve to death as a result of the legislature's across the board cut on food, but she didn't mind people of people being "hoorbily malnourished."
She 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.
leader of the Kansas House of Representatives, will speak at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Big B Room of the Kansas Union on the welfare budget cuts.
SHE SAID SHE did not know how long the temporary measures would remain in effect. A petition requesting Gov. Robert Docking to call the legislature into special session was circulated by the League of Women Voters and produced no results, she said.
She said that aid to dependent children recipients' payments were cut by 24 percent and that aid to the blind, aid to the hearing impaired and enabled and other categories were also cut.
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.
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.
A WOMAN TOLD William Nesbitt, service supervisor of the Douglas County Welfare Department, "I am going to have my children to go out and steal," she said.
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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.
summited to a United Nations 'body' by the Peking delegation. It accused India of launching a large-scale attack on Pakistan and urged all people to support the Pakistanis, who are called for a cease-fire in arrival of troops from the Indian-Pakistan borders.
Secretary-General U Thant asked for a temporary cessation of hostilities "in, around and over" Dacca, East Pakistan, to permit aircraft to evacuate United Nations' and other international personnel. He proposed that the cease-fire extend from 10:30 p.m. Dec. 6 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.
The Soviet Union, however, has thrown its full support behind India which, in turn, has expressed opposition to a ceasefire appeal.
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.
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. His office said that India was to be told to stop doing so., "India would deliberately and resolutely have to say no."
By JEROME ESSLINGEI
and CHRIS CARSTENSON
Kansan Staff Writers
LEAVENWORT- Sen.  Jen.  B. Pearson, R-Kan., said Sunday night that a compromise between "public tolerance" and "criminals" crumpled 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, employment affairs, indicated "a broad national appeal for government action to assure Americans a better quality of life."
"In 1962 defense spending consumed 48 per cent of the federal budget while human resources costed 35 per cent of the 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 1900." 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 community, of and reason," he
"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.
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This year the organization co-sponsored dance with the Ballard Center, and bers have worked with the Center on numerous fund-raising projects.
a Black Greek Council serves to unite black fraternities and sororites on uss. Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha and Omega Phi phi fraternities and a kappa Alpha and Delta Sigma are members of the organization.
are are various academic tizations on campus designed to help lack student in his particular major.
Among these are organizations for students in law, engineering and art.
There has been a shift in attitudes among some of the black students from one of isolation to the University where they belong and association with the University as a whole.
"I usually try to associate with all groups on campus," said Karen Sandera, a professor of history at the University.
"No one person should segregate himself to one group. If one segregates himself to just one group, he will not be surrounded 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 group."
Minority Group Problems Discussed
Monday, December 6, 1971
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nment Base Changed
n Activity Fee wn by Senate
we allocation of $2,500 to schoolils. The school councils are to be the funds given them within the county by the Finance editing Committees.
allocations to the school councils e based on the enrollment and the fed fee income from each school.
Jerry Snaughter, Salina senior and member of the Finance and Auditing Committee, asked that council allocations be subject only to the restrictions imposed by the Chancellor and the Kansas Board of Regents instead of review by his committee as was called for in the Miller-Snoot amendment.
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enate Votes Allocation o Continue Bus Runs
Kansan Staff Writer
By MARY WARD
total amount of money allocated by
rate for the bus subsidy was $15,184.
mount was based on the cost to run
cases for about eleven hours from
lum Hall to Gertrude Sellarsi
at Hall by way of campus and one
Student Senate voted Sunday night
idize the Lawrence Bus Company to
some form of transportation for
ts during the winter months. The
mpany had been scheduled to stop
to the campus area on the last day
of school, and to be in
n throughout the finals period and
kdays from January 17 to March 17,
st to bus riders will be 10 cents per
half is of the current bus fare.
committee was to study the
lity of extending the service beyond
bus to run from campus to the Gatehouse apartment complexes and back for about twelve hours each day. There will be no running from campus to the downtown area.
The Senate is paying the bus company at a rate of 85.00 per hour of service.
The money collected from the fares will be deducted from the total amount of money brought in by bus company and the Senate, Dugge Ogle, president of the Lawrence Bus Company, said he thought enough people would ride the bus to substitute drivers. "We 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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Kansas Staff Photo by GREG SORBER
Sen. James. B. Pearson
... 'quality of life' is important ...