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Thursday, December 7, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Black Greeks Face Image Problem
By MIKE LEWIS
Kansan Staff Writer
By MIKE LEWIS
To most members of the University of Kansas community, the black Greek and Jewish communities are the main
Their image tinged by personal bias and distorted by stereotypes handed down from generations past, the four black Greek organizations recognized by the University find themselves misunderstood not only by whites but also by blacks.
Members of both races often see the organizations as black imitations of white institutions, an impression that is not totally accurate. In fact, these organizations basically the same selling points as their white counterparts; a close tie with fellow members, contacts in the University and a strong sense of community.
Vicki Powell, Newton senior and president of the Alpha Kappa Alpha, an all-scoriority, said "At one time Greek sororities were very selective social. This is in direct opposition to the promotion of black solving of the problems of black women."
POWELL SAID that to now the sorority will offer financial aid to a prospective member who needs it. This move was intended to eliminate economic discrimination.
"Previously membership was based more or less on social criteria," Powell said. "Now if someone expresses the desire to pledge and she meets the requirements, then she has a lawyer who was a doctor of a lawyer she has the opportunity and someone else doesn't."
Social advantages to fraternity or sorority living are common to both white and black organizations, but black Greeks say the need is greater for the black, who must learn to cope with the frustrations and challenges of an overwhelmingly white University.
Cheryl Smith, Baton Rouge, La. junior and member of Delta Sigma Theta, an all-black sorority, said, "It's really hard to come up here and find an organization you can feel like an important part of and whose interests you share.
"THE THINGS that I'm interested in I found a lot of Delbore are interested in. I have been asked to write about them."
The black fraternity or sorority offers a "home base" to its members just as its officers provide a predominantly white Greek organization involves identification with a cosial group; blacks say membership in one of their organizations provides identity with the member's race.
Powell said part of her reason for joining a black sorority was that she saw a group of black women 'taking a step forward and doing something in something and working toward empowering'.
"Because we're so close to our national chapter we get feedback from them," she said.
The black organizations may offer a chance to help in the advancement of the race and may also make personal setbacks the struggle for equality a little easier to handle.
ONE BLACK FRATERNITY member said that a person coming to KU from a predominantly black environment could "foretet that he's black."
"He doesn't realize that he's not going to be totally accepted by whites everywhere," he
"We give him a kind of a home, and a chance to cope with it. If something happens to him and he's on his own, who is he going to talk to?" he said.
Black Greeks say they enable the person who might have come from a black high school a chance to ease into his new environment with the knowledge he can fall back for help on a group of people with similar backgrounds.
The history of the black Greeks in the United States dates from 1906, when Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity was founded at Cornell University.
KU's history of black Greeks began ten years later when the fourth chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority was organized at Mount Oread. The KU chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, the only group now living in a house, was organized in 1917.
IN 1920 Kappa Alpha Pi fraternity formed a chapter here and four years later the chantering of a Kansas chapter of Delta Beta. It collected the list of black Greek organizations
Founders of black Greek organizations stressed service as one of their purposes, and service to the community is a top national and local levels, members said.
"If we want to remain functional," Milan said, "we must remain a service frater-
the relevancy of the fraternity must be gauged by its record.
According to Terry Milan, Milan City senior and president of Kappa Alpha Psi.
"WE WOULD like to be more of a public service than we can afford to be," he said. Food drives, big brother and big sister programs, black awareness programs in schools and early childhood of time and effort to programs sponsored by Black Student Union and the Office of Minority Affairs are among the projects the groups have undertaken.
The limits of manpower—combined initiated membership of the four groups is less than 50—and consequently limited funds are the biggest problems in attempting to carry out a major service project, according to Smith.
Pledge projects in the community interest are encouraged and often required. One such project raised $400 for a Kansas City organization involved in fighting stickle cell anemia.
The problem of low membership is partially the result of decreasing interest in the Greek system as a whole. Disenchantment with pledge programs and some organizations as a regimented lifestyle has among black as well as white organizations.
NUMBERS ARE also a part of the
must be divided among the four groups.
Defense Projects . . .
In addition, black organizations must fight the stereotypes blacks have concerning black organizations based on white structures.
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funded by the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center and Project THEMIS.
According to Barr, CRINC's classified reference material was obtained through a NASA program. The equipment with which the data must be classified, so the data must be classified.
Specifically, according to a Defense Department letter to the Daily Kansas,an Air Force flight commander of the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, the U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Labs at Fort Belvoir, Calif., and the Development Center at Griffin Air Force Base.
More said, "Everything we're doing has direct application to the non-military needs of our country."
Project THEMIS was started in September 1967 to create new defense research centers and "to achieve a wider geographic distribution of Defense research funds," according to Army Research and Development Newsmagazine.
"In Project THEMIS," Moore said, "the Defense Department was to great length and depth."
Research at KU and CRINC involving classified information is governed both by University policy and U.S. Department of Defense regulations.
KU's policy on classified research was
adopted by the University Senate Oct. 23, 1969.
The basic statement of policy is: "This University will accept no theses, dissertations, research grants, contracts, assignments, or agreements which are classified," although there are four exceptions.
The first exception is data unavailable to the public, or classification of material from sources. In the scientific field, most names from the government or corporations.
Barr said that the limited use of classified information that KU and CRUN had fell under this exception, because no classified data were used and no classified products result.
The second exception is short-term secrecy of a process—a way of making or doing something. The third exception is the product, either research data or hardware.
No product can fall under this third exception for more than a year and the exception must be approved by the Office of Research Administration.
The final exception to doing classified work is "in time of national emergency" in Congress, according to Research, a perennial subject by the Office of Research Administration.
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Crowd Packs Coffeehouse For Opening Celebration
live entertainment, food service and a capacity crowd marked the opening of "Up Your . . . Alley," the AURH coffeehouse, Wednesday in Lewis Hall.
The coffeehouse coordinating committee received more than 100 suggestions for names according to Ed Schons, a senior senior and committee member.
Jessie Bission, Pittsburgh, Pa., graduate student, submitted the winning name and received a $2 gift certificate from the Kansas Union Bookstore.
Some of the rejected suggestions were:
"House of Caffeine," "Lewis Hall Coffeehouse," "The Purple Percolator," "The Dry Office," "130 Dig" and "Freeze Dry Palace."
Dave Ledgin, Kansas City. Mo., sophomore, taught freshman and senior in which sophomore provided the
entertainment. They sang and played guitars.
Representatives of the 110 state school districts will convene in Topeka today at the request of the 12 largest school districts to support the financing public education in Kansas.
Carl Knox, Lawrence superintendent of schools and one of the three local district representatives, said Wednesday that the meeting would examine the present status of proposals that are now before state legislative committees.
Jay Awater, Leawood junior and coffeehouse manager, said he was pleased with the turnout for the opening. He said the coffeehouse was full of people all evening.
District Envoys Will Examine Fund Proposal
He said the meeting would be an informative session and not for any particular action. There might also be reports by state agencies and the state board of education, he said.
The present method of financing education, through mill levies in the local district, has been declared illegal by a district court. A legislative statute has until July, 1973, to establish an alternative method of financing or to accept a method established by court decree.
The other two local representatives are Kenneth Fisher, assistant superintendent, and Richard Holzmeister, school board member.
Jan Stokes, Cincinnati freshman and Coffeehouse Coordinating Committee member, said that the committee received support from the Housing Office and the Kapsas, Union.
The Housing Office paid for the building of the coffeehouse and the Kansas Union
A new sound system will be given to the coffeehouse at the beginning of the semester by the Pearson Trust Fund, accumulated which is on the Pearson Trust Fund Board.
The Coffeehouse Coordinating Committee received more than 100 suggestions for names according to Ed Schons, Tonganoxie senior and committee member.
The meeting was scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. in the Teopae Area Vocational Tech Center.
Some of the rejected suggestions were:
"House of Caffeine," "Lewis Hall i quit."
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