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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, October 28,1968
Negro named as director
By KIT GUNN Kansan Staff Writer
A young Negro architect has been selected as full-time director for the University Committee for Urban Action advocacy center in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Appointed to the post is Myles Stevens, a native of Kansas City, Kan., and a University of Illinois graduate. He will hold the title assistant professor of architecture and urban design.
The advocacy center will offer resources of the University to inner city residents. Charles H. Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design and chairman of the University Committee for Urban Action, said at Saturday's committee meeting.
Stevens, meeting with the committee for the first time, defined advocacy as "a way to get the stuff to the people." He said one of the first things needed is to find specific ways the University can marshall its resources to help the Kansas City area. He recommended that "a task force to bring data to the black community" be formed.
Kahn said Stevens will work two days a week in Kansas City, Kan. and two days a week in Kansas City, Mo. Stevens will spend one day a week, probably Friday, on the Lawrence campus, Kahn said.
Stevens' salary is paid jointly by the two Kansas City's Kahn said.
Stevens said the advocacy program would have to proceed by ear before detailed methods and aims could be planned.
"It's pretty hard to assign priorities at this time," he said. "We'll have to adjust to whatever the situation presents."
Cooperation with both city governments will be an important part of the advocacy program, Stevens said. Preparation for the federal model cities program, for which both cities are eligible, is one thing to be done along this line, he said.
Stevens said neither city was organized yet to take advantage of the model cities program.
Departing from the committee's previous conception of the advocacy program, Stevens stressed the need for bringing initiative to the inner city area. "The black community is not task oriented," he said. "The mayor has a map in his office with black dots on it representing so much crime, so much substandard housing. The slum resident just doesn't get up in the morning and see black dots on a map."
Although emphasizing the need for black direction of the program, Stevens said at least in the beginning large-scale planning would have to come from the advocacy staff.
Stevens voiced agreement when Kahn described the program as "basically self-liquidat-
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Kahn said work was in progress on selecting a site for the advocacy office. A storefront location, "right on the street," would be ideal, he said.
ing." Kahn said a successful advocacy program should allow the eventual withdrawal of outside assistance, leaving an effectively functioning local organization.
Two more full-time advocacy directors are needed to fully implement University Committee for Urban Action plans, Kahn said. He said one additional man was needed in Kansas City, Mo., and another needed to get the
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Kahn said a director for the proposed Wichita advocacy center might come from Wichita State University.
No timetable for the selection of these men was given at the meeting.
In other committee discussion, Aldon Bell, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and secretary of the committee, said the Ford Foundation decided not to fund any university scholarship programs, including the proposed KU remedial education program.
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