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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 18, 1990
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Speaker says racial issues need honesty
By Monica Mendoza
Kansan staff writer
when曼脨曼 Cleaver was a boy growing up in a small town in Texas, he would race home from school to ride his stick-horse down the trails near his home with his best
Emmanuel Cleaver
Steve stopped playing with Einhorn. "He called me a nigger," Cleaver said.
They played often together, until one day Stevie stopped playing with Emmanuel.
He said he realized at that moment that his skin was a different color than Steve's.
Today, his 9-year-old son faces the same discrimination in Kansas City, Mo. But Cleaver is optimistic that racial relations will improve.
Cleaver is the founder of Harmony in a World of Difference, a Kansas City-based group that promotes mult-cultural education and personal interaction between cultural
Clearer speak to a group of 30 KU faculty members and students at noon yesterday at the university.
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In the South, at least they said, 'Yep, we're bigots.' But because they are honest, they are able to deal with the problems. It is like being an alcoholic. Until you admit you have a problem, you cannot be helped.
— Emmanuel Cleaver
founder of Harmony in a world of Difference
Oread Ave.
In a recent national survey of racial problems in large U.S. cities, the Kansas City
He said Harmony in a World of Difference came into being because the Kansas City Bears had won the CFL title.
metropolitan area, was ranked in the top 10 cities having the worst racial discrimination.
"The mayor wanted to see a change in the image of Kansas City," Cleara said. "I have been assigned the task of creating task forces and workshops about cultural appreciation."
Cleaver said the place to begin tearing
the barriers of racial crimes and hate
crimes is at the U.S. Capitol.
"It is a sad fact that many churches around the world don't discuss racism." Cleaver said, "Uniracism is condemned in the churches, KU or MU students won't change."
Some problems were being dealt with in the South already he said.
"The first order of business is to engage in self-introspection." Cleaver said. "And we need to bring people into contact with each other."
"In the South, at least they said, 'Yep, we biggs,' but "Because they are honest, they are able to deal with the problems. It is like being an alcohol. Until
you admit you have a problem, you cannot be helped.
Wendell Wiebe-Powell, associate pastor of ECM, said he had heard about Cleaver and was eager to hear him speak. He taped the speech and took notes. He said he would use Cleaver's message in his own theology research.
"I think he has a very important message for this part of the country," Wisebill-Powell said. "He has a gentle style. But I think he must rise to his advantage for delivering his message."
He said Cleaver's consistent style of relating to the world in a loving way would help him to build trust and create relationships.
KU student charged with theft, battery
"I've often thought that Stevie and I could have been life-long friends," he said. "But somebody told him that I was a different color."
Cleaver said that he savored the few good moments, and that he would remain passionate with his wife.
By Debbie Myers
Kansan staff writer
A KU student was arrested and charged Tuesday in connection with an attempt to use a fake KU bus pass and the assault of a bus driver shortly after 9 a.m. at Colony Woods Apartments, 1301 W. 24th St.
David Soult, Cincinnati sophomore, 19, was charged with theft of services, and battery in Lawrence Municipal Court, said Donna Clark, court clerk. Soult's first appearance in court was set for Oct. 30.
Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesperson, said Lawrence police officers arrested Soult after searching the area.
According to Lawrence police reports, a boarded man a Lawrence Bus Company bus at 9:08 a.m. Tuesday and showed the driver his bus pass. When she asked to see it more closely, the man grabbed the driver's arm to get his bus pass away and the driver back toward the augment complex.
Mary Ellen Henderson, coordinator of KU on Wheels, said Tuesday's incident was the sixth case of fraudulent bus pass use this semester.
"Every semester we have a few
cases." Henderson said. "It's getting to a point where we're getting a little concerned now because there's been six. That's a little much."
Henderson said that in four of the cases, students who had been caught using fake bus passes said they had bought them from someone. In the other two cases, students said they made the passes themselves.
KU on Wheels decided at a board meeting last night to file reports of fake bus pass with use KU police and the Office of Student Life.
Mullens said theft of services occurred after a person used a service without paying the fee that funded the service. He said that if students made fake bus passes themselves, they could be charged with forgery, which is a felony, as well as theft of services, which is a misdemeanor.
A theft of services charge is punishable by up to one year in jail and a $2,500 fine. A forfeiture charge is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
"There's a crime against making it, there's a crime against using it, there's a crime against buying it and there's a crime against stealing it." Mullens said.
Board reopens bus stop in front of Marvin Hall
Transportation committee also discusses penalties for students with illegal passes
Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate Transportation Board voted unanimously last night to replace a bus stop in front of Marvin Hall.
Chris Ogle, owner of the Lawrence Bus Co., 837 Pennsylvania St., said the company would start bus service to the stop today.
The stop will be in front of Marvin Hall, near the old bus stop, said MaryEllen Henderson, KU on Wheels coordinator
Last week the board considered replacing the bus stop after art and design students collected 385 signature prints. The board would return the step on front of MacArthur.
The KU Traffic and Safety Committee decided to remove the stop this summer because it was causing congestion on dajayh Route-ward.
In other business, the board discussed penalties for students caught with an illegal bus pass.
Henderson said that bus drivers had confiscated six forged or misused bus passes in the past month.
The transportation board policy manual states that if students make their own bus passes, they can be assigned a seat for disciplinary action, she said.
The board agreed to file reports of illegal bus passes with the KU police and the department of student life.
David Hardy, assistant director of the Organizations and Activities Center, said that when the student life department processed a report, a panel was formed to make a decision. The panel then makes recommendations to the student life who can enforce sanctions, such as fines or community service.
Race shows how alcohol impairs
By Courtney Eblen
Kansan staff writer
A tricycle race conducted yesterday proved to be one of the more zany of the informative events that promote Alcohol Awareness Week
Ten students took part in the race, a demonstration of how alcohol can impair motor skills. One hour and an average of eight beers later, participants were driving their trikes into the orange traffic course to up mark an obstacle course and meet each other. No one was injured.
But last year 33 people between the ages of 18 and 24 were killed in alcohol-related automobile accidents on Kansas roads.
"The whole point of this is to prove how difficult it is to drive under the influence of alcohol," said Steve Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall.
"We don't want people stumbling," Wampole said. "That's not the point. The reason we we're using trikes is that it's more difficult to steer and balance when you've had a lot to drink."
Wampole, one of the chief organizers of the trike race, had seen a similar demonstration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he attended undergraduate school.
KU's first Alcohol Awareness KU's trike race was at the parking lot behind the Delta Upsilon house on Lakeview Boulevard, by McDonald Beverage Inc., 801 E Ninth St., which provided four cases of beer for the trike race, and by Anbeuser-Busch, Budweiser. The two groups participated in the Panthelenne Association
Trikers started drinking about 15 minutes before the first heat, which began at 4 p.m. Before the hour was over, each man had consumed eight or nine beers and each woman at least a six-pack.
Although most of the 200 spectators left the race after cold winds began gating at 35 miles an hour. The weather was perfect, not for forget the purpose of the race.
Shortly before the final heat began at 5:20 p.m., swaying participants lifted up to take a sobriety test.
Margaret Miller, coordinator of group programming for the Organizations and Activities Center, said that the tricycles were purchased specifically for the event and that they probably would be donated to an area children's organization.
Jason Robertson, Topeka senior, eves his competition in a tricycle race for alcohol awareness.
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