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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, November 29, 2000
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"I guess one of the hardest parts for me was to ask the Student Senate leaders if Darren had been a White boy from Johnson County, would they have been taking the same attitude and approach," Amber said. "It was my way to say that they needed to examine their consciences and see if there was any suble racism at work or if they had legitimate reasons for removing him from office."
KU still struggles with low Black enrollment
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The storm subsides, the legacy continues
Ambler said he disagreed with
Senate's decision to remove Fulcher.
Fulcher said that after the experience he was ready to move on with his life.
"I looked at it as a learning experience," he said. "I think the irony of it all is, I wanted to bring people together and unfortunately, my being elected may have polarized the student body."
YZK: "Where are all the brothers at?"
Copies of the Kansan aren't burning today, and no one is storming Strong Hall, but little else has changed for Black students. This fall, 680 Black students make up 2.6 percent of KU's enrollment of 25,920, far from mirroring Kansas' 5.8 percent Black population.
Abdul-Kareem Ali, Atlanta senior, said he was taken aback by the lack of Black faces when he first arrived at the University.
"My initial reaction was,
'Where are all the brothers at?' Ali said.
J. R. Roland, Grandview, Mo., senior, and president of the current Black Men
Marlon Marshall, St. Louis senior, exemplifies some progress in KU race relations. The first Black student body vice president since the 1970s, Marshall said race had never become an issue in his campaign.
He said the diverse coalition he had run on last spring, with five Black student senators and two Black Senate executive staff members — Jones and himself — indicated an improved campus racial climate.
"There may have been people out there that had an issue with my being Black, but I never heard anyone say, 'He's Black, I can't vote for him,'" Marshall said.
Ambler said the nonissue of Marshall's race during the elections had demonstrated a climate better than it had ever been during his KU career.
"Until you're put in someone else's shoes, you can read about it, lecture about it, have as many Black friends as you want, but it is a completely different thing to be a Black person living
Points of progress
"No one even really thought about it, whereas when Darren ran, it was on everybody's minds," he said.
Other improvements include the Multicultural Resource Center established in its own building. The Office of Multicultural Affairs was given a higher profile, and it established proof Today, recalled, "I remember the first day I came on campus. It was not until well into the evening when I saw another Black face."
want, but it is a completely different thing to be a Black person living
Courtney Bates, Chicago sophomore and president of the Black Student Union, said she was used to being a minority when she got to the University. But being the only Black in class, she notices professors acting differently.
Courtney Bates
Current president of the Black
Student Union
"I'm in a history class now, and when we discussed the end of slavery, the Black codes and Jim Crow laws, I think the teacher felt he had to be more careful because I was right there in the front row," she said. "He would look at me more often than normal during those lectures."
Robert Page, Jr., director of Multicultural Affairs, said Black students were often accustomed to being the only Black face in the crowd because many lived in predominantly White situations their entire lives.
Jermie Jones, Topeka senior, said, "When you're in the dominant culture, you don't see that you have a privilege being White — having people around, having teachers like you, an education system you're used to from the White culture."
Bates added that tolerance had increased, but it still was hard for Whites to understand Black students.
"Until you are put in someone else's shoes, you can read about it, lecture about it, have as many Black friends as you want, but it is a completely different thing to be a Black person living in the U.S." Bates said.
grams like HawkLink and Students Together Excelling in Education as Peers that were meant to improve minority retention.
Although the current members don't practice the same activism as a decade ago, they deal with issues to help members get through life on a White campus, Roland said.
"When a brother gets here, we take them under our wing so he'll stay here and come back next year," he said.
Groups like Black Men of Today also exist to provide support.
The road, and roadblocks, to a more diverse campus
Minority students and administrators alike say that the static Black enrollment from 1991 to 2000 is unacceptable and that better efforts are needed.
The University is not putting enough scholarship money on the table to attract Black students, Bates said.
"Money really is a major factor for a lot of minority students when choosing a school, and without offering more scholarships, more opportunities to come to KU and prosper, we're going to continue to fall behind in numbers," Bates said.
Manny Lopez, former recruiter for the School of Journalism, said recruiting minorities was a top priority, and took a personal touch.
"One of the things that's significantly different with students of color is that a lot of times, choosing a school is a family decision," Lopez said. "You have to get to know the family, talk to the parents and make them feel comfortable that their student will be welcomed and treated well."
Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, associate provost, said "that's an area we haven't been as active in — getting involved with families and extended families. Frankly, it's just become very clear that's an area we were ignorant about, and that we need to recruit students much more individually."
James Baucom Jr., John Lewis and Darren Fulcher were three of the founders of Black Men of Today, a group that pushed for improved minority recruitment and retention on campus in the early 1990s. Photo courtesy of Baucom
Tonya Sanchez, former University of Kansas student, comforts Darren Fulcher during Student Senate's 1991 deliberation about the future of his presidency. Photo courtesy of Julie Jacobson
Ali said the administration should showcase some diversity to attract more Black students.
"They need to put some Black faces on the brochures and fliers they send out; show a little more color diversity on what they send out to potential students," Ali said.
Bates pointed to a gap between what the University was willing to give to National Merit Scholars or athletes and minority students.
"You have to be a National Merit in the top 1 percent of your class or play a sport to get the red carpet treatment." Bates said.
Bates said if KU wanted higher minority numbers, it had to give that red carpet treatment to every potential minority student.
Alan Cerveny, director of admissions and scholarship, said that
Endowment Merit scholarships awarded to minority students ranged from $500 to $2500, but were often combined with other merit and need scholarships. In contrast, National Merit scholarship packages cover tuition and fees and the cost of living in a scholarship hall, a package worth $4,156.25 for Kansas residents and $7,540.25 for nonresidents.
The idea that Darren Fulcher and Black Men of Today expressed a decade ago — Blacks who weren't athletes didn't feel valued — remains at the University. All said.
"A whole lot of money and attention goes toward athletes for doing whatever with a ball," Ali said. "What about students in orchestra? Why not recruit stuff like that, too? We don't just play basketball."
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