Wednesday, October 25, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Civil rights leader speaks to students
By Rob Pazell
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The modern civil rights movement faces the challenge of getting all Americans involved in working toward racial equality, said the chairman of the board of directors of the NAACP.
Julian Bond answered questions from about 25 students and faculty yesterday afternoon in the Kansas Union. He spoke about his experiences with minorities and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
He said the civil rights movement was an important cause for more people than just minorities.
"The big challenge for the movement today is making this a fight for
all Americans, not just the minority." Bond said.
The question-and-answer session was in addition to the Frances Floyd Horowitz Lecture, which Bond delivered last night at the Lied Center.
Bond said his first real exposure to the movement was when nine African-American high school students, called the "Little Rock 9," attempted to integrate a white school in Little Rock, Ark.
He remembered the bravery of one student who was spit on so much the first day that the girl's mother said she had to wring out her daughter's dress.
"I remember thinking how many times did these people have to spit to have her mother wring it out?" Bond said. "I wondered if I was able to live up to the standard she set."
He said that people across the nation were in denial about discrimination issues.
"If you're in the majority, you never have to think about it," Bond said. "If you're in the minority, you think about it all the time."
He compared the NAACP's mission to a proverb about babies who had been thrown in a river. Several men jumped in to save the babies, but another man opted to head upstream to find out who was throwing the babies in the water. Bond said the group's mission resembled the ambition of the man who went upstream.
"In the past, we've tried to do some of the these small things, but we just can't do that," he said. "We're gonna find out who's throwing the babies in the water and make them stop."
ponent, which the University of Kansas has elected not to have in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was important and should be required.
Victor Bailey, director of the Hall Center for the Humanities and professor of history, said Bond included an interesting mix of the personal and political in his discussion.
"When you leave here you're going to have to work with, sell to, and interact with these people," he said. "It just seems to me that it's a part of an education."
"He was very autobiographical some of the time, and he also illustrated his political side for the NAACP," he said. "Clearly, he has had a rich and active participation in the movement."
Bond said that a multicultural com- Edited by Amy Randolph
Male charged as rapist using DNA only
The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Sacramento man has been charged with a 194a rape in what is believed to be the first arrest in the nation to be made with the use of a warrant that identifies a suspect by his DNA only.
Paul Eugene Robinson, 31, was arrested last month after state computers matched his genetic code to the no-name warrant. He was charged with five counts of sexual assault.
Such DNA warrants are increasingly being filed as a way to get around the statute of limitations for bringing charges against a suspect.
The warrant in the Sacramento case was issued in August as the six-year statute of limitations on the rape was about to run out. The August 1994 rape was one in a series of five rapes by a man police and newspapers called the Second Story Rapist for his penchant of attacking women who lived on the second floor of apartment buildings.
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Lawrence Kobilinsky, assistant provost at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, agreed that it was the first such arrest.
"I think someday this DNA technology will be where fingerprints
are now, where you just put the info in the computer and get a hit on your bad guy," Sacramento Detective Peter Willover said yesterday.
Robinson's attorney, Johnny L. Griffin, said he will ask that the case be thrown out. He said the statute of limitations has run out because his client was not identified by name in the warrant.
Beginning in January, a new state law will nearly eliminate the six-year statute of limitations in rape cases where DNA evidence is available.
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