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University Daily Kansan
From Page One
Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1985
Mark Mohler/KANSAN
Anti-apartheid protesters carry a coffin down Jayhawk Boulevard.
Arrest
Continued from p. 1
of the University do not understand the basic purpose of an institution of higher learning." he said.
The statement also said that Budig's representatives had met with members of the KU Committee and remained "willing to do so."
The decision to arrest the protesters was made by a KU administrator, Denney said. He did not name the administrator.
The demonstrators in the chancellor's suite were given at least two warnings, Denney said. Five remained after the warnings.
"We were expecting nothing other than a peaceful rally," he said. "It was peaceful until they decided to come to Strong Hall."
At the rally, Ungerman said, "I'm glad we have such a nice day. Maybe it's some kind of a sign, maybe that we're right."
At the end of the rally promotion and action, which had been filled with clapping, shouting and cheering, Aaron Lucas, Chattanooga, Tenn., senior and a member of Blacks Against Apartheid and Black Student Union, told the crowd of about 150-200 students to join hands.
Maher said, "People were choosing to ignore us. Something needed to be done to bring about an action. Being arrested accomplished that.
"It demonstrated our willingness to sacrifice our personal liberties to accomplish goals."
"We're going to march over to Strong Hall," Lucas said. "If the administration doesn't hear us over here, they'll hear us over there."
Rasor said she stayed because no one would talk to the protesters.
Some students were allowed into the chancellor's suite and unsuccessfully tried to make an appointment to speak with Budig.
At a news conference after the arrests, Cobb said that it had not been hard for students to meet with administrators in the past about their concerns about apartheid and divestment.
With drums beating and shouts of "Divest now" and "KU out of South Africa," students then invaded Strong to speak with Budig.
Administrators had met with students during the summer and now a task force has been set up with members of the KU Committee on South Africa, which is scheduled to meet tomorrow to discuss apartheid and to analyze diversitie.
with some of the protesters.
Horowitz, a member of the task force, said the goal of the group was to find ways to address the issue of aparteid in South Africa on campus.
"We've tried all regular channels and we're sick of being ignored," she said.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, and Frances Horwitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and service, spoke
Mary Burger/Special to the KANSAN
Kurtis Keyes, Chicago senior, points to a story on a campus anti-apartheid rally that appeared in yesterday's University Daily Kanes. Keyes, the emcee for yesterday's rally, said that the placement of the story on the last page of the Kanes indicated that interest in South Africa was low on campus.
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According to an editorial entitled "Sure Route to Criticism" in the October 27 Journal-World: "it is well for youngsters to learn early that if they want to be leaders they must be prepared for the criticism that will ensue (This criticism)...may be an outcrop of jealousy, but for some reason or other, people who work hard, take a stand on public issues, and make an effort to take leadership in worthy causes are almost certain to receive increased criticism from others."
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Although this century has seen many a venal businessman and corrupt politician fall before the investigative efforts of an inspired newspaper reporter, some think the Journal-World's unusual capacity to tolerate results from its having made such a choice.
Some think this choice has resulted In the Journal-World's paying lip service to representative government even as it ignores the disproportionate power wielded by City Manager Buford Watson.
Some think this choice has resulted in the Journal-World's applauding a shopping mall both downtown and outside of town even as it ignores the controversial circumstances surrounding the Town Center Venture Corporation's becoming the developer-of-record and its (TCVC's) now universally acknowledged inability to shoulder the assigned burden.
Some think this choice has resulted in the Journal-World's glorifying the local high school and Kansas University even as it ignores the failure of either institution to devise a program designed to, increase the percentage of intrastate blacks being prepared for and entering college. This failure to create is the reason some KU officials, in the words of the October 24 University Dilly Kanan, "will be on the road to Lornan, Miss.; Madison, Wis.; and Las Vegas, N.M...looking to recruit black, Hispanic, and other minority students...and offer incentives to bring more minorities here."
Some think this choice has resulted in the Journal-World's extolling the status quo while it ignores such offerings as, in the words of the October 20 Kansas City Star:
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