Page 10 University Daily Kansan, December 4, 1980
Israeli official to give speech next semester
By KATHY BRUSSELL Staff Reporter
An Israeli official has been scheduled to speak at the University of Kansas next semester, despite the disruption of Israeli speaker in mid-November.
B'nal R'ith Hilile, a religious and social organization for Jewish students and community residents, will sponsor a speech by Emmanuel Lotem, consul for academic affairs at the Israeli consulate in New York.
Ellen Kort, Hillel director, said yesterday that Lottern would speak Jan. 28 at the Kansas Union on the topic of political Situation in the Middle East."
Campus security probably will be greater for Lotem's speech than it was for a talk given Nov. 12 by Ehdul Gud, the minister of Israel for the Midwest, Kortalz.
Gol's speech, which was to focus on
current relations between Israel and other Mideast countries, was delayed after 75-100 Modern students from various countries filled most of the seats in the Satellite Union conference room reserved for the speech.
A few of the students demonstrated with signs and distributed literature.
AFTER CONSULTATION with Gol and two KU police officers at the speech, Hillel officials decided to move to a private home west of campus.
Kort said research for the speech had anticipated any trouble. The panel had not articulated any trouble.
"The numbers and vocalism of the students were unexpected," she said. "We expected some protest for sure—it's a very controversial topic. Our programs in the past have had some minor protests, but we were always
The campus police officers probably would have called for additional assistance if Hilliard had requested it, but the police officers were better to move the speech. Kort said.
able to have the students ask questions at the end. We never had to cancel anything."
"They (the police) weren't prepared for a mob, but neither were we," she said. "We didn't give them any indication that there would be such a problem.
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A Palestinian graduate student who was at the Satellite Union said the students who had gathered there were not from any one country. They represented several different campus organizations, including Latin-American groups, the Iranian Student Association, the Muslim Student Association and the KU Committee on South Africa, he said.
THE STUDENT SAID he thought Hillel could have gone ahead with the speech at the Satellite Union with no major disruptions.
"Most of the students from the Mideast are graduate students," he said. "What do they expect us to do? Shoot the suv?"
"The Hilibel members took advantage of the fact that they are American and know how to appeal to other American students. It's its cultural thing. Students know how to respond to questions and the customary way to react, and they are not always understood."
Jim Denney, director of police for the Lawrence campus, said details for security at Lotem's speech had not yet been worked out.
Final security arrangements usually are not made until one or two weeks before an event, and they depend on a number of factors, he said.
"The amount of security depends first of all on the number of people expected," Denney said.
"We also consider the potentially controversial nature of the speaker or the times, and the problems we have with a particular speaker or topic."
Denney said that KU police had not expected any trouble at Gol's speech, and that two on-duty detectives had been assigned merely to stop by the speech and make sure things were going smoothly.
"There are so many groups and so many topics being discussed on campus; there's no way it's possible, or there is no way we have police at each event." he said.
"We cannot cancel a University event unless obvious public-safety concerns are involved," he said. "If a person wants to speak, our job is to protect him."
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Some members of the administration and the University Senate executive committee have expressed concern about the disruption of Gol's speech and about the preservation of free speech on campus.
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