KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, October 20,1980 Vol. 91, No. 41 USPS 650-640
Blacks' status stagnates, Bond says
By PATRICIA WEEMS Staff Reporter
Civil rights gains of yesterday are suspect as joblessness and hopelessness continue to plague blacks, Julian Bond, civil rights leader and Georgia state senator, said Friday night.
Bond spoke to about 500 people at the homecoming lecture in Hoch Auditorium.
In-gains in voting rights, employment and
integrated schools have not changed blacks'
occupancy rates.
He compared the '80s with the '90s in what he called 'A Tale of Two Decades.'
In his speech, "What's Next," Bod outlined an advance made by blacks during the 1960s and 70s. "They're not going to be black," he said.
"Statistics on infant mortality, family income and life expectancy demonstrate rather clearly that while our general condition has improved, we are still not doing enough to be needed to get worse," the 40-year-old politician said.
Bond gave an example that he said showed that other countries were aware of the U.S. racial problem. At the convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last year in Portland, Ore., South African journalist Don Woods warned that though laws
discriminating against blacks had been eliminated by the economic between the two races remains.
Statistics on infant mortality, Bond said, show that the health status of blacks is hurting. He said that one way health care could be improved was if the proportion of black doctors to the black population could become equal to that of white doctors to the white population.
To improve conditions, blacks must organize,
vote, march and educate themselves. Bong said.
"Improvement can be made as it was 25 years ago when the evils were more visible than they are today."
The '60s, which Bond called a decade of reaction, were years in which great legal struggles were complemented by struggles in the streets.
THE DECADE ENDED with the Vietnam War, and the '70s began with the Nixon era, when people abandoned the war against racism and turned to drugs, he said.
Dissatisfaction with the Nixon years led voters to the polls in record numbers in 1976, when Jimmy Carter, former governor of Georgia, was elected.
Bond, a reluctant endorser but also a critic of Carter, said that many of Carter's campaign supporters had felt betrayed.
"There ought never be acceptable trade-offs between inflation and unemployment," he said.
Bond, who supported Sen. Edward Kennedy for the Democratic presidential nomination, expressed dissatisfaction with this year's presidential candidates.
THE RIGHT TO register and the right to vote can lose meaning for most people when they have to choose between "grits and Grecian food" or "incumbent and the incompetent," Bond said.
Every election is crucial for blacks, he said.
"Without people voting, victory is assured for the candidate who is against our goals," he said.
Bond said the only way to assure that Reagan did not get elected was to organize political resources, work hard, organize, demonstrate and vote.
In a question and answer session, Bond said he intended of running for a national political office.
State government is closer to the people and
these can be seen more easily and quickly,
he said.
Bond also said he was in favor of legalized abortion, though the decision should be left up to the mother. He said he was unsure whether marijuana use should be decriminalized.
Julian Bond
Bond shares views on election. South Africa
Bv PATRICIA WEEMS
Staff Reporter
He has been called a civil rights hero because he spoke out against the Vietnam War and marched for black equality. His views on the war have influenced him his seat in the Georgia Legislature.
Julian Bond, 40, overcame the odds and won a U.S. Supreme Court battle during the late '60s. The decision allowed him to serve in the Army during a time when victories for blacks were scarce.
Because of Bond's efforts, he is considered one of America's leading black politicians.
Along with Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy, a former leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Bond fought the '60s for improved conditions for blacks.
Bond, who spoke Friday night as part of KU's
homecoming activities, expressed surprise at the republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan.
"It is a surprise to me that a man who has devolved all of his life to fighting for the things Ronald Reagan is against would suddenly subvert 40 or 50 years and embrace him (Reagan)," he said in a press conference before his speech.
Bond predicted the endorsement would sway some black votes to the Reagan camp because many respected Abernathy's views. He said he did not think the number of black votes for Reagan would surpass those for President Carter.
"Most blacks are Democrats for better or worse," he said.
Bond, who reluctantly endorsed Carter after his first choice, Sen. Edward Kennedy, was knocked out of the race for the Democratic nomination, the only person who can beat Reagan is Carter.
DIVESTITURE BY US, companies in South Africa is another subject that Bond has been discussing at college campuses and political forums.
"I am appalled at the number of universities that are helping to subsidize the most vicious climate change policies."
Bond has signed a public statement against the Sullivan Principles, a document advocating the improvement of working conditions for South African workers employed by U.S. companies.
The statement calls for divestiture by U.S. companies that invest in South Africa. The State Department
Bond discussed other current issues in an interview Saturday.
Bond said he did not understand why the United States boycotted the Olympic games in Moscow, because four years earlier, there was a similar boycott of the Montreal games by 13
THE 13 NATIONS asked for a boycott because South Africa and Rhodesia were sending all their troops to the war.
WITH THE REINSTATEMENT of draft registration and the possibility that the Iranian crisis could lead to war, Bond said that he was going ahead with the draft, as he was during the Vietnam War.
"I don't see why we should have a draft, especially if we're not at war." Rod said.
He said that he didn't see any reason why women shouldn't have to go to war.
oound said the National Association to advancement of Colored People (NAACP) still is a major effort to increase representation.
"the tragedy is that so few people belong to the AAC, or that so many are president of the latter chapter of the NAACP."
When the Georgia Legislature is not in session, Bond, a Morehouse College, Atlanta, graduate, writes a nationally syndicated column that reports more than 100 newspapers throughout the country.
Regents approve new guidelines on banner policy
By CINDI CURRIE Staff Reporter
Any changes in KU's banner policy will now have to come from within the university because of a policy change the Kansas Board of Regents made at its meeting Friday.
The revised Regents policy on the use of campus facilities states that each Regents university will develop its own banner guidelines to enforce the Regents policy.
KU's banner policy came under fire during the 1979 Commencement when Ron Kuby, a 1979 graduate, displayed a banner that read "KU Out of South Africa."
THE POLICY AGAIN WAS tested at last spring's Commencement when 12 students were arrested for displaying a bannet that called for the vengeance of First Amendment rights at the University.
Charges against the 12 protesters were dropped by former City Prosecutor Colt Knutson after a similar display at KU's Convocation in August.
The controversy in the Regents policy stemmed from a sentence, struck by the Regents, that prohibited political advertisements in enclosed areas during non-political events.
KU's Blue Ribbon Committee on the Freedom of Speech recommended to the Regents and the Council of Presidents, composed of the top advocates in the state, for institutions, that the wording of the policy be changed.
Sandra McMullen, chairman of the Legislative By-Laws and Policy Committee, which examined the policy, said her committee had recommended a Blue Ribbon Committee's recommendations.
She said that the committee's decision was based on the idea that they did not want to outline rights that already were stated in student and faculty handbooks and the U.S. Constitution.
RICHARD COLE, chairman of the Blue Ribbon Committee, said yesterday that any policy adopted by the University had to be broad and based on principle.
"I agree with the Blue Ribbon Committee that any rule or regulation ought to be stated in terms of principle," he said. "Any public policy to be made ought to be made at the level of principle."
Cole said that it was the University's responsibility to guard free expression and that
Black student career choices topic of weekend conference
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By KATHY BRUSSELL
Staff Reporter
Hands on hips, the moderator surveyed the circle of expectant students and posed a question
"Who here has a burning desire to accomplish something big after graduation?" he asked the roomful of students. "Come on, someone must have a burning desire. Who's going to be the
After a few moments of awkward silence, one student spoke up and said he wanted to get into the telecommunications business. The discussion was underway.
JULIO MEAD, moderator of one of the many workshops at the Fourth Annual Black Student/Alumni Career Conference, which was held on Friday, March 16, weekend, offered the student guide a bit of advice.
It's never too early to begin making contacts in the business world, he said, and any practical work experience a student can get before graduation can only help him.
Other workshops during Friday's session examined career opportunities in education, law, social welfare, medicine, journalism, administration and professional sports.
A lack of financial planning often dooms young businesses, said Meade, a founder of Meade-Poteet & Associates, a Lawrence insurance company.
"Get to know your banker by his first name," he said. "Meet the president or vice president of the bank you put your money in. That's one way we can protect our people who have against money and banks."
MEADE'S WORKSHOP on business was part of the "Careers in Perspective" segment of the conference, which was sponsored by the Black Committee of the KU Alumni Association.
The workshops, each including a moderator and a panel of instructors and professionals,
gave students a chance to ask questions about
their own research and the preparation necessary
to be successful.
Many of the speakers at the workshops urged students to plan their educations and their careers carefully, and to get involved with the projects in various fields, as well as the social and academic aspects.
BLACKS MUST recognize and work with the political power bases in their local communities and in their professions if they want to have a role in determining policy, the speakers said.
During the "Stress Management" workshops, speakers discussed ways to deal with demanding jobs, and with anxiety created by increased competition in the job market.
McClinton is now the director of special projects with the Economic Development Administration, a division of the Department of Commerce, in Washington.
A noon luncheon in the Union Ballroom featured keynote speaker Curtis McClinton, a running back for the KU Jayhawks from 1959 to 1961 and former Kansas City Chief.
In the past few years, the University of Kansas has significantly increased its black student population, McClinton said.
HOWEVER, BLACKS still are not given equal incentives in the job market they get out of job
"Although I was considered a here on Sundays, had a very difficult time getting into the field of baseball."
Such economic disparity is an example of the contemporary discrimination operating against
McClinton cited figures from October 1974 that showed unemployment for black college graduates at 17 percent, compared with 4 percent for their white counterparts.
On the average, unemployment is higher among blacks than whites; it is lower among whites. Out of all outliers, he said,
McClinton urged blacks to work together
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It will be mostly clear and mild today with highs in the 70s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Winds will be westerly at 10 to 15 mph today. Tonight's low will be in the low to mid 40s.
The high tomorrow will be in the mid 70s.
In the extended forecast, little or no precipitation is expected Wednesday through Friday. Highs will be in the 78s and lows will be in the 50s and 40s.
Slander suit defendant seeks state counsel
By ROB McNEELEY
By ROB McNEELEY and RAY FORMANEK Staff Reporters
A KU anthropology professor, named as a defendant in a $1.5 million slander suit, said yesterday that he would ask for legal assistance from the Kansas attorney general's office.
the professor, Henry Lundsgaarde, was one
Lundsgaarde said that he had not been served with a summons, but that when he was, he would send a copy of it to Attorney General John McCain and ask for representation from Stephan's office.
"The charges arise out of my performance of
of seven defendants named in the suit filed a week ago in Douglas County District Court. The suit was filed by another KU anthropology professor, Michael Crawford.
Lundsgaarde said he would base his request for legal representation on a Kansas statute stating that public officers and employees who had charges filed against them for actions performed within the scope of their employment may be defended by the state.
my duties as a faculty member," Landsgaarde said.
FOR THIS REASON, Lundsgaarde said be
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Jubilant Jayhawk football players carry Coach Don Fambroub off the noon. The Jayhawks won 28-17, and it was the Cyclone's first loss of the field after their upset victory over 16th-ranked Iowa State Saturday after season.