University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. October 7,1986
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Although he acknowledged the school board had taken steps to desegregate, Jones argued they were insufficient and were preceded by signals to the community that gave whites time to move out of soon-to-be-integrated areas.
K Gary Sebelius, attorney for Unified School District 501, the successor to the old Topeka district, said the record showed a history of good-faith efforts by the district to desegregate. He said the city's rapid growth in the 1960s and other unexpected factors fostered black-white disparities.
The Kansas Board of Education is the other defendant in the case.
Sebelius blamed the federal government in several instances, specifically citing the construction of nine
low-income housing projects that concentrate minorities in certain neighborhoods.
Fasting
Rogers agreed to use that option in late 1979 when a coalition of civil rights and minority groups filed a motion on behalf of 17 Topeka school children to revive the case. The ensuing seven years have been spent in research and preparation for the trial.
The Brown case, considered a cornerstone of the civil rights movement, did not officially close after the 1954 and 1955 Supreme Court rulings. Instead, it lay dormant in federal court files so the court would have the option of monitoring the desegregation progress.
The original lawsuit, filed in 1951, was consolidated with cases in Kansas, Delaware, Virginia and South Carolina.
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Somoza's national guard, said Bremer, who visited Nicaragua two years ago.
"Because of the lack of support from the Nicaraguan people, the contras, if they did get into power, would require massive American troop intervention because they have no political base," he said.
The Kansas protest group is designed to express its solidarity with the four men fasting in Washington, Bremer said.
"I think we can't continue to remain silent in this situation," he said. "To implement a policy which takes the lives of children, women and men is, in my religion, an offense against God."
Kilgren said that Liteky was an American chaplain for four and a half years during the Vietnam War. President Lyndon Johnson awarded him the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism in 1968.
In July, Liteky became the first of
4. 414 recipients to return the medal to the hospital to receive it. We
- the country's highest honor. He returned the medal to protest U.S. aid to the contras.
The Kansas group also met yesterday with representatives for Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, and U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan.
Judy Kay, field representative for Dole, said she did not know whether Dole had visited with the fasting veterans yet.
David Epstein, student body president, said, "I feel we were trying to protect the students' money. We can take calculated risks, but there was too much risk involved in this.
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Concert
"They never answered all the questions we had."
Several senators said restrictions on the Senate, which sometimes prevented the Senate from sponsoring worthwhile events, were necessary to safeguard student money.
Ann Hiszczynsky), a Nunemaker senator and a member of the committee, said she had voted against the request because she didn't think the Senate should finance charitable organizations.
To do so would set a dangerous precedent because other charities then would come to Senate requesting money and the Senate would not be able to say no, Hiszczynsky said.
Several senators said the amount of money the organization had received was too small.
The Student Senate's unallocated account contains $109,000, but only $69,000 of that may be spent. The administration requires that the Senate keep $40,000 on reserve.
"It was just too much money." Hiszczynskyj said. "We couldn't afford it. We would have ended up having to turn other smaller groups away."
Epstein said most Senate administrations did most of their spending during the first few months in office. For instance, his administration spent $80,000 from the unallocated account last spring for projects ranging from campus lighting to a course guide for students.
If for some reason the Youth for Vietnam Veterans could not repay the money, the next Senate administration would only have a small amount of unallotted money to work with, Epstein said.
"It would literally cripple the next Student Senate," he said. "It's not responsible of us to leave that kind of legacy."
Also, Senate would have had only a little more than $19,000 to allocate until the organization paid the money back in December, which may not cover requests made in that time.
"At least 10 groups have asked for money in the last week," Quincy said.
Tim Henderson, chairman of the Finance Committee, said his committee had asked Krueger and Estell the names of the other two bands because the committee members needed to know whether students would be interested in attending the concert before considering allocating
that much money
"I knew it was doomed when they wouldn't tell the committee that," Henderson said.
But he said his Senate administration had focused more on campus concerns.
Epstein said the concert would have bound the University's students together for a common cause.
The effort to bring big-name bands to the University of Kansas for a concert started a little more than a year ago. Krueger, Estell and others originally formed a group called "Rock for KU."
Members of the group decided in November that they wanted to make the concert a benefit.
After contacting about 20 veterans groups, they worked out an agreement with the Paralyzed Veterans of America, a national group whose money goes primarily for spinal cord research.
Krueger and Estell flew to Washington, D.C., in February to meet with officials from the organization. They received $2,500 from the organization, which Krueger said was spent mostly on telephone calls.
But the concert never happened, because members of the KU organization couldn't line up enough bands to perform, Krueger said.
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