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Monday, October 6, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
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KU Black Student Union members from left, Kendall Harris, St. Louis junior, Lennie Wesley, Wichita junior, and Del-Metri Bynum, Topeka junior, look over a budget for the Big Eight Black Student Government Conference. The conference will take place in February at the University of Oklahoma. BSU members helped plan the conference Friday and Saturday.
BSU plans agenda for Big 8 meeting
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By PATRICIA FEENY
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The agenda for a conference of the Big Eight black student governments was set during a two-day meeting hosted by the Black Student Union at the University of Kansas.
The conference will take place in February at the University of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma
Shezare Crawford, University of Oklahoma sophomore, said, "We have been planning really hard for the conference, and we want it to be a gigantic success."
giant success
The theme of this year's conference is "A Decade of Struggle, A New Era of Challenge."
Lennie Wesley, Wichita junior, said the location of the planning meetings and the conferences rotated among the schools each year. Last year both were held at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
"Initially I'm very impressed with the plans for the conference. It looks really good." Wesley said.
During the meeting the group gave reports, talked about problems they were having and set the agenda for February's conference.
"The exchange of ideas among students from different schools is beneficial," said Lamont Jones, University of Oklahoma freshman. "I thought the conference would just be a party, but now I'm really looking forward to it. It is good to see students who are interested in their student government."
Crawford said the purpose of the conference was for black students to enlighten themselves and better themselves in society.
At the conference students will have the opportunity to take advantage of a career fair with workshops on resume writing, interviewing and dressing for success, Crawford said.
She said representatives from law, health and business fields would be there. U.S. Rep Walter Fauntroy, D-Washington, D.C., will speak to the conference on political issues.
"It is important for the black student to know how to perform in the political arena," Crawford said.
She said there also would be workshops on relationships between black males and females in the 1980s.
On campus
The KU Kempo Karate and Self- Defense Club will meet at 5:30 p.m today in 130 Robinson Center.
The KU Women's Scooter Club will practice at 5:45 p.m. today at Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets.
The KU Chapter of Amnesty International will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Art Gallery of the Kansas Union.
The KU Coalition for Peace and Justice will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the Oread Room of the Kansas Union.
The Society for Fantasy and Science Fiction will meet at 8 p.m. today in Cork 2 of the Kansas Union.
A seminar on "Love, Values and
The KU Soccer Club will practice at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow at Shenk Complex, 23rd and Iowa streets.
Spiritual Growth' will meet at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
■KU Democrats will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Art Gallery of the Kansas Union.
The Transcendental Meditation Club will sponsor an introductory lecture on transcendental meditation at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union.
■ Expressions, the KU dance club, will meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in 242 Robinson Center.
Topeka school board case to start
TOPEKA — More than 20 years after the Supreme Court ordered the desegregation of the Topeka school system and others like it across the nation, a federal court judge will begin a progress report today in a revival of the historic Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka.
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The 1954 Brown ruling, considered a cornerstone of the civil rights movement during the ensuing 25 years, did not close the case. Instead it has lain dormant in federal court files, leaving the courts with the option of monitoring the progress of desegregation.
desegregated district Judge Richard Rogers used that option in 1979 when a coalition of civil rights and minority groups filed a motion to revive the case that condemned "separate but equal" educational
facilities for blacks. The next seven years have been spent researching and preparing for a three-to-four week trial before Rogers.
The revived case was filed on behalf of 17 Topeka schoolchildren, including two grandchildren of the Rev. Oliver Brown, who filed the original lawsuit in the name of his daughter, Linda Brown Smith.
Smith was 7 in September 1950 when her father and 12 other black parents failed in their attempt to enroll their children at the all-white Sumner Elementary School near their homes, rather than a black school across town. Their lawsuit, filed in 1951, eventually was consolidated with school desegregation cases in Kansas, Delaware, Virginia and South Carolina.
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In its ruling, the Supreme Court held:
This ruling, the Supreme Court held:
"To separate ... (children) from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of
their race generates a feeling of inferiority ... that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
"We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place;
the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. The plaintiffs in the revived case argue that, despite the 1954 ruling, and a 1955 follow-up order to desegregate "with all deliberate speed," Unified School District 501, the successor to the old Topeka board, has failed to provide a desegregated school system. The plaintiffs contend that black and other minority students in the system receive an education that is inferior to that received by the majority of white students.
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While the district's schools are integrated, the plantiffs argue that affirmative action should be taken to balance the racial mix throughout the district.
New club informs public about cats
Rv KIRK KAHLER
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Staff Writer
Cat lovers of Lawrence, unite.
A group of local cat lovers is forming an organization devoted to the public education and general welfare of cats, said Susan Fowler, Lawrence resident and the group's organizer.
Fowler said one of the purposes of the group was to supply information about cats to the public so that cat owners might care for their pets better.
Some of the topics to be discussed by the group will include cruelty, abandoning cats and the responsibility of owning a cat.
million dogs occupying 38 percent of all households and 50 million cats in 28 percent of the households, she said. Although the percentage of dogs as pets is higher, there are many multiple cat households.
In the United States there are 49
These figures were taken from a survey in a recent issue of a Cat Fancy magazine, she said.
cy magician. The group also will encourage people to have their cats spayed or neutered because many cats are now being discarded and neglected, she said.
The group wants to inform the public of the many cats available for adoption at the Lawrence Humane Society, 1805 E. 19th St., said Jeanne
Esch, a member of the group
"We feel there is a large percentage of animals that are being put to sleep because people aren't adopting," she said.
Esch said the group wanted to arrive at solutions to the problems plaguing cats. One way the group hopes to accomplish this is to sponsor speeches by area veterinarians.
However, people taking possession of cats from the Humane Society also should be told of the duties inherent to owning a cat, Esch said.
The group was concerned about the number of cats being abandoned as people moved to places that restrict
them, since abandoned cats had little chance of survival. Esch said.
Roma Tesch, Lawrence Humane Society manager, said she thought the organization was a worthy cause because many people didn't know what was involved in owning a cat.
The Humane Society has to put many young cats to sleep because when cats give birth at less than a year old their health declines, Tesch said. Because of this, she said that she supports the group's efforts to inform the public.
2 die in Kansas plane crash
"I think it's about time they got a club for the cats," she said. "They've had one for dogs for a long time."
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FORT SCOTT—A single-engine airplane flying over flood-ravaged Fort Scott crashed yesterday, killing the two young men on board, police said.
Killed were the pilot, Rick Litwin. 26, whose family owns Litwin clothing stores in various Kansas communities, and passenger, Doug Bean, 23, said Fort Scott Police Chief Dale Ogran Both men were Fort Scott residents.
Their rented Cessna 150 airplane slammed into an embankment
around 9:30 a.m. on the east side of U.S. 69, which runs through town. The plane's wreckage partially was covered by floodwaters, police said.
said. "If they had gone another 100 yards farther west they would have landed in a motel," Ogran said.
Cathy Cox, 32. an employee at the nearby Best Western motel, said she was on her way to work when she heard the plane flying above her.
"It looked like it was having problems," she said. "It swiveled a
little bit. It looked liked it wanted to land but it didn't. It started spinning around and going down."
Charles Brohan, Prescott resident, said he was driving into town when he commented to his wife,
"That plane's flying too slow and is going to stall out." Seconds later, he said, it crashed.
The plane was rented from the Fort Scott airport, Organ said.
A camera found amid the wreckage led authorities to believe the men were surveying flood damage.
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■ Lawrence police reported that the rear window of a car was smashed Sunday around 1:40 a.m. in the 1700 block of West 23rd Street. Damage was estimated at $600.
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A Honda Spree moped, valued at $450, was taken Saturday around 3:20 a.m. from the Naismith Hall parking lot, 1800 Naismith Drive.
*Two* 10-speed bicycles, valued together at $450, were taken Saturday around 10.45 p.m. from a garage in the 2500 block of Arkansas Street.
The front windshield of a 1974 Datsun B-210 was broken Saturday around 1:15 p.m. in a parking lot at Haskell Indian Junior College. Damage was estimated at $210.
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