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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 4.1992
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Ku Klux Klan literature found in Kansas Union
Police respond to complaints, remove tabloids
By Muneera Naseer Kansan staff writer
"I Want You For The Ku Klux Klan," was the message on a flier from the first floor of the Kansas Union yesterday, along with tabloid papers and business cards with addresses and a hot line number for the KKK
Eight copies of a tabldel paper entitled "The New Order" were in the back of KU-Timetables on the fourth floor, and some were on the third floor.
The tabloid stated that the government system was anti-white and that the United States was threatened by a non-white invasion by people from the Third World.
Mike Fine, Jaybowl manager, found one flier on a ledge near the trophy case and called KU police.
Lt. John Mullens, KU police representative, said that six business cards were found near the trophy case and six more on the fifth floor.
Mullens said that KU police received no complaints or calls from people in other buildings.
KU police detectives will attempt to trace the address and number on the cards to determine whether the literature was from the KKK or part of a prank.
The hot line number has a recording of a male voice supporting the KKK.
William Towns, operations manager for the Kansas Union, said he was notified about the KKK literature in the building.
Towns said he picked up all the literature he could find in the building and handed it over to KU police. He said he thought that the content of the literature was of a provocative nature
and that the police might be interested in knowing about it.
She said the Union could regulate the manner in which literature was distributed.
Rose Marino, associate general counsel, said removing the literature did not violate any University policy related to free speech.
Several departments on campus were notified about the fliers and the tabloids, including the Office of Minority Affairs and the Organizations and Activities Center.
Ann Evensolo, OAC director, said that Brad Garlinghouse, student president, was informed and that almost everyone in the OAC who was told about the hate literature was appalled by it.
"It is chilling," she said.
University Affairs Committee to post list of closed classes
Danny Kaiser, assistant dean of student life, said that departments were notified about the literature because the University did not want to hide its presence.
By Jay Koester Special to the Kansar
Students who want to know whether the courses they need are available will no longer have to make a trek to Strong Hall to find out.
The list of closed courses will now be posted at six additional sites, thanks to a petition by the University Affairs Committee. The committee petitioned the University registrar's office to receive a copy of the closed course list, as well as the list of canceled and newly opened courses.
The petition was approved by the registrar's office, and the committee will begin posting the lists today.
Steve Miles, co-chairperson of the committee, said the additional posting sites would make it easier for students to plan their schedules.
"We want to make enrollment easier and quicker for students, as well as for the enrollment center," Miles said. "In the past, students would go to Strong Hall to enroll, just to find out that the courses they wanted to enroll in were closed. Now they can find out before they go up there."
The lists will be posted through Nov. 20 and will be updated daily at about 3 p.m. Only the closed and canceled courses lists will be posted, Miles said, because the only added courses are practicums. The committee has access to and will post the added courses list when there are added courses that are not practicums.
Brenda Selman, assistant registrar,
said that the office had not received a request to post the lists before and that the petition was immediately honored.
Students can find out about closed or canceled classes at the following locations through Nov. 20:
■ McColum Hall
■ Jiahawkier Towers
■ Gibson Cohn Hall
■ Miller Scholarship Hall
■ Oliver Hall
■ Kansas Union
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"We had no problems with the request," Selman said. "The committee has taken on the responsibility to post the lists. We have never had the staff or resources to do it ourselves."
Selman said that they posted the lists in Strong Hall because of its central location on campus and for convenience to students enrolling there.
'An important part is the sharing'
KU, Haskell students meet during semesterlong exchange program
By Brian James
Special to the Kansan
International students from the University of Kansas yesterday got a chance to learn more about U.S. culture when they visited with students from Haskell Indian Junior College.
The group of 16 KU students, representing six nationalities, and a speech communications class from Haskell took an excursion to see the Medicine Wheel, a symbolic landscape mural south of the Haskell campus.
The trip was part of a student exchange this semester between the international students from the KU Applied English Center and 12 students from Reeze Hanson's speech communications class at Haskell.
The Haskell group plans to have a powwow ceremony Saturday evening at Haskell and a tour of the KU campus next week.
Barbara Hermann, a language specialist at the center, said the exchange was to give international students more out-of-class learning experiences.
"We want to familiarize them with the Lawrence community and American culture," she said. "We feel that Haskell is an important part of that community."
Two years ago the center received a $1,000 grant from the Association of International Educators. The grant was to sponsor an exchange with an area school, under the
condition of future exchanges. Hermann said.
Since then, international students have been part of semesterlong exchanges with area elementary, junior and senior high schools.
The discussions among KU's international students and Haskell students should lead to more awareness and understanding of their diverse cultures. Hermann said
"An important part is the sharing they will do with each other," she said. "They are alike in many ways. Some are away from home for the first time and adjusting to KU and Haskell. It's still a culture shock."
Haskell art instructor Leslie Evans led the groups to the field where the four-acre Medicine Wheel project was done. The design was developed by Evans, four former Haskell art students and local field artist Stan Herd.
Evans explained that the Medicine Wheel represented the relationships among all living things, the large circle representing the power of spirituality for American-Indian people.
Pierre Baudoz, a Lawrence junior originally from France, said the Wheel reminded him of the Stonehenge choreography.
"I've never really gotten into the spiritual or religious side of Indian tradition, but now I think we should take permanent care of this," he said.
Michael Geyett, Haskell freshman, said that he had not seen the Medicine Wheel before but that he was impressed with it.
"I think this is something that has a lot of symbolic meaning," he said.
Torsten Schroter, Düsseldorf, Germany, senior, said he thought the Wheel was intriguing.
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Uphill climb
As if the 12th Street hills weren't steep enough, snow made the trek up to campus even more difficult. Although it did not stay on the ground for more than a few hours, a heavy, wet snow fell on Lawrence for nearly an hour yesterday.
New Ellsworth Hall computer lab should open for residents Dec.1
Special to the Kansan
By Robert Reynolds
KU residence hall students will have a new microcomputer lab that will be installed in Ellsworth Hall before the end of the semester.
The new lab will have 30 new personal Macintosh computers and two laser printers, said Ken Stoner, student body manager.
The location of the lab is convenient for students at Ellsworth as well as for those in other nearby residence halls — Templin, Lewis, Hashinger and McCollum halls, Stoner said.
The new computer open, only to residence hall students, should open Dec. 1.
The KU Telecommunications Department provided the $100,000 for the computer equipment, using the savings from long-distance telephone discounts acquired over the last three years.
The Elsworth cafeteria, closed since the summer of 1901 as part of a cafeteria merger with Lewis Hall, will be
Each of KU's eight residence halls have some computer facilities. When completed, the new lab will be KU's
largest residence hall computer facility, said Jerry Niebaum, director of academic computing.
Niebaum said the University recognized the need for more equipment and addressed the problem.
"The labs at the computer center are heavily used," Niebaum said. "Students have complained that the computers were not readily accessible. We recognized an identifiable need."
Although the University has received the computers, the lab will not be open until the department has the proper security arrangements.
Kendra Satterwhite, Lenexa freshman, said she thought the new lab would increase the availability of computers.
"I think that the lab will be beneficial to residence halls considering that a lot of people aren't in fraternities and sororites and don't get a chance to go to their house to use the computers." Satterwhite said.
Andrea Fritz, Lenexa freshman, said that additional facilities were needed.
"It could take hours for a computer to become available at the computer center," Fritz said. "I think it is a great idea for those who don't already have access."
"Now I know where I'll be spending my Saturday nights," she said.
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