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FROM PROTESTS
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Leffel described the campus as one of uncertainty and conflict.
"In this explosive atmosphere there was almost no room for rational thought or action," Leffel wrote. "Everyone was concerned but little was being done to stabilize the situation for the long term improvement of the university structure. Students were ready to act and wanting to act but did not have a structure or vehicle through which to express themselves and act out their concern in a balanced, responsible way."
Leffel, along with four other friends, created the "Phantom Five," an anonymous group that over the next several years would work to address University students' concerns.
"Protest, demonstrations, rallyes: this is how we make this country move forward," Leffel said. "We must be active."
Rusty Leffel is now an attorney and lives with his wife in Mission Hills, Kan. Now, he travels around the country capturing urban life, including public protests. In 2011 he photographed the Occupy Portland Movement, and just this past week was at a rally in Kansas City to protest Donald Trump.
The group went onto be known as Students Concerned About Higher Education. Among their many activities, the Concerned Students sent out questionnaires to Student Senate candidates, published full-page ads in the Kansan and handed out flyers at football games.
"We worked behind the scenes as a type of student-citizen action group," Leffel's letter read. "Whenever we met we would begin by asking just what were the problems facing our school and what could we, as five ordinary individuals, do about it."
Protests are an effective American tradition, Leffel said. They can get attention, but more importantly, they are platforms for organizing change.
Students protest the Vietnam War in South Park in 1970.
"There's just a whole wide range of things to do where you can speak out and participate and you need to do it," Leffel said. "And certainly getting a sign and going to an assembly is just one piece of it, but it's just too narrow, you need to do more."
'YOU HAVE TO DO WORK, AND NO ONE WANTS TO DO WORK'
Assembly is necessary, when it's trying to accomplish something.
Photo courtesy of University Archives
But if there isn't a purpose, if there isn't a goal to a public protest, Carpenter said she really doesn't see the point.
"What I don't like is if we are showing up to something and not asking to put things on the line to get that accomplished."
At least, that's how Trinity Carpenter sees it.
Not everyone is willing to do the hard work, Carpenter said. Not everyone is willing to go beyond the
Carpenter, a senior in the School of Social Welfare is a well-known voice around campus. On any given day, she is pulled into administrative meetings, student meetings, and constantly sending letters and information, trying to advocate for social justice.
"As a person of color, I know why we demonstrate, and it's because historically those avenues and those procedures have never served us, they don't work for us like they do our counterparts," she said. "So direct action and disrupting spaces has served us, it has forced institutions, administration and even city commission to recognize or move in a direction that we're trying to accomplish."
Sometimes, she said traditional methods of change don't always work.
initial reaction
"Organizing is difficult," Carpenter said. "Because when you organize you have to do work and no one wants to do work."
GETTING BACK UP AGAIN
As they filtered in, they were given two-page packets titled "Action Items & Resources." For the next hour and a half, the group would discuss how to stay informed, where to volunteer time and money, and how to contact legislators.
Twelve days after the election of Donald Trump, over 150 people gathered in the auditorium of the Lawrence Public Library.
"What does it mean to get back up again?" she asked the audience. "It means organizing, it means political action, it means coalition building. That's really important right now, to build our coalition and bring people together."
Over the past week and a half, various groups throughout the country had gathered to protest, to grieve and to process, but now, after being knocked down, it was time to "get back up," as organizer Nancy Hamilton put it.
The time was focused on five main topics: combating hate and increasing inclusiveness, legislative advocacy, healthcare economic equity and environment and energy. Each section gave links names of legislators phone numbers, websites and a list of "5 things you can do now."
Protesting is important, Hamilton said. Expressing feelings are important, but it doesn't always translate into legislative change.
The point, she said, is to do something about it.
"Just take the energy that we see and translate it into meaningful action." Hamilton said.
What's the best way to cause meaningful action? Adina Morse, another co-organizer, said she thinks people should make an effort to be politically involved all the time - not just after an election.
"It's your civic duty, it's your national duty, everybody should be involved all the time," Morse said. "We've gotten into this thing where people say, 'Oh I don't pay attention to politics,' and if you do you're kind of an outlier. I think it should be the other way around — that everybody should pay attention and if you don't you're an outlier because it impacts us all, everything runs downstream."
Throughout the meeting, various audience
Lawrence gets input on bike share
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In this 2014 file photo, University alumnus Joe Cronmeeyer coordinates the Critical Mass bike ride. The city of Lawrence is gathering input on a bike sharing program.
A new bike share program may be coming to Lawrence soon, which would create more transportation options for residents.
File photo/KANSAN
Ashley Myers, transportation planner for the City of Lawrence, said a study is being conducted across Lawrence and the University campus to see if such a program would be beneficial for the community.
The program would be available for individuals to rent bikes to travel across Lawrence.
"Right now, we are doing a bike share feasibility study, so it's not actually a program," Myers said. "We received a grant from [the Kansas Department of Transportation] to do this study. It started in January and it's going to wrap up in December."
Two surveys were gauged from campus and the community to get responses from individuals on the bike share program.
After the study is evaluated, Myers and the city of Lawrence will decide if the program should be initiated.
"It's a mobility option to give people choices," Myers said.
"I think sometimes cyclists do not necessarily pay attention to stop signs or other things that they are supposed to abide by," Severin said.
Severin said cyclists should follow the same guidelines as car drivers.
For now, students are advised to be safe across the city and on campus when riding bikes. Jeff Severin, director of the Center for Sustainability, said students need to pay special awareness to traffic laws when riding.
"One [guideline] is just making sure that, as a bicyclist, that you are aware that you have to follow all
the same rules that vehicles do," he said.
Severin said bikers should know that riding on the roads is safer than sidewalks, and that wearing a helmet is always important.
flective markers on bikes.
With it getting darker earlier in the day, making sure cyclists are visible to other pedestrians and vehicles is important. Severin said. During darker parts of the day, Severin advises cyclists to wear reflective clothing and remembers suggested organizations, resources and practices to adopt to intact change on a local and, eventually, national scale. The ideas ranged from subscribing to reliable news outlets to volunteering at a food shelter to simply taking a bike to work.
Myers said she encourages students to talk to Student Senate if they really want a bike share program to happen.
"If they talk to their student senators and mention that they're excited about the possibility of a bike share program, and would like Student Senate to work on it, that would be great," Myers said.
The afternoon ended with plans to meet again in the near future and to next time bring a friend.
Although it might have only been a small, community gathering at the local library, Morse said its an important part of making an impact.
"I think it takes things like this," she said. "I think it takes everyday conversations, I think it takes tiny steps everyday."
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