TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1995
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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SECTION A VOL.102.NO.42
(USPS 650-640)
SELF-RESPECT
TODAY KANSAN
FEATURES
More scar
for your buck
Two Kansan reporters review haunted houses and rate their favorites. Page 8A
CAMPUS
Jayhawks, Wildcats ready
No.7 Kansas and No.8 Kansas State will put their undefeated records on the line Saturday. Page 1B
NATION
Abortion foes rejected
The Supreme Court threw out an appeal on a buffer-zone law in California. Page 7A
WORLD
Canadian separatistutters slur
A leader in Quebec's fight for independence has distanced Black voters. Page 7A
WEATHER UNSEASONABLY WARM
Tom Leininger/KANSAN
Weather: Page 2A.
Tom Leininger / KANSAN
Scoreboard...2B
Horoscopes...4B
National News...7A
World News...7A
Features...8A
1NDEX
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Watter Givens, Junction City graduate student, ate lunch in front of Wesco Hall as part or yesterday's event to support the Million Man March in Washington, DC.
March's theme: Self-reliance
Antonio Shepherd, Lawrence senior, talks with a group of freshman in front of Wescoe Hall. Sean Fradieu, Kansas City, Kan. (with hat) and DeLano Sheffield, Topeka listen. Yesterday's brown bag lunch was sponsored by Black PanHellenic Council.
Wescoe rally supports unity
100 gather to honor Million Man March
By Hannah Naughton Kansan staff writer
African-American students assembled yesterday on the front steps of Wescoe Hall to eat lunch together and to show support for the Million Man March that was held in Washington, D.C.
KU students involved with Black Pan-Hellenic Council organized the assembly to bring the University of Kansas's Black community together on the day of the landmark march. More than 100 people gathered for the event.
"We're there in spirit to support the concept of the march," said Todd Moore, Junction City senior. "It's not an issue of gender or religion. It's about Black males accepting responsibility and having self-determination."
The march in Washington has sparked much debate about its organizer, Louis Farrakhan, the controversial leader of the Nation of Islam. This debate carried over into yesterday's assembly.
A group of students discussed Farrakhan's involvement with the march.
"Right now, I don't know whether I should be here," said Adrian Franks, St. Louis freshman. "I don't like Farrakhan because of what he preaches. I'm not for Black supremacy. I want to represent my race and my human race, also."
People can agree with this positive event without agreeing with everything Farakhan says, said Cliff Wiley, staff attorney for Legal Services for Students.
"He says some things that are pertinent to America as a whole," Wiley said. "People should stand up and take care of the children and family. It sounds actually very Republican. There's nothing really radical about it."
Although people were discussing the meanings of the march, others took the
Wiley said the assembly in front of Wescoe and the march on Washington had different meanings for different people. For the people who aren't taking responsibility for their families and their children, this is a reminder to change.
They passed around a petition demanding an apology from The University Daily Kansan in response to an editorial cartoon that ran Oct. 10 that many people found offensive and racist. They also called for students to empower themselves at the University by networking through the college community.
opportunity to share time with friends and relax on the steps. Students took turns addressing the crowd on campus issues.
In a long day of oration gathering seeks unity
"It is important to get involved," said Haile Sims, Lawrence senior and president of Black PanHellenic Council.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In a mood of celebration and revival, many tens of thousands of Black men rallied at the Capitol today to affirm their self-respect and protest the conditions besetting much of Black America.
The assemblage was exhorted to do right by itself, over and over, and in poetry by Maya Angelou:
"Draw near to one another,
"You have been paid for in a distant place
The one O’Reilly returns as the savvy’s channels
“Have paid for our freedom again and again.”
"The old ones remind us that slavery's chains"
"Hurried up from our unfamiliar lands."
Angelou had spoken from the same Capitol steps at the inaugural of Bill Clinton.
The demonstration, a "Million Man March" called by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, was the largest assemblage of Black U.S. citizens in the capital since the 1963 March on Washington, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of his dream.
But that march drew Blacks and whites and appealed to the government; today's drew a virtually all Black group and hoped to restore Black pride.
When organizers asserted that well over a million
when organizers assert Black men were on hand, many in the crowd cheered and slapped a high-five greeting. But the National Park Service estimated the crowd to be about 400,000.
In a long day of oratory, speakers ranged from Rosa Parks, a heroine of the civil rights movement, to a disgraced Black congressman, Gus Savage, who lost his seat in the House after a woman in the Peace Corps accused him of taking sexual liberties with her.
Their universal theme was self-help and self-respect.
"I see history in the making," said a participant, Ray Clemons of Flint, Mich. "Black on Black violence is terrible." he said. "I hope some of our brothers will see what we're trying to do here and take heed of it."
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passed through the crowd to collect money to defray the event's cost. A sea of people waved currency in the air.
In bright sunshine, stranger embraced stranger. The crowd was relaxed. One spectator, his baseball cap pulled over his head, fell asleep against a tree. Vendors offered grilled chicken, its aroma filling the air, or sold buttons.
Columns of members of the Nation of Islam, in suits and their trademark bow ties, lent an air of solemnity.
Daylong, the message was that Blacks must lift themselves by their own show of will. Typical was Damu Smith, representing Greenpeace USA: "We've come to say we are going to lay down our Uxis and Tech-9s and not kill each other any more."
From Black writer Jawanza Kanufu. "A Black man that can't read is a Black man that probably can't be employed. It is said you can learn more Black history in jail than you can in public schools."
From its opening chant in Arabic, reminiscent of the calls to prayer from minarets in the Muslim world, the meeting had a strong religious undertone.
"The vision for the Million Man March came directly from God himself," Washington Mayor Marion Barry told the rally. "It was God-inspired."
Yet a tinge of anger was evident.
"The powers here have not wished us well," the Rev. Robert Smith called out in a morning sermon. "They took our wives, took our children, enslaved us to the point we adopted a slave mentality. In spite of what they've done to us over the years, we are here today."
College's ARTS forms errored
By Josh Yancey
Kansan staff writer
Mix-up compromises confidential records
Some KU students now know quite a bit about one another — and they can thank the University for their enlightenment.
In part two of permit-to-enroll printing m-ups, a computer error at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences caused some Academic Requirement Tracking System forms to be printed with one student's name and address on the front but another student's academic records on the back. The ARTS forms contain students' addresses, ACT scores, schedules and grades in all classes taken at the
University.
Chris Partain, Minneapolis, Kan., freshman, received someone else's ARTS form. So did several of her friends. So did Tim Joyce, Lincolnshire, Ill., senior. And, apparently, so did other students.
Pam Houston, director of undergraduate education at the College, said that she was unsure how many students had been affected. Therefore, she said, her office wasn't going to mail any new forms.
"They seem to be playing this off as if it was no big deal," Partain said. "It was a really big deal, I think. It's a good thing I'm a freshman, because otherwise somebody out there would have all my grades."
Partain said that several people at Jayhawker Towers had received one another's forms and that she
had spoken to other people who had received incorrect permits.
Joyce said he had received an art history major's ARTS form. He wasn't thrilled about his form being in someone else's hands.
Houston said the college hoped that students who received errant forms would bring them in and receive new forms.
"Students who are involved are contacting us," Houston said. "We're pretty sure that it's a small number, but if students have any questions about this they can come to our office."
After the first error, which had nothing to do with the College's error, about 12,000 permits to enroll were sent with incorrect enrollment times. New permits were mailed to students last week.
Football player arrested on drunk driving charges
Kansan staff report
Kansas defensive end Derek
Derek Fairchild
Fairchild was arrested Sunday morning for driving under the influence of alcohol, KU Police reported.
Fairchild, St. Louis senior, was pulled over
at 4:50 a.m. in a car registered
under his father's name at the corner of Naimith Drive and 19th Street Terrace. Rose Rozmiarek of KU Police said that she did not know why Fairchild was pulled over but said his blood-alcohol level was above the legal limit. Rozmiarek said she could not give the exact level.
Fairchild was brought to the Douglas County Jail at 5:10 a.m. He posted bond at $500 cash and was released at 6:40 the same morning.
Fairchild is scheduled to appear in court on Nov. 1. t 7:45 a.m.
Fairchild could not be reached for comment. His father, Larry Fairchild, also of St. Louis, refused to comment.