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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Sept. 25, 1964
White KU Student Harassed In South
"The white college student who was in Mississippi this summer had to make himself inconspicuous. He was harassed and insulted by many southern whites," Tom Coffman, Lyndon senior, said.
Coffman, a student in the School of Journalism, traveled on a grant he received from the Readers Digest. Tom wrote several articles for the New Republic and another for the Kansas City Star.
Coffman said he was refused hotel rooms and was followed several times because he was driving a car with an out-of-state license plate. "I could not imagine how the Negro must be affected," Coffman said.
Coffman met an eighteen-year-old Negro boy who was a high school drop-out. The boy seemed apathetic and inarticulate. After the youth joined the civil rights movement and was arrested and beaten, he began to take pride in himself. He began to stand up for his rights as a human being. Coffman said.
"The Negro finds his dignity," Coffman said, "when he stands for what he believes in and not being what the white man believes he should be. Shame develops when a Negro hides to keep from being beaten or killed when the man could become a dynamic personality."
Tom visited the headquarters of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). SNCC was the back-bone of the movement in Mississippi. Coffman said.
The organization started in 1961 with a sit-in in North Carolina. SNCC supplied three hundred volunteers, most of which were college students, a few professors and sociologists.
Coffman said spokesmen for SNCC told him they were turning down many applicants because of the murder of three workers in Philadelphia, Miss., and because many were amateurs.
"The project went under the name of the Council of Federated Organizations, of which SNCC was the guts," Coffman said. The other members were the Southern Christian Leadership Conference led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Congress of Racial Equality, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The National Council of Churches supported the civil rights program.
Coffman said the summer Mississippi project was patterned after local demonstrations. This was the first time that Mississippi had any intensive demonstrations.
"Mississippi had always been treated as an impossible state to work in. The attitude was that if Mississippi could be cracked it would prove to the South that integration, Negro advancement, and equal rights could work." Coffman said.
Coffman said there was some distortion in the nature of untruthful propaganda. The Southern white could not accept the fact that police brutality actually existed, Coffman said.
He said the southerner didn't actually know what was going on. A parent-child relationship exists between the two races, where the child has no rights.
The shift to equal rights represents too much a change to the existing fraternity of white men, Coffman said.
Coffman said that in the south, the white man is aware of his class and beyond the class there is the caste system. This extends into economics, voting rights, property rights, and sexual frustrations.
"The biggest problem is that people refer to the Negro problem as a white southern problem and it is not," Coffman said.
Seminar Rejects Bumstead As American Father Image
"We must get rid of the caricature of Dagwood Bumstead as the American father," Dr. Nick J. Colarelli, senior staff psychologist of the Topeka State Hospital, said yesterday morning in the keynote of the Third Annual Seminar on Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control held in the Kansas Union.
Colarelli told the statewide audience of law enforcement officers, juvenile judges, educators, and social workers that the major cause of juvenile delinquency was the home environment, and in particular, the lack of authority and disinterest of some fathers.
"There has been a reaction against the Victorian father," he said, "but perhaps an over-reaction."
COLARELLI said delinquency should not be considered as either an illness or a crime, but both.
A judge should not be given only the choice of putting an offender either in jail or under the care of an expert,
A delinquent with a psychological problem should also bear the responsibility for his actions in the same manner as a criminal. This forced acceptance of responsibility can be helpful in psychological treatment.
After Colarelli's speech, a panel discussion with Malcolm G. Copeland, juvenile judge, Topeka; Pauline B. Flynn, child welfare consultant, Chanute; R. K. House, marshal, Dodge City; and Erle Volkland, high school principal, Topeka; set down the problems for consideration.
THE SEMINAR participants then
Today the seminar will consider two other cases prepared by Lattimore. The committees will be composed of one or more representatives from each of the separate disciplines.
separated into groups according to their professions to consider one of three actual cases prepared by Hal Lattimore, department of law and psychiatry, Menninger Foundation, Topeka.
The final summary will be presented at 4 p.m. tomorrow. A written report will be sent to all the participants and to the legislature for possible legislative action on the recommendations.
James S. Kline, coordinator of police training in KU's Governmental Research Center, was in charge of this year's seminar.
The KU Governmental Research Center has sponsored this seminar for the past three years.
This year's edition of the KU student directory should be available for purchase by the last week in October, according to James E. Gunn, administrative assistant to the chancellor for university relations.
Student Directory Grows to New Size
Gunn said yesterday publication of the directory will be handled this year by the University instead of by the Student Publications Committee of the All Student Body as was the case last year.
Price of the Student Directory will be $.50, and may be purchased from the Kansas Union bookstore, library bookstore, and the Information Booth, on' Jayhawk Blyd.
In addition to new management, the directory will have a new size—the size of the Lawrence telephone directory. As in the past, the directory will contain division and departmental offices, student organizations, and a directory of faculty and students.
Groups Plan Activities
As a result of lack of space in yesterday's Kansan issue, the list of church schedules for the coming year could not be printed in full. Here are the remaining churches and their schedules.
This year the Jewish community fellowship B'nai Brith Hillel, will have Dr. Robert Sokal as its faculty advisor.
Jewish Community
Services will be 7:30 p.m. each Friday at the Jewish Community Center at 917 Highland Drive. These services are conducted by students and faculty.
Meetings are held at the Hillel House at the Jewish Community Center at 7:30 p.m. every other Sunday. There will be a get-acquainted service at 7:30 p.m., Friday. Following the service there will be an Oneg Shabbat.
At 5 p.m., October 4, the Hilli will have its first dinner meeting at the center. Election of officers for the coming semester will be held.
The Interfraternity Council voted last night to allow the pledge classes of KU's 27 social fraternities to send one representative to IFC meetings. The Interfraternity Pledge Council, which had functioned as a separate organization, was eliminated by the IFC last spring.
IFC Gives Pledges Mute Seats
The Breezy Fellowship of the Nazarene Church will be held at 6:30 p.m. Friday, at the home of Mr. Frank Rice, 2418 Ohio. The affair will be a barbecue.
Nazarene Church
The Leahona Fellowship, sponsored by the Reorganized Latted Day Saints, will have a Cost Supper at 5 p.m. Sunday at the Reorganized Latter Day Saints Center.
Later Dav Saints
Law Class Elects Heads
Sunday classes for college students meet in the center at 9:45 a.m. at 1900 University Dr.
Last night's action clarifies the status of fraternity $ ^{e} $ledge classes at KU by giving representatives the opportunity to observe IFC meetings. No voting or speaking privileges will be given to the pledge representatives, however.
Fraternity pledge classes may appoint a permanent representative or alternating delegates.
The Westminster Campus Christian Fellowship, formerly Westminster Fellowship of the Presbyterian Church, has merged with the Christian Church. The sponsor is the Rev Maynard H. Strothman. The UCCF Westminster Center is located at 1204 Oread.
Presbyterian Church
Officers were elected yesterday for the first year law class.
The Sunday evening program starts at 5:15 with a dinner. A program of planned activities follows the dinner.
IFC Judiciary Council members were elected at last night's meeting, held in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. They are Gary Gradinger, Prairie Village senior; Bob Hicks, Kansas City, Mo., junior; and Richard Burke, Dodge City senior.
Worship services are at 10:45 a.m. each Sunday at the center. Following the service is a coffee period at 11:45 a.m.
The UCCF will sponsor five ecumenical discussions starting Oct. 5. Thereafter they will meet once a week for eight weeks which will include five study courses.
WELCOME KANSAS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Linda Pfizer is president of UCCF and Dennis Pankrap is vice-president.
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Jack Duncan, Raytown, Mo., was elected president. Charles Alphin, Lawrence, was elected vice president and the secretary-treasurer is Sylvia Meridith Appel, Wichita. Representing the class on the student bar association will be Robert I. Guenther, Augusta, who was elected student bar representative.
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