Friday, March 1, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Negro, urbanization blamed
Cities' problems analyzed
An economist blamed the cities, a political scientist blamed the Negroes, and a social worker blamed attitudes toward the Vietnam war for the "Crisis in the American City" Thursday afternoon in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
With 70 per cent of the American population living in the cities, the basic problem is rather a "crisis in the nation," Rubin Saposnik, KU professor of economics said.
He said any problem in our society shows up more drastically in the city. Saposnik said what economists call "external effects of private action" exists in the city, as well as the problem of allocating tax money for streets and public goods and people leaving the city when public goods run down.
"The cities' problems should be given top priority because they are society's problems. This is a
national crisis of pre-eminent priority."Saposnik said.
Earl E. Nehring, KU associate professor of political science, said the "colored-skin" problem is the major crisis in the American city.
"The basic problem is for Americans to accept others for what they are—human beings. I expect violent riots and outbreaks in the American cities this summer. This rioting must be suppressed in every way possible." Nehring said.
concerned with how to get political institutions to respond to the problem. People are just too conservative."
KU students spark McCarthy support
A group of KU students are organizing a movement to support Sen. Eugene McCarthy, DIll., for the presidential candidacy.
Paul Steeves, St. Louis, Mo.,
Lighting conditions on the KU campus apparently will see little improvement the remainder of this semester and through 1969.
Little money is available for lighting
Only about 10 per cent or $17,-500 of the $175,000 received from the 1969 operations budget for construction and repair of buildings will be used for improvement of campus lighting, said Clayton Stone, KU modification and improvement analyst.
"If I could do everything I need to do on lighting, I would not have enough money left over to do building repairs," he said.
"Right now we have a list of things which need to be done on campus but it would cost about three times the amount of money we have and will get for 1969," Stone said.
Most of the money will be split up to do about 100 different jobs on campus. These include such things as landscaping, face-lifting of older buildings and construction of new sidewalks, although lighting is needed in several dark areas on campus, Stone said.
Troupe has begun tour
Ray Price, a Kansas City social worker, said Americans should support our democratic process, whatever faults exist.
KU's "Theater Today" troupe left Wednesday on a six-day tour of Kansas communities. Thursday they performed in Newton; the following nights in Fredonia and Topeka.
"Theater Today," a series of Broadway musical excerpts presented here in November, is a program in the Experimental Theatre.
Next week the group will perform at Parsons.
The troupe will return to KU so four members can perform in "Macbeth." Director Tom Rea, assistant professor in speech and drama, said the troupe will leave for Europe March 28.
graduate student, is working to get the group organized. The first step, he said, is to find out who is interested in the movement.
Sherry McGowan, Lawrence sophomore and secretary of the Kansas for Alternatives, said she has a list of about 40 KU professors who would be interested in the McCarthy organization.
They are going to meet with members of Kansas for Alternatives, the statewide McCarthy organization, sometime next week to discuss uniting the KU organization with that group.
Miss McGowan said the Kansas for Alternatives is planning a statewide conference for early May. She said the group hoped to have as speakers Gen. James McGavin and Robert Vaughn, former star of the Man from UNCLE television series.
He said the Negroes are set back by violence because they do not have the political means to implement what they want to accomplish.
Steeves said he is convinced McCarthy will cause a "stir" in the primaries. He did not think there is much chance that Kansas will send any supporting delegates for McCarthy to the Democratic convention because most of the Kansas Democrats are supporting President Lyndon Johnson.
In the political spectrum, he said, the Negroes are the least represented. "There is a basic lack of communication between the decision-makers and the people they represent," Nehring said. "The fundamental question is
"A minority group can do little through violent means and will not gain financial aid through violent activity," Nehring said.
"The opportunities are there for people to speak out about the problems existing in the American city. More dialogue is needed with our leadership," Price said.
"The political process is a slow one of resolving human relationships in which I believe there should be a minimum of conflict," he said. "Rioting is wrong because it brings instability to the system."
He said we could be on the threshold of human growth and development if "we keep our cities intact. But we are not moving fast enough in our methods of trying to solve the problems of the city. We are using out-dated methods in the city."
Price said our attitudes in fighting the war in Vietnam are reflected in attitudes of the problems of the city.
"We are getting so emotionally involved in the war that we are losing our proper perspective in settling the problems in the city. Vietnam is complicating the problems of the city—problems which existed before the war," he said.
Richard Berkley, chairman of the Republican party of Jackson County, Mo., scheduled to appear at the forum, failed to appear.
K-State sympathy-ouch!
Purple Pride was apparent to Leo Kirchhoff, instructor of education at KU. Kirchhoff received a special delivery card from two K-State graduate students Thursday that read:
"In deepest sympathy with regards to the fall of the notso-mighty chickenhawks, sqwak, sqwak, from two purple-powered wildecats with plenty of purple pride, for two victorious happenings."
Kirchhoff met the card senders, Jan Rotman and Charla Borshot, both home economies majors, at the Family Financed Workshop last summer at KU. Kirchhoff
was a consultant for elementary teachers, principals and business teachers.
Kirchhoff's first impression when he received the "sympathy" card was surprise.
"It was clever and different. I had a good laugh—no hard feelings," he said. "I plan to reciprocate in some way but I don't know exactly how yet.
With the defeat of KU to the Nebraska Huskers Tuesday, it's possible Kirchhoff will receive another "sympathy" card. The weekend before the KU-NU game, the Kirchhoffs entertained friends from Nebraska.
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