'Black Pride' hits Lawrence campus
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African heritage, relatively few have become well-acquainted with African students at KU.
No American black students are members of the African Club, says its president Plaston Kiltonje, and no Africans are members of the Black Student Union.
Kiltonje explains the gap this wav.
"Most African students don't know what the Black Student Union is about. First you have to know what's going on before you become a member."
Also, Kltonje said, there is comparatively little social mixing between Africans and American Negroes. While some dating has occurred in the past between the two groups, only one African student is presently dating a black American coed, he said.
There is some mixing at parties and other social events, he said, but no more than between Africans and white students.
KU's black American students' attitudes toward the Africans vary. Some regret the lack of contact, while others see little reason for going out of their way to befriend the foreigners because of racial similarities.
"They don't want to be identified as Negroes," Miss Hammond said. "Last year, there was a lot of dating with American black girls, but their year they've retreated."
Another reason is suggested by
Marian Brown, Quincy, Fla., graduate student.
Kltonje regrets the lack of ties between American Negroes and KU's African students.
"They're here to study," she says, "and don't have the time to socialize with Americans."
"Most of them are interested in Africa," he says. "I think this is one of the times when we can get in touch with one another.
"There must be more contact."
If social relations with fellow black students is one concern of KU blacks, an equally urgent consideration is relationships with the white majority.
And through years of observation, Negroes have come to understand the majority's social attitudes rather well.
And they can discern unspoken prejudice.
"A person who is prejudiced, no matter how hard he tries cannot conceal it," says Melvin Smith. Kansas City senior.
And what a white student says, will also reveal his true feelings.
"The first thing a person who is prejudiced will tell me is, 'I've got a lot of Negro friends.'" says Bob Hughes, Kansas City, Mo..junior.
"He is really my 'buddy' because he knows a few Negroes he's spoken to," he adds ironically.
Another observation—and complaint—concerns the insatiable curiosity of some whites about how Negroes "live." One black coed, who
"The girls at the dorm were friendly enough, but they were hopelessly nosey. They would constantly be asking me if Negroes did this, if Negroes did that, if Negroes really felt this way about so and so.
formerly lived in a KU residence hall but now has an off-campus apartment, recalls her experiences.
"They weren't interested in me as an individual."
Another "niuisance" for local black students is the white "campus liberal" with the one-track mind.
"A lot of whites," says Gloria Douglas, Montclair, N.J., sophomore, "feel that when they come into contact with blacks they automatically have to say something like 'Oh, isn't Stokley Carmichael a great person,' or 'Oh, isn't it a shame that Martin Luther King died.'"
"They don't know how to approach you. They don't know what to talk about."
One reason for these communication hang-ups, some black students suggest, is the racially sheltered background of most KU white students. Coming from cloistered Midwestern communities where they rarely met Negroes as equals, they don't know how to be natural when they finally do.
Despite the various problems involved, most KU blacks are sympathetic towards white attempts at communication.
For black students in university residence halls, the reality of living within a white world is even more apparent.
If not always natural and spontaneous, these efforts at least represent efforts to overcome a racist heritage.
Not only do they attend classes with whites every day, but also eat, shower and watch TV with them.
And while this arrangement has not produced open conflicts—KU's black students are not demanding a separate housing unit à la Brandeis and Duke University certain "discomforts" have been felt.
"It's hard living with girls in a residence hall situation where most of girls haven't had any contact with you as a Negro," a Hashinger Hall coed comments.
'It's hard to cope with.'
This discomfort shows itself in residence hall dining rooms. Here, whites generally eat with whites and black students with blacks.
The rigidity with which the unwritten rule is enforced varies in some halls, certain black students do eat with white friends but the pattern has been set.
Leisure time habits follow the same pattern, says Ernie Sims, a Templin Hall resident. Black students generally mix with fellow blacks and the white students with thites.
There are exceptions, he says, but that is what they are—exceptions.
For other black students, those living in apartments or at the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity
house, the white-black social problem is not so acute.
But regardless of where they live or how much day-to-day contact they have with the white world that surrounds them—KU's black students share a common, new-found unity.
A unity for which the Black Student Union is largely responsible.
(Tomorrow: The Black Student Union)
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Feb. 19 1969 KANSAN 3
Gilbert Ulmer resigns after 38 years at KU
Gilbert Ulmer, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, announced yesterday he will retire in June, 1969, after 38 years at KU. His successor has not been named.
Ulmer came to KU in 1931 as an instructor in the mathematics and education departments. In 1941 he was appointed to his present position.
After retiring from his administrative duties, he said he plans to continue directing mathematics education, preparing graduates and undergraduates to teach.
Ulmer has written many articles on classroom instruction of mathematics and is the author of a book on high school teaching of geometry.
He studied at Purdue University and received his bachelor of arts degree at Butler University, Indianapolis, Ind.
While teaching at KU, he continued his academic career and in 1933 received his master of arts degree. In 1939 he was awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics and education.
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