Von Ende is key man in campus politics
Rick von Ende
By MARTHA MANGELSDORF
Kansan Staff Writer
Rick von Ende, Abilene,
Texas, graduate student and
chairman of All Student Council
(ASC). Not much of a title for
one who has been called the
most progressive student leader
KU has had in the last few years
and the initiator of all the good
and progressive changes the
University has witnessed.
Donald Alderson, dean of men, described von Ende as "an effective liaison and interpreter, communicating to all groups within the University."
Von Ende has worked with students, faculty, and administrators as chairman of ASC, as a political science teaching assistant, as a member
"Behind the scenes there are a lot of people that work to bring about change," von Ende explained. "It's the changes that are significant, not the people."
of the student chancellor selection committee, the Dean's Advisory Board, and the Political Science Graduate Students Association.
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Von Ende, who was one of the seven student representatives to the 13-man chancellor selection committee explained the procedures and workability of the committee.
The ASC voted by secret ballot to choose the seven student representatives. The students, together with six faculty representatives, considered nearly 170 nominees and interviewed some 30 of them.
"We sought nominees in letters to alums and approximately 300 letters to students at other universities. In an open letter printed in the Kansan, we asked KU students for nominees," von Ende said.
"The committee represented the chancellor's diverse constituency," he said. "Each member brought his own unique dimension to the selection process."
Von Ende called the committee one of "total interaction where the students were not regarded as tokens but involved in a working relationship in every interview and discussion."
The structure of a chancellor search committee in the future, von Ende said, should definitely be some variation of this year's committee, whereby students, faculty and administrators are sought and respected.
With this same feeling for the need of total interaction toward progressive change, von Ende said that living in a society, we all owe something to improving it.
"No society has yet been developed that's perfect. People should be interested in trying to improve their society," he said.
Von Ende said he sees the University community in terms of a smaller cross-section of society.
"It is here that a group can rationally discuss and initiate change and progress for the better," he said.
Von Ende said this rational communication was realized in working on and for the Senate Code.
"This code recognizes that students are mature and can contribute through involvement in the academic community and in university government," he said.
The formulation process of the new code was significant because it was a revolutionary idea innovated quietly and through the joint participation
and approval of both faculty and students.
"From now on, the development of the University will require active participation. The University can become what students want it to be," von Ende said.
He added that the new Senate Code had been shown to students on both the East and West Coast and "they couldn't believe that it could be accepted." KU is far ahead of most other universities which we always considered the liberal
Von Ende has sometimes been called an idealist.
meccas of the world in active involvement.
Speaker knocks racism
"This situation of slavery is going to be ended by the slaves and not by the masters," the Rev. John Fry, minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago told more than 500 people in the Kansas Union Ballroom last night.
"Maybe so," he said, "I hope I can always keep a sense of idealism or idealistic fervor. I try to realize what is realistic for the moment and in terms of what can be done, and I try to achieve that and work toward the rest, which may seem idealistic at the time."
With the innovation of the new Senate Code, the ASC will be dissolved.
Fry, the first speaker in the Institutional Racism Series sponsored by the University Christian Movement, said whites must adopt a "me too" attitude toward the efforts of black self-help organizations.
Fry, who appeared before the Senate Permanent Investigating Subcommittee in July because of his dealings with the Blackstone Rangers, a southside Chicago gang, slashed at the Nixon administration.
"There's not a thing we can do," Fry said. "The blacks have the brains and wits and moral dirve we never had."
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"There are some really king-sized racist institutions we have installed in Washington," Fry remarked.
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Labeling the present administration as "Tory," Fry cut at what he called the "racial gestures" made by President Nixon.
Fry criticized Mr. Nixon's stand on law and order saying, "What the President has programmed is the confrontation of two semi-autonomous groups, the police and the gangs of black youths."
He said Blacks feel they "are nominated for instant jail sentence by a President who wants secretaries in Washington to be able to work late when hey (the Blacks) don't even have jobs."
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Turning his remarks to the Nixon cabinet, Fry called its selection "a payoff to the almost all-white majority who put Nixon into office. It is a racial gesture of negative character," he said.
He called the efforts of the federal government in this area "the newest kind of colonialism."
Fry said "black capitalism" was a "big hypocrisy." The white minister said the administration is willing to set Blacks up in gasoline station franchises, grocery stores and automobile fix-up garages but not in the automobile production business.
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