KU Blacks have troubled history
(Editors Note: This is the first in a series of four articles concerning the black student at KU.)
By FRED PARRIS Kansan Staff Correspondent
The black student at KU in 1969.
Surrounded by a sea of white faces, buffeted by racial forces swirling across the nation, torn between his existence as a unique individual and his existence as a black man, he faces barriers—and challenges—undreamed of by the "average" KU student.
Where does the black student at KU stand in 1969?
Insofar as any white can know, how does he think concerning the problem which blights all of our lives?
To understand where the black student stands now—and why-one must review where he has been.
The University of Kansas, partly because of its "free state" founders, has always admitted Negroes as students. This "tolerance," however, has been accompanied by racial injustice in a myriad of forms.
For almost eighty years, black students were excluded from nearly every KU activity except classes. In most aspects of campus life, from housing and public accommodations to varsity
Kansas City Star photo by John Vawter
Students 'sit-in' the Chancellor's office during 1965 civil rights demonstration
'Reflection' at UMKC talks
79th Year, No. 76
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
The much-discussed UMKC symposium on dissent took place this weekend over the objections of some Missouri regents. Such noted dissenters as SDS founder Tom Hayden, civil rights leader Charles Evers and Olympic Games boycott organizer Harry Edwards were present. See story on page 10.
Monday, February 17, 1969
Bomb shakes campus
UDK News Roundup By United Press International
Arabs ambush Israelis
CAIRO — The Arab commando organization El Fatah said its men annihilated a seven-man Israeli patrol yesterday in occupied Jordan.
Peru to tie with Russia
A communique issued in Cairo said the Arab ambush opened up on the Israelis near the Beit Youssef settlement on the east bank of the Jordan River, occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.
LIMA, Peru — Peru announced its first trade agreement with the Soviet Union yesterday, further widening a breach with the United States over the expropriation of an American-owned oil company and seizure of a California fishing boat.
The governing military junta said the trade agreement, to be signed today, was designed to diversify and redistribute Peruvian commercial ties.
Traffic halts threatened
BERLIN — East Germany denounced West Berlin as a "center of imperialist provocation" yesterday and warned that the city's vital traffic links with the west exist only through good graces of the Communists.
The official East German Communist party newspaper Neus Deutschland, implied in an editorial that land routes to West Berlin could be closed easily and quickly.
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--of the radical elements around here."
A predawn explosion, which could be heard for several miles, shattered 18 windows around a main entrance of the campus administration building and injured a campus policeman.
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Acting President S. I. Hayakawa, standing where a homemade bomb exploded a few hours earlier, said yesterday he was "going to be firmly in control" when San Francisco State College reopens for the spring semester.
"This is not at all a surprise," Hayakawa told a news conference held in front of the boarded up windows. "It is characteristic of the neo-Fascist methods used by some
He said he expected more bombings, interruption of classes and other "shameless behavior" when classes resumed today. But Hayakawa said students and teachers would be "protected by whatever means necessary."
"There'll be no nonsense around here," the acting president said. Asked if the large contingents of police who became a fixture at the college last semester would return today Hayakawa replied: "You're darned right."
Hayakawa said enrollment for the second semester was "higher than we had hoped for"-with 16,000 to 17,000 students
registering. The school opened last fall with 18,000 students.
He announced plans for disciplinary action against Dr. Nathan Hare, acting chairman of the Black Studies department. Hare was one of four persons arrested Friday after interrupting a speech by Havakawa at a faculty meeting.
A degree-granting Black Studies department won't begin operating during the spring semester because of "sabotage" by Hare and other black administrators, Hayakawa said. He promised that a full department, with another chairman, would start next fall, manned by people he is presently recruiting.
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Students to vote on code
Nearly ten months after student demands for greater say in University policy making, KU students will vote Wednesday and Thursday on KU's new Senate Code.
Polls will be open during class hours in the Kansas Union lobby, Strong Hall rotunda and in Murphy Hall.
Should students approve the measure, only Board of Regents' approval is needed before the code will go into effect.
The proposed code calls for a complete restructuring of University government. Both the present All-Student Council (ASC) and the University Senate would be abolished.
In their place, a joining University Senate, composed of 95 students
and 550 faculty, would rule on matters of University policy. Students would then make up more than 15 per cent of the body which had no student members before.
Peoples Voice, the group which threatened to march on Strong Hall last spring unless University government was restructured, supported the minority report of the Committee on University Governance. The committee, made up of faculty and students, drafted the original version of the code. The minority report of that committee asked for 50 per cent representation.
Although the equal representation provision is not included in the proposed code, little opposition is expected. The ballot will include a separate
The 95 student members of the University Senate would comprise a new Student Senate with powers much the same as the present ASC.
opinion question asking if the student would have preferred a code more closely patterned after the minority report, said Rick Von Ende, Abilene, Tex., graduate student and ASC chairman.
Rather than being elected from living groups as ASC members have been in the past, Student Senate representatives would be elected from the schools of the University. Election of these representatives is tentatively scheduled for March 26, in the week before spring break.
The 550 faculty members would
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