Black American Club plans program
Lawrence High to observe Black Heritage Week
Black Heritage Week will be observed at Lawrence High School Feb. 23 to Feb. 27.
The Black American Club is coordinating five days of displays and activities to bring about a better understanding of black mores and customs.
Vanessa Collins, president of the club, said the week's program was designed to promote the relevance of black students to LHS and to display their talents and abilities.
Activities for the five-day program will begin Feb. 23 with an all - school assembly featuring state Sen. George Brown, D-Col.
Brown, a Negro, was born and raised in Lawrence. He was graduated from LHS and received a journalism degree from KU. He moved to Denver in 1950. While working as night city editor for the Denver Post, he became active in federal housing and urban coalition. He now is serving his
fourth term as senator. A reception will be held in his honor at 3 p.m. in the LHS cafeteria.
A fashion and talent show is planned for the afternoon of Feb. 24. A dress shop from Kansas City, Mo., will show the latest in black fashions.
Feb. 25, a film, "Black Heritage," will be featured. It is a documentary on the advancement of the blacks through history. A question and answer period will follow the film.
Book reviews will be given in the library after school, Feb. 26. The books presented will contrast the lives, ideals and methods of such black leaders as Malcolm X vs. Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglas vs. W.E.B. DuBois.
Helping with the production and other facets of the program are several KU students, including Horace Bond, Lawrence doctoral candidate in drama; Linda Jones, Netawaka senior; Veda Monday, Kansas City senior; and Frances Robinson, Kansas City junior.
Featured Feb. 27 will be an all school assembly by Sumner High School concert band. Sumner, which is located in Kansas City, is a predominantly black school. Throughout the week an art display will be set up in the school. It will consist of art work done by both the Black American Club's members and local black citizens. The Black American Club was organized last year to inform the administration, faculty and studentry, at LHS, of the problems affecting black students and to advance the economic and political status of black students in the school and the community.
"Soul: the antidote to puritanism' is the theme which should be remembered," said Miss Collins, the club's president.
CHICAGO (UPI) — LSD, the chemical which can induce fascinating hallucinations and interesting introspection, may also result in malformed babies, even if users of the chemical stay "clean" during pregnancy, three doctors said Sunday.
LSD causes genetic physical malformation
The physicians, writing in the February issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, said LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) may damage the chromosomes of germ cells in the parents and thus lead to abnormal off-spring.
Pediatricians Lillian Hsu and Kurt Hirschhorn and pathologist Lotte Strauss, all of the Mount Sinai school of medicine, City University of New York, based their study on the case of a malformed infant.
The child's father, 26, and its mother, 22, had taken several doses of LSD, the father four years prior to the infant's birth, and mother, nine months prior to conception.
The infant's mother continued to use marijuana, barbiturates and methedrine during her pregnancy, but the doctors said those drugs "have so far not been found
Neither parent was aware of any other congenital defect in the family, the doctors said. Both parents had chromosome breaks.
to cause chromosomal damage."
The doctors said chromosome aberrations such as those found in the infant "in most instances are carried in two or more generations of the same family in individuals . . . with a history of diminished fertility and repeated miscarriages."
Since neither parent had a family history of such defects, the doctors said, "Chromosomal aberration in the infant and the history of LSD ingestion by the parents, both of whom show other chromosomal structural rearrangements in some of their cells, suggests that LSD may have induced abnormal chromosome arrangements in the germ cells of the mother."
According to the physicians, chromosomal aberrations in the infant resulted in its being born with low set ears, a broad nose with a prominent bridge, poorly formed wrists, a left hand with four fingers and a right hand with six fingers, loose skin on both hands and many internal defects.
the club will be sponsoring to show LHS the black students have great worth and want to belong.
It was organized in September 1968 during a time of crisis when discontent over lack of a black cheerleader triggered a walkout by 30 to 50 black students who repeated demands first voiced five months earlier.
Club seeks high IQ's
If you suspect that your cranial cavity is loaded with super cells then you may be eligible for membership in MENSA, a nonprofit educational corporation chartered by the University of the State of New York.
pate in psychological experiments. In addition to research, it is concerned with a productive life for intelligent people, she said. Members have formed Mensa schools for gifted children and established MENSA University for adult education. Through the MENSA Friends Program, members throughout the United States offer personal aid to inteligent inmates at correctional institutions, Miss Kafman said.
MENSA originated in 1945 when Sir Cyril Burt, professor of psychology at London University, saw the need for a panel of highly intelligent people to counsel statesmen and other decision makers. Roland Berril, a London attorney, administered standard IQ tests to a select group of individuals and with the high scorers founded MENSA.
One of its main purposes is research in psychology and the social sciences. MENSA members are often called upon to participate in psychological experiments.
MENSA groups hold monthly meetings. American MENSA activities culminate each spring with the Annual Gathering, a conference which attracts members from all over the United States and Canada.
MENSA is an international, intellectual organization with active chapters in 14 countries and a worldwide membership of more than 18,000 people. There are more than 125 local chapters in the United States, she said.
Members' ages range from 8 to 80. Life styles vary from ascetic to opulent. Occupations include folksingers, farm laborers, corporate executives and belly dancers. MENSA provides members with an interested but critical audience for new ideas, Miss Kafman said. Thinking, discussing and debating are keynote activities.
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The sole qualification for membership is that you have an IQ higher than 98 per cent of the world's four billion people, said Alice Kafman, New York MENSA spokesman.
The group grew steadily in England, and spread to the United States in 1957. In less than a decade the United States had more than 10,000 members.
Anyone interested in starting a chapter at the University of Kansas can obtain more information by writing MENSA, Department C, 50 E.42 St., New York, N.Y.
Concrete grievances included the need for a course in black history, the need for a black counselor, and the need for a black cheerleader. All of these demands were met by the school this year. In addition, a course in Negro literature is offered. The black counselor, Mrs. Roosevelt Calbert, and Jesse Milan, elementary district consultant, sponsor the club.
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