4B
Monday, April 10, 1995
KOREAN NIGHT '95 Korean Film Festival
Tuesday April 11, 1995 7pm Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union 4th Fl "Our Twisted Hero"
-presented at Montreal Film Festival Directed by Park Chong Won
Wednesday April 12,1995 7pm Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union 4th Fl "To The Starry Island" -presented at New York Film Festival
NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday April 13,1995 7pm
Woodruf Auditorium, Kansas Union 5th Fl
"The White Badge"
-Winner of the Grand Prix at Tokyo Film Festival
-Winner of the Grand Prix at Tokyo Film Festival
FREE ADMISSION
The University of Kansas Korean Student Association
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Runner/Aerobiciser Biomechanical Evaluation Clinic
WHAT? A clinic offering evaluation of foot, ankle knee, or hip problems of runners or aerobic exercisers, staffed by physicians and physical therapists. Clinic does not include aerobic stress tests.
WHEN? Thursday, April 13, 1:00-4:00 p.m. APPOINTMENTS PREFERRED
WHERE? Watkins Health Center
southwest oregon
— southwest corner, outside
ATTIRE? Shorts and usual running/aerobic shoes
WHO? KU students, faculty, or staff
COST? Evaluation free, charge for supplies
To register:
864-9592 (Physical Therapy)
STEVE JAMES DIRECTOR OF
“★★★★. A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. "
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
FREE LECTURE Wednesday, April 12, 1995 8:30 P.M. Kansas Union Ballroom, Level 5, Kansas Union
FREE MOVIE SCREENING
Wednesday, April 12, 1995
Noon - Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
10 p.m. (following the lecture) - Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium
Saturday, April 15, 1995
7:30 p.m. Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium
For more information call SUA at 864-3477
Clinton addresses Democrats
Affirmative action sparks shouting from sympathizers
The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Clinton told a Democratic audience including many vocal affirmative-action activists Saturday that the party must be sensitive to grievances of "the angry white male" and be prepared to abandon minority preference programs that don't work.
Jumping into the battle for public opinion for the next 100 days, Clinton gave the strongest defense yet of his decision to order a top-to-bottom review of such programs — programs that are already under fierce assault from the Republican majority in Congress.
Clinton had been expected to focus his speech, to a meeting of the state Democratic party, on a repetition of his problems with remaining items in the GOP "Contract with America" and his vow to veto programs that make large cuts in education, environmental and other social programs.
"We have to realize that there is a real problem out there. We can't deny that," Clinton said.
He did that at first. But confronted with hundreds of activists in the audience waving green signs proclaiming "No Retreat — Stand up for Affirmative Action," Clinton began an impassioned defense of his decision to review affirmative-action programs.
"We don't have to retreat from these programs. ...But we do have to ask ourselves — are they all working? Are they fair? This is psychologically a hard time for a lot of white males ... the angry white male. Most are working harder for less," Clinton said.
His words at first drew chants of "no retreat, no retreat" from the sign-waving activists.
"Stop shouting," he said at one
point. "That's what they want us to do. We have to lower our voices."
The chants receded, and finally his words drew widespread applause from the audience of several thousand Democrats.
Clinton had planned to deliver a major affirmative-action speech later in the month.
But his representative, Mike McCurry, said Clinton wanted to speak to the frustrations of the angry-white-male population sooner rather than later.
"Ninety-nine percent of the people we've talked to in the last 24 hours were ready for him to address that issue today." McCurry said.
An initiative proposed for the 1906 ballot in California would repeal state affirmative-action laws for government employment, contracting and university admissions. The proposal, drafted by two college professors and supported by Republican Gov. Pete Wilson, requires 600,000 signatures to qualify.
Early statewide polls show it has strong support.
Supporters want the Legislature to vote to put the issue before voters next March — at the time of California's newly shifted presidential primary. Failing that, supporters said they would qualify it themselves for November 1996.
Clinton said Democrats couldn't allow themselves to be forced into a position by Republicans of defending programs that might be indefensible and should recognize that there were many examples of reverse discrimination in the country against white, middle-aged males.
"What we have done is to give more opportunities to women and minorities. This is a very good thing, and we should not stop doing it." Clinton said.
At the same time, he told the audience that it did not need to say that it was insensitive to the concerns of those who felt they had been the targets of reverse discrimination.
Clinton said it was time to have a
At issue are more than 100 programs, many of them begun in the Nixon administration, that give preference to women and minorities in housing, education and employment.
national conversation on the issue and not permit Republicans to maneuver Democrats into a screaming match in defense of programs that may have outlived their usefulness.
White House aides said the administration's review of affirmative-action programs was still weeks away from completion.
Later, in a speech to the National Education Association in Los Angeles, Clinton lashed out at House-originated proposals to cut education programs, including one to promote safe schools.
Noting a new Center for Disease Control study that said one-in-12 students carried guns into school in 1993, Clinton said in prepared remarks: "This is a national crisis that requires a national response."
Later, Clinton attended a $50,000-a-couple fund-raiser at the home of Hollywood movie director Steven Spielberg, the president and his wife spent the night. Entertainment at the fund-raiser included comedian Robin Williams and singer k.d.lang.
The president was on a three-day visit in California, the state that is crucial to his 1996 re-election strategy with its 54 electoral votes, one fifth of the 270 needed for election.
Even though it went for him in 1992, the state is becoming increasingly conservative and Republican. And Democratic strategists were particularly worried about a GOP challenge expected to be mounted by California's Republican governor, Pete Wilson.
Clinton used a Saturday radio address to continue a stepped up veto-threat assault on the Republican's "Contract with America" that he had begun the day before at a meeting of newspaper editors in Dallas.
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