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ver of the podium to push their ministrators say the problem is not widespread. Some professors and students believe differently.
Do professors abuse the power of the podium to push their political beliefs? Administrators say the problem is not
sued; CUNY appealed, and the U.S. Supreme Court has told the appeals court to re-evaluate the case. He has since been reinstated as chairman.
The University of Kansas hasn't recently had a professor who attracted the kind of national attention drawn by Jeffries. Administrators say that if professors are using their classrooms to indoctrinate students with unusual anthropological theories, nobody is telling them about it.
Similarly, many professors and graduate teachers assistants deny that their personal political beliefs affect their teaching.
But some KU students have had reason to wonder.
Take the case of Derek Shirk. In Fall 1993, Shirk was a senior enrolled in Sociology 104. The assigned text was "Elements of Sociology" by Daryl Evans, associate professor of sociology. Shirk
Boniface Benzinge, right, interpreter for Jean-Baptiste Nadhindurua, the exiled king of Rwanda, fields a question for the king, left, Nadhindurwa, whose title is Kigeli V, gave a talk entitled "Rwanda: Then, Now and the Future" at the Kansas Union last night.
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Exiled king hopes for unified Rwanda
Kigeli V gives KU messages of peace and reconciliation
By Eduardo A. Molina Kansan staff writer
Unity of the Hutu and Tutsi tribes in Rwanda is possible because the country's conflicts are political and not tribal differences, said the exiled king of Rwanda, Jean-Baptiste Nadhindurwa.
Nadhindurwa, whose title is Kigeli V, spoke last night at a packed Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. He gave a talk entitled "Rwanda: Then, Now and the Future."
"Dividing for ruling was the policy of the colonizing power to cause a confrontation between the tribes," said the king through an interpreter. "Tutsis and Hutus lived 900 years together before the colonization period. It is not the nature of the people to be bad. I think there is still a possibility to unite the people in Rwanda."
Spreading the message of unity and reconciliation is the main reason Nadhindurwa visited the University of Kansas as part of his 1995 North American Peace Tour.
The king said that achieving unity had to begin with forgetting political differences in his country.
"We have to forget that you are Tutsi or you are Hutu," he said. "We are Rwandese, and we have to learn to cohabit."
Returning to Rwanda could be an option for the king if his people think he can contribute to this unity, Nadhindura said.
"If the people think they need me, they can call me," he said. "That's a decision they should make. I would like to contribute to the peace of my country."
The king has been in exile since 1961, when his re-entry to the country was refused by Belgian officials after a meeting with then U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammerskiold.
Nadhindurwa hasn't married as a symbol of his people's suffering.
"Marriage is a happy moment," he said. "I can't be happy if my children are sad. But if I return to Rwanda, I would marry the first day I arrived."
Boniface Benzinge, secretary and interpreter for the king, said that the assassination Saturday of the governor of Rwanda's southern province of Butare wasn't the beginning of more tribal violence.
"The defeated army from Zaire did it," Benzinge said, referring to the Hutu army that has sought refuge in Zaire. "This is just an isolated situation."
Alain Habimana, Bujumbura, Burundi, senior, said these type of events were important to inform Americans about the problems in Africa.
"It is important for Americans to understand what is going on in Africa and not get confused," Habimana said. "I am pleased we had the king here to explain the causes and consequences of some problems in Africa."
A sold out Allen Feld House crowd said goodbye Sunday to the seniors on the Kansas men's basketball team: guard Greg Gurley, center Greg Ostertag and guard Scott Novosel. Page 18
Commissioner changes tune on ordinance vote
By Sarah Morrison Kansan staff writer
City commissioner Doug Compton has backed down from his plan to call for a vote on the Simply Equal proposal at tonight's Lawrence city commission meeting.
Last Thursday, Compton said in a press release that he had decided to oppose adding the words "sexual orientation" to the city's human relations ordinance and planned to call for a vote on the issue as soon as possible.
Now, after talking with city manager Mike Wilden and other commissioners, Compton has decided not to call for a vote.
"There are already three commissioners in opposition to it, so why would you want to draft the ordinance just to vote it down?" Compton asked.
If the proposal where voted on by the current commission it would not pass.
"... Why would you want to draft the ordinance just to vote it down?"
Doug Compton city commissioner
Commissioners Bob Schulte and Bob Moody have said they would join Compton in a no vote. Mayor Jo Andersen and Commissioner John Nalbandian have said they would vote for the change.
Compton plans to make an announcement during the meeting to officially declare that he is in opposition to the ordinance change. But he will not ask that the
doomed proposal be put to a vote, he said.
people who want to speak on the issue can do so during the public comment part of the meeting. Compton said.
"A lot of people are going to be there," Zimmerman said. "We are not sure what is going to happen, but we will show up."
Ben Zimmerman, co-chairman for Simply Equal, said coalition members would attend the meeting tonight.
Compton previously had been undeclared on the issue. He said he would not be ready to vote on it until some of his questions about the legality of the change
Zimmerman said that even though the current commission was not likely to pass the proposal, the Simply Equal coalition would continue to work to get "sexual orientation" added to the ordinance.
"We will keep on as long as it takes," Zimmerman said. "The next step is to work on getting people elected who support the change, like Nalbandian and (Allen) Levine."
were answered.
In January, the commission directed city staff to conduct a study to answer Compton's questions. To prevent the issue from becoming the sole issue of the April 4 city commission elections, the commission set a post-election April deadline for the study.
But the preliminary report, which was released Feb. 15, sufficiently answered Compton's questions and prompted him to call for a vote, he said.
And despite the commission's decision to delay the issue, it has dominated pre-election debate.
Three of the top five vote-getters in the primary election are in opposition to the proposal. Only one primary survivor, Allen Levine, said he would definitely vote for the change.
Compton said he was concerned about his fourth-place finish in the Feb. 28 primary election. His indecision on the issue, he said, may have cost him votes.