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Committee pushes for togetherness
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 26, 1987
By LISA A. MALONEY
Staff writer
Free films and discussion sessions on human relations will be offered next week during the University Senate Human Relations Committee's program, "Together We're Better."
"What we're trying to say is that it's better to reach out and talk to someone you don't ordinarily talk to. That's how interfraternity President interfraternity President.
Vernell Spearman, director of minority affairs, said the committee designed the program to encourage students to discuss existing step-ups and prejudices toward foreign minority students and other groups.
Wheeler said, "It doesn't directly insult people who are prejudiced. It
gives them a chance to stand back and see how stupid that prejudice is "
He said that interaction was poor between students of different cultures and races at the University of Kansas, because many students were too intimidated by surface differences. Most homosexuals and students in fraternities and sororites also often have negative stereotypes.
"Talk to the foreign student in your class," Wheeler said. "Don't treat him as a foreign student. Treat him as a fellow classmate."
Del Bynum, president of the Black Student Union, said that when she first arrived at KU, she was a little nervous about the foreign students in her classes, because she thought they had a better educational background.
"You never know who your boss will be." Byrum said.
Students should try to work with people from different cultures or races where they're in college to them for the working world, she said.
The program will run Monday through Thursday, and will feature free films in the afternoon from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Kansas and Burge Unions with discussion sessions afterwards. Each film will focus on a different aspect of the program's main theme.
"Running Brave" will be shown Monday afternoon to illustrate the theme "Together We're Better at Play." Tuesday, the theme will be "Together We're Better at School," and "To Kill a Mockingbird" will be shown. The film "Norma Rae" will
be shown Wednesday to encourage discussion of intergroup relationships at work. Thursday's film, *The Hassan* will illustrate cooperation between the two.
"This allows O to be sex, age, race or anything that causes you to perceive you as a child."
The main films will be accompanied by showings of "The Table O' O" a film that uses Xs and Os to help students understand how it feels to be a O in a group of Xs and vice versa, Spearman said.
Evening forums to further discuss stereotypes and intergroup relations will be led by KU faculty, including Robert Shelton, associate professor of communication studies; Alan Sica, associate professor of sociology; and Barbara Ballard, associate dean of student life.
Group mobilizes for protest march
By CAROLINE REDDICK
Staff writer
More than 100,000 people, including some Lawrence residents, are expected to march April 25 in Washington, D.C., in protest of U.S. national and foreign policies, according to march organizers.
The KU Young Socialist Alliance group met Tuesday to organize a
bike ride.
Rob Binns, Kansas City, Mo. senior and president of the alliance, said, "I want to stress that even if you don't agree with our organization, YSA, you can attend the march. It's obvious from the list of backers that not all our supporters are socialists."
Clarence Lusane, national outreach coordinator of the coalition sponsoring the march, said from Washington, D.C., that some of those attending would participate in nonviolence training and later take part non-violent civil obedience.
"We know of organizations that are mobilizing in at least 75 cities around the country," he said. A similar schedule, scheduled April 25 in San Francisco.
Elsa Blum, a Kansas City, Mo. resident who plans to march, spoke at the meeting.
The coalition, the Mobilization for Justice and Peace in Central America and Southern Africa, is supported by national and international groups. The backers include more than 20 labor unions, 50 religious organizations, peace groups and various solidarity movements. Luasae said.
Wells Todd, of Kansas City, Mo. also spoke at the meeting.
"The key issues of this march are to protest U.S. support to South African apartheid and to stop U.S. intervention in Central America. This comes at a time when the U.S. government is in a tremendous crisis because of revelations of undemocratic and illegal government functioning," said Blum, referring to the tranian arms scandal.
"The march will deal with many issues in America today." he said. "For example, family farms are being foreclosed. There was a report on CNN news last night that said every eight minutes a farm is lost. There's an awakening among people to start to fight back."
Todd said racial violence, nuclear disarmament, the homeless and attacks on the labor movement were covered during the weekend. "I would be covered during the weekend."
"What we're seeing in the U.S. today is a rising tide among young people, workers, blacks, whites, women," he said. "People are standing up and saying, 'We will not take it anymore.'"
Lusane said a rally was scheduled at 10:30 a.m. the day of the march. The march will begin at 12:30 p.m. on the mall behind the White House and will follow Pennsylvania Avenue to where another rally is planned there at 2 p.m.
Todd said a training seminar would be held April 26 to prepare people for the non-violent civil disobedience activities scheduled April 27.
"Volunteers will be shown how to respond non-violently when the police come to take them away. They might do things like blocking traffic or sitting in front of the White House," he said.
Lusane said the civil obedience activities would focus on the CIA headquarters.
"The scenario hasn't been fully worked out, but that's the target," he said. "The more horrible parts of White House policy get carried out by the CIA. For example, the mining of harbors in Nicaragua, the support of death squads in Guatemala, the arms support to UNITA in Angola and the capture of Nelson Mandela in South Africa."
He said the coalition expected many people to participate in the civil disobedience activities.
Bob Mears, a YSA supporter who attended the LA service meeting, said he was impressed by the team.
"But I'm going to help build it if I can," he said. "I think it's important. Being in a demonstration is different from writing your Congressman or Senator. Instead of informing one person in private of your views, you're showing the public. You're standing up and being counted."
Binns said the Lawrence YSA, a chapter of the national group, was formed in 1982.
"The group came out of people whose outlook veers to the left, anything to the left of Gary Hart," he said.
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