Monday April 11, 1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 131 (USPS 650-640)
McDonald's disputes claim Official upset by Integrity coalition's column
Kansan staff writer
By Jeff Moberg
An official from McDonald's Inc. said Friday that the presidential candidate of the Integrity coalition had misrepresented their discussion about establishing a restaurant on the KU campus.
Bruce Crown, special projects manager for McDonald's, said that the fast food chain never offered to pay $100,000 in annual rent or to reimburse the University of Kansas nearly $4 million for Union Square renovation costs for the Kansas Union. He said that the conversation he had with Frank Partnoy, Integrity's presidential candidate.
If a university had interest in having a restaurant on its campus, Crown said that a feasibility study would be conducted. That involves estimates of potential sales and of how much the corporation will have to pay to renovate a location for a restaurant. Crown did not say that McDonald's would pay for previous renovations made in the Union.
explained the process McDonald's undertook to establish restaurants on college campuses.
"It's unfortunate that he took it the way he did, because he is going around representing that we made an offer," Crown said from his Oakbrook, Ill., office after listening to a
column outlining Integrity's platform, written by Partney and his running mate Brian Kramer. The column said that McDonald's "has agreed to pay us" rent and renovation costs for Union Square.
"That's totally incorrect. I told him if he wanted to pursue this matter, then have someone from student union food services contact me. He's taking it a step further," Crown said. So far, Crown said that one from one
So far, Crown said that no one the University had contacted him.
Partnoy said that the column never meant that McDonald's had made an offer or that a contract had been signed. He said that he and Kramer used the word "agreed" because it
meaning was flexible.
"The word agree is pretty broad," Partnay said. "It does not mean that it's written in stone. If the impression is that a contract has been signed, then that's unfortunate. That certainly was not our intention. Hopefully, the impression is that this is a great new idea."
Partnoy also said he thought that students were smart enough to figure out that his coalition could not make a binding deal with McDonald's. He also said that he was acting as a liaison and that most students he had talked to wanted a McDonald's on campus.
Coalition candidate receives suspension
By a Kansan reporter
Brian Kramer, vice presidential candidate for the Integrity coalition, was suspended along with seven other senators at Student Senate meeting last month.
Kramer, who had accumulated four one-half unexcused absences, which were counted as two unexcused absences, was informed of his suspension by student body vice president, Stephanie Quincy, before Wednesday's Senate meeting began.
Kramer said he was suspended after he called quorum at a Senate meeting two weeks ago. After Jason Krakow, student body president, threatened to veto the 1989
student organizations budget, Kramer called a quorum because he said he felt Krakow was playing "parliamentary games." Kramer declined to answer a roll call for the quorum hoping that Senate would not have enough senators present to conduct business. After he did not respond to the roll call, Kramer was given the half-absence which resulted in his suspension.
Integrity has campaigned for changes in Senate's attendance policy, which the coalition says is unfair and arbitrarily enforced. If elected, Kramer and Frank Partnoy, presidential candidate, have said they would work to make significant changes in the policy.
J. Andrew Morrison/Special to the Kansar
1. Andrew MorrisonSpeciet to the Kashai on the Integrity coalition, speak to about 60 people in Getrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall about their efforts to bring a McDonald's restaurant to campus.
Coalitions choose top issue Candidates discuss platforms during debate
By Christine Martin Kansan staff writer
When moderator J.L. Watson, Hays senior, asked candidates from the three Student Senate coalitions last night which campaign promise they would support if they could implement only one, the coalitions had no problem answering.
The three coalitions debated last night in front of about 60 students at Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall.
Elections chairman resigns p.2.
Mark Flannagan, candidate for student body president for the Focus coalition, said he and his running mate, William Sanders, would implement peer advising if they had to choose.
Flannagan said his coalition's platform included peer advising, telephone enrollment and group theft and fire insurance for students.
Sanders said, "The way to solve it is to get advising that students are comfortable with."
Brook Menees and Pam Holley, candidates for president and vice president for the Top Priority coalition, said they would set up a communication board that would visit sororities and fraternities, scholarship halls and residence halls to ask them what they wanted from Senate.
Their campaign issues also include setting up a center for off-campus students, improving advising and lobbying for increased financial aid.
Holley said, "We chose people in our coalition that would go out and talk to people. Communication gives us information that we use it encompasses everything else."
After flipping a coin to decide which issue to back, Frank Partnoy and Brian Kramer, candidates for president and vice president for the Integrity coalition, they would support putting a McDonald's restaurant in Wescoe cafeteria.
"We chose something that is under Student Senate jurisdiction." Partnoy said. "It may be a flashy issue but, we're not going to make empty promises."
Other issues in their platform include returning Secure Shuttle to a cab service and telephone enrollment.
Selynn Shrack, Osage Beach, Mo., senior who attended the debate, said the debate was a good way for the candidates to air their views.
Senate elections will be Wednesday and Thursday. Polling stations at Wescoe Hall, Strong Hall, the Kansas Union, Watson Library, Learned Hall, Summerfield Hall and Carruth O'Leary Hall will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday. On Thursday, the polling stations will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
"I think it reflects back on their characters and how they handle matters," she said.
RACISM AT KU
Cases of racism still haunt black students on campus
By Brenda Finnell
Kansan staff writer
Editor's note: Today the Kansan begins the first part of a five-part series examining racism on campus.
The elevator was packed, and Lisa Cardona, a black student, was squeezed near the front. The elevator stopped on one floor. A girl at the back said, "If someone gets on here we're going to lynch them."
"Lynch" is an emotion-filled word that makes cardina, a Wichita junior, feel uncomfortable. She turned around and looked at the group of white girls, who began to laugh when they saw her expression.
"They were just rolling like it was the funniest joke ever." Cardona said.
Incidents like this are common on campus, Cardona said. Although they may seem minor, they can combine with existing feelings of isolation to make minority students feel uncomfortable.
Racism — subtle and overt — is a problem that exists at the University of Kansas, say students, professors
and administrators.
Susie racism means different things to different people. It can be when black students are chosen last for group projects, when people tell racial jokes, or when black students and white students attend separate parties.
Cardona thinks her experience is typical. Some students, she said, just don't understand the emotional effects of racist remarks or are insensitive to racial issues.
"They may not think it hurts someone, but they are away from home, with baffles, stuff and noise."
Judith A. Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, said that students are not always aware of problems resulting from their own behavior.
Both black and white students also see racism in campus social life. Interaction among races is usually the exception, not the norm.
Others may know the effects of their actions, but do not care. And some may be intentionally offensive and blatantly demonstrate their prejudices, Ramaley said.
Chuck Rotblut, Dale City, Va. junior, said the lack of communication between black and white groups was the most common form of racism on campus.
Although racism is usually subtle, it also can take over forms such as racist jokes or slurs on bathroom walls.
"I think, on this campus, blacks and whites exist in two different worlds," Rotblut, a white student, said.
These separate lives can lead to misunderstandings and even hatred.
But whether behavior produces racial slurs or results in a more subtle separation of races, black students often have difficulty adjusting to a university where only about 3 percent of students are black.
Students and faculty say several factors cause racial problems.
Norman Yetman, chairman of the sociology department, said that he had seen a change in student attitudes on major issues over the past two decades.
See CASES, D. 6, col. 1
Two decades after King's death, racism is still tolerated by nation
During a 1963 march in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King Jr. said that the efforts of blacks would someday result in a nation that was not divided by race.
"This is our hope," King said.
"With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood."
Kansan staff writer
By Dayana Yochim
Twenty years ago this month, King was assassinated, and some experts say that since then, tolerance of racism has been slowly creeping back into society and onto the nation's campuses.
For instance, in November, a black woman leaving her job as a telephone operator at the University of Pennsylvania-Philadelphia was called derogatory names by a white student and was struck by a bottle of urine
And about 150 minority students took over the Afro-American studies building at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, in February, to protest the assault of two black students by five white students there.
In October, members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison disrupted a party at a predominantly Jewish fraternity and started making racial remarks. The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity was convicted, and two students were charged with battery.
thrown from a dormitory window
In fact, over the last two years, 105 college campuses reported incidences of racial violence and harassment, according to the director of the National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence in Baltimore. Md.
Howard Erlich, the director, said
"We can assume that any report of ethno-violence is a gross underreporting when we compare it to the underreporting of other violent crimes such as rape." Erlich said.
in a telephone interview that the number of reported incidences was an underestimate of what he said was a national problem.
Reginald Wilson, director of the Office of Minority Concerns for the American Council on Education in Washington D.C., said that the number of reported racial incidents on campus was growing in sensitivity and awareness in society.
These acts of racial violence have caused some experts and others to abandon them.
Wilson and other experts said that the incidents could be attributed to the message that people were getting on the federal level.
See NATION, p. 6, col. 1
Members of a Native American gospel group, Proverbs, sing in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
By Kathleen Faddis
Commemoration honors King in life and death
Kansan staff writer
Tribute was paid yesterday with speeches, prayers and songs in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated 20 years ago this month on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tenn.
About 150 people attended the commemoration which was sponsored by the Students and Community Against Oppression and Racism and by local and campus ministries. The event, titled "The Dream Lives On", was held yesterday at the Coffin Sports Complex at Haskell Indian Junior College.
"Although we know the dreamer has been slain, we know that the dream lives on," said the Rev. William Dulin, pastor of Calvary Church of God in Christ, 646 Alabama St.
"And when this happens and when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all God's children, black men and white men, Jews and gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hamlets and sing in the words of the negro spiritual free. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."
Sam Adams, associate professor of journalism and a participant in the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963, spoke the words of King's "I Have a Dream" speech as he remembered them:
Judith A. Ramaley, KU executive vice chancellor, identified herself as a Quaker and spoke of King's teachings of non-violence. She read from King's letter from the Birmingham, Ala., jail.
"There's nothing I can say that would equal those words of power, hope and dignity." Ramley said.
Four-year-old Daniel Dulin, son of Rev. William Dulin, sings "We Shall Overcome" as the tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. ends.
Phillip Delatorre, professor of law and a Mexican American, said he was only age 14 the year King was assassinated.
"I understand what it means to be the subject of ethnic stereotypes," he said. "I know the pain of being regarded as inferior and second class."
See KING, p. 10, col. 1