THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday March 2,1988
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No.109 (USPS 650-640)
KKK heated topic Issues aired at meeting
By Rebecca I. Cisek
Kansan staff writer
Students, faculty and administrators met yesterday to update each other on the forum scheduled for Monday that would bring members of the Ku Klux Klan to campus.
About 15 people attended the two-hour closed meeting yesterday in Strong Hall's Regents Room.
David Amble, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the meeting was not called to make any decisions about Monday's forum. Wayne Webb, president of the Black Student Union, said the purpose of the meeting was to open the lines of communication.
Michael Foubert, Lawrence graduate student and president of Slightly Old Americans for Freedom, is organizing the forum titled "Freedom of Expression in the University Environment: Voices from the Right." Ann Eversole, director of the organizations and activities center, said the site of the
Class meets at airport to question KKK
By James Buckman
A KU journalism class interviewed two members of the Missouri Knights yesterday morning in almost complete secrecy at Lawrence Municipal Airport.
Kansan staff writer
Harry Jones, the instructor of the reporting class that conducted the interview, originally had intended his class to interview members of the white supremacist group, an affiliate of the Ku Klux Klan, in his classroom on the KU campus in February.
But controversy and pressure from members of the black community, partly because Jones invited the Klanmen to speak during Black History Month, caused Jones to find an alternate means of conducting the interview exercise.
Jones said his students were not told that they would conduct the interview yesterday.
"The class had a clue that it was going to be in March," he said. "I did it today because I wanted to get the damn thing over with."
He said he told his class about the field trip yesterday when they arrived at his class.
"They were told at 8:30 when they arrived in room 101 downstairs to get in their cars and go out to the airport," Jones said.
In a note given to his students before they left for the airport, Jones said the trip would be voluntary, with the expectation that the event would attract no attention and occur without incident. The note said that at the first sign of any incident or disturbance, such as a protest demonstration, the students would be free to leave and consider the class
Jones said he had asked the Klansman Tuesday night to do the interview. He said he had an agreement with the members that he would give them only short notice before the interview so that they could not arrange for demonstrations or controversy to call attention to their cause.
canceled.
"I had them meet me at a restaurant near the turnipKE, and then I drove them in my own car to the meeting place," he said. "I had two kids in my class tail我 must to make sure they didn't have somebody tailing us. They didn't try to double-cross me."
He said that the secrecy surrounding the class exercise had successfully allowed for him to carry out his original objective: giving his students a chance to report on and
exnose racism
"It it went exactly as I had planned except that it quadrupled in the educational value because of all the brouhaha," he said. "It heightened their interest in the whole damn thing, and the more interested they are, the better they write.
"We learned what a bigot looks like, and what a narrow-minded bigot looks like. We stared bigovry in the face for an hour."
Marilyn Pollack, Wilmette, Ill., sophomore, said the interview was a great experience.
"It was absolutely both fascinating and repulsive at the same time," she said. "I'm glad we did it."
Knights tell KU students about goals
See CLASS, p. 12, col. 1
By Meredith Relph
Using bibical parallels and historical allusions to illustrate their philosophies, two members of the Missouri Knights of the ku Klux Klan met yesterday with a KU
Special to the Kansan
universe, and we can do nothing. Most intelligent, and most helpless.
ILLUSTRATION BY ANDREW PAVICH
The sky was blue, and the planet spun still. And the second hand ticked.
I'm sorry child, but we are nothing. Though we destroy all lives and life on this world, it will spin still. The galaxies will fall still. The universe will continue to be infinite and nothing . . . still.
She spoke. "Would you make love to me . . . now?" "Five minutes? "I want to die naked with you."
"Iused to think there was a heaven when I was little," she said.
there was an equation and an answer.
The galaxies halted. The universe froze.
The sky became solid. Is there nothing greater?
The young man blinked at the brilliancy of the sky. The young woman stopped rocking him. The planet stopped spinning. The second hand froze between seconds. All was silent. The distance between the stain and the young woman's toes became immeasurable.
For some reason the young man sat straight up. He straightened his back. He no longer stooped to the world; he stared at the sky.
"There is," he said flatly. Why did I say that?
There must be something greater than me or her or her or that. What's the equation? There must be something greater!
I can see her at work. Is she nothing?
Am I not anything? And we? We!
"What?" "What?"
Suddenly all was still.
The universe waited for an answer. "RELEASE!!"
PEEKER
The answer was not in the sky. It was not on the planet. It lay beyond the universe. It was infinitely far away. He stared past the
"Will you make love to me!
sky. The answer is inside nothing.
He looked down into the young woman's eyes. She was pleading for an answer. The young man was dying for an answer. They were both dying. Everyone dies.
The second hand still waited between seconds. And he spoke softly. "No."
the second hand clicked. The world spun.
The universe fell. The girl's girl withdrew to 2 feet and 5.43791 etc. etc. inches from the stain. The young man looked up and thanked the sky.
But there is . . . something. Something so remote from the universe that it is within ourselves. Through our eyes. Our own invention. Now I have the answer. The equations are infinitely many. But the answer to all of them is the same. I have that answer. And the universe is infinite again.
The young woman leaned back against the wall. Everyone had to die. She did not cry. She understood. There were many things greater than four minutes. An infinite many things.
Momma bought me the universe!
And if we could tell them about the sky. If we could describe to them the sky . . . They would not believe us. They could not believe us.
And the universe swam!
"I love you, you know," she said.
"And I love you too," he answered.
They both smiled.
John Calhoun is a Prairie Village junior majoring in education.
I love the world. This world. I love life.
And death. And all we are is four minutes.
Not a bad four minutes. And I love four
minutes. In four minutes only black falls.
Only black falls with the sky.
The sky!
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at in Missouri, there were 00, but more than 250" Klan
iat he had been a member nine or 10 months. He said because he was "looking for perimenting."
een a member since 1981. je joined after witnessing t whites in Miami
d the Klan an "upbeat,
tition," and said that one of
the Klan was to promote
e."
See FORUM, p.12, col. 1
ate
ning should be done to get them curriculum."
bill will be heard on the House probably within two weeks, on said. The Speaker of the decides when the bill will be
ien the speaker brings it up on lendar, there will certainly be very stormy debate." Branson
Branson and Lowther said would be considerable debate floor.
KANSAN MAGAZINE.March 2,1988
Associated Press supplied some tion for this story.
g army isloyals
d by violence in a middle-class orchid near the banking dis- on Tuesday, security agents ved an opposition radio station neighborhood, apparently e it broadcast an appeal forriega demonstrations.
instructors gathered yesterday
ee four-lane street in front of
tion, set up barricades of
snow, and set fire to a mini-
laire.
hot police chased the protest side streets and apartment ts. Chunks of concrete were down at police from at least he apartment houses.
: fired tear-gar grenades and
  tear gas into the buildings
rtable tanks, filling the entire
rhood with the acrid, stinging
officer in charge stood in the of the street and shouted to s. "You'll come out like cock-!"
did, and reporters on the w no one injured.
kiesman for the Panama
bommission said anonymous
eilears warned Tuesday
stderday that a bomb was
in commission headquarters.
sman Franklin Castellon
Associated Press the build-
evacuated and searched both
t no bombs were found.
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