Thursday March 2, 1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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 Restaurant.
David Ambler, 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 Older 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
A KU journalism class interviewed two members of the Missouri Knights yesterday morning in almost complete secrecy at Lawrence Municipal Airport.
By James Buckman
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.
Kansan staff writer
But controversy and pressure from members of the black community, partly because Jones invited the Klansmen to speak during Black History Month, caused Jones to find an alternate means of conducting the interview exercise.
He said he told his class about the field trip yesterday when they arrived at his class.
"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."
Jones said his students were not told that they would conduct the interview yesterday.
"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 turnpike exit, and then I drove them in my own car to the meeting place." he said. "I had two kids in my class tail我 just 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
expose racism
"It it went exactly as I had planned except that it quadrupled in the educational value because of all the brohaha," 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 bigry in the face for an hour."
Marilyn Pollack, Wilmette, III., 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.
See CLASS, p. 12, col. 1
Bv Meredith Relph
Knights tell KU students about goals
Special to the Kansan
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 member.
with the music's pulsing drums and vocal harmonies in the background, she heated some water on the hot plate.
Soon, I felt her hands on the sole of my right foot, then on the toes and the top of my foot. I heard myself moaning with pleasure. Embarrassed, I regained my composure and opened my eyes to watch her work.
She let me smell several scented massage oils: cedar, rose, jasmine, honeysuckle, opium and rain. I chose rain because it reminded me of a cool spring morning. As she filled the oil in the water on the hot plate, I relaxed and waited.
While we talked about the benefits and science of massage, I watched how intently she worked. She never slowed down or took her eyes from the part of my body that she manipulated.
Shortly after athletic activity begins, lactic and carbonic
She worked her way up the front of my right side, then down my left side. When I was sure that it must be ending, she asked me to roll over, and she started on my back side.
Massage creates a tranquilizing effect by releasing beta endorphins, pain-blocking substances produced in the brain. According to the American Massage Therapy Association, a professional association with offices nationwide, massage improves the function of joints and muscles, improves circulation and body tone and relieves mental and physical fatigue.
Massage can also help regenerate injured muscles and can clean exercise-induced toxins from the system. "Science doesn't have the capability to prove it, but it works," says Valerie Poidevin, who has done massages for members of the University of Kansas track teams for about a year.
According to my masseuse, Elaine Brewer, massage can benefit people with leg problems and people who strain their necks, eyes and backs. Her customers range from law professors and students to musicians and computer operators. "Most of my customers are people who want to get away and just relax for an hour and a half," says Brewer, who has been practicing massage therapy for two years at Elaine Brewer Massage Therapy, 729 1/2 Massachusetts St.
acids appear in the muscles. These waste products cause the pain and cramping that athletes suffer during and after a workout. "Massage helps cleanse and pump out those toxins," Poidevin says. She says that after five minutes of rest following exercise, muscles recover about 20 percent of their normal strength. So a person capable of doing 50 push-ups will be able to do 10 after a five-minute rest. But if five minutes of massage is substituted for the rest period, muscle recovery rates are somewhere between 75 and 100 percent.
Bruce Blanc at Lawrence Massage Therapy, 927 1/2 Massachusetts St., also says he gets many student customers during exam times. "People come in with five years of accumulated stress and expect to fix them in a half-hour session," Blanc says. He and Brewer emphasize the importance of massage as preventive maintenance. Brewer says that although she is massaged two to five times a week, most of her regular clients receive treatments weekly or twice a month. In Lawrence, an hour-long massage costs $20 to $30.
According to the AMTA, massage also can be useful for bed-ridden people. Massage increases nerve regeneration, builds a stronger core of red blood cells and aids in lymph movement. Lymph is a fluid that removes waste materials from the muscles. Unlike blood, which has the heart muscle to move it around the body, lymph has no organ of its own and depends on muscle activity to move it through the body. Massage can compensate, at least in part, for lack of exercise and muscular contractions in physically inactive people.
Besides reducing the likelihood of muscle damage in athletes, massage can increase efficiency of the immune system and reduce stress. "About 80% of disorders are based on stress," Brewer says. Brewer and Poidevin say they massage student customers who are stressed because of schoolwork, especially before or during finals.
Despite the facts, many people still can't distinguish between massage parlors and massage therapy clinics. Blanc says he thinks some people are afraid to get a massage because they must disrobe. He says he couldn't massage one student because she was so ticklish. Every
time he touched her, she began to giggle uncontrollably.
The AMTA claims that during stressful periods when people spend a lot of time in "in their heads," they ignore their surroundings and focus on the body is even greater. Massage therapy helps reconnect mind and body so they can function as an efficient unit.
"I think massage is great," says Dennis Anthony, a Lawrence chiropractor. Chiropractic is used primarily to align vertebrae, although Anthony sometimes does work that resumes massage. "If a muscle is overstressed, it may take an hour-long session to work it out." Anthony says, "It's better to go to someone who does massage every day." Anthony refers patients to Brewer and Poidevin and also is massaged by Poidevin.
Brewer, Poidevin and another masseur will open a new massage clinic in mid-March at Eighth and Rhode Island streets. The clinic will be called Amma Health Services. Amma is the Japanese word for massage.
Brewer, during the past year, has taught the fundamentals of massage to about a dozen people, and she hopes that Amma Health Services eventually will offer a regular massage school. The AMTA approves schools so they can credit massage therapists, although the AMTA can also test and credit therapists who don't go to approved schools. Kansas does not require licensing of professional masseuses and massaeuses. However, Brewer, Poidevin and Blanc all are AMTA members, so Amma Health Services will be able to credit massage therapists.
While we talked, the kneading, tapping, oiling and rubbing continued, front and back, head to toe. As the hour ended, I realized that the neck pain I had had when I climbed onto the massage table was gone. I was able to relax my arms and shoulders, something I hadn't done for weeks. From the first touch, I was compelled to ask my masseuse if it was common for her customers to fall in love with her because I certainly had. Too soon, it was over. But I assured Brewer that I would return, and I walked out to my car with a wider smile and more spring in my step than I'd had all semester.
Ric Brack is a Great Bend junior majoring in journalism. He also is a Kanan staff writer.
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See FORUM, p. 12, col. 1
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will be heard on the House
probably within two weeks,
n said. The Speaker of
the decides when the bill will be
Branson and Lowther said would be considerable debate floor.
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Associated Press supplied some tion for this story.
g army sloyals
neighborhood, apparently it broadcast an appeal for riega demonstrations.
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e four-lane street in front of
set up barricades of
train, and set fire to a mini-
ger.
iot police chased the protest- side streets and apartments. Chunks of concrete were from at least an apartment building.
fired tear-gas grenades and
tear gas into the buildings
ratable tanks, filling the entire
rhood with the acrid, stinging
fficher 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 iniured.
ikesman for the Panama commission said anonymous je callers warned Tuesday sterday that a bomb was in commission headquarters. sman Franklin Castellron Associated Press the build-evacuated and searched both it no bombs were found.