Thursday March 2, 1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 98, No.109 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
KKK heated topic Issues aired at meeting
By Rebecca J. Cisek
Kansas staff writer
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 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 forum had not been confirmed yet.
Class meets at airport to question KKK
By James Buckman
Kansan staff writer
A KU journalism class interviewed two members of the Missouri Knights yesterday morning in almost complete secrecy at Lawrence Municipal Airport.
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 Klansmen 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
canceled.
Jones said he had asked the Klansmen 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.
"I had them meet me at a restaurant near the turnipoke, 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
expose racism.
"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 biogot 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."
See CLASS, p. 12, col. 1
Knights tell KU students about goals
By Meredith Relph Special to the Kansan
Using biblical parallels and historical allusions to illustrate their philosophies, two members of the Missouri Knights of the Ku Klux Klan met yesterday with a KKL
AFTER HOURS
Alene Ebrew, a Lawrence masseuse, beats her therapy by rubbing her hands first.
MASSAGE Rubbing out the kinks
BY RIC BRACK
ou can just hang your things on those hooks, and let me know when you're ready."
With that, she left the
room. As I undressed, I looked around. A bookshelf had a cassette player and tapes below large double windows. Another wall displayed a chart showing pressure points on the body. I looked at the shelves on the wall behind the waist-level massage table. They held an assortment of oils and lotions and a small hot plate.
As I pulled myself up onto the table, I noticed that the surface below the sheets was heated. It was comfortable. All she is asked from outside the door.
"Yeah, I guess so." I replied, leaning back on my elbows. She laughed a bit as she came into the room and told me that the sheet I was lying on was supposed to be covering me. Luckily, I'm not very modest, and she soon had covered me appropriately and was asking me what kind of music I wanted to hear.
"I'm not sure," I answered, "What do you have?"
She read several titles from the tape case, which held everything from classical music to New Age artists. I settled on some African music. She started the tape, and
gle.
iat in Missouri, there were 90, but more than 250" Klan.
FEBRUARY
een a member since 1981. te joined after witnessing it whites in Miami.
iat he had been a member nine or 10 months. He said because he was "looking for perimenting."
AMY BILLINGSELY- Retail Sales Rep of the Month LINDA PROKOP-Regional Sales Rep of the Month PATTY GENNERS-Campus Sales Rep of the Month
d the Klan an "upbeat-
tion," and said that one of
the Klan was to promote
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See FORUM, p. 12, col. 1
en the speaker brings it up on lendar, there will certainly be very stormy debate." Branson
1 Branson and Lowther said would be considerable debate floor.
JANUARY
SARAH HIGDON-Retail Sales Rep of the Month
NOELLE APPLEGATE-Regional Sales Rep of the Month
LORI PAM-Campus Sales Rep of the Month
WE'RE PROUD OF OUR PEOPLE.
bill will be heard on the House probably within two weeks, an said. The Speaker of the decides when the bill will be
The University Daily Kansan would like to congratulate the following members of its sales staff. They have been named Sales Representative of the Month for January and February in their respective sales divisions. These Sales Representatives have reached an outstanding level of excellence in account service.The dedication and commitment that these individuals have shown are what makes the University Daily Kansan one of the top college newspapers in the country. We're proud of that and we're proud of them.
hing should be done to get them curriculum."
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Associated Press supplied some tion for this story.
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onstrators gathered yesterday the four-lane street in front of ation, set up barricades of a train and set fire to a mini-
d by violence in a middle-class orhood near the banking dis- On Tuesday, security agents ved an opposition radio station : neighborhood, apparently e if broadcast an appeal for priea demonstrations.
riot police chased the protesto side streets and apartments. Chunks of concrete were broken at least the apartment houses.
e fired tear-gas grenades and
d tire gas into the buildings
tritable tanks, filling the entire
rhood with the acrid, stinging
officer in charge stood in the of the street and shouted to ts. "You'll come out like cock-t"
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did, and reporters on the aw no one iniured.
boksmans for the Panama Commission said anonymous callers warned Tuesday yesterday that a bomb was in commission headquarters. Cassman Franklin Castellron Associated Press the build-evacuated and searched both but no bombs were found.
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