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 J. Cisek By Rebecca J. 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 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 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 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 camus in February. But controversy and pressure from members of the black community, partly because Jones invited the Klansmest to speak during Black History Month, caused Jones to find an alternate means of conducting the interview exercise. "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 Jones said his students were not told that they would conduct the interview yesterday. yesterday when they arrived at this 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. canceled. 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 Kliansmen 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 turnip 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 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 bigty 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 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 Violent symbols cover the concrete walls of the Chi Chi fraternity house. GRINGOS' 3520 W. 6th WEEKLY DRINK AND DINNER SPECIALS Monday Steak Night and 75° Draws (16 0z. K.C. Strip Steak $6.95) Tuesday Combination Dinner Night and $1 Well Drinks (Buy one get one for $1) Wednesday Fajita & Margarita Night $1 Margaritas (Fajitas for two $10.95) Thursday Two for One Burgers and 75° Draws (Buy one get one free) Saturday $1 Long Necks SUNDAY BUFFET All You Can Eat-$4.50 With $1 Margaritas and 50° Draws Every Sunday 4-9 p.m. SUNDAY BUFFET KANSAS "the fastest game on two feet!" University of Kansas Lacrosse Club Spring. 1988 Schedule March 5 3 p.m. Missouri 6 2 p.m. K.C. Lacrosse Club 26 11 a.m. Missouri 3 p.m. Washington University 27 12 noon St. Louis Lacrosse Craig Sanos/KANSAN April 9 2 p.m. K.C. Lacrosse 16-17 Western Ill. Tournament 23-24 Missouri Tournament 30 2 p.m. Washington University May 1 12 noon St. Louis Lacrosse - All Home Games (in bold) played at Shenk Complex, 23 & Iowa gle. at in Missouri, there were 0, but more than 250' Klan. at he had been a member tine or 10 months. He said cause he was "looking for perimenting." sen a member since 1981. joined after witnessing whites in Miami. I the Klan an "upbeat, ion," and said that one of the Klan was to promote ." See FORUM, p. 12, col. 1 KANSAN MAGAZINE March 2,1988 9 ate ing should be done to get them urriculum." ill will be heard on the House robbably within two weeks, a said. The Speaker of the leccles when the bill will be Branson and Lowther said would be considerable debate floor. in the speaker brings it up on endar, there will certainly be bery stormy debate," Branson Associated Press supplied some tion for this story. ag army isloyals d by violence in a middle-class boundary near the banking dis- On Tuesday, security agents yed an opposition radio station neighborhood, apparently ie it broadcast an appeal for origea demonstrations. onstrators gathered yesterday the four-lane street in front of ation set up barricades of g trash and set fire to a mini- -riot police chased the protest to side streets and apartment gs. Chunks of concrete were 'down at police from at least the apartment houses. ce fired tear-gas grenades and d ear tear gas into the buildings portable tanks, filling the entire orchard with the air, stinging officer in charge stood in the e of the street and shouted to nts. "You'll come out like cockas!" e did, and reporters on the saw no one injured. spokesman for the Panama Commission said anonymous one callers warned Tuesday yesterday that a bomb was loaded on the spokesman Franklin Castrellon reAssociated Press the builds evacuated and searched both but no bombs were found.