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
Kansan staff writer
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 Amber, 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 Eversoe, 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 Klansman 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."
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.
He said he told his class about the field trip yesterday when they arrived at his class.
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 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 brouhaha," he said. "It heightened their interest in the whole dame 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 bigot in the face for an hour."
Marilyn Pollack, Wilmette, Ill., sophomore, said the interview was a great experience.
"It was absolutely both fascinating and epulsive 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 kU journalism class at Lawrence Municipal
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KANSAN MAGAZINE March 2, 1988
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