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 and activities center, said the site of the
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
"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 turnipake, 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 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 a narrow-minded bigot looks like. We stared bigly in the face for an hour."
Marilyn Pollack, Wiltree, ill., sophomore, said the interview was a great experi-
"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
Bv Meredith Relnh
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
ILLUSTRATIONS BY DAVE EAMES
Strategic war games might be as old as warfare itself. In 1795, Georg Vurtinurus, a military writer in Schleswig, Germany, developed a complex war game based on the terrain between Germany and France. The game, made to prepare German soldiers for warfare, is strikingly similar to today's commercial games, some of which are Axis and Allies, Risk, and Diplomacy. Typical strategic and tactical board game players are males over 30 with college degrees.
Doug Adams, Bartvillees, Okla., junior, is a serious gamer with a preference for military strategy games. One of his favorites is Advanced Squad Leader. Some players consider this game to be four times as difficult as Monopoly.
For serious gamers, playing can be a costly hobby. The complete set of Advanced Squad Leader has separate modules used to re-enact World War II battles. Most strategy games start at $30, but Advanced Squad Leader can cost as much as $150.
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According to TSR Inc., manufacturer of Dungeons and Dragons, between one and two million gamers play role-playing games regularly in the United States. Dungeons and Dragons is the most popular among those games.
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See FORUM, p. 12, col. 1
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bhood near the banking dis-
tain Tuesday, security agents
enough an opposition radio station
neighborhood, apparently it broadcast an appeal for riega demonstrations.
instructors gathered yesterday the four-lane street in front of them, set up barricades of t ranch and set fire to a mini-
rion police chased the protest side streets and apartment gs. Chunks of concrete were scattered at least in the apartment houses.
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1 tear gas into the buildings
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officer in charge stood in the of the street and shouted to ts. "You'll come out like cock-it!"
did, and reporters on the aw no one injured.
jokesman for the Panama Commission said anonymous callers warned Tuesday yesterday that a bomb was in communal areas at Franklin Castries. Associated Press the book "build-evacuated and searched both but no bombs were found."