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
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.
they would contact 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 dart thinned 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 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.
"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 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 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 bigotry in the face for an hour."
Marilyn Pollack, Wilmette, III., 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 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
GAMES ARE IN!
BY JORN E. KAALSTAD
Party games challenge artistic talent, strategic thinking and intelligence.
Booze and drugs commonly are attributed to the seemingly brain-dead and uncommunicative Monday morning student. Now, however, some students who show up for class with bloodshot eyes and lofty, distant looks might be exhausted players of board games. Who wouldn't be tired after spending the night probing into ethical dilemmas, destroying Rommel's German tank divisions or fighting evil monsters in the dungeons of a medieval castle?
Many students are choosing "beer-and-pretzel" games for late-night entertainment and as a substitute for partying. These games have few and simple rules and cost between $15 and $30.
No matter which games, students seem to play them with greater intensity now than ever, according to Paul Leader, manager of Comic Corner, 2220 Iowa St. Comic Corner specializes in games that can be categorized as "beer-and-pretzel" games, military strategy games and role-playing games.
Trivial Pursuit was an undisputed best-seller two years ago but has declined in sales and seems to have been surpassed by Pictionary, the game of "quick draw." In this game, people play in teams of at least two. The players try to guess words that a team member attempts to draw. Beverly Finger, Rozel senior, says the game is fun if at least four teams with minimum creativity play. Finger, who occasionally plays Pictionary on Friday nights, says, "It sure beats a Saturday morning hangover."
Win, Lose or Draw is another game that challenges your knack for drawing. But
like most games copied from television shows, it's not too hot among college students.
In Scrubles, another popular "beer-and-pretzel" game, players confront real-life ethical dilemmas. They ponder questions such as, "While walking along a beach, you see a couple engaged in sex. Do you stay to watch?" Players can challenge each others' answers, and then all players vote on the person's ethical sincerity, a great way to learn a friend's moral attitudes.
Angela Baughman, Lawrence freshman, played Scrupples with a friend and her friend's family during Winter Break. She asked her friend — if she knew her brother was spying on the United States government, would she turn him in? Her friend, a journalism major, said, "Yeah. It would make a great story." Baughman answered, "No way. Not your own brother." The challenge was on, and the players all showed their red pitchfork cards. Everybody agreed that the girl was lying, and Baughman won the point.
For devoted video heads, there's the Couch Potato Game, which appeals to players with itemized knowledge of TV commercials and shows. Larry Cornelius, manager of Fun and Games, 816 Massachusetts St., says most people buy the game as a joke.
But games are no joke to serious players. Most of those who prefer role-playing and military strategy games are incurable addicts. For them, games are a serious hobby, not just party fun. Some devour the logical and calculated scene of military strategy games in which the players can change history by re-enacting famous war battles.
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