University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 11, 1988
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White supremacists on cable Situation like in Kansas City possible, local manager says
By Jeff Suggs Kansan staff writer
A Lawrence cable company official said Tuesday that white supremacist groups had the right to broadcast their own television programs on its community access channel
Last month, it was disclosed that the Kansas City area chapter of the Missouri Knights, a group affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, would broadcast its own show on a community access channel in Kansas City. Mo
A spokesman for American Cablevision, the company in Kansas City, Mo., said federal law prohibited the company from preventing the Missouri Knights from broadcasting on its community access channel.
"We're certainly not happy about it," said Carol Rothwell, director of public affairs for American Cablelevision. "We're very likely alternatives to deny them access."
The Cable Communications Act of 1984 forbids a cable company from having any editorial control over programming on a community access channel.
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I don't know if such a group exists (locally). I certainly haven't been approached by any.
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Dave Clark, general manager of Sunflower Cablevision in Lawrence, said Sunflower Cablevision also would have to oblige if a local white supremacist group wanted to do a television show on its cable channel.
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"Sure, it's possible. It could happen," Clark said. "I don't know if such a group exists (locally) I certainly haven't been approached by any."
"If there is any activity, I'm not aware of it at this time," Hall said.
Stan Alderman, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League in St. Louis, said it was a trend for white supremacist groups to broadcast on community access channels.
"Yes, absolutely, they're doing it all around the country," Alderman said.
But he said he would be surprised if the Missouri Knights stayed on television in Kansas City for long. He said groups like the Missouri Knights tended to run in sports and usually fizzed out.
Wayne Webb, president of the Black Student Union at the University of Kansas, said he thought a black supremacist group, if one existed, would never be able to broadcast its own show like the Missouri Knights.
Webb said the Missouri Knights had a right to broadcast their show on cable, but that such programming was preposterous.
Alderman said he didn't think that the law should be changed to keep white supremacist groups from getting on cable.
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"The key decisions are at the department level, but the dean gives approval for each faculty member," he said.
The situation is similar in the School of Fine Arts and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The School of Business, however, has a different procedure for allocation of raises
John Tollefson, dean of business,
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Bass said yesterday that faculty had endured two hard years in terms of salary increases and that administrators didn't know the depth of despair on the part of faculty.
Problems such as salary compression are handled out of the original pool of money and no reserves are kept, he said.
"This year there is the hope that something will show up." Bass said.
Tollefson said that if faculty were
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