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Fridav. March 22, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Buffalo Soldiers may have their day
Holiday planned for July 1992
Kansan staff writer
By Patricia Rojas
Every time Gen. Colin Powell sits
on the podium, a troop of官兵 Soldiers wait
"They look at me and make sure that I will never forget the courage and the determination of African-Americans who defied all odds to fight for their country." Powell, chairperson of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote in a letter to Sen. Nancy Kassebaum last month.
Powell's watchers are images in a painting hanging on a wall. But they once were living men who served in the 10th Cavalry Regiment during the settlement of the West.
The Buffalo Soldiers
On July 28, 1866, Congress passed an act allowing African-Americans to enlist in the U.S. Army. The 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments and the 24th and 25th Infantry Regiments resulted from the act.
Those four all-African-American
figures known as the Buffalo Soldiers
Kassebau introduced a joint resolution in the Senate last month to remove the 1996 law.
Buffalo Soldiers was the name the Kiowa, Cheyne and Apache tribes of the West gave to the four African-American regiments.
Solders Day. Forty-four senators, including Sen. Bob Dole, are co-sponsoring the resolution.
Cmdr. Carlton Philip, Navy officer at Fort Leavenworth, said there were several theories about the origin of the name.
Some people think the African-American soldiers' hair reminded the American Indians of the buffaloes. Philot said.
Others believe that the Black soldiers were confused with buffaloes as they approached the Indian settlers and wearing bison coat, he said.
A third belief, perhaps the most accepted, is that the term developed from the respect American Indians had for the buffalo and for the Black soldiers, Philpot said.
Philip is supervising the construction of a commemorative monument in Fort Leavenworth, where the 10th anniversary of the monument will feature a 6-foot tall monument will feature a 6-foot
A tribute
bronze statue of a Buffalo Soldier on a horse between two ponds.
The monument will be inaugurated July 28, 1992, in Fort Leavenworth. Powell developed the idea for the monument while stationed in Fort Leavenworth in 1982 as a brigadier general.
Powell wrote in his letter to Kassie-
baum that while jogging in Fort
Leavenworth, he noticed two gravel
alleys named 9th and 10th Cavalry
who were so wonderd whether the
post paid some other tribute to
the Buffalo Soldiers.
"And so I looked around some more," he wrote. "And on the entire post all I could find to commemorate the loss of three soldiers in the Army were those two alleys.
"That was a situation that I believed had to be changed."
The joint resolution to designate July 28, 1992. Buffalo Soldiers Day probably will pass the Senate in June, said Derek Schmidt, staff member at Kassbaum. It is likely that the senators will approve the bill unanimously.
In his letter to Kassebaum, Powell wrote about the Buffalo Soldiers that adorn the walls of his Pentagon office:
"They remind me of my heritage and of the thousands of African-
Americans who went before me and who shed the blood and made their sacrifices so that I could be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff."
Hollowell, Fort Leavenworth resident, served in the U.S. Army from January 1936 until he retired in August 1964.
A pleasant comparison
Chief Warrant Officer Harry Hollowell, 76, was one of the Buffalo Soldiers who served in the 10th Cavalry during integration of the U.S. Army in 1962.
He spoke without anger about the time when African-Americans could not command the troops in the U.S. Army.
"What weaver did was the order of the day at that time." Hollowell said. "The guidelines that were stipulated in the treaty were the same policies of the military."
He said it was pleasant for him to compare today's Army with the one he joined in 1936.
"It is credited to the people who fit seem to eliminate any regulations or policies that discriminate toward any of its subjects." Holt writes, "and the black, the brown, the green and other. We're all God's children."
Theft higher during spring break
By Mike I. Vargas
Kansan staff writer
Historically, when students are out of town during spring and winter breaks their possessions are targeted by criminals, and this break was no exception. said Sgt. James Warren. Lawrence police representative.
"There are less eyes and ears to get in a thief's way," Harmon said.
While members of two KU sororities were enjoy spring break, five mountain bicycles valued together at $2,370 were taken from their storage sheds, according to Lawrence police reports.
Police think the two burglaries are related because of the similar methods of entry, Harmon said.
third floor, which could have been accessed from the roof of the hall's cafeteria.
Besides the sorority and Oliver Hall burglaries, a video camera valued at $1,025 that was used by the KU swimming and diving teams was taken from a Robinson Center storage area during spring break.
In another incident, two residence hall rooms in Oliver Hall were burglarized during spring break, according to KU police reports. An electric typewriter, a videocaster recorder and other items, valued together at $1,317, were taken from the rooms.
Don Fearon, KU diving coach,
said the team used the camera to
analyze weaknesses in divers' and
swimmers' form.
The perpetrators gained access through the windows of the rooms, according to KU police reports.
Frank Harwood, residence hall director at Oliver Hall, said the burglaries occurred on the the
KU police Lt. John Mullens said that the five burglaries on campus were reported during spring break but that other crimes might not have been reported yet.
these beds belong to Chi Omega,
1345 West Campus Road, and
Gamma Phi Beta, 1339 West Camp-
house, which are next to each
other.
Makeup ingredient may be dangerous The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A consumer group said yesterday that some sunscreens and cosmetics contain an ingredient that could promote cancerous skin tumors, and it called on the government to halt their sale.
"Ironically, some sunscreen lotions that consumers apply to prevent skin cancer may increase the likelihood of forming cancerous skin tumors," said Mary Ellen Fise, product safety director for the Consumer Federation of America.
The federation said more than a dozen cosmetic products have been soild containing uraconic acid, which it said has the potential in sunlight to promote the growth of tumors by suppressing the immune system.
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