University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 3, 1990
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Apartheid remains unchanged, speakers say
Jane Rudolph/KANSAN
By Tatsuya Shimizu
Kansan staff writer
Randall Robinson speaks about the situation in South Africa.
Although the U.S. public thinks that South Africa has changed and that apartheid is no longer a problem, there have been no fundamental changes there, speakers at a conference on apartheid said Saturday.
We are told de Klerk has changed. But segregation and fragmentation in the country have not ended.
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About 20 anti-apartheid scholars and activists spoke to about 100 people at "South Africa Beyond Apartheid" in the Kansas Union.
The conference was presented by the department of African and African-American studies and the division of continuing education.
Ahmed Gora Ebrahim
Randall Robinson, executive director of TransAfrica, a lobby group based in New York.
secretary for foreign affairs of the Pan-African Conference
Africa, said the U.S. public did not understand apartheid problems well.
South African Prime Minister F.W. de Klerk has convinced the U.S. public that apartheid is no longer an issue in South Africa, Robinson said.
"He is a skilled public-relations man," he said.
Robison said anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela's words "Mr. de
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Klerk is a man of integrity" also had made many people believe that aparteheid was a thing of the past.
However, the fundamentals of apartheid have not changed, Robinson said.
He said people needed to put pressure on Congress to maintain economic sanctions against South Africa until apartheid was lifted.
Ahmed Gora Ebrahim, secretary for foreign affairs of the Pan-African Conference, said apartheid was not gone yet.
"Apartheid is very much alive," he said.
The Pan-African Conference is a South African political organization that advocates equal rights in the nation.
"We are told de klerk has changed." Ebrahim said. But segregation and fragmentation in the country have not ended."
He said PAC would not negotiate with de Kierk's government until it guaranteed equal voting rights regardless of race.
"We can only discard bullets when
we are assured ballots," Ebrahim said.
Gloria Creed, South African graduate student, said that in South Africa's tricameral parliament system, people could vote only for representatives of their own race: White, Indian or "colored."
She said that "colored" people did not vote because Whites controlled the government and because they would not make a difference by voting.
Physician has filled Santa suit 35 years
Kouadio Brou, president of the African Affairs Student Association, said he had agreed with the speakers' points.
Mandela's release did not cure South Africa's ills, he said.
By Carol Krekeler
Kansan staff writer
Like a religious minister, E.C. Allenbernd refers to his large red Santa Claus suit as "the cloth."
But this suit, which Altenbernd has been donning during the holiday season for about 35 years, is like any other Santa Claus suit until he puts it
"When I'm in the red, I'm the real Santa Claus," said Alenbernd. 64, who has a hearty laugh and a robust figure.
"Thirty-Five Years in the Red," a book written by the Eudora physician and KU graduate, is a celebration of his experiences and feelings about playing the role of Santa Claus, he said.
Albenburd said he wanted to share his humorous and touching experiences as Santa Claus so readers could delight in them.
"Everybody has a little child in leaf,
and I can bring that out," he said.
Kurt Limesand, a clerk at Adventure A Bookstore, 836 Massachusetts St., said the bookstore had sold more books than books since the holiday season began.
"He's quite a popular guy around here," he said.
Altenberd said he thought it was a perfect time for the publication of his work.
"This has been a timely book, not only because it is a Christmas book but also because it is a holiday novel."
he said.
Being a family practitioner has helped him become an especially caring Santa Claus, he said.
"I have always thought that being Santa Claus has made me a better doctor, and being a doctor has made me a better Santa Claus." he said.
Altenbernd said he never asked children what Santa Claus could bring them for Christmas.
"I always ask them, 'If there was one thing you could get this Christmas, what would it be?' " he said. "I tell them that my sleigh is small."
"Santa Claus has been overcommercialized. I try to get them up on my hip and give them a bug instead of about what Santa's going to bring."
Altenberd said that in the 1950s, when he began to play Santa Claus, children often requested a "Betsy Wetts" doll.
Today, children say they want a giant ant to lurve *Jurtle* doll for Christmas.
"Who would have ever thought of a ninja turtle in 1957?" he said.
Altenbernd, who travels to many schools, nursing homes and volunteer organizations around the state, has taught at many universities and recaptured the spirit of Christmas.
"We've lost the real sense of Santa Claus and the meaning of Christmas," he said. "I'm trying to make a cake." The cake just may be making some headway.
E. C. Altenbernd, who wrote a book about being Santa, interrupts his book signing to ask Charles Whiteside. 8, what he wants for Christmas.
Finals would go on despite bomb threats Officials say tests will be moved, not postponed
By Debbie Myers
Kansan staff writer
A series of 23 bomb threats on campus since the beginning of the semester has left the University administration determined that bomb threats will not interrupt finals.
Dave Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said tests scheduled in buildings that received bomb threats would come to be moved to alternate classrooms during finals.
"That's really all we can do." Shulenburger said, "will not have his part of University degrees."
Instructors have been told in a memorandum not to kill the finals because of bomb threats, Shuleibrather.
He said that the policy of relocating tests had not been effective at stopping bomb threats but that it had been successful because bomb threats no longer interrupted tests.
"Finals will go on," Shulenburger said. "We just don't have the luxury to cancel them, and we will get full cooperation."
Shulenburger said faculty members were receptive to the bomb-threat policy. There have been only a few cases in which instructors chose not to relocate exams.
Sulenburger said that every student and faculty member he had talked to about the bomb threats was in the room.
"I believe that by finals time this will be over." Shulenburger said. "We are ready if it is not. It's too great a risk for a student to take if it's simply a lark."
Making a terrorist threat is punishable by up to a $10,000 fine and five years imprisonment.
Issuing in a bomb threat is a violation of the Student Code of Conduct and can be punished by e-mail or phone.
"I would certainly recommend expulsion for anyone caught doing this," he said.
The University would pursue both legal and administrative responsibilities. Shubenagar, govt.
Lt. John Mullers of KU police said KU police will continue to help instructors relocate tests during the pandemic.
knew anybody would pursue bour legal and administrative punishment. Shulen burger said.
Julian McMahon.
For example, four bomb threats have been called in for the Spencer Museum of Art, Mullens said. But making a connection between the threats
"What we're doing internally is looking at wading, terminology and that sort of thing," Mulhall
He said KU police were trying to find a connection between the bomb threats to determine what caused the explosion.
is difficult because although the times they were called in were similar in three cases, they were different.
"It it's either one person that has a motive other a test, or two people, or four people." Mullens said.
Even if KU police discover that the bomb threats had been made to disrupt tests in the same class more than once, it would be hard to determine who that class might have made the threat, Mullens said.
"You're literally talking about thousands upon thousands of suspects because some of these children were exposed to drugs."
Kansas Union bomb threats are more difficult to investigate because one of up to 40 to 50 meetings going on at once could be the target. Mullens said.
Bomb threats also drain KU police's resources, Mullens said. When KU police are investigating bomb threats, the city police are on call to respond to incidents. Police officials three to four minutes longer than KU police's
Mullens said every available KU police officer responded to a bomb threat to ensure that instructors in each classroom of a threatened building were promptly notified.
KU police officers also must coordinate building searches with facilities operations, stand at the doors to let people know the building has been there and follow up on any immediate leads, items said.
Finney wants women to lead in state government
TOPEKA — The next head of the state's largest agency will be a woman, Gov.elect Joan Finney said Saturday.
The Associated Press
Finney picked a receptive audience for her announcement — the 1991 Women's Agenda conference at Washburn University School of Law.
"I intend to appoint a woman secretary of SRS," she said. She did not say who the woman would be.
Finney, the first woman to be elected Kansas governor, promised that the head of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services would not be her only female appointee.
"I am searching for women to place in high-level positions in state government," she said.
If they asked the so-called attending the two-day conference from all parts of the state to send her nominations for key jobs.
Finney didn't mention the one issue
The top priority listed in the conference's legislative agenda was maintaining a commitment to reproductive freedom for all Kansas women. The opposition opposes abortion and has promise to sign any bill designed to restrict it.
that divides her from most of the women at the conference - abortion.
Instead, Finney focused on unifying themes.
"I shook so many hands that it got to be a campaign of hands," she said. "We, as women, can reach out our hands and cooperate and work together."
Finney said she had promised to help two groups of people: women and children.
The growing Kansas political power of women was also evident at the conference with the participation of State Treasurer-elect Sally Thompson and a panel of six female state legislators.
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