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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 20, 1990
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Police nab borrowers of KUIDs at games
By Curtis Knapp
Kansan staff writer
Curtis Wuerdem went to the Feb. 13 Kansas-Missouri basketball game with a friend. Although the friend was not a KU student, he got into the game with a student ticket and a borrowed KUID.
Wuerdeman, Independence senior; is one of many students who borrow KUIDs to help non-students get into games.
Sgt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU police said lending or borrowing another person's identification card would be against the law six months in jail and/or a $1,000 fine.
Two people were issued notices to appear in court for illegally using KUIDs at Saturday's basketball game against Nebraska, KU police reported. Four people were cited for game offense at the Missouri game.
Two of the six students were cited for lending KUIDs, and the other four were cited for using the KUIDs to get into the games.
Wuerdeman said he knew his friend's use of the KUID was illegal, but he was unaware of the penalty.
"It sounds excessive," he said. "I think that once the students have bought tickets, it should be theirs to do with what they want."
Wuerdeman said he was not concerned about the penalty because people rarely were caught by the police.
Bailey said he could not recall any cases before last week where someone had been cited for using a KUID to gain entrance to a game.
He said police took action at the Missouri game because a police officer witnessed the crime. A local judge sentenced the player at the Nebraska game and reported it.
"It's against the law." Bailey said. "It's our job to enforce the law."
She said she had not noticed an increase in the number of non-students using KUIDs for basketball games.
When people are caught trying to get into a game with someone else's KUID, they are just prevented from getting in, Slabaugh said. The police usually are not called to make an arrest.
Slahab said it was difficult to determine whether pictures on KUIDs matched the people presenting them because hair styles and facial features changed. KUIDs are not always checked thoroughly because often long lines of students are waiting at the door.
She said the typical trick used to get in with another person's KUID was to cover the picture with a finger.
"We just ask them to move it," she said. "Some of them we probably don't want."
Doug Vance, assistant athletic director for media relations, said the policy requiring students to show their KUIDs with all-sports tickets was to benefit the students and protect their rights to seats.
Vance said the policy was created to ensure that students, not the public, were the ones who benefited from the reduced student-ticket rate.
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Ardra Tippett, St. Louis senior, urges protesters to uphold the struggle against apartheid.
Anti-apartheid group seeks KU divestment
By Jonathan Plummer
Kansan staff writer
Members of Students Against Apartheid at a rally yesterday again called for the University of Kansas to divest from corporations doing business in South Africa.
Members of the group spoke in front of Strong Hall to about 40 people who had gathered to celebrate a victory with African leader Nelson Mandela.
They collected signatures for a congratulatory letter to be sent to Mandela. They also carried signs saying "Freed ANC, Freed Mandela, Free the people" and "End anarheid, divest now."
Students Against Apartheid, a group formed this semester, has said it would submit a divestment
plan to the Board of Regents
Ardra Tippet, spokesman for the group, said the group was showing the plan to other student organizations to gain their support.
In a speech at the rally, Tippett asked students to call for divestment by the University.
"We must continue to put pressure on our University," she said. "We should expect our University to invest in our future."
She said KU had $9 million invested in companies doing business in South Africa.
Todd Seymour, president of the Kansas University Endowment Association, disputed the figure.
"I'm not sure where they got that," Seymour said. "I said that, the Endrement
He said that the Endowment
Association had only a few minor investments in pharmaceutical companies with workers in South Africa, and that these investments were with companies that supported the Sullivan principles.
Leon Sullivan, a General Motors executive, developed the principles, which call for desegregation of facilities, equal pay and an equal chance for promotion of Black workers, and support of the dismantling of apartheid.
Seymour said the specific investments of the Endowment Association were not public record.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that by law, the University could not hold stock, and that the Endowment Association was a private organization not under the control of the
Christina Clayton, Shawnee sophomore, holds divestment sign.
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University.
Tippett said the rally was a way of showing support for South African Blacks.
"This is the students' of the University of Kansas way of saying we celebrate the release of Nelson Mandela," she said.
Antoine Montgomery, Omaha, Neb., freshman, read the letter to
"Your struggle is our struggle, your search for freedom is also our search for freedom," Montgomery read from the letter. "We salute you in the name of justice and peace and support you in your struggle for freedom."
be sent to Mandela, which was signed by 50 people.
Poet captures Black culture
Langston Hughes spent some of his early years in Lawrence
Kansan staff writer
By Mark McHugh Kenyon staff writer
The literary life of Langston Hughes, the late poet, writer and figure of the Harlem Renaissance, took him to many parts of the United States and Europe, but he also spent part of his childhood in Lawrence.
Hughes' mother brought him in 1903 to Lawrence, 732 Alabama St., where he lived with his grandmother periodically for 12 years.
Hughes enrolled at Columbia University in New York in 1922 but left after a year to get a job as a cook and bus boy in Paris.
James Langston Hughes
Born: Feb. 1, 1902 Died: May 22, 1967 Occupation: Poet, Writer Contribution: Key figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
In 1925, Hughes returned to the United States, arriving in Washington, D.C. There, he was introduced to the principles of the Harlem Renaissance, a period of a great upsurge in Black literature, music and theater in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. That year, he won poetry prizes for contests held by two magazines. The Crisis and Opportunity.
In 1929 Hughes earned a bachelor's degree from Lincoln University in Kansas.
In the 1920s he wrote poetry, incorporating the use of blues rhythms in his work. He published two books of poems, "The Weary Blues" and
In 1977, the University of Kansas established in Hughes' name a one-year professorship now filled by Mervyn Alleyne, professor of African and African-American studies.
"Fine Clothes to the Jew."
Later, he continued to write poetry, but he turned primarily to writing autobiographies, fiction and children's books.
One of Hughes' most famous poems is "Harlem," which can be found in his work, "Montage of a Dream Deferred."
In 1977, the University of Kansas established in Hughes' name a one-year professorship now filled by Mervyn Alenee, professor of African and African-American studies.
Alleye said he met Hughes in Harlem in the early 1960s. Alleye described Hughes as a man of great wit, sensitivity and eloquence.
Schools provide extra classes to offset higher enrollment
By Sandra Moran
Kansan staff writer
increased spring enrollment at the University of Kansas has led to the addition of classes in several schools.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences had the largest increase with 238 students added to enrollment leading to 20th day enrollment figures.
James Muyskens, dean of liberal arts and sciences, said several classes had been added. The school added a technical writing course and hired more tutors for basic math classes.
"The main thing we tried to do was find seats for students in existing classes." Muvskens said.
Robert Adams, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said the increase was expected.
"We used a few resources here and there to help out," he said. "We always add classes because we never where students are going to RB."
Mike Kautsch, dean of journalism,
said the 129 student increase in the
School of Journalism caused the
department add extra sections of some
classes.
He said that during the past few years, there had been an increasing
enrollment in the advertising and magazine sequences. This has led to the addition of class sections in these sequences.
Kautsch said the school, which had the highest percentage enrollment increase, used a variety of strategies to accommodate the added students. These included rescheduling classes to allow more students to enroll, giving special advising to upper-level students and giving priority enrollment to students working toward a degree.
"The sections that normally meet at some time during regular class days were moved to a non-traditional schedule." Kautsch said.
The School of Social Welfare, which had the largest decrease of student enrollment at the University, experienced a loss of 78 students.
Edith Black, assistant dean of social welfare, said the decrease was part of an administrative plan to decrease enrollment by limiting available class space.
Black said that since 1982 the school had experienced a 39 percent enrollment increase with no added resources.
She said the decrease included both undergraduate and graduate programs.
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