University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 6. 1990
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Blacks aren't Africans famed principal insists
The Associated Press
OVERLAND PARK — Joe Clark, the former high school principal known for his baseball bat and bullhorn, told a group of college students yesterday that he would rather be called Black than African-American.
"Most Black people don't live in Africa," he told a group of 300 people at Johnson County Community College. "They live in Japan, China, India, South America and Russia."
"When they say African-American, what they're really saying is that you're all from Africa and you're savages," he said. "Black people are all over this world, and I want to be called Black."
Clark spoke about a variety of topics and was interrupted several times by applause.
"When I leave here today, you all are going to state emphatically that I love Joe Clark,' or 'I hate his guts," he said.
Clark gained fame through his
tenure at Eastside High School in Paterson, N.J., where he suspended 300 students identified as trouble-makers during his first week at the school.
He has been featured on the cover of a national magazine and in the movie "Lean on Me."
Clark also said Blacks should not follow a political party but vote their conscience, and he said rumors of philandering by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. should not detract from his accomplishments.
He also spoke out against affirmative action, which he said was a play by "ideological miscreants."
"The noble things they do should inspire us," he said. "And the ignorable things they do should tell us one thing — that they are only human beings."
"Affirmative action is a device by liberals who are saying you are inferior and you can't achieve on your own," Clark said.
Reagan
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The ruling also will allow Poindexter to ask Reagan what he knows about North's relationship with other people involved with Iran contra.
resisting giving testimony in any form. He claims that compelling him to testify would have an adverse effect on the presidency.
Poindexter and Reagan had objected to having the former president give a videotaped deposition. Poindexter wants Reagan as a witness in the courtroom. Reagan is
When the Supreme Court ordered President Nixon in 1974 to provide White House tape recordings to White House prosecutors, it ruled that privilege was superceded by the need for evidence in a pending criminal trial.
A videotaped deposition will allow
evidence to be taken with recesses for consultations on invoking executive privilege, especially regarding sensitive defense information, Greene said.
"It would be inconceivable . . . to exempt Mr. Reagan from the duty of every citizen to give evidence that will permit the reaching of a just outcome of this criminal prosecution," Greene said.
Census
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However, census officials said that most students could not choose where they would register.
KU students who live in Lawrence most of the year should be counted in Douglas County, said Ben Arzu, coordinator of the government's census awareness program. Students who commute should be counted in their hometowns.
Many KU students will never see the census forms, Arzu said. Forms for students in group living arrangements, such as residence halls, scholarship halls and Greek houses, will be sent to managers of those buildings. Managers will then be asked to fill out the forms for the students.
Students living in off-campus apartments and houses will be sent census questionnaires in late March, Arzu said.
Later this month, the Complete Count Committee plans to mail census reminders to student organizations and to KU faculty and staff. Williams said they also will have an information table in front of Wescoe Hall.
Chairs
The committee received $5,000 from the city for an advertising campaign to educate Lawrence about the census. With that money, the committee intends to mail out filers, buy advertising space in local newspapers and place spot radio announcements, said Jeff Arensberg, the committee's vice-chairman.
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the 4,000 to 4,500 chairs would be costly, but he did not have an estimate for such a project.
Endacott said workers searched Wescoe's fourth floor nightly for damaged chairs and stacked them in the landing. When between 40 and 50 chairs accumulate, they are moved to the Fraser storage area.
If more than 50 chairs pile up, entrances and exits are blocked, and fire codes are violated, Endacott said.
About 50 chairs were in the landing Tuesday when Facilities Operations decided to search the rooms for other broken chairs. Endacott said he did not expect as many as 500 damaged chairs to be found.
Facilities Operations filed a request Wednesday for 15 more chairs in Wescoe. Endacott said he had not received any complaints about needed seats since that date.
"We owe the students an apology. It was a deviation from the normal method we use for removing and fixing the chairs," Endacott said. "One good thing that came out of it is that the chairs will be fixed."
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