UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 19, 1997
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White supremacy to be addressed
By Umut Bayramoglu
Kansan staff writer
Whether they notice sidewalk messages on the way to class in Wescoe Hall or witness Fred Phelps' demonstrations outside the Lied Center, many KU students come in contact with extremist politics during their college years.
Tonight, Leonard Zeskind, a KU alumnus and an internationally recognized expert on far-right political and social movements will speak at 7:30 p.m. at the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Zeskind's presentation titled "White Supremacist Impact on Mainstream Politics, Culture and You," will
include a discussion of the current trial of the alleged Oklahoma City bombers and its meaning for the white supremacist movement.
Carrie Fleider, director of the KU Hillel Foundation, the main co-sponsor of the event, said that organizers knew of Zeskink because he had served as a consultant for Hillel.
"We decided to make use of this international expert that is actually not far from our campus," she said.
Fleider said that Zeskind's speech would be a learning experience for KU students.
"This is an issue that people usually don't like talking about," she said. "But it's important to talk about it openly, so we can deal with it."
Fleider said that Zeskind would talk about a broad range of topics related to the extremist right.
"It's important that KU students are able to understand that homophobia, anti-Semitism and religious extremism undermine the democracy and pluralism," she said.
Zeskind is currently the president of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights Inc., a nonprofit organization based in Kansas City, Mo. He has written on issues related to racism, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazi groups in North America and Europe for nearly 20 years.
From 1985-1994, Zeskind served as research director for the Center for Democratic Renewal, formerly the
national Anti-Klan Network.
Evan Heimlich, program assistant for the Multicultural Resource Center, a co-sponsor of tonight's presentation, said that it was important to study the positions opposing multiculturalism.
"Whenever you have an extreme, it tends to pull the mainstream toward it." he said.
Heilmich said the atmosphere at the University concerning white supremacy issues accommodated intolerance.
"I have no idea if white supremacists are organized on campus," he said. "I'm much more concerned with what to do to counter the influence of that kind of talk."
Student Senate sponsors a town hall meeting
Chancellor answers students' questions
By Dave Morantz Kansan staff writer
In last night's open-forum town hall meeting, Chancellor Robert Hemenway and student body president Grey Montgomery fielded questions about issues ranging from the future of a new University child care center to
the University's position about the South Lawrence Trafficway
About 25 people attended the meeting at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
Unlike the last town hall meeting, most of those attending last night were not associated with the Senate. Student Senate sponsored the meeting as a part of Student Senate Awareness Week.
It was the the second such meeting of the semester
While Hemenway responded to most of the audience's questions
smoothly, his speech became circuitous when the topic switched to negotiations between graduate teaching assistants and the administration.
He described the role of GTAs as a difficult balancing act.
"They are teaching students at the University of Kansas, and they themselves are students at the University of Kansas," Hemenway said. "It's a challenge to figure out how to enable a GTA to fill both of those roles."
uate student and GTA, pushed Hemenway to declare his position in the negotiations.
Hemenway said, "The University has signed an agreement not to discuss in public the details of the contract. I can't discuss that because that is part of the negotiations."
But Kip Curtis, Lawrence grad-
After the meeting, Curtis said Hemenway's response was unacceptable.
"I think it was absolutely inadequate," he said. "As I understand it, they've agreed to nothing."
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