University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, December 6, 1988
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Cube Creation
ABOVE: Mark Kohles, St Charles, Mo., senior, works on his architecture project behind the Art and Design building. Kohles was
working yesterday on a cube. RIGHT: Kohles peers through a division in his cube.
BLUFORD
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time, I worked on the University Daily Kansan. I was reporter, telegraph editor and then night editor. I didn't have any problems with the book.
Marie Ross, who graduated as Bluford entered the journalism school and who works for the Call, said Bluford learned about journalism in an atmosphere of protest.
"Sheused to work with Mr. Franklin (C.A. Franklin, founder of the Call) and she was well schooled in crushing," said Ross, who was the first black to graduate from the school. "Wherever there was discrimination, he knew where it was and he knew how to put pressure on people. And when he died, she just followed in his footsteps.
"She's been involved in civil rights all her life."
Ross said she remembered Bluford as the studious kid who wore pigtail hair and rode her bicycle to class, and Bluford remembers Ross as the person who beat a path for blacks to enter the school.
"She broke a lot of ice for me," Bluford said of Ross. "I didn't have near the problems she had when she was here."
Fighting in court
In her pursuit for worthy causes, Bluford said people had told her that she had been lucky not to run into more problems.
been in danger when I filed that suit against the University of Missouri," she said.
"People thought that I should've
In 1939, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed a suit against the University of Missouri on Bluford's behalf to test a decision on segregation handed down the year before.
In December 1938, the Supreme Court ruled in Gaines v. the State of Missouri that Missouri would have to provide the same education for black students that it did for whites within its own borders.
Bluford said Missouri and other states had been paying tuition for black students to go to schools in bordering states instead of admitting them to state universities. The ruling said that Missouri would have to admit black students to the University of Missouri or provide some place within the borders for them to study
Yet when it came time for Gaines to test the newly founded rule, he had disappeared.
"They couldn't find him," she said. "And they haven't found him to this day. I didn't know what would have happened if he had been around to go, so I said I believe I'll try for my graduate work in journalism."
Bluford said she sent her credits to the University of Missouri, and they were accepted. She then notified the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People of what she was doing.
The registrar said the Supreme Court decision in the Gaines case was not finalized and had come down through the Missouri Supreme Court, the appeals court, the district court, the university, she said.
admit her, she said.
Although the university accepted her credits, the registrar refused to
"So he turned me down," she said.
"Then I notified the NAACP, and they filed a suit for me and we lost in the Missouri courts just like Gaines
But to comply with the Supreme Court ruling, the state established a law school in St. Louis and a journalism school at Lincoln University, a predominantly black college in Jefferson City, Mo., Bluford said.
Samuel Adams, associate professor of journalism, said he admired Bluford for her courage.
"She is a brave woman," Adams said. "She has been an prime example of news media integrity and one of our notable graduates."
Bluford's filing of the suit exemplifies her bravery, Adams said.
"It took courage to do that," he said. "Back then, the Klan didn't like blacks who had the guts to get out of their place. He going up to Missouri and trying to take those classes forced Missouri to open a journalism school for blacks." I love for writing
Despite her difficulties in pursuing a career in journalism, Bluford said she had always enjoyed writing and chose report early in life.
"When I was in high school, I knew I didn't want to be a school teacher," she said. "There were just a few
professions that black girls went into and that was teaching, nursing, and I guess social work."
Bluffd said she bypassed those professions and worked at the Kansas City Call during the summer.
"I almost had to pass here (the Call) going home," she said. "In the summer time, I'd come down and work three months during the summer and fill in for people that were on vacation or taking a vacation $8 a week. That wasn't bad for those early days. I guess I stayed in it a long time because I just like it."
"You talk about good speeches, the first time I heard Martin Luther King, he was over at the St. Stevens Baptist Church," she said. "That place was packed, and everybody knew him, but nobody had seen him. I was so impressed. It was just wonderful to hear that man talk."
Bluford said she went on to capture memorable moments for the Call.
formation convention" she said,
also covered memorable speeches.
Bluford said she was pleased with the paper's position in the community.
"I think we've built a newspaper that is a credit to the community," she said. "We fought for civil rights all these years. We've made lots of stories for civil rights. As long as you don't want to be tired, I still work 12, 14 hours a day, and I'm not tired yet. I've enjoyed every minute of it."
Task force seeks improvement for cultural diversity
Goulding said 120 decibels is "as loud as music can really get." Above that, people would have difficulty regarding it as music because at 120 decibels, permanent hearing damage is imminent.
By James Farquhar Kansan staff writer
A Walkman-induced concert can render the listener partially deaf to high frequencies for several weeks, Brandt told. The victim might not hear consonants in everyday speech, such as the sounds 's', 'th' and 'p'.
Someone running a lawn mower is usually exposed to 90 decibels. Ascending and descending jet airplanes register more than 105 decibels for an onlooker. An average set of stereo headphones produce 115 decibels at maximum volume. According to OSHA, two hours of exposure to 100 decibels will cause a degree of permanent hearing loss.
which workers' ears must be protected by earplugs.
By declaring next semester "Valuing Diversity Semester" *members of the Student Diversity Task Force* in 2014, we are acknowledging relations at the University of Kansas.
Aaron Rittmacher, Overland Park junior, off-campus senator and member of the task force, said the group was brainstorming for activity ideas for next semester that would emphaize the cultural diversity at the University.
The task force has launched the effort with a logo-drawing contest. The winning logo will be emblazoned on buttons and distributed to students who sign a petition pledging active commitment to University diversity.
Hamill said the task force, created by build But kind of unity, at KU again.
"We decided that the two main events that drew the whole University together were the Ku Klux Klan visit, although it wasn't a positive thing, and when KU won the NCAA basketball championship," said Carrie Hamil, member of the task force and Abelene senior.
"The night we won the championship, it didn't matter if you were black, white or whatever," she said. "You were a KU student."
Task force members at their first meeting Nov. 10 discussed the effects of two significant events at KU last semester.
"The petition and the button are overt ways to show campus unity on the issue," he said. "The winner of
the logo-designing contest will receive about a $130 prize."
The logo design must include the phrase "celebrate diversity," be on a one-square-foot piece of paper and be printed in black ink on a student Senate office, 103 Burge Urge Hall.
Throughout next semester, he said, the 13-member task force would plan events that put students of different backgrounds and abilities in direct interaction.
One idea that came from the first few meetings was the Diversity Olympics, which Rittmaster said would pit intercultural teams against each other in lighthearted competitions.
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"It might be silly field events such as tricycle ride relays or something." he said. "Such interaction underscores the benefits of using the skills and talents that spring from diversity."
All of the activities will be financed by Student Senate, Rittmater said. The task force also will seek Senate financial support for other organizations' projects benefiting the entire University.
WALKMAN
is covered with thousands of tiny, extremely delicate hair cells, which react to sound. These cells pick up information and transmit that information to the brain.
For example, the Black Student Union is attempting to bring Alvin Poussain, a psychologist from Harvard University, to KU during January for the 60th anniversary of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth.
"We've introduced a bill to help (BSU) pay for his visit, since it would benefit the whole University." Ritmaster said. The Senate will decide whether to help pay for Poussaint's visit tomorrow.
Overexposure to noise flattens the hair cells, rendering them incapable of accurately interpreting sound. The overexposure sounds are heard and others are not.
KBI statistics show murder rate down
Kansan staff writer
by Jay A. Cohen
of-ear models] are both capable of producing as much volume in a weaver's ears as a large hi-fi speaker.
The OSHA set 85 decibels (roughly as loud as a noisy bus) as the level at
Although 20 fewer murders occurred in Kansas during the first nine months of 1988 than during the same period in 1987, crime statistics released by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation show no other significant differences between the two years.
Brandt said loud music first takes its toll on the inner ear, specifically the cochlea. The "organ of hearing"
The total number of violent crimes over the first nine months of 1988 decreased 1.4 percent, and property crimes decreased 1.5 percent.
The figures, released Thursday and compiled from information reported by law enforcement agencies across the state, also compared through September 1988 statistics with the April through June 1988 results.
ures reflect a longstanding tendency toward more criminal acts being committed in warmer weather, a KBI spokesman said.
Violent crimes increased by 14.2 percent during July through September, and property crimes increased by 15.6 percent. However, these fig-
Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesman, said that although KBI statistics were accurate, they often could be misleading.
"For example, if in one quarter there are two armed robberies in Lawrence, and the next there are four, then you see an increase of 50 percent, which looks bad, but doesn't really reflect the situation."
He said local law enforcement agencies usually were aware of the patterns of crime in their jurisdiction before KHI statistics were released.
According to the KBI figures,
Lawrence police reported 1,111
primes for July-September 1988, a 23
percent increase from 1,055 primes
decreased 3 percent, from 1,066
for January-September 1978 to
1,635 for the same period in 1988.
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