Little violence
Officials expect peaceful desegregation
THE BATTALION Page 5A
MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1977
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Officials
Jpect little violence today during
th< first day of a school desegrega-
plan that calls for the forced
br ing of about 500 black junior
jh school students.
Jlhe desegregation plan, which
■s proposed by the school board
|d approved by U.S. District
rt Judge Earl E. O’Connor in
June, is the result of a four-year
lurt battle. It has brought loud
Jotests from black parents because
■provides for the busing of black
idents only.
The Justice Department, which
itified against the plan, has de
led to appeal the court-approved
segregation effort.
Under the plan, some students
will be bused as far away as 11
miles. It calls for the closing of a
predominantly black junior high
school in the northeast part of the
city and busing the seventh and
eighth graders to four predomi
nantly white schools.
“It’s ridiculous to have our kids
used as guinea pigs,” said Wanda
Canady, the mother of two children
who will be bused 11 miles. “Every
time the white people move, are we
going to have to follow them?”
Unlike massive desegregation ef
forts in many cities, the Kansas
City, Kan., plan will uproot fewer
than 2 per cent of the district’s
28,000 students. They will be trans
ferred to schools that are already 10
to 37 percent minority. About 40
per cent of the district’s students are
black.
Police, school officials and critics
of the desegregation plan expect lit
tle problems during the first day of
busing.
“We re encouraging the kids to go
to school because we know this plan
was designed not to work and we
want to show it was designed not to
work,” said Alvin Sykes, leader of
the black Youth Action Movement.
“If we react with violence, we d be
reacting (for the) short-range.”
The guarantee of a Justice De
partment appeal has tempered any
plans for disruption, he said.
“We re more interested in deal
ing with this long-range now that we
can deal from inside the law, ” Sykes
said. “We don’t want to react ignor-
antly by tearing up places — that’s
slave mentality.”
“The information we get leads us
to believe there will not be any dis
ruptive action anytime Monday and
we hope that is the case,” Said Jim
Goheen, a school board attorney.
Federal officials watching de
segregation on both sides of the
state line believe what happens in
Kansas City, Kan., this week may
set the tone for what happens in
Missouri next week. Kansas City,
Mo., public schools open Sept. 7
with more than 8,000 of the dis
trict’s projected 47,000 students
scheduled to be bused to achieve
desegregation. j
Many gather
for Klan rally
in Mississippi
United Press liitermitionnl
KREOLE, Miss. — About 600
lersons gathered Saturday night
n this coastal Mississippi town
ir a rally sponsored by the Ku
jgggg, [lux Klan, and a pamphlet an-
lOunced the gathering was for
White Public Only.
Andy Harrison of Metairie,
.a., national youth leader of the
Inited Klans of America told the
rowd that even though Ameri-
:ans are being taught that blacks
re equal to whites, “The good
xrrd does not believe in integra-
ipe
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Harrison charged, “Blacks
ave caused a rise in violence in
schools — an institution
here the future of America is
owing.”
Former Mississippi Grand
, mi B)ragon W.J. Kidd of Swartz,
said the United Klans be-
I leve in a free press, he added,
Ilf you will look behind the TV
Jtation, the radio station and
lewspaper in your town, you will
pnd they are owned by some
ndicate.”
Kidd said a recent television
fW [rogram about a Klan group was
[a smear tactic against the Klan
nd the state of Mississippi in
articular.
Flanked by white-robed men,
idd spoke from a trailer deco-
Jated with United Klans of
rifflgl America paraphenalia. He said
11 groups calling themselves
Ians are not associated with the
.'nited Klans organization.
Several members of the group
aid the meeting was being held
!to recruit new members.
The meeting opened with a
rayer and ended with a cross
uming.
Regents shuffle administration
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Development Foundation, became
vice-chancellor for development. At
Texas A&M, development means
raising funds through contributions,
grants and donations. So those
title-changes, while in no way
changing the jobs Bond and Walker
do, put them under the chancellor’s
control and direction instead of the
president’s.
Lane Stephenson, associate direc
tor of the University News Service,
became assistant to the chancellor
for information. This was another
change in title only, but again,
Stephenson now answers to Chan
cellor Williams instead of President
Miller.
“What’s new?” one regent asked
an administrator during the meeting
and after the changes had been an
nounced.
“Everything,” the administrator
said with a laugh.
So there stood the administration
in early Augukt. Chancellor
Williams had his office filled with
hand-picked subordinates. But
President Miller had yet to pick his
own subordinates.
Miller said after being appointed
that he will continue to use the
three-vice-president organization
that Williams set up at the Univer
sity. That meant that Miller had to
appoint vice-presidents for both
business affairs — which had been
vacant since Tom Cherry retired in
August 1976 — and academic af
fairs, vacated by new vice-
chancellor John Calhoun.
Another post Miller had to fill was
that of Associate Vice-President for
Academic Affairs Richard Wainerdi.
Wainerdi announced early last week
that he is resigning from the Uni
versity to take a vice-presidential
job with a Houston architectural and
engineering firm.
All three positions were filled by
the board of regents Friday with
administrators nominated by Miller.
II oward Vestal, assistant vice-
president for business since 1973,
was appointed vice-president for
business, a job he has for all practi
cal purposes filled since Tom
Cherry retired.
Dr. John Mack Prescott, dean of
the College of Science, was named
Calhoun’s successor as vice-
president for academic affairs. Dr.
Haskell Monroe Jr., dean of facul-
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only time will tell if those conflicts
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