VOL. XVII NO.5 An Informed People is A Free People DECEMBER 25 - 31. 1994
BY JULES LOH
vie
irrevocable,
Ku Klu
Klan obitu-
ary em
beyond
pecul tion.
There re-
PU ,T nn (AP) - C 11 it y r-
nd pilogu to t 30th nni ry
o vance of F om Summ r. Or
call it a final belated triumph of the
Civil Rigb Movement: Or call it im­
ply longed layed funeral no ice:
The Ku Klux Klan' d d.
Twice before over the past century
the Klan med to ha vanished
from the national ne, missing and
p umed dead. Both tim its hooded
head rose from the cold as of burnt
l"'W'IAJUWIl and returned to burn and flog
and kill again.
This time, owing to chan in the
UTCERT th m t wide-
P d agent of terror, e ily th most
cognizable, urely t most endur­
ing and, according to uncounted thou-
nels of i victims, by far the most
frightening organization ever h tched
on American oil, the Ku Klux Klan, is
no longer.
"Yes, we have or to do," says
Stuart 1.0 ngrub, chief of the ADL'
Atlanta office, "but not becaus of the
Klan. The Klan today nothing left,
no influence at all, political or eco­
nomic. What's left of the Klan, if any-
thing, is no more than a nui "
course, vari­
ou raci t
group, na­
tivists, If­
styled militias, neo-Nazis, enough in­
dependent nds of zealots to keep the
GRAND RAPIDS, Mlch. (AP) -
Some tudents at Calvin College
are threatening to picket a lee­
tur by Charle Murray, the
controversial author of "The Bell
Curve."
·We want to let the Calvin
community know there's more
potential for problems than they
realize," said B.J. Shipman, a
lS-}, r-old ophomor from
ila i ho h d th
[ac udent On a h
Grand Rapids university.
He aid h' group has col­
lected about 150 ignatures on a
petition that demands the Jan.
17 peech be changed to a ques­
tion and answer session.
"Problems wi1larise, if) tenns
of racial and ethnic tensions on
this campus, as a result of Mur­
ray's speech," Shipman said.
minority students are black.
Murray aid much of the criti­
cism against the book were
ba ed on distortions by the
press.
"If people come and listen to
me, they won't hear what
they're getting all excited
about," he told The Detroit
News for a tory Friday.
B of'
nee m
place to deb te urray's vi
"Tbi is about the market­
place of ideas," aid June
Hamersma, who invited Murray
to speak for the annual lecture
program. "We have widely di­
vergent scholar . It's a pot­
pourri."
HAMERSMA SAID she
made the invitation IWlt winter
after reading abou Murray's
welfare reform proposals.
Neither Murray nor
Hamersma would say how much
Murray will be paid.
Rhae-Ann Booker, a univer­
sity administrator, is worried
Murray's visit will rna e it
harder to attract minority stu­
dents.
"Here we are nd i ng mes-
sages out that we want to in­
crease minority enrollment and
we embrace diversity. Then, we
invite Charles Murray," said
Booker, who coordinates mul­
ticultural student development
at the university. "To me, it's a
definite etback."
BYSOHY ROSS
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WASHI GTO (AP) - Th
Congre sional Black Caucu '
new ch . rman said Thursday
that if ral money for ur n
. hift tq st ,
will work on
pth dolla
The Skillman Foundation of Detroit h. sward d full chol r hip to
attend Interlochen Art Academy, Thl year's Skillman schol r r: (back row l-r) Donald
Dixon, on of Donald and Ann Dixon of We t Bloomfi Id, junior vi ual art ; Roy Harcourt, on
of Ellen Harcourt, ophomore, voice; Maia McKinney, d ughter of H rold and Michelle McKi -
ney of Detroit, senior, visual art. (seat d I-r) Naomi Millan, daughter of Ju to Vinale and
M rlen Cruz of Southfield, junior, creative writing; Afua McKinney, d ughter of J ni Braxton,
junior, vi ual art; Christina Dixon, d �ghter of Donald and Ann Dixon of We t Bloomfl Id,
fre hman, voice; Shani McKinney, daughter of Kenn th and C rolyn McKinney of Detroit, junior,
piano: and Roy Harcourt, on of Ellen Harcourt, ophomore, voice. .
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