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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, February 16, 1995
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Lisa Perry / KANSAN
Amber Reagan-Kendrick, graduate student in American Studies, speaks to the audience at a student panel discussion on being biracial. About 60 people attended the discussion last night.
Two races create twice the prejudice
Biracial students talk about double racism
By Eduardo A. Molina Kansan staff writer
Years ago, Richard Prince was helping his white mother carry groceries at the supermarket.
Before they went out the door, an employee yelled at him: "Where are you going, little Hispanic nigger?"
Prince, Wichita senior, was bewildered. The employee assumed he was shoplifting. His dark skin, it seemed, made him an unlikely companion for a white woman.
Prince wasn't arrested but discovered he would have to face this kind of discrimination everywhere.
Last night, Prince and three other biracial students discussed their personal experiences in a panel discussion in the Kansas Union. The theme of the discussion, "On Being Biracial: A Minority within a Minority," showed an audience of about 60 people the problems that students with two different cultures, heritages and races face within their own communities.
David Alcindor, Paris senior, who has a French mother and a father from Martinique, an island in the Caribbean Sea, said he didn't face racism until he came to the United States.
"When I came here, I faced a problem of iden
African-American History Month
tity," he said. "I had to fill out an application and define myself in terms of ethnicity. I didn't know what to do. They asked me, 'How do you feel?' I said 'French.'"
Michelle McClelland, Yokosuka, Japan,
sophomore, who has an African-American
father and a Japanese mother, said she didn't
prejudice existed until fifth grade in
Hawaii when her Black father came to school to
tick her up.
"It is really complicated to fit in a culture," she said. "Later, when we moved to Japan, and I studied in a school where 75 percent of the students had different backgrounds, I felt better."
Salynda White, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, who has an African-American father and a Korean mother, said her personality helped her to overcome biracial barriers.
"I grew up in a Black neighborhood, but I felt accepted because people considered me as an individual," she said. "I've never had a chance to meet my mother's family, so I feel more comfortable with Blacks."
Prince said that being biracial gave him more advantages than problems.
"You always choose what you want to be," he said. "You can't deny your parents' heritage. I think we are more open to different cultures"
Butterflies enter computer age
By Kim Imdleke
Special to the Kansan
Chip Taylor is launching butterflies into the information superhighway.
Taylor, professor of ontology and acting head of the entomology department, is developing a computerized science curriculum based entirely on the monarch butterfly.
The National Science Foundation awarded Taylor a $475,000 grant for the project.
The curriculum will be available on the Internet, connecting it to computers around the world.
With the click of a mouse, middle and high school students can move through screens describing butterfly life from the spinning of a cocoon to the migration of a butterfly colony.
"You might see the term 'endangered species' highlighted on the screen," Taylor said. "If you wanted to know more about that term, you could click on it, and another screen would appear."
The multidisciplinary approach represents true science, Taylor said.
"You can integrate almost an entire science program using this charismatic insect," Taylor said. "The question, How does the insect fly?" leads to studies of muscle mechanics, energetics, the biomechanics of flight or the physics of moving through a medium."
A part of the Internet called the World Wide Web makes Taylor's program possible. The web allows people to create packages called home pages, which include graphics, text and sounds. Web users can move around screens within the home page.
Taylor's home page, Monarch Watch, includes video clips of the butterflies in Mexico and the milkweed plants that provide their food.
"Our home page is designed, so the teacher doesn't tell the students everything but helps them find out for themselves," he said. "We don't provide the answers. We provide the questions."
Taylor's grant ultimately will finance the development of a CD-ROM, a compact disc used to store information, for the monarch-based curriculum.
Taylor also said he envisioned an electronic student journal. Students from around the country could send science reports by computer to Taylor's lab. He would then publish the reports on Monarch Watch.
Monarch Watch evolved from a project Taylor started in the fall of 1992. He asked primary and secondary students to capture and tag monarch butterflies as they migrated south for the winter.
Last fall, he sent tagging materials to about 500 schools in 30 states. He estimated 20,000 students participated in the program in 1994.
Taylor said his program would go beyond increasing students' understanding of science.
"It shows them how complex and interconnected the world is," he said.
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