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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2014
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CAMPUS
Hispanic leadership group creates photos to address discrimination
PAIGE STINGLEY
news@kansan.com
The Hispanic American Leadership Organization (HALO) is creating a photo slideshow to highlight some of the discrimination Hispanic students face on campus.
The purpose of the project is to bring awareness to minority discrimination on campus. The images will feature students holding signs with examples of discrimination they have encountered on campus.
"People make jokes or throw around words thinking it's funny, but they don't take into account how it makes minorities feel," said Ramiro Sarmiento, a sophomore from Wichita.
Sarmiento, the president of HALO, brought the idea to the organization after Mililynn Chavez, the secretary, showed him "I, Too, Am Harvard," a recent photo campaign created by Harvard College students. The campaign highlights how black students experience racism on campus.
"Their video was really powerful and I thought it would be cool to do something like that on our own campus," Sarmiento said.
HALO leaders said the goal of their project is to make people recognize the minority discrimination that happens on campus and to encourage
people to check themselves before they make stereotypical comments or jokes.
"It's more than just raising awareness though," said Chavez, a junior from Manhattan. "We want students to gain more knowledge about the Hispanic culture to help get rid of the stereotypes and bad stigmas against Latinos."
HALO's project includes about 15-20 HALO members who each wrote down examples of when they felt stereotyped on campus. The students then held up their signs with their examples for their photos to be taken and put into a slideshow. Sarmiento said that it was not difficult to find members with these experiences because so many of them have faced discrimination from their peers.
Sarmiento is an American citizen, but his first language is Spanish. He finds it offensive when people assume that, because he doesn't speak the same, he isn't American, too.
"One of the most offensive things to me is when people ask me if I was born here [in the United States]," Sarmiento said.
"People think that my Spanish accent means I'm not from here or not a legal citizen," he said.
Another student wrote about a time when she was camping
in Allen Fieldhouse and she overheard a girl in front of her say, "All the Mexicans here are illegal anyway."
For Chavez, it is offensive when people say, "Well, you're not a real Mexican" simply because she doesn't look like a typical Mexican-American.
"I choose to associate myself with the Mexican culture," Chavez said. "People will say something negative about Mexicans and if I say something, they just turn and say, 'Oh we weren't talking about you, just other Mexicans.'"
The photos were taken last Thursday at the HALO weekly meeting. The project is expected to be published via social media within the next week.
Edited by Amber Kasselman
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TECHNOLOGY
"I, Too, Am Harvard" video inspires HALO
HALO creates photo slideshow of members' experiences with discrimination on campus
HALO aims to raise awareness of and end minority discrimination
HALO expects to publish the slideshow on social media by next week
Another Apple-Samsung skirmish heads to court
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SAN JOSE, Calif. The fiercest rivalry in the world of smartphones is heading back to court this week in the heart of the Silicon Valley, with Apple and Samsung accusing each other, once again, of ripping off designs and features.
The trial will mark the latest round in a long-running series of lawsuits between the two tech giants that underscore a much larger concern about what is allowed to be patented.
"There's a widespread suspicion that lots of the kinds of software patents at issue are written in ways that cover more ground than what Apple or any other tech firm actually invented," Notre Dame law professor Mark McKenna said. "Overly broad patents allow companies to block competition."
The latest Apple-Samsung case will be tried less than two years after a federal jury found Samsung was infringing on Apple patents. Samsung was
ordered to pay about $900 million but is appealing and has been allowed to continue selling products using the technology.
Now, jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in another round of litigation, with Apple Inc. accusing Samsung of infringing on five patents on newer devices, including Galaxy smartphones and tablets. In a counterclaim, Samsung says Apple stole two of its ideas to use on iPhones and iPads.
"Apple revolutionized the market in personal computing devices," Apple attorneys wrote in court filings. "Samsung, in contrast, has systematically copied Apple's innovative technology and products, features and designs, and has deluged markets with infringing devices."
Samsung countered that it has broken technological barriers with its own ultra-slim, lightweight phones.
Samsung has been a pioneer in the mobile device business sector since the inception of
one mobile device industry," Samsung attorneys wrote. "Apple has copied many of Samsung's innovations in its Apple iPhone, iPod, and iPad products."
In the upcoming case, Apple claims Samsung stole technology that allows someone searching for a telephone number or address on the web to tap on the results to call the number or put the address into a map. In addition, Apple says Samsung copied "Slide to Unlock," which allows users to swipe the face of their smartphone to use it.
Samsung countered that Apple is stealing a wireless technology system that speeds up sending and receiving data.
The most attention grabbing claim is Apple's demand that Samsung pay a $40 royalty for each Samsung device running software allegedly conceived by Apple, more than five times more than the amount sought in the previous trial and well above other precedents between smartphone companies.
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