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Calendar
Wednesday, Feb. 26
What: International Opportunities Fair
When: 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Union Lobby
About: Meet with KU students and staff who have studied, worked and lived abroad.
What: The Cleveland Orchestra
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: The Lied Center
About: The Grammy Award-winning Cleveland Orchestra performs.
Student and youth tickets $21 to $30, adult tickets $42 to $60.
Thursday, Feb. 27
What: Veggie Lunch
When: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: Ecumenical Campus Ministries
About: A free vegetarian meal on
Thursdays at the ECM.
What: Presidential Lecture Series - The First Ladies: Intimate Sacrifice, Honored Post When: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Where: Dole Institute of Politics About: Richard Norton Smith, first director of the Dole Institute and presidential historian, examines the private lives and the public roles of the First Ladies.
Friday, Feb. 28
What: Latin American Seminar
When: 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Hall Center, Seminar Room 1
About: "Una Nueva Justicia en Chile?
Institutional and Ideational Change in the Chilean Judiciary"
What: Much Ado About Nothing (play)
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Crafton-Preyer Theatre,
Murphy Hall
About: An adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic play. Public tickets $18, seniors and KU faculty/staff $17 and students $10 at 785-
864-3982. Other showings Saturday, Sunday.
What: Study Abroad Scholarship
Application Deadline
When: All Day
Where: Lippincott Hall
About: Final deadline to apply for OSA scholarships to a summer or fall study abroad program.
Saturday, Feb. 29
What: Men's Basketball vs. Oklahoma State watch party
When: 8 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Level 4
Lobby
About: Watch the Jayhawks play
Oklahoma State on the road on the
Union's 132" screen.
GENDER FROM PAGE 1
derstand something better if you have a face to put to it and someone to explain it to you."
There's something about English that's inspiring, said his friend Jeremy Gulley, a graduate student in the School of Education.
"Until you hear the emotions that people go through and the daily struggles that they have — feeling confident and having self-worth — until you hear that, you don't realize it," Gulley said.
Hearing about English's struggles — within himself,
his family and his body — inspired Gulley to become an advocate for people who are transgender and marginalized.
For English, coming out as transgender to himself was liberating.
Coming out as transgender to his parents was terrifying, but inevitable.
Now, English says, his parents still support him. They may not be as close as he
He wrote it all out in an email first. Days later, he drove home to Olathe and sat at the kitchen table to talk. They all left in tears.
would like, but they're trying. He still struggles with his body. Though he passes in public as male, still having breasts is upsetting and jarring. He has bruises from binding his chest for long periods of time. He can't breathe well walking up campus hills. He can't take his shirt off to go swimming.
Sex reassignment surgery is the next step toward changing his sex on government
"It doesn't match the rest of my body. It doesn't match how I see myself," English said. "It's just this sense of not-rightness."
documentation and getting a marriage license. Saving up money for surgery, he works 60 hours a week between two jobs.
Being his authentic self is worth the cost.
As tired as I am right now and as stressed out about money as I am right now, I am so much happier than I ever was in that state," he said. "I'm not at odds with myself as much as I used to be."
English helps students build confidence in expressing who they are, Gulley said.
"I think he's very confident with who he is now — much
more than he was last year," Gulley said.
The first thing English tells people about himself is his finance. He says he's dating his best friend and that she's been his rock even since before he started transitioning.
Second, that he likes cats.
Second, that he likes cats.
Being transgender may make him different, but it doesn't define him.
"We're more than our gender identity," English said. "I'm like every other KU student. I just have a different set of problems."
POLICY
Edited by Tara Bryant
YU KYUNG LEE
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Potential scam troubles students
Students approached by volunteers from the Children's Joy Foundation on Monday could have been scammed.
Volunteers from the organization were older women who carried a binder with a pamphlet about the organization and a roster of people who donated. They were specifically going up to Asian students and their friends for donations.
"The thing was, she didn't really show me the pamphlet or really talk about the organization. She just set the notepad in front of me and asked for donations," Athon said. "I felt bad for saying no. She was just awkwardly standing next to me."
Athon's roommate, Susie McClenahan, a junior from Prairie Village, Mo., sent an email to the University's Public Safety Office with the concerns that this organization was scamming students, but has not yet heard back.
Melanie Leng, a junior from Prairie Village, was asked to donate to the Children's Joy Foundation, a charity organization from the Philippines, on four different occasions
Athon gave the volunteer what she had in cash — 60 cents. It was when Leng and Athon met up and talked about the charity drive when the two noticed a discrepan-
about past reports on scams by the organization. He warned against donating to the organization on his Facebook page.
According to Leng, the amounts on donations list
"We realized they completely lied about the amount of money they received from each person. That's when we realized that this looked like a scam."
twice at the Kansas Union, once at Fraser Hall and once at the bus stop on her way home.
MELANIE LENG Junior from Prairie Village
Heather Athon, a senior from Overland Park, was on the fourth floor of Anschutz when she and her friends were also solicited for donations by a volunteer from the charity.
Leng refused with no money on hand. Later when she saw that all the people who had donated gave at least $20, including a couple of people she knew personally, she felt even more guilty. However, when the volunteer from the charity tried to take her to the ATM to take out cash for donation, Leng just walked away.
"At that point, I was really surprised, like, 'What are you talking about?' I felt that it was kind of wrong so I just turned her down. I literally had to walk away to get her to stop talking to me," Leng said.
It was not only Athon's donation that was exaggerated. Hoi Ki Lam, a senior from Hong Kong, donated $1 to appease the volunteer, but Leng saw the list of donations stated that Lam had given $20.
cy: even though Athon gave only 60 cents, Leng had seen that Athon donated $20 to the charity on the list of donations the volunteers were carrying.
"I told my friends how generous they were, 'wow I saw you donated $20,' and they were like, what are you talking about," Leng said. "We realized they completely lied about the amount of money they received from each person. That's when we realized that this looked like a scam."
After realizing this, Lam looked up the Children's Joy Foundation to find articles
"The way they speak to them, it makes you feel awkward, and it guilt trips students into giving more money," Lam said. "I had friends who actually donated $20."
varied from $20 to $60.
Athon suspected the volunteers just rewrite the list whenever someone donated and fixed the amounts to get people to donate more.
Jack Shin and Venkata Malladi, freshmen from Lawrence, were at the Union when they were approached by a volunteer from the organization. When Shin gave $20 to the volunteer, she asked for $40. Without such cash at hand, Shin refused. Malladi, who didn't have cash, first refused, but the volunteer went with him to the ATM, urging him to take money out.
"She was being forceful, like 'Come, it's this way', and she
almost followed me to the actual machine and I was worried that she was getting my credit card number." Malladi said. "It was weird how she was looking into my wallet while I was looking for money. I felt like she really needed money."
Shin and Malladi learned from Lam later that they could have been scammed.
According to Amanda Estopare, a volunteer with the Children's Joy Foundation USA, the organization is legitimate and does have volunteers who collect donations around the country.
"Because of their love for children, they ask people for some donation so the foundation can help children," Estopare said. "We are legitimate. We have tax ID numbers you can check, we are legitimate."
However, she wasn't aware of falsifying donation amounts.
"I'm just a volunteer, I don't know anything about that," Estapare said.
There are reports of scams about a group of Filipino women who go around as representatives from the Children's Joy Foundation from Canada in 2012 and 2013. The most recent report, five days ago, was from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
The University Daily Kansan couldn't get an official comment from the foundation before the story was printed.
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PROTEST FROM PAGE 1
was add the language so that when the courts strike down the gay marriage ban, government employees can continue to deny and not recognize the marriages of gay couples."
Candice Crafton, a senior from Wichita, said that the bill makes her feel conflicted about aspects of her personal identity as a member of the LGBTQ community and as a Kansan, both of which are aspects of her personality that she does not want to be forced to choose between.
“[Protesting] out here, we are more of making a statement about what we, as voters, will and won't tolerate in the state of Kansas, and legalized discrimination is one of those things that we refuse to tolerate," Halling said.
A similar bill has passed through both chambers of the legislature in the state of Arizona, and is facing the decision of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer in the coming weeks to sign the bill into law or to veto it.
"I just think that Kansas has a strong history of being a very progressive place, and I'm very proud to be from the free state, and I want it to be that way for everyone," Crafton said. "I don't want to have to be ashamed of where I'm from because it's a beautiful place."
Emma Halling, the student body vice president, also attended the protest and voiced her opinion against the piece of legislation.
Reps. Lance Kinzer, Keith Esau, Kyle Hoffman and Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook were unavailable for comment on Tuesday at the state capitol.
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