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Imagine chooses executive candidates
The Student Senate coalition Imagine nominated senior Katherine Rainey from Shawnee and junior Ramiro Sarmiento from Wichita as its presidential and vice presidential candidates, respectively. The candidates were the only two nominated at a coalition meeting Monday.
Sarmiento said he has a passion for ending the disconnect between Student Senate and the student body.
"People don't know Senate is there to represent them." Sarimento said. "They don't feel comfortable or heard. Year after year, we have coalition after coalition come to students and voice how wonderful they will be once they're in Senate, then fall comes around and that does not happen. Those promises remain unfulfilled, and I'm tired of that. I can't see this go on for another year."
Rainey said she has witnessed
"I was a part of Senate for two years, and that environment is not productive to being a student here at KU," she said. "You don't learn about the students you are truly supposed to be helping. Each year, students give about $450 to Senate to allocate these dollars to student organizations. But time and time again, students don't know who to go to."
While both nominees quickly accepted their nominations, Sarmiento said his candidacy is not just about the title.
"I'm not in it for the title. I'm here because I care about the students at the University of Kansas," Sarmiento said. "This campus needs a drastic change, and we can provide that. We can speak for everyone and we can voice their concerns. We will run a strong campaign, and we will win."
Alana Flinn
student senators sitting around on Twitter or doing homework at meetings instead of fighting for students, which needs to change.
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about the Middle East. Participants would receive a special ID membership card each time they attended, such as a "get a taste of the Middle East" free food event, or a "movie viewing and reflecting on stereotypes" event.
El Kalyoubi chose this subject because she knew it needs to be addressed and it matters to her.
Seniors Claire Pederson from Omaha, Sydney Goldstein from Overland Park, and Lexi Griffith from Lawrence, won for a social media campaign and promotional posters they produced for KUDW.
"I have been exposed to and heard of many offensive, inaccurate, and stereotypical facts spread about the Middle East, that are unfortunately constantly circulated in the media and exaggerated, mislabeled, and could negatively influence viewers who are not familiar with the real Middle Eastern ways of life, and the people," El Kalyoubi said.
Three students who collaborated on materials for the 2014 KU Design Week also won gold.
KUDW united students in
"The theme of KU Design Week was perspectives and illusions, which felt suited since the goal was to change student's perceptions of other majors," Goldstein said. The group's work has been featured in two magazines
visual communications, industrial design, architecture and photo media through a weeklong series of events.
— IdN Magazine and Cargo Collective — and won three national awards.
Senior Jamal Gamby and Kristen Myers, a senior from Lawrence, received silver awards. Myers sews clothes for her son and created her rebranding project. "akin," to expand on her hobby.
"I have been wanting to rebrand my clothes since I started design school, but I haven't had the time because our classes are so rigorous," Myrs said.
"It is very validating to win an award," Myers said. "When you're in visual communications, you're with the same 30 to 40 students and four professors for three years, so it's nice to have an outside perspective on what you've created."
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Myers plans to sell the clothes locally and on Etsy.
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"It came down to the fact that we expect this program to rank among the best in the Big 12 Conference, and we have not accomplished that goal." Zenger said in a press release.
In Henrickson's first season at Kansas, the Jayhawks went just 12-16 overall and 5-11 in the Big 12, placing eighth in the conference. Henrickson recorded four seasons with 20 or more wins in her time at Kansas.
Henrickson's best season was 2008-09, when the jayhawks finished 22-14 overall and 6-10 in the Big 12 Conference and made it to the WNIT Championship game, eventually losing to South Florida 75-71 in front of a crowd of 16,113 fans, a Big 12 single-game attendance record for a women's game.
The Jayhawks were 6-12 and finished ninth in the Big 12 Conference this season.
Henrickson was hired in 2004, replacing Marian Washington and interim head coach Lynette Woodard. Prior coming to Kansas, Henrickson coached seven seasons, from 1997-2004, at Virginia Tech.
Henrickson coached 11 Jayhawks who were 1,000-point scorers during their time at Kansas, including current seniors, guard Natalie Knight and forward Chelsea Gardner. Henrickson also coached five players who were drafted to the WNBA, most recently Angel Goodrich, who was the 29th overall pick in the 2013 Draft.
the conference was a three way tie for sixth during the 2011-12 season.
Henrickson's best finish in
In 2012, Henrickson was named the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association Women's College Coach of the Year. In 2005, she was an honorable mention consideration from the Kansas City Star for Big 12 Coach of the Year.
Zenger said Kansas assistant coach Katie O'Connor will serve as interim head coach until a successor is named. A national search will begin immediately, he said.
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George Henderson, left, professor emeritus, joins students at the University of Oklahoma to protest a fraternity's racist comments yesterday in Norman, Okla. A video of the comments surfaced Sunday.
Kansas finished with below 500 records in back-to-back seasons — 13-19 in 2014 and 15-17 this past season. Henrickson finished her 11 seasons at Kansas with a record of 186-171.
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rance of not trying to be sensitive to African Americans."
Robinson said he believes this type of incident is indicative of a larger national problem.
"I think [society] is going in a way that people are not being educated about each other," he said. "We are not taking the time out to explore different cultures and different people and we're basing one race off of one person. People tend to think African Americans are very similar. No, we're complex people. We're becoming a culture of assuming."
This type of thinking is something Robinson said needs to change on a national level, but especially a University level. Recognizing there is an issue is step one, but reaching out to find solutions is crucial, Robinson said.
"What can the [Interfraternity Council] and Panhellenic do to help the black students?" he said. "I feel like they need to ask us what can they do to make this
doesn't happen. Our members would be vocal about this and tell them how they feel, how some members have tried to gain access to an IFC fraternity and haven't felt comfortable. People ask, 'Why do we need black fraternities and sororites?' This is why. We're not just making this up out of nowhere. This is why we have a BSU. 'Things like this are happening.'
"We're all students, black or white, and we pay to attend this university, not the other way around," he said. "This university needs to do things to help us feel comfortable. We're not asking for anything outrageous. We want to be able to send our children here or our children's children here to this university and let them know you are valued here."
Robinson said it is a university's responsibility to ensure its students feel included and accepted.
The members' suspension and Boren's comments are a step in the right direction, Robinson said, but while he's optimistic some change could come from this, he said he
doubts the conversation will have lasting effects.
"The outcome, I think, will be that we all come together and those in the predominantly white sororities and fraternities will try to comfort the black students at that university," he said. "I try to optimistic, but I do think it'll go back to the same. Once it dies down, it'll go back to the same. I hope their university or ours will keep the conversation going, it'll all die down, but we'll be dealing with something like this in the next few months, it's like a revolving circle."
As an investigation moves forward at Oklahoma, Robinson said there must be consequences for the fraternity members, ranging from suspension from the university to probation with mandatory racial sensitivity education.
"They all need to have consequences. Even if you were on that bus and you didn't agree with what was going on, you needed to have said something," he said. "You know right from wrong."
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questions about the revolution, history of World War II, and things like that. It would come with answers that were not correct. And so it was really difficult and almost impossible to work in the 20th century without somehow not accommodating the party lines.
Kansan: Were the differences in education clearer when you came to the United States?
Plokhii: My main surprise when I was visiting the U.S. was access to the library. The fact that you could go to the stacks and see all of the literature was very different from how it was done in the Soviet Union. And so the access to information in terms of the library and information in general was a major surprise for me and was the biggest difference between the Soviet society and the American society.
Kansan: One of the things I thought was interesting having to do with one of the reviews of your book is that you mention that it is widely believed that the U.S. withdrawing support to the Soviet Union led to its collapse, but you say that that's a myth. Why is this?
Plokhii: The widely held belief is that the United States won the Cold War by wiping the Soviet Union from the map of the world and that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the symbol of American triumph and the American policy was directed toward that. But when you look at the sources including the archival sources coming from the George Bush White House, it
If you look at the public pronouncements of the Bush senior administration in the months leading to the fall of the Soviet Union, they were saying that they had had very little influence over what is happening in the Soviet Union. Then after it fell, that changed and the collapse was suddenly named as an American victory. That was a rewrite in history that was very dangerous for its people and its foreign policy
Kansan: You also mention in your book that this has had a negative lasting affect on foreign policy in the U.S. How is this?
is clear that the United States government supported Gorbachev and was in favor of the continued existence of the Soviet Union up until one week before the Ukrainian Referendum. It was then that the U.S. publicly stated support for Ukrainian independence and withdrew support for Gorbachev.
Plokhii: Generally, the U.S. has this belief that they have this enormous power to wipe out countries like the Soviet Union and that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the result of their policy. That serves as a foundation for being a little bit delusional about the world around them and they start to think they are a lot more powerful than they are in reality. This is once again the power of the aforementioned myth. If they choose to believe in it, they make mistakes and overextend.
Kansan: As a Ukrainian, how do you feel about the collapse
of the Soviet Union?
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Plokhii: In terms of the political system, there is a lot more freedom in today's Russia than it was in the Soviet Union. In economic terms, it is a difficult time for all of the republics. It was the change of the socialist economy to a market economy, which was extremely painful, but if you look at the data, they have made progress from 1991 and so there is clear progress that has been made both economically and politically, but not everywhere and not in every republic of the former Soviet Union.
Plokhii: The majority of the population voted for independence in Ukraine. If you look at the data over the period of the past 20 to 23 years, the majority of the population never changed. I personally have no regret about the collapse of the Union. I look at it as one of the last of the European empires and the 20th century was the deterioration of those empires.
Kansan: Do you feel that the people that were formerly of the Soviet Union are better off now without the communist government?
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