Minority symposium held, life experience' given
A symposium entitled "What It's Like to be Different," sponsored by the KU School of Social Welfare, will conclude at 4:30 today in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Distinguished guest speakers and panel participants, including ministers, students, and members of the Kansas City Black Panther Party, are telling, as they see and live it, of the "life experiences" of a minority group member.
Today's featured speaker is Sal Ramirez, director of Mexican-American Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He plans to speak on "Life Styles of the Mexican-Americans" and "Emerging Life Styles of the Mexican-Americans."
The unexpected result of the panel was a black caucus to determine the blacks' agenda. The whites present were invited to organize their own caucus.
The three-day program began Wednesday with an address by Haywood Henry, Jr., chairman of the Black Unitarian Universalist Caucus (BUUC), Boston, Mass. His speech on "Institutional Racism" was followed by a reaction panel.
A second black caucus, led by members of the Black Panther Party, was held Thursday afternoon and attended by many Black Student Union (BSU) members.
Participants discussed "Blake Family Life Experiences" and "Black Youth Life Styles" and jeered the "white" attitude that blacks have a "weak family structure."
Ed Seaggs, assistant professor of social welfare, who is the director of KU's Leadership Development Program called the symposium "frustrating," because persons "listen to us; sometimes
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they cry a little bit, but then they leave."
Cuttings from plays, including "Raisin in the Sun," "Blues for
Mr. Charlie," and "Days of Absence," were performed Wednesday as a "Portrait of the Black Woman."
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