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Thursday, November 19. 1970
University Daily Kansan
SIMPLY BECAUSE WOMEN made up the panel which spoke Wednesday night in McCollum Hall did not mean that men were not also interested in hearing what they had to say. In fact, the men outnumbered the women residents at the meeting and took active roles in discussing what the panel talked about in relation to minorities in America.
Imagine what it looks like to know you are an American, and to lack a feeling that you are a real American.
Women Tell of Minority Experiences
By JEWEL SCOTT Kansan Staff Writer
Imagine what it's like to have the majority of children celebrating a holiday in school or holiday is not a part of your heritage.
Or, imagine what it's like to wonder whether or not you are really a human being.
For many minority group children in the United States
Saxon, Protestant; Lipy Junk,
a Jew; Dolores del Barco, a
black woman, and Dee Hoez-
elle, the moderator who is also
Jewish, spoke before a group of
McColum Hall
Wednesday night.
Mrs. Lippin recalled that as a child she and her brother were taken to the baby boy bed for boyhood boy. In the third grade, the students in school celebrated Christmas. The teacher made no comment about the celebration of Jewish holidays.
these examples are a reality. As adults, some of the same persons are seeking ways to understand and to understand the majority.
Five or six times a month, the Panel of American Women speaks to University of Kansas classes. Parent Teacher Association and other groups. The panel is one of 20 chapters in the United States.
KANSAN women
human relations instructor; Dee Zeerolle, McCollum resident director; Dolores del Barco, Lawrence resident; and Judy, Lipkin, Lawrence resident.
The women talk on all forms of prejudice, including racial and gender discrimination. They themselves, out of their own experiences, and they work for their organizations.
REPRESENTATIVES OF ethnic and religious minorities, plus one WASP, comprise the Panel of American Women who relate their experiences before many groups. From left are: Wilma Holt,
In order to prevent the singling of Jewish children, Christmas leaders like Alain Lippin suggested that all religious celebration be removed from schools.
Mrs. Del Barco said she was born and grew up in an area near Prat reserved for the Mexican-American or "Chicanos."
Chicano is a word which the Mexican-American uses to express a pride in their heritage. Mrs. Del Barco said.
her grandfather was educated and took four courses; she was a worker for a job as a laborer. Her mother was not allowed to teach in the Pratt school system and in the job for the job in the janitor's close.
Mrs. Del Barco remembers being called a greeter and a "sister of wisdom" for foreigner in her own land and being snubbed and made unwelcome at work.
She explained that the Mexican-Americans are not as vocal about injustice because it uses them to tell people they are wrong.
Education and "trying to get along with people who had different ways of living and values" stressed in Mrs. Holt's family.
"I was first aware of prejudice at the age of four or five," she said.
It was then that she questioned the need to use water fountains and public restrooms that were already there by others in her Oklahoma town
Fright and a lost feeling accompanied Mrs. Holt's doubts about her place as a human being at this point. As an adult, she. She described this experience as frustrating and disgusting.
"But the ghetto isn't all bad." Mrs. Holt said, since people can identify with each other in this world and are not always there by choice.
75 Countries Have Students Enrolled Here
There are 736 foreign students from abroad in the University of Kansas this fall, according to Charles Sauer, acting dean of foreign students at the Lawrence campus and 79 at KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
The largest group, 92, is from Nationalist China. Next is India with a slightly smaller age. Thailand and Iran have 102 students each and Venezuela has
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Mrs. Dedouroff said she was limited only by the goals she had achieved. She was raised was pro-
motionally middle-class Christian whites. middle-class Christian whites.
The only black person Mrs Duodoroff knew then was her black cleaning lady.
It is easy to retreat from a situation, Mrs. Dourdoreff, but "put with each new challenge it meets to meet the next challenge."
Two other groups who had experienced the results of prison were the Catholics and the American Indians, Mrs.
After the panel members presented their individual talks, they answered questions from the audience which had garnered.
One member asked the
sanlistes where they thought
rejudice had started, and how it
should be stopped.
from the stereotyped prejudices
They all agreed that prejudices night rise in the home, and that it was the responsibility of the
families to stop it. Mrs. Del Barco said that schools could also help to fight prejudice.
In a reply to a question about the use of intelligence tests, Mrs. Holl said she thought children's intelligence was as they grew older. As their life
experiences vary, so do their responses to answers.
She said she had been encouraged by the way young people had been breaking away
"Just think, if the melting pot of this country had worked, what a dull, fearless world it would be," Mrs. Lipkin said.
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