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University Daily Kansan, October 12, 1981
Black career conference urges optimism
By CATHERINE BEHAN Staff Reporter
Students, especially minority students, should strive to be a majority of one, and not a minority of many, Loretta Long, educator and entertainer said Friday at the Black Student-Alumni Career Conference.
"Don't internalize labels," Long said. "They don't understand how much you want to be that one in a million person."
Long, who plays Susan on the children's television show, "Sesame Street," was the keynote speaker at the fifth annual conference that was designed to help black students gain success in their careers.
ABOUT 150 faculty, staff, students and returning alumni gathered at the Kansas Union to participate in the conference and the job opportunity fair. Students and alumni had representatives at the fair to talk to students about their careers.
Long said she thought the conference, which was sponsored by the Black Alumni Committee of the KU Alumni Association and the University Placement Center, was a good idea because so many people tried to discourage students about their chances for success.
"It was a bad job market when I graduated from college in the sixties, and it will always be a challenge to get them to be enough people trying to discourage people and just
because something hasn't been done
before, don't mean it can't be done
"As soon as you set up an obstacle for yourself, you can do it. When you anticipate doing badly, when you are frustrated, your goal is to be right an awful lot."
She said the most important part of gaining success in a career was to have an understanding of the work.
"How is it that I can do what I do?" she asked. "You have to have a positive mental attitude. My family believed in me until I could believe in myself, so I don't really take personal achievements as a credit to me.
"I'm just standing on the shoulders of a lot of people."
Long said that people stopped themselves from being a success.
"We're the only ones who decide to hang up our uniforms," she said. "Dreams are the one thing that can't be given us—that we have to give up ourselves."
Anthony Pye, St. Louis, Mo.
sophmore and chairman of the finance committee of the Black Leaders of America promoted the goals of his group.
"I'ts a way of trying to promote leadership by bringing back alumni to get their different ideas and viewpoints," Peay, who is also vicepresident of the Black Student Union, said.
THE GROUP, Black Leaders of
THE GROUP
with the Black Alumni Committee as
as well.
advisory group and works to have more black leaders in the future.
Peay said the conference and job fair helped him by explaining the things he needed to do to have the best chance of getting a job.
"It was very informative in that I got to meet people and get some good advice," he said. "It was like a feeling-out session that ease my mind because it helps me refine my tactics and improve my chances of getting a job in the future."
Markham Thomas, Glencoe, Il., senior, said he thought the conference was a better way to talk to representatives of a company than in an interview, because the job fair was a more relaxed setting.
"It's better than an interview at the company, because you can ask questions here that would seem awkward," she said. "What the starting income is," he said.
THOMAS SAID he thought the job fair was also good for the companies involved because they can talk to students without the pressure of immediately hiring them.
"I wish more companies were here because it's going over so well. I'm sure if more companies were here, they'd benefit," he said.
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THE PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY COLLOQUUM will feature J. E. Herzberg, from the Dominion Antrophysical Observatory, speaking on "The Mass and Distance to Centaurus A, the Most Enigmatic (Quasi-) Elliptical Gallaxy," at 4:30 p.m. in 332 Malott Hall.
THE KU BRIDGE CLUB will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Kansas Union.
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Lawrence cyclists get ready. Octoginta '81 is just around the corner.
Cyclists gear up for Octoginta
About 400 participants are expected to ride the winding 80-mile route through the red-and gold-leafed hills of Jefferson county. Jefferson counties Sunday, Oct. 18.
The L-5 SOCETY will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union.
"If the weather is bad, we expect closer to 150 participants," he said.
That is, if the weather is good, Bruce Epperson, a member of the sponsoring organization, the Mount Oread Bicycle Club, said.
The first Octoginta was organized in 1899 by KU professor of Latin, Joyce Schoenberg, who made that ride, and since then the number participants has steadily risen.
"Pre-entrants this year are running significantly ahead of last year," Epperson, an Octoginta "81 organizer, said. "We have 114 signed up already."
The Octogitae's fame has spread over its 12-year history. Participants not only come from Lawrence and Kansas, but from surrounding states, said Gene Wee. SUA program advisor and an original Octogitae rider.
"Its challenging ride displays the myth that Kansas is flat," he chuckled.
The ride begins at 8 a.m. Sunday, Oct.
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Louisiana streets. All participants must
register by Thursday, Oct. 15. For more
information, contact Gene Wee at the
SUA office or Bruce Epperson.
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