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student who met the requirements was sent a letter and an application and was encouraged to apply for a scholarship.
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"Obviously, if you turn in a lot more applications, that gives you a much better chance of getting more scholarships," McCurdy said.
McCurdy said other schools were beginning to compete more for the scholarships.
There were an additional 43 scholarships available this year to students at non-Regent schools. Washburn University received four of the scholarships to community college students and 29 to private university students.
McCurdy said that 50 percent of the 130 scholarship students were awarded to Black students and that 30 percent went to Hispanic students. American Indian students received 10 per cent; did Asian-American students.
"The percentage of scholarships available to minority students is based on the population of the minority group to the population in the state," she said. "The state of Kansas is about to percent minorities. Roughly half of that percentage is Black. That is why 50 percent of the scholarships went to Black students."
McCarty said that unless the 1900 census figures showed a significant change in minority population, or unless fewer Black students applied in the future, the percentages would probably stay the same. If there are more scholarships available for Black students than apply, the scholarships go to other minority students.
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had been nine months in the making and softened repeatedly in efforts to woo Bush's support.
The bill represents the civil rights movement's top priority on Capitol Hill this year. It would overturn six decisions on job discrimination that created a furor when the Supreme Court handed them down last year.
Provisions range from a ban on racial harassment in the workplace to punitive damages in extreme discrimination cases.
ASHC proposes minority awards
The greatest controversy, however, came over complex changes in rules on how job discrimination cases are decided. They would make it easier for minorities filing suit to win and harder for employers to defend
By Tracey Chalpin
Kansan staff writer
To increase cultural sensitivity and diversity within the University of Kansas scholarship hall system, members of the All-School Hall Council have proposed scholarships for minority students.
The council has submitted an application for scholarship financing to the Educational Opportunity Board, ASHC student senator, said.
Moseley said that last year the council wanted to show it was interested in improving cultural diversity.
The scholarships would be awarded based on the same criteria used to select scholarship hall residents, including academic standing, financial need and essays, he said.
He said the council proposed that three men and three women receive the scholarships.
KU students on the selection committee evaluate the application essays, which count for 29 percent of hall entrance consideration.
Starting last year, names of students were detached from their essays to prevent discernibility. Last month, Dr. Diane Snider, council president, said
Social Security numbers are included in the hall applications to
check students' background information after they are accepted, she said. This is done to determine whether students are standing of all scholarship halls.
However, representatives on ASHIC did not come to a unanimous agreement to propose the scholarships, she said.
Some scholarship hall residents opposed the scholarships because they wanted to see other recruits, not only the ones from more cultural programs, she said.
Moseley said, "Some felt we were just throwing money at the program, and it should be for Whites too. But there are already scholarships offered by individual halls."
Mike Deines, Pearson Scholarship Hall resident, said he was against the scholarship proposal because he thought the halls first had to be more diversified or at least accepting of minorities.
He said videos and promotional literature would be more beneficial in early attempts at recruiting.
"You have to have the groundwork laid out before the recruiting can happen," he said.
Dienes said he thought the council had not been concerned with being culturally aware until resisting the scholarship proposal
themselves.
White House press secretary Martin Fitzwater said yesterday morning that Bush planned to veto the measure and send it back to lawmakers with an alternative version attached. Civil rights leaders, however, have saying the chances of passing an alternative this year are virtually nil.
President Bush said in a letter delivered to Capitol Hill on Tuesday that the changes would "have the effect of forcing businesses to adopt quotas in hiring and promotion." He also said he would compel his boss, he would be compelled to veto it.
"His announced intention to veto the Civil Rights Act of 1990 shows that on issues of race and sex discrimination, George Bush is a strong supporter of him," said Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil
"While his style and rhetoric may differ, his substantive civil rights policies are just as deadly to those who advocate of job discrimination." Nees said.
There is nothing in the bill that would require employers to hire by quota. In fact, the measure contains a disclaimer specifically saying that it would not "encourage" the use of quotas.
Business groups and Bush administration officials say, however, that the bill would make employers so vulnerable to discrimination suits that they would turn to quotas to provide themselves with a ready-made defense in case they were taken to court.
Civil rights forces tried in vain for months to displease this notion, saying the measure would do no more than restore the law.
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