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Task force hears KC speaker
Flawed system causes diversity problems, Harmony member says
By Holly M. Neuman Kansan staff writer
A representative from the Kansas City Harmony in a World of Difference program told members of a local task force last night that integrating individuals alone would not make significant changes in diversity.
Alvin Brooks of Harmony in a world of Difference told 10 members of Lawrence's Task Force on Racism, Discrimination and Human Diversity that diversity problems occurred when the system itself was flawed. Members of the task force were powered by the Lawrence City Commission.
"People are still racist and sexist," he said. "There are people who maintain that they aren't necessarily racist." Mr. Baron said, same if you kill me accidentally, I.
Harmony in a world of Difference brings members from different communities together and attempts to educate students about ethnic understanding, Brooks said.
am still dead."
Brooks said that although people said they weren't sexist or racist, if they didn't do anything to change the way people treated them, as guilty as those who were racist.
Victims of racism and sexism must be part of the solution. Brooks said
"You sometimes have to feel the pain to make the change," he said.
Brooks said he was unsupposed to the legacy the people of the 1960s left for young Black males of the 1990s.
"In the '65 we had hope," Brooks said. "We were spiritually and morally aware. I feel like this generation has lost hope."
The older generation did not succeed in passing on that hope and sense of morality to the generation of today, he said, and instead of inheriting those gifts the younger generation turned to drugs.
"There are more Black men in jail than there are in college right now," he said. "We are so hung up on education, we have forgotten about education."
Brooks told the task force, "You are on the right track, but you do need to find folks who are involved in this. I will ask UK folks, this is what we need to do."
Ann Weick, chairperson of the task force, said she was grateful that Brooks talked to the group because it gave the task force an idea of the positive programming that was offered in other areas.
Yoga Club does 'quiet aerobics'
By Wes Denton
Kansan staff writer
"Be gentle with your body," was the instruction given to the 10 people sitting in a circle.
"Assume a relaxed position and adjust yourself alone with an imaginary line. Now, get up with your spirit and observe it," he said, and observe it "the instructor said."
Members of the KU Yoga Club followed their instructor, Anne Adams of Lawrence, through stretching exercises at Robinson Center. The club's second meeting of the semester was last night.
According to the American Heritage dictionary, yoga is a Hindu discipline aimed at training the conceived body of a person in spiritual insight and tranquility.
"We don't concentrate on the spiritual and meditation nature of yoga," said Anne Dennis, president of the club. "We do more posing and stretching to help you perform aerobics. Yoga is very body centered. It's a inner-awareness."
Angela Bausch, Kansas City, Kan,
freshman, said that she became interested in yoga after reading about it.
"I feel peaceful and stimulated after doing yoga," Bausch said.
Maneesha Patel, Topka freshman, said her parents did yoga, but she had never tried it. It was not until she came to KU that she decided to
"I decided to do it now because it is a very relaxing thing to do," Patel said.
"With work and studies, doing yoga is a good time to collect your thoughts," Swart said.
Erian Swart of Lawrence said that yoga was a good form of stress management.
Stress may not affect pregnancy
The Associated Press
The study casts doubt on the widely held belief that women who work in demanding, stressful jobs are more likely to deliver too early.
stress.
BOSTON — Despite their 70-hour work weeks, late nights and grinding stress, doctors who become pregnant during residency training face a low risk of giving birth prematurely, a study today shows.
The researchers based their conclusions on a sample of young doctors in training at hospitals across the United States. They noted that it was only a small fraction of women who worked longer hours, got by on less sleep or were under more
They surveyed 4,142 women doctors and compared their pregnancies to those among 4,236 wives of male residents. They found that 989 of the women doctors gave birth to a single child during residence; 1,238 of the residents' wives gave birth to a single child.
Although the women residents worked about twice as many hours as the wives, about 6 percent of both groups delivered prematurely an abortion. The group caring especially small babies was also about the same for both groups.
The work, by Mark A. Klebanoff of the National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development, was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Earlier research has found that pregnant women who work nights, put in long hours or stand a lot are more likely to have premature deliveries. The latest report suggests that these difficult pregnancies result because such women are often poor, not because of their work.
"These results call into question the association between stressful occupations requiring long hours of physical activity and the incidence of pre-term delivery," the researchers wrote.
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