Wednesday, August 30, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page F
House hopeful
Phill Kline, Republican candidate for the 3rd Congressional District, was on the campaign trail last night as he spoke to the KU College Republicans at the Kansas Union. In his speech, Kline polled the audience, showing that more people in the audience believed in UFOs than believed in the future of Social Security. Kline will face Democratic incumbent Dennis Moore in the Tuesday, Nov. 7 election. Photo by Craig Bennett/KANSAN
Directors promote diversity
By Leita Schultes
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A new semester has brought two new resources for multicultural students at the University of Kansas: Santos Nunez and Angela Nwachukwu.
Nunez came from Iowa State University in June of 2000 and is assistant director for Multicultural Affairs and coordinator of the Multicultural Resource Center. Nwachukwu, who moved to Lawrence a month ago from Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y., is interim assistant director at the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
The two women brought new diversity programs for students.
One of Nunez's goals is to focus on the diversity, rather than just the ethnicity, of campus.
Nunez oversees traditional diversity programs, such as Students
"Diversity is not necessarily what your ethnicity is," she said. "It's also what your beliefs are, where you grew up, your socioeconomic background. I want to emphasize that all students are welcome here."
Together Excelling in Education as Peers and The Diversity Peer Education Team.
Nwachukwu: Aims to familiarize more students with KU
But Nunez said she planned to create new programs addressing diversity of religious beliefs, sexual orientation and disabilities. She said that a possible program included a Muslim woman speaking about the functions
of the hijab, or veil, which some Muslim women wear.
"That's something different than having a speaker come in and talk about Black and White awareness in America." she said.
Nwachukwu said the diversity of people in the MRC allows the OMA to focus more on helping students find both their places in, and ways around, the University.
One of the programs used to accomplish such goals is Training Interpersonal and Professional Skills. The program is new this year, Nwachukwu said, and teaches students to be leaders, run organizations and eventually apply leadership skills off of campus.
An offshoot of TPPS is Presidents Caucus, which will have its first meeting tomorrow and will meet monthly. Nwachukwu said the caucus is a discussion forum for leaders of minority organizations.
"We come together and ask, what are you guys doing?"
Nwachukwu said. "What do you guys need?"
The final program Nwachukwu oversees is HAWKLink, a recruitment and retention program for students of color. Nwachukwu said the program helps students orient themselves to KU by working with other campus offices.
"We've found that students who are involved in HAWKLink are more successful than those who aren't." Nwachukwu said. "It links the students with already existing programs."
Nwachukuw advises incoming freshman that getting linked is crucial for student success.
"Get involved," she said. "That's the only way you're going to fully appreciate and attain the best educational experience here at KU."
- Edited by Erwin Damson
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