THURSDAY,NOV.15,2001
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
NEWS
Talks center on minority recruitment
By Courtney Craigmile Kansan staff writer
Student Body President Justin Mills said the University of Kansas would have a shot at becoming a university that was representative of the community if it devoted as much time and effort to minority recruitment as it did for recruitment of National Merit Scholars.
Mills spoke to about 30 people yesterday at a forum on minority recruitment and retention at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Kansas only has 97 more minority students in that same time period.
According to the Office of Institutional Research and Planning, the University has 537 merit scholars, which is 108 more than in 1996.
Mills said the Chancellor outlined goals in 1995 for recruiting merit scholars and minority students.
The Chancellor met his goals for increasing the number of merit scholars at the University, but he failed to do so for minority students, Mills said.
Mills gave recommendations on how to improve minority recruitment and retention.
The Chancellor was unavailable for comment yesterday.
He suggested the University become involved in communities in western Kansas, to recruit minority students from other states and to find ways to provide more scholarships and grants to minority students.
But one of the biggest things he stressed was coordinating minority programs in the different schools on campus so all minority students would have a group to belong to.
"Retention is just as important as recruitment." Mills said.
"Most students who stay around for two years are more likely to graduate in five years," he said. "It only makes the University community a more vibrant, colorful place."
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ByJ. R. Mendoza Kansan staff writer
Handful turns out for talk on stopping hate
Tony Daniels' motivation to stop hate came from his grandmother, who was a victim of a hate crime.
Daniels, interim assistant director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, said some men threw bottles at his grandmother, who is African American, when she was young, injuring her.
"It's my personal motivation to be an advocate and an ally," he said.
That incident is one reason Daniels wants to do something about hate.
He and 15 others attended a town hall meeting yesterday at the Burge Union to address the issue of hate. The meeting, "It's Time to Stop Hate," was part of
Because of the low turnout, the meeting turned into a group discussion with everyone being allowed time to talk if they wanted.
Gabriel Roland, Kansas City, Kan., junior, said people hated what they didn't understand.
Roland said he thought a lot of people sometimes used religion as a reason to hate.
"They'd rather get mad," he said. "It requires less brain power."
Hate Out Week activities.
But he said it was OK to agree to disagree about issues as well.
"One thing that people get mixed up is the notion that we're supposed to like each other," he said. "If we're going to be citizens in this country, then we need to treat each other
equally. I can disagree, but that doesn't mean I hate you and want to cause you harm. It's okay not to see eye to eye."
Santos Nunez, program director for the Multicultural Resource Center, said she was somewhat disappointed more people didn't attend the program but was happy those who attended were able to share their experiences.
Sgt. Troy Mailen of the KU Public Safety Office said it had started to train officers in diversity.
"We've come a long way to work to improve ourselves on that end," Maillen said.
"It was very beneficial to all of us," Nunez said. "We're all in this fight to stop hate in our own ways."
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Card ban passes committees
By Luke Daley Kansan staff writer
A petition to ban credit card solicitation on campus was passed last night in Student Senate committee meetings.
The bill, passed in the Student Rights and University Affairs committees, will go to full Senate for a vote in two weeks.
Karen Keith, off-campus senator, said that she didn't think that the University should allow solicitation that targeted students who bought on impulse.
She said that some of the credit card solicitors that had tables on campus didn't even have permission from the University.
She added that she didn't think that they behaved responsibly by giving away free merchandise to entice students to apply for credit cards.
Andy Knopp, engineering senator and University Daily
Kansan editorial board member, said that it should not be Senate's decision to ban credit card solicitors from campus.
"It's not like they're shoving a PIN down our throats and making us use them," Knopp said. "I think we need to trust students."
Knopp said that he would be more open to banning all solicitation on campus, as opposed to singling out one commercial group.
Matt Steppe, Student Legislative Awareness Board director, said that credit card solicitors lied to students by not telling them that they could get bad credit by being rejected for the credit card applications that they fill out to receive the free merchandise.
All bills that passed through committees will go to full Senate for a final vote.
In other business:
the Finance and University Affairs committees passed a
bill allocating $17,000 to the Off-Campus Living Resource Center from the Senate Reserve Account.
■ the Finance and Student Rights committees passed a bill giving $6,000 to the February Sisters Association and the 2002 February Sisters Forum for speaker fees and other expenses.
■ the Finance and Student Rights committees passed a bill allocating $397 to the KU Obiectivists for office supplies.
the Finance and Multicultural Affairs committees passed a bill granting $3,234 to the Asian-American Student Union for special events in the spring.
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the Finance and Student Rights committees passed a bill giving $317 to the KU Greens for general expenses.
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