THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2002
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 5A
Anton Bubnovskiy/Kansan
The first KU caskets have shipped to the Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Collegiate Memorials out of Macon, Ga., sells caskets with more than 46 college emblems.
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The company's most popular model has the University of Nebraska logo, which has been requested more than 50 times since May 2001, Burnette said.
Walston said the company was working on licensing the Kansas State logo as well. As soon as that goes through, the company plans to
boost marketing strategies in the Midwest to get the word out he said.
Walston said he had come up with the idea of posthumous school pride to put a twist on what had become a stale market.
"Here in Georgia — I'm keenly aware of the school pride in the South — we knew there would be alumni who would be interested in a product like this," he said.
million into the business.
He believes in the idea so strongly that he has invested $1.5
Burnette said she thought the caskets were not distasteful. In one instance, she said, a 93-year-old woman had been a life-long Nebraska fan and wanted to be buried showing her college pride.
"They're not garish," she said. "People just want to reflect their lives." "People just want to reflect their lives."
—Edited by Adam Pracht
the discussion. The Multicultural Resource Center-sponsored event will discuss the effects of racism within ethnic groups on people's lives and attitudes.
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"Internal racism is taking the preconceived notions that are normally put on one race against the other within your particular cultural background ..., say, Latinos," Izaguirre said. "Do they carry the same traditions? Do you get labeled as a sellout because when it comes to good grades, they mean
Cindy Tran, a Vietnamese and Chinese junior from Wichita, said racism she experienced from other Asians was a result of ignorance.
something to you?"
While at a party last year, Tran said, an acquaintance told her she was "whitewashed."
"What makes someone whitewashed?" she asked. "Because they can speak English properly? I can speak my own language, and I take a lot of pride in the very strong traditions in my home. It's degrading."
Ron Pei, whose family is Chinese, said he'd also seen the effects of internal racism. Over Thanksgiving break he talked
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to his older brother about dating.
"In San Francisco, where he lives, he's not Asian enough for Asian girls or white enough for white girls," Pei said of his brother. "It made me really sad for him because I didn't realize he had to deal with that."
— Edited by Amy Schmitz
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