WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2002
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 7A
Native magazine features University
By Jenna Goepfert
jgoepfert@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas was profiled and the Museum of Natural History was featured on the cover of a Native-American magazine's annual college guide published last week.
Winds of Change focuses on career and educational advancement of Native Americans and chooses universities for its guide based on community characteristics and retention rates of Native Americans.
The Ninth Annual Guide for American Indians listed 200 different colleges and universities including Haskell Indian
Nations University and five others in Kansas — that are friendly to the Native-American community.
It profiled seven universities in depth, including KU and published interviews with three Native-American KU students.
KU was selected in part by using U.S. Department of Education and Petersen's Guides, Inc., statistics, said Barbara Sorensen, senior editor of Winds of Change.
"Sometimes we hear from students who go there." Sorensen said. "It's kind of word of mouth. The students kind of nominate their schools."
She said that was the case for the University of Kansas when
students recommended it.
Dianne Reyner, Lawrence graduate student, was one of the students included in the University's profile.
Reyner works in the University's Indigenous Nations Studies program and said the program and the University's connections with Haskell Indian Nations University attracted many Native Americans to Lawrence.
The Indigenous Nations Studies program began in 1997 and is one of only three universities across the United States to offer the master's program, she said.
Reyner said her parents taught at Haskell when she was growing up and she had noticed
Lawrence's growing number of Native Americans choosing to study and live in the city.
Reyner said that 293 Native American students attended the University at both the Lawrence and Edwards campuses.
She said assurances that Lawrence offered comfort and community support for Native Americans, such the endorsement from Winds of Change would draw more students to the University.
"I think they'll look seriously at it," she said. "It's a benefit to have information readily available as to what kinds of things might be offered."
— Edited by Adam Pracht
Alaska town struck by violent storm
The Associated Press
CARBON HILL, Ala. — Fate was trying to kill this old coal mining town decades before a tornado roared through.
The mines began closing in the 1950s, and the three sewing plants followed, along with the mobile home factory. The car dealers are gone and so is the high
school, which burned down over the summer.
And now a wave of violent weather that claimed 35 lives in five states saved its deadliest blow for Carbon Hill, killing seven people and severely damaging scores of homes and the remaining elementary school.
The cleanup was well under way yesterday, but nobody
expects Carbon Hill to come back stronger. Just surviving will be enough.
"We need to draw from each other," said Leah Bray, a City Council member whose home was destroyed. "If we don't stay together, we'll die."
Nearly a third of the town of 2,070 about 70 miles northwest of Birmingham was damaged or
destroyed by a twister that struck Sunday as many residents were returning from church.
The narrow streets were littered with the splinters of once-towering oaks and bits of pink and yellow insulation. School officials surveyed the rooftless elementary school and its crumbling walls, and declared it a total loss.
Victims file lawsuit against corporations
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Victims of South Africa's apartheid government have filed a multibillion-dollar lawsuit accusing international corporations of condoning murder, torture and other abuses under the white-minority government.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court, claims Citigroup, Swiss banking giant UBS and other corporations "acted with deliberate indifference to the well-being of the African population" while doing business in South Africa before the fall of apartheid in 1994.
Some of the businesses contacted said the allegations were groundless.
The class-action lawsuit was brought by the Khulumani organization, a South African support group for victims of apartheid, on behalf of its 32,700 members and 85 other people. It seeks billions in damages from as many as 100 businesses.
the plaintiffs allege that over three decades, the businesses aided the South African
government "in the commission of crimes of apartheid, forced labor, genocide, extrajudicial killing, torture, sexual assault, unlawful detention and cruel, unusual and degrading treatment."
Citigroup, UBS and Credit Suisse also were named in a similar lawsuit filed in June. Both cases follow a precedent established in litigation on behalf of Holocaust victims, who gained a $1.25 billion settlement from Swiss corporations.
Exxon Mobil spokeswoman Sandy Duhe called the lawsuit "an abuse of the U.S. civil justice system."
Citigroup said in a statement: "We believe the suit is without merit." UBS President Peter Wuffli said the bank regretted the events in South Africa, but denied any "connection between the suffering of victims and the activities of the bank."
Other U.S. companies named in the new lawsuit include JP Morgan Chase, IBM, Ford and General Motors.
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