FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1,2002
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
Students set to celebrate Native-American month
By Kate Nelson
knelson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The First Nations Student Association wants people to know there is more about being Native American than powwows and feathers.
The association is kicking off the national Native American Heritage Month Monday with a poetry reading. It's the first in a series of activities planned to help educate the KU community about its small but growing Native-American population.
Native-American students make up only 1.1 percent of the University's nearly 29,000 students, but the numbers have grown according to the University registrar self-reported numbers. In the fall of 2001, 257 Native-American students reported attending the University compared to this semester's 312 students.
"KU isn't known a lot for having Native-American students, so this will give non-natives a chance to see their culture and our issues," said Steve Byington, Lawrence junior and association member.
KU did garner notice in the Winds of Change magazine's newest annual college guide because of its global focus on indigenous people. Winds of Change focuses on career and educational advancement for Native Americans.
Byington said events such as the "Noble Savages? - The Controversy over Indian Mascots" lecture are especially pertinent for students, considering the proximity of the Kansas City Chiefs football team. The Office of Multicultural Affairs will present the lecture on Thursday, Nov. 7 at the Kansas room in the Kansas Union.
NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH
October 4
Official Kickoff Poetry
Reading
7 p.m. Centennial Room,
Kansas Union
November 6 First Nations Student Association meeting 7:30 p.m. room to be announced, Kansas Union
November 7
"Nobel Savages? - The Controversy over Indian Mascots"
Multicultural Resource Center Diversity Dialogue Series lecture
7 p.m. Kansas Room, Kansas Union
November 21
First Nations Student
Association meeting
7:30 p.m. room to be
announced, Kansas Union
November 22
Movie showing: Smoke Signals
7 p.m. Alderson Auditorium,
Kansas Union
November 25
First Nations Student
Association Open House
Multicultural Resource
Center, 3 to 5 p.m.
For more information contact the
Multicultural Resource Center at
(789) 864-4350.
"It's important to share our culture with the campus community," said FNSA member Felicia Mitchell, Topeka senior. "We're hoping to do that by providing events so we can come together for a common purpose."
- Edited by Christina Neff and Matt Gehrke
Former CEO:succeed by leading
By George Schulz
gschulz@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
America and Kansas have come a long way since segregation, said Delano Lewis, former CEO of National Public Radio and former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa.
Lewis spoke to a group of about 500 African-American high school students from throughout Kansas yesterday at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Lewis' keynote speech was part of the 17th Annual Black Leadership Symposium this year entitled "Preparing African-American Youth for Global Leadership" sponsored by the University. The symposium included panels, workshops and an information fair about education
Lewis said that while growing up in Kansas City, Kan., segregation prevented
Lewis
him from going to movie theaters and public pools designated for whites. He didn't attend school with whites until his senior year of high school. He said the famous Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education was Kansas' claim in the history of the integration movement in the United States. He said watching the Civil Rights Bill pass through Congress while working for the Department of Justice in 1963
prompted him to make a difference in race issues. Lewis said that for him, improving racial conditions meant more minorities adopting leadership roles.
Lewis told the students that success in leadership was up to them.
"It all begins with you." he said.
"You can have all of the best advice in the world, but if you aren't listening then it isn't happening."
Lewis added that moral values were key to success. He strongly criticized corporate executives involved in recent legal scandals "who are raking us over the coals."
"They have no moral fabric," he said.
He added that students had to learn the difference between right and wrong.
Lewis graduated from KU in
1960 with degrees in political science and history. He received as law degree from Washburn University in 1963.
Mark Dupree, Kansas City, Kan., junior and president of the Black Student Union, said he was pleased Lewis spoke to young people with a casual speaking style.
"It shows if he can come from Kansas in the 1950s and make it to the White House and be ambassador to South Africa, anyone can do it," he said.
Clarence Miller III, Kansas City, Kan., junior, agreed the road to success may be a struggle, but Lewis showed it can be done.
"It was very inspiring," he said. "I could relate because we're from the same part of town."
Law students face off in legal relays
- Edited by Adam Pracht
By Nathan Dayani
ndayani@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Rather than pass batons or torches, University of Kansas law school students will be handing over citations and pens to their teammates at today's Blue Book Relays.
The KU law library will host today's relays, which begin at 12:30 p.m. and end at 1:50 p.m., said Jeff Montgomery, serials manager at the library. He said seven teams, each composed of 10 first-year law students, would compete in the 15-year-old event that tests many facets of students' legal-writing skills.
— citing cases, statutes and legal periodicals," Montgomery said.
"It reflects how well they've learned how to cite basic things
He said each group member had to answer one question written by the law library and properly cite its source. Then, the member would submit the citation to the group's leader who would review it for accuracy before submitting it for final review by an attorney, Montgomery said.
teams have an additional incentive to work quickly at the relays — the first team that turns in all of its citations will earn bonus points, Montgomery said.
Robert Mead, law school librarian, said the Lawrence-based Barber, Emerson, Springer, Zinn, and Murray, L.C. law firm sponsored the event and gave
prize money to the competition's top three teams.
"Students do anything with it from buying pizza and beer to donating it to canned-food drives," he said. "Mostly, it goes to beer."
Michael Davis, professor of law, said citation-writing skills were essential for demonstrating statements and implications of law.
Though he said citation writing could be challenging for first-year law students,he said the relays were a fun way for students to demonstrate their skills.
Will Wohlford, Wichita second- year law student, participated in
"We try to first underscore its importance but also to bring a little fun to a part of learning that inherently isn't much fun at all," he said.
"But people didn't take it so seriously that they didn't want to have fun together."
Will Wohlford
Wichita second-year law student
last year's event and said it had demonstrated the challenges of writing accurate citations.
He said his team had enjoyed the event and had jokingly shown team spirit by wearing headbands.
"People take it seriously enough." Wohlford said. "But people didn't take it so seriously that they didn't want to have fun together."
Edited by Ryan Malashock
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