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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102,NO.75
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9.1992
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Plans draw new attention to minorities
By Mark Martin
Kansan staff writer
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A recent proposal by the African American Student Concerns Task Force and a resolution passed by Student Senate three weeks ago have rekindled concern concerning the role of an administrative position responsible for cultural affairs.
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Administrators say they are looking into the recommendations, but many minority students at the University of Kansas wonder whether their concerns are really ever heard.
"It seems like nothing will be done with this until students make some noise about it," said Peter Braithwaite, off-campus student senator and member of the African American Student Concerns Task Force.
Braithwaite pointed out that in 1980, a task force recommended that the University create a new position to oversuade
That position was never created.
Braithwaite co-wrote the Senate resolution this year, which demanded that the Office of Minority Affairs, which operates within the division of student affairs, be moved up to operate within the executive vice chancellor's office. The resolution also calls for elevating the OMA director to assistant or associate vice chancellor status.
Some think raising OMA's status would allow it to be more effective. Hispanic students have complained that the OMA has been insensitive to their needs and lacks Hispanic resources such as magazines and journals. Most say that with an expanded role, the OMA could serve minority students better.
"The problem with the office currently is that
that office has no power to change policies," said. "They can just make suggestions. We're that the office needs more respect on campu-power."
Tim Dawson, chairperson of Student Senate affairs committee and the co-author of the Section, said that the OMA was lost in the shuffle if office was too low in KU to organizational struc
"Light now they have to go through too many getting done question," he said. "They have to go to the office, and then they must listen to them, then the executive vice chancellor. Things before people at the top even hear about them."
Before 1987, OMA worked within the chancellor and the director reported straight to the chan office was moved into the student affairs divisic stands now.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student at the office was moved to student affairs because determined that the office's main function w with students.
Moving the office to student affairs would a contact with students and with other offices is required.
Ambler said that because of KU's budget cons did not think the University would be able to cr position in the administration.
"The University is carefully studying the reef report, he said. "One of their recommendations to create a University-wide council that could c the programs that deal with minority needs."
Sherwood Thompson, director of minority al that as KU became more multicultural, more w to be done to coordinate minority affairs.
"With more and more minority students connain may be necessary to have a representative at the trative level," he said. "It would help to coordin and assess the needs of minority students in all a Administrators point to the planned multicultural as an example of KU's commitment to minorit And minority enrollment has risen each of the years.
But a planning committee has yet to be former center, and the original opening date of Fall 1993 pushed back a year. And despite the enrollment in more than 90 percent of the student body is white "Right now, it seems like minority and cultural a treated as a program at KU, instead of within U structure," Braithwaite said. "We need someone campus with enough power to keep people a what's going on, and what needs to go on."
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one women are just sexy. But then some women aren't Demi Moore. And they don't have the kind of sexy that gets laccious pubescents caught in public library burglar beams for filching Vanity Fair photo spreads, the kind that inspires pregnant women to throw lingerie parties in their last trimester, the kind that makes young couples fondle each other around potter's wheels in ceramics classes.
The raspy-voiced actress has emerged unscathed from the mid-'80s bat pack wreakage, leaving behind the rest of the club like Judd, who sits at home waiting for phone calls and airbrushing nose hairs out of his 8 by 10s, and Emilio, who's taking dance
lessons from some choreographer. Andrew's done better, relegated to Randy cadaver comedies where the stiff gets better lines, but Rob's still booking top his comedy schedule.
But Demi Moore has blossomed. After a few sidesteps since her *Ghostly* shot up the hierarchical entertainment ladder, she has inched her way to the five-star
scale. And with two career-defining performances in the can, she won't be there long, which is way more than her St. Elmo's peers can say.
"We'll have to see what happens, but I think the way my career has gone, with each thing I do, people get a deeper glimpse into what I might be capable of," she says.
This month marks the release of Rob Reiner's eagerness anticipated A Few Good Men, based on Aaron Sorkin's successful Broadway play. May Cruise co-stars with Tom Cruise and Jack Reynor. You have predicted to be an Oscar winfall.
The story has Cuisine playing a glib Navy lawyer, selected because his penchant for plea bargaining will help the military avoid an embarrassing trial in a Marine murder case. Moore is a fiery lieutenant commander on his defense team and has met with his commitment and his sell-out passivity. She says this is one of few women's roles that maintains its integrity.
"Most people will be greatly surprised because the character's
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occur is never deviated. The movie doesn't compromise the characters by creating a romance when that's not what it's about."
Moore emphasizes that her character isn't just an equal time decorative piece between Cruise and Nicholson. "My character pushes Tom's character to do the right thing — to see things and not just pass the buck and go for the quick fix. I am, in a sense, the moral voice," she says.
Her other film, out early next summer, is Adrian Lyne's *Indecent Proposal*, costarring Robert Redford and Woody Harrelson. Although she's auditioned for every movie Lyne's made, Moore never was fortunate enough to land a part cooking household pets for Michael Douglas or emptying containers jars with Mickey Rourke. She but adopted a new strategy to beat out a host of top flight accesses for this cowed role: "I came in through the back door and faked it," she says.
Moore and Harrelson play a young couple approached by an affluent gambler (Redford) who offers them $1 million in return for one night of sex with Harrelson's better half. Moore says this project gave her the opportunity to play out a fantasy with complex moral ramifications.
"Would you do it, what would happen and what would that do to you?" she asks. "It's an intriguing concept because it questions all of those fears that people have in their own relationships and the boundaries that you cross."
Moore says her husband, Bruce Willis, isn't jealous that the male masses have a working knowledge of his wife's anatomy. With the second cover, she says, "you have to take it slightly tongue-in-cheek." But she wasn't laughing about the companion piece profile, which focused on her mother's begin of faithful assistance, and characterized them as a dominating celebration control-treak.
Crossing boundaries, though, hasn't been a problem for Moore, especially in the last year when she set standards for pre-natal nudity. The infamous Vanity Fay cover and accompanying photographs (the first set being very nude and very pregnant, the second set being painted body suits and birthday suits — a rock-hard vision of post-apocalyptic life) was tested most of the taboos on store newsstands.
"I wasn’t out to make any kind of particular feminist statement; it was just how I felt as a woman," she says. "I embraced myself, and it's obvious that I like to have a lot of fun and do something that’s a little more edgy.
"The first cover was about me as a woman and how I felt about myself, my body, the world and how I related to it. The second cover I wanted to be the same. It all comes down to my feeling of strength and power as a woman and not being afraid."
As the brat pack's sole survivor, Demi Moore has turned brains and sex into box-office bucks
Moore calls it an unfair portrayal. "The only way it seems that [the writer] could accept that I was smart and successful and ambitious is to make me a bitch. To let her into my home and into my life is a very special thing. Believe me, I won't ever do it again."
But generally Moore's life isn't all turbulence and controversy.
Describing herself as "wonderfully happy," she says, "my idea of a great life is obviously a life with structure, but I want to be unlimited. I want to do everything, and when I say I want it all, that's what I mean."
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