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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102,NO.75
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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 debate concerning the creation of an administrative position responsible for cultural affairs.
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 1989, a task force recommended that the University create a new position to oversee
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 students
that office has no power to change policies," said. "They can just make suggestions. Were that the office needs more respect on campt 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! office was too low in KU's organizational strife.
"Right now they have to go through too many get anything done," he said. "They have to go to student life, then to the vice chancellor for students, then to the professor before people at the top even hear about them."
Before 1987, OMA worked within the chanel and the director reported straight to the chan office was moved into the student affairs divisic stands now.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student a the office was moved to student affairs beca 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 in the building.
Ambler said that because of KU's budget cons did not think the University would be able to position in the administration.
"The University is carefully studying the re- force report," he said. "One of their recommend to create a University-wide council that could o the programs that deal with minority needs."
Administrators point to the planned multicutu as an example of KU's commitment to minori And minority enrollment has risen each of the years.
Sherwood Thompson, director of minority at that as KU became more multicultural, more w to be done to coordinate minority affairs.
"With more and more minority students connor may be necessary to have a representative at the thrative level," he said. "It would help to coordi and assess the needs of minority students in all a
But a planning committee has yet to be formal 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 treated as a program at KU, instead of within UH structure," Braithwaite said. "We need someone campus with enough power to keep people one what's going on, and what needs to go on."
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Winona Ryder is
heroine of the twentysomething generation, the James Dean of those who grew up wearing purple polyester bellbottoms and came of age during Madonna and materialism.
The Last Metro, An Recoir Les Enfants and The Execution of Private Sloan. Clearly not your typical teen-fluff stuff.
How very, she cooed as manipulative Veronica Sawyer in the 1986 classic, Heathers, instantly gaining the respect of teen cynics everywhere. She's made 11 movies in her eight-year career, including Lucas, Belejuice, Mermaids, Eduard Scissorshands and now Bram Soher's Dracula, more than earning her the title of queen of teen
"Most of my favorite movies are emotional, rip-your-heart-out, drag-it-through-the-sweet kind of movies," she says with a dark smile.
Indeed the actress has a wisdom about her apparent through her confident frankness. The fact that she's become a "movie star" seems not to have phased her. She certainly has not gone through a typical education process.
"Discovered" at age 13 at the San Francisco American Conservatory Theater, Ryder says she took some of her early roles (the turkeys) to get out of high school classes.
And work she has. Educationally, she's never looked back, occasionally taking classes but having no desire to attend college.
"How very," she cooed as the manipulative Veronica Sawyer in the 1986 classic, *Heathers*, instantly gaining the respect of teen cynics everywhere. She's made 11 movies in
"I'm completely pro-college and pro-education, but I feel like I'm getting such an incredible education doing what I'm doing right now that I wouldn't want to stop," she says.
"I don't just learn about movies when I make movies. It's a big life lesson. I travel a lot, learn a lot about other cultures so I don't feel so alone."
But Ryder, the 21- year-old actress and godchild of '60s acid expert Timothy Leary, has moved beyond teen. Routinely compared to the royal greats of previous generations - the likes of Natalie Wood and Lillian Gish - Ryder is coming of age with a graceful confidence and a well-lit career path ahead of her. And because of her uncanny ability to avoid roles in Hollywood bombs, she's done it all without acquiring the kiss-of- death "teen star" label.
"I've been really lucky that I've worked on films that weren't teen films," she says. "Most of the films that I've done were with adults and geared toward a more adult "voice."
Of course, Ryder says she's strayed in the past, having acted in a few movies she'd rather forget. But aside from those self-admitted "turkeys," ("I knew when I was making them they were bad, but I couldn't do anything about it or else I was going to get sued.") she has been lucky – if the conco Hollywood – with her films.
And now with Mina, her erotic character in *Dracula*, she has the perfect role to carr her into adulthood in the eyes of Hollywood.
"Now it was time to go over that bridge going from a teen-ager to a young woman."
"I love in my life." Ruder says.
Not that Ryder is about to go soft-porn or anything. Despite the role, she says she's not a fan of blood, gore and skin films and actually never has seen a Dracule movie. Her favorite movies are about war, including
Dracula, played by Gary Oldman. Audiences, accustomed to the quasi-innocence of Ryder's earlier suburban-based parts, may be shocked by the eyelid of Ryder's raw sensuality and passion.
Instead Ryder's directors have been her teachers. And with tutors such as film great Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton and Francis Ford Coppola, she's clearly become the head of her class of young thespians.
one didn't work out. This one did and it's really incredible, "Ryder says, dismisses the topic.
neither Ryder's relationship with
Coppola nor her popularity were damaged.
"[Godfather III] was just another project. That
one didn't work out. This one did it, it's really
But Ryder says it was sheer physical exhaustion and an upper-respiratory infection that left her with a 104-degree fever and an inability to work. Other actresses may not have been able to escape the backlash, but neither Ryder's relationship with pola nor her popularity were damaged.
With Coppola, things haven’t always been smooth as celluloid, though. Slated for a role in Coppola’s Godfather III, Ryder left the set the day she was to begin shooting. Rumors were flying about pregnancy, emotional breakdowns, drug use and problems with Johnny Depp, her on-again, off-a-gain in relationship. (By the way, it’s on for now – on to the point of a boulder on her left hand.)
able to escape the backlash, but neither Ryder's relationship with Copola nor her popularity were damaged. Caldwell III was not another reason. They
After all life "career" roles and lauded performances, Ryders say she plans to start her *her* life. She has no wish list of directors or roles, presumably because she has so many other opportunities.
"I've been really lucky because I've just had these really amazing roles come along," I know a lot of actresses who have [come across the problem], and I've heard those complaints and I feel very compassionate, and I feel almost kind of guilty that I'm not going through it."
Guilty, yeah, but not apologetic. It's good to be Ryder, what with the hot boyfriend killer roles and seemingly unlimited potential.
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And the acress, "fascinated by the process" of filmmaking, already is talking about trying her best.
"I'm very interested in that, but I really would not get ahead of myself," she says. "I want to really wait until it's time, and I don't know when that's going to be."
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Judging by her past, it won't be long.
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