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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, 2017
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Plans draw new attention to minorities
By Mark Martin Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
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 1898, 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 minor-
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that with an expanded role, the OMA could serve minority students better
"The problem with the office currently is that come there with problems they're having on at 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's organizational struc
"Right now they have to go through too many
getting any done," he said. "They have to go to
student life, then to the vice chancellor for stu-
dent affairs." He was not sure before
before people at the top even heard about them.
Before 1987, OMA worked within the chan 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.
"The University is carefully studying the r- force report," he said. "One of their recommendations to create a University-wide council that could the programs that deal with minority needs."
Ambler said that because of KU's budget con did not think the University would be able to cr position in the administration.
Sherwood Thompson, director of minority as a kU became more multicultural, more wu-ku.
"With more and more minority students comi-
be necessary to have a representative at therative level," he said. "It would help to coord-
and assess the needs of minority students in all
Administrators point to the planned multicult as an example of KU's commitment to minor And minority enrollment has risen each of the years.
But a planning committee has yet to be form center, and the original opening date of Fall 199 pushed back a year. And despite the enrollment more than 90 percent of the student body is whi
"Right now, it seems like minority and cultural treated as a program at KU, instead of within structure." Braithwaite said. "We need some campus with enough power to keep people what's going on, and what needs to go on."
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