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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.102,NO.75
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Plans draw new attention to minorities
By Mark Martin
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 1989, a task force recommended that the University create a new position to oversee
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.
That position was never created.
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.
Tim Dawson, chairperson of Student Senate affairs committee and the co-author of the Sertion, said that the OMA was lost in the shuffle I office was too low in KU's organizational stree
"the problem with the office currently is the come there with problems they're having on c. that office has no power to change policies," I said. "They can just make suggestions. We're that the office needs more respect on campu-power."
"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 stu burea before you graduate." Students before are at the top even before about
Before 1987, OMA worked within the chancel and the director reported straight to the chan office was moved into the student affairs divisic stands now.
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David Ambler, vice chancellor for student a the office was moved to student affairs be determined that the office's main function w with students.
Ambler said that because of KU's budget con did not think the University would be able to co position in the administration.
Moving the office to student affairs would a contact with students and with other offices
"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."
Sherwood Thompson, director of minority a
that as KU became more multicultural, more v
easurement of its diversity.
Administrators point to the planned multicult as an example of KU's commitment to minor And minority enrollment has risen each of the years.
A member of the U.S. armed forces takes cover after an early morning beach landing near the main airport in Mogadishu, Somalia.
But a planning committee has yet to be form center, and the original opening date of Fall 198 pushed back a year. And despite the enrollment more than 90 percent of the student body is who
"With more and more minority students com-
may be necessary to have a representative at tltrative level," he said. "It would help to coorde and assess the needs of minority students in all
"Right now, it seems like minority and cultura 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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