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LEADERSHIP: Black Leadership Symposium attracts students to University of Kansas
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itself. With their opportunities, Cleaver said, they could become anything they wanted to become.
Cleaver emphasized the impact of Martin Luther King Jr. on his life. Having King as a role model taught him to be a leader.
Although he grew up in the projects, "the projects didn't grow up in me." Cleaver said.
A 12-year city council member and two-term-mayor, Cleaver knows how to break glass ceilings, he said, and place exclamation points. Exclamation points, he said, are the significant events you create. For Cleaver, one exclamation point is behind his term as the first African-American mayor in Kansas City, Mo.
Cleaver said to be proud.
"You are the great great grandchildren of the kings and queens of Africa." Cleaver said. "Don't let anybody bring you down."
Do not touch the room erupted in applause. The crowd, which overflowed from Woodruff Auditorium stood to honor Cleaver.
celebrity in attendance. University officials, famous Alumni such as Bud Stallworth, a former Kansas basketball player, and honored guests such as retiring professor Jacob Gordon were all at the Symposium to support the event.
Cleaver wasn't the only
The event has grown over the last 17 years. It was a small group that Roland said he remembered five years ago. But Roland remains involved and helps it to grow, he said, because he wants to see people excel.
A group of seniors from Wichita Heights High School said they were enjoying the conference. Although they planned on attending other colleges, they all said this made them consider KU.
Brittney Foster, one of the students, said she would prefer to go to Howard University, a predominantly African-American school in Washington D.C. But she said she might switch her choice — with a little incentive.
"If KU offered me a full ride scholarship, Rock Chalk," Foster said.
Courtney Kuhlen/Kansas Members of Zeta Phi Beta sorority (from front) Carmen Madden, Sedalia, Mo., senior; Nikki Dolce, Wichita senior; and Candace Haines, St. Louis senior, performed their step routine yesterday at the Kansas Union. The entertainment took place during lunch for the more than 500 high school students who attended the Black Leadership Symposium.
- Edited by Shane Mettlen
SICK: GTAs protest lack of options, problems in health care coverage
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"If the University really cares, they would help us," Carey said.
Provost David Shulenburger said that the University cared and agreed that the health plan was inadequate. He said the University would be willing to support GTAC in its quest for more health care options.
As part of the demonstration, GTAs shared their own health care horror stories with the crowd.
crowd.
Joy Wrolson, Alexandria,
Minn, graduate teaching assistant,
told of an illness that would affect
her for the rest of her life because of
a misdiagnosis at Watkins.
a misnogram for the Wroldson, GTA in the department of African/African American studies, was diagnosed last August with trigger point knots on her calf at Watkins. Trigger point knots are chemical deposits on the muscle that cause pain
and never go away. Wrolson said they were common in athletes such as marathon runners and soccer players.
soccer player. "I don't fit that description," Wrolson said.
Wrolson trusted the doctors and started seeing a physical therapist to deal with the pain.
Wrolson ended up in the emergency room at Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center in Topeka less than a month later, however. Her doctors at Stormont-Vail were informed of her previous diagnosis, so they didn't do any further tests. They gave her muscle relaxers and pain killers and sent her home with instructions to only walk short distances.
Because of her restrictive
It wasn't until she sought a third opinion that she learned she had a blood clot in her left leg. Wroloson said that she thought it was late detection and the muscle relaxers that caused the blood clot to move from near her ankle to the highest part of her leg.
"They didn't think it was possible for a healthy 33-year-old to have a blood clot."
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Alexandria, Minn., graduate teaching
assistant
health plan, Wrolson said, she went to Watkins first, where the test to rule out a blood clot was unavailable.
Myra Strother, chief of staff at Watkins, said the occasional misdiagnosis was an unfortunate reality of health care.
"They didn't think it was possible for a healthy 33-year-old to have a blood clot," Wrolson said.
really or even better.
"It's an art, it's not an exact science," Strother said. "Nobody's perfect."
Strother said Watkins' staff was careful in diagnosing patients and rarely received complaints. She said she wished unhappy patients would either go back for treatment or file a complaint so the problem could be addressed.
be addressed.
To prevent any more health care horror stories, GTAC members wanted to be treated equitably, Carey said.
The demonstration was in conjunction with National Campus Equity Week. GTAC chose to focus on improving its health care, but across campuses in the United States and Canada, groups like GTAC were lobbying for more equitable working conditions. Carey said.
Carey said. Shulenburger said GTAC had never formally submitted its health care concerns to the University administration. He said before any plans were made, the administration would need to meet with members of GTAC face to face.
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success, said Jennifer Meitl, Association for University Residence Hall's vice-president for programming. The LaCross sophomore said about 200 residents in the residence halls handed out candy to a steady stream of children.
Meilit said the residents benefitted as much as the children did.
"It's a way for residents to get the full effect of Halloween," she said. "They can dress up and go out, but they sometimes don't get the chance to hand out candy like they would at home."
Residence halls also did their own individual activities. Templin, GSP-Corbin and Oliver halls had Halloween decorating contests. McColum Hall had a cookie decorating activity for residents yesterday evening.
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