wednesday, october 29, 2003
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the university daily kansan 5A
Retreat explores cultures
ByJohanna M. Maska
jmaska@kansan.com
kansan staff writer
A weekend retreat of learning about culture excites two students who grew up in the diverse area of St. Louis.
The Multicultural Resource Center has put together a diverse group of students for a weekend retreat Nov. 14 to Nov. 16 called Colors of KU. Colors of KU encourages students to participate in various activities during a weekend exploring multiculturalism at the University of Kansas and beyond. Yesterday, an informational meeting was held for the group of 45 students who were selected from a pool of applicants to go.
Mya Lawrence and Alicia Lopez, St. Louis freshmen, are two of the students selected to attend the retreat.
The students said they had always been involved in learning
about culture. Lawrence said she participated in groups including NAACP, Black Student Union, KU Ambassadors and Hispanic American Leadership Organization and was interested in other groups related to diversity.
It's this interest in cultures that the Multicultural Resource Center looks for in applicants, said Santos Núñez, director of the Multicultural Resource Center. This common bond and open-minded nature will help make the program a success, she said.
"In the end, if you don't walk away with the feeling that this retreat has changed your life, we've failed you," Núñez said.
Lawrence and Lopez said they have high expectations.
"People who have gone have told me that when they look back at their college experience, it's one of the most important weekends," Lawrence said.
"We are going to learn things that you can't learn in a classroom." Lopez said.
In December 2000, the first group of students gathered for the Colors of KU retreat thanks to an idea brought forth from Robert Page, director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Since then, the retreat has hosted more than 200 KU students, Núñez said.
Colors of KU is part of a week of raising multicultural awareness. The week, titled Hate Out Week, is part of the University's mission to make multiculturalism a part of its activities. Beginning Monday and culminating at Colors of KU, Hate Out Week activities will explore issues specific to race, gender and sexual orientation.
Although Colors of KU applicants have already been selected, other Hate Out Week events are open to all.
Students interested in helping can call the Multicultural Resource Center at 864-4350.
-Edited by Katie Bean
HATE OUT WEEK ACTIVITIES
Nov. 10, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hate Out Week information tables, Wesco Beach and Kansas Union
Nov. 12, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Field of Flags, an event to explore hate crimes, Stauffer-Flint lawn
Nov. 11, 7 p.m. How to Keep Hate Out of KU, a panel discussion, Hawk's Nest, Kansas Union
Nov. 13, 12 p.m., The Field of Flags Ceremony, Stauffer-Flint lawn
Nov. 14 to 16, Colors of KU retreat
Nov. 14, 19, 20 and 21, 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 15 and 22, 5 p.m; and 9 p.m.; and Nov. 16 and 23, 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
"Cabaret," Stage Tool Theatre, Murphy Hall
Source: Multicultural Resource Center
Sony overhaul will slash 20,000 jobs
Corporation to cut force by 13 percent
The Associated Press
TOKYO — Sony Corp., its consumer electronics sheen dulled by cheaper competition, is struggling to bounce back with a corporate retooling that will slash 20,000 jobs, or about 13 percent of its global work force.
Sony said the job cuts would occur over the next three years and include 7,000 workers in Japan. It gave no further regional breakdowns or other details. Sony employs some 161,100 people worldwide.
The company's plan is to trim costs while trying to exploit Sony's traditional strengths in entertainment, electronics and video games, particularly with new networked and wireless consumer devices.
As part of the job cuts, Sony said it would integrate overlapping administrative and corporate jobs, such as by relocating mainly to the West Coast electronics and marketing operations
currently divided between both U.S. coasts. The company has about 22,000 employees in the United States.
Rick Clancy, a spokesman for U.S.-based Sony Electronics Inc., said moving most of Sony's East Coast operations to the West Coast may result in a "few hundred" layoffs but that the actual number of cuts remain unclear.
In Europe, the new plan will bring together consumer electronics marketing groups to a new location in Britain.
Sony said it plans to reduce fixed costs to increase its operating profit margin to 10 percent from 4 percent.
Credit Lyonnais Securities analyst Kun Soo Lee said the job cuts were bigger than expected and signal that Japanese workers, traditionally accustomed to lifetime employment, weren't going to be protected.
One element of the new strategy focuses on hardware, including the computer chips, for a networked home where electronics, video games, music and video merge in products including flatpanel TVs, DVD recorders and home servers.
World Trade Center death toll to decrease
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The names of about 40 people listed on the World Trade Center death toll for more than two years are being removed because the city cannot confirm their deaths or even their existence, a city official said yesterday.
The city was to announce the change in death toll from 2,792 to about 2,750 today. The decision was made by several city agencies, including the medical examiner's office, the police department and the mayor's office, said the city official, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
The names of those reported missing include illegal immigrants whose jobs were not well documented and people whose relatives say they were near the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, but know little more.
Thousands of names landed on the list in the chaos immediately after the attack, when worried callers swamped the city's "missing" hot lines if they had not heard from a friend or relative.
Missing-person reports poured in from around the world, many from people who gave only sketchy information, partial phone numbers, misspelled names and few details.
The city formed a group called the Reported Missing Committee, charged with weeding out fraud and crossing errors off the death list, which peaked at 6,700 two weeks after the attack.
As of early September 2003, police had made about 40 arrests related to people falsely claiming they lost loved ones, and law enforcement agencies in other cities have nabbed others.
In most cases, victims whose remains have not been identified have been legally declared dead by the court and their families issued death certificates based on documents or other proof they were at the trade center or on the hijacked airplanes.
In the cases expected to be removed, no such proof was ever found and remains were never identified.
About 60 percent of the victims have been identified.
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