Thursday, October 30, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
University holds symposium
High-schoolers gather for leadership workshop
By Ryan Koerner rkoerner@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
More than 500 African-American high school students from Kansas and Missouri will convene on the University of Kansas campus today for the 12th annual Black Leadership Symposium.
The symposium is a day-long conference for college-bound high school students. The students are scheduled to attend lectures and workshops about preparing for college and reaching their leadership potential.
The symposium is sponsored by the KU Center for Multicultural Leadership in the Institute for Life Span Studies, the Office of the Provost and the Division of Continuing Education.
Students selected to attend must have a minimum 3.0 grade point average in a pre-college curriculum, said Jacob Gordon, director of the Center for Multicultural Leadership.
Gordon said the students who were recruited for the symposium not only had the potential to succeed academically, but also showed leadership skills.
"The purpose of the symposium, historically, is to bring in young African Americans to give them a vision of becoming leaders in American society through the pursuit of higher education." Gordon said. "We believe education is the most important variable in upward mobility in
KU staff members, including James Kitchen, dean of student life, and Sherwood Thompson, director of the Office of Minority Affairs, will conduct some of the workshops.
America."
"I'm interested in sharing with the students how they can enhance their success in college," Thompson said. "I want the students to feel a sense of accomplishment in their academic achievement so they can transfer that from the high school setting to college."
Thompson will share tips about how to be a successful college student and information about careers for the 20th century. Kitchen will speak to high school juniors and seniors about preparing for college. Kitchen said he wanted students to know that there are role models at the university level for them.
"I am particularly concerned about the young Black males," Kitchen said. "Today, they can see tha... there are minority faculty here that have made it. We feel we have some good advice to give them."
Students also will have the opportunity in the afternoon to participate in workshops about African-American rites of passage.
The rites of passage workshops will be separated by gender. Omofolab Ajayi-Soyinka, associate professor of women's studies, will present the women's workshop and Nkios Halim, Kansas City, Mo, department of health officer, will present the men's workshop.
Eight Free State High School students and 12 Lawrence High School students will attend the symposium. This is the sixth year Joel Frederick, Free State guidance counselor, has accompanied students to the symposium.
The best thing about the symposium is the chance for students to meet with other high-achieving students from other schools, Frederick said.
Greek houses boost accessibility
By Sarah McWilliams
smcwilliams@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Greek houses at the University of Kansas are starting from the inside out to improve accessibility to students with disabilities.
Bill Nelson, associate director and coordinator of greek programs for the Student Organizations and Leadership Development Center, said that he did not know of any students with physical disabilities living in greek houses but that the renovations still were important.
"They're for alumni membership and for members who are to come," Nelson said. "We're trying to reflect the changing population of the campus by planning for the future."
Nelson said that the Phi Delta
Theta, Delta Upsilon, Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Kappa Tau houses already had completed renovations, which included providing more accessibility.
These houses were complying with city of Lawrence's interpretation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which Congress enacted in 1991.
The law calls for lawsuits against building owners whose buildings were not accessible to people with disabilities.
The federal government considers greek houses private clubs, which do not have to meet the act's requirements in all instances, said John Esau, principle senior consultant for Pennington and Company, a Lawrence fund-raising organization that has worked with
greek members to raise money for renovations.
But Lawrence applies the act's regulations to Greek houses, Esau said.
Gene Shaughnessy, the city's chief building inspector, said that the regulations applied only to owners that planned to renovate or rebuild buildings.
He said that depending on the size of a project, the owners of the houses must use at least 20 percent of the total renovation-project cost to improve accessibility.
The regulations include providing more access to buildings with ramps from parking lots.
Buildings also must provide access within the building itself, including more space and lower utility fixtures in bathrooms.
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