Tuesday, December 1. 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Campus social focuses on women's issues
Discussion aims to promote unity among students
By Kelli Raybern
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas chapter of the National Council of Negro Women wants to bring diverse groups of KU women together to solve their common problems.
The Council will sponsor a social for all KU women from 6 to 9 p.m. tomorrow in the Multicultural Resource Center.
The Council hopes that organizing the
social would help create a broad-based discussion of women's issues on campus. Council members Ameshia Tubbs and Aketia Thompson said they wanted to provide a forum for women to talk to each other about AIDS, breast cancer, glass cellings and unity. But they said women's issues were not just for women.
"It's a misnomer that we've called them women's problems for so long," said Tubbs, Lawrence junior. "When there's a problem with men or women, since we form families together, it becomes everybody's problem."
Solving those problems starts with women getting together, she said. To accomplish that goal, the Council plans to sponsor monthly women's socials. They have invited sororities, the
Women's Studies department and feminist groups on campus.
"All the women of KU are invited," said Roslyn Wills, Long Beach, Calif., junior. "It's also for men who want to help out or have suggestions. They're allowed to come too."
Wills said last year's women's social, sponsored by the Black Student Union, had been a success.
"We learned a lot from each other last year," she said. "Different women from different backgrounds talked about what we can do as women to make things better on campus."
Tubbs said connections to other women were important. She said connections with other African-American women were especially important at the
University because the minority student population was small.
Thompson, Salina junior, said the social was intended to bring women of all races together.
"A support system is especially important for women because we have common issues in our professional or personal lives that only another black woman can relate to." she said.
"It's important because even though we are women of different races and backgrounds, we're still women," she said. "There's power in numbers. If we get many groups together, we will show the campus and women that many issues need to be addressed and that we are all working together toward a solution to the problems."
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Tiesha Kelley, Topeka junior, selects a candle from the Waxplate display with help from Roslyn Wills, Long Beach, Calif., junior. The display was part of an annual craft show in the Kansas Union lobby. Photo by Jeff Severin/KANSAN
Winter ceremony helps graduates busy during spring
By Carolyn Mollett
Kansan staff writer
New graduates from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences can celebrate their achievement by participating in a graduation ceremony at 1 p.m., Dec. 12, at the Lied Center.
University of Kansas students who completed their degrees this December or last summer have the opportunity to participate in a winter graduation ceremony rather than waiting until the spring ceremony.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Sally Frost Mason, dean of the college, will be among the featured speakers at the ceremony, said Pam Houston, director of the college's undergraduate services. She said there also would be a student who would make closing remarks, but a committee had not selected that student vet.
Beverly Davenport Sypher, associate dean of the college, said that winter graduation was much smaller than spring graduation, and although winter graduates would not get to walk down the hill, she said each students' name would be read during the ceremony.
Robin Manning, who will graduate this December with a degree in religious studies, said a couple of friends were coming to watch her graduate.
"I'm just glad to be graduating and to have the recognition," Manning said.
She said she was glad there was a winter graduation because she would not be available for the spring ceremony.
Houston said this was the third year that a winter graduation ceremony would be held.
Until this year, the ceremony has been at Crafton-Preyer Theater in Murphy Hall, Houston said. She said the ceremony in 1996 drew about 900 people, and last year the facility was filled to its capacity of 1,200. Already more than 1,300 graduates and guests have made reservations, Houston said.
The deadline to sign up for winter graduation was last week, but Houston said her office would continue to allow students who contacted them to participate. Students who are interested can contact the college undergraduate services in 109 Strong Hall or call 864-3505.
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