UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 22, 1996
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HALO members attend leadership conference
By Nicholas C. Charalambous
Kansan staff writer
It was no ordinary weekend for members of the Hispanic American Leadership Organization.
While other students celebrated homecoming, 10 HALO members were at the United States Hispanic Leadership Conference in Chicago, furthering Hispanic-American civil rights and political representation.
"Every year we come back, and everybody realizes the positive things they can do for their culture," said Sasha Flores, president of HALO and member of the conference planning committee. "This year's conference made us aware of the issues that we would be voting on and what was at stake."
English-only laws, affirmative action, and voter education and registration were dominant topics of
speeches and workshops at the conference. More than 6,000 Hispanic-American politicians, activists, educators and students attended.
Gabriel Ortiz, Topeka junior, said there had been too much emphasis on politics rather than community empowerment.
"The conference brought everyone together, but it was better last year," he said.
Ortiz said most speeches, including those of Vice President Al Gore and Henry Cisneros, secretary for Housing and Urban Development, defended President Clinton's record on Hispanic issues.
Last year's conference didn't focus on political agendas. Ortiz said.
But Stella Adame, Topeka senior, said the conference encouraged her to vote, and that she got excited knowing that her vote counted.
pated in the conference's college fair for the first time. It was an important part of the University of Kansas' strategy to recruit more students of color, said Trina Ramirez, Omaha, Neb., freshman and admissions representative.
The Office of Admissions partici-
"There were so many talented young Latinos there," Ramirez said. "The conference has a history of pulling in the most-outstanding and most-driven students."
She said about 100 students stopped by the University's table.
Angela Valdez, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, said she was encouraged by the news that high school drop-out rates for Hispanic-Americans were decreasing and that college enrollment was increasing. She also said the news made her more proud to be Hispanic-American.
"I think we are improving ourselves as a minority group," she said.
Coming attraction: Hastings
Video store to move expand, making way for more merchandise
By Liz Musser
Kansan staff writer
Anyone who has shopped at Hastings on the weekends knows that it's hard to browse for a movie without tripping on someone. That's all about to change.
In a relocation that will double the size of the store, Hastings Books, Music and Video, located in Southwest Plaza at 23rd and Iowa streets, is moving less than 20 yards to the space formerly occupied by Osco Drugs in the same plaza.
"On Friday and Saturday night, you can't even move in here," said Tom Luxem, manager. "I think we scare
people off. Hopefully, this move will give us an opportunity to give people more room."
In addition to providing more space, the new store also will have an expanded inventory. Luxem said that the store would carry more copies of new-release videos, and also that he planned to order $200,000 more in books and $100,000 more in music, he said.
The new store also will be decorated differently than the existing store.
"It amazing how different it's going to look," Luxem said. "It's going to be a lot more colorful."
Some of the new features will include a big-screen television that will preview movies, chairs for people looking at books and an expanded snack bar.
Luxem said that the move and expansion were partly in response to the pending arrival of competing
stores such as Borders and Barnes and Noble in Lawrence. However, it was also a result of high sales at the store, he said.
The grand opening of the new store will be Nov. 18. Hastings will be closed Nov. 10-17 while employees move merchandise to the new location.
Jerilyn Freeman, Lawrence senior and Hastings employee, said the move would involve moving more than 13,000 videos to the new store. She said she expected it to be a tedious process.
"We have to box everything up and label it and then move it to the new store," she said. "It's basically going to be like moving a house."
Even with the days of business that will be lost during the move, Luxem said that Hastings would not raise prices. The increased volume will actually make the store cheaper to operate, he said.
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