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KANSAN.COM | THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2017
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Student leader from 2015 Mizzou protests to lead Into the Streets Week
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Share the load
Participants at last year's Kickball for Kids event during Into The Streets Week
Headshot of keynote speaker, Payton Head.
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convince a skeptic.
BRIANNA CHILDERS
@breeanuh3
The Center for Community Outreach (CCO) is holding its 17th annual Into the Streets Week with a wide variety of events for everyone. Ike Uri, executive director of the CCO, said the point of the week is to help connect people with the Lawrence community.
"We want people to see more of the Lawrence community and how they can contribute back to the community that is putting a lot into them," Uri said.
Payton Head, the keynote speaker for Into the Streets Week, is the
former University of Missouri student body president who helped lead the effort to dismiss the former university president, Tim Wolfe. The events begin on Thursday, April 13 with Head's talk.
Uri said that Head really emphasizes topics that are important on college campuses today.
"He's familiar with a broad based student movement and knows how those work and what it takes to sustain a student movement," Uri said. "He's very interested in LGBTQ issues and speaks to a broad variety of topics."
Jordan Barkley, director of Into the Streets Week.
said she's most looking forward to Head's talk because it's a campusfocused event that sets the tone for the week.
John James Kennedy, an associate professor of political science at the University, has studied the mis-reporting of Chinese birth statistics since 1994. Ashley Hocking/KANSAN
"You get this big crowd in to listen to this one person and you can bond over one topic," Barkley said. "You can see that everyone is interested in CCO and the topics on campus."
Other events during the week include Senior Prom, Kickball for Kids, Empty Bowls Project and Campus Garden Workday.
Uri said one of the most popular events is Kickball for Kids, hosted by the CCO program Mentors in the Lives of Kids (MILK).
Barkley said she hopes that Into the Streets Week gets students excited about the community they live in.
[Payton Head is] very interested in LGBTQ issues and speaks to a broad variety of topics."
Ike Uri
CCO executive director
"We just hope to get a reoccurring volunteer base," she said. "We try to offer fun events that go into the community and thank the community for letting
us participate with them so we want them to come out thinking, 'I love that event. I would love to come back and help again.'"
One of the events during the week is a speaking event hosted by Project Bridge, which Uri said is his favorite event.
The speaker at Project Bridge is University doctoral student Andrea Gomez who will be speaking about immigration. The event is on Monday, April 17 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
- Edited by Brenna Boat
'Missing girls' theory by associate professor digs into controversial China birth policy
BRIANNA CHILDERS
@breeanuhh3
John James Kennedy knew within the first week of studying abroad in China that he was going to be studying the country for the rest of his life.
Kennedy, an associate professor of political science at the University, said he first became interested in China when he took Chinese as his foreign language in college, then studied abroad in the country in his late 20s. Now, Kennedy has done extensive research on the unregistered births of girls in China's birth statistics and the reasons behind the lack of transparency.
Kennedy said he first found out about this issue when he was living in a Chinese village in the 1990s and started observing families that had two to four kids.
"When I see three to five kids in a family, typically the oldest are the daughters because they kept going until they got a son," he said.
He has been doing the observational research since 1994, but didn't start writing about it officially until about 2012. This was due to the fact that the topic was politically sensitive.
He said that what he calls the "missing girls theory" is based off the sex ratio at birth, which is the number of boys born for every 100 girls. The average is around 105 boys for every
100 girls, globally.
Ever since the implementation of the one child policy in China around 1980, the sex ratio at birth began to increase.
In 2015, the single child policy was changed to say that everyone in the country could have two kids. In 1982, the ratio was at 108 boys for every 100 females, and in the 2010 census the ratio went up to 119 boys for every 100 females.
Kennedy said the gap between 105 and 119 is known as the "missing girls." During the time period from 1990 to 2010, more
than 4.8 million children showed up over time in the birth statistics. He said the three explanations for this are sex-selective abortion, infanticide and "unregistration."
Unregistration, specifically, is what Kennedy and his colleague Shi Yaojiang focus on.
Kennedy said that if the first two children in a family are girls, the second one is typically unregistered, then when the third child is a boy the parents register him as the second child.
"Now you have a girl that exists in society,but is not
registered," he said.
"Other scholars have found that unregistered girls have occurred and existed," he said. "But what we are saying is that we believe it makes up a larger portion than what was previously suggested."
Kennedy said he thinks it's important to note that he is offering an alternative explanation for what people are saying about the missing girls, and that he is not the first to report these findings.
He said the explanation he is offering is a political explanation and that local
village leaders unevenly implemented the single child policy.
Kennedy added that there were push periods where the village leaders would be strict about the policy and then they would relax on the rules. During the push periods, there would be stories of forced abortions and sterilizations. During the relaxed periods, there would be stories of excess births, which would cause another push period
Dan Chen is a 2014 graduate of the University
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