UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, October 13, 1995
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Hispanic leaders provide new perspective to KU
Two students bring views on diversity to organizations
Brian Flink / KANSAN
Joe Cuevas, Topeka sophomore, and Cesar Millan, Kansas City, Mo., senior, are Hispanic campus leaders. Cuevas is a co-director of LesBiGayS OK, and Millan is the multicultural affairs chairman for Student Senate.
By Hannah Naughton Kansan staff writer
Cesar Millan and Joe Cuevas are spreading their Hispanic heritage through their leadership on campus.
Millan is a student senator and serves on the Multicultural Affairs Committee of Student Senate. Cuevas is the co-director of LesBiGay Services of Kansas.
Millan, Kansas City, Mo., senior transferred to KU in Spring 1994. He knew two people on campus and wanted to figure out the fastest way to meet people. So he joined the Theta Chi fraternity.
Millan is one of two minority students in the fraternity. He said the cultural diversity he brought was advantageous to other members of the fraternity. He helped to break down old stereotypes of Hispanics.
"It provides an example that people in different races aren't very different," he said.
In addition to joining a fraternity, he also applied to be a replacement student senator but was turned down. The next semester he became a student senator.
Millan said, "I see myself as not an exact member of HALO," the Hispanic American Leadership Organization. "I head up a lot of activities. I've been the chair of GREECS (Greeks for Responsible Education Enhancing Cultural Sensitivity). I'm involved with my fraternity and Student Senate. We're all kind of fighting a war on different fronts. I've been committed to multiculturalism ever since I came here."
Millan said he was committed not only to the Hispanic race but also to promoting other cultures. His biggest roadblock was fighting the apathy toward multiculturalism that he saw developing in people.
"When people tend to stay within their own groups, they are cheated about seeing the big picture, seeing other ways of life, other ways of thought, other people in general," Millan said.
Joe Cuevas, Topeka sophmore, is co-director of LesBiGaySOK. He said he had wanted to become involved with the University as much as he could. He decided to start with LesBiGaySOK. He said it was good to bring different aspects of diversity to different grouns.
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"I think it spreads diversity within each organization," Cuevas said. "It should be everyone's goal to spread multiculturalism."
Cuevas was in charge of organizing the events for National Coming Out Day on Wednesday. He said these events were important for LesBiGayS OK because they helped to build community and pride. These are the same goals that Cuevas has as co-director of the organization.
"I do think it's important for each group to have their own goals but at the same time be able to work together with other groups." Cuevas said.
Lorraine Moore, faculty adviser for Straight Allies, has known Cuevas for a year and also knows his family. She said Cuevas was very open and considerate to all
Cuevas said his personal goal, as a Hispanic and as a gay man, was to show people that there was somebody out there that was diverse in a numerous wavs.
people. He is inclusive and makes people feel comfortable. These qualities will help him in his new position with LesBlGayS OK, she said.
"It's more important to cross those boundaries and make allies, rather than stay in your group and think only about that," he said. "But at the same time, you need to work within your group and remember who you are."
Matt Duran, Salina junior and president of HALO, said leaders like Cuevas and Millan helped to complement the goals of his organization because they were Hispanics in leadership positions.
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With such a large Hispanic population it is inevitable that Hispanics will be in more leadership roles, Duran said. HALO is an organization with many strong leaders, and people should see Hispanics as leaders both inside and outside of their ethnic group, he said.
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