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Friday, September 8, 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Minority seminar molds leaders
Students develop ties that help them succeed By Craig Lang
By Craig Lang Kansan staff writer
Many freshmen get used to taking classes in large lecture halls, but this is not the case in Sherwood Thompson's class.
Thompson, director of minority affairs, is the instructor for the Minority Scholars Student Leadership Seminar, a two-hour class offered through the School of Education. Thompson's class is geared to teach students leadership skills and allow them to have closer relationships with each other. Nineteen minority students are enrolled in the class, and many have minority-student scholarships.
friends," Thompson said.
"They're developing a new family of
By getting closer, Thompson said the students were creating a support system. This support system helps minorities feel more comfortable at the University of Kansas, which makes it more likely that students will stay at the University until graduation, Thompson said.
Binh Pham, Wichita freshman, said that because the class was small, students had more interaction with each other. During the seminar, Pham said the class went outside to a street corner and divided into three groups: one to count cars, one to count trucks, and one to count vans and buses.
"It was a test to see if any one of us would ask why we were doing this," he said.
Thompson said the point of the exercise was to teach students to find relevancy in doing the things people told them to do.
"It was to show them how you have to question authority," he said.
One project each student must complete this semester is to interview and research a KU administrator.
"I think it's beneficial because we see the leaders at work." Pham said. "We see what they do, how they got there and how they got others to see them as role models."
This is the fifth year for the seminar, and 78 percent of Thompson's first class graduated last spring. He said that was higher than the overall graduation rate at the University.
Thompson said he was proud of his class because it was the first to use the new classroom at the Multicultural Resource Center. He said he wanted to see whether the space was suitable before other classes were invited to use the classroom next spring.
"We want to work the bugs out," he said.
A proposal for a $10 million parking garage in the northeast corner of campus may come before the parking board as soon as October.
At the parking board's first meeting yesterday, Don Kearns, director of parking, explained a plan that would provide 900 to 1,000 parking spaces at a site north of the Kansas Union and across the street from Adams Alumni Center.
By Sarah Wiese
Kansan staff writer
The garage would have five or six levels and would be accessible from both Oread Avenue and Mississippi Street, Kearns said. The brick-covered structure would provide parking for students, faculty, staff and visitors.
A similar garage was proposed last spring and included a new garage for Jayhawker Towers.
Parking board to consider garage
The University Senate Executive Committee voted against the combination proposal, which would have cost about $15 million, because of the sharp increases in parking permit prices. More importantly, SenEx members hadn't been consulted about the plan before it appeared in final form.
SenEx has requested that any future proposals for garages be thoroughly publicized and discussed within the University community before final decisions were made.
Kearns said getting the community involved was an important facet of the planning process for the new proposal.
The new proposal would increase permit prices, Kearns said, but he did not have an estimate as to how much more permits would cost.
"I don't think the parking rates will have to jump as drastically as with the previous proposal," Kearns said.
Building a garage is only one way to improve the parking situation. Debbie Walker, parking board member, said satellite parking, which involves shuttling people from remote lots to campus, should be looked into as well.
Kearns said the department planned to investigate satellite parking and other alternatives. Cost and feasibility of all options will be of utmost importance, he said.
"The parking department is totally self-supported," Kearns said. "Whatever we go into, if I don't feel confident that we can pay for it, I'll say no."
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