UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, September 5,1995
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Program prepares freshmen
Summer institute gives students head start on University life
By Novelda Sommers
Kansan staff writer
Angelo Ruiz, Topeka freshman, says he was better prepared for life at the University of Kansas this fall than many of his peers.
Ruiz was one of 19 incoming KU freshmen who enrolled in the University's first Freshman Summer Institute, which ran June 11 to June 30.
The program was designed to help incoming freshmen become acquainted with the University before classes started.
The pilot program was aimed at minority students who were awarded merit scholarships. Future institutes will be open to all freshmen, said Jeffrey Weinberg, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs.
Weinberg said the institute helped the transition from high school to the University. The students got five hours of credit for taking several classes, including an orientation seminar and Communications 130.
"I think we took every tour that you can take on campus," said Heidi English, Overland Park
freshman. English, who participated in the institute, said group members really got to know one another.
"It put me more at ease to have a social group when school started," she said.
Participants in the program lived on the same floor in Ellsworth Hall during the three-week program. Weinberg said that nearly all of them moved into residence halls.
Next summer's program will be divided into two two-week sessions, each enrolling as many as two hundred students, Weinberg said.
The University paid for last summer's pilot program. The cost was about $1,000 a student, which included tuition, books, room and board.
"We will be meeting with last summer's participants twice this fall in order to prepare for 400 for next summer," he said.
Ruiz said he thought the program was successful, but might not have enrolled if he would have had to pay tuition.
Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said future students at the institute would pay tuition.
"That was time I would have been working," Ruiz said. "But since it was free and I got five hours of credit, it was cost-effective."
Weinberg said admissions representatives would start recruiting high school seniors for next summer's program within the next two weeks.
Talks will explore diversity, racism
By Phillip Brownlee
Kansan staffwriter
"What's so good/bad about being different?" is the first discussion topic in the Diversity Dialogue Series, 7 to 9 tonight at the parlors in the Kansas Union.
The discussion, sponsored by the KU Coalition of the Lawrence Alliance and with the Multicultural Resource Center, is open to the public.
"Diversity discussions are often intellectual, but this is an interactive process intended to involve," said Ann Weick, dean of social welfare and co-leader of KU Coalition. "Our goal is to broaden everyone's experience."
Six student panelists will spend an hour sharing personal experiences with diversity and racism. Then audience members will be divided into small groups for further discussion.
Joy Brinckman, Meade junior and one of the panelists, said the open format of the discussions
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"This will be a safe haven for asking whatever questions you want," she said. "We won't be offended."
ences of adjusting to diversity after leaving her predominately white hometown.
Brinckman will share her experi-
Another presenter, Max Ortiz Concha, Taos, N.M., graduate student, will speak on the difficulties of being Hispanic, Native American and gay.
"It hasn't been a particularly easy time," he said. "There's subtle racism here in Lawrence."
It is this subtle and perhaps unrecognized racism that organizers of the diversity dialogue hope to expose through the sharing of ideas and common experiences.
"We are all special in our own different way," said Devon Fitzig, Wichita junior and panel moderator. "We all experience feelings of being out of place."
The Diversity Dialogue Series will take place the first Tuesday of each month.
"We will be dealing with a lot of touchy issues," Fitzig said. "But it's a great opportunity for everyone. You need to understand the people you're living with on this planet."
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