THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2006
NEWS
EVENTS
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Symposium to address attract African Americans
University minority leaders will offer advice for success
BY COURTNEY HAGEN
The future number and impact of African-American students at the University of Kansas will be the focus of the 21st annual Black Leadership Symposium today in the Kansas Union.
The event was organized to
The 21st Annual Black Leadership Symposium Schedule Of Events
address minority issues and leadership and educational opportunities at the University. More than 300 African-American high school students from across Kansas and the Kansas City metropolitan area were invited to the event to get a taste of the opportunities open to them in college.
*8.30-9.30 a.m. — Check in and visit from Baby Jay in the Kansas Union Lobby
*8:30-9:15 a.m. — Multicultural information fair in the Jayhawk and Big 12 rooms
*9-15-945.a.m. — "All You Ever Wanted to Know About KU" student panel in Woodruff Auditorium
*9:45-10 a.m. — Welcome message from Marlesa Roney, Vice Provost for Student Success and introduction of keynote speaker in the Woodruff Auditorium
*10-10.30 a.m. — Keynote address from Dr. Brown Franklin, president of Penn Valley Community College in Woodruff Auditorium
*10:30-11 a.m. — "An Admissions Story" stap about the importance of college in Woodruff Auditorium
*11 a.m.-noon — Workshops Black Female Leadership
Barbara Ballard, Associate Director for Civic Programming and Public Outreach and State Representative in the Kansas Legislature, in the Woodruff
Auditorium
Black Male Leadership
Robert N.Page, director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, in the Kansas Room High School Counselor and Adviser Workshop - Lori Resor, Associate Vice Provost for Student Success, In Alderson Auditorium
*Noon-1 p.m. — Lunch and entertainment in the Ballroom
*1-2 p.m. — Workshops
-Ninth grade in the Alderson Auditorium
-10th and 11th grades in the Woodruff Auditorium
-12th grade in the Kansas Room
*2-2:45 p.m. — Travis Watkins performance of spoken word and poetry in the Woodruff Auditorium
*2:45-3 p.m. — Closing remarks from Pamela Scott, assocate director of the Office for Multicultural Affairs
*3 p.m. — Optional campus tour
Source: KU Continuing Education
Pamela Scott, associate director of Multicultural Affairs, helped organize the event. The goal of the symposium is to reach out to these students and encourage them to succeed despite issues of diversity, Scott said.
"At most U.S. universities, the population of students of color is very small." Scott said. "Among that, the graduation rate for black males from high school to college is small. We think that the more we talk to them about college there's more of a chance they will attend college."
The United States Census Bureau found that only 31.8 percent of African Americans enrolled in college in 2004.
Representative Barbara Ballard (D-Lawrence), Marlesa Roney, vice provost for student success, and African-American student leaders from the University will speak about the keys to success in higher education at the symposium.
Bernard Franklin, president of Penn Valley Community College, will be the keynote speaker. Franklin said he aims to spur the high school students into taking action for their futures.
"We are headed into a dramatically changing world and I want to get these students interested in the role they can play in the future." Franklin said.
A panel of African-American student leaders at the University will talk about their experiences in college and answer questions about paying for education and getting involved in campus organizations.
Kansan staff writer Courtney Hagen can be contacted at chagen@ kansan.com.
Edited by Derek Korte
ARTS
Book catalogs Kansas murals Two artists spent four years finding public art statewide
BY DARLA SLIPKE
Two Lawrence artists cataloged hundreds of murals scattered around Lawrence and the rest of the state on baseball dugouts, post office walls, schools, silos, businesses, and parks, among other places, in the book "Kansas Murals."
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The mural located at the University Relations office in Wesley Hall is featured in a book called "Kansas Murals." Two Lawrence artists, Dave Lowenstein and Lora Jost, cataloged hundreds of murals across the state including the five on campus.
The 257-page book includes 99 vibrant color photos of 90 murals with accounts detailing the process of making the murals and the stories behind the murals and their artists. More than 600 murals are listed in the book.
The authors, Dave Loewentsein and Lora Jost, said that they included every mural they knew of but that more were probably out there. The book is designed as a guidebook for readers and includes eight maps.
Fifty Lawrence murals are listed in the book, including seven that are profiled in detail. Five of the listed murals are on campus : the University Relations building; JRP Hall, located west of Memorial Stadium; Lindley Hall, located at Naismith Drive and Crescent Road; Watkins Memorial Health Center, east of Robinson Center; and Twente Hall, south of Watson Library.
On a wall overlooking the playground at Cordley Elementary School, 1837 Vermont St., a mural titled "A Thousand Miles Away" shows an abolitionist in pre-Civil War Kansas helping a runaway slave through the Underground Railroad in 1859. Images of marshals enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act, a plan to hide the girl between a mattress and a featherbed and her escape in a covered wagon are depicted in a clock face frame that symbolizes the pressure of time.
Loewenstein and Jost called chambers of commerce, libraries, art agencies and other community organizations to locate murals for the book and spent four years traveling across the state to document them.
Loewenstein, who makes a living creating three to four large-scale
murals a year, said the authors tried to show the broadest range of different time periods, styles and locations of murals in their book.
Saralyn Reece Hardy, director of the Spencer Museum of Art, captured the importance of murals in the foreword for the book.
"Some are socially compelling or formally beautiful, and others possess quirkly local color, but all are inescapably available and vulnerable to quick public critique and response" she wrote.
Jost and Loewenstein will discuss their book at noon on Nov. 15 at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, 1204 Oread Ave.
Kansan staff writer Darla Slipke can be contacted at dslipke@kansan.com.
Edited by Dianne Smith
THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS
BLACK STUDENT UNION
Acquire & Acquaintance Date Auction
Dress to impress! There will be a fashion show, and the best dressed male and female will win an outfit!
Email ginag@ku.edu if you have any questions.
When: This Saturday, October 21, 7pm Where: Kansas Union Ballroom, 5th Floor Why: Fundraise for BSU!
The Women's Leadership Series focuses or women running for state and national office. Pick your favorite candidate and follow her campaign. Watch women's leadership action!
Student Advisory Board
This Sunday, October 22nd, 5:6-30pm
Dole Institute of Politics
Email DoleInstitute@ku.edu
Reporting on Bob Dole
Lew Ferguson, former Kansas Bureau Chief for the Associated Press Jim McLean, former press
The Center for Community Outreach Challenging. Educating. Empowering.
Students Tutoring for Literacy
Interested in tutoring kids and adults?
Interested in tutoring kids and adults? Volunteers are needed for Students Tutoring for Literacy Programs are available with groups or one-on-one throughout the Lawrence Community.
Students Tutoring for Literacy (STL) helps native and non-native English-speaking youth and adults obtain their GED, learn Engli as a second language, read their first book, or fill out a job application.
Email stl@ku.edu if you are interested.
Breast Cancer Awareness Week
o Interactive Resource Table, 11:00 a.m. --1:00 p.m.
Monday, October 16th
Calendar of Events
Westcoe Beach
o Guest speakers (Breast Cancer Survivors & Lawrence Memorial Hospital
(LMH) Staff) 8:00 p.m.--9:30 p.m.
Julie Cowdin
Nancy Hawkins
Amy Laughlin
Maggie Osburn (LMH staff)
Sarah Watts
Gridiron Room, 1st Floor Burge Union
October 19,2006
o Interactive Resource Table, 11:00 a.m. -- 1:00 p.m.
jayhawk Walk, 4th Floor Kansas Union
Tuesday, October 17th
Thursday, October 19th
o Interactive Resource Table, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Wescoe Beach
o Interactive Resource Table 11:00 a.m. — 1:00 p.m.
j Davyhawk Walk, 4th Floor Kanguez Union
Wednesday, October 18th
Thursday, October 19th
Friday, October 20th
Friday, October 20th
o National Mammography Day
o Interactive Resource Table, 11:00 a.m. -- 1:00 p.m.
Wescoe Beach
Sunday, October 22nd
o Run/Walkathon around the KU campus, 4:00 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m.
Route 1, start and at Burge Union, 5K
$2.00 donation requested to participate
*All proceeds will go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Boston, Kansas City Affiliate.
funded by:
STORCH
SENATE
*Programs sponsored by Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, Watkins Health Center, Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Signa Lama Gamma, and Panhellenic.
PAID FOR BY KU
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JAYWALK!
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JayWalk is a service available to all students who want a JayWalk volunteer to WALK them to their residence hall or car, or to wait with them for the Night Campus Express Bus or SafeRide.
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