UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday. October 10, 1994
Jav Thornton / KANSAN
Members of the Rock Chalk advisory board, Amy Peters, Shawnee junior, left, and Craig Novorr, Overland Park junior, paint a house at 401 Michigan St. The 20 members of the advisory board helped paint the house yesterday to kick off Rock Chalk community service projects.
Rock Chalk members paint house for charity
Project starts service drive
By Colleen McCain Kansan staff writer
Members of the Rock Chalk Revue Advisory Board gave Joyce Trober's house a facelift yesterday.
The 20 students who compose the board spent the afternoon applying a fresh coat of white paint to the house at 401 Michigan St.
Chris Schutte, Rock Chalk community service co-coordinator, said the project marked the kickoff for Rock Chalk's community service drive.
"Ihope that when other living organizations see the advisory board working on this project, they'll get excited about community service too," said Schutte, Overland Park junior. "Community service is becoming a much more important
part of Rock Chalk."
Participants in the campus-wide variety show complete community service projects and donate the show's proceeds to the United Way. Awards are given in February to the living organizations and the individuals who accumulate the most community service hours.
"We just try to let all participants know about community service opportunities," Schutte said. "We hope that people will do community service because they really want to."
Schutte said the project had been arranged through the Roger Hill Volunteer Center.
Sandra Archer, community service co-coordinator, said she hoped this
year's participants would surpass the number of community service hours accumulated last year.
"Last year, they had more than 19,000 hours, and we're hoping to pass the 20,000 mark this year," said Archer, Lawrence junior.
Tom Field, promotions coordinator, said the advisory board's painting project was an enjoyable way to begin Rock Chalk's community service drive.
"It's hard work, but I'm having a blast," said Field, Marietta, Ga., senior. "The house is a little bigger than last year's. But we haven't had anyone fall off a ladder yet, so I'd say it's going well."
Trober, whose house was painted,
said she was appreciative of the
students' hard work. Trober is 61 and
could not complete the project herself.
"I haven't inspected their work, but surely the house will look better when they're done." Trober said. "It definitely couldn't look worse."
A class beginning in the spring semester will increase the University of Kansas' multi-cultural curriculum.
Class explores minority issues
By Nathan Olson Kansan staff writer
of an existing class, American Studies 101: The American People. In that class, five categories of people in the United States are studied: Hispanic American, American Indian, European American, African American and Asian American.
The class, American Studies 292: Topics and Problems of the Asian-American Experience, will examine issues concerning Asians in this country.
Norman Yetman, head of KU's American Studies department, said the course was a logical extension
"Because the class deals with all five, no great depth can be achieved with any group," Yetman said. "This class offers an opportunity to examine the categories in greater detail."
Yetman said the class would look at the historical and sociological
factors of being Asian American, as well as problems of assimilation and what it means to be a minority in the United States.
In addition to the Asian American course, another section of American Studies 292 will examine the Hispanic American culture.
The course will be from 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Students interested in the course should contact the American Studies department at 864-4011.
Students search for their identity
Asian-American Enrollment at KU
By Nathan Olson
Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
For Teresa Hu, Gladstone, Mo,
senior, the word oriental should be
used for ruts, not people.
"Oriental is something you refer to as inanimate objects," she said. "It's not something you should refer people to."
For Hu and other Asian-American students, choosing a term they are comfortable with is an important part of finding their identity in the United States and retaining their ethnic culture.
Hu, who moved to the United States from Taiwan when she was five years old, considers herself a Chinese-American. The identification, she said, is a part of her heritage.
"It's the way my parents brought me up," she said.
Hu said that she didn't call herself Taiwanese-American because she didn't see much difference between Taiwanese and Chinese.
While Hu does not completely reject the term Asian American, she finds the term overly broad. "It's comforting to identify with a larger group," she said. "But the term isn't specific at all. We are so much more diverse."
For other students, the term Asian American helps as a first level of identification. Joe Perez, St. Louis, Mo., senior and president of the Asian-American Student Union, likes the unity of the term.
"Considering the low numbers of Asians in America, the more we group together, the better off we'll be," he said.
Kansan Staff Research
The term Asian American, Perez said, refers to 65 different groups of Asian people.
Perez's parents came to the United States from the Philippines when they were teen-agers. He said because he was born in the United States, he considered himself American and Filipino-American, in addition to Asian-American.
"But sometimes I have trouble considering myself Filipino because I've never been to the Philippines," He said.
Noah Musser/KANSAN
Perez also has a problem with the term orient.
"It's almost like saying alien," he said. "It's a low-key discrimination."
But Perez said some young Asian Americans were less offended because of its exotic implications.
"Some don't complain because they like the exotic part of oriental," he said.
For Mark Chotimongkol, Dodge City senior, cultural identity didn't come early. As a child, he felt as American as other children, playing the same games and learning about the same subjects. By high school, when he began experiencing more of the world, he noticed he was different from others.
"I didn't consider myself Asian until then," he said.
Chotimongkol, whose parents immigrated from Thailand, now tries to incorporate Thai culture into his life by continuing to speak the language and by visiting Thailand as often as possible.
He agreed with the negative connotation to the term oriental. He said that the term Asian American didn't have that connotation.
"Oriental has lost its original meaning," he said. "It makes me think of Kung Fu movies."
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