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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 21, 1997
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KU gets plaque for contribution to graduate education program
By Mauricio Rios Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas has been awarded a plaque in recognition of its contributions to the University of Mexico's education program in Venezuela.
Ivan Barrientes, professor of education, went to Valencia, Venezuela, at the end of October as a representative of KU and received the plaque.
Several KU professors from the School of Education taught graduate courses and worked as consultants at the University of Carabobo between 1975 and 1980.
Chancellor Gene Budig received the plaque on Monday, Barrientos said.
Barrientos is one of several professors at the School of Education who helped to establish a program of grading in the University at the University of Carabao.
Barrientos was the first KU professor to go to the University of Carabao to teach graduate courses and help students with a program in education. He went in 1975.
After 1980, the deteriorating economic situation in Venezuela made it difficult for the Venezuelan institution to recruit new students and assist the program, Barrientes said.
This October, the University of Carabobo celebrated the 20th anniversary of the founding of its graduate programs, he said.
KU was chosen among other U.S. and European universities to receive the plaque of recognition during the celebration.
Barrientos also was selected as a recipient of the Order of Aleip Zuloaga, the highest academic teaching distinction in Venezuela.
"I was surprised," he said. "I just couldn't believe it."
Officials at the University of Carabao think that KU played an important role in the design and management of graduate programs, Barrientos said.
the seal of the University of Kansas," he said. "I feel extremely honored because this was unexpected."
"When I got the plaque, I gave them
Bowman said he had always been interested in Latin America.
Novy Bowman, emeritus professor of education, was the last professor of history at the University of Carabobo. He taught a couple of courses four nights a week
He said that in 1980 he had talked to Dale Scannell, former KU dean of education, and told him he was interested in teaching in South America for a semester.
Journalist to speak at Stauffer-Flint Hall
"We enjoyed it very much," he said about teaching in Venezuela. "We made very good friends."
Kansan staff report
Acqui Banaszynski, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will speak at 4:30 p.m. in 100 at Staufer-Flint Hall.
Banazsynski said she would speak about the issue of journalism in society and explain that journalism was vital in a democracy.
She will share some of her own reporting experiences in the United States, Africa and Northern Iraq, she said.
People in the United States tend to take their right to freedom of speech for granted, Banaszynski said.
Everyone has
t he
responsibility to
ensure
freedom
of speech
rights,
she said.
She said the speech would address both journalists and non-journalists.
"We're all in this together," Banaszynski said.
general Jacqui Banaszy... public needs to demand information and journalists need to be aggressive in the stories they write, she said.
Banaszynski, who is a reporter for the St.Paul (Minn.) teacher Press, has been taught on courses at KU this semester.
Banasszynski will answer questions after the speech, which is sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists.
By Heather Anderson Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
A Lawrence delegation is visiting Japan to encourage Japanese pharmaceutical, food processing and electronic firms to invest money or build in Lawrence.
"I believe several of the pharmaceutical companies we visited have considerable interest in making an investment with our pharmaceutical research centers either by funding new projects or facility development," Mayor Bob Walters said in a written statement.
Walter's statement also said Charles Deceun-
ex, executive director of the Higuchi Biosciences Center on West Campus, told Japanese companies about the pharmaceutical company done at the University of Kansas, Higuchi Biosciences Center and Oread Laboratories.
The delegation included City Manager Mike Wilden and representatives from the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
The delegation will return to Lawrence this weekend after traveling to Osaka, Japan.
Walters said he was *simply* about improving business relationships with the Japanese.
The Associated Press
African-American employees protest racism in the workplace at California corporation
The allegations came three months after a jury awarded $25,200 to Norman Drake, an African-American Lockheed engineer, who complained of similar harassment, including a supervisor who used racial epithets and insults.
SUNYVALE, Calif. — A group of African-American Lockheed Corp. officers and former employees complained yesterday of blatant racism on the job, from having been taken on their time cards to the object of racial slurs.
"Some of the white workers are just blant about their negative attitudes toward Blacks," said Tony Eckford, an engineer who said he was fired about a month ago for wearing a "Stop Racism at LockedHee." T-shirt.
"One white worker explained it to me by saying, 'Well, Tony, there are Blacks and then they are niggers. Now, Jesse Jackson is a nigger and you're Black. My biggest grievance is Lockedhee lets them get away with this."
Eckford, who filed a race discrimination lawsuit against the defense contractor in 1989 after six years on the job, organized a rally yesterday outside Lockheed the Sunnyvale complex to protest alleged workplace racism.
Bob Burgess, Lockeeh representative, refused to comment on Eckford's complaints because of the pending lawsuit but said the company had a policy of investigating every allegation of harassment.
"Every charge that has been lodged in this direct area have been thoroughly looked into," Burgess said. "Obviously, from time to time, having a spectrum of employees, improper conduct has occurred and people have been severely reprimanded. ... But Lockheed doesn't condone this activity."
He declined to cite any examples of employee discipline.
Burgess said he didn't know whether any white employee had been fired for harassing an African-American co-worker. Lockheed has 19,700 employees working in Silicon Valley on sensitive defense contracts.
Lockheed requires its supervisors to go through sensitivity training to learn to manage a culturally diverse work force. Burgess said. About 27 percent of Lockheed's 24,700 employees worldwide are minorities.
In the Drake case, a Santa Clara County Superior Court jury decided Lockheed itself didn't intentionally discriminate against Drake because of his race. But it found he had been wrongly convicted of rape. The court retaliated when he complained. Lockheed is appealing.
According to Drake, Eckford and other African-American Lockheed employees, some examples of harassment include
Americans as "dumb niggers."
* African-American workers were referred to as "token
■ African-American workers were referred to as "token niggers," "outsunken niggers" and "Sambo." on the iob.
A Female African-American worker found "KKK" for the racist group the Ku Klu Klan, written on her time card.
Workers found pictures hung that described African-Americans as slaves brigadier.
nggers, "outspoken mggers" and "Sambo," on the job.
Eckford said he was described as a "black pimp" when
- Various racist jokes were told in the presence of African-American workers.
"I complained and within a few months, I was being moved around on different shifts in an attempt to make me quit," Eckford said. "If you speak out, they'll go after you."
The African-American workers also alleged they weren't being promoted as rapidly as white employees and when they complained they became targets of retaliation.
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