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HALO stages first Appreciation Week
By Marc Ingber
mingber@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
This week, the Hispanic American Leadership Organization will be its own guest of honor when the group holds its first HALO Appreciation Week. Events throughout the week will give the members of HALO an opportunity to unite and give exposure to the Hispanic community and HALO itself.
HALO, which currently has about 35 active members, arrived at the University of Kansas in 1971. The organization looks to unite Hispanic students with similar backgrounds and who want to serve the community.
Melanie Weiser, Dallas senior and social chairwoman for HALO, said a lot of students joined HALO so they could learn more about other types of Hispanics.
She said that the main goals for HALO's Appreciation Week were to get recognition for the group's members and to get HALO more exposure so they could bring light to issues affecting Hispanics in Kansas.
"We're still trying to fight for the drivers' license bill, and we are constantly fighting for Latinos to get education," Weiser said, referring to bills currently going through the state legislature that would give undocumented students the right to in-state tuition and the right to obtain a drivers' license.
This week's events begin today when HALO participates in the Tunnel of Oppression program going on in Hashinger Hall throughout the day. It is a "simulation program" sponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center and the Office of Multicultural Affairs designed to teach students the effects of hate.
HALO will volunteer this week at the jubilee Café and serve breakfast to the needy, Victor Aguilar, Dodge City freshman and vice president of HALO, said being in an organization inspired him to volunteer.
"For many of us, if it wasn't for HALO we wouldn't be going."
HALO APPRECIATION
WEEK EVENTS
Members of HALD will honor their organization all week with an array of events.
Today: Tunnel of Oppression, a simulation program designed to show students the effects of hate, going on throughout the day in Hashinger Hall
Tomorrow: Jubilee Cafe, 7 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St., and HALO Pot Luck, 6 p.m. in the Multicultural Center.
Wednesday: Jewelry sale, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union, and Cultural Movie Night, Mi Familia, 7 p.m. in the Multicultural Resource Center
Multicultural Resource Center
Thursday. Jewelry sale, 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. on the fourth floor of
the Kansas Union, and HALO
Social, 7 p.m. at the Jaybowl
in the Kansas Union
Friday. Jewelry sale, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the floor of the Kansas Union
Saturday: Motivational speaker Lt. Col. Consuelo Castillo Kickbush, 8 p.m. at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union
The week also includes a pot luck dinner at the Multicultural Resource Center. Members are encouraged non-member friends to expose new people to the organization and eat traditional foods such as tacos, enchiladas and chicken rice.
Aguilar said.
Saturday, retired Lt. Col. Consuelo Castillo Kickbush will speak to the group at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
Weiser said Kiekbush, one of the first Latinas to be highly ranked in the U. S. Army, was an incredible motivational speaker.
"We've always wanted to bring her here and this year we were finally able to," she said.
Edited by Paul Kramer
Amanda Kim Stairrett/Kansan
Molly Kocour, Lawrence sophomore, and Rachel Anslover, Salina freshman, members of Kappa Alpha Theta, competed in Saturday's Twister tournament. The event was part of Kappa Delta's Shamrock Project. Three hundred people participated in the 12th annual tournament.
Event for charity has uniquetwist
By Azita Tafreshi
atafreshi@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Rather than the familiar Rock Chalk chant, calls of "right foot red" echoed from the lawn of Allen Fieldhouse Saturday afternoon.
UPCOMING GREEK
PANHELLENIC EVENTS
Nearly 300 participants helped raise more than $8,500 for Kappa Delta sorority's 12th annual Twister Tournament as part of its philanthropic Shamrock Project, said Caitlyn Lamport, chairperson of the Shamrock Project.
Lamport, Sugarland, Texas, sophomore, said the Shamrock Project was part of the nationwide Kappa Delta philanthropy that the University of Kansas chapter participates in every year.
These charity events are sponsored by members of the greek community but are open to anyone wishing to participate. For more information on any of the events listed, contact Anne Domen, vice president of philanthropy and community service for the Panhellenic Association, at adomann@ku.edu.
Tournament. TBA
- Alpha Delta Pi - Mock-tails, May 1
- Alpha Gamma Delta - Dodging for Diabetes, May 1
Alpha Chi Omega - Basketball
- Delta Gamma - For Your Ears Only, Ongoing
Kappa Alpha Theta - Ice Cream Social, May 1
Twenty percent of the proceeds from the event will benefit Prevent Child Abuse America, and the remaining eighty percent will be donated to the Lawrence Women's Transitional Care Services, a shelter for abused women and children, said Amy Sullivan, St. Charles,
Pi Beta Phi - Run, Rock & Roll:
5K Run, April 18
Sigma Kappa - Earthball Tournament, May 8
Source: Panhellenic Association
Mo., junior and president of Kappa Delta.
For a $40 entry fee, 45 teams of two tangled themselves amidst ingredients including soap and baby oil, Lamport said.
She said each team that advanced past the second round received prizes donated from local businesses upon elimination, ranging from restaurant gift certificates to Lawrence Athletic Club Memberships.
Anne Domann said this was her second year as a contestant in the tournament.
The Doylestown, Pa., sophomore said the Shamrock project was one of her favorite philanthropies.
"Everybody plays Twister as a kid," Domann said. "And adding on water and whipped cream and chocolate—you get a little mess, but it's just so much fun."
The Mr. Shamrock male beauty pageant, a new addition to the philanthropy this year, was held at Captain Ribman's Meat Market, 811 New Hampshire St., Sullivan said. For a three-dollar cover spec,
tators watched the 12 contestants as they were judged in traditional categories such as talent, formal wear and swimwear in addition to the number of people they recruited to come and make a donation.
Sullivan said there was also a question and answer portion of the contest that covered such queries as, "What were the names of the four characters on Sex and the City?"
Mike Barnicle, Burr Ridge,
Ill., senior, took home $100 for
his first-place finish in the pageant.
Lamport said she was pleased with the overall outcome of the event because the chapter topped last year's earnings of more then $6,000.
She also said she was glad that the sorority had accomplished its goal of increasing involvement from outside the greek community with more than a dozen nongreek teams.
"We improved everything from last year, which was hard to top," Lampor said.
Edited by Joe Hartigan
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