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Minority engineers have assistance
Florence Boldridge hopes that the Minority Engineering Programs, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, won't be around to celebrate its 75th anniversary.
By Susanna Löof
Kansan staff writer
Program has offered services for 25 years
"I hope that a program such as this will not be needed," said Boldridge, director of the School of Engineering's Diversity Programs. "I hope that there will be an equalization of numbers, and that minorities no
When the program started in 1971, 0.9 percent of the students in the school were minorities. Today, that number is 8 percent.
The Minority Engineering Programs originally was called ScORMEBE, which stood for Student Council for Recruiting, Motivating and Educating Black Engineers. The program was expanded to include Hispanics and Native Americans, and the name was changed to Minority Engineering Programs.
said. "It makes school easier."
longer will be under represented."
Asian Americans aren't included because they are not under represented in engineering schools and the corporate world, Boldridge said.
In 1995, the program became part of the school's Diversity Programs, which includes women. It is financed by corporate sponsors, the University, donations and grants.
Today, the challenge is to get students through the program so they will graduate, Boldridge said. More than 200 participants in the Minority Engineering Program have graduated.
The Minority Engineer Programs provides advice, support, scholarships and tutoring.
Tanya Black, Kansas City, Kan. senior and president of the KU chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers, said the program has benefited her.
"It's been a place for support when other places haven't given support," she said.
In the early years of the program, minority students had a hard time in engineering because they weren't prepared, Boldridge said. To change that, the programs organized summer school for minority high school seniors and encouraged high schools to include calculus and other classes useful for engineering in their curriculum.
Black said the program had given he1- scholarships, friendships and lea1- lership skills.
"it's a network type of thing." she
"The success lies in the people who have graduated and gone on to be productive people," she said.
Nobel laureates address KU crowd
University takes part in national discussion
By Scott MacWilliams Kansan staff writer
Two of the three 1996 Nobel Prize winners in chemistry spoke by satellite to a crowd of 20 at the Frontier Room in the Kansas Union yesterday as part of Earth Week.
F. Sherwood Rowland, Mario Molina and Paul Crutzen won the award for their research of atmospheric ozone depletion and its relationship to chlorofluorocarbons. Rowland and Molina took part in a panel discussion about their research and answered questions phoned in from across the nation. The panel was sponsored by the American Chemical Society nationally and by the KU chapter of the society.
Rowland's pioneering research led him to call for a ban on CFCs in 1973. He was a member of the University's department of chemistry from 1959 to 1964 and is a friend of Ralph Adams, professor emeritus of chemistry.
"He and I were at Princeton together, and I came here in 1957," Adams said. "What I didn't see discussed today was how Rowland
took such a beating from the big chemical companies trying to convince them of the problems with CFCs."
Erica Larson, Fond du Lac, Wis. graduate student, said she thought it was interesting how science had such a big influence on society changing it's practices regarding CFCs.
Adams said Rowland took almost 10 years out of his research to campaign for the elimination of CFCs.
"It seems like the big chemical companies are more interested in making money than being concerned with the consequences," she said.
"Their winning of the Nobel gives legitimacy to the scientific work that goes into protecting the environment," said John Landgrebe, professor of chemistry.
Rowland and Molina said the levels of CFCs in the stratosphere were five times the levels measured in the 1950s. Rowland said the levels had apparently peaked, but that the CFCs would last for 50 to 100 years before decomposing.
The ozone in the atmosphere protects the earth from ultraviolet-B radiation. The effects of UV-B radiation include skin cancer, eye cataracts, depressed immune system functioning and damage to the genes.
KU magazine rooted in Kansas for 30 years
By R. Adam Ward
Kansas staff writer
Kaisan staff writer
Cottonwood, a local literary magazine with a long history at the University of Kansas, is celebrating its 30th anniversary with two fund-raisers this week.
The anniversary of Cottonwood Press, which began about a year after the magazine, also is being celebrated.
The Cottonwood press was created to print Cottonwood magazine and books of poetry and prose. It prints about one book a year, said George Wedge, associate professor emeritus and editor of Cottonwood. The press operates from 3125 Wescoe Hall, the office of Phillip Wedge, lecturer in the department of English and poetry editor of Cottonwood.
Wedge said that the magazine began in 1965 when a small group on English graduate students wanted experience in putting out a literary magazine. Most of what was published had been written for a KU class.
The group's efforts were so successful that the second issue of the magazine published an interview with Allan Ginsberg, a nationally known beat-generation writer.
Wedge said Cottonwood was unusual because unlike most literary magazines, it had been able to hold on for 30 years. Today the magazine has a subscription of 500 people nationally.
Christy Prahl, graduate teaching assistant and fiction editor for Cottontwood, said the members of Cottontwood would hold a benefit party for the biannual magazine at 9:30 tonight at Rick's Place, 623 Vermont St.
Cotton wood is run by about 35 students, faculty and members of the community. Students can submit material to Prahl, Phillip Wedge or Dan Martin, the review editor, who make the final decisions about what goes into the magazine.
There will be two editions of the magazine for the 30th anniversary, Cottonwood 51 and Cottonwood 52. They will be on sale in late June and the fall, and are available for a special subscription of two issues for $10 at the fund-raising events this week.
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