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Monday, April 1. 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Diversity team to educate peers about equality
By Susanna Löof
Kansan staff writer
Sometimes students are the best teachers.
They can establish a more comfortable level for communication than a professor could, said Amy Turnbull, Lawrence junior.
That is why the Diversity Peer Education Team, which is being planned, will be made up of students.
"If we are really going to change anything, I think it will have to be from the bottom level and up," Turnbull said.
After some racial incidents in the residence halls last year, Turnbull and Grey Montgomery, Junction City junior, designed a peer education team that would promote education about race, gender and class issues.
"The ultimate goal of the team is to create complete racial harmony," Montgomery said. "The realistic goal is to generally raise the awareness of what racism is."
Turnbull said the first step in creating a more accepting environment was expanding the University of Kansas' code for students rights and responsibilities.
Two months ago Student Senate expanded the University's policies against ethnic, racial and sexual harassment.
But Turnbull said she did not think the addition would change behavior on campus.
"You could change any policy you want, but policy change is not going to change attitudes," Turnbull said.
And translating policy change into attitude changes is exactly what the team intends to do.
Turnbull and Montgomery presented their idea to Gloria Flores, associate director of the Office of Minority Affairs, in December to get the team in action.
Flores said Turnbull's and Montgomery's idea of a peer education team was like a gift because one of
The Diversity Peer Education Team's goals:
- Increase sensitivity to oppressive practices and policies, noting their harmful effects to the KU community and our educational mission
- Increase awareness of protective policies and support services available on campus
ON CAMPUS
Empower members of the KU community to work toward and take responsibility for elimination injustice in all its forms.
Students who want to volunteer as members of the team can call the Multicultural Resource Center at 864-4350 or Gloria Flores at 864-4351.
Flores will serve as a staff coordinator of the project.
her long-term goals had been to create such a team.
"I am very excited that there are KU students who want to play a role in educating their peers," she said.
The program will be in the Multicultural Resource Center because the team and the center share the same mission, Flores said.
Turnbull said students organizing the team were looking for student volunteers.
The team will give presentations to groups, organizations and classes in the fall.
Turnbull said she hoped the team would reach students who normally would not seek information about these issues.
Nicolas Shump, Lawrence graduate student and graduate assistant at the center, is one of about 10 students organizing the team.
The team is needed, he said because although overt oppression is uncommon at the University, there still is much oppression under the surface.
KU Yoga Club will hold class from 7 to 8:30 tonight at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. For more information, contact Adam Miller at 832-0399 or Paula Duke at 542-1930.
Stranger Than Fiction will sponsor a creative nonfiction essay writing workshop at 7 tonight at Alcove C in the Kansas Union. For more information, contact Allan Grohe at 843-7016.
Feminist Collective Force will meet at 7 tonight at the International Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, call Regan Cowan at 838-9084
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will sponsor a religious vocation meeting and dinner at 6 p.m. today at the Catholic Center, 1632 Crescent Rd. For more information, contact the center at 843-0357.
International Student Association will meet at 6 p.m. today at the International Room in the Kansas Union.
KU Meditation Club will hold a group meditation at 6 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in
Summer and Fall advising for environmental studies majors will be held today through April 12th by appointment at the Environmental Studies Office, 517 W. 14th St. For more information, contact Deborah Snyder at 842-2059.
the Burge Union. For more information, contact Ravi Hirekatur at 832-8789.
A KU MFA Thesis Show by John Taylor and Kikki Revoir will be displayed today through Friday at the Art and Design Gallery.
The Office of Study Abroad will hold an information session on studying in French-speaking countries at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at 4046 Wescoe Hall
Office of International Studies and Phi Beta Delta will host a lecture titled Grassroots effects in Croatia: A first-hand account, by Vic Ullom, KU graduate and member of the Balkan Peace Team, at 4 p.m. tomorrow at the International Room in the Kansas Union. For more information, contact Hodgie Bricke at 864-4141.
ON THE RECORD
A driver's side plastic window was damaged, and miscellaneous papers were stolen from a KU student's car between 10 p.m. Saturday and 1:55 a.m. Sunday in the 2600 block of Moundview Street. The damage was valued at $125. No value was given to the papers, Lawrence police reported.
A compact disc case, 40 CDs, two speakers, an amplifier and receiver were stolen from a KU student's car between 11 p.m. Friday and 12 a.m. Saturday in the 900 block of Vermont Street. A window and dashboard were damaged. The stolen items were valued at $1,465, and the damage was estimated at $1500, Lawrence police reported. The victim said that police had recovered the receiver, amplifier and speakers, but they were damaged.
A Kenwood AM/FM cassette
player was stolen from a KU student's car between 10 p.m. Thursday and 2:40 a.m. Friday in the 100 block of West 21st Street. The item was valued at $250, Lawrence police said.
A Daytime Day Planner, Kansas driver's license and seven credit cards were stolen from a KU employee's car between 6:30 p.m. Thursday and 6:30 a.m. Friday in the 1800 block of Carmel Drive, Lawrence police reported. The planner, valued at $30, was recovered in a neighbor's yard
A KU employee's Schwinn mountain bike was stolen between noon Thursday and 2 p.m. Friday in the 900 block of Mississippi Street. The bike was valued at $300, Lawrence police reported.
A KU student's credit cards and personal checks were stolen between 6 and 6:30 p.m. March 18, Lawrence police reported.
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