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Transgender events to remember victims
scollins@kansan.com
BY SAMANTHA COLLINS
Several campus groups have joined together to host events this week for the Transgender Day of Remembrance. The day, which this year falls on Saturday, is a worldwide recognition of transgender people killed by hate crimes.
In regards to the recent prominent LGBT suicides in the country such as that of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi - Queers and Allies along with the LGBT Resource Center, the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Counseling and Psychological Services, will also recognize transgender suicides this year.
Joel Layton, a senior from Overland Park and a member of Queers and Allies, said the events addressed different aspects of being transgender, or a transgender ally, in the United States. A transgender person is someone who identifies with or expresses a gender identity different from assigned at that person's birth.
sons birth.
Layton said the murder rate of transgender people was high — one out of every 1,000 murders in the United States is a hate crime against a transgender person, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
In addition, according to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, which was hosted by the National Center for Transgender Equality, 41% of transgender people surveyed who were in school said they had attempted suicide, which is 25 times the national average.
"So there is obviously reason to remember those who are dead, and try to use that memory to make a better world for present and future transgender people," Layton said.
He said students should not be afraid to attend the events this week. Layton said the purpose of the week's events was to teach people, not scare them.
Layton said that just as students at the University paid attention to racism and sexism they should do the same for transgender issues.
"Don't think that you wouldn't belong, don't think we wouldn't want you there if you are interested at all," he said.
"Transgender people have things that they can teach non-transgendered people," Layton said. "I think we could all grow by what they can share with our 'straight' society."
Edited by Dana Meredith
TODAY: Transgender sensitivity workshop
The Office of Multicultural Affairs will host a faculty and staff workshop on transgender people and transgender sensitivity. The workshop addresses the need for the University to uphold its recent decision to include gender identity and expression in the Non-Discrimination Policy. The workshop will take place at the Sabatini Multicultural Resource center from noon to 1 p.m.
WEDNESDAY: "Speak Up!"
This workshop is a response to the recent prominent suicides in the LGBT community. It aims to teach participants about transgender prejudices and how to prevent them. It will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Hashinger Hall.
THURSDAY: "Trans Talk"
A panel of transgender people will discuss the prejudices, ignorance and misinformation that often surrounds transgender people.
'The Big Event'to make KU debut
COMMUNITY
BY MICHAEL HOLTZ
mholtz@kansan.com
With a name such as "The Big Event" expectations for this day of community service are bound to be high.
to be high. The Big Event is an annual one-day, student-run community service project started by students at Texas A&M in 1982. The students wanted a way to give back to the surrounding community who support the university.
Since its conception nearly 30 years ago, more than 70 universities have organized their own Big Events. Starting this year, the University of Kansas will be added to that list.
that use. With the combined efforts of SUA, Student Senate and the Center for Community Outreach, the University will host its first Big Event on March 31.
Students will have the opportunity
nity to do a variety of community service projects, including collecting trash and painting houses. Registration will begin around 9 a.m. and the event will last until 4 or 5 p.m. Volunteers are invited to
a concert that night.
Though the event is more than four months away, organizers are promoting it as part of Big Event Awareness Week starting today. They will be tabling
would take a group effort to make the event a success.
the event a success.
"The primary reason we're doing this is for the people who put up with college kids every day of their lives," said Bolton, a soph-
"The primary reason we're doing this is for the people who put up with college kids every day of their lives."
will be taking on Wescoe Beach and meeting with student groups to gain interest in the University's newest community service effort.
Hannah Bolton, chairwoman of The Big Event committee, said it
HANNAH BOLTON Big Event Chairwoman
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Event Committee is hosting an informational meeting on Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. in the Parlor Room at the Kansas Union.
- Edited by Abby Davenport
The Big Event will take place during Into the Streets Week, a week of community service organized by the Center for Community Outreach.
The Big
ODD NEWS
Replica grenade scares audience
SAN FRANCISCO — A jugger performing near San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf caused a bit of a stir when onlookers worried he might be using a live Grenade as part of his performance.
Police closed off a block near the popular tourist spot around 5 p.m. Saturday so investigators could take a closer look at the device.
It turned out to be a replica. The area was reopened around 6:15 p.m.
The juggler was detained, but a police spokesman did not know if he had been arrested.
It was not known if the man was a regular performer in the area, or had used the replica grenade before.
Associated Press
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