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KS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA, KS 66612
VOL.104,NO.128
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1995
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Multicultural center kickoff tonight
Guest lecture to highlight events celebrating new campus facility
By Eduardo A. Molina Kansan staff writer
Promoting cultural understanding at the University of Kansas through a multicultural center was just a dream three years ago. This week that dream is becoming a reality with the pre-grand opening celebration of the Multicultural Resource Center.
As a part of the celebration, Carlos Cortes, author and professor emeritus of history at the University of California-Riverside, will give a lecture at 7 tonight at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Through the lecture, titled "The Implications of Ethnic and Global Diversity for Education, Government and Business," Cortes will explain how the center could contribute to a better understanding of multiculturalism at KU.
Sherwood Thompson, director of the Office of Minority Affairs, said that a primary goal of the center was promoting diversity.
"We want to give to all students the opportunity to learn not only about multiculturalism but also a greater contact with different groups on campus," he said.
Carlos Cortes
To achieve this goal, the center will offer different
facilities and materials, Thompson said.
"We will have a computer lab and a library," he said. "Students will be able to find magazines, videos, journals and newspapers dealing with multicultural issues. There will be a very functional auditorium and rooms for meetings."
Besides offering material for research, the center will sponsor seminars, lectures, workshops and conferences about diversity, Thompson said.
Thompson said the center wasn't a place that welcomed only minorities.
"This is an inclusive center," he said. "We invite everybody to participate and benefit from the center. By participating in the center activities, students will be practicing diversity."
On a mission, Global Peace Walk '95 walked to KU and continued its ...
PARADE FOR PEACE WITH A MESSAGE OF LOVE
David Williams, coordinator of Global Peace Walk '95, (left) and the Rev. Yusen Yamato chart while playing their ceremonial drums. The group of more than 20 members gathered in front of Wescoe Hall yesterday afternoon. They have traveled from New York City and plan to arrive in San Francisco by June.
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KANSAN
By Brian Vandervliet Kansan staff writer
A repetition drum beat and the smell of burning sage filled the air as about two dozen members of Global Peace Walk '95 brought their message to Wesco Beach yesterday at noon.
"We want people around the world to order the United Nations for global peace now," said David Williams, a coordinator for the group. "There are wars going on in 40 countries. People all over the world are fighting for land and life right now. We want to stop people from getting killed."
The group began its walk on Jan. 15 in New York City and plans to arrive in San Francisco by June 20 for the 50th anniversary celebration of the United Nations, where they will present a collection of letters of support.
Williams said the group traveled about 30 miles each day. Members take turns walking the pavement and carrying the banner that says, "Global Peace Now." Those not walking, ride in one of the group's six vehicles. They arrived in Lawrence on Saturday night and planned to leave this morning.
As the Rev. Yusen Yamato, a Buddha monk from San Francisco, led the group in prayer, Peace Walk members held hands or beat ceremonial drums while standing in a circle. Yamato, dressed in an orange robe, rang a hand bell to get the attention of the spirits.
"All over the world there is fighting." Yamato said. "That's why many people are suffering."
Williams said the group came to Kansas to hold a three-day fast for Leonard Peltier, a Native American imprisoned at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. Peace Walk members believe he was wrongly accused of the murders of two FBI agents in 1975. They camped near the penitentiary for six days and prayed for Peltier.
While sage was being burnt during their prayer for peace yesterday, Samantha Graham, Lawrence junior, explained the significance of the herb.
Graham had helped bring Peace Walk to Lawrence but is not traveling with the groun.
"I think it's righteous," Graham said about their journey. "We need to protect the children. They need
"It clears the ethereal realms of people so that we can relate in harmony with each other," she said.
to be taught benevolence."
After the ceremony in front of Wescoe, which lasted about 30 minutes, the group walked to city hall for a meeting with Mayor Jo Andersen. Peace Walk members had requested a letter of support from Andersen.
Although Andersen joined the group in a brief prayer for peace and talked with them about Lawrence history.
she stopped short of providing a letter. She gave them a pin instead. But Peace Walk members were not disappointed.
"I was very pleased she came out and showed her support." Williams said.
After the meeting with Andersen, the group marched to its white Chevy school bus. This time they marched not for peace but for lunch.
CLAS advising stays up late this semester
By Matthew Friedrichs Kansan staff writer
When the 5 o'clock whistle blows, the lights will remain on in the advising support center in 4017 Wescoe.
Starting yesterday, the center's new hours are from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday.
The extended hours are being offered for students who may not be able to use the center's services during regular hours because of full-time jobs or other conflicts, said Pam Houston, director of the college of liberal arts and sciences undergraduate center.
"It's a test for us," Houston said. "We're doing it on a trial basis."
Houston said that if students responded positively and used the advising support center during the extended hours, the college also might consider keeping other offices, such as the college undergraduate center, open later.
The college tried extending the center's hours several years ago, but the move was unsuccessful because few students stopped in during the later hours.
Students who live near campus or who have evening classes are expected to benefit from the extended hours, said James Muyskens, dean of liberal arts and sciences.
"In addition to more classes taught in the evenings, we are looking ahead to a larger proportion of students taking night classes." Muvskens said.
Kathy Hall, director of the advising support center, said liberal arts students were assigned to advisers outside of her office. The advisers in the office advise pre-law students, students who plan to enter the School of Allied Health, Applied English Center students and some readmitted students.
They also provide advice on withdrawal petitioning and general information about college requirements.
The center will stagger shifts for advisers, Hall said. More advisers will come in later in the morning to provide staff for the extended hours.
The extended hours will continue through April. Students' responses then will be evaluated, and the college will make the decision whether to continue evening hours.
Kansan receives advertising award
The University Daily Kansan won the national Trendsetter award for advertising for the third straight year at the College Newspaper Business and Advertising Manager's conference last weekend in Clearwater, Fla. Only one Trendsetter is awarded each year.
Jennifer Carr, Mount Prospect, III., senior and the business manager for Fall 1994, won Business Manager of the Year. Mindy Blum, Wichita senior, won Salesperson of the Year. Only one award is given in each category per year in the nation.
"We were really excited to have won three years in a row," said Jennifer Perrier, Lawrence senior and business manager this semester. "We've never done that before."
Tom Eblen, general manager of the Kansan, said the students deserved the Trendsetter.
"I am delighted for the students," he said. "I think they continue to look for and find inventive ways to serve their advertising clients, which in turn makes the Kansan a better paper."
were trying to win the title 2 years in a row.
Candidate encourages lobbying, student involvement
Lisa Perry / KANSAN
David Stevens, left, campaigns in front of Wescoe Hall. Stevens, Wichita Junior, is the presidential candidate on the REAL Coalition. Student Senate elections are April 12 and 13.
By Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
David Stevens, candidate for student body president, first got involved in politics at the age of 5 when he and his mother supported U.S. S恩. Nancy Kassebaum's 1980 campaign in Wichita.
"Nancy was a person that I knew, and she was a candidate that I really wanted to support," said Georgia Stevens, Stevens' mother. "So I put my little children in the wagon, and we went door to door."
Fifteen years after his Kassebaum experience, Stevens, Wichita junior, is running with the REAL coalition. Student Senate elections are April 12 and 13.
Stevens said that one of his concerns was encouraging students to be politically active.
"The most important issue to me is making student voices count at every level," he said. "Our student government is there so that every student has a voice in what goes on at KU."
Stevens first became involved with Student Senate when he was elected to serve as a Nunemaker senator last year.
Stevens said that the president should be representing students.
If elected student body president, Stevens said that a priority would be to go to Topeka twice a week and represent students before the Kansas Legislature.
Spending time in Topeka was important, Stevens said, because students often were faced with fees that the state should be financing, such as the lights on campus.
He cited his lobbying experience from helping to form two student lobbying groups on campus: the Student Legislative Awareness Board and Third Millennium.
The Student Legislative Awareness Board is a Student Senate affiliated organization that tries to raise student awareness about political issues and increase student voter registration. The volunteer board was created after former Kansas Attorney General Bob Stephan issued an opinion that student fees could not pay for lobbying efforts,
which eliminated the existing group of Student Senate, the Associated Students of Kansas.
Russell Getter, associate professor of political science and the faculty adviser of the board, said that Stevens had worked for the collective welfare of the student body in his efforts with the organization. He said that Stevens would be a qualified student body president.
"I not吨 over versed on the whole thing." Getter said. "But he's certainly done a lot of work in trying to get student involvement in the political process."
Stevens became involved with Third Millennium last year after reading an editorial about the group in the Wichita Eagle. He contacted the organization, said he liked what he read, and they eventually made him Kansas coordinator.
"They lobby Congress on behalf of young people and try to make young people aware of how politics affects them," he said of
See STEVENS, Page 5A
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