2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1. 2006
Chaiki Gonda Disability rights advocate
BY ANDREA CHAO
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORSPONDENT
International student and disability rights advocate, junior Chiaki Gonda is an executive member of AbleHawks, a campus organization created to raise awareness about disability issues. She is from Nagano, Japan, and lives in Watkins Scholarship Hall.
What do you like to do in your free time?
CG: I like watching and playing sports. I play baseball every Saturday. I love to listen to music. I always walk with my MP3 player. I also like reading books and hanging out with my friends.
Who is your role model?
What is your major?
CG: Applied Behavioral Science
CG: My host parents. She and her late husband were internationally recognized great disability rights activists. They are my inspiration and heroes. Their philosophy leads me to keep living fully and win my life. They made me believe that each one of us has a power and can change the world if we take an action with responsibility and love.
CG: Our goal is to raise awareness of disability issues on the KU campus and to provide an opportunity for students to join
What is your involvement with the group?
together in promoting disability as a multicultural and diversity issue.
CG: Being a treasure, historian and community service chair. Being an executive member. I organize different events for our group, represent AbleHawks and serve on the transportation board for KU on Wheels.
What are some of the activities the group does?
CG: We do various activities discussion, learn about disability rights history and facts, have a guest speaker speak, watching movies, picnic, social night and many more.
Why would you encourage students to get involved?
CG: I strongly believe that every single person can make a difference for not only disability issues but also any issues on campus. Each person has an essential role for improvement of campus life. I want people to realize and lead that into an action.
What would you like for the student body to know about you or the organization?
CG: I would like for the student body to know that there is a substantial number of students with disabilities at KU. Our organization is there to help, understand and advocate for our rights together. Anybody with and without disabilities is welcome to join in our group.
Nicoletta Niosi/KANSAN
Jeanne Shaheen, former governor of New Hampshire, Barbara Lee, founder of the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, and Jane Swift, former governor of Massachusetts, gave a lecture at the Dole Institute of Politics yesterday. The lecture "Chief Executive; Women as Governors" was part of the Institute's "The First Woman President" lecture series.
SPEAKER
Lee said voters were gradually becoming more comfortable with seeing women in positions of political power. She said a large mass of women must run for office and win in order to create change and equality for women.
BY ANNE WELTMER
aweltmer@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Lee said people in Kansas were ahead of the game. While
Former women governors Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Jane Swift of Massachusetts spoke on a panel about the challenges of having a family and holding political office to a crowd of more than 100 people Tuesday night.
Panel stresses career, family
It was the last of five events at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics Presidential Lecture Series.
The panel was moderated by Barbara Lee, a promoter of women gaining political power. She is also founder of the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, which studies women in politics.
30 states have never had a woman governor, Kansas is one of only three states to have had two. Governor Sebelius, who was in the audience was elected years after the first woman governor of Kansas, Joan Finney. Sebelius was recently named by the White House Project, which promotes a woman to the presidency of the U.S., as one of eight potential first woman presidents.
Kansas also gave women the right to vote in 1912, eight years earlier than the rest of the United States. It also had the first woman mayor.
Swift said the key was to have women with both a family and political office. She said successful women in office don't have families for the most part,
Former Governor Jane Swift gave birth to twins while she was in office. She stressed the need for maternity leave, saying the state of Massachusetts has no such program for its government employees. She also said that women have a hard time reentering politics after taking time off for their families.
but that many young women were expressing the desire to have families. Therefore, the only way to expand women in politics was to find a way for them to do both.
Former Governor Jeanne Shaheen said that while she was fortunate enough to have three daughters who were all older than Swift's when she was running for office, she still had to find a balance. She said her oldest daughter took a semester off college to help with her campaign. And her husband, a judge, did the same thing. In that way she showed that not only could she manage a family but also a political office. The only tricky part, she said, was making sure it didn't look like her husband was calling the shots.
All of the women agreed that the key to having the first woman president was to see more women in office with both a successful political career and a family. That way, women can gain more political offices while still having a family.
—Edited by James Foley
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH Essay contest to award book vouchers and iPod to winners
The McCollum Hall ARC is sponsoring an essay contest to celebrate Black History Month. The contest is for students living in the residence halls.
The top two entries will receive a $250 or $150 book voucher donated by KU Bookstores. An iPod shuffle will be awarded to the third place entry.
Essays must be one page, single-spaced, in 12-point font. Submit entries to mccollumarc@gmail.com no later than 5 p.m. on Friday, March 3.
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The Ecumenical Christian Ministries is sponsoring a lecture over "Arabic Language and Instruction" as part of its University Forum series at 12 p.m. today at the center.
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A 20-year-old KU student reported criminal damage to her Compaq Presario laptop between 1 a.m. and 8 a.m. Sunday. According to the police report, her ex-boyfriend, who is also a KU student, damaged the $1200 laptop and caused $50 in damage to dry wall in her living room.
Student Union Activities is sponsoring a poetry slam at 7 p.m. today in the Hawks Nest of the Kansas Union. Prizes will be awarded.
Alan Cobb, Dole Fellow, is hosting a seminar entitled "Citizens vs.The Man" at 4 p.m. today at the Dole Institute of Politics.
EDWARDS Program to highlight shared religious past
Yajiraj Padilla, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese, is hosting a seminar on "Penelope's Struggle; Women and the Central American Immigrant Reality in Mario Bencastro's Odisea del Norte and Héctor Tobar's The Tattooed Soldier" at 3:30 p.m. today at the Seminar Room in Hall Center for the Humanities.
ON THE RECORD
Mark Nanos, lecturer in religious studies, will present a program at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Regnier Hall auditorium on the KU Edwards Campus in Overland Park.
The program is part of the Abraham's Children series, which explores the shared heritage of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The program, titled "Us and Them: The Promise and Limits of Abrahamic Descent," will look into how different traditions emphasize various ideals from the story of Abraham.
The Abraham's Children series will continue March 21 with Reza Aslan, a scholar of comparative religion, who will speak on "The Sons of Ismael."
All lectures are free and open to the public.
— Nicole Kelley
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