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Friday, April 8, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Hispanic retreat planned
By Jay A. Cohen
Special to the Kansan
In a student body numbering more than 26,000, it is easy for the almost 340 Hispanic students at the University of Kansas to miss one another.
In hopes of bringing people of Hispanic backgrounds together, the KU Hispanic-American Leadership Organization (HALO) is sponsoring "Pieces of a Puzzle," a cultural retreat providing a night of music, food, skits and games, and perhaps most importantly, talk.
The retreat is scheduled from 10
am to 6 a.m. at Ecumenical
Christian Institute.
John Augusto, Topeka sophomore and a member of the HALO committee that organized the event, said, "We want Hispanic students at KU to know that they need not be a number. We want the word 'Hispanic' to have meaning for them."
Isabel Noques, Overland Park
rreshman and a member of the committee said, "We want to share what culture means to us."
Augusto said that the purpose of the retreat was to educate Hispanic students about Hispanic culture and get them involved in educating the general population.
"One of the best ways to fight prejudice is to have people get to know you." Augusto said. He described KU as being supportive of Hispanics. He said that he had not experienced direct discrimination, but that it was prejudice. That will be one of the subjects discussed at the retreat.
Augusto also wants to recruit new members for HALO, which has about 30 active members, and to promote unity among Hispanic students.
"Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the country, and we are growing at KU as well," he said. "We should be a factor on
campus."
Raymond Lopez, president of HALO, said encouraging young Hispanics to continue their education was one of the group's priorities. Last fall, HALO member Marvin Symposium, Kansas State University Symposium, which brought more than 500 high school students to visit the KU campus.
This summer, HALO members will be involved in the Shadow Program, an organization similar to Big Brothers-Big Sisters. The program is an effort to reduce a high Hispanic dropout rate. Volunteers will maintain contact with Hispanic junior high students in need and acting as role models and encouraging the students to stay in school.
ALL KU students of Hispanic heritage are invited to the retreat. There is a $2 fee, and those attending are asked to bring food for potluck.
Baptists may shift abortion stand
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A mainline U.S. denomination, the American Baptist Churches, is backing away from its support of abortion rights, officials said this week.
It was the first such definitive shift projected among the larger, socially activist Protestant organizations.
Similar reassessments that either stiffened opposition to abortion or qualified acceptance of it have come in some other major denominations.
The position revision planned by American Baptists stemmed from both the simmering discontent with the past stance and the increasing number of abortions in the country.
"The great proliferation of abortion has made us stop and look at what's happening here," said Gloria Marshall
of Alto Loma, Calif, head of a task force that has been re-examining the issue for more than two years.
"It's a process of re-evaluation and reassessment," she said.
The new position is "a pro-life stance in affirming the sacredness of life as a gift of God," she said.
But the document avoids both the anti-abortion and pro-choice terms commonly used in the polarized conflict over abortion.
The newly prepared statement, expected to be approved in a final presentation to a policy-making general board in June, acknowledges keen diversity on the issue among the denomination's 1.6 million members.
However, the statement breaks with the 1981 stand, which saw abortion in terms of religious liberty as a matter of responsible personal choice.
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