University Daily Kansan / Friday, December 7, 1990
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Suarez brings sensitivity to position
By Debbie Myers Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
When Sylvia Suarez moved to Miami from Cuba with her family when she was 11, she expected to be treated the same as everyone else.
But she and her family experienced subtle discrimination through name-calling and being told to go back home.
"During those years I began to realize that indeed I wasn't considered to be a part of the majority." Suarez said. "The government designated a category for me that was not part of the majority."
"Those were the kinds of things that made me sensitive to what other minorities were going through."
Suares has brought the sensitivity she has developed during the years to her new position as assistant director of health affairs. She began her new job Nov. 19.
Marshell Jackson, interim director of minority affairs, said Saurez's experience working with KU faculty members would be helpful to the office.
Sylvia Suarez
Her sensitivity will help as well, he said.
"Her sensitivity and desire to assist students with their concerns is genuine, and she is the type of person we need in student services to help students with their goals and concerns." Jackson said.
This semester, KU officials and minority group leaders interviewed
five candidates for the position of director of the office.
Suarez said she was waiting for the new director of the office to take over Jan. 1 so that office employees could begin planning and working together
"Hopefully it will be in the direction of expanding current programs and incorporating new programs." Suarez said. "I would like to see us offer more things to students and become more active in issues that have to do with diversity and discrimination."
Suarez worked for three years in the minority graduate student recruitment office in the Office of Student Affairs. When she saw the assistant director's position advertised in a University publication, she
saw an opportunity to work with Hispanic and other minority students.
One of Surer's ideas is to form a cultural center on campus as a sort of home away from home for minority students. He wants to exchange intellectual and artistic ideas.
Her other goals include planning more cultural celebrations for minority students, helping all student groups work together and becoming active with the Hispanic American Leadership Organization.
She said she also would like to get more non-minority students involved in the program.
"I think frequency is important because it establishes a pattern, and the more you hear about something, the more it becomes second nature in your life," Stuarez said. "In order to change the campus climate, we need to change the attitudes and misperceptions that other students may have just because of lack of exposure to minorities."
Saurze said that most people had good intentions but simply lacked information about minorities who were not a regular part of their lives.
"The bottom line is that we all share more similarities than differences." Suarez says. "It doesn't matter who you are in the world, we all strive for it." We all laugh, we all cry, we all rejoice when something happens to us."
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