UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, November 15, 1993
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Diversity is not a 'fashion,' speaker says
Speaker says building multiculturalism on campuses important
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By Brian James Kansan staff writer
Blandina Cardenas-Ramirez thinks the word "diversity" is one of the most overused in the United States.
"Lots of times people go out to get on the diversity bandwagon simply because it is fashionable," she said.
Valerie Bontrager / KANSAN
Milton Scott, assistant director of student housing, gets a hug from MACURH conference co-director Ken Martin, Bloomington, Minn., sophomore, and a pat on the back from co-director Jamie Cutburth, Hillsboro, Ore., senior. Scott received the Mabel Strong Outstanding MACURH Advisor award at the annual MACURH banquet Saturday evening in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Cardenas-Ramirez presented a speech titled "Beyond Diversity: Building Community on Multicultural Campuses" on Friday at the Midwest Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls Conference. She presented the same speech Thursday evening at the Kansas Union.
About 550 student delegates from 36
Midwest universities attended the speech Friday.
Cardenas-Ramirez said building a truly diverse university required more than a trendy word.
"When we talk about diversity, multiculturalism and building of community on college campuses, it is critically important that we all understand that we are not doing something because it is in fashion," she said. "We have a fundamental responsibility to students to prepare them to live with, work with and contribute to individuals and groups unlike themselves."
Southwest Texas State University and serves on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
Cardenas-Ramirez is director of the Southwest Center on Values, Achievement and Community at
Cardenas-Ramirez challenged the audiences to find new ways for campus groups to interact.
"If you are spending all of your time just with people who are like you, you are ill-preparing yourself for the future," she said.
Cardenas-Ramirez said universities could improve diversity on campus by using five methods:
- Have administrators must work with groups to ensure they are interacting with other groups.
Provide extra help for campus groups that do not have as many participants or as much funding as other groups.
Slykas said she thought KU had a diversity of students, but often those groups were segregated.
Educate all students and faculty, regardless of ethnicity, in multiculturalism.
students, who are the future of this country," she said.
Educate students on the background of American society and historical patterns of diversity.
"We must engage in the kind of learning that will enable us to solve the problems that have arrived out of the historic inequality in this society," she said.
n Encourage cooperation between campus groups.
"We must understand that we have a common stake and a common future," Cardenas-Ramirez said. "We are in this together."
communication and leadership skills, and personal issues such as stress, sex, eating disorders and homophobia.
Delegates at the conference attended seminars that were held on Saturday at Wescoe Hall and the Kansas Union. They addressed such issues as
Jennifer Slykas, Chicago freshman and one of the MACURH national communications coordinators, said Cardenas-Ramirez's speech was inspirational and could be applied to KU's campus.
"She seems to have a lot of faith in
"Dr. Ramirez was very informative and optimistic that campus groups could get to know other groups' cultures and educate each other," she said.
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