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Monday, November 29, 2010
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MONDAY November 29
The Dole Institute of Politics is hosting a 2010 Elections Study Group with Dole Fellow Peter Fenn from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
The Center of Latin American Studies is hosting its third annual Fiesta Cultural concert from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at The Bottleneck in downtown Lawrence.
TUESDAY November 30
November 30
KU Army ROTC and Red Cross are hosting a blood drive from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. In the Military Science Building, second Floor Drill Deck.
The Hall Center for Humanities is presenting a Modernities Seminar with Majid Hannoun from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in the Hall Center Seminar Room.
FRIDAY
WEDNESDAY
December 3
December 1
Student Union Activities will host a showing of the movie "Eat, Pray, Love" from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium, level 5.
- The KU Department of Dance will present "New Dance Concert" at 7:30 p.m. In Robinson Center, Elizabeth Sherbon Dance Theatre, Studio 240.
The Academic Achievement and Access Center is presenting a workshop about preparing for finals from 5 to 5:30 p.m. in Wescoe Hall, room 4008.
The Student Involvement and Leadership Center is hosting an international internship fair from 6 to 8 p.m. in the fourth floor lobby of the Kansas Union.
SATURDAY
December 4
The Department of Visual Art will host an open drawing workshop from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Art and Design Building room 405.
Student Union Activities will host free cosmic bowling from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Jaybowl, 1st floor of the Kansas Union.
THURSDAY December 2
Student Union Activities is hosting a holiday open house from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the fourth floor lobby of the Kansas Union.
The KU Libraries' department of institutional services is presenting a workshop on making charts and graphics with Excel 2007 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Anschutz Library instruction center.
SUNDAY
December 5
KU School of Music will present a Holiday Vespers concert from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.at the Lied Center.
NATIONAL
New job program offered for transgender people
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SAN FRANCISCO - Before Goodwill Industries opened its newest retail outlet in San Francisco, no one would have argued that the city had a shortage of thrift stores for its avid recyclers and trendy hipsters. What the city did lack was enough jobs for its transgender population, a group with an unemployment rate thought to be twice the California average.
So when a prime piece of commercial real estate languished vacant in the predominantly gay Castro district, activists and city officials saw an opportunity to put a dent in the problem. The result is the nation's first Goodwill, and perhaps the first store of any kind, designed as a jobs program for workers whose genders are different from the ones they had at birth.
Seven of the shop's nine employees are transgender, most of them women who used to be men. Like the donated merchandise they collect and sell, all are looking for new lives. They were referred to Goodwill by the Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative.
transgender anti-bias training to minimize misunderstandings over pronoun and restroom usage.
"I guess it's fitting that we're working in a place that's based on the concept of 'recycle and reuse,'" said Alexie Scanlon, 38, who was just promoted to assistant manager at the Castro Goodwill. "If you are born in the wrong body, you learn to make use of what you have."
For example, an employee presenting herself as a woman was to be addressed as "she" and directed to the women's room, no questions asked.
In advance of the store's October opening, the job trainees had to spend a week working at another San Francisco Goodwill, while area Goodwill staff underwent
Initiative coordinator Clair Farley said the barriers transgender people face in finding stable work can be both personal and political. California is one of only 12 states where it is illegal to fire someone based on his or her gender identity, meaning that workers may be vulnerable if they transition while on the job. Years of hormones and surgeries can cause health problems, and the decision to switch sexes can leave individuals estranged from their families. Farley said.
ODD NEWS
Pet owners stop animal cremation
HELENA, Mont. — Officials responsible for a Montana pet cemetery are backing off a proposal to exhume and cremate its occupants after some of the pet owners threatened to chain themselves to the front gates.
The 1.3-acre Arley Burt Pet Cemetery in Helena is the final resting place for some 1,200 dogs, cats, rabbits and hamsters
buried between 1972 and 1993.
Gina Wiest of the Lewis and Clark Humane Society says the organization considered exhuming the pets in the cemetery adjacent to its shelter because of a new hotel going up nearby.
Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A 5-year-old West Virginia boy
has donated his life savings — nearly $46 in change — to help rebuild a volunteer fire station that burned down in an Oct. 1 electrical fire.
Tom Miller, with the fire department's board of directors, says the donation underscores community support for rebuilding. He says West Virginia schoolchildren have raised more than $5,000 already.
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2010 Post Election Conference
Wednesday, Dec. 1, 3:00-6:30 p.m.
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Dole Institute
Expert panelists evaluate the results of the midterm elections and discuss what it means for the next two years.
Tim Sandefur:
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The Right to Earn a Living Wednesday, Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m., Dole Institute Libertarian author, Tim Sandefur discusses his new book concerning citizens' rights to economic freedom.
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Study Groups
Study Groups
2010 Dole Fellow Peter Fenn
will discuss the 2010 Election
& the current political outlook
Nov. 29
4:00-5:30pm
at the Dole Institute
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Dec. 6
4:00-5:30pm
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