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KU Hillel moves into downtown
BY ROSHNI OOMMEN roommen@kansan.com
As KU Hillel celebrated the opening of its new establishment Sunday afternoon, a mezuzah was placed on the door frame in its honor. The new facility, at 722 New Hampshire Street, is located in the Hobbs Taylor Building downtown.
"This tells people this is a Jewish space," said Neal Schuster, senior Jewish educator and rabbi of KU Hillel. "It's a sign — a visible reminder for us — that we supposed to be living our lives in a particular way."
Sunday's celebration included a naming ceremony and recognition of the Buchbinder family, who supported the project. Funding for the new facility came from private donors. Jay Lewis, executive director of KU Hillel, said that the project was almost not completed because of the recent economic downturn.
"Our leadership was nervous about making a big financial commitment," Lewis said. "But then the funders stepped up, and we were able
KU Hillel is an on-campus organization that reaches out to students of the Jewish faith. Previously, the group had a house on Mississippi, which was closer to campus, Amanda Gropper, program director of KU Hillel, said the downtown location is better suited for student outreach because of its proximity to an important part of town.
"The old house just wasn't conducive to the programs we wanted to house," Gropper said. "Students weren't inclined to pop in. But here, students come in here to study, do homework, or just talk."
Laura Shulkin, vice-president of KU Hillel, said that the new space gave the group the ability to facilitate its most popular programming without relying on other campus groups or locations.
"Putting on these programs in the quaint, but small Hillel house was a struggle," said Shulkin, a junior from Chicago. "This functional space is perfect for our wants and needs."
Edited by Kristen Liszewski
Making a statement
Chance Dibben/KANSAN
The words "shout peace" adorn the top of the newly opened hotel The Oread Sunday afternoon. The painted text is visible from far across campus.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this photo made Thursday, Feb. 11, an anti-abortion billboard is shown in Atlanta. The eyebrow-raising ads featuring a young black child are an effort by the anti-abortion movement to use race to rally support within the black community. The reaction from black leaders has been mixed, but the "Too Many Aborted" campaign, which so far is unique to only Georgia, is drawing support from other anti-abortion groups across the country.
ACTIVISM
Georgia ads link race and abortion
RV ERDIN WAINEC
Associated Press
ATLANTA — The message on dozens of billboards across the city is provocative: Black children are an "endangered species."
The eyebrow-raising ads featuring a young black child are an effort by the anti-abortion movement to use race to rally support within the black community. The reaction from black leaders has been mixed, but the "Too Many Aborted" campaign, which so far is unique to only Georgia, is drawing support from other anti-abortion groups across the country.
"It's ingenious," said the Rev. Johnny Hunter, national director of the Life Education and Resource Network, a North Carolina-based anti-
abortion group aimed at African-Americans that operates in 27 states. "This campaign is in your face, and nobody can immoe it"
The billboards went up last week in Atlanta and urge black women to "get outraged."
The effort is sponsored by Georgia Right to Life, which also is pushing legislation that aims to ban abortions based on race.
Black women accounted for the majority of abortions in Georgia in 2006, even though blacks make up just a third of state population, according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
Nationally, black women were more than three times as likely to get
"This campaign is in your face, and nobody can ignore it."
REV. JOHNNY HUNTER national director of the Life Education and Resource Network
an abortion in 2006 compared with white women, according to the CDC.
"I think it's necessary," Cheryl Sullenger, senior policy adviser for Operation Rescue, said of the billboard campaign. "Abortion in the
black community is at epidemic proportions. They're not really aware of what's actually going on. If it shocks people ... it it should be shocking."
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