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NEWS / MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
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A snowman holds up a copy of The Kansan outside of Stauffer-Flint Hall. Another batch of winter snow covered Lawrence on Friday, allowing students to enjoy winter activities once again.
Colleges offering Spanish materials
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PHILADELPHIA — For some Hispanic students, navigating the college application process can be a double-whammy: Balancing high school coursework with essays and interviews, and then translating the whole system for their parents, who don't speak English.
Some venerable East Coast universities are trying to ease that burden — and tap the booming pool of Hispanic students — by offering Spanish translations of their admissions and financial aid material.
Bryn Mawr College, an elite women's liberal arts school near Philadelphia, recently launched a Spanish version of its Web site. And the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania has begun conducting some college admissions sessions in Spanish.
"These initiatives are really geared toward the families ... to take some of the pressure off the students," said Jennifer Rickard, Bryn Mawr's chief enrollment officer.
Family comfort level is extremely important in the Hispanic community, where parental ties are strong and many are wary of sending their children away to school, said Deborah Santiago, vice president for policy and research at Washington-based Excelencia in Education.
"The parents do play a critical role in at least the aspiration of college," Santiago said. "My parents hadn't gone to college but they told me I was going."
Nationwide, only 25 percent of Hispanics ages 18 to 24 were in college in 2006. That compares with 32 percent of blacks, 44 percent of whites and 61 percent of Asian-Americans, according to a report by the American Council on Education. But the same report found that Hispanic college enrollment increased 66 percent between 1995 and 2005.
The U.S. Latino population overall is expected to grow from 15 percent to 28 percent by 2050, according to Census Bureau figures released in December.
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language programs for non-native speakers. Many Hillcrest students are children of KU students living in Stauffer Place Apartments or nearby neighborhoods.
Marike Janzen, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, said she participated in the march because she was concerned about the effect closing schools would have on neighborhoods.
"Schools are the cornerstone of strong neighborhoods," Janzen said. "Hillcrest has so many unique qualities I think are important."
Janzen has two sons, one who is a third grader at Hillcrest, and one who will be starting kindergarten at Hillcrest in the fall. She said that the unique international student population at Hillcrest had played a large role in her son's education and is very important to her.
All three of Patterson's children attended Hillcrest. Patterson said she marched in support of the Hillcrest community, which played a large role in her children's lives.
"The people that usually watch and attend the parades downtown are the people marching." Patterson said. "These people make the town. We have to support these people." Shona Clarkson, a junior from St.
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Among the members of the Lawrence community who marched on Saturday, Anne Patterson, lecturer in Architecture and Urban Planning, demonstrated dressed as a Viking.
Clarkson, who lives in East Lawrence, said she hoped the march would make a difference in the way the school board makes its decision. "If it doesn't, it shows that people aren't listening." Clarkson said.
"It seems like Vikings have a little fight," Patterson said. "That's what we need."
The next school board meeting is at 7 p.m. tonight at the Educational Support & Distribution Center, 110 McDonald Drive.
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Stables said he felt for kids like Julian, who would be affected by any school closings. "It just seems like all the schools for lower income people are being threatened to be closed," Stables said.
Louis, and Aaron Stables, a junior from Derby, both participated in the march in support of Julian, a first grader at New York School.
Members of the Oread Neighborhood Association and a few property owners that live in the predominately student-populated area expressed their concerns with parking, excessive partying and other behavioral issues associated with the growing number of boarding houses at last Tuesday's meeting.
While the discussion around the future of boarding houses affects students just as much as neighbors, only one student was present at the meeting.
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Although the commissioners discussed the plan, they voted to return the proposal to the planning committee. Part of the city's decision to return the proposal to the planning commission was to give students the opportunity to voice their opinions. The commissioners recognized that boarding houses, especially in the Oread Neighborhood, are more practical for students because they are close to campus and allow students to share rent and other expenses with multiple roommates. The area known as the Oread Neighborhood, primarily located on Ohio, Tennessee and Kentucky streets between 11th and 17th streets, is the main focus of the discussion around boarding houses.
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But the planning commission is having difficulty proposing a plan that would be acceptable to neighbors, students, landlords and the community as a whole. The proposed plan was more beneficial for students, but some Oread neighbors felt their interests were not protected. Because of this difficulty the plan will likely be reworked to include regulations that are harasser for students. The committee originally initiated a text amendment that would change the regulations of boarding houses in May 2009 and have had subsequent meetings in August, October and December with little success in finding a proposal that accommodates all.
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Houses such as this one, which holds more than 10 college students, can have negative effects on neighborhoods. Parking congestion and parties are a part of issues that have drawn criticism.
"I objected to the way students were being characterized as alcoholics and irresponsible undergraduates."
made that affect students. The reasons she attended the meeting last Tuesday were to address the lack of student input in the process and the negative generalizations being made by members of the Oread Neighborhood Association.
Elise Higgins, a senior from Topeka and community affairs director for Student Senate, is responsible for representing the interest of Student Senate to the city and making sure student voices are heard when decisions are
ELISE HIGGINS
Topeka senior
"It's important
It's important students are involved in the process when it affects where they live," Higgins said. "I objected to the way students were being characterized as alcoholics and irresponsible undergraduates. It's really unfair to generalize that to all students who live in the neighborhood."
Tristan Conrad, a senior from
Andover, said he disagreed with people who think the number of boarding houses should be reduced or that they should be limited by harsher restrictions. Conrad lives in an eight-bedroom house with nine other students. He said that they
"We have contacted our neighbors and help them with items such as yard work," Conrad said. "We have also helped our landlord with work around the house. It is our house, we live
are not irresponsible students and chose to live together for the economic benefits of boarding style houses.
there and are productive students"
there and are productive students. Both Higgins and Conrad said they believed students should be more involved in decisions that affect them as well as permanent residents.
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