University Daily Kansan / Wednesdav. February 28, 1990
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Mentors can help minority students
By Pam Solliner
Kansan staff writer
Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
Sexton says role models are important for minority students.
If there is one message Linwood Sexton wants to send minority students at the University of Kansas, it's that they should get involved in every activity on campus.
"There shouldn't be one function held on this campus that we shouldn't be involved in," he said.
Sexton, Board of Regents member since 1876, spoke about role modeling for minorities to about 50 people last night at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The speech was sponsored by the Student Affairs Staff Development Committee.
He said role models, peer counseling and a mentor program could help minorities achieve leadershin roles.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, said that mentors gave minorities encouragement to participate in campus activities.
'There shouldn't be one function held on this campus that we shouldn't be involved in.'
— Linwood Sexton Board of Regents member
"He said something very important tonight, that minorities should be involved in every activity on campus," Ramaley said. "The mentoring program gives them confidence to do that."
Ramaley said the Office of Minority Affairs planned to substantially strengthen its mentor programs.
Marshall Jackson, director of
the Office of Minority Affairs, said KU's primary mentor program was called stEP, which stands for Students Together Excelling in Education Program.
Jackson said the new program trained peer advising counselors who worked through the work-study program. The students meet with the counselors based on individual needs and concerns.
Sexton said the climate at universities needed to be comfortable for all students.
He said government, business and educational institutions should strive for a better climate, but he has argued that it for by taking leadership roles.
Sexton cited the mentor program at his alma mater, Wichita State University. In that program, he received the award for students receive scholarships so that
Sexton said role models were important for inspiring a positive self-image and respect.
each can serve as a role model for five incoming freshmen.
"We must rid ourselves of the stereotype that excellence is not for minorities in our colleges and universities," he said. "We need to reassert the reliance in self-respect, self-reliance and high inspiration to encourage minority students that they can compete in equal terms in academics as well as athletics."
Frenchette Garth, president of the Black Student Union, and Eladio Valdez III, former president of HALO, said they agreed that mentor programs would help minorities but said that an orientation program for all KU students about minority issues would help improve the campus climate.
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