Monday, February 26, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Women, minority students learn of KU programs
By Pam Solliner
Yaleen staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Michelle Munsen, a junior at Chapman High School, said she was considering attending the University of Kansas or Kansas State University for her undergraduate degree.
Minority recruitment program includes talk about prejudice
She already has 13 hours of college credit. With a year of high school left, she's not sure what major she'll pursue in college, but she's considering engineering, either electrical, chemical or nuclear.
Munsen was one of 40 minority and women high school students who participated in the Howard Hughes program at KU on Thursday and Friday.
The program gives students the opportunity to learn about careers in biomedical sciences and to tour KU's medical facilities. Michael Gaines, program director.
He said 15 scholarships ranging from $1,500 to $6,000 would be awarded through a $1 million grant that KU earned last year from the Howard Hughes Foundation. The grant will be spent over five years to encourage minority and female scholars to study science at KU.
By Pam Solner
Kenan staff writer
Top high school minority students, who visited the University of Kansas for recruitment programs, learned that college life at a predominantly white university is not without prejudice.
Deanna Munsen of Junction City,
KU Endowment Merit Scholars performed skits and entertained candid discussions with potential merit scholars, who had a free hour away from parents and KU administrators.
"I think this is a good idea because sometimes with administrators, students won't ask the questions they really want to,"
said Julie Collingwood, Wichita graduate student in the Office of Admissions.
About 50 high school seniors attended the event Friday at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. This was the last event held by the university day packed with campus tours and education presentations.
Nine merit scholars gave five skits on different aspects of college life including the ill effects of studying all night.
Justin Cordova, a senior at Lawrence High School, said the programs helped him narrow his choice to KU.
"I like how they bring our heritage into it," Cordova said of the programs.
"I saw that there were other minorities up here, and I wouldn't be the only one," he said.
Mert scholar Louie Lopez, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, said the programs he had seen as a high school convinc him to attend KU.
The skit that drew the most attention was an exaggerated example of dealing with racial dominance white campus like KU,
Using a twist of reverse discrimination, the group acted out a
classroom situation where all the students but one were minorities. The instructor put down the white student for not keeping up on the readings and ignored her comments during class discussion.
Although the students said the skit was an exaggerated example, many said they had experienced some type of racial discrimination, insensitivity or stereotyping.
Rachel Duran, Garden City freshman,cited an example.
She said she walked out of a stall in a crowded bathroom at Allen Field House, and the three women who were next in line waited for another available stall rather than
use the one she left.
Eladio Valdez III, Kansas City
Kan., senior, said many people
had the assumption that all Hispanic
spoken Spanish. He said
two-thirds of Hispanics, like him,
were born in the United States
in an English-speaking family.
Valdez was surprised when his Spanish 104 instructor said, "I'm glad everyone here is taking Spanish we're being invaded by Mexicans."
He said the instructor then made another racially insensitive joke.
Michelle's mother, said the program offered better merit scholarship than the Ivy League schools that had tripped recruiting her daughter.
"It kind of scared me because an instructor was conveying this to students," Valdez said.
In conjunction with the Discovery program, 94 other high school minority students visited KU as a part of
"There is no way in 1900 that I can stand here and assure you that if you come to KU, you will not encounter any racism or any insensitivity or
education was genuine and not a ploy to boost its number of minority students.
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any evidences of stereotyping," she said.
"But I can tell you that we are trying, that you will find people here who really want to help staff who truly, truly want to help make this world a better place.
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At a luncheon in the Kansas Union Ballroom, Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for graduate studies, research and public service, addressed the participants of both programs.
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Milton Scott, coordinator of the endowment program, said KU gave 65 scholarships last year. He said KU planned to give away more scholarships this academic year.
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