MU Diversity News
Vannah Shaw, Columbia Missourian
Jeffrey Williams is an adjunct assistant professor of English and director of access and urban outreach for the Office of Enrollment Management. But he also grew up in the housing projects in a family that benefited from public aid.
C.J. Trent
In the kitchen at the MU Hillel building, a dishwasher whirs. It must be run three times for each load, the traditional amount for preparing for Passover.
Grace Meiners, The Maneater
MU’s chapter of the Hispanic American Leadership Organization hosted its annual regional conference Saturday. About 45 students from Missouri State University, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Truman State University, the University of Kansas and Hickman High School attended the event, which focused on the theme “Celebrating our past, building our future.”
The Maneater
More than 20 students gathered in the Great Room of the Reynolds Alumni Center on Sunday for the LBC Senator Appreciation Luncheon, a two-hour event that marked the start of Black Love Week.
Bryan E. Jones
Speakers will include: Jeff Milyo, professor of economics, University of Missouri; Will Ross, associate dean for diversity, Washington University School of Medicine; Adewale Troutman, director of Louisville Metro Public Health & Wellness and associate professor at the University of Louisville School of Public Health. This event is free and open to the public.
Chris Blose, Mizzou Wire
Nursing professor Jill Scott-Cawiezell and a team of nursing students headed south for sunnier weather for Spring Break, but they weren’t exactly on vacation. Although they did log a little pool time, they spent most of their time performing health screenings on kids ages three through 17 in impoverished parts of the Dominican Republic.
Gwen Daniels, The Maneater
Some members of the MU community are speaking up about affirmative action. Students and faculty filled Monsanto Auditorium to debate affirmative action and the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, a proposed amendment to the Missouri Constitution that would eliminate race- and gender-based affirmative action programs and requirements at state universities.
Editorial, The Maneater
You’ve probably all been asked if you’re registered to vote in Missouri a few of times throughout the past few weeks. You might have even stopped to read the petition that was waved in your general direction.
Chad Day, Columbia Missourian
“Evidence shows that the global outreach of churches in the United States is at an all-time high,” he said. In his presentation at MU’s Memorial Union, Wuthnow said his survey refuted a main tenet of “The New Christendom” paradigm that states that the global influence of U.S. Christianity is waning.
Esten Hurtle, The Maneater
For a culture with a few thousand years of history, sixty years might not seem like such a long time. As the MU chapter of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life celebrates its 60th anniversary, all eyes are pointed toward the future.
Announcement
With possible implementation of the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, the Missing Minority Campaign has been formed to combat it by educating the University of Missouri (MU) campus, the Columbia community, as well as the entire state of Missouri concerning its impact and implications.
Chris Blose, Web Communications
Jennifer Kimball and Laura Merritt are overachievers. If that word has a negative connotation for you, then you haven’t met Kimball and Merritt.
Rachel Smeda, Columbia Missourian
Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? Is the chasm separating gays and lesbians and Christianity too wide to cross? Is the Bible an excuse to hate? These questions, from the Web site of the award-winning film, “For the Bible Tells Me So,” are the subject of a documentary highlighting five families and their experiences with homosexuality and struggles to reconcile it with the Bible.
Annie Nelson, Columbia Tribune
University of Missouri freshman Jaylan Salmons is a self-titled "Jesus Freak," and last weekend a variety of Christians were freaking out for her second annual Freak Show, a showcase of local youth Christian artists and performers. Salmons, 19, said her motivation for bringing together 19 different acts and an exhibit of seven visual Christian artists was to show the diversity of Christian worship.
Announcement, Chancellor's Diversity Initiative
Please take a moment to nominate a deserving individual for the Mizzou Inclusive Excellence Award.
Jennifer Faddis, News Bureau
Americans from a wide range of backgrounds will come together next month with a common purpose: to create accessible communities by implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act. The University of Missouri's Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center (DBTAC) - Great Plains ADA Center will host a National Americans with Disabilities Act Symposium at the America's Center in St. Louis, Mo., May 12 - 14. The Center, part of the MU School of Health Professions, is one of just 10 in the nation.
Sponsored by Mid-Missouri UNA-USA and Asian Affairs Center
the Mid-Missouri Chapter of the United Nations Association of the USA will sponsor a Trivia Night fundraiser at the Heidelberg (on 9th Street) to benefit Literacy for Masai girls in Kenya.
Erica Zucco, The Maneater
A panel held by Chancellor Brady Deaton on Monday encouraged MU students and faculty to become aware of and involved with the UM system’s 20-year-old relationship with the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.
Andrew Denney, The Maneater
A bill that would prohibit the enrollment of illegal immigrants in Missouri colleges and universities was sent to the Missouri Senate last week after passing in the House of Representatives earlier this month.
School of Health Professions
Shooting baskets, racing through an obstacle course and navigating a mine field will be among the challenges teams will face while competing in the Wheelchair Relay 2008. The relay is an annual fundraiser sponsored by physical therapy students from the MU School of Health Professions, the Four Winds Learning Community and Tiger Wheelchair Basketball. The 2008 relay will be held Saturday, April 5, from 10 a.m. – 12 noon in the Brewer Field House in the Student Recreation Complex.
Anna Koeppel, The Maneater
Voting for the Legion of Black Collegians executive board is today, but each candidate is running unopposed. The candidates participated in a forum during the last LBC Senate meeting before spring break, where they took questions from members of the elections committee and the audience.
Off Campus Diversity News
Afton Grier, Columbia Missourian
More than 100 women from across mid-Missouri are expected to attend the annual Progressive Women event “Politics as Art/The Art of Politics” from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Friday at the recently renovated Mule Barn, located at 505 Fay St.
Jenn Herseim, Columbia Missourian
Through diary entries, e-mails and letters, a theater group created a play from the thoughts of Rachel Corrie, a young American activist who was killed by a bulldozer while protesting the demolition of Palestinian homes in Gaza.
Jonathan Randles, Columbia Missourian
Internal investigations of complaints by white citizens against Columbia police officers from 2005 through 2007 were about 10 times more likely to be found valid than complaints from black citizens during the same period, according to a report requested by and compiled for the Citizen Oversight Committee.
Rachel Smeda, Columbia Missourian
The Jewish holiday of Passover, which begins this year at sundown April 19, is the remembrance of the story in the Bible of God’s miraculous deliverance of the Jews from slavery.
Karen Mahabir, AP, Columbia Missourian
Oct. 6, 1979, Pope John Paul II emerged from a car’s sunroof, waving and smiling to thousands of cheering onlookers who lined Washington streets and even climbed trees for a glimpse of the Roman Catholic leader.
Janese Heavin, Columbia Tribune
Caullen Hudson has noticed a trend at Rock Bridge High School. Every day, when kids socialize before and after classes and during lunch periods, the bench at the front of the main entryway fills up with black teenagers. White kids stand elsewhere.
