Campus to celebrate ‘Pride through Diversity’
The eighth annual Pride Through Diversity Week today (Thursday, Sept. 21)-Sept. 30 celebrates multicultural, ethnic and lifestyle diversity through films, lectures, panel discussions, concerts and displays. Activities, except the jazz program tonight, are free.
The featured speaker Sept. 28 will be Bernard Franklin, a board member of the National Center for Fathering in Shawnee Mission, Kan.
Diversity Week is coordinated by the Student Activities Council and sponsored by a number of other departments. Here is an abbreviated schedule. For more information or a complete schedule, call 978-3495.
- 2-3:30
p.m. Sept. 21, Rhatigan Student Center Fireplace Lounge: "Fresh
perspectives on African-American literature" by Anne Carroll, assistant
professor of English.
- 7 p.m.
Sept. 21, Campus Activities Center Theater: "Celebration of Jazz
Artists with The Artett" by well-known Wichita jazz guitarist Sterling
Gray and company. Admission is $3 general public; $2 WSU faculty and
staff; and free for WSU students.
- 12:30-1:30
p.m. Sept. 22, RSC Fireplace Lounge: international jam session.
- Noon-1
p.m. Sept. 25, RSC Great Plains Room: "Lead, Follow or Get Out
of the Way," a panel discussion focusing on service diversity and
its components of servant learning, service learning, volunteerism,
community service and mentoring.
- 1-2 p.m.
Sept. 25, RSC Regents Room: "Fathers and Sons: Men in Emerging
Roles" with Ron Matson, chair and associate professor of sociology
department, on the issues men face as family members in a rapidly changing
society.
- 7 p.m.
Sept. 25, CAC Theater: "What Box Do I Check? The Multiracial Experience."
How do multi-ethnic people self-identify in a nation using race categories?
When they check a box, what does that imply to other people?
- 11 a.m-1
p.m. Sept. 26, RSC Fireplace Lounge: "Women and Diversity"
discussion on current and topical issues facing women 'in a diverse
society.'
- 1-2:30
p.m. Sept. 26, 128 Jabara Hall: "The Changing Role of Women in
Policing," with Michael Palmiotto, criminal justice professor,
and female officers from the Wichita Police Department and the Sedgwick
County Sheriff’s Office discussing historical and contemporary
roles of women in policing.
- 6-7:30
p.m. Sept. 26, RSC Kansas Room: True Colors personality assessments.
- 7-8 p.m.
Sept. 26, CAC Theater: "Transcending Stereotypes in the Arts,"
with Nicholas Johnson, director of dance, on how talent rules in the
arts and differences are celebrated.
- Noon-1
p.m. Sept. 27, RSC Fireplace Lounge: "Health Care Issues That Don’t
Discriminate" by Marilyn Yourdon, director of Student Health Services.
- Noon-2
p.m. Sept. 27, RSC Regents Room: "Urban Pop Culture and Campus
Diversity" discussion on how hip hop/urban pop culture positively
and negatively affects campus culture.
- 7 p.m.
Sept. 27, RSC Kansas Room: "The Righteous Babes," a new documentary
focusing on the role and influence of female recording artists in the
1990s and modern women.
- 11:30
a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sept. 28, lawn between Heskett Center, Lindquist and
Hubbard halls: Native American drumming circle and dancing. Rain date
is Tuesday, Oct. 3.
- 7 p.m.
Sept. 28, RSC ballroom: featured speaker Franklin.
- 11 a.m.
Sept. 29, RSC Fireplace Lounge: poetry reading by Daisy Kabagarama,
associate professor, School of Community Affairs.
- 12:45-2
p.m. Sept. 29, RSC Regents Room: "Psychological Disabilities: Breaking
Down the Myths," with Grady Landrum, director of Office of Disability
Services, and a panel of mental health experts and students with psychological
disabilities discussing myths and stereotypes.
- 2-4 p.m. Sept. 30, Heskett Center gym: wheelchair athletics exhibition.
