Fund-raiser supports Nigerian culture, scholarship fund

Members of the Nigerian Association of Lawrence display their cultural heritage during a Saturday fund-raiser.

Those attending will have a chance to taste Nigerian food and see samples of Nigerian fashion and dances. The event will be from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Gustos, behind the Pool Room, 925 Iowa.

At 6 p.m., University of Missouri professor Patrick Akinbola, a Nigerian native, will talk about the mobilization of Nigerian people to help develop Nigeria.

Money raised from the event will be used to fund college scholarships for students from Lawrence and Free State high schools as well as students already in college, association president Larry Ojeleye.

Admission will be $5 for adults, $8 for couples and $2 for children.

Scholar of men’s topics plans speech today at KU

A scholar on masculinity and sexism will speak today at Kansas University.

Michael S. Kimmel, professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, will present “Mars and Venus? Or Planet Earth? Issues for Women in the Millennium” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.

Kimmel is spokesman for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism. He leads workshops on sexual harassment prevention, gender equity, date and acquaintance rape, sexual assault and pornography.

His lecture is sponsored by the sociology department, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, women’s studies program and the American studies department.

For more information, call 864-2311.

KU, HINU receive grants

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded a $162,000 grant to Haskell Indian Nations University and a $691,109 grant to Kansas University.

Haskell’s grant is from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. It will be used for a project titled “Theory into Action: Applying Bloom’s Taxonomy.”

The KU grant was awarded by the department’s National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. It will be used to improve literacy instruction for adults.