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El Laberinto, 1971-1987
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5 5previously known by several faculty and students. He is involved with community practice and through his work at the University of Minnesota he gained strong organization skills. He has a lot of innovative ideas on how the School can work within the Iowa City community. At the same time he saw the need to solidify the foundation of the school and the need to having student input in decision making. John felt we needed both minority staff and students to make the program viable and we can't have one without the other. Some questioned how much more innovation the Social of Social Work is ready for at this time. Some apprehension was voiced about how much energy would be taken up by John's attention to concerns of Native Americans because of his Native American background and how this would affect the rest of the program." It seems to us the Chicano Indian American Student Union that the above remarks made in this article by Social Work students is quite racist. Here is the School of Social Work and its students perpetuating such idiotic ideas. They are suppose to be in the forefront of fighting this kind of nonsense, and yet they are the first to perpetuated. Bravo! your true colors have come out. We really have to question if you can even begin to service any community let alone one that's predominately minority. Your paternalistic instincts have once again surface "we know what's best for indians and not the indians." Now why hasn't the same kinds of concern been voiced about the other candidates. Suppose he was German, are you going to become all of a sudden concerned his background is going to seriously "affect the rest of the program". Let's get the picture straight, to date no ones given a damn about Native American concerns, let alone social workers. However, not all of the article was that tasteless, but let us further exam what the group of students who support John Redhorse had to say." "Recognizing the fact that there is a tie between John Redhorse and Ruth Brandwein, we feel the need to express our reasons for supporting John Redhorse. One of the biggest fears many people have about John becoming director of the School of Social Work is that it will become the "Native American School OF Social Work". We do not envision this happening. His past record of accomplishments speaks for his future commitment and responsibility towards our program at Iowa and not just the Native American. In fact, his
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5 5previously known by several faculty and students. He is involved with community practice and through his work at the University of Minnesota he gained strong organization skills. He has a lot of innovative ideas on how the School can work within the Iowa City community. At the same time he saw the need to solidify the foundation of the school and the need to having student input in decision making. John felt we needed both minority staff and students to make the program viable and we can't have one without the other. Some questioned how much more innovation the Social of Social Work is ready for at this time. Some apprehension was voiced about how much energy would be taken up by John's attention to concerns of Native Americans because of his Native American background and how this would affect the rest of the program." It seems to us the Chicano Indian American Student Union that the above remarks made in this article by Social Work students is quite racist. Here is the School of Social Work and its students perpetuating such idiotic ideas. They are suppose to be in the forefront of fighting this kind of nonsense, and yet they are the first to perpetuated. Bravo! your true colors have come out. We really have to question if you can even begin to service any community let alone one that's predominately minority. Your paternalistic instincts have once again surface "we know what's best for indians and not the indians." Now why hasn't the same kinds of concern been voiced about the other candidates. Suppose he was German, are you going to become all of a sudden concerned his background is going to seriously "affect the rest of the program". Let's get the picture straight, to date no ones given a damn about Native American concerns, let alone social workers. However, not all of the article was that tasteless, but let us further exam what the group of students who support John Redhorse had to say." "Recognizing the fact that there is a tie between John Redhorse and Ruth Brandwein, we feel the need to express our reasons for supporting John Redhorse. One of the biggest fears many people have about John becoming director of the School of Social Work is that it will become the "Native American School OF Social Work". We do not envision this happening. His past record of accomplishments speaks for his future commitment and responsibility towards our program at Iowa and not just the Native American. In fact, his
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