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2 • The Reti and Black • Wednesday , May 1. 1996
BRIEFLY
■ LOCAL
National Day of Prayer planned for Thursday
Several hundred Athen* residents are expected be in a state of prayer Thursday
at noon on the step* of the Athens-Oarke County Courthouse The day marks
the city’s fourth observance of the National Day of Prayer The featured speak
er will be Dicky Clark, former assistant University football coach The event
should last one hour, and participants will have the opportunity to pray for the
country at the end of the event _ ,
-Jama Cook
Attempted rape reported by 20-year-old woman
A 20-vear-old woman reported that someone attempted to rape her Sunday The
victim an acquaintance came to her residence in the Lexington Road/Whit
Davis Road area After talking to the victim for several minutes, the suspect
began removing some of her clothing He then attempted to rape her She strug
gled with' the suspect, and after a few minutes he left. The incident occurred
around 11 p m. Sunday but was not reported until Tuesday
- Mary Sue Kopecko
■ STATE
Long holds on phone diminishing for Olympic tickets
ATLANTA - .After jammed phone lines all weekend to order newly released
Olympic tickets, the waits on hold had dropped to less than five minutes by
Monday afternoon But operator Manta Frazier in the Olympic phone center
said there are few breaks in the calls 'As soon as we get through with one
there’s always another one right behind it.’ she said Over the weekend, the
initial release of 240.000 more tickets sparked a fresh deluge of orders Frazier
said she took an order from one woman on Saturday who complained of a three- ;
hour hold Of the 45.033 tickets sold over the weekend, nearly 7.000 were or
dered over the Internet Atlanta Olympic organizers w ere unable to provide in-
formation about which sports sessions remained available Monday Ticket sales
over the weekend were 17 percent higher than sales from the weekend of March
23-24. when Olympic organizers released another batch of tickets to sports ses
sions that previously had been considered sold out
- The Associated Press
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• Creative Consultants will
meet today at 6:30 p.m in the
Tate Student Center For infor
mation. call Heather at 543-
2962
• Golden Key National
Honor Society will meet for
the “Best of America" program
today at 5 p m For informa
tion. call 543-0712
• Gravelfish Creative
Writing will meet today from
5:30 to 7 p m in Room 144 of
the Tate Center. For informa
tion. call Matt at 613-5536
• Cannabis Action Network
will meet today at 8:30 p.m in
Room 144 of the Tate Center.
For information, call Alanna at
543-8687.
• The Political Science
Society will meet today at 5:30
p.m. in Room 302 of Baldwin
Hall. For information, call
Anna at 613-7998.
• The Old Black Dog Bookstore
and the University’s Creative
Writing Program will host an
evening of poetry and prose
by John Lane. Paul Farr and
Cathy Coone-McCrary Tuesday .
May *6. at 6 p m. at the Old
Black Dog Bookstore.
Announcements
• Independent Study regis
tration begins today and ends
June 26. 1996. For information,
call 542-3243
• Applications are due today
for the Senior Signature
Steering Committee
•Applications are available at
the Alumni House and at the
Tate Center For information,
call 542-8249
• The Speech
Communication Association
will present Pam Paepcke. as
sistant buyer for Belk. today at
4:30 p.m in Room 214 of
Terrell Hall. For information,
call 546-6724
• Students for
Environmental Awareness
will today at 7 p m. in Room
213 of Memorial Hall
• The Christian Science
Organization will meet today
at 11 a m. in Room 144 of the
Tate Center. For information,
call 353-3107
• Phi Alpha Delta <pre-law >
will meet today at 7 p.m. in the
Lovejoy Courtroom of the Law-
School. For information, call
Michael at 613-2909.
• Campus Habitat for
Humanity will hold an officer
election meeting today at 6
p.m. in Room 142 of the Tate
Center. For information, call
549-0247.
Upcoming
• University Council will
meet Thursday. May 2, at 3:30
p.m. in the Law School
Auditorium.
• The Indian Cultural
Exchange will meet Thursday,
May 2, at 8 p.m. in Room 139
of the Tate Center.
• UGA Toastmasters will
meet Thursday, May 2. at 5:30
p.m. in Room 107 of Caldwell
Hall Free Pizza.
• Society for Management
Information Systems will
meet Thursday, May 2, at 7
p.m. in Room 202 of Caldwell
Hall. For information, call Jeff
at 208-1849
• LGBSU will meet Monday,
May 6, at 7 p.m. in the
Memorial Hall Ballroom. For
information, call 549-9368.
• Women’s Studies Student
Organization will have a panel
discussion. “Women in
Science,” Tuesday. May 7, at
7:30 p.m. in Room 145 of the
Tate Center.
•The Pre-Vet Club will meet
Tuesday. May 7, at 7 p m in
Room 363 of the Vet School.
For information, call 354-6615.
• The L'GA Fencing Club
practices every Monday and
: Wednesday from 6 to 10 p.m. in
Aerobics Room A of the Ramsey
Center For information, call
| 542-5623
• “Finding Light in Your
Shadow” will be presented as
j part of the Lunch and Learn
| senes today at 12:10 p.m. in
j Room 145 of the Tate Center.
• The Intrafraternity
Council is accepting scholar-
| ship applications now through
May 3 All greek men in good
i standing are eligible.
Applications can be picked up
in Room 216 of Memorial Hall.
i For information, call 542-4612
• A lecture “Embodying the
Contradictions of
Modernity: Gender and
Spirit Possession,” will be
held Friday, May 3, from 12:10
I to 1 p.m. in the Russell Library
I Auditorium.
• A ballroom dance party
will be held Friday, May 3,
from 8 to 10 p m in Studio 347
of the P E Building. For infor
mation, call 543-4415.
• The University Tutorial
Program offers tree tutoring
in math, English, sciences, lan
guages, some business classes
and more. For information or to
make an appointment, call 542-
7575.
• The Athens-Clarke County
Department of Leisure
Services is now accepting ap
plications for its summer
aquatics staff Applications
can be picked up at the ACC
Personnel Department in the
courthouse or at Memorial
Park
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Students sound off on multicultural classes
EXCERPTS FROM STUDENT EVALUATIONS OF
MULTICULTURAL CLASSES
POLITICAL SCIENCE 416
African-American Politics
Instructor Stanford
• “...and I was able to team more background on African-
American positions on some issues..."
SPEECH 268
Communication in African American Communities
instructor: Gamer
• “The strength of the course Is that It enables you to
look at the situation from a different perspective."
• "Unable to get a good perspective from black males be
cause there were none enrolled."
ART 205
Cultural Diversity in American Art
Instructor: Green
• “The course was not multicultural, in that it excluded
the Caucasian race. I felt the course was centered too
much around oppression of African Americans."
• “It helped open my mind to a more diverse world.”
ENGUSH 240
Multicultural Literature in America
Instructor Powell
• “I will leave this class with a lot to think about in multi
cultural terms."
ENGLISH 102M
Instructor: Major
• ‘In discussion everyday we touched on several topics
that really challenged students to think."
This is the last of a three-part se
nes. Today i story u tU look at the di
vemty requirement for the Franklin
College of Arts and Sciences
By CARRIE E GIBSON
Staff Wnter
Despite the campus-wide debate
on the issue of the multirulturalism.
most students in the Franklin
College of Arts and Sciences said in
their course evaluations that they
liked their mulUculUiralism class
Judd Turner, president of the
Student Gov ernment Association and
an opponent of the requirement, said
he was surpnsed to find that stu
dents enjoyed their classes He said,
however, that it was because many of
the students who have taken such a
class did so because they wanted to.
Turner said he still opposes the re
quirement. and he thinks so do most
students
“I believe with all my heart, the
student body, in general, is not for a
multicultural requirement.’ Turner
said “If the students wanted [a
class), they would take it.’
Currently, nothing has been re
solved about a University-wide re
quirement. and there have been
many ideological debates on multi-
cultural ism between student leaders
and faculty
The College of Arts and Sciences'
requirement, approved Nov 16.
1995. consists of students having to
take one out of 41 available courses
All of these courses, which may not
be offered even.- quarter, meet two
requirements For example, a stu
dent can take English 102M and
have the 102 requirement and the
multiculturalism requirement ful
filled
Student evaluations from eight
multicultural classes listed many
positive and some negative com
ments
Some student comments
The Art 205 Cultural Diversity m
American Art class had a w ide range
of comments on its multicultural as
pect
*... 1 felt like the lecturers were
almost trying to make me feel guilty
for being white.’ one student said.
“It made me more conscious of art
by ethnic groups.’ another student
said
For the Eng 240G Multicultural
Literature in America class, most of
the responses were positive, but
some w ere strongly opposed
‘The course opened my eyes to
new things, and for once. I was re
quired to do some serious thinking
about my own personal identity.’ one
student said
"This multiculturalism class basi
cally told how the white Americans
w ere racist to every one on the planet
the course matter promoted
racism.’ a student said
Another said in the evaluation.
“Being a multicultural class, I ex
pected that we would focus on sever
al different aspects of several cul
tures However, that was not the
case I felt that there was an enor
mous focus on the tensions between
blacks and whites short stories
were rarely discussed Instead,
things such as the O J Simpson trial
took center stage Also. I am quite
frustrated by the fact that the school
of Arts and Sciences required me to
take this class *
Most students in the HIS 255
Latinos/Latinas USA class said they
enjoyed the multicultural approach
“It changed many myths I had
about Latinos and I feel much more
enlightened about another culture." a
student said.
A student, who was in SPC 268.
Communication in African-American
Communities, said the class “gave
one a better understanding (or at
least introduced issues of issues that
one comes in contact with everyday ’
Will Davis, vice president of SGA.
said students are taking the classes
because many of them are considered
to be easy and ‘don’t teach any
thing"
Davis said the requirement was
“a rocky road of hastily put together
requirement that makes the admin
istration feel good, but has little in
tellectual value"
“Students won’t mind taking an
easy class — they don’t make you
read Homer.’ he said.
Resource problems
Adding new courses will require
more money and more instructors to
teach specific classes.
Donald Rubin, head of the speech
communication department, said re
sources are always a problem, espe
cially when adding new courses The
speech department added Speech
126. Cultural Diversity In
Communication. and 268.
Communication in African American
Communities, to go along with the
requirement Rubin is the only pro
fessor who can teach intercultural
communication. Since he is teaching
another multicultural class and is too
busy with his schedule, the class is
not offered this quarter However,
Rubin said the stretched resources
are worth it to have the requirement
“Teaching these courses is impor
tant enough.’ he said. *1 think it’s
one of the most exciting and success
ful teaching experiences I’ve had in
20 years "
Adding the Geography 103 and
203H courses hasn't really been a
stretch for the department, depart
ment head George Brook said He
said there are several teachers who
want to teach the courses, and the
College of Arts and Sciences gave
them money to buy source materials
such as films.
He also said graduate students
are particularly interested in teach
ing the courses since many schools
they might apply to for a job are
working with multiculturalism re
quirements.
Brooks said when the require
ment was first brought up. it had a
strict outline that said to focus the
course on major minority groups in
the United States. He said that in
addition, the department decided it
was important to look at geographi
cal context of minorities.
“To understand Asian-Americans.
African Americans. Hispanic-
Americans, you should consider
where they come from." Brooks said.
“I believe, personally, it’s important
to look at minority groups in the U.S.
in terms of region of origin and cus
toms they bring to us."
Andrew Herod is a professor of ge
ography who is teaching the honors
geography class for the first time this
quarter.
He said coming up with a syllabus
was the most challenging part of
teaching the course.
Herod said he found the process
interesting, and he enjoys teaching
the class. He also said that his stu
dents seem to enjoy it.
LAW ENFORCEMENT
The Immigntion and Naturalization Service ensures
the integrity of the United States’ borders, defends
America s economic interests against smuggling and
illegal aliens, and assists persons interested in legal
immigration and attaining U.S. citizenship. We are
seeking capaole men and women who are ready to meet
the challenge of protecting Americas borders while
promoting legal immigration. Salary ranges from
ST9.081 to S27.298 depending or position and location.
Qualifications for all positions include: 3 years
work experience demonstrating strong analytical
skills, ability to plan and organize, effective communi
cation skills: 01 Bachelor's degree (any field) from
accredited university. QR combination of college
coursework and work experience. Must be a U.5. citizen,
possess a valid driver's license pass a written entry exam
and be in good physical condition.
Candidates for the following positions must be no older
then 37. i-.ess f-esently c-previously have served in a
federal civilian law enforcement position.
Immigration Agents
Perform law enforcement and administrative tasks
involving employer sanctions, criminal aliens and
apprehension of escapees from deportation proceed
ings. Some of these positions are located at Federal
Prisons. Required to carry firearms.
Deportation Officers
Control and remove persons who are being deported
from the U.S. Requires close interaction with foreign
embassies and consulates. Maybe required to carry
firearms.
Criminal Investigators
Plan and conduct investigations, often undercover.
Make arrests, prepare reports, present cases and give
testimony. Required to cany firearms.
The following positions require excellent cnclytical and
people skilli Vo ege restrictions.
Meeting the
Challenge
Immigration
Inspectors
Inspectors are the first
officials a person entering
the U.S. encounters. Examine
documents and interview
individuals to prevent ineligible
persons from entering the U.S.
Work at landports. seaports and
airports. May be required to carry
a firearm.
Adjudication Officers
Review applications and interview persons to determine
aliens' eligibility for benefits, including permanent
residence and citizenship.
Nationwide opportunities exist with particular needs
in the following districts: New York City. Newark. NJ.
Chicago. San Francisco. Us Angeles. San Diego. Phoenix
Houston, San Antonio. El Paso and Harlingen, TX.
HOW TO APPLY: Call (912) 757-3153 to register
to take a written test. This automated 24-hour a day
telephone application system will be open from April 1
through May 7,1996 ONLY. Applicants can choose
one or more positions and up to three locations.
Selected candidates for the Adjudications
Officer must successfully complete an
8 week training course at an INS
Training site. Selected candidates
for all other positions must pass
a rigorous 14-18 week basic
training course.
The INS is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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The Southern League Presents:
Jared Tavlor
*
Author of Paved W ith Good Intentions
Who will speak oil the disastrous effects a of multicultural America
Wednesday, May 1st
7.30 p.m.
Tate ('enter Reception Hall
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