Day aims to recruit Latinos
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he said. “There is definitely a notice
able lack of students of color.”
Reyes said the key to a successful
college life as a minority student is
making yourself known.
“When I arrived to this college of
23,000 students, I thought I’d be just
another number,” he said. “You’re not
just another number. If you choose to
make a difference, you will.”
During a student panel, Eddie
Brown, a senior business marketing
major, encouraged the students to get
involved in university life when they
get to college.
“You can make a difference,”
Brown said, “if you don’t limit your
self to your comfort zone or the
friends you went to high school
with.”
Faith Carrillo, a freshman at
Sidney High School who attended
the recruitment day, said many Latino
students don’t attend college because
of a lack of money.
“They don’t think they can handle
college,” Carrillo said. “Because
they’re Latino, they think they’re too
poor to handle it financially.”
Carrillo said she was surprised by
the amount of scholarships available
for minority students.
“I liked learning about scholar
ships we can get,” she said. “I didn’t
think we could get so many.”
Carrillo said she wants more
Latino students to attend the recruit
ment day next year.
“I encourage a lot more people to
come next year because it makes you
realize you can fit in here.”
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HEIDI FEGLER, of Scottsbluff High School, and Moeml Ramirez, of Goring
High School, look over M ACT practice test Friday afternoon at the
Culture Center as part of the Latino recruitment day sponsored by the
Mexican American Student Association.
Students help out communities
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“By kids seeing UNL students
(helping), they see that people care
about their community,” she said.
“They know that now.”
Melinda Day, fellow volunteer
and sophomore elementary educa
tion major, said it was a positive
experience for the children.
“They love to have a chance to
help out,” Day said.
Summers added: “It makes them
want to give and makes them proud
of their school.”
Raphael Johnson and Savaontae
Brown, both 8 years old and second
graders at McPhee, liked the idea of
the improvements.
“We’re gonna have a colorful
playground,” Savaontae said. “When
the other students see it on Monday,
they will be very happy.”
Aside from a windy Friday and a
colder Saturday morning, the paint
ing breathed new life into an old
playground.
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Michigan’s regents
debate controversial
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‘How to Be Gay’ class
Michigan Daily
University of Michigan-Ann
Arbor
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (U-WIRE)
- After drawing attention across the
state and the nation, the debate sur
rounding English professor David
Halperin’s Fall 2000 class, “How to
Be Gay: Male Homosexuality and
Initiation,” was discussed at the uni
versity’s Board of Regents meeting
Thursday.
Defending the course in his
opening remarks, university
President Lee Bollinger said the
class has a legitimate role in the uni
versity’s academic environment.
“It is the role of the university to
think about what it means to be
human. This course is a facet of the
study of what it means to be human,”
he said. “It’s one of intellectual inter
est. We believe this course has aca
demic value.”
According to its description, the
focus of the course is the “role of ini
tiation in the formation of gay identi
ty” by studying topics such as
Broadway musicals, drag and gay lit
erature.
During public comments,
American Family Association of
Michigan President Gary Glenn con
demned the class.
“AFA-Michigan believes it is
wrong to force taxpayers to foot the
bill for a class whose express pur
pose is to ‘experiment’ in ‘initiating’
teen-agers into a lifestyle of homo
sexual behavior,” Glenn said.
He continued to say that the class
violates state law, as well as moral
and religious beliefs of many taxpay
ers. While an 86-page booklet titled
“Health Implications Associated
with Homosexuality” was distrib
uted to the regents, Glenn said a
homosexual lifestyle is threatening
to one’s health.
After the meeting, Regent
Andrea Fischer Newman said she
had some questions regarding the
course because its title was inconsis
tent with the literature she received
about the course.
But she said she supports aca
demic freedom.
“I don’t pass judgment,” she said.
“I support the freedom of the facul
ty.”
Regent Olivia Maynard said
Wednesday that the controversy was
taken out of context.
“It’s part of a whole series of
classes, and it fits in there fine. I
have no problem with the class,”
Maynard said. “The perspective that
attacked it just wanted to make it an
issue, and I don’t think it’s an issue.”
University uses opera
to punish rule-breakers
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -
Dressed as a monk in a floor-length
brown robe, Kevin Bochiccio cele
brates the momentary defeat of
Napoleon’s forces at Rome in 1800.
It’s Thursday night at The
Bushnell theater, where Bochiccio
and 16 other Eastern Connecticut
State University students who broke
campus rules have been “sentenced”
to attend the opera “Tosca” instead
of community service or other disci
plinary action.
Bochiccio even landed a bit part
in the show.
The sophomore from Rindge,
N.H., and two other students joined
Kirk Peters, associate dean of stu
dent affairs at the Willimantic col
lege, in a crowd scene during Act
One of the Puccini opera.
“It was awesome,” said
Bochiccio, 19. “I wasn’t expecting
anything. I’d do it again - voluntari
ly.”
The students opted for the opera
instead of working off the hours
given for various minor campus
infractions.
“I got caught with beer in the
dorm,” said Bochiccio. “They have a
lot of things you can do like pick up
trash. This seemed like the best
way.”
Chris Perkins, a sophomore trom
Beacon Falls, N.H. who also had
beer in the dorm, lacked enthusiasm
before the show. But the 19-year-old,
who also played a monk, had a dif
ferent outlook after Act 3.
“It was much better than I
thought,” he said.
About 30 others, like Deborah
Kitchen, joined the group just to see
the performance.
“I loved the show,” said Kitchen,
a sophomore from Georgia who had
never been to the opera. “It’s defi
nitely not punishment. It’s a privi
lege.”
Similar sentences have been
meted out all over the country.
Ifi Alexandria, La., it was punish
ment by country music. Two men
who pleaded guilty to violating a
noise ordinance last month were
Ml loved the
show. It’s
definitely not
punishment. It’s
a privilege.”
Kevin Bochiccio
punished student
ordered to attend a three-hour music
appreciation session focused on
their least favorite genre - country.
“I’m going to put them in a room
without a window because I’m
afraid they’d jump,” Judge Tom
Yeager joked.
In Fort Lupton, Colo., noise
scofflaws - most of whom get in
trouble for playing their stereos too
loud - gather once a month, on a
weekend night, to listen to court
selected songs.
The offenders are mostly young,
so there is a heavy dose of lounge
music, including Wayne Newton and
Pean Martin, plus some Navajo flute
music and John Denver songs.
Here, the students seemed
intrigued as they watched the
Connecticut Opera from their bal
cony seats. The romantic drama
about a strong-willed diva named
Floria Tosca trapped in a web of
political and sexual intrigue proved
to be a crowd-pleaser.
Many students chuckled softly at
Tosca’s jealousy. A few cringed as
Tosca stabbed the police chief to
death. At least one student shed a
tear as Tosca jumped to her death
after learning her lover had been
executed.
“It was very exciting,” said Larry
Drew, who attended “The Magic
Flute” last semester after being
found with beer.
