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Crafts With Class
Trey Shaffer, a senior environmental design stu
dent, works on a jewelry display case in the craft
Photo by Brian Oakley
center, located in the MSC. Students can use
equipment in the craft center for a fee.
Ethnic awareness program
aims to defuse prejudices
r appropriau
DALLAS
(AP) —
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ski tr ip to
preliminary dts
New* Mexico
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Scott Seo
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family
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met assistants!* 125,000 grant from the American
d, graduatedfr'Bj, ish (;,' )nm i it ice.
Its goals were to profhofe cultural
awdrtij'ess 'and leadership among
The students heard how Seo’s
[family came to the United States
from Korea and endured hardships
in order to send his older brothers to
the prestigious Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology.
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grow up bla
Asian,
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a junior honors student of
escent. "But I ignored it. I
t was the mother who was
not the hoy.”
ind ot awareness is some-
t has come from students
t life experiences with
in the course of a five-
?ct. The students who
1 to participate in the pi-
discussed how it feels to
ck, Hispanic, Anglo or
was funded by a
They learned about Vanessa
Duarte, a 16-year-old junior whose
family came to the United States
front Nicaragua. Although sensitive
about her Spanish accent, she hopes
to use her bilingual ability to launch
an international career in public re
lations.
The students met seven times with
project leaders, Dallas City Manager
Richard Knight and Billie Frauman,
a Dallas leadership consultant.
At first, many of the students
were skeptical about what the pro
ject would accomplish.
“The greatest challenge in
the DISD is learning how
to live with each other.
This project is a dream
come true. ”
— School Superihtendant
Linus Wright
“I was thinking this was one of
those showoff programs for the
DISD,” Seo recalls. “A rich man
gives money and it becomes the per
fect time for the school district to
show that everything is working.”
Now that the formal portion of
the project is over, however, he sees
things a little differently.
“We can influence our peers,” Seo
says of the group. “That is how to
exemplify the program. It has to
come from us. We are supposed to
be leaders.”
In this sense, the program hasjust
begun.
A virtual rainbow of ethnicities,
Jefferson boasts of an enrollment
that is 40 percent Anglo, 30 percent
Hispanic, 20 percent black and 8
percent Asian.
For some of the students who par
ticipated, the experience has en
hanced feelings or attitudes they say
they already have put into practice.
Shelley Hallman, a 15-year-old
freshman, says, “I have been friends
with kids of other races, but now I
have learned more about their cultu
ral backgrounds and to appreciate
them.”
Shelley’s mother, Cindy Bird, says
they have discussed what Shelley has
learned.
“I feel like she is really open to ev
ery culture,” Bird says. “She can
handle situations much better than I
could at her age.”
Frauman says creativity was
stressed in the program.
“We did not tell them the truth
with a capital T,” she says. “We
wanted them to plumb their own re
sources.”
Dallas school officials are hoping
that the knowledge the students
have gained will eventually spread
throughout the school district and
the city.
School superintendent Linus
Wright says, “The greatest challenge
in the DISD is learning how to live
with each other. This project is a
dream come true. We picked TJ
High School because it is representa
tive of the city of Dallas. We hope we
can replicate it.”
aL
1WU reverses
86-year ban
on alcohol
DENTON <AP).— An 86-year
era of prohibition has ended at
Texas Woman’s University.
The TWU Board of Regents
voted Wednesday to allow alcohol
on campus for the first time in
,llie .schpol’s history, said Dr.
Glenda Simmons, vice president
(or Student life..
Under the new policy, alco
holic drinks will be available at
the clubhouse of the TWU golf
course and allowed in dormitory
rooms of students who are at least
21, Simmons said.
Organizers of student func
tions can apply to have alcohol
served at their gatherings and
members ol die community may
sint: alcohol at campus events,
stlcft as wedding receptions.
The new policy also allows fac
ulty groups to serve alcohol in a
.‘gyivate club environment” on
campus, Simmons said.
The full board approved the
measure 6-1, with Regent Fran
jChileS dissenting.
Goy candidate to get
time to refute attack
DALLAS (AP) — A homosexual
candidate for City Council will get
some free television time before Sat
urday’s election to respond to broad
cast comments by Euless-based evan
gelist James Robison.
In a Tuesday broadcast of his
“Daily Restoration” program, Robi
son questioned how candidate Bill
Nelson could “honorably” take an
oath of office to uphold city and
state laws, including the sodomy law,
said William Waybourn, Nelson’s
campaign manager.
Robison didn’t mention Nelson by
name but said he was disturbed that
“right now we have a confessed gay
activist running for City Council.”
Nelson, president of the Dallas
Gay Alliance and candidate for the
District 9 at-large council race, said
he asked for time to respond.
“Robison . . . attacked me as one
of the immoral elements attempting
to take control of the city by running
for the City Council and gave me the
right to ask for equal time on the air
waves,” Nelson said.
Robison’s nationally broadcast
program was shown on at least three
Dallas-area UHF stations — KDFI,
KLTJ and KDTX.
Waybourn said similar comments
about the political influence of ho
mosexuals were made on Robison’s
program by Dallas developer Jim
Williams Jr., who serves as president
of Citizens for Dallas, a group pro
moting traditional values.
Williams, who supports a candi
date opposing Nelson, said he dis
cussed a broad range of issues, “in
cluding crime and public decency
and public health.”
Williams said he thought “it would
be real interesting” to see a gay view
point “on a Christian TV station.”
Amy Zoslov, staff attorney with
the Federal Communications Com
mission, said agreements to grant
Nelson equal time were reached
Wednesday by telephone because
the formal complaint process would
make it impossible to provide time
before Saturday’s election.
In February 1979, station WFAA
suspended Robison’s show for four
weeks after he repeatedly quoted
publications attacking homosexuals.
WFAA officials said the fairness
doctrine required the station give the
Dallas Gay Political Caucus free air
time to respond.
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on Lake Somerville.
The $8 fee for this adventure includes park permits, trans
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mountain bike. Sign-ups are going on now and will continue
through Monday, April 6 in the Intramural-Recreationa1 Sports
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