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Show I w- !TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2000 PAGE 21 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS Multicultural Center a support for all students come see us at our new location at 80 w. Center. Under new management! BY STACY VENTURA JOURNAL STAFF WRITER friendships,· Calamity said. The Multi-Cultural Center supports numerous clubs including Students for Lack of minority involvement has Campus Diversity, International Club, always been a difficult issue in Utah, and Hispanic Club and Polynesian the SUU campus stands as no different. Club. · 1think we need more The Center also holds many activities like exposure to different values. Utah is so International Week, Black isolated and rural, History Month, Native so there 1s not much American Week and the contact with different International Food Fair cultures,· said Tina which runs from the end Calamity, a of October to the Multicultural Center beginning of counselor. November. However, this may be There is also a luau a thing of the past as which is usually held more and more diverse in the spring; • however, no date fir cultures are represented at the university. this year's luau has The Multicultural Center yet been set. is located upstairs in the There will be a Sharwan Smith Center and Multicultural provides academic support, Center tutoring and social gathering , "Welcome Back" for every student cataft'litY for students to sign up for It is also a "place where their preferred organization. minorities come and meet other Students do not need to be from the same culture as the club they want to minorities and learn about each other and ethnic backgrounds other than their Join. "There will be food, music and it own,"said Calamity. should be fun." Calamity said. However, the Multicultural Center 1s Other center counselors are Lynne also a place for non-minorities. Brown, who heads the Student Support This gives them a "chance to learn Center. and Carmen Alldredge, who is tn about different cultures and foster charge of the American Oisabiltties Act. ~of PINGs /:". ~" ~~ 865-9600 Back·to school special: 2 medium pizzas for only s7.99 with uallmlted ·toppings! Gift Certificates • Fundraisers • Parties There's still time to apply for the Honors Program for 2000-2001 ! ' / ~ ' You can still sub.mit applications for the Honors Program and register for Honors classes. Contact the Honors Program at 865-8105 . . ................... - ............ _____ --, ._ ---.. -- -·,-· -· ··~- --..-·------~------ .. - - __ ___ ___ ____ ----- ·- ... ..._ .... ... .. ..._ ,.. |