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Show Tfie Tfumderbird Monday December 3, 1984 Center: Home away from home Multi-Cultur- al by Daril Magleby Students who come to SUSC from different cultural backgrounds often find life to be something other than what they expected. The Center, the Student Center, Multi-Cultur- located in provides these students with a home away from home. Minority students have unique needs, said Bonnie Mitchell, MCC director. We give them all the support they may need. Personal, academic and financial counseling is basically what we offer the student, Mitchell added. When minority students come to SUSC, or to any other college for that matter, they find it difficult to adjust and get involved, Mitchell said. When everything is foreign to you its comforting to know that there is someone to help you and make you feel like you belong, she said. The center provides these students with coping skills and also strategies to overcome discrimination that they might encounter, she said. Another interesting facet included in the center is its ability to familiarize students with their own cultures. They (the students) are hungry to learn about their own cultures and the Multi-CulturCenter gives them the opportunity to do just that, Mitchell said. Admissions and scholarship find it hard to focus time on al SUSC THEATRE AND DANCE DEPARTMENT some students because tribal scholarships are a complicated process, Mitchell said. The center provides students with some of same benefits they would receive from admissions or scholarships. The centers support has helped a lot of students become involved in college. The retention rate from quarter to quarter and year to year is very good and these students are much more sucessful when they are juniors and seniors, said Mitchell. In the past the center has been successful in organizing and carrying out many activities that focus on the students various cultures. Some of these activities include Black History Week and Indian Week which involves various contests and is beneficial to all students to attend and get involved, Mitchell said. The recent Miss SUSC Indian Princess Pageant is an example of such activities. The center exists to help students, faculty and staff become better acquainted with other cultures, Mitchell said. Books, interesting artifacts and conversations with students of these cultures will help other students learn, respect and appreciate all cultures, said Mitchell. We would hope that the faculty would contact the center if students have academic problems, Mitchell said. We can concentrate our attention to these students and help them with their problems. Nn PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT f Page 7v The Thundcrbird is now accepting applications for staff positions for winter quarter: Openings include: CARTOONIST PHOTOGRAPHERS PHOTO EDITOR REPORTERS 7 or come to Contact Lynn Nolan at The Thunderbird House, 529 West 200 South. 586-775- a a e 3 'a TJ RANCH WEAR SNortlMairStreeSiSIIli m i Jh t tit jd i? Y A JUSTIN, TONY LAMA, ACME, DURANGO, REDWING, ,! 14 PRESENTS PRESENTS TWO GOOD REASONS FOR' COMING IN TODAY JJJ Oo) JJJ JJJU 12j ST. GEORGE206 North 1000 CEDAR CITY 197 West 650 East (801) South (801) 628-163- 8 Dc.lItT ComDu,e,s ' |