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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1994)
UNIVERSITY Black, African groups discuss experiences By Daniel West Die A frit <in American Male Support Group and Afrit an Stu dent Asmx i.ition joined together to discuss relations and both groups agreed they wanted to learn more about eni h other's i ultures l'here uas some discontent between some blat k students and some Airman' students ! be'se Alrnaa; students ‘eh oe ; *ed and ' I e -1 t p p; m ■ to-d 11le Hi ii k Student t luon w hi; then . om eriis The BSI decided !v> ! UI\ e a d Isi u,ss . ul i sa s i! Key i;: W ashllig!on. i tilentbtu id the Afrit an Aiiietn an Male Support l .roup AtiOi ean Apart and a World logethei was tile title ol the discussion' where the two groups shared their experiences One member from eat h group spoke ul their personal experi elites. As a t llild. my x lew of Afru a was a big piece of land with blai k people running around with spears Ibis was mainly due to the media s poor portray al ol A frit a said Andre Brown, a member of A \MN(. I bis i ausetl some hesitation on my part to meet some Afrit an stu dents, but when I sax that I ni an African \merii an, I must udate to mv Afrit an brothers r \fri< .m students also spoke nf their homelands and their oxpe rieru es m A meric ,i. spec ific ally at the University Sainted Adeju mobi it native Nigerian, talked about his home and a< i ompn tiled Ills discussion is ith slides I vervone has an idea that Afro a itself is homogeneous Hut Nigeria alone has 2S0 i nl turn I groups with separate Ian .;■.a- |: c! . uid dress .. lid \deamiohi a rnemlsa of African Student .Assot iatam; There are ities W It! lilts : ke limns plie-e that mi lodes high rises. a tern : oadsi a l s ind 'various' forms of transportation After the presentations, most aiidieiii e members said there Meeds to he a line of colli Mill 111 i iti. ii between .-Vfrit .in Amen i ans and Alru .ins on campus They said that this uas the oltlv wav that we a ou Id learn about each other s cultures Other audience members agreed that the study of these i ultures was just as important We want this disi ussion to he the i atalvst for more mterai lion between us We hope this is a general recognition ol our situ il.ir situations sin has underrep resentation and disi rimination Also, we want to identity what we dun t have in common and respm t e.u h other tor those dif tereln es, W ashillgtoll said CORRECTION \ sMr\ iii Iht> Mart h I edition ot I he f'mcrii / nn orrei 1 i\ said ,i iurv will determine I hi’ sentein >• of three I hi i\ ersit \ o! \\ tdi Hutton si ini i’ll I < who -.v i'ii' arrested (>i t II in hin;i’iir for lliii alleged abuse of i University student l‘h«* three students hase onlv ()*■»• n i harvjed and fuse not been convn ted of any < rime »*•**-**»**•*****•*♦ WUNDERIANP ——T." Slh STREET (£) C PUBLIC MARKET VIOI o __ fc.ames 683-8464 VIDEO ADVENTURE ^ 0<wi; ..ivi np-i AT* J ;^V¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥i %M Max 7th $1 St ova I bach $3 Rava flight $4 Dost Kissars In Tha World Swootwator Jaspar -««»•//* $6 Tha Lazy Cowgirls Qas Haffor Pop-Dafoct Musi be 21 or over Ilf L lift 342 33S8 town !t< J IE4J Moon c„ur(_ N*V fVV() I'x’ifn hi-three di ft aJ,artrncws 'ln<i {>Xmini ixrt “'C< UU* '*,nit'Mirr (,ptunal c/ccfrl- i n,,afKc U?« ^v,n,flK •hrjutifu/|,fk/^"inun>anl • off to"<Vf,on .*as& . .T,- , S&J&ldaE * ^h°oh, av‘,i/.ibfc (o r!.1,r,tV 1,‘‘P"m( .,UU't/,nr»n'n^^T' art- SSno, £ h°OschoUi 1 ’rm"" "":nnltl UMts|'V / -- Finally something for college that just got less expensive. ilnmfint i*dt*Jh* tlftjruttffr -fV' Introducing the Apple Power Price Drop. Prices have just been tthich means terrific reduced <mi vied Macintosh On.ulra- model savings on some of \p|>les most powerful computers I’lus. the entire Macintosh Ouadra line is ujigrulable to 1‘nv.erK to keep up scitli \uir growing needs Vnd as if ilia! wnn'l enuigfi, ww'll also reccnv .1SISO mail in rebate’wtien mhi bus .1 M:u intosli Ouadra (>S0 witli am \j>|»l<‘ LaserWriter' So, visit \011r Apple ( .miptis Reseller todav NX tth prices this low. uni can't afford not to / Microcomputer Support Center 202 Computing Center • 346-4402 Monday-Friday, 9am - 5pm UruMfr-m* ; .aft* Knot* • * .«**. >■ W>fc-f ffMxadtn ku i Pr» S1* **** •» tnbkmum < iff* ■ i,*r»« it a {ntirmu* t 'H'futtwi* Huuno* ‘U War ><\l