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It was an evening filled with things I wanted to hear.” What they heard was Acker man’s account of how women’s roles — not just as athletes, but in positions ranging from ac counting and medicine to sports marketing — have expanded since she was a wannabe cheer leader in junior high school. “People are sometimes sur prised to learn that I’m a frustrat ed cheerleader,” Ackerman said. “When I was in seventh grade, my school had no organized sports for girls, the only thing that they had was the cheerlead ing squad. It was either that or nothing. But I got cut. It was dev astating — and probably life al tering. “I vowed that from that point I would try to be associated with something where women were Ryan Starkweather Emerald Katy Polansky and Shaquala Williams chat with WNBA President Val Ackerman. the stars.” After a prolific college career at Virginia, a one-year stint of pro fessional play overseas, and then eventually her “dream job” as a staff attorney for the NBA, Acker man now oversees the four-year old women’s league, which has exceeded expectations, Acker man said. The league averages more than 10,000 fans per game for both of the past two season and drew more than 2 million fans total last summer. The WNBA’s highest-ranking official correlated the WNBA’s success with the continuing saga of women’s empowerment. “The WNBA is part of the big ger story,” Ackerman said. “I wouldn’t in any way compare the WNBA to the women’s suf frage movement; I’m not that im modest. But I don’t believe that it is a stretch to view the progres sion of women’s sports as an im portant part of the progression of women’s rights in this country.” Study abroad continued from page 1A panding international exchange opportunities and increasing the diversity among American stu dents who study abroad. In Riley’s announcement he noted about 9 percent of Ameri can college students study abroad, and of these, less than one-third stay for more than a se mester. The memorandum would increase support across the board but also with historically black colleges and universities. At the University, in 1998-99, 571 students studied abroad. Only six, or 1 percent of the total, of those students identified themselves as African-American. The motivation for some stu dents to look into studying abroad is to explore their cultural her itage. Although the University of fers 70 programs, including 11 to African countries, nationally there are fewer programs to places like Africa. For Salina Coefield, an ac counting major who works at the Office of International Education and Exchange, part of her desire to go to Japan was to experience the culture from which her moth er came. Many students, Coefield said, want to go where their families are from, but the University does not offer programs for some of those areas. Jack Van de Water, the Oregon University System assistant uni versity chancellor for interna tional programs, said, “Some times it’s a problem of finding a good partner university.” Because African studies pro grams in Oregon are generally not strong, Van de Water said, it is difficult to create the necessary connections with African univer sities to establish a partner uni versity in Africa. Amber Boyd, a sophomore ma joring in computer and informa tion sciences, said many African American students do not know C C 1 don Y have to go in ternational to experience something different I'm not ready for that step. I’m still trying to comfort able in the college envi ronment period. Amber Boyd sophomore, CIS major % j from what nation their families came so they are more inclined to look into national exchange pro grams. “I don’t have to go internation al to experience something differ ent,” Boyd said. “I’m not ready for that step. I’m still trying to get comfortable in the college envi ronment period.” Boyd will participate in a na tional exchange to Southern Louisiana University, a historical ly black university, beginning next fall. Mario Sifuentez is planning to study abroad in Cuernavaca, Mex ico, next fall, partially to better un derstand his family. Sifuentez’s mother is Mexican, and he said he wants to be able to communicate what he is doing in college to her. He described his Spanish oral skills as conversational but not flu ent. Sifuentez said being a part of MEChA has helped him get a bet ter idea of what to expect and said he thinks students who par ticipate in MEChA take advan tage of University-sponsored ex change programs. “I had a list of people who have gone, and they encouraged me,” Sifuentez said. The Clinton memorandum would also increase funding for scholarships, and, as Van de Wa ter said, “The best thing you can do is put scholarship programs out there.” Gabbi Solis, a senior who spent the fall 1999 semester in Cuernavaca, said, “I think you should take advantage of all the opportunities you can — even if you don’t think you can afford it. Its worth it.” Dan Ma, a senior fine arts major, said he plans to travel after graduation but the economic barrier is something that prevented him from pursu ing University-sponsored inter national programs. “I didn’t think it was some thing I could be doing,” he said. 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