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Ackerman
continued from page 1A
onto the Ducks’ basketball team
as a freshman next season.
Polansky was one of four
women given awards prior to
Ackerman’s speech, accepting
the high school athlete of the
year honor.
“I’m really appreciative to
everyone who helped me out the
whole way through,” Polansky
said, “and obviously Warsaw
program for putting this on. 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.
Van de Water said students who .
are interested should pursue it.
“They are often closer to af
fording it than they think,” he
said.
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