a magazine about the Hispanic Community at The Ohio State University
J'0/111111! J '/ \"umhl!r 3: Fall Quartl!r /998
In This Issue. • • UCHO's New Board
OMA's Mentoring Program
Eva Cantu is Honored
... and much more de la Editora
for them.
There's no place like For Colombians themselves, Medellfn has become a safe haven Home . .. relative to the war zone of the sur- rounding countryside. It has become the city of hope for thousands of My Return to Colombia displaced peoples, fleeing from political persecution and poverty. by Valarie Clark Someone asks me: "i,Tienen ustedes tugurios en los Estados?" Yes, but they are usually hidden away from the rest of wealthy America. Here rich and poor live side by side in a clutter of contrasts. Here the rich are be- sieged by their destitute neighbors.
How to love a city like this? Although the breathtaking beauty that is Medellfn is there underneath all of the sorrow and pain of its history, I didn't come here for the pretty sights. I came to visit its people, "el pueblo paisa." They embrace me as if I were gone only yesterday. They surround me constantly. They feast with me at I t is very hard for me to write it has outgrown its crib and is climb- all hours, intent on filling me up for and speak about Colombia for many ing out of the mountains that encircle those hard times in the States where different reasons. Not the least of which the Valle de Aburra. The rugged peaks food, laughter, and affection will never the life I lived there was so rich with are no longer able to contain the life be quite so lavish and so accessible. meaning and feeling, it seems nearly that surges upwards, defying gravity. impossible to present an adequate Since when did my city get so big? It For most Colombia is formi- description. To try to take someone is a sea of lights in the black night, dable. A topsy-turvy place griped by there with a few expressive words is resplendently magnificent, especially chaos and anarchy. Colombia's own woefully insufficient because Colombia for those first-timers or tourists, confusion feeds the rest of the world's is an experience for all of the senses. traveling down the mountain side from bewilderment, misinterpretation, and My return trip this summer presented me the Rionegro airport. In the daylight, condemnation of its plight. with the same problem again. How do I of course, the nocturnal beauty recall and retell something that I'm no vanishes, replaced by an explosion of For me Colombia has always longer living? people and traffic. I struggle to take it made perfect sense. It has always all in, and I was here only seven years presented me with a truer version of Summer 1998 ... ago. I can hardly imagine what it reality. A reality that makes everything Everything I touch, smell, hear, see, and would be like to encounter this urban else seem of little consequence when taste is bliss because I am home in spectacle for the first time. compared to the struggle for survival Medellfn, the city of my childhood. that unfolds in the streets of Medellfn How can I possibly take in enough to last There are very few places one every day in a million different ways, me through those long Ohio winters? can find souvenirs, and even fewer in a million different li ves. It is surely foreigners to buy them. Most non- ironic that I feel more peaceful, more Speaking of childhood, Medellfn is natives have left the city many years content, and more complete in Colom- like an infant that matured so abruptly ago. It is too violent, too frightening bia than in any other place on earth. Que Pasa...
2 Esquina de la Editora • My return trip to Colombia this summer
4-11 Campus & Community News • UCHO's new board for 1998-99 • A mentor/mentee talk about OMA's mentoring program • Information for incoming students • Eva Cantu and the Hispanic Commission Awards Luncheon • Our Latino-interest Organizations at OSU • How the Office of Student Activities can help your organization
12-14 Spotlights • Raul Herrera • Humberto Gonzalez • Congratulations to our 1998 Spring and Summer Quarter Graduates
15 Embracing Diversity • President Kerwin and other influential leaders respond to Latino constituency
~ .----- ~ Please send a/l lellers, press releases, or etceteras to: Office of Enrollment Manageme11t Attn: Victor Mora 423 Mendenhall lAboratory 125 S. Oval Mall Columbus, OH 43210 • This Publication does not necessarily reflect views and Acknowledgments: opinions ofthe Staff, Editorial Board, or Publisher. Thanks to the Provost for funding this magazine through the Hispanic • All submissions for publication must include name and phone Oversight Committee. Thanks to Office ofHispanic Student Services for number or e-mail ofperson(s) providing support for the magazine over the past several years, and to the responsible for work. Office ofEnrollment Management that is now providing administrative • i.Que Pasa, OSU? reserves the right to refuse any and all submis- support. Special thanks to Jim Mager (Assistant to the Vice-President for sions for publication Enrollment Management), Michele McGrath and Geri McManus. Many at any time. thanks to Dr. Poirier (Professor and Department Chair) and Michelle Field in • This publicatio11 is funded by the the Anthropology Department for providing technical and moral support. Hispanic Oversight Commillee Also, thanks to Ivan Ordonez, graduate student for his help with the maga- (HOC) • The Ohio State University is not zine web page. responsible for the contents of this publication. ''Alive and Well • • •'' by Valarie Clark of all she wants heard Spanish everywhere ... to come to let everyone here and not to see that many Hispanics know that is kind of heartbreaking sometimes and "We're here, so when you find people that know your we're back, culture ... you feel compelled to be we're alive ... around those people." we're not going Asked the same question, Chris replied to let UCHO die that he first found Hispanic culture when like it did he came to college. He was attracted to before." the culture because it brought together Secondly, she diverse people from first, second, and wants to like himself, third generation immigrant reinforce unity famil ies. "And where I'm trying to be among the more Latino, someone corning from Latino organi- Puerto Rico might be trying to adjust zations. "We more to the United States. So, we can need to come both help each other." Chris also enjoys UCHO's New Board together .. simply seeing an organization grow. "It's . work together great to see and be a part of a growing and help each organization on campus." other out." Thirdly, Paula Both Chris and Paula encourage U cHO, the University-wide wants to work with other organizations to Hispanic students to get involved. Both Council of Hispanic Organizations has brainstorm ideas about how events/ are involved in many other organizations been preparing for the new academic activities can be co-sponsored so that and activities themselves. Paula is also year 1998-99. UCHO is an umbrella diverse Latino organizations will begin to the Vice President of the Hispanic organization that facilitates a forum for work together. B_usiness Student Association, HBSA, the exchange of ideas among registered In sum, Paula stresses that the Hispanic and she is a member of Alpha Psi Hispanic student organizations. UCHO community at Ohio State must be unified Lambda, the nation's first co-ed Hispanic serves as an anchor organization for because it is so small. interest social fraternity. Chris is the other Hispanic student organizations that current President of Alpha Psi Lambda provide academic, moral, and cultural As for Chris Brandon, he plans on and a standing member of the Organiza- affirmation to Hispanic students. helping reconstruct UCHO in order to tion of Hispanic Students in Engineering bring this organization to everyone's and Architecture, OSHEA. attention. Most importantly, though, he UCHO itself holds campus wide wants to provide as much support as he As Chris says, for all of you out events, allocates funds to various can for the Chair of UCHO, Paula there who are thinking of getting organizations, and serves as the liaison Gonzalez in her efforts to continue to involved with the Hispanic community: between the Hispanic Oversight Commit- revitalize and strengthen the organiza- "Keep an open mind. Don't hold any tee and Latino student organizations. tion. stereotypes. Be active. We have a strong community. We just need to keep Paula Gonzalez, the new Chair, and Chris When asked what the benefits of ourselves involved." Brandon, Co-Chair have been busy getting involved with the OSU Hispanic planning for the new year. community are, Paula responded: " .. Editorial Note: Since this piece was written, .being up here so far away from home Romeu Ribeiro stepped in as interim Co- and corning from a place where you Paula's main strategy is threefold. First Chairfor Fall Quarter The Mentoring Program
by Josefina Rubio
is very important according to the fall of 1997 as his work/study job. Gabe, who is also on the Hispanic He said he also wanted to get experience Advisory Board of the mentoring in that field, because he would like to program and is on the student work in the retention and recruitment of advisory board of Counseling and Hispanics and other minorities at Consultation services. universities in the future. "It was also a way to get involved in the llispanic Although most of the community here on campus and to do my mentors are juniors and seniors, part to give back to the community," sophomores can become mentors Gabe said. "...I feel like my personal if they were mentees their fresh- experiences, what I've been through, can man year. As a sophomore this help other, young people especially year, Oscar said he plans to Hispanics coming here to Ohio State. become a mentor. "I'd like to do That's why I got involved." the same thing Gabe did for me - help people out, show them around Gabe and Oscar would study, go to campus and what they need to do social events and do activities like to be successful as a college basketball together, so they felt more like student," he said. friends than a mentor and men tee. "I'd call rum once a week, see how's he's Oscar said hjs parents, who doing, see what he's got going on," Gabe Gabriel and Oscar are from Mexico and now live in said. Oscar said Gabe helped him stay Cleveland, gave him rugh hopes for focused on his schoolwork. "He showed the future. He came to OSU because me around campus, where to go if I have he received a Young Scholars Program a problem or introduced me to people scholarship. His double major is who could help me out." Textiles and Clothing and Spanish, and W hen meeting Gabriel Lomeli he said he wants to become a fashjon Gabe said he saw a lot of himself as and Oscar Fuentes, it is obvious that they designer after graduation. "I want to a freshmen in Oscar. "I kind of wish I have not only benefitted as a mentor and make my own clothes for the Hispanic would have had someone like that when I mentee in the Hispanic Peer Mentoring community," he said. "And I would like was coming in as a freshmen ... It was Program, but they have gained something to become a role model for Hispanic rewarding to see him come in as a much more valuable - friendship. The kids. That's my main goal." freshmen ... in the beginning kind of two met through a mutual friend and shy and unsure of rumself, and watch Lomeli, who was already involved in the Gabe is from Leipsic, a small town rum progress throughout the year, and program, offered to be Fuentes' mentor. in Northwest Ohio where both his then by the end of spring quarter, he was parents were from. Gabe's grandparents basically on his own." The program, run through the Office were migrant farm workers from of Minority Affairs, matches Hispanic, Mexko. He came to OSU because he "I think the main thing is that I've African-American, Native American and was involved in the Minority Scholarship gained a friend, a good friend that I'll Asian upperclassmen with freshmen Program and received an Excellence have even when our mentoring relation- according to ethnic group, gender, Scholarship. ship is through," Gabe said. majors, hobbies and personal and academic interests. 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Ethnic Student Services, located in room El Vaquero Mexican Restaurant 345 ofthe Ohio Union, is composed of
T he Distinguished Hispanic Ohioan Recognition Luncheon was held Friday, October 16, 1998 at the State Capitol Building in Columbus. It is an annual event held by the Ohio Commis- Eva and Govenor Voinovich exchange a few sion on Hispanic/Latino affairs in order words althe Hispanic Chamber ofCommerce to secure appropriate recognition of the Awards Banquet accomplishments and contributions of Spanish-speaking people in Ohio.
The list of honorees included eleven people recognized by eleven commissioners. Among the Honorees, of course, our own Eva Cantu was awarded for her significant contribution to the Latino community at the Ohio State University. She was also recently nominated as a finalist in the education category in the first annual Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Awards Dinner held in Columbus this August.
In both cases Eva was recognized for her leadership skills, her teamwork spirit, and her vision for the future of UCHO, the umbrella organization for all Latino- interest student organizations at Ohio State. Eva has laid the foundation for a great year for UCHO and her efforts, I believe, will continue to pay off for some The Honorees althe Distinguished Hispanic Ohioan time to come. Thank you Eva, on behalf Recognition Luncheon al the State Capital of the Hispanic community at Ohio State, for providing us with such a wonderful example of what happens when someone selflessly works for the good of our community. Eva Cantu Recognized for her Contribution to UCHO by Valarie Clark always wanted better for her kids." As Eva UCHO, the University-wide Council of points out, graduating from high Student Organizations. She became aware school as a child of a migrant of the need to revive and rebuild UCHO family is a great accomplishment. through her tenure as undergraduate Even though her whole family representative to the Hispanic Oversight had to work very hard to survive, Committee. During this time Eva demon- Eva's mother always put educa- strated critical leadership skills by tion first. Eva also treasures her Hispanics involved in the process. Eva sister for serving as another strong served as a motivator to reorganize UCHO role model in her life. Her sister, recognizing this organization's importance Angelita Cantu, graduated from as an anchor organization for other The Ohio State University in 1997 Hispanic student organizations. with a Business degree. "I give great credit to her for my success Eva began her efforts by contacting [at Ohio State). She really served a few Hispanic faculty, administrators and as a great mentor." students to arrange a meeting to discuss how UCHO could be brought back to Jjfe. Because of her exceptional As Eva says "we were very proud of the high school achievements as an fact that we got two representatives from exemplary migrant student, The every student organization to attend ... Award Recipient, Eva Cantu Ohio State University offered Eva and increase their awareness of UCHO and and Commissioner, Victor Mora the Scarlet and Gray Scholarship its importance." Eva continued to get and the Excellence Scholarship. representatives of the various student Eva is now studying Business Administra- organizations together throughout the year. An inspiring example of tion at Ohio State. Her major is Finance, student achievement, Eva Cantu is Risk Management & Insurance, and she The key to Eva's success was her originally from Texas and comes from a will be a senior this academic year, 1998- selfless pursuit of her goal to make things migrant family. She was born and raised 99. Eva's vision of her contribution to the better for the Hispanic students who need there and is the fourth oldest of eight future is captured in her own words: " I support. Her fellow Hispanics saw this children. Her father died when Eva was enjoy informing people about investment and joined her. Things were not easy and eleven years old leaving her mother to opportunities that yield a higher standard did not happen overnight ... .it took about support the family. As Eva says, 'That of living. I want to be part of improving a year of hard work. As Eva points out, createci a great burden on my mother to the quality of life for people" one of the principal challenges is maintain- support the famiJy." After this, due to ing student involvement. "It's hard harsh economic conditions, the family was Eva's accomplishments at Ohio State because we're just here for a short time. forced to migrate to Ohio during the have gone far beyond academic success. We need to pass things on to new students summers in search of seasonal farm work. She has been involved with the Hispanic .... teach and guide them." In her own words "I value that experience community from the beginning of her a lot. l consider it a great part of who I am college career. As a freshmen she served UCHO is now "alive and well" and and what I believe in." as associate editor of Que Pasa, OSU. This has a new board ofofficers. As always, experience increased her awareness of Eva will continue to be involved to support Eva's parents are both originally Hispanic student life and the surrounding UCHO's progress. As she says, success in from Mexico and as newlyweds they Columbus community. During her college life for her has meant becoming migrated to Texas in search ofa better life. sophomore year she became very active in involved with positive people, learning Eva admires her mother for being a HBSA, the Hispanic Business Student from her mistakes, never losing sight of wonderful role model. "My mother was a Association. As a junior she stayed her vision for the future, and being very very strong woman. I give her great credit. involved with HBSA and at the same time, consistent with her support of Hispanic She was a very unselfish woman who began playing a very important role in student organizations. Our Latino-interest Organizations at Ohio State
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Ori:anization of Hispanic Students in Eni:ineerini: & Architecture Alpha Psi Lambda (OSHEA) The nation's 1st co-ed Hispanic social fraternity
Hispanic Business Student Association Brazilians and Friends Association BFA promotes the social interaction HBSA is a local chapter ofthe National between Brazilian and non-Brazilian people Hispanic Business Association. They address in the university community business and educational concerns ofHispanic students.
0 Holiday Fiesta was sponsored by The Office of Ethnic Student Services at the Faculty Club between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m., November 23rd, 1998. It was a great opportunity to enjoy food, a live band, and good fellowship.
Also, Dr. Adolfo Bermeo, who facilitates workshops nationwide on the necessity of minority student success and access to higher education, will be scheduled as a guest speaker, February 4th and 5th, 1999. For more information contact Matthew Camacho-Edwards, GAA Hispanic Student Services, 345 Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St. Phone: 292-2917.
Other Student Organizations • • • •
Folklore Hispano Volunteer Hispanic folklore dance and Organization of Hispanic Faculty & Staff music group that occasionally performs OHFS serves as a voice for Hispanic publicly. professionals among the university community
Hispanic Graduate Organization Uni versity-wide Council of HGO promotes social events for Hispanic Organizations graduate students who have an interest in UCHO the umbrella organization for all other Latino culture Hispanic student organizations
Hispanic Health Profession Student Association The newest Latino-interest organization at Ohio State
Hispanic Law Students Association HLSA is an organization designed for pre-law and law school students
For all of you who are already Involved In student organizations, the Office ofStudent Activities has some Important information. This office coordinates, registers, and supports the over 400 student organizations at the Ohio State University. The ~ staff consults with student organizations and assists in areas such as leadership development through leadershlp classes for :J"' academic credit, advisor training, and student organization and special event funding. In addition, the staff provides many leader· CJ) ship and career development opportunities, Including resume workshops, leadership courses for academic credit, organization 0 «i' retreats, as well as community-wide retreats. The Office of Student Activities also publishes an annual Handbook ofStudent (/) «l Organization Involvement which Is agreat source of Information about all of the resources available for your student organization. c.. Cl For mQl8 lnformatlon stoJ> bythe Office ofStudent Activities at 218 Ohio Union or call 292-8763. ;:l (J..,, 1 Dr. Raul Herrera by Valarie Clark campus. Dr. Herrera became involved of feeling that students have in an with this study and at the end of three unfamiliar society. They need lots of years a special committee prepared the moral support when confronted with a "Hispanic Action Plan." "We pointed new culture. Just knowing that someone out that we had to reinforce three kinds is there for them is important even of activities - recruiting, retention, and though they don't usually ask for it. enrichment of Hispanics." In 1989-90, the Hispanic Oversight Committee was Dr. Herrera is serving in many formed to assign and assess the results of capacities within the Hispanic commu- this study, and Dr. Cano was named nity at Ohio State. He is advisor of Chair of the Oversight Committee at that OSHEA, the Organization of Hispanic time. Students in Engineering & Architecture, UCHO, the University-wide Council of When asked to characterize the Hispanic Organizations, HGO, the Hispanic community, Dr. Herrera had the Hispanic Graduate Organization, and following words. "First of all there are Folklore Hispano, a cultural group that the Puerto Ricans. Most of them know sings and dances. He also has close the society . . . the atmosphere, but they contacts with Alpha Psi Lambda, the Q ue Pasa, OSU recently have a problem with the [English] Hispanic fraternity at Ohio State. had the privilege of interviewing our own language ...The Mexican Americans Dr. Herrera who has been with us for usually come from migrant families ... "The main problem [for many years now and is a cherished most of them don't have problems with Hispanic students] is to keep them member of the Hispanic community at the language. They speak English very going ... They are involved in so many Ohio State. Dr. Herrera has been at this well. Their academic background, things and they have such short time that university for fifteen years, including his however, sometimes suffers because they organizations disappear from one day to years as visiting professor, in the have been moving from one place to another ... It's very difficult to start Department of Engineering. In 1983, another all of their lives. And then, the again from scratch. So, I think it is part while talcing a sabbatical from the international students ... are usually of my task to keep them going." Dr. National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico, very well-prepared. Most of them are Herrera believes that with just a little Dr. Herrera was offered a stipend, Jab, graduate students." The problems they participation from everybody we can and other facilities to do research at Ohio have, says Dr. Herrera are primarily reach many more people, so that the State. At the end of the year the eco- financial. The three groups need Hispanic organizations can start nomic situation in Mexico had deterio- different kinds of support: Puerto Ricans growing. rated, so the family stayed and his wife for language acquisition, Mexican- began her Master's degree in Education Americans for support in academics, and Dr. Herrera also stresses the as Dr. Herrera continued with the same the international students need financial importance of participation on the part stipend as the previous year. Their assistance. of faculty and staff with the Hispanic children began to adjust to life in student body. "They [students] need to America, as did Herrera and his wife Needless to say, Dr. Herrera see the role models, and we have who have been at Ohio State since that feels strongly that working with Hispan- excellent role models among the faculty time. ics is very rewarding. "Hispanics have and staff .. .I think we need more a special place. With most of my contact between the students and the Dr. Herrera can remember the Hispanics I speak my own language so Hispanic faculty and staff." Just one time when Dr. Cano, then a graduate that makes the communication closer hour a month working with students student, first formed a task force that ... I am very happy with our Hispanics." would make a big difference, accorcling would address Hispanic issues on Dr. Herrera says that he knows the kind to Herrera. ' Spotlight
Humberto Gonzalez
by Josefina Rubio GonLalez learned English when increases .... Otherwise it would be he joined the army in 1979 as an enlisted impossible to reach so much of the private, without the aid of formal classes. community." In the United States, success depends on being fluent in English. "Jt doesn't mean The office of Extension Services that we have to give up our traditions and needs to do a belier job of marketing its things that we do. but in this country, if programs to the general community. as you don't speak the language, your are well as the Hispanic population. "One of not going to get ahead," Gonzalez said. my major goals is to increase our exposure .... When r came over here (to After a 20 year career in the OSU Office of Extension Services]. military, Gonzalez left the army as a people told me we·re the best-kept secret captain. He then worked in Washington, in the community. That doesn't help North Carolina and South Florida before anybody, and that doesn't help the coming to the Office of Extension organiLation." Services to develop programs. In Columbus, the Hispanic The Office of Extension population is spread out compared to Services was established in 1914 to bring areas like Cleveland and southern the research and scientific knowledge of Florida, making it hard for the Office of T he search for opportunities OSU to the community. The organiza- Extension Services to inform them of and the distribution of infonnation plays tion is an outreach arm of the University their services. There is a need for the an imponant pan in the life of a commu- that provides local communities with Office of Extension Services to create nity. These are the important issues for educational programs in areas such as informative materials in Spanish. and the Humberto Gonzalez at the OSU Office of agriculture, child care, consumer science College of Food and Agriculture and Extension Services. and money management. Classes offered Consumer Sciences is translating are based on demand, and about I 5 to 20 material into Spanish. Although the Gonzalez was born in Cuba, but are offered a week. Programs include Office has two women from southeast moved to Puerto Rico in 1968 with his nutrition, horticulture and agriculture. Asia who speak Laotian and Vietnamese, family. He completed his bachelor's Entrepreneurship training in areas like there are currently no programs offered degree at Southern Illinois University child care are offered to help people stan for the Spanish-speaking population. and received his master's degree in St. their own businesses. The office tries to Louis. He is currently working on his serve low-income communities because One of Gonzalez's goals is to doctorate in leadership and education of their needs, but the Office of Exten- have bilingual people working with the with a minor in public policy at Ohio sion Services also offers youth programs, Hispanic community. Being bilingual State. like 4-K. Programs are also offered for increases job opportunities and salary seniors and focus on topics such as the becau!.e many companies are looking for Students should actively seek dietary needs, exercise and money Spanish-speaking employees. "We arc opportunities, such as scholarships and management. The Office of Extension the fastest-growing minority in the li grants, Gonzalez said. "You have to Services also has a hotline to deal with United States ... We have to be prepared to lead." move and shake. They (opportunities) consumer questions and a hotline for are not going to come to your door .... gardening advice. These hotlines get Do not be afraid to ask questions. It may about 5,000 calls a year. The Office of be the case that you may not find Extension Services has about 400 anything, but from my perspective, it's volunteer trainers, who then train other worse not to ask." volunteers. "The outreach multiplies and Walter Sarabia, B.S., M&LINFSC Angel Mercado, 0 .0., Optometry Sammy Serrano, B.A., Geog Cara Perez, M.D., Medicine Raqnie Toledo, B.S.Bus.Adm., Prod Mgt Renee Sosa, M.D .. Medicine Emilio Torres, B.S.Arch. . Arch Paul Tafoya, M.D.. Medicine Nilsa Torres, B.S.Ed., Span-Edu Theresa VandeC'.irr, Cert.Phys.Ther. Shawn Torres, B.A., History Laura Vodopivec, 0.D., Optometry Roschia Vargas-Serrano. B.S .. Biology Adriana Wade, B.S.Bus.Adm., Marketing Doctorates Sprin2 1998 Graduates Veronica Walter, B.A.. Wom Stds Aldo Aguirre-Caceres, Ph.D., An Educ Yorguin Weber. B.S.Agr.. Agr Educ Cileine De Lourenco. Ph.D .. Span&Por Associate Degrees Robert Gallagher. Ph.D .. Classics Danielle Apodaca, A.A. Law Degrees Javier Maninez, Ph.D., English Marsha Payne, A.A., Bus-Und Kerri Cardenas, J.D.. Law Pedro Moran-Palma, Ph.D .. Env Sci Salvador Cicero Dominguez. J.D.. Law Carlos Pineros, Ph.D., Span&Por Bachelors ofArts & Sciences Carlos Corcahdo, J.D.. Law Saias Regalado. Ph.D.• Mech Eng. Jon Arndt. B.A., Theatre Derek Diaz, J.D.. Law Carlos Vargas, Ph.D., Civil En Kevin Bargmeyer, B.S. Psych Gabriel Goddard. J.D .. Law Rolando Berrios Montero, B.S.I.S.E .. Ind Eng Summer 1998 Graduates Masters ofArts & Sciences Tere,a Blazo. B.A .. Psych Associate Degrees Angel Arroyo-Rodriguez, M.C.R.P. , C&R PLAN Dan Bonachea, B. S. in CS & E Laura Lynn C Alexander, A.A., EL EDK-3 Melissa Avina, M.S.W. Soc Work Liliana Butcher, B.A. Psych Lisa Beluche, M.S .. Vet Clin Bachelors ofArts & Sciences Rosina Catalan, B.A.. Classics Andrew Bolland. M.S., Geol Sci Kristin Ashcraft. B.A .. Int Stds Mario Chavez, B.A .. Int Stds Walter Carpenter. M.A.. 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by Valarie Clark
a world leader, we have to address diversity .... It's not only a moral imperative but it is now also an economic necessity."
The acting Vice-President and Provost, Ed Ray, also had some words to say about diversity at Ohio State. His goal is to develop "real and honest" strategies to diversify. Jn order to do this he is making plans to bring in national consultants to examine recruitment and retention of minorities. By the end of Winter Quarter 1999 specific recommen- dations will be made to design an action plan to diversify our campus.
I van Adames addressed the panel by Dr. Kirwan poses for a picture with Ivan Adames, Victor bringing up a very important point: Mora and Paula Gonzalez after a panel discussion on "There is a need for the role models in the Latino community. How are Hispan- diversity at Ohio State ics going to be represented in the plan to diversify Ohio State, and what action if any will be taken to ensure that the needs of our community are met?" Dr. Kirwan M ost Americans would agree that Back home at Ohio State our responded that we must recruit and retain the United States is a nation of immi- leaders are beginning to take note of our a significantly higher percentage of grants, however with each successive Latino community as well. During the minority students. We must also ensure wave, the makeup of the "newer" "Forum on Diversity" sponsored by the that their graduation rate mirrors that of immigrant changes, challenging and Office of Academic Affairs, the Office of the majority student population. Faculty, modifying previous notions of immigrant Student and Urban/Community Affairs staff, and administration also needs to culture. Throughout the past several and the Diversity Committee of the 1998 diversify, according to Dr. Kirwan. "We decades there has been a substantial Homecoming Committee, Dr William E. have to start making a difference in real increase in immigrants from Asia and Kirwan, the 12th president of Ohio State, ·and measurable ways. I think people are Latin America to the U.S. (e.g. World made it a point to discuss his plan to ready for that." Bank 1992), and the impact of this trend diversify the university community. will continue to affect the native-born community for a long time to come. According to Dr. Kirwan, this issue is of utmost importance and will be on As a recent article (7/13/98) in his list of priorities for Ohio State for Newsweek indicates, many of our years to come. Why is this a concern for country's political leaders are beginning him? In his own words, "Where are we to take notice of these trends. at the end of the 20th century? The wage "After years of being honored for gap has not narrowed, college graduation <1l rates have not risen since the 70's [for (/) potential power, the nation's 30 million (1) minorities] .... if this country has any ~ Hispanics are on the verge of becoming QI perhaps the pivotal constituency .... " hope of sustaining its current position as :l a...., ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE ~Que Pasa, OSU? PAID I COLUMBUS, OHIO c/o Office ofEnrollment Management Permit No. 711 Attn: Victor Mora 423 Mendenhall LAboratory 125 S. Oval Mali Columbus, OH 432IO