CAMPUS TIMES APRIL 7, 2006 SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE COMMUNITY SINCE 1919 VOL. 114, NO. 21 Tapping female potential Event highlights gender issues Valerie Rojas sexual orientation. Students Copy Editor were invited to decorate the T- shirts either in memorial or sup- University of La Verne stu- port. dents, faculty and community “It's a chance to air Am- members gathered to discuss erica’s dirty laundry,” Iota Delta issues of women, gender and President Nancy Reyes said. sexuality during the second With a number of students on annual Engendering Diversity the planning committee, stu- and Community conference that dents were more involved with took place March this conference as 29-31 on campus. For more coverage compared to last The conference, year, although this hosted by the of the Engendering year’s event did Women, Gender Diversity and have a slightly and Sexuality Community smaller turnout. Studies committee, conference see “This year we was a compilation had more students of lectures, theater pages 2, 3, 8 and 9. attend, but fewer performances and people from the roundtable discussions designed community came out,” Wagoner to generate open discussion said. about these important issues. The conference began on “We felt like the campus did- March 29 with two highly antic- n’t have an active dialogue ipated performances of “The about gender and sexuality,” Vagina Monologues” in the committee member Zandra Cabaret Theatre, which raised Wagoner said. “The conference $1,500 to benefit the House of is a way to get the dialogue Ruth, one of the nation's leading going and major awareness domestic violence help centers about these issues out there.” for battered women and chil- Aiming to improve over last dren. year’s successful two-day con- “The performances were a ference, the committee added an success because people were extra day to this year’s event banging down the doors to get and student participation was in,” said producer Jane Dibbell, highly encouraged. associate professor of theatre “We wanted to bring more arts. student participation in plan- Dibbell worked with last ning,” Wagoner said. year’s conference bringing the The Iota Delta sorority con- Five Lesbian Brothers to cam- tributed to the conference by pus and assumed she would par- sponsoring the Clothesline ticipate in this year’s conference Project, part of a national event as well. to increase awareness about “It sort of became a tradi- some of the most violent abuses tion,” Dibbell said. “The begin- taking place against women. ning of the conference would be Rhiannon Mim For this, on March 29 and some kind of performance.” Alumna April Shenkman performed a one- Conniption,” which was also written by 30, colored T-shirts were put on Dibbell and the committee woman show last Friday in the Cabaret Theater Shenkman started off as two plays. The theme display each representing a dif- are currently considering using as part of the Engendering Diversity and of the piece reflects Shenkman’s overall belief ferent form of abuse ranging Ntozake Shange’s play “For Community conference. The play, “Pink that every person has unrecognized potential. from domestic and sexual abuse Colored Girls Only,” as part of Clouds Over Capricorn Meets Cosmic Cupcake See story page 9. to racism and attacks based on Continued on page 12 Nontraditional students growing in number Christine Collier United States are 25 or older. ated bachelor’s degree pro- and Professional Studies, which shop here because we know our Staff Writer “A lot of them got into the grams. ULV has CAPA, a pro- offers six different degree pro- students don’t have time to be workforce early on and started gram which specializes in guid- grams. Both APU and ULV are running all over campus,” Traditionally college is a up families,” said Elizabeth ing adult students through their similar in that they try to supply Ramirez said. “We can help time to worry about classes, Ramirez, educational counselor undergraduate work as swiftly a student with everything they them with admissions, academic friends, part-time jobs and for the Campus Accelerated and painlessly as possible. are going to need under one advising and even process their parental expectations. Yet in Programs for Adults at the “One thing our students roof. graduation paper work. We are recent years, an increasing num- University of La Verne. “Then don’t have is extra time, so we “We try to be a one-stop- Continued page 12 ber of undergraduate students 10 to 15 years went by and they have to be as efficient as possi- have added more to the equation realized that they either wanted ble and make sure they are not INSIDE TODAY’S CAMPUS TIMES – including families and full- to go back to school to fulfill a taking classes they don’t need,” Upcoming Pomona cleanup brings time employment. personal goal or that they could Ramirez said. “Every semester together area students . .Page 2 The presence of adult under- advance in their current posi- we take into consideration what graduate students, those 25 and tion.” their work schedule and person- T. Phillp’s spices up Sunday older, on traditional college With a growing number of al commitments are, and then nights with live music . .Page 6 campuses is felt throughout the today’s undergraduate student we create an academic plan.” ‘Vagina Monologues’ voice nation. body over the age of 25, univer- Other universities are women’s struggles . .Page 8 According to the U.S. sities are beginning to respond answering the call as well. In Redlands sweeps La Verne in Census Bureau, roughly 6.2 mil- to this trend in the form of flex- 1992, Azusa Pacific University lion college students in the ible class schedules and acceler- established the Center for Adult three-game series . .Page 10 Page 2 NEWS April 7, 2006 Prospective students explore ULV City cleanup will connect students Kevin Davies future. Staff Writer While all local college stu- dents have been invited to par- In an attempt to make educa- ticipate in the event, University tion a top priority for the city of of La Verne students may have Pomona, newly elected Mayor the best chance to reach these Norma Torres organized the students on a personal level and Pomona City Cleanup to be held promote the college experience. at 8 a.m. on April 29 at Ganesha The University has long car- Park. ried a tradition of supporting a This event has been designed large number of first generation with hopes of connecting junior students by offering them high and high school students of grants. Pomona with successful college In Pomona, many high students from the surrounding school students looking to area. attend college would potentially “With this event, the mayor be first generation students. is emphasizing putting educa- The vision for this event is to tion first for the students of get students working together Pomona,” said Judith Gratz de toward a common goal for the ‘To have ULV students interacting and working alongside students from Pomona high schools is a way to stimulate the dream of going to college.’ —Reed Gratz, ULV professor of music Lang, a member of Torres’ task good of the city and allow them force. to see the successes, as well as This event is expected to the benefits of attending col- draw more than 1,000 high lege. school students from Pomona to “It’s my feeling that because participate in a day of graffiti ULV has emphasized opportuni- cleanup, live music, free food ties for first generation students, and most importantly, college the fact should be well-known information. among Pomona high school stu- “We need to reach out as a dents, many of whom may not community and show these stu- have allowed the dream of a dents that it is possible for them college education to enter their to get to college and say no to view of the future,” ULV gangs,” Gratz de Lang said. Professor of Music Reed Gratz College students have been said. urged to participate in the event Currently, Pomona high and act as role models for the schools are not known as gate- students of Pomona. ways to college and carry a low The event is set to show local rate of sending students to four- high school students the bene- year universities, even those Kelly Rivas fits of attending college, while students that are more than At the second annual College Experience in-depth look of the communications and biol- challenging current college stu- qualified. While this is a dis- Project eighth graders from Fremont, Simons ogy departments. Adriana Alevez and dents to persuade high school heartening fact for many, this and Marshall middle schools participated in a Stephanie Szetele laugh together after their students to attend college in the tour of the University of La Verne, including an first time speaking on the radio. Continued on page 11 Ethnic similarities shared Actress remembers Laura Bucio “I think of powerless, if that us to acknowledge our similari- Assistant Editor happens to be a white person, ties,” Chambers said. childhood prejudice then that’s a woman of color to The groups shared their dif- Mercedes Bermudez with a black person, a man fix- Women from different ethnic me,” said Monique Chambers, ferent cultures, speaking about Staff Writer ing her piano in her living groups gathered to take part in a junior biochemistry and athletic music, food and how each group room. discussion about stereotypes training major and “Sistah strives for unity, although they As part of the University’s As the piece unfolded, and challenges facing women of Circle” vice president.