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Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® WKU Archives Records WKU Archives 6-19-2003 UA68/13/4 Limited Edition WKU Journalism Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_records Part of the African American Studies Commons, Asian American Studies Commons, Chicana/o Studies Commons, Inequality and Stratification Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, Mass Communication Commons, Photography Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, Social History Commons, Speech and Rhetorical Studies Commons, Sports Studies Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation WKU Journalism, "UA68/13/4 Limited Edition" (2003). WKU Archives Records. Paper 3279. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_records/3279 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in WKU Archives Records by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact [email protected]. June 8-19, 2003 2 0TH EDITION limited WilY WORKSHOP? ' PAGE 8 COURIER-JOURNAL TRIP ' PAGE 13 Campus security tightens in wake of murder lot more careful.'· said the Two ScoltSv ille men. who before the incident. Measures To address safety measures on Mi ke Littell, chair of the cam LOUISVIllE MAoLE H IGH SCHOOl Centennial High School gradu were not students, have been have been taken to ensure the campus, a task force for safety pus safety task force. When Franklin. Tenn., ate aboul the demeanor arrested in connection with her security of all summer visitors and security was created the The task force, which meets native Ash1ea Caldwell observed in many campus tem death' and charged with first to the campus and students in week of May 12 in res ponse ~o once 11 week for three hours returned to the Hill this summer porary residents. degree murder. They reportedly the fall. the Poland fire. since the initial May 15 meet for the Minority Journalism The caution adopted by gained access to the residence For example, a "24-hour "As we (the task force) ing, is addressing issues such as Workshop , she found that a new many donn visitors is a result of hall without being asked for lockdown on residence halls" complete our work in July, we lighting around campus, visi tor attitude had descended on the May 4 dorm fire in Poland identification. was enacted this summer, will provide the un ivcrsity with policies and access points in Western's campus since her Hall that led to the death of Since the dorm fire, the uni requiri ng a key to enter all dor a set of recommendations residence halls. visit last year. Pellville freshman Melissa versity has attempted to regain mitories, said media relations and/or commendations (con "Visitors and students arc a "Katie" Autry. the comfort level thai existed · director Bob Skipper. ccrning campus security)," said SEE CAMPUS SECURITY · P .... GE THREE Diversity grows, HOME OF LOVE problems persist By JESSICA LAu TATES CREEK HIGH SCHOOL On paper, Western Ken tucky University looks to be making progress in the recruit ment of its minorities on cam pus. But some minorities insist they still don't belong. " I feel like an outsider," said Nkechi Peter-Mbanugo, a Western student from Nigeria. "Sometimes I fee l I have to prove myself in the classroom 'cause I'm a minority." Dee Spencer, a student in Western 's graduate program, agreed. "In the classroom, I'm the only black person s9 I feel like I have to make a statement." Although Western is making progress in recruiting minorities - the number is up to 12.4 per cent from 1997 - some students are still finding it hard to fit in , particularly the internlllionlll population. "I feel like a minority on campus." said Sreevidya Bodapati. an Indian student working on her masters. "They take us more for granted," she said. Bodapati said at Western, international students don't · have many resources available By JON ....TH .... N WINTeRS . ElSIK HIGH SCHOOL to them. After watching her friend struggle while eating one pea at a time with a fork, Ena Marquez. 11 , helps Angie Martin , 5, finish her lunch. "Before came (to Western), there WllS an Indian Student Association but not anymore," said Bodapati . helllytitree yaw ago, .Ie/Ty alld Sanlly lilcker adopted tilel/:/ti}l cluM JYIlIS began tlie Mayu Ono, an Engl ish As A Second Language (ESL) stu Calilean Clllidlel's Home w/iidl !l1l/lISle/;; lO babies ojjJl1JoneJ;f lind the menIally alld physically dent attending Western from Japan , sllid as an intern ationlll Iwnd/capped "u;e wanted ti,e c/ukl!m lhal nobody else wanted, "Sandy litcker J(lId student, she is constantly being "scruti nized" by her peers. Larry Caillouet, Inter play piano," she said, glanc ing out frOin ti es , and the mentally handicapped - for national Programs lind Projects By APRil YEE her round gltl sscs. "Somelimes I like to 23 years. director, who hopes to raise the CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL cook croutons." One of the Illany signs along their percent of internationlll students BC<lchy shares thc interests of a typ driveway sums up the Tuckers· beliefs: from three to five percent, said olly Beachy sits on the front porch ical teentlge girl. "1 will not leave you orphans; [ will the university is maKing strides. bench with a paperback in her pale fin· She is also 33 years old and a resi come to you:· John 14: 18 "Everyone's got their own M gers: "The Kerriga ri Courage: Nancy's denl of Ihe Galilean Chi ldren's Home The Galilean Home was originally a groups," he said of the interna Story." When shc·s not reading about ncar Liberty in Casey County. Her log cabin built with trees chopped from tional population. figure skating, hcr favoril e sport. she "houseparcnl s" arc Jerry and Sandy the fi vc-acrc property bought 21 years "We try to help adjust inter cnjoys "The Babysillers' Club" and Tucker. who have provided a home and ago. "lfGod had opened the door show- national students to college, the " L ittle House on the Prairie" series. medical care to over 800 children - American culture, and the lan '·1 like to swim. read, write letters. babies of prisoners. victims of deformi- SEE GAlILEA.1l • NEXT P.... GE guage," he said . .. SEE MINORITY. P .... Ge THREE Inside LE State Street Baptist Church rededication date set NEwslFbHtiHt; · Pages 2·3 By JENNIFER LEONG 22, has been moved to Aug. 24, was bei ng replaced. During NORTH H .... RDIN HIGH SCHOl because of numerous setbacks. work on the flat roof sect ion. tar EDITOR IAl, • Page 4 including recent siormy weath- from the construct ion caught on The chal ky aroma of dry fire, spreading onto the rest of Despite the unforeseen the roof. Although water was OI'L"IO" • Page 5 wall and sanded wood fills the State Strect Bapti st Church as delays, the church remains used to put the fire out, it only construction workers scurry to strong. anxiously awaiting the spread flam es because the tar fini sh a $3 million renovat ion rededication, said David was oil based. project. Clemen ts. chairman of trustees Construction began in early Although Ihe stained glass and chairman of the building 200 I and was to be completed SPORTS ' Page 7 has been renewed, the rest of comm iltee. lll st November. But the deadline the bui lding remains eggsheli " 11' we have to wait an extra had to be extended because of PROFILES ' Pages 8- 11 wh ite with 9Ccasional splotches eight weeks, it's okay:' delays with the contractor and of brown trim. Clements said. "We don't want architect and the need to lay Church officials plan to to go into the church until it's down more rock than expected \YORKSII(J I' · Pages 12-13 reopen the building, which was ready." in the basement. Bv JONATH .... N WINTERS. ElSIK HIGH SCHOOl ravaged by fire in May 2000, The renovation project w;)s State Street Bapti st Church Gene Wood, a worker for Ramsey Floor Service, lays down within the next six weeks. I'lCTfJRE P,>,(Of; · Pagc 14 prompted by a fire three years 2x1/4" planks of wood on what will soon be the sanctuary floor of The rededication date , June ago that occurred while the roof SEe ST.... TE STREET. PAGE T HIIEE the State St~eet Baptist Church. , Two • LIMITED EDITION I X E IV sIP E.I T U II HS I J UNE 8-19, 2003 Progress made, challenges remain Regents approve Growing up black in Bowling Green increased where you (black people) had budget By H EATHER COW»ERD to sit in the back of the bus:' BowuNG GREEH HIGH SCHOOl.. Townsend said. "Also, I still do not go to the Capitol Arts When Ron Lewis tried to llleatre beCause it symbolizes By Au. J UNIOR rent .an apartment in an all where we couldn't go, It 's like E AST ST. L OUIS S~,-,-,o-' ~H~~--:SCC li ool white section of Bowli ng my priva te protest:' Green in 1972 , the owner African Americans brought turned him down nat, saying about change in the communi In a cold room surrounded why don't you rent in "the ty by using the legal system to by teleprompters with feeds black neighborhood, where force whites to provide fair from Elizabethtown... Glasgow you belongT housing and equality in schools and Dallas, Texas, Western's It 's an example of the strug and other publ ic places. Board of Regents un animously gles that African Americans Lewis, an African- approved the 2003-04 fi scal faced in Bowling Green from American teacher at Bowling 1964 MUST"NG ' HIGH STREET HIGH SCHOOL YE"RSoo4 year operational budget on the days of segregati on through Green High SchooL had to file Football captains Joe Denning and Johnny Cole pose for a yearbook picture with the Tuesday, thel970s.