1993_12 The Daily Collegian December 1993

              Thursday, Dec 9,1993
tPje Sail? Collegian
News—13
Holidays mean different
things for different students
By Jason Owen
StaffWriter
It is beginning to look a lot like
Christmas. The fall semester will
be history in less than two weeks
and the salvation of winter break
will be received by most students
and instructors with open arms.
The students on campus are a
versatile bunch with many differ¬
ent backgrounds. Christmas means
different things to different people,
and it is not aholiday that all people
enjoy celebrating.
Jennifer Davis, a junior mass
communications major, plans to
spend Christmas with her family.
"I'll be working and celebrating
with my family," said Davis. "It's a
lot of fun. we all get together. My
brother doesn't live with us any¬
more so we all get together."
Davis plans to spend/about $300
on presents this year. She wants to.
buy her mom a gum ball machine
and is hoping Santa Claus brings
her an editing machine!
Scott Lefkowitz, a junior busi¬
ness major, will be bouse sitting for
an engineering professor during the
break. He plans to do some last
.minute shopping after finals. He
wants to give gifts of a practical
nature and does not want to spend
more'than $100:
"I am far removed from :hc Jew¬
ish culture out here in California,"
said Lefkowitz. "lam only familiar
with Christmas and do not know
much about Hanukah out here on
the West Coast."
Another student, Ron Gondek,
a computer science major, will be
out of a home during the' break
when the dormitories close down.
"Til be walking the streets of
Los Angeles," said Gondek. "I am
going to be homeless, but I have a
lot of women waiting for me down
there, so I am going to have a good
time."
Gondek does not plan on doing
any gift exchanging this year and
does not have any Christmas spirit.
"I think the dorms should be left
open because when they closedown
people.nave no where to stay,"
Gondek said. "I am going to have
to spend three weeks in L. A. and I
have no family. But I ain't worried
because I got my connections, my
women and my .beer."
Celeste Cox, a Daily Collegian
writer and mass communications/
journalism major, is going home to
Hanford to spend. Christmas with
her friends and family. She says
that because she is a college stu¬
dent, she does not havemuch money
and she can not spend more than
$100 on gifts.
"Iamkindofadeadbeatwhenit
comes to buying gifts," Cox said.
"I usually wait to the last minute
and see something and say 'Oh that
looks like something they'd like;
I'll get them that'"
Cox has already received an
early present thi s season in the form'
ofamountambiireandisaoamantly
against receiving the gift of a boy¬
friend for Christmas.
Of course, she says, she would
not mind if Santa stuck a stud in her
stocking.
So, as the school year closes out
and students bid their classmates-
farewell, eVeryone should hug and
kiss each other whether there be
mistletoe overhead or not. This is
the season to be merry; chestnuts
roasting on an open fire; visions of '
dancing sugarplums and Jack Frost
nipping at the nose. **
The Daily Collegian wishes ev-
eryone a holly, jolly holiday season
and hopes that everyone will find
somebody to love and cuddle up
with to eat fruitcake by the fire this
Culture, from page 12
sity. "Diversity training is one of
the most difficult and dangerous
enterprises you can be involved in.
Youare messing withpeople'score
values, and they have strong emo¬
tional attachments to them." Tay¬
lor said. "Ifyoudoapoor job with
diversity training, you leave people
farther back than when they came
in. ..more polarized that ever."
Arizona has a student
population that is about 73 percent
white, almost 17 percent Hispanic,
about 4 percent Asian American, 3
percent African American and
about 3 percent Nati ve American.
Residential advisers also undeFgo
diversity training, though students
are not required to take diversity
training themselves. ■
At the University ofcVir-
ginia. a group of students and fac¬
ulty have joined to provide
multicultural workshops for the uni¬
versity community as well as for
citizens in the nearby community
, of Charlottesville. The program,
called "Multicultural Facilitators,"
has impressed Virginia junior and
English major Allison Linney
enough that she wants to make it
her life's work.
"Multiculturalism isvnot
just something I'm dabbling in; it is
the way I choose to live my life at
work, in the classroom and in my
social activities." Linney said. "I
plan to seek a career in. diversity
management, and I feel certain my
experiences with the University of
Virginia will make my goal a real¬
ity."
Linney organized a pro¬
gram that offers a one and one-half
hour diversity workshop to all stu¬
dents every year, "We ask people
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