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POVERTY, continued from page 5
poor. In fact, [there arc] lots of
poor people on campus. People
didn't care too much," Bousquet
said.
"When I started talking about the
project, most faculty told me 'too
much work and lots of responsibilities.'" Bousquet said.
The project has been augmented
by the 13 students in the critical
thinking anthropology class and 15
students from Bousquet's other
class.
Greg Lewis, a professor of Mass
Communication and Journalism and
eight photographers of the Latent
Images club have worked to provide
photos for Ihe project's panels.
"Everyone is busy, but everyone
attempts to make time in their
schedules to be flexible.
People come in with great ideas
and every person brings a great experience," said Keith Williams, one
of the project participants and a
health science major.
There arc three coordinators besides Lewis. Lily Small ofthe Ethnic Studies program. Kathryn
Forbes of Women's Studies and
Kimbcrly Bobles.
The project has also been sponsored by six committee members:
Vida Samiian, School of Arts and
Humanities; Katsuyo Howard.
Southeast Asian Student Affairs;
Luz Gonzalez, Chicano and Latin
American Studies; Dickran
Kouymjian. Armenian Studies;
Linda Shaffer. Economics and
Jeronima Echeverria. Social Sciences.
he project is divided into two
parts, a display and three panels for
discussion.
The display includes 25 photos
taken by the Latent Images club, local and national statistics, books on
poverty, and artifacts belonging to
impoverished people.
The three panels arc being presented with three lectures at Fresno
State: "Multi-culturalism and the
History of Poverty in the San
Joaquin Valley" by Forbes Oct. 4.
"Marginalization in Poverty:
Women. Children. Disabled, and
Elderly" by Bousquet on Oct. 17 and
"The Faces of Poverty in Fresno" by
Small on Oct. 24.
All the panel discussions are from
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in room 200 in the
Cafeteria
More, than 30 social organizations have been invited.
Each panel consisits of five to
seven panelists from Fresno Stale
faculty and speakers from social organizations in the community.
Walter Perry, a full-tjftie employee of Metro Ministry as well as
an invited speaker for the third
panel, said he was pleased with
Fresno State's involvement in the
poverty project.
"It's good to point out the existence of poverty in Fresno. One cannot understand Fresno unless one
understands poverty." Perry said.
Bousquet was also pleased about
the student and faculty involvement.
"The university is about education.
"The Project is about education.
I think the projects fit thc goal ofthe
university. It is a learning process.
We all learn together." Bousquet
said.
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The assigned family meets the students and takes them home for a tour
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Schmidt and her husband Steve
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Schmidt said one of the wonderful
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RUDE, from page 1
out of class the first 30-35 minutes
of the lecture.
"I had to do something finally. He
was doing it so often," Jen said. "I followed him out of class one day and
stopped him. I have students talking at
the back of the class occasionally and
that is very rude and disrespectful."
Jen has been teaching for 26 years
and he finds students get a little more
rude through the years.
"Other than being pushed against
the wall by a student once — for
not understanding what I was saying —I've not had too much problems," Jen said. "It is nonetheless
rude behavior."
"I find international students incredibly polite, very respectful of
their instructors," Conlee said.
"I think that it reflects their culture
and in other cultures, professors arc
in a position of respect more so than
in this country. So I'm thinking of
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