Multicultural Newsletter
Issue # 8 February, 2013
With about 16% of the world’s
population, a quarter (25%) of the
world’s languages are spoken
only in Africa
Editors:
Nimo Sugulle
Ashley Antwi
Nira Malik
Advisor:
Dr. Bernadette Tiapo
Dir., Office of
Multicultural Student
Affairs
Population experts estimate that
there are at least 3,000 distinct
ethnic groups (tribes) in Africa.
Nigeria alone has more than 370
recognized tribes within its
populations
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
The story of Black History Month begins in 1915, half a century after the
Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. That September,
the Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson and the prominent minister
Jesse E. Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and
History (ASNLH), an organization dedicated to researching and promoting
achievements by Black Americans and other peoples of African descent. Known
today as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History
(ASALH), the group sponsored a national Negro History week in 1926, choosing
the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln
and Frederick Douglass. The event inspired schools and communities nationwide
to organize local celebrations, establish history clubs, and host performances and
lectures.
In the decades that followed, mayors of cities across the country began issuing
yearly proclamations recognizing Negro History Week. By the late 1960s, thanks
in part to the Civil Rights Movement and a growing awareness of black identity,
Negro History Week had evolved into Black History Month on many college
campuses. President Gerald R. Ford officially recognized Black History Month in
1976, calling upon the public to "seize the opportunity to honor the too-often
neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor
throughout our history."
Since then, every American president has designated February as Black History
Month and endorsed a specific theme. The 2013 theme, “At the Crossroads of
Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on
Washington,” marks the 150th and 50th anniversaries of two pivotal events in
African-American history.
Culled from: http://www.history.com/topics/black-history-month
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived,
but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
Maya Angelou
PEOPLE TO
KNOW
Patricia Era Bath
OCCUPATION: Educator,
Inventor, Doctor
BEST KNOWN FOR: Patricia
Bath is the first African
American to complete a
residency in ophthalmology. She
invented the Laserphaco Probe
for cataract treatment in 1986.
Culled from:
http://www.biography.com/people/patricia
-bath-21038525
Lewis Howard Latimer
OCCUPATION: Engineer,
Inventor
BEST KNOWN FOR : Lewis
Howard Latimer was an inventor
and draftsman best known for his
contributions to the patenting of
the light bulb and the telephone.
Culled from:
http://www.biography.com/people/lewishoward-latimer-9374422
Ben Carson
OCCUPATION: Surgeon,
Philanthropist, Journalist
BEST KNOWN FOR: Ben Carson
overcame his troubled youth in
inner-city Detroit to become a
gifted neurosurgeon famous for
his work separating conjoined
twins.
Culled from http://www.biography.com/people/ben‐
carson‐475422
4th Annual Multicultural Leadership Conference
Call for Proposals
Deadline: April 5th
Submit proposals online here:
https://helpdesk.oneonta.edu/survey/entry.jsp?id=1355415678818
Conference Date: Saturday, October 5th, 2013 Time: 10:00a.m. – 4:00p.m.
Venue: Hunt Union
Organized by: MSC and DPEP
3rd Annual Woman to World Women’s Roundtable Discussion and Recognition Dinner Presented by the Multicultural Student Council (MSC)
Sunday, March 10th
Location: Lee Hall: CME
Time: 5:00 pm to 8:00pm
Meet alumni & listen to their stories,
Ask questions and get answers about professional life.
Diversity Peer Education Program (DPEP)
The fourth and final DPEP workshop and the completion ceremony are scheduled for Saturday, March 9th
Please join us at 2:30p.m. for the closing ceremony and refreshments.
Venue: CME
DPEP provides an opportunity to educate students who can take up advocacy roles on diversity, multiculturalism, social justice, and related goals/values on the SUNY Oneonta campus and in the surrounding community. Students are trained to become Diversity Peer Educators. Applications for the 2013/2014 class will be available in August. Diversity and Global Awareness Field Trip New York city Exposure to African and African American Art and Culture
April 13th 2013 Departure @8:00am Return @ 5:00pm
$10 per student. Tickets are available at Netzer 119 Multicultural Student Council General
Body Meetings
Time: Mondays at 6:00pm
Location: Lee Hall (CME)
All students are welcome!
The Chinese New
Year, or Spring
Festival, was a time to
honor household and
heavenly deities,
ancestors. It was also
a time for bringing
family together for
feasting. For some
young people, the
holiday has evolved
from an opportunity
to renew family ties to
a chance for
relaxation from work.
Mardi Gras dates
back thousands
of years to pagan
spring and fertility
rites. Also known
as Carnival, it is
celebrated in
many countries
around the world–
mainly those with
large Roman
Catholic
populations–on
the day before
the religious
season of Lent
begins.
Feb. Sunday, 10th : Chinese New Year
Feb. Tuesday,12th : Mardi Gras
Feb. Wednesday, 13th : Ash Wednesday
Feb. Thursday, 14th : Valentine’s Day
Feb. Saturday, 23rd : Purim Begins at Sundown
Feb. Wednesday, 27th: MSA with PASO
Time:7pm in the CME
Good Friday is
observed on the Friday
before Easter Sunday.
On this day Christians
commemorate the
passion, or suffering,
and death on the
cross of the Lord, Jesus
Christ.
March,Thursday,7th: Korean Cultural Club (KCC): Movie Night
There will be a showing of a Korean movie titled Joint Security
Area (JSA) with English subtitles
Passover (Hebrew:
Location: Red Dragon Theatre Time : 7:00pm
Pesach)
17th:
March, Sunday,
St. Patrick’s Day
th
March, Sunday, 24 : Palm Sunday
March, Monday, 25th: Passover Begins at Sundown
March, Friday, 29th: Good Friday
March, Sunday, 31st: Easter
Ash Wednesday marks the
beginning of the Season of
Lent. It is a season of
penance, reflection, and
fasting which prepares the
faithful for Christ's Resurrection
on Easter Sunday, through
which redemption is attained.
The joyous holiday of Purim
celebrates the salvation of
the Jews from the wicked Haman,
through the leadership of Queen
Esther and her cousin Mordecai.
Purim takes place on the 14th day of
Adar, the 12th month of the Jewish
calendar.
commemorates the
story of the Israelites’
departure from
ancient Egypt, which
appears in the Hebrew
Bible’s books of
Exodus, Numbers and
Deuteronomy, among
other texts.
On Palm Sunday Christians
celebrate the triumphal
entry of Jesus Christ into
Jerusalem, the week
before his death and
resurrection.