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Films further black history knowledge Matt Miller Staff Writer
HUD seeks help with anti-gay discrimination study CHICAGO — When federal officials studied housing discrimination based on race, the setup was simple: They sent in testers of different backgrounds and gauged how landlords and real estate agents treated people of color compared with whites. As the government prepares a first-ever study of housing discrimination against gays, however, the issue is more complex. How do you design a study to make an applicant’s sexual orientation or gender identity as obvious as race and color? Starting Thursday, the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department will enlist residents in three cities with large gay populations — Chicago, New York and San Francisco — to offer ideas on how such a study should be conducted. Sudan releases Darfur rebels
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Snapshots of Black History: the broader perspective showed excerpts from the movie “Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson” as part of the multimedia presentation in the University Center Tuesday night.
The celebration of Black History Month at UT continued Tuesday night in the UC Hermitage Room, with a mixed media presentation. Entitled Snapshots of Black History: the broader perspective, the presentation remembered those who helped shape the path of African-American history. At the entrance of the room was a photo exhibit that included pictures of prominent characters in the civil rights movement. Inside, music from James Brown, Sam Cooke and others played through the speakers. The main presentation focused on two film excerpts: one from “Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson,” and the other from “At the River I Stand,” the story of the Memphis sanitation workers strike in 1968. The event was organized by Ann Jefferson, lecturer in history, and students from her Latin American Studies class. Other sponsors included the Departments of History and African Studies, the Global Studies Program and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Jefferson said she “really got to thinking about the importance of knowing each other’s history.” She asked her students if See HISTORY on Page 3
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KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan released 57 Darfur rebels on Wednesday, including 50 who had been sentenced to death, under a new truce agreement between the government and the country’s most powerful rebel group. The Sudanese government and the rebel Justice and Equality Movement signed a truce agreement in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday after a year of negotiations meant to end seven years of devastating conflict that have killed some 300,000 and displaced more than 2.7 million in the western Darfur region. Suspended Pa. abortion doctor suspended PHILADELPHIA — State authorities cited a recent patient death in suspending the license of a doctor who performed abortions, but one of dozens of civil lawsuits filed against him said a woman died from a botched abortion in 2000. Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s license was temporarily suspended this week after investigators found blood on the floor, fetus parts in jars and a recovery area consisting of recliners. Gosnell, 69, is named in nearly four dozen lawsuits going back 20 years. Ten are malpractice suits, including one by the family of a young woman who died after a March 2000 abortion at his West Philadelphia clinic.
they would volunteer to put together a presentation for Black History Month. Brittany Williams, event committee member and sophomore in sociology, volunteered to assist the organization. “From the start, I was very interested because the idea was to show more of the stuff people don’t really know about black history,” Williams said. “I didn’t know as much as I thought, so I learned things while preparing to educate the campus.” Jonathan Cleghorn, sophomore in spanish and a member of the committee, said it is important for people to be able to visualize the civil rights movement. “To actually see the footage from that time period, the things that happened and what led up to it, helps in learning and understanding this movement,” Cleghorn said. One film excerpt, documenting the fight of Jack Johnson’s victory to become the first African-American heavyweight champion, shows great displays of happiness, followed by riots, over the support of an athlete. The second, with footage from the Memphis sanitation workers strike, Martin Luther King Jr.’s involvement and his eventual death, shows the determination and frustration of the African-Americans involved.
Campus-wide effort to help make unified document Nathan Berger Staff Writer
for the students to learn about all of the aspects of starting and running a business. “Students learned about pricing, planning, cash flow and networking,” Graves said. Goduco said her main lesson was the importance of networking. “The biggest advantage we had was networking with my sorority and our friends,” she said. “Because of our connections, we had an easily accessible patronage that were willing to contribute.” Goduco also said this type of assignment taught her more than writing a paper or taking a test. “This project actually taught me how to do something,” she said. “Working with real money put a lot at stake and made everyone more competitive.” Graves said he also gained something from the project. “The best thing was interacting with the students and seeing the excitement when they were challenged,” he said. “I have a tremendous faith in this generation, and almost everyone was enthusiastic and rose to the challenge.”
This semester the Office of the Provost is taking charge of VOL Vision, a long-term planning process that will encourage UT students, faculty and staff to help shape the university’s future. While the VOL Vision process was launched only this month, the strategic plan it will represent has been in the making for several years and is a collaboration among many groups. The final goal of VOL Vision is to create a unified document that illustrates what UT’s priorities are and how to provide for them, all based on a variety of campus input. “We really want dialogue all across the campus, so everyone can put in their two cents,” Sarah Gardial, vice provost for faculty affairs, said. A series of discussion groups on VOL Vision will be conducted over the next few months. Two of these sessions will specifically target students, and another two will be open for all UT affiliates. For those unable to make the meetings, the VOL Vision Web site will be available for both anonymous and identified feedback beginning in April. “I think that this is a special opportunity for students to provide input for the direction of the campus’s goals,” Gardial said. “Students are an important stakeholder, and they need to be at the table.” Ed Cortez, director of the School of Information Sciences, Joan Heminway, professor in the College of Law, and Dixie Thompson, head of the Department of Exercise, Sport and Leisure Studies, currently lead the VOL Vision feedback effort.
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Students in Tom Graves's Management 350 class work to earn money for their small business project.
Kristian Smith Student Life Editor Whether through a class or a competition, students at UT now have more opportunities than ever before to get realworld business experience. Management 350: Introduction to Entrepreneurship, a new class in the business program, gives students hands-on experience in the world of business. For their first project, students in the class were told to think of an idea and create a small business. Tom Graves, professor in management and instructor for Management 350, said he gave this assignment to his students because entrepreneurship needs to be experiential. “I gave students an envelope with seed money and told them to think of an idea … and make as much money as possible,” he said. The only catch was that students had to have an idea in place before they could open the envelope. “In the real world, entrepreneurs don’t come up with an idea based on how much money they have,” Graves said. The challenge came when students
realized they only had $5 to start a business. Graves said he tried to make the experience as realistic as possible, and new entrepreneurs are often turned away from banks, leaving them to use their own money to launch a business. For one group of students, this was not a problem because they never planned to use the money in the first place. “We planned not to use the money because the easiest way to make money is to provide a service, not a product,” Alex Goduco, junior in management and entrepreneurship and a student in Graves’ class, said. Goduco’s group created a hair and nail salon, offering haircuts and manicure services for cheap prices. Graves said this was a good example of using resources effectively because members of their group already had experience working with hair and nails. In the end, Graves said the project proved to be successful, with one team making more than $600 in the few days the students had to complete the assignment. Overall the teams from both of his classes made a total of $3,000. He said the goal of the assignment was
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