(NAME-MCE) 1st Annual Northeast Student Diversity Leadership Conference - March 31, Sage College of Albany

Michelle Lawson lawsom1 at sage.edu
Sun Mar 25 21:16:55 EST 2007


For Immediate Release
Contact Information: 
Michelle Lawson, Director of Cultural Enrichment and Diversity, The Sage Colleges
(518) 244-6891
lawsom1 at sage.edu
 
 
The Sage Colleges Announces the 
1st Annual Northeast Student Diversity Leadership Conference 
 
Albany, NY-
            The Office of Cultural Enrichment and Diversity at The Sage Colleges is pleased to announce that the 1st Annual Northeast Student Diversity Leadership Conference will be held at the Kahl Campus Center on Saturday, March 31, 2007 on the Sage College of Albany campus in Albany, New York.  Conference registration begins at 8:30 a.m. The Kahl Campus Center is located on the corner of New Scotland Avenue and Academy Road.
According to The Sage Colleges Director of Cultural Enrichment and Diversity, Michelle Lawson, “The purpose of the conference is  allow college students from throughout the Northeast to learn from academics, business professionals, and student diversity leaders about diversity and leadership and to have a good time meeting and networking with college students and professionals from all over the Northeast.” 
Wes Holloway, Director of Diversity, Price Chopper Supermarkets, Cultural Diversity Committee Co-Chair of the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce Kathleen McLean Group, and Cultural Enrichment and Diversity Director Michelle Lawson will serve on the Diversity Leadership Business Roundtable, which will be moderated by Marjorie Rush of Decision Suites, Inc.  The keynote speaker for the event is Albany City Councilmen Corey Ellis.  Workshop presenters include Union College Director of Affirmative Action and Community Outreach Gretchel Tyson, Journalist and Author Christopher Ringwald, and UAlbany Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs Carson Carr. Bombazo, the Centro Civico of Amsterdam-based Latin youth dance troupe, and Fahari, a Schenectady-based youth step group, will perform at the closing reception, which starts at 4:15 p.m.  
At the reception the book The First Thirty will also be honored. The First Thirty by Jillip Naysinthe Paxson for its inaugural Multicultural Relations Book of the Year Award.  This special award is going to be given on an annual basis to a book that is relevant to the mission and purpose of our conference. The First Thirty was selected for the inaugural honor because it speaks to how one person can make a difference in improving multicultural relations. Copies of book will be given to the first 50 conference participants. Paxson's critically-acclaimed 96 page tale chronicles one young person's experiences addressing issues like labels, stereotypes, intolerance and diversity, the events in and out of class which fueled his passion to do it, and the thirty lessons learned from his setbacks and successes along the way. In a review of the book, College News called The First Thirty a "remarkable story of strength filled with lessons that will carry every student through the college years and beyond."
            The registration fee of $10 for college students and $25 for non-students includes a continental breakfast, lunch, reception, and workshops.  Students, staff, and administrators of The Sage Colleges may attend this event free of charge.  Additional information about the conference can be found online at www.sage.edu/current/diversity.  For information, please feel free to contact Michelle Lawson, Director of Cultural Enrichment and Diversity, The Sage Colleges at (518) 244-6891 or lawsom1 at sage.edu.
 
The Sage Colleges
An independent private institution of higher education comprised of three colleges: Russell Sage College, a comprehensive, undergraduate college for women in Troy, NY; Sage College of Albany, a co-educational undergraduate college of applied studies in Albany, NY; and Sage Graduate School, operating on both campuses and offering applied master’s and doctoral degrees. Through the Sage College of Albany’s Sage After Work program, working adults with college credit or an associate degree can earn their bachelor’s quickly and affordably on their own time.
 
 
 
UPCOMING EVENTS
March 23, 2007     12:00 - 1:00 pm
An Inconvenient Truth Live Presentation with Professor Steve Leibo
Sage College of Albany, Opalka Gallery Lecture Hall

March 23, 2007     3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
An Inconvenient Truth Live Presentation with Professor Steven Leibo
Russell Sage College, Bush Memorial

March 27, 2007      6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Nick at Night: An Evening of Latin Piano Favorites with Nicolas Hernandez Jr., PhD 
Russell Sage College, Bush Memorial
www.sage.edu/current/diversity

March 31, 2007     8:30 am - 6:00 pm
1st Annual Northeast Student Diversity Leadership Conference
Sage College of Albany, Kahl Campus Center
Keynote Speaker: Albany City Councilman Corey Ellis
www.sage.edu/current/diversity

April 11, 2007        8:30 am - 4:30 pm             
1st Annual Successful Women of Color Symposium
Russell Sage College, Bush Memorial
Keynote Speaker:   WNYT Anchor/Education Reporter Elaine Houston
www.sage.edu/current/diversity

Michelle Lawson
Director of Cultural Enrichment and Diversity
The Sage Colleges 
45 Ferry Street
Troy, NY 12180
(518) 244-6891


Visit our Diversity Calendar to find out about current Capital Region multicultural events.  

Visit The Sage Colleges employment page to find out about current faculty and staff 
employment opportunities.

“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”
- Maya Angelou 


 


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2. Pushing Back at Bullying (Bill Howe)  
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The Next 40 Years of Multiracial Communities  

June 21-24, 2007 Chicago, Illinois  

The 40th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia (1967), the US Supreme  
Court's decision to legalize interracial marriage, will be marked with  
an international conference. For the first time in U.S. history, this  
event wishes to bring together not only "interracial" couples,  
"multiracial/ethnic" individuals, and "transracial" adoptees, it also  
intends to unite policy makers, educators/students, celebrities, and  
advocacy organizations representing all communities on critical issues  
that continue to fragment our nation at the Loving Decision Conference  
2007: The Next 40 Years of Multiracial Communities.  

Information and registration:  

http://www.lovingconference.com/  

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Pushing Back at Bullying BY GERRI HIRSHEY  

GREENWICH, Conn.  

THIS past November, the Greenwich High School principal, Alan J. Capasso,  
greeted an early morning assembly of more than 800 freshmen about to begin a  
mandatory anti-bias, anti-bullying program called "Names Can Really Hurt  
Us." He told them, "This is the most important day of your school year."  

In Greenwich, where diverse doesn't begin to describe the pan-cultural buzz  
animating the school's hangar-size cafeteria, "Names," as the program is  
known, is cool ? as in "Hey, you doing 'Names' this year? It rocks." After  
five years, "Names" day is assured a place on the school calendar, along  
with homecoming, SAT prep and the prom.  

Farther north at New Milford High School, Jonathan Henion, a senior, stood  
before a "Names" assembly of sophomores to share a story he insisted was no  
big deal, except that it suggested how one small action could make a  
difference:  

"I was standing in the rotunda with friends of mine, about 30 kids. I  
noticed this small girl walking by. She had on a big backpack filled with  
heavy books, and she fell. I just stood there watching and thought to  
myself, 'What a loser.' She just lay there trying to get up. The girl's face  
kept getting redder and redder listening to the relentless taunting by my  
friends. Something clicked. I walked over and lifted her up, picked up her  
books and brushed the dirt off her arms."  

Jonathan's little moment was greeted with huge applause; he looked  
surprised. New Milford's principal, Greg P. Shugrue, sharing pizza with  
Jonathan and other student panelists afterward, told them: "This is the best  
school atmosphere I've ever worked in. And it's because of the commitment to  
this program."  

"Names," which requires two months of preparation and training by students  
and staff members, is not a program that any participant or observer can  
easily forget. There is straight talk. There are tears, hugs, high-fives,  
laughs, applause and some astonishing apologies.  

"I went to observe it at Weston High School in 2000," said Carol Sutton, a  
social studies teacher and the catalyst for bringing "Names" to Greenwich.  
"What I saw was astounding. I was impressed by the student panelists and the  
kids who got up in the open-mike segment. I was amazed. I came back and  
said, 'Let's get it done.' "  

Over the last 11 years, some 65,600 Connecticut high school students have  
participated in "Names," which is sponsored and supervised by the  
Connecticut Office of the Anti-Defamation  
League.  
Guided by teachers, trained student volunteers and league facilitators,  
students talk with the unflinching candor of children about topics most  
adults would prefer to avoid: gossip, rumor, physical harassment, racism,  
homophobia, depression, eating disorders, self-mutilation, drinking, drugs,  
suicide ? the full range of bullying behavior and its consequences.  

Some students who spoke in small group and open-mike discussions are quoted  
here, but to protect their privacy, neither they nor their schools are  
identified.  

Marji Lipshez-Shapiro, the Anti-Defamation League's Connecticut regional  
director of education, who created the program in 1995, said that she first  
sensed the testimonial power of students' voices when she was dean of  
residential life at Connecticut College in the mid-1980s. Teenagers do talk  
freely to this engaging educator who moves easily among them. As one boy, a  
senior, put it, "Marji's da bomb."  

Ms. Lipshez-Shapiro said: "Kids are the ones who really know what's going  
on. When I walk through a cafeteria and I watch the social interaction, I  
realize what it takes to survive that, before you even get to academics.  

"A lot of kids hurt," she said. "In a forum like this, they can hear their  
own voices, they can make a difference. Like 'Wow, my little story is going  
to impact people.' "  

In group discussions and in an open-mike session, the stories spool out.  
Often, just speaking them aloud is an act of courage. Witness the overweight  
girl reciting the names she has been called, the former stutterer who  
rehearsed for a month to articulate her agonies, the boy rolling up his  
sleeves to reveal arms crisscrossed with scars from self-inflicted cuts. A  
popular teacher described the day he heard his gay son sobbing in his room,  
then found his schoolbooks scrawled with vicious antigay slurs.  

On "Names" day, nobody minces words:  

"So, um, I've got A.D.H.D., I was finally diagnosed. At least I don't think  
I'm a freak anymore. I'm on medication now and working really hard. People  
remember me the way I was, but I'm not like that anymore. I'm not. I'm just  
asking ? give me a second chance, O.K.? Just come up and say, Hi. Please."  

And from another student:  

"My sister is autistic. You see her in the hallway but you don't know her.  
She's the sweetest, most wonderful person. But no one will talk to her to  
find out. Why does she have to hear the words retard and spaz? Why does she  
have to come home crying every day?"  

In a darkened school auditorium, Ms. Lipshez-Shapiro's eyes welled up when a  
boy explained how he had to ask his best friends to stop calling him D. J.  
"Some of them didn't even get it, that D.J. was short for dirty Jew," he  
said. "They apologized. They really didn't understand how it hurt." It is  
rare that anti-Semitism comes up in "Names," but Ms. Lipshez-Shapiro  
explained why an organization devoted to combating that ancient  
transgression got into the bully business. "At A.D.L., we look at the  
consequences of being different, at prejudices and stereotyping and  
discrimination," she said. "The main reason people are bullied is because  
they're different or perceived to be. Our programs are really anti-bias more  
than anti-bully. Our goal is to teach empathy to perpetrators. A lot of  
times they have no idea of the power of what they're doing."  

Few educators would argue against the need for a positive form of  
intervention. In 2001, the National Institute of Child Health and Human  
Development identified school bullying as a growing public health problem.  
Its commissioned study found that 29 percent of the nearly 16,000 American  
students surveyed said that they had experienced bullying, either as a  
target, offender or both.  

"Names" is one of many anti-bullying programs being deployed across the  
nation by concerned PTAs, school boards, community theater groups and even  
by the Girl Scoutsof  
America. Twenty-nine states, including Connecticut and New Jersey,  
have  
enacted legislation against bullying, intimidation or harassment and 11  
others are in the process, according to the National Conference of State  
Legislatures. And New York has passed an education law that requires school  
districts to devise strategies to deal with violence as part of a school  
safety plan.  

"Wherever we take the program, we've found that the issues raised are  
basically the same," said a league facilitator, Sandra Vonniessen-Applebee.  
Though school bullies have been around longer than chalkboards, their  
playground and their reach have expanded in the information age. Young,  
media-saturated lives traverse an electronic landscape, peopled with elite  
"Survivor" and "American Idol" winners and an ever-growing pool of reality  
show losers. There are bully-centric teenage and kiddie flicks ("Mean  
Girls," "Ant Bully"). Teenage chick lit series ("Gossip Girl," "The Clique")  
are bristling with hissy, sarcastic vipers wrapped in Juicy Couture. And  
there is Bully, a video game that depicts the adolescent atrocities facing  
the new student in a fictional boarding school.  

"It is a pervasive media message that being mean is cool, with put-downs and  
the like," Ms. Lipshez-Shapiro, said, noting that cyber-bullying, which  
invokes rumor and insults via the popular social-networking sites Facebook  
and MySpace, has become a huge concern.  

"I was online and I saw that someone posted something really lame about the  
Spanish kids taking over the best tables in the cafeteria. It was a lot of  
mean garbage about illegals. And I thought, well, the kids that did it are  
just jerks. Then I thought no, you can't just do nothing, that's not right.  
These things get bigger and out of control. So I showed it to the guidance  
office, and they dealt with it."  

It was a "bingo!" moment for the Anti-Defamation League facilitators who  
heard this comment at a meeting of student panelists.  

"Yes! Now that's becoming an ally," said William H. Foster III, the  
charismatic facilitator who emcees "Names" days with warmth, wit and a touch  
of Bernie Mac. Ms. Lipshez-Shapiro added: "We want to empower the targets so  
that they feel yes, I can develop tools to fight back and say stop. And we  
want to teach bystanders to become allies. That's the ultimate goal."  

Can bully education work? A pioneering 1988 study done in Norway by Dan  
Olweus, a social researcher, found that the incidence of bullying in  
Norwegian schools fell by 50 percent or more in the two years after an  
anti-bullying campaign; truancy, theft and vandalism also dropped markedly.  

A follow-up survey of the "Names" program in San Diego in 2000 found that 60  
percent of students said that after the session they would be less likely to  
call someone a name; nearly half reported positive changes in other  
students' behavior.  

"You probably have seen me around, and you might think I'm just some weird  
loner. I'm in foster care; this is like my fifth or sixth school, and when  
you're all going home to your parents, my sister and I are going to a group  
home. It's hard to keep starting over, so sometimes I don't even dare to  
try. But if you see somebody alone all the time, just remember, they're not  
necessarily freaky. There's a story there ? a life. And they could probably  
use a friend."  

What price, such poignant social education? The scheduling logistics and  
expense of a "Names" program can be daunting to already-stretched budgets.  
The Anti-Defamation League pays $1,000 of an average $5,000 cost, which  
entails everything from hiring substitutes for participating teachers to  
audio-visual aids. But school systems across the tristate area are also  
mindful of a rise in costly bully-related litigation.  

In Toms River, a seven-year-old case reached the New Jersey Supreme Court  
last November. Connecticut, which recently strengthened its anti-bullying  
law, has seen a spate of suits in Greenwich, Berlin and Stonington.  

"Maybe I do like emo music. And you can see by my long hair and my clothes  
that I look kind of different than other guys. But I like the way me and my  
friends look ? some crazy, dark, baggy clothes and stuff but it's us, it's  
harmless. Then I find this note in my locker: Emo bitch! Who gets off on  
doing that sort of thing? Why?"  

Trying to change the hearts and minds of bullies can be a risky business.  
Not all schools opt for the open-mike segment of "Names," when audience  
members line up to speak their minds, though it is very popular with  
students. League facilitators are at the speakers' elbows, ready to  
intervene should matters get too emotional. Guidance counselors are on hand  
for especially fragile speakers.  

But in the sessions witnessed by a reporter, it was fellow students, with  
cheers, group hugs and tissues, who provided the most enveloping and  
accepting reinforcement. Even those who apologized, among them teary,  
self-confessed mean girls, were embraced.  

"I'm still on the fence about the open-mike part," said Mr. Shugrue, the New  
Milford principal, recalling an incident at another school when a student  
used the forum to mock the proceedings. League facilitators say they have  
never encountered this and that owing to the strict confidentiality policies  
for "Names," there have been no complaints from parents.  

"The first year, I got some calls from parents asking, 'What is this race  
program you're doing?' " recalled Kris Kaczkak, health education chairwoman  
at New Milford. "But now that parents know what it is, we get great support.  
Our teachers volunteer anywhere from 6 to 50 hours each of their time. And I  
have 150 student volunteers for 50 places."  

If forgiveness and grace are shining ideals of "Names," both are met in  
Lorella Praeli, a lively, chestnut-maned senior who delivered a bravura  
closing address at New Milford's "Names" day.  

Afterward, in between accepting hugs and congratulations, she talked about  
her experiences as a bullying target before "Names" helped her defuse the  
problems:  

"I have a right prosthetic leg; I lost my leg in a car accident when I was  
2?. So all my life I've heard rude remarks about it. And I'm from Peru. I  
moved here about six years ago. So I've faced racism. I've had the words  
spoken to my face, behind my back and online. You know, PegLeg. Spic. Border  
Hopper."  

Lorella, who has spoken at many other league-sponsored anti-bias events,  
plans a career in advocacy, perhaps beginning with a law degree. Despite  
what she has endured, she said she refused to describe herself as a victim,  
preferring to focus on her conversion from a bystander.  

"I wasn't the person who stopped someone from using a word that they  
shouldn't have," she said. "I thought, oh, it's O.K. After the program I  
began to recognize that it wasn't. I feel that this program has changed the  
school. It's not the same as my sophomore year."  

Right after her speech, one student asked her how she expected "Names" to  
change a whole class, 400 students. Lorella answered: "I told her you don't  
need to change the whole class. Go for one person first."  

Carrie Malcolm, now 24 and a reformed bully, said that "Names" changed the  
course of her life, though too late for her victim. As a middle school honor  
student, leader and volunteer, Ms. Malcolm had a secret life as the  
tormenter, along with six friends, of a quiet girl named Erin. "She was an  
outcast," Ms. Malcolm said, "and I was the ringleader of making her life  
miserable.  

"I remember chasing Erin down the hallway and into a classroom, singing some  
awful song that I had made up about her. She was cornered against the  
blackboard, crying. And I wouldn't stop screaming this song. Then I just  
walked away and enjoyed the rest of my afternoon."  

Hoping to get away from the group, Erin chose to go to a different area high  
school. In 1997, she was killed in a car accident on the way to class. "We  
made the last few years of her short life utter hell," said Ms. Malcolm,  
who, with Ms. Lipshez-Shapiro's encouragement and guidance, told her story  
on "Names" day as a sophomore at her regional high school in Durham, a year  
after Erin's death. At Ms. Malcolm's invitation, Erin's mother and  
grandmother were in the audience. Hers was a powerful, self-lacerating  
speech. And she says she cannot let the matter rest.  

She has chosen a career in public service, tutoring underserved urban  
students in New Haven as the executive director of the nonprofit Center for  
Teaching, Learning and Child Development. And she has spoken at more than 25  
Anti-Defamation League-sponsored bullying programs for students, teachers  
and parents. "I really want to get to parents," she said. "My story  
exemplifies what middle school bullying is like, that nobody really feels  
they need to do anything about it. Parents seem to ignore it and think it  
was a regular part of growing up. I stress that it doesn't have to be that  
way. And I'll do it over and over in front of parents, administrators and  
teachers, people that have the power to change it."  

Another "Names" open-mike session was coming to a close. The final speaker,  
a rangy boy in a hoodie sweatshirt, had been pacing nervously.  

"Ah ... yo. I just want to say I'm up here talking for me and my friends.  
You all know us, right? Yeah. I've probably picked on most of you. And if  
any of us made fun of you, I'm here to tell you we're sorry. It wasn't cool.  
We're really sorry. Peace."  


--  
Bill Howe  
http://www.billhowe.org  

JoIn me this summer in China - Multicultural Educators to China Summer 2007  
Trip - http://billhowe.org/China2007.htm  

Past-President  
National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)  
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Message: 3  
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:10:15 EDT  
From: KispokoT at aol.com  
Subject: (NAME-MCE) Query: belief that Native Americans are 10 Lost  
Tribes  
To: name-mce at nameorg.org  
Cc: NativeVillage500 at aol.com  
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Hi Daniel,  

You might be interested in an African tribe's recent experiences regarding  
this issue. Nova aired a fascinating program, "Lost Tribes of Israel," about  
the Lemba, the Black Jews of Southern Africa. Many believe the Lemba are  
one of those tribes.  

The program explores cultural, language, religious (etc) similarities. They  
also used scientific testing, such as DNA. Perhaps the info and techiques  
used would be of help in your quest.  

If you get a chance, please watch the program. It's remarkable.  

The Lemba, The Black Jews of Southern Africa  
_http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/israel/familylemba.html_  
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/israel/familylemba.html)  

Warm Regards,  
Gina Boltz, Director  
Native Village Publications  
_http://www.nativevillage.org_ (http://www.nativevillage.org)  


From: Mandell, Daniel  
List Editor: "Matthew Garrett, Associate Editor"  
Editor's Subject: Query: belief that Native Americans are 10 Lost Tribes  
Author's Subject: Query: belief that Native Americans are 10 Lost Tribes  
Date Written: March 20, 2007  
Date Posted: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:22:43 -0700  
Colleagues:  



I am interested in the persistent belief that Native Americans are the  

survivors of the ten lost tribes of Israel, a belief which began with  

Las Casas (if not before), continued to be spread in the second quarter  

of the nineteenth century by the Pequot minister William Apess and  

others, and became an important part of the narrative in _The Book of  

Mormon_. I would appreciate any stories that you have heard, articles  

you have read, or other knowledge that you could share with me.  



Regards,  



Daniel Mandell  












From: Mandell, Daniel  
List Editor: "Matthew Garrett, Associate Editor"  
Editor's Subject: Query: belief that Native Americans are 10 Lost Tribes  
Author's Subject: Query: belief that Native Americans are 10 Lost Tribes  
Date Written: March 20, 2007  
Date Posted: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:22:43 -0700  
Colleagues:  



I am interested in the persistent belief that Native Americans are the  

survivors of the ten lost tribes of Israel, a belief which began with  

Las Casas (if not before), continued to be spread in the second quarter  

of the nineteenth century by the Pequot minister William Apess and  

others, and became an important part of the narrative in _The Book of  

Mormon_. I would appreciate any stories that you have heard, articles  

you have read, or other knowledge that you could share with me.  



Regards,  



Daniel Mandell  

Truman State University  




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