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Events To Eliminate Racism Planned For

International Day

A ecent events indicate that
there is a growing need
for sensitivity and learning
about cultural and racial in-
tegration and acceptance at
Douglas College.

“A range of diverse cul-
tures and ethnic back-
grounds are present at
Douglas College, not only in
the student population, but
in the faculty, support ser-
vices, and the community,”
says Jennifer Edwards, facul-
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cultural awareness. “It
will allow us to feel what
it is like to suffer racial
discrimination. The ac-
tivities for that afternoon
will help us to construct
models for changing our
beliefs with the ultimate
goal of eliminating
racism,” she says.
“We're having a
combination of events,”
says Cathie Bissett,
programmer in Com-
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that the College become
aware of the issues and concerns of fee racial
and ethnic groups, to provide equality of access and
liberal education.”

In order to address some of these issues, students
and faculty at
Douglas College
are adressing
some of these is-
sues in an after-
noon of events
on International
Day, March 21,
1991. It’s called
Dance In My
| Shoes, and it
takes place from
noon until 6 pm
at Douglas Col-
| lege. Edwards
says that the
series of events
are designed
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Dance In My
Shoes."There will be various cultural dancers, and
then we have a panel with questions being answered
on racism." Panellists include Emery Barnes, MLA
from Vancouver Centre; Mobina Jaffer, a lawyer
doing immigration and refugee work and founder of
Immigrant and Visible Minority Women of B.C.; and
Hayne Way from the Human Rights Commission of
B.C. Also on the panel will be speakers from Native
groups, Arab Canadians, Jewish Canadians, Afro-
Canadians and Indo-Canadians, each to speak on
their experiences with racism and how we can work
to eliminate racism.

Other events include workshops on normaliza-
tion of racism, the Language Partner program at
Douglas College, and information on a joint cultural
exchange between English as a Second Language and
Early Childhood Education at Douglas College.

A number of videos on racism will be shown.
One example is the video Crosstalk which examines
how to manage the cross-cultural encounter; another
is the Bill Cosby video called Hold The Ketchup
Please, which is a view on how Americanized food is
perceived by other cultures.

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