Week to advocate campus
diversity
By Patricia Nikolaros
Staff
Writer
This week Purdue University’s Diversity Resource
Office is presenting UniDiversty Week.
The week’s theme will be "E Pluribus
Unum," which means "Out of Many One."
Dorothy Simpson-Taylor, director of the Diversity
Resource Office, said, "I hope this will be the beginning of an
annual event."
UniDiversity week coincides with this past weekend's
Holocaust Convention and next week's International Week.
"This year there were suggestions on what
people can do to interact more with each other, and offering key events
was decided on," Simpson-Taylor said.
The events of the week will include films such
as "The Color of Fear" and "Talking About Race,"
Brown Bag discussions sponsored by the Schools of Management and Education
and a "Celebration of Dance" sponsored by the Purdue Student
Union Board.
The "Celebration of Dance" is from 4
to 10 p.m. on Wednesday. It will feature Latin dance, Greek dance, line
dancing, hip-hop, ballroom dance and stepping performances by Purdue
Students, faculty and staff.
Simpson-Taylor said that, aside from students taking
classes about diversity, it is important to have an annual recognition
of the diversity of the campus and the community.
She said, "This will help students continue
their enrichments and become experts in their discipline and develop
skills to work and live with everyone."
The University Diversity Resource Office serves
as a resource for the West Lafayette and Purdue community.
It provides expertise and strategy in developing
diversity confidence for everyone and to enrich the academic experience
of the students.
Simpson-Taylor said, "The celebration model
of the Diversity Resource Office is vision, voice and visibility."
The vision is to help design a vision for Purdue
Students, the voice is to advocate diversity, and the visibility is
connecting and accepting diversity, Simpson-Taylor said.
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