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June 30, 2006 |
Volume 2, Number 2 |
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Multicultural Student Center PO Box 5677 Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Phone: (928) 523-5656
Fax: (928) 523-9444
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Welcome BackThe semester has begun and things may be chaotic. Threads will try to help you set goals for the upcoming semester, peer advisors to provide feedback and upcoming events and workshops. Black History Month
THE ORIGINS OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH
(1875-1950) was born to parents who had been slaves. Neither his Mother nor Father could read or write. Mr. Woodson had to work to earn money for the family and did not start school until later than most children. But, his motto was it is "never to late to learn." He became a high school teacher; and was sad to discover that none of the schools taught the history of Black Americans. He started the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History to study the important things Black people had accomplished and on February 19, 1926 Woodson established "Negro History Week".
W.E.B Dubois
Historian, sociologist, political activist, and writer, born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA. Supported by the local school headmaster and the Congregational Church in Great Barrington, he was educated at Fisk University (1885–8), where he was shocked by the racial segregation he experienced in the South. He went on to take a PhD at Harvard (1895), with two years at the University of Berlin (1892–4). Under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, he studied black life in the Philadelphia ghetto, writing The Philadelphia Negro (1899). A professor of economics, history, and sociology at Atlanta University (1898–1910), he sponsored an annual conference for the Study of the Negro Problem and wrote essays compiled in The Soul of Black Folk (1903), calling for an activist African-American middle class to change racial politics. Founding the Niagara Movement (1905) to fight segregation, he also organized its official magazine, Horizon: A Journal of the Color Line (1907–10). He resigned from teaching (1910) to serve as director of publications and research for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in New York, editing Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races (1910–34), a magazine that was credited with encouraging many early civil-rights activists. However, when he argued that African-Americans should voluntarily segregate themselves to organize economically during the Great Depression of the 1930s, he alienated the NAACP leadership, so he resigned in 1934. He returned to Atlanta University to chair the sociology department (1934–44), where he founded a scholarly journal, Phylon: A Review of Race and Culture (1940–4), and completed his autobiography, Dusk of Dawn (1940). Forced to retire at age 76, he returned to the NAACP, serving as director of special research (1944–8), leaving when his Marxist politics became a liability. Chairman of the Peace Information Centre, an antinuclear weapons group, he was indicted as a foreign agent (1951), and although acquitted his passport was revoked (1952–8). He later toured Europe, China, and the Soviet Union, where he received the Lenin Peace Prize (1959). After joining the Communist Party (1961), he moved to Accra, Ghana , becoming a naturalized citizen just before he died. http://www.biography.com/search/article.jsp?aid=9279924&page=2&search=
African-American Quotations Our nation is a rainbow—red, yellow, brown, black, and white—and we're all precious in God's sight. Jesse Jackson (1941)
If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live. Jessye
Norman (1945-)
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others. . . . One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warrings ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
Black History Events Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
More events will be provided throughout the month. Please show your support of these community and campus events.
Setting Goals Effectively The following broad guidelines will help you to set effective goals: State each goal as a positive statement: Express your goals positively - 'Execute this technique well' is a much better goal than 'Don't make this stupid mistake' Be precise: Set a precise goal, putting in dates, times and amounts so that you can measure achievement. If you do this, you will know exactly when you have achieved the goal, and can take complete satisfaction from having achieved it. Set priorities: When you have several goals, give each a priority. This helps you to avoid feeling overwhelmed by too many goals, and helps to direct your attention to the most important ones. Write goals down: this crystallizes them and gives them more force. Keep operational goals small: Keep the low-level goals you are working towards small and achievable. If a goal is too large, then it can seem that you are not making progress towards it. Keeping goals small and incremental gives more opportunities for reward. Derive today's goals from larger ones. Set performance goals, not outcome goals: You should take care to set goals over which you have as much control as possible. There is nothing more dispiriting than failing to achieve a personal goal for reasons beyond your control. These could be bad business environments, poor judging, bad weather, injury, or just plain bad luck. If you base your goals on personal performance, then you can keep control over the achievement of your goals and draw satisfaction from them. Set realistic goals: It is important to set goals that you can achieve. All sorts of people (parents, media, society) can set unrealistic goals for you. They will often do this in ignorance of your own desires and ambitions. Alternatively you may be naïve in setting very high goals. You might not appreciate either the obstacles in the way, or understand quite how many skills you must master to achieve a particular level of performance. Do not set goals too low: Just as it is important not to set goals unrealistically high, do not set them too low. People tend to do this where they are afraid of failure or where they are lazy! You should set goals so that they are slightly out of your immediate grasp, but not so far that there is no hope of achieving them. No one will put serious effort into achieving a goal that they believe is unrealistic. However, remember that your belief that a goal is unrealistic may be incorrect. If this could be the case, you can to change this belief by using imagery effectively. This is something we focus on in detail in our "Design Your Life" program, which not only helps you decide your goals, it then helps you set the vivid, compelling goals you need if you're to make the most of your goal setting. http://www.mindtools.com/page6.html
Peer Advisor positions for 2006-2007 The
goal of the STAR Peer Advisor Program is to help students become academically
and socially successful by providing them with support, guidance and advice.
Peer advisors must be able to help students understand the university
language and liberal studies requirements; assist students with academic
advisement for early enrollment and drop/add procedures; assist with
financial aid procedures; and help students adjust to the university
environment.
Applications are available at the MSC front desk and are due Friday, February 24, 2006. Questions? Contact Traci Harvey at 523-6971 or Traci.Harvey@nau.edu
Peer Advisors Welcome back STAR students. Your Peer Advisors are excited
to see you coming back this Spring semester. Sophmores need to complete two
visits with your PA's and your freshmen need to complete three meetings this
semester. Good luck to all of you from your PA's.
MWF 8am-6pm Monday:11:30am-3:00pm Tuesday:10:30am-3:30pm Wednesday:11:30-4:30pm Friday:Off
2006 Resident Assistants Congratulations to the STAR 2006 Resident Assistants:
Feb 4: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Relay for Life Information Meeting
Feb 6: 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
February 8 Career Fair in the Field house University Union. Feb 10 Spring 2006 - Last day to Drop/Delete (without class appearing on students' transcripts)
Feb 11
Feb 14 Spring 2006 - Commencement program deadline for name inclusion
Feb 14
Feb 17 Spring 2006 - Last day to file for A/Pass/Fail
A representative from HACU- to discuss opportunities for scholarships and internships. The internships are in Washington D.C.
Top 10 Unique & Romantic Gift Ideas:
http://www.romancestuck.com/top-10/unique-gifts.htm
Quote of the Month Success To laugh often and much;
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