MU Diversity News
Adelante, Kolleen Kawa
Camila Gumati, 19, helps at her family’s Middle Eastern restaurant, the International Café in Columbia, and eats their popular dishes of tzatziki and hummus. But at home on the weekends, she loves her mother’s Venezuelan arepas, a corn-based bread. She listens to salsa, country and Libyan folk music.
Adelante, Sara Shahriari
In the upcoming film “Mil Máscaras: Resurrection,” Mil Máscaras remains stoic as an Aztec mummy tries to hypnotize him in an ancient pyramid, sends a demon with super strength to kill him in the wrestling ring, and revives an army of evil minions to wage war against modern humanity.
Christian Basi, News Bureau
Sutherlandia may be unfamiliar to many North Americans, but in South Africa, where traditional medicines are used by many people, and often supplement conventional medicines, many consider it a miracle plant. Those that use Sutherlandia claim that it cures ailments from depression to cancer.
Jennifer Faddis, News Bureau
Going to Grandma or Grandpa’s house for the holidays will mean staying home for thousands of children. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 4.5 million children are being raised by grandparents or other relatives. Grandparents who find themselves as parents for the second time around need to know they are not alone, according to a University of Missouri family expert.
Charles Reineke, Illumination
Because of its association with childhood entertainments, puppet theater seldom warrants more than a footnote in the history of Western drama. Things are different in Japan, where many of that nation's most sublime theatrical compositions were, in fact, written for puppets.
Alan Bavley, Illumination
Amanda Rose was watching sixth grade kids on an elementary school playground when she made a simple but insightful observation about their behavior: The boys weren't spending much time talking to each other. They were too busy with sports and games. And they seemed to be having a great time. The girls, meanwhile, were huddled in conspiratorial pairs, chatting away. From the looks of things, they didn't seem to be having much fun.
Allison Ross, Columbia Missourian
Paige Sommerer stood at the table, using a slim yellow candle to light a similar pink one. Several other girls crowded around as Sommerer quickly recited short prayers in Hebrew.
Announcement
Join "Diversity in Action: Bridging Research and Practice," a Brown Bag Series sponsored by the Chancellor's Diversity Initiative. This series of research-based presentations is designed to inform scholars, students, and practitioners of diversity-related research at Mizzou. The third brown bag seminar is Thursday, December 6, between 12:00 and 1:15 pm in S304 Memorial Union. Dr. Michael C. Lambert, Millsap Professor in Human Development & Family Studies and Adjunct Professor in Psychology will present his research on "Strength-Based Assessment and Intervention Procedures for Children and Adolescents of African Heritage."
Announcement, Office of the Chancellor
Join MU Chancellor Brady J. Deaton as he moderates the latest of a series of open forums on global topics of interest to the community. This interactive panel discussion on immigration issues is co-sponsored by the Chancellor’s Office and the MU Difficult Dialogues Program, which is funded by a generous grant from the Ford Foundation.
Off Campus Diversity News
DiversityInc
As the crackdown on undocumented immigration spurs harsh new laws and xenophobia around the country, immigrants, regardless of citizenship status, are bearing the brunt of an upsurge in national hostility--and most say it's impeding their ability to succeed.
Columbia Tribune
Nick Rodriguez, 17, with the dance group Poetry in Motion, practices a wall flip before a Kwanzaa celebration yesterday in the Douglass High School gym.
Aaron Dohogne, Columbia Missourian
For those who celebrate Christmas, the Christmas tree is as much a part of the holiday as Santa Claus. But how the tradition of decorating evergreen trees began isn’t so clear.
Emily Wax, Washington Post
As the sun sets over the banks of the fast-moving Ganges River here in the foothills of the Himalayas, the pilgrims and their priests laze in the 4:30 p.m. twilight. Some sip lime sodas on the windy veranda of the Haveli Hari Ganga, once home to Indian royalty and now a hotel for religious devotees.
Aaron Dohogne, Columbia Missourian
This week, Syed and Aziza Rashid are doing something they have wanted to do their entire lives. They packed their young children off to the grandparents, and on Monday, set out for Mecca.
Aarki Danielsen, Columbia Missourian
John Baker has more than a dozen sheep in his office. Most sit atop a single bookshelf and are white, fluffy and stuffed. There are also some ceramic figures and, inevitably, a lone black sheep.
Hanukkah may fit into the same, one-size-fits-all “Happy Holidays” greeting, but it’s very different from its neighbors on the December holiday calendar.
Mary T. Nguyen, Columbia, Missourian
Hanukkah, which began at sundown yesterday, though popularly recognized and celebrated, is typically considered a "minor" holiday in Judaism.
Rachel Zoll-AP, Columbia Missourian
Nearly every week, new visitors arrive. They want to see the megachurch that was built in the unlikeliest of places by the unlikeliest of men.
