Multicultural Festival
The 2007 Multicultural Festival got off to a grand start with a hot-off-the-grill carne asada feast prior to the Visiting Artists Series performance by Lucia Pulido.
Dr. Ulla Connor, director of the Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, shared the challenges of building bridges verbally and culturally between immigrants and U.S. citizens.
Angela Iza, an Indianapolis attorney specializing in immigration and international law, spoke Monday night about the many misunderstandings of immigration-related issues.
Veronique Zara, BKT Assisstant Professor of French, enjoys the crepes along with Wabash Students Tuesday afternoon. Wabash's foreign language clubs hosted a social hour complete with international foods.
Visiting Russian college students take a moment to talk with with Modern Languages Deptartment Chair Greg Redding. The students were here for two weeks sharing culture and learning about the U.S.
St. Petersburg Times Managing Editor Stephen Buckley: "Every newspaper in the country is trying to harness the Internet to drive readership and drive profits... I think the Internet is what we make of it. We are the Internet; its quality is what we make it."
St. Petersburg Times Managing Editor Stephen Buckley: "The immediacy [of the Internet] is a wonderful blessing... but there are many, many challenges that go with that... Immediacy has its price: sometimes you put something on your [newspaper] website and it's wrong."
St. Petersburg Times Managing Editor Stephen Buckley: "We're all [newspapers] playing the same game; we're all trying to get the news on our sites as fast as possible. And frankly, the stakes have never been higher... Questions of immediacy and privacy have no easy answers, especially when considering the public's right to know."
St. Petersburg Times Managing Editor Stephen Buckley: "The Internet poses a much more urgent threat to television than it does to newspapers... Video is the straw that stirs the Internet's drink these days. YouTube is the fastest growing site in the history of the Internet. Sixty percent of videos on the Internet are posted on YouTube."
Poet Brigit Pegeen Kelly reacts in conversation with students after a workshop session.
Poet Brigit Pegeen Kelly chats with students after her workshop with Marc Hudson's poetry class.
Poet Brigit Pegeen Kelly critiques Nick Gregory's poetry.