Hood College - Touchstone Yearbook (Frederick, MD)

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EVERBODY GET TO- GETHER. Students form a huge circle in the quad in order to get everyone together. The circle surrounded the pergola. •?, ' LET ME BE ME. Sharon USure ex- 5; plains the theme of Diversity Day to (K Hood President Martha Church The •„., theme of I ' ll let you be you just let me •fi be me was splashed across the official «.. T-shirt of the day. [O- •?J if; ' .ft 14 £)iversity Day

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BACK TO WORK. Using a backhoe, a PIPE DREAMS. During 1988-1989, a : construction worker digs out the ground finished Coblentz was just a dream. The ; around Coblentz. drain tiles are waiting for installation. ( ampus Construction 13

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I ' ll le you be you if you ' ll let; me be me teil« iversit:y Day - Nearly 250 Hood College students, most of them sporting specially de- signed T-shirts, gathered around the Pergola in the center of campus for a IV2 hour rally organized to promote diversity on campus. The rally, held Thursday, Sept 22, was spearheaded by a group of students identifying themselves as the core group who said they were concerned about racial, cultural and sexual preference issues on campus. A handful of faculty and staff joined the rally, billed as a celebration of diversity. The organizers were very pleased with the celebration and the turn out, said Marcia Bailey, one of the day ' s organiz- ers. She also said that the group hopes that the celebration wouldn ' t just occur once a year. Students wore T-shirts of various colors, which Bailey said help exemplify how di- versity can be shown merely by wearing (them). Attendees were asked to sign a pledge on an oversized card that proclaimed they would not tolerate racism or sexism of any form. Brief one to two minute speeches were presented by members of the committee Laurie Johnson and Marcia Bailey. Others who spoke in- cluded Hood President Martha Church, Gerald McKnight, pro- fessor of history and chair of the Department of History and Po- litical Science and Roger Reit- man, instructor of sociology. The speakers spoke of the con- cept of equality for all, President Church asked students to assist her in recruiting more minority faculty and staff members. The organizers provided music with feminist, social, ra- cial and friendship themes. Ar- tists included Tracy Chapman, UB-40 and Michael Jackson. — Shelli Dronsfield. : ' :. y;i GETTING CARDED. Junior Jennifer Swinhart, Senior Jeanne Medalis, Junior Georgine Wallace, and Junior Lori Garrett sign the huge card pro- claiming their diversity. TWO ' S COMPANY. Junior ChriSj ' J, ' : Boryk and Lois Geib display their T- j- , ' shirts as they stand in thePergola watch- H); ing the Diversity Day activities. Organi2- ' 9 ers sold the T-shirts at cost so all the J- participants could feel part of the group. , -(. u ■ •Jr .-c £)iversity Day 15