Inside October 19, 2004's Issue

Bartow construction going as planned

Breast Cancer Awareness Month brings advice from breast cancer survivor

Georgia Highlands College will use $12,900 grant to promote drug and alcohol education

FC hires first ever full-time music and philosophy professors

International fair works to expand cultural awareness

By Courtney Whitaker
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Staff Writer

The third annual International Festival will be taking place Tuesday, Nov. 16, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Georgia Highlands College student center.

The festival was cultivated two years ago, commencing on the main campus with the Georgia Highlands College Studies classes that were studying diversity. The classes came up with the idea of the International Festival and joined the Cultural Awareness Society and the Office of Student Life to promote it.

The goal of the International Festival is to broaden awareness of different countries and cultures, with emphasis on the United States because of its various regional customs, and to promote involvement in the Study Abroad Program.

Each table will display handouts about a country, have food to sample, and have artifacts and music.

Though the first year had a small attendance, the organizers proceeded again with the festival last year. This time international students as well as study abroad students got involved.

Phyllis Weatherly, director of counseling and career services, encourages Georgia Highlands College students to participate.

�We're a very diverse country with a global economy and workplace so we need to be better equipped to live with and understand others. �Americans have a tendency to assume we're the center of the universe, so we hope this exposure will expand the world view of our students,� Weatherly said.

Countries that have been represented in the past include Africa, Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Hispanic countries, Iceland, Ireland, Jamaica, the Philippines, Russia and Turkey, as well as various regions of the United States.

Those interested in participating in the festival this year should contact Weatherly or John Spranza, director of student life, who both have a list of countries already being represented. Students may help with those who already have tables or sponsor a country of their own.

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