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Latino-Native American Cultural Center newspaper clippings, 1970-2001
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[[Web page information]] DesMoinesRegister.com|News Page 1 of 3 http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4780927/15589243.html Students fight plan for centers The cultural spaces at the University of Iowa may be replaced by a combined complex. By COLLEEN KRANTZ Register Staff Writer 08/14/2001 Iowa City, Ia. - A plan that includes new minority student centers at the University of Iowa is meeting resistance from an unlikely source: students who use such centers. "It feels more like the administration is forcing this upon us," said Joan Kato, a 20-year-old U of I junior from Los Angeles. The Latino Native American Cultural Center and the Afro-American Cultural Center are older houses on the west side of campus where students hold special events, gather for meals or just hang out. Over the next few months, architects will sketch out a plan for new cultural centers within a complex that will include a 500-bed dormitory, a food court and an academic facility for athletes. Kato said the plan "has kind of disenfranchised minorities about the feeling that administration actually cares." Even as university officials try to sell the idea, they acknowledge one hard truth: Bulldozers will eventually make the decision for them. "Inevitably, it will happen sometime," said Phillip Jones, the U of I's vice president for student services, adding that the school brought the property the houses stand on with expansion in mind. Many minority students say they prefer the home-like setting. The Latino Native American center "is a secure place where our kids can go and play, where we have our own kitchen and no one says we can't bring in food, where we have offices," said Virjinya Hicks, a u of I senior from Virginia.
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[[Web page information]] DesMoinesRegister.com|News Page 1 of 3 http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4780927/15589243.html Students fight plan for centers The cultural spaces at the University of Iowa may be replaced by a combined complex. By COLLEEN KRANTZ Register Staff Writer 08/14/2001 Iowa City, Ia. - A plan that includes new minority student centers at the University of Iowa is meeting resistance from an unlikely source: students who use such centers. "It feels more like the administration is forcing this upon us," said Joan Kato, a 20-year-old U of I junior from Los Angeles. The Latino Native American Cultural Center and the Afro-American Cultural Center are older houses on the west side of campus where students hold special events, gather for meals or just hang out. Over the next few months, architects will sketch out a plan for new cultural centers within a complex that will include a 500-bed dormitory, a food court and an academic facility for athletes. Kato said the plan "has kind of disenfranchised minorities about the feeling that administration actually cares." Even as university officials try to sell the idea, they acknowledge one hard truth: Bulldozers will eventually make the decision for them. "Inevitably, it will happen sometime," said Phillip Jones, the U of I's vice president for student services, adding that the school brought the property the houses stand on with expansion in mind. Many minority students say they prefer the home-like setting. The Latino Native American center "is a secure place where our kids can go and play, where we have our own kitchen and no one says we can't bring in food, where we have offices," said Virjinya Hicks, a u of I senior from Virginia.
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