The Carolinian [September 25, 2007]

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Delores Huerta speaks on
human rights
Janine Camara
Staff Writer
From the J«na 6 to farm work-ers'
rights, activist Delores Huerta
covered,-* host of pressing hu-man
rights issues in her speech,
eqtjded "Making History and
Fighting for Those Who Cannot"
The human rights activist was
this year's speaker for the Office
of Multicultural Affairs' Human
Righfj event
Huerta, a mother of 11, has
been a>powerful voice in rallying
for jqPce and dignity for more
than half a'century. Huerta began
her civil rjgtfs career fighting for
the expansion of farm workers'
rights in California and worked
with Ceair Chavez, the renown
Mexican-American activist who
championed labor rights.
"It's really going to spark a new
civil rights movement," Huerta
said of the Jena 6 case, which
involves the prosecution of six
black teenagers in the small Loui-siana
town of Jena for the alleged
beating of a white teenager.
The alleged beating is said to
be one of many incidents erupt-ing
from racial tension in the
town. It occurred nearly four
months afternooser were hung.
from a schoolyard tree socially
reserved for vftte students. One
or more black students requested
permission to sit under the tree
and the nooses were hung loon
afterward.
The EUC auditorium held a
medium-sized audience that lis-tened
intently to Huent's mes-sage
of equality and respect for
all. She spoke not only on the
Jena 6, but on women's issues,
racism, gay rights and the nation-al
immigration debate.
"We have to remind everybody
that unless you're a Native Ameri-can,
you are an immigrant to this
country," Huerta said.
"We have 12 million, they say,
undocumented people in this
country. What are they doing?
They're working," she continued.
Huertacontended that the mass
7-BUgratiort of Latino immigrants
was spurred by ecnomic policies
inrtiiiwrby America that crippled
the econonljfcf developing na-tions
and Weed Weir citizens to
* look for livelihoods elsewhere.
"Well we'better look at our-selves
in the mirror becausefour
free trade agreements create the
SEE HUERTA PAGE THREE WWW.UNCG.EDU
Larry Sabato in favor of reformed
Constitution
Rachel Feinberg
Staff Writer
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Larry Sabato, a leading po-litical
scientist, spoke at UNCG
Wednesday about his ideas on
how to reform the Constitution.
In the Science Building, Sabato
began his talk with jokes about
buying his new book, which
he jokingly continued to push
throughout the speech. The new
book is called A More Perfect
Constitution.
"Most people don't really
know the basics about the Con-stitution,"
said Sabato. "Every-one
talks about the Constitu-tion,
but no one really reads the
Constitution."
To prove his point, Sabato
showed a clip from the Andy
Griffith show where a character
could not even start the first line
of the document
Using a PowerPoint presenta-tion,
Sabato spoke of his 23 de-sired
revisions to the Constitu-tion.
The revisions are outlined
in his new book.
Among these revisions were
hopes to build a more representa-tive
Senate, mandate nonpartisan
redistricting for House elections,
expand the size of the House to
approximately 1,000 members,
and establish a new six-year pres-idential
term.
Sabato also believes all able-boded,
young Americans should
be required to devote at least two
years of their lives to the service
of their nation.
SEE SABATO PAGE FOUR
SGA works to
improve association
Jerry Arnold
Staff Writer
Recendy, two UNC schools
have withdrawn from the Asso-ciation
of Student Government,
claiming that the ASG was "in
shambles."
After UNCG's Student Gov-ernment
Association attended
the ASG's September meeting,
John Bryant, SGA president, said
he believes these two schools
had come away from the meet-ing
with a different set of feelings
than UNCG did.
"I would disagree that the ASG
is 'in shambles' because of the
way that the president's council
was able to meet and work things
through together very profession-ally,"
commented Bryant.
Bryant does not imagine that
the UNCG SGA would be with-drawing
from the ASG anytime
soon.
On Wednesday, Sept. 19, the
SGA held an open student forum,
where many of the student body
were able to bring up questions
and concerns.
Bryant said he believes that of
all the topics discussed at the fo-rum,
there are four main concerns
the "Current Concerns" commit-tee
can work on and see the most
improvement on. One of these is-
SEE SGA PAGE FOUR
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