Human Rights Celebration
   Idaho State University (ISU) is hosting "A Right, Not a Privilege: Human Rights Celebration 2004" from Jan. 20 to 31, mainly at the Pond Student Union Building (PSUB). Remaining celebration events calender:
• Monday, Jan. 26 - 6:30 p.m.    "Art in the Camps" slide show and lecture by Dr. Roberts Sims will be held at PSUB Little Wood River Room. This presentation will discuss the art created before and after internment by Japanese Americans.
• Monday, Jan. 26 - 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.    Gallery openings of artwork completed by three Japanese Americans. Photographer Teresa Tamura will present "Remnants: The Minidoka Internment, at PSUB Mind's Eye Gallery. Artist Roger Shimomura who spent time as a youth in the Idaho camp will present "Memories of Childhood" at PSUB Transition Gallery. Artist Kenjiro Nomura will present "An Artist's Viewpoint of Japanese Internment" at PSUB Transition Gallery. The exhibits will run through Feb. 6.
• Tuesday, Jan. 27 – Noon.    Dr. Beth Stamm, Deputy Director of ISU Institute of Rural Health will present a talk on "Human Rights and Civil Conflict: Cultural Trauma and Revitalization" at PSUB Salmon River Suite. Dr. Stamm will discuss the effects of civil conflict and violence on communities, individuals, and humanitarian aid workers.
•Tuesday, Jan. 27 - 7:00 p.m.    Dr. Allan Christelow, ISU professor of history will give a talk on "Islam, Human Rights, and Globalization" at PSUB Salmon River Suite. Dr. Christelow, will explore the burgeoning questions raised by globalization, and its effect on the Muslim World, and its interactions with the rest of the world.
• Wednesday, Jan. 28 – Noon.    Judge Sergio A. Guiterrez, a member of Idaho Court of Appeals, will hold a talk on "Sharing Dr. King's Dream" at PSUB Salmon River Suite. Gutierrez will discuss the shared dream of the message Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave to America.
• Wednesday, Jan. 28 - 7:00 p.m.    A keynote address on "With Justice for All: Human Rights at Home and Abroad" by Rev. Jesse Jackson will be held at Reed Gym. This comprehensive discussion will focus on Rev. Jackson's experiences as one of the leading civil/human rights activists in the world.
    Jackson has received numerous honors for his work in human and civil rights. In 1991, the U.S. Post Office printed his likeness on a postage Stamp. He is only the second living person to receive the honor. He has been on the Gallup List of Ten Most Respected Americans for the past 10 years. Jackson has received more than 40 honorary doctorates, as well as hundreds of honors from grassroots and community organizations coast to coast. A hallmark of Jackson's work has been his commitment to youth. He has visited thousands of high schools, colleges, universities, and correctional facilities encouraging excellence, inspiring hope, and challenging young people to award themselves with academic excellence and to stay drug-free. For more information on the speaker, visit www.apbspeakers.com .
   Tickets for this talk are available at the door or in advance from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays starting Jan. 12 at the ISU Student Activities Center located on the PSUB third level. Admission is free for ISU students, $5 for high school students, and ISU faculty and staff, and $10 for the general public. For more information, call 282-3451.
• Saturday, Jan. 31 – 6:30 p.m.    The ISU Chinese Students Association (CSA) will be organizing a Chinese Lunar New Year Festival at PSUB Ballroom. The festival features a 12-course Chinese meal, a video about Chinese scenery, traditional and contemporary Chinese music, and a children's performance. Among dishes to be served are seaweed salad, Chinese cabbage, sweet and sour spareribs, spicy chicken, mapo tofu, fruit soup, vegetable ramen, egg rolls, mixed vegetables, and fried rice.
   The Chinese Lunar New Year is the most important festival in China, comparable to Christmas in the West. The festival starts with the new moon on the first day of the New Year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The Chinese New Year does not fall on the same date each year, although it is always in January or February. This year, Lunar New Year falls on Jan. 22. Each Chinese year is represented by a repeated cycle of twelve animals . 2004 is the year of the Monkey, and Year 4701 on the Chinese calendar. Curious about what does this monkey year mean? Click here for an answer.
    There are similar celebrations in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. This is the most important holiday for approximately one-fifth of the world's population. Let us together say Gung Hey Fat Choy (meaning Wishing You Prosperity and Wealth ) to ISU Chinese Student Association. For more information on the Chinese Calendar, click here .
    Tickets to this event are $7 for the general public, $6 for ISU faculty and staff, $5 for K-12 students, and free for children under 6. Food is limited, and advance ticket purchase is recommended. Tickets will be sold from 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. on Jan. 26 - 28 and 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. and 4:30-5:30 p.m. on Jan. 29 and 30 and after 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 31. For more information, contact Aiqun Li, 232-5913 or aiqun@pharmacy.isu.edu, or Kevin Cao, 238-1523 or caoyi@isu.edu.

Women Lead in Earning Doctorates
   If the year 2002 could be named for something, it should be for “women's year in education.” Data collected by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, and funded by six federal agencies indicated that in the year 2002, women including international students received 18,124 doctorates, or 45% of all doctorates granted by U.S. universities. This is the highest percentage ever for women, continuing a 30-year upward trend. With regard to field of studies, women earned 66 percent of the doctorates granted in education, 55 percent in social sciences, 50 percent in humanities, and 46 percent in business/other professional fields. Women also constituted 27 percent and 18 percent in physical sciences and engineering respectively.
    In 2002, also for the first time ever, American women took the lead in earning the most doctorates at U.S. universities, defeating men 13,112 (51%) to 12, 823 (49%). Women's rise to the top is a result of a trend toward fewer U.S. males earning doctorates each year, a decline of almost 15% since 1997. Overall the number of U.S. doctorates awarded annually continues to decline. Since 1997, doctorates are down 17% in engineering and 14% in physical sciences, two male-dominated fields.
    Of all 25,450 doctorates awarded to U.S citizens, 18.6% were earned by minority groups including 1,644 (6.5%) to African-Americans, 1,364 (5.4%) to Asian-Americans, 1,233 (4.8%) to Hispanics, 146 to American Indians, 75 to Hawaiian or other Pacific Islanders, and 268 to non-Hispanic individuals who identified more than one racial background. Of those earned by African-Americans, 40% were in education whereas for Asian-Americans, one third were in the life sciences.
    The People's of Republic of China was the country of origin for the largest number of non-U.S. doctorates in 2002, with 2,644, followed by South Korea with 1,187, India with 838, Taiwan with 674, and Canada with 494. For the whole report, visit National Opinion Research Centers Web site at http://www.norc.org/issues/docdata.htm

Human Right Curriculum for Idaho Schools
   In October 2003, the State Department of Education and the Idaho Human Rights Education Center issued a new human rights curriculum guide for Idaho K-12 classrooms. The curriculum is based upon the missions of the Department of Education and the Idaho Human Rights Education Center. The project began three years ago as efforts to develop strategies for the delivery of human rights education to Idaho Schools. The project includes the work of Idaho teachers, national experts, professors from Boise State University and the University of Idaho, the Boise Public Library, and the Idaho Education Association. The document of the curriculum is available at Idaho Human Rights Education Center.

Phonathon
The ISU College of Education will organize the 5th Annual Phonathon from Feb. 29 - Mar 4, 2004. Lack of experience? Don't worry. Training is provided for free. Each night callers are served with free dinner and snacks. Top callers will receive a $25 gift card and a lunch with Dean College of Education, Dr. Larry Harris. For more information, call Tina Therp at 282-5670 or email thertina@isu.edu.

Traveling Multi-cultural Library
   The Diversity Committee has arranged for the Idaho State Library's "Read to Me" program to be available in the College of Education, and housed in the Literacy Department, room 363, from January 26 through February 2, 2004.
   This traveling library comes with a tabletop display, 66 multicultural books, and support materials. According to the Idaho State Library the books included in this set "can build self esteem, encourage the development of positive values, and promote respect for people of varied cultures, ability levels and ethnic backgrounds."
   "Read to Me" is an early literacy initiative which provides information, training, technical assistance, and resources for Idaho libraries and their community partners. This program circulates three traveling displays to Idaho libraries and community organizations. These displays are: Building Bridges: Books that Bring Us Together, Great Books for Young Children, and Traveling Brain Development displays. The displays generally circulate for up to two weeks. Funding from the Library Services and Technology Act makes it possible to ship the display to and from locations in Idaho without fees at the local level. So there will be no cost to the college for its use.
   Materials can be accessed through the COE Literacy Graduate Assistant, Ms. Shannon Taylor at 282-5172, or from Ms. Michelle Schroeder, Clinical Director at 282-4479. Contact them for more information regarding material check-out and use.

African-American History Month
   February is dedicated to African-American Heritage month. This year's theme is "Brown v. Board of Education (50th Anniversary)." Where does this theme come from? It originates from the SupremeCourt's decision on May 17, 1954. On this date, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which says that no state may deny equal protection of the laws to any person within its jurisdiction. The 1954 decision declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal.
   Together with other five similar cases from different states, Thurgood Marshall, a black lawyer later the first black appointed as Supreme Court Justice, argued that racial segregation caused psychological damage to black children, and that restrictions based on race or color violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Based on a series of Supreme Court cases argued between 1938 and 1950, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka completed the reversal of an earlier Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 that permitted "separate but equal" public facilities. The 1954 decision provided the legal foundation of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and became the culmination of changes both in the Court and in the strategies of the Civil Rights Movement.
   Click here for more reading materials related to black history or here for more pictures of people involved in Brown v. Board of Education.

History on Black Heritage Month
   Black Heritage Month began as "Negro History Week" which was initiated by Dr. Carter Woodson, the Director and Founder of The Association of Negro Life and History later known as Association of African American Life and History (ASALH).  Dr. Carter G. Woodson started "Negro History Week" in February 1926 in the local Washington DC and Baltimore School systems. This week- long celebration was dedicated to Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln.
   The main purpose of this February celebration is to examine the rich history and cultures developed by people of African decent and to defend Black humanity while fighting racism. Dr. Woodson encouraged teachers to exhibit artifacts, pictures, books and supplement curriculum that detailed Black contributions to American and global societies.
    In 1976, the ASALH ratified changing the week-long celebration to a month long activity that is recognized nationwide. In recognizing this effort, various organizations including major corporations, government agencies, and institutions of higher learning have sponsored many programs throughout the month of February.

Dubby Holt's Birthday
   Public is invited to Dubby Holt's birthday party on February 5. Sponsored jointly by the ISU Alumni Association and Athletic Department, the party will be from 5 to 7 p.m. in the lobby of the Sports and Orthopaedic Center at ISU, 560 Memorial Drive. Hors d'oeuvres and birthday cake will be served.
   Dubby Holt is one of the historical figures of ISU. He retired in 1979 after a 34-year career as coach, administrator, and student-athlete at ISU. He was a successful track and boxing coach for 18 years and was athletic director from 1967 to 1979. His boxers won NCAA championships in 1953 and 1957, he was the 1956 U.S. Olympic boxing coach, and four of his boxers were U.S. Olympians with Ed Sanders winning the 1952 heavyweight title. Holt's track teams won 13 consecutive conference championships, and in the Big Sky Conference were unbeaten in dual meets and won every title from 1964 to 1967.
   Holt will be remembered most for his brilliant decision in 1967 to build the first domed stadium on a college campus. Originally named the Minidome and built for its budgeted $2.8 million, it opened in September 1970 and was renamed Holt Arena in 1986.
   Speakers for this will include Dr. Kent Tingey, ISU vice president for University Advancement; Dr. M.R. "Mick" Mickelson, longtime ISU team physician; Phil Luckey, ISU Sports Hall of Fame member and 37-year ISU athletic trainer; and Dennis Critchfield, Sports Hall of Fame member and distance runner on several of Holt's finest track teams.

National Girls and Women in Sports Day
   Saturday February 7, ISU will celebrate National Girls and Women in Sports Day by hosting sports and activity clinics in Reed Gymnasium for kindergarten through sixth grade girls. This national day is observed annually during the first week of February. National Girls and Women in Sports Day recognizes the progress of girls and women in sports and the benefits that sport and fitness activities can bring to the lives of all girls and women. Want to know more? Click here. This year's day theme is "Play Fair," which acknowledges the importance of sport participation for women and girls. Among the activities arranged for girls on this day are dance, basketball, judo, rock climbing, golf, volleyball, tennis, gymnastics, soccer, track and field, softball, and swimming.
   Early registration before Jan. 30 is $10, and on-site registration in the Reed Gym lobby is $15. Registration and check-in start at 8 a.m. Feb. 7, and activity clinics will run from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Girls will participate in three different sport/activity clinics, one every hour.
   Registration and consent/waiver forms are available at local elementary and middle schools, Pocatello Parks and Recreation facilities, the ISU Reed Gym Sport Science, Physical Education Office, and Campus Recreation Office in Reed Gym, throughout January and the first week of February.
   The event is sponsored by SHEPERD (Students of Health Education, Physical Education and Recreation), the ISU physical education majors' club; College of Education (Departments of Educational Leadership and Sport Science and Physical Education); ISU Campus Recreation; ISU Athletic Department; and Silver Sage Girl Scouts. For more information, contact Deanna Kelley, graduate assistant, ISU Department of Sport Science and Physical Education, 208-282-4310 or waltdean@isu.edu.

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The images in this newsletter were retrieved from the Chariot Web site at http://www.chariotdist.com/, Girl Scout Web site at http://www.jfg.girlscouts.org/, A Perfect World Web site at http://www.aperfectworld.org/, Black History Month Net Web site at http://www.black_history_month.net/, Ilectric Web site at http://www.ilectric.com/, Religious Tolerance Web site at http://www.religioustolerance.org/, The Seattle Times Web site at http://www.homeofheroes.com/, National library of Medicine Web site at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/, Web Holidays Web site at http://www.web-holidays.com/, University of Utah Web site at http://multiculture.usu.edu/, Animation Factory Web site at http://www.animationfactory.com/, and ISU gallery.