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Friday, April 27, 2012
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A Nutty Legend
Photo by Johnathan Bohmier/Courtesy photo
Sociology senior Johnathan Bohmier took this picture of an albino squirrel outside his apartment off Eagle Drive and
Carroll Street on April 10. "I was drinking some coffee on my porch .,. look to the trees because I hear squirrels fight-
ing, and I see a white blur jump across the branches. It was an albino squirrel chasing another squirrel around."
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irst Raza Graduation nears
H aylee Howard
Contributing Writer
Members of the group
Mueve have come together to
set up UNT's first annual Raza
Graduation, which will take
place May 2.
Raza Graduation will be a
bilingual ceremony for UNT
graduates to bring their parents
to celebrate their graduation
and Latino culture, and give
special thanks to the people
who are responsible for their
success.
Leslie Jimenez, ahigher educa-
tion master's student, founded
UNT's Raza with the help of
Mueve and the Multicultural
Center to encourage Latino
students to celebrate their
success as graduates.
"We want to bring cultural
awareness to the South,"
Jimenez said. "Less than 1
percent of Latinos have a Ph.D.
in the U.S., and we want the
people who come to the gradua-
tion to know that could be them
one day too."
The Raza Graduation
Celebration was created by
Chicano and Latino students,
staff and faculty at UCLA in
1973. As a proactive strategy, the
organizations decided to focus
on students that were not only
surviving at the institution, but
were doing well academically
and were on track to graduate.
"This celebration is an
attempt to reclaim our rich
and potentially empowering
history and contributions that
our peoples have made, not just
to American society, but to the
world," Jimenez said.
Mueve president Juana Perez
said the ceremony is not meant
to discriminate against other
ethnic groups on campus, and
African American students will
be in the ceremony as well.
"We want to bring aware-
ness to the Latino students on
campus. We are recognizing
[Latinos'] success, not excluding
other groups," Perez; said. "We
encourage everyone to attend
the ceremony."
Mueve is a pro-immigra-
tion, anti-discrimination group
currently awaiting approval from
the Institutional Review Board
to work with the Anthropology
Department to document cases
of discrimination on campus*
"We stand against discrimi-
nation on any level - gender,
race, orientation. We promote
equality for all," Perez said.
"When people think of the
immigrant community, people
think Hispanics, but that's not
true. Immigrants come from all
over the world and shouldn't be
treated as criminals or aliens."
Anthropology professor
Mariela Nunez-Janes is Mueve's
faculty sponsor and co-adviser.
She said the Raza Graduation
is meant to commemorate and
acknowledge minorities who
have achieved the odds.
"It is hard to be a low-income
black and Latino student. We
want to celebrate their resil-
ience," Nunez-Janes said. "This
is a chance for students to gain
the right to name themselves.
Raza is a term for empowerment
and of critique."
The Raza Graduation will also
commemorate Shaun Chapa,
a graduate student who died
in early April. Chapa helped
initiate the Raza Graduation
and helped unite several groups
across the UNT campus.
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Photo by Chelsea Stratso/Visuals Assigning Editor
Soryrigh Um of Seeds for Needs helps history junior Axell Nieto place her plant in her self-decorated flower pot at
EarthFest outside of the Library Mall on Thursday afternoon. The celebration also included sustainable food and an
Arbor Day tree giveaway.
UN closes Global itizens
Month with Earth ;est
David Lander
Intern
AthrongofUNT students,
faculty and staff gathered in
the Willis Library Mall for
EarthFest, which concluded
the Celebrating Great
Global Citizens Month.
UNT Division of Student
Affairs, the Office of
Sustainability and UNT
International collaborated
to host the event. The cele-
bration included free low-
waste food, live music and
booths featuring items from
various cultures.
Celebrating Great Global
Citizens Month consisted of
a series of events to promote
multicultural and global
awareness and sustain-
ability.
UNT International,
along with the Intensive
English Language Institute,
set up booths and invited
international students
to show off their culture,
includ ing interdisciplinary
studies senior Leticia
Alducin, who offered hand-
"It's an easy way to give back
to the UNT community ,, "
—Sarah Amberson
Higher education master's student
crafted earrings from Mexico.
Other booths displayed Indian
incense, Taiwanese iPhone
cases and Nepalese jewelry.
Local farmer Ryan Crocker
represented his Dent on-based
Company Earthwise Gardens
with a stand of organic vegeta-
bles grown within a 100-mile
radius of Denton.
"A lot of my volunteers are
UNT students, in the market
and the garden," Crocker said.
Olga Grieco, director of the
UNT International Welcome
Center, helped organize
portions of the festival.
"They're all great global
citizens," Grieco said,
pointing out the many
multicultural booths that
dotted the Library Mall.
" I was bummed out that I d idn't
really see much of this during
the year; I wish they did this
more often," advertisement
student Jessica Pelaez said.
The Center for Leadership
and Service rallied group of
about 40 volunteers to land-
scape areas on campus and
clean up the area around
the Library Mall before the
event.
"It's an easy way to give
back to the UNT commu-
nity by beautifying the UNT
campus," higher educa-
tion master's student Sarah
Amberson said.
Home-based shelter gives rabbits a second chance
Nicole Balderas
Senior Staff Writer
Every year, as those across the
Dallas-Fort Worth area enjoy their
Easter Sunday, Diana Leggett
waits anxiou sly for the inevitable
distressed calls from the unpre-
pared and overwhelmed.
Leggett, the president of Wild
Rescue/Rabbit Rescue Inc., deals
with the aftermath of impulsive
animal purchasing that partic-
ularly surrounds the spring
season.
"The phone calls started
early Easter day," Leggett said.
"I received six bunnies that are
the result of a bad Easter party
and got seven phone calls from
people still wanting to buy an
Easter bunny."
Rabbits are the third most
frequently euthanized animal
in the U.S. after cats and dogs,
Photo by Ashley-Crystal Firstley/Stafe Photographer
Bunnies sit in a surrounding cage in Diana Leggett's front yard Monday afternoon. Leggett owns the largest bunny rescue
in the south, housing more than 100 wild and domestic bunnies and some wildlife such as squirrels and birds. Her garage
is currently under construction where she plans to build a small clinic.
though their life expectancy is
just as long.
Leggett, who runs the no-kill
shelter out of her own Denton
home, doesn't do adoptions on
Easter or the surrounding days
in order to diminish impulse
adopting. Despite this rule, the
shelter sees numerous animal
surrenders during the next few
months up to a year after the
holiday.
"They're not wanting to adopt,
they're wanting to buy," Leggett
said. "We're the garbage disposal
for everybody's impulse buy."
Volunteers of all varieties -
including three veterinarians
- frequent the shelter, though
Leggett said they could always
use more help.
"If it weren't for Petco, I
don't know what we would do,"
Leggett said. "Petco gives us grant
money to help keep the place
running."
Ever since her move to Texas
25 years ago, Leggett knew she
wanted to help out.
"My neighbor showed me
around the neighborhood, and
I found two bunnies roaming
around, both filthy," Leggett said.
"I got them cleaned up and put
them in the newspaper."
Leggett, now state certified in
wildlife rehabilitation, has turned
her home into a sanctuary for
animals in need.
"The garage is going to be
rebuilt to be our new intake
center," Leggett said. "Just like
a wildlife center, we'll have a
separate room where you can
assess the animals and a table
for surgeries."
Biology master's student Jamie
Stine volunteers at the rescue and
said a lot more goes into it than
just petting animals.
" I feed and water the domestic
rabbits," Stinesaid. "If any animal
needs immediate care we deal
with that. Other than that, sick
or injured bunnies are taken care
of last so we don't get the other
ones sick."
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