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Annual series to help spread knowledge of Hispanic culture
Speakers, music, movie, food all part of month-long activities
By Elizabeth Rekowski
Rocket Focus Editor
Issue date: 10/5/07 Section: Focus
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The events are meant to help enlighten, educate and entertain students and staff.
The original organizers of the series, Thomas Daddesio and Ana Maria Caula, both assistant professors in the modern languages and cultures department, started the series in 2003.
Daddesio said the series started with the intent of "illustrating the diversity of the cultures in the Spanish-speaking world."
Christine Pease-Hernandez, an assistant professor in the communication department, is a member of the Hispanic Cultures Series planning committee.
She said she sees the month as an opportunity for students to be exposed to diversity.
"Being in the rural area we are in, it's challenging to have the experience a city would give students," Pease-Hernandez said.
"It's more diverse in a city and here (in Slippery Rock), many students have limited experience with different cultural events."
Pease-Hernandez also said this exposure is especially important because the world is becoming so much more diverse.
To kick off the series, a fajita dinner was held at Compadres Restaurant in Grove City on Oct. 4 at 7 p.m.
The next event in the series is the fourth-annual campus celebration of Dia de la Raza and will run from Oct. 10 to 15.
"Dia de la Raza is a predominantly Latino celebration or commemoration of the late 15th to early 16th centuries' encounter in the Americas between the Old and New Worlds, but from a Mestizo perspective," said Itzi Meztli, an assistant professor in the English department and the adviser of the Commonwealth Association of Students.
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