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some used textbooks, like math or his-
Kraddick said he has always
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“What we’re trying to do is let the
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come up with some form of student
leadership.”
become Americans.
“Diversity can only strengthen society,”
Alcohol played a large part in Hansen’s high school
career. Many of the regrets Hansen said he still carries
shown on campuses.
(Next week: Opinions of minorities on
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idea. You cannot say that you know what it is
| ing TCJC.
Exposure and involvements with differ-
dition,” Schrantz said. ent cultures seems to be most recommended
Many Anglo-Americans have said that cure for non-diverse people.
“When I went to school in New York,
some of the people had never seen a black man
on the verge of dropping out, kids that Azle High School student said. “It obviously hasn’t worked. We want to
were leaders and we wanted kids that helps us get out and talk to other
were in trouble.” people. It gets us communicating.”
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on NW Campus last Wednesday, he around in your bathroom,
made it clear that teenagers have al-
ways shaped his career on the air.
£97.1 KEGL, Kraddick’s job was to
versity or multicultural programs on all cam-
puses to heighten awareness of cultural dif-
ferences.
Yet, definitions of diversity are as varied
as the cultures being studied.
“(Multiculturalism) is a named unknown fact that they sided with slavery in the war.”
“[People] tend to focus on facts like the tus Mattingly said.
because what it is to one person might not be blacks being enslaved. Slavery is universal
we will fear,” he said. “Feminists are called male bashers.
Instead of a melting pot, America is now Multiculturalists are called extremists. Al-
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| flashes of ignorance and a person’s abiding correctness, equal rights or
belief that he is superior to others. cultures.
The diagnosis— racism. John Mowatt, a paramedic major on NE
“Racism or even not knowing about other Campus, said, “Diversity has become more Campus, said, “The surface has changed since Schrantz said. “Whether you use the salad begun to infuse diverse ideas. For instance
than a matter of of skin color the 60s and 70s, but some of the same feel- bowl or the mosaic metaphor, we are build- many textbooks contain contributions of dif-
- ” ings exist.” ing a better picture. ferent cultures.
Demographics point out that in about 20 Some people see multiculturalism not as Vamardo said, “It amazes me anyone
cultures should be listed in the
psychology books as a mental
I disorder because people suffer
1 from the illusion that they are
superior to others,” Dr. James
Vamardo, professor and coun-
selor of psychology at NE
Campus, said.
Disorder or not, people are
I looking at racism differently.
® The metaphor of America be-
ing “the melting pot of the
world” has come under attack
as promoting racism and feelings of inferior- jobs is much easier to fight than an attitude.”
Attitudes of inequality have always ex- and laws, the meaning of diversity has t-shirts making fun of me and be called liber- said.
“Spend time with different people. Too
many of us go home at 5 o’clock and do not
in high school made his views on life been where you are and I’ve been
When starting at the age of 22 on change. where these (older people) are. I’m
“I found something weird started stuck in the middle—in limbo.”
become the number one disc jockey happening,” he said. “The more I
Multiculturalism cure for racist disease of today
by Ellena Fortner the same to another,” Terri Schrantz, director though everyone has been persecuted at one be diverse or there will be problems for soci- because of the other ideas it is grouped with,
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Symptoms are frequent outburst of anger, consider it to be affirmative action, political ing equal rights for minorities
the blending of but the attitudes that spread inequality re- cultures keep their own identity when they won’t call themselves a multiculturalist be-
mained, Schrantz said. become Americans. cause of the stigma,” she said.
Andrea Faiser, liberal arts major on NE “Diversity can only strengthen society,” Both the business world and colleges have
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because I started drinking beer before I got out of high wouldn’t give me the opportunity to go home and see Daryl
school.” Meyers’ funeral. That was the last time I saw Daryl
Even though he is successful now, Hansen made it Meyers. I wish we hadn’t gotten drunk. I wish we had
clear to the audience that he will always regret his actions gone out to breakfast.”
as a teen. Hansen said the real gift of good students is the abil-
“I’m 46 years old,” he said. “I cover the Dallas Cow- ity to change bad students. Together, he said, the next
boys. I was in Atlanta to watch the Superbowl and Pasa- generation can pick up the last generation’s torch.
dena the year before that. I had to go. That’s my job. I “I believed in the dream. The worst thing is that I’m
get home and I get paid money. I make a lot of money. I 46 years old today, and I’m having a hard time hanging on
have a lot of great friends. I go to some of the best places to my dream. However, the obligation and the responsi-
in the world. When the Cowboys went to London, En- bility isn’t that I keep the dream. It is that you pick up the
gland, I was there. When the Cowboys went to Tokyo, I dream. Make the cycle continue.” •
ity, and the push to ensure cultural sensitivity
has been undertaken by many people, includ- isted, even though America was founded on changed. ated. If I wore a t-shirt saying ‘It’s a white
Beth Parr, radiology major on NE Cam- thing,’ I would be called a racist.”
Multiculturalism though is about inclu- see anyone until the next day. Invite people
to your homes, your churches, the places you
“People are so adamantly opposed they relax,” he said.
vancements.” cannot see the good, and others are so ada- For the month of November Diversity
Where as diversity used to be dependent mantly for they cannot see the bad,” she said, in the Workplace, an emphasis on native
to have the reputation for injustices due to the on origin, it now has grown to include reli- “Belief in everything or belief in nothing is americans, and different exhibitions will be
gion, age, sexual preference and economic sta- easy because you do not have to think.”
Much like feminism, people do not want
“It is a matter of survival now. We must their names associated with multiculturalism the cultural diversity programs).
The Youth of Today: Kidd's career shaped by kids
by Ben Eden said. “I would walk in, sit down and tell Darla to come home within the headed,” Kraddick, who grew up in students right now, Kraddick said. Kraddick concluded by urging the
district news editor talk to the students. I managed to get next week.’ We became kind of a Florida, said. “Those were not my Teenagers need to prove that they can students to remember those they could
Kidd Kraddick is not new to ra- suspended from two high schools, at bridge between generations.” influences growing up. There weren’t handle life’s responsibilities, espe- affect before taking action.
However, Kraddick said he now people on the radio talking about sex cially if teens are to get a better repre-
Disc jockey for the top 40 station pass or being caught hanging around finds himself needing to move to one in a graphic way or making stupid sentation on television news shows
minority jokes.”
Despite radio producers who told
“Choose carefully,” he said,
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1106.1 KISS FM, Kraddick has been students who smoked in the bathroom, side of that bridge. minority jokes.” and newspapers. are watching you. People are looking
■ in radio for nearly 20 years; and when And what could I tell them? ‘I don’t “Now I feel myself passing Despite radio producers who told “Media really latches into the at you. They are quietly watching you
he spoke to the high school students really go here. I was just hanging through that younger generation and Kraddick he would fail if he did not buzz, and the buzz right now is: teens and the way that you act, and that is
into a responsible old fart. I feel like, compete by being vulgar, he contin- are out of control,” he said. “I would the responsibility that you guys have,
Kraddick said those experiences in a very short period of time, I’ve ued doing shows the way he wanted, take that very personally if I were you.
“That gives me a lot of hope,” he We, as the generation ahead of you, judged by the people that respect you.
said. “Maybe there are people out feel like we are screwed because, by When you do something wrong, that
there who don’t go for the lowest joke, the time you guys are running things is magnified by everyone who sees
The biggest challenge in radio, They really would like something to and we are old and out of the way, we and respects you. When you do some-
for teenagers in the metroplex. In or- tuned in to what people your age were Kraddick said, is to please both gen- be a little higher quality.” aren’t confident that you will be able thing right, that’s also magnified,
der to accomplish this goal, he used doing, the less I understood what erations while retaining decency. The current image of teenagers in to operate this society. We need you Admit that you are role models and
“What we try to do on the radio the U.S. should be a big concern to to prove that it really isn’t like that”
“I didn’t look 22, and I used that ing. I didn’t understand all these is say things that your parents will like
as an advantage,” he said. “I would things that were ‘automatics’ for me. and that you will like without making
go to a bookstore, and I would buy I started seeing your perspective of it.” your parents mad,” he said. “That is
To Kraddick, that perspective has the hardest thing in the world.
tory. Then I would go to area high helped him relate to teenagers and
— schools and see what students were adults over the airwaves.
■ wearing and go buy clothes like that.”
those clothes on and walk around the way they could communicate with
“If you make a mistake, if you pass up an opportu-
nity, if you regret the decision you made, you can correct
“I’m 46 years old today,” he said. “When I was your it,” he said. “Every single thing you do in your life, yob
age, coming out of Logan, Iowa, I honestly believed that can fix it—except high school. If you don’t like the col-
my generation would change the world. There wasn’t lege you’ve chosen, you can find another one.
any doubt in my mind that we would change the world. I “If you mess up the opportunities that high school
or origin.” ings exist.” ing a better picture.
In the past, the lines of Demographics point out that in about 20 Some people see multiculturalism not as
diversity seemed more clear, years no race will be a majority, just large and building block for America but as tearing could think that we do not need to cover all
Separation of races, religion small minorities, Martin Mattingly, chairper- down. cultures. It perpetuates the myths. Columbus
and sex existed in the schools, son of Social Science on South Campus, said. “Opposers say that multiculturalism is discovered America right? Well how can you
workplaces and homes. In another vein, Vamardo said that people only for minorities and that it promotes sepa- discover something that is already inhabited.”
Jeff Bridges, a theater arts are mixtures of races, but people tend to place ratism and opposes and destroys Western tra-
major on South Campus, said, emphasize on the physical differences
“Back then there were physi- “We are all God’s creations. I look at
cal wrongs we could fight, humans as flowers. We all have different func- multiculturalism excludes them just because
Segregation for school or al- tions and purposes and all look different, but of their skin color.
lowing women to have certain that only makes the garden better,” he said. Bridges said, “Minorities can get away and did not know how to deal with me; but
With all the changes in attitudes, cultures with so much more than I can. They can wear they learned that I wasn’t any different,” he
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wanted a broad section of kids—kids “I think the seminar mostly helps “For eons, parents and adults
that made good grades, kids that were us get out of our comfort zones, the have told kids how to do things, and it an(j pesert Storm because we are still fighting amongst if I could go to the senior prom.”
ourselves,” he said. “My generation was also going to
put a stop to discrimination based on the color of skin
because my generation knew how stupid that was. Thirty revolves around his abuse of alcohol as a teen,
years later, the reality is: it’s not going to happen in my “After we graduated from high school, Daryl Meyers
lifetime.” and I went into the Armed Forces. I went into the Navy;
Hansen spoke avidly of the problems with teenagers, he went into Army. Daryl knocked on my door, woke me
The reason he knew their problems was simple. He used up and brought some beer. He said, /This is the last night
to be the same way. I’m ever going to see you.’ I told him we’d be 18 forever
“It is such an incredibly scary thing to see what young and always be best friends. He said, ‘I’m going to Viet-
people face today and the decisions so many young people nam, and no one comes out of there alive.’”
make for incredibly stupid reasons,” he said. “When I “After six weeks in Vietnam, Daryl Meyers was shot
*Thwreri Mrv Th rat h ‘ fp was 21 years old, I didn’t go to college because I thought right between the eyes, and now Daryl Meyers is 18 years
ft said iua getting helo from eAvmdnfl hod- I was stupid. I got beat up by my Dad in high school old forever. I was in the Navy at the time, and they
the idea of equality for all, if only in theory
TCJC district is sponsoring a year of di- and not in practice, Schrantz said. pus, said, “Things are very different from the I
“Democracy is the idea that everyone has past The issues aren’t clear cut. There are sion not exclusion, Schrantz said.
a voice. If you deny representation to one more cultures, more problems, and more ad-
group, you are denying democracy,” she said.
Vamardo said, “Texas especially seems
the same to another,” Terri Schrantz, director though everyone has been persecuted at one I "
chair of cultural diversity training, said. time. This is one of the facts people need to ety. The more we know about others, the less Schrantz said.
With all the confusion surrounding it, know,” he said.
In the 60s and 70s, many laws concem-
> were passed; compared to a salad bowl, where different though people may agree with the ideas, they
make your choices very carefully.”
Decisions made Hansen style
The next generation still has the possibility of achiev- was there... And I would trade places with any one of you
avoided tasteless jokes, especially on ing a perfect world, Dale Hansen, sports anchor for WFAA in the room if I could go back to high school.”
“When I was on the air, parents subjects like AIDS, homosexuals, mi- Channel 8 in Dallas, said. The need to make the right decisions in high school is
“I’d come back the next day with would call me who felt that the only norities, and the O.J. Simpson trial. Last Wednesday was Hansen’s birthday, and he made very important, Hansen said, because high school is im-
“I think the reason I didn’t want a point of explaining the generation gap between himself possible to relive.
halls until I found a classroom that was their kid was through me,” he said, to do those jokes is that I have a vested and the high school students he spoke to as well as remi-
kind of out of control,” the disc jockey “I’d get calls like, ‘Would you please interest in where you guys are niscing about the goals he once held for his generation.
(Youth
“We brought together a selection Students were pleased with the
of kids from each of the schools, she outcome of the summit. To 17-year- of summits get high school students men by fighting in stupid battles that were started by old drunk the night of my senior prom. They kicked me out. I
white men in Washington who couldn’t settle their differ- had a date with the most goigeous girl in Harrison County,
ences with foreign nations.” Iowa. But I was so cool I got drunk with my best friend
However, Hansen said, his expectations of his gen- Daryl Meyers before I picked her up, and I got kicked out:
eration have not come to fruition. I didn’t go to my senior prom. I’m 46, and I’ve been to a
“Thirty years later, we’re having kids killed in Asia lot of places; but I would trade places with any one of you
Barker said she hopes these sorts knew my generation would put a stop to killing our young presents, you can’t ever go back and do it again. I was
said. old Joy Mobley, the real success of solving their own problems.
“We encouraged the principals the program was in getting students
l and superintendents to not send us of various backgrounds and types to kids figure out solutions for them-
i necessarily the student council. We speak on a common ground.
“I think the seminar mostly helps
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