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October 16, 2003 UWGB event celebrates Green Bay's diverse cultures, ethnicities By Jocelyn Berkhahn But freshman Molly Weber needed a break from the daily grind. That's
how she found herself at the fifth annual Cultural Fair.
"There's usually a lot of interesting things the university puts on,
and I like to check them out," Weber said. "This event has a lot of things
you wouldn't find anywhere else."
Some of those things on Wednesday included Hmong bookmarks and sand
animals, hand-knit items from Ecuador and Pakistan and Native American
dream-catchers.
The event also featured American folk music, a reggae band, Brazilian
songs from UWGB student Ricardo Vogt and a Latin drummer.
Setting up informational tables for the event were the campus' Spanish
Club, German Club and Phoenix Bookstore. UWGB's Southeast Asian Student
Union also had a table.
"We wanted to tell people what our group does and to share our culture,"
said Pao Ze Yang, a freshman member of the club. "This event is helping
bring the community in to look at our school and to show that we have
a diversity of people going here."
UWGB currently has students from 30 countries. To show its diversity,
the campus named Wednesday "Ethnic Heritage Day" and asked students to
wear something representing their culture.
"The entire day is really a great way to celebrate and embrace the different
ethnicities that we have in the city of Green Bay," said Chad Goeden,
program manager for the Office of International Education.
Junior Alicia Alvord also considered the event to be a celebration.
"We all come from different backgrounds, and this is a way to see where
you come from," she said.
Alvord stopped by with her friend Cassandra Clerk. The two had never
been to the event before but liked what they saw.
"As a whole, it's interesting," Clerk said.
"It's always good to dabble in culture and learn that the United States
isn't the only place in the world."
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