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UA student affairs group argues against Prop. 203
Students worried about rights, culture, and education
While many UA students and faculty said there are problems with Arizona's bilingual education system, they agreed Proposition 203 is not the answer.
The roundtable discussion, attended by about 40 members of the University of Arizona community, was sponsored by the Chicano Hispano Student Affairs.
Proposition 203 would amend Arizona law to require that all public courses be taught in English, doing away with bilingual programs. Students in current bilingual programs would be put into an intensive one-year immersion, while continuing to learn academic subjects.
Adalberto Guerrero, retired UA Spanish lecturer, led the bilingual discussion with his negative feelings toward the proposition.
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Quotable: Friday November 3, 2000
"I found a nice gift from the U.S. Atomic Energy Project at the library - the Manhattan Project report."
-Khidhir Hamza, a nuclear physicist who defected in 1994, on Iraqi claims that they received help from the U.S. in designing a bomb for Saddam Hussein
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Today in History: Friday November 3, 2000
In 1631, the Rev. John Eliot, the first Protestant minister to dedicate himself to the conversion of Native Americans to Christianity, arrives at Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
In 1903, one day after U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt orders the U.S.S. Nashville to Central America, Panama declares its independence from Colombia.
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