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NEWS Thursday, May 4, 2000 - Page 9 A Child Haunted: SL students excel at he Annual Session Contriburinglllrirer Pick argued KRIS'H:N G. FRASER Junior Jeremiah Kelly re- that inaction by $taJfWrirer On April 27, Club Amnesty In- people cause The WMC delegation of the ceived the Most Outstanding Del- egate.Award. ternational W\vfC sponsored a Hun- things like the Maryland Student Legislature Boyle garian Holocaust survivor, Gyorgy Holocaust and wrapped lip a successful year af- ceived Sophomore Kate V. "Mike" re- the Thomas "George" Pick, to come and share similar kinds of ter taking numerous awards at the Miller Award for Up and Coming his story and memories of the Ho- genocide to organization's Annual Session. New Members, an award recog- loeaust on campus. happen. So The organization functions to nizing outstanding achievement During the Second World War, what can we simulate actual Maryland legisla- within the organization for two about six million innocent Jews learn from the tion. Students write and propose years or less participation. were killed by the Nazis and about Hoi 0 c a u s t ? bills and resolutions, to simulate Three of the five Council of 500,000 of them were Hungarian Pick's story is State positions were won by Jews. George Pick was one of the one of his fam- WMC students as well. The Gov- 15 Jewish child victims in the war ily' and what ernor of MSL for the 2000-2001 who survived by luck and small happened to the school year will be Kelly. The acts of kindness by certain people 253 members of Gyorgy Pick encouraged students to accept one participants gather to review leg- position of Attorney General will • who 'i:,u;e~·en.9ugr tR show sympa- the family dur- another in his speech about the Holocaust islauon. elect the next year's of- be filled by Boyle. The position thy for thy hauntedJews. -, ing' the war.' , ficers, and award the work of the of Secretary of State goes to fresh- Pick .QpeJled,hi~ speech by pos- His story is about the horror of compassionate people. previous year. man Holly Smith. ing the question whether we still death and torture, bomb raids, be- The persecutions in the Hoto- This year's Annual Session oc- The students who attended can-learn anything from the Holo- trayal, and hatred that he, as a 10- caust were not done by a few luna- curred April 14 through 16, at the were excited about the trip, and caust or if it is too far removed for year old child, had to live with and, tics, but through cooperation be- Annapolis State House. The par- about receiving the award. Ac- us in time to be relevant anymore. later on, learn to cope with. But tween nations and governments. rlcipatmg schools were WMC, cording to junior Matt Burger. The Holocaust's existence is ques- . Pick also remembers the random The perpetrators in the Holocaust Towson University, College of who served this year as Chief of tioned to.day~y sQf!1e people, bU,t acts of kind?e.ss that few ~e?Rle were no victims; although, they Notre Dame of Maryland, Univer- Staff, and who will serve again how ~ any?pe t~rnaway from the, showed to him and his familyand liked to paint the~selve~ a~' that"J sity of Marylantt-College Park. next year, the trip was successful. thousands and thousands of wit- ho"; these little things could m~ke after the war. Th~se wh~Jdid' noth- Frostburg State University, Uni- He says. "We went down there nesses and documents there are a great difference in Pick's destiny ing against the genocide and stood versity of Maryland-Baltimore with strong leadership and a defi- from the Holocaust? as a Holocaust survivor. passive, ultimately became perpe- County, and Salisbury State Un 1- nite set of goals. We brought on The Holocaust was a system- The story of Gyorgy Pick was trators. "Ignorance is not a bliss, but versity. atic, state-sponsored genocide in very personal and without going in a curse", Pick argued. The governing body of all of new members, worked as a team, got to know everybody, lind we which killed millions of innocent to any detail, the audience was truly Pick's final message to the au- the schools is the Council of State, relied on each other. Basically. people. Genocide is still existing in touched by the story. Pick ended his dience was to "[earn tolerance, ac- which functions in the same gov- when we were done. there was no the world, Pick argued. speech by summarizing what he ceptance, and respect for each erning way as the Maryland gov- doubt in anybody's mind that After the Holocaust, there has personally learned from the H010- other's differences". Club Amnesty ernment, with a governor, Secre- WMC had outperformed all the been over 50 genocide instances caust. He learned that those who International WMC (AIWMC) tary of State, etc. other delegations in the state." around the world. "You know, the survived did not survive because of likes to thank those who came out The WMC delegation took Dr. Herb Smith com- Advisor J;I,?loc~us.~. is ~today I also I in I. their intelligence, but,'bec~\Jst of '» to Iisten to'.this very important mes- many awards for the year, includ- ments on (he success of (he rerun, Kosovo ... People don't learn." luck and a lillie help from a few sage and speech. ing a number of positions for next especially the Best Delegation A sign of the times: American year's The Council prestigious award award. He says, "The WMC sweep of Stale. most won by the delegation is the Most was the logical consequence of a Award. Sign Language now WMC minor Outstanding also Delegation individual year's hard work, While 1 was in intelligence. took WMC and determination. awards. Annapolis. r heard our delegation Senior Brian Griffiths was rec- praised by participants from Col- KRISTEN G. FRASER required. The house is to be simi- According to one Curriculum ognized with the Best Orator lege Park and UMBC. The praise Slliffwrirer lar to the foreign language houses Committee member, the major Award. was earned and deserved." A n((w minor has been intro- already established, such as the turned down because there was not duced officially on campus after the French or Spanish housing on cam- strong enough foreign of Western Meri Songer resigns as- cultural April faculty meeting. pus. pects and because Starting in the fall of 2000, stu- Students who are interested in Maryland College's status as a lib- JOAN FAULKNER prove themselves. dents may register for classes in the the minor must also pass the ASL eral arts college, the major was con- StaffWrirer Junior chemistry major Jenny new Deaf Studies Minor. Proficiency Interview test with a sidered too specialized. After working at WMC for two McKenzie, an RA at Blanche for The official title of the new mi- score of 2.0. This test costs $75. Student reaction to the minor years as Residence Life Coordina- the past year, says Songer's desire nor is Deaf Studies: Language and The minor was started by Dr. has been optimistic. Joe Lucas, tor for Blanche Ward Hall, Meri to resign is "because she [Meri] Culture of Deaf People. Judy Coryell, in the graduate Deaf president of Sound of Silence, the Songer will be resigning at the end wants to broaden her work experi- This 24 credit minor contains Ed program, due to undergraduate ASL awareness organization on of this year to gain experience else- three parts. The language/linguis- requests for undergraduate studies campus, feels that the minor is a where. ence and sees a potential for more goals somewhere else." tics concentration counts for half of for students who would eventually good first step. Despite the fact that many Junior biology major Cody the minor requirements. It includes take part in the Deaf Education He says, "I think it's a great RLC's and RA's are not liked be- Brenneman, an RA for two years, American Sign Language 3, ASL graduate program. thing, especially if there is not a cause of their reputations of being says "[Songer] was awesome! She 4, and Linguistics of ASL, which Before the minor was enacted, deaf major. It will help Deaf Edu- uptight and strict, Songer says, was a wonderful people person and is cross-listed as a graduate course ASL classes functioned as elective cation grad students with their ASL "I've had a good experience here." was great for the job." in the Deaf Education graduate pro- credits, with no way to count them skills." She even adds that in the future, "1 Commenting on the duties of gram. towards any academic program. Other students are intimidated would very much like to stay on a her job, Brenneman says, "she was The other section is a cultural/ Requests for a Deaf Studies by the requirements for the minor. college campus. I'm looking for a literature concentration, also con- major have been turned down twice According to junior Sara place where I could continue work- an easy person to talk to about cer- and there was very tain problems, taining t 2 credits. It includes a in the past two years. This action Hoover, she was interested in tak- ing in student affairs." little friction between her and the classes entitled "Life experiences prompted the adaptation as a mi- ing the minor, but could not fit the At the same time, Songer says sororities and fraternities." of Deaf people," and "American required hours into her schedule. she would .also like to concentrate In fact, Brenneman also re- Deaf Culture," which is also cross The minor was turned down She says, "I think it's a little on getting her graduate degree in marks that she was great as an "ar- listed as a graduate class. once, due to its large size. At that overwhelming. The other foreign conflict and resolution studies. bitrary party between certain so- The last choices are ASL Litera- point, ASL I and 2 were removed language minors are far less inten- As pan of her job, Songer has and fraternities." lUre and Deaf Literature or Inter~ as requirements for the minor. sive. I think this one is huge. It's tried to get students to work better rorities McKenzie admits that she is national Perspectives on Sign Lan- However, for most students, hard that you can take ASL ! and with their RA's and improve living disappointed to hear of Songer's guage and Deaf Culture. they will need to take the two ASL 2 and nO{ get credie" in the dorms. Songer's main re- resignation because "She was a The last requirements for the classes in order to be proficient Lucas hopes that this will not sponsibilities were to "oversee [stu- good person to work with and I minor involve some demonstration enough for the higher level ASL be the end of the road for the new dent] housing, housing require- wanted her to come back." of language skills. One semester at classes minor. He says, "I hope people will ments, and any other problems that Currently, Songer is not certain Galluadet University orone year at The major was denied for two follow up on this next year, to es- may arise." Sometimes she a~so what she will be doing after her the "ASL Immersion House," is major reasons. tablish a Deaf Studies major.': helped Greek organizations im- duties at WMC .are complete.