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SDSU EOP's 50th Anniversary Virtual Banquet
NOT ANOTHER WEBINAR!
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Created by Mike Connolly Miskwish (Kumeyaay)
We stand upon a land that carries the footsteps of millennia of Kumeyaay people. They are a people whose traditional lifeways intertwine with a worldview of earth and sky in a community of living beings. This land is part of a relationship that has nourished, healed, protected and embraced the Kumeyaay people to the present day. It is part of a world view founded in the harmony of the cycles of the sky and balance in the forces of life. For the Kumeyaay, red and black represent the balance of those forces that provide for harmony within our bodies as well as the world around us.
As students, faculty, staff and alumni of San Diego State University we acknowledge this legacy from the Kumeyaay. We promote this balance in life as we pursue our goals of knowledge and understanding. We find inspiration in the Kumeyaay spirit to open our minds and hearts. It is the legacy of the red and black. It is the land of the Kumeyaay.
Eyay e’Hunn My heart is good.
About SDSU EOP
The mission of the Office of Educational Opportunity Programs and Ethnic Affairs is to serve students from low income backgrounds and historically underserved communities by providing innovative and transitional programs and services that facilitate the successful recruitment, retention and development of scholars and leaders as they persist toward a university degree.
SDSU EOP's 50th Anniversary Planning Committee
Miriam Castañon,
Director, EOP
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
– Martin Luther King Jr
Shareka White,
Associate Director, EOP
"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
-Maya Angelou
Cynthia Torres,
Director, Undocumented Recourse Center
“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore."
- Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984
Michelle Cadena,
Counselor & SOAR Coordinator , EOP
“This is precisely the time when artist go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
-Toni Morrison
Chris Medellin,
Director,
Native Resource Center
“We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.”
-Dakota
Rocio Zamora
Outreach Specialist, EOP
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis
Martha Rodriguez
Filmmaker/ Web Designer, EOP
"I am an immigrant... The greatest thing our art does is to erase the lines in the sand. We should continue doing that when the world tells us to make them deeper."
- Guillermo del Torro