Discrimination causes students to face battle with diversity

nology, and I am biased towards thinking that it has the potential to make students lazy,” Marguerite DiMattia, psychology professor, said. “When all you have to do is click a button not much effort is put into the learning process, and I think valuable thinking time is lost.”

LiveScribe claims to have made it possible to computerize a thick ballpoint pen, which must be used on a special dotted paper.

The camera is meant to watch the dots move on the paper and record whatever is written down. The elements of the pen include the camera, the microphones, the speaker, the pixel bar and the computer chip. It also has a docking station designed to allow the uploading and downloading of files either from or to a personal computer.

HATE GROUPS, page 1 times people lookeddown upon him and his family because of their skin color.

“If you don’t know me then don’t call me something that I am not,” Amaya said. He was referring to his experiences having been called a “wetback” or “spic.”

Although Amaya has been the target of some racism in his life, his time at Cabrini has been peaceful.

“I think the people at Cabrini are respectful to one another and I do not feel any different than anyone else,” Amaya said.

Potok said conspiracy stories regarding Mexican immigrants bringing leprosy to the United States to illegal immigrants killing 12 American citizens per day made by these groups have been covered by CNN and national politicians.

Blanding like Amaya has dealt with racism and she admits to having been called a “nigger.”

Blanding also feels comfortable with herself at Cabrini but understands fitting into a predominately Caucasian college can be difficult for minorities.

“Anybody can come to Cabrini as a minority but they may not feel totally comfortable,” Blanding said.

Jim Marggraff, owner of LiveScribe, began his business intending to revolutionize pen-based computing. This new technology has the ability to link the separate worlds of digital devices and paper. Marggraff is aware of the challenge of computing with a pen which is the difficulty of convincing the average consumer.

“I’m not a big user of tech-

According to Mark Potok, an SPLC spokesman, the increase in the number of hate groups has grown in result to the vile propaganda made by these organizations.

“If it were merely the groups in the corner by themselves it wouldn’t be worrying,” Potok said in an article featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer. “But now the propaganda is being circulated by the mainstream media.”

“You can say what you want towards me or at me but it doesn’t affect me because I am confident enough to know who I am and so should you,” Blanding said.

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