The University of La Verne’s Cultural and Natural History collections welcomed Nawang B. Phuntsog, professor of education at California State University, Fullerton, as its fourth Influential Voices speaker at noon on Wednesday in the Quay Davis Executive Board Room.
Promoting diversity is one of the key points to the University of La Verne's community. It is a promise that ULV has greatly kept this past year by including a variety of speakers on cultural and social issues.
Palden Gyatso, a Tibetan Buddhist monk who has spent 33 years in Chinese captivity, came to the University of La Verne last Thursday to heighten awareness about Tibet's plight and the atrocities he insists the Chinese are committing against the Tibetan people.
Students for a Free Tibet (SFT), an international organization already established at college campuses such as Loyola Marymount University (LMU) and UCLA, is in the process of becoming an official club at the University of La Verne.