MAG 2-06.indd - Wayne State College

WSCCelebratesMartinLutherKing, Jr.DayYano Jones returned toWayne State as the featuredspeaker at the 2006 MartinLuther King, Jr. Celebration."I Have A Dream""I Have A Dream"The 2006 Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration atWayne State was Jan. 17. The event was presented bythe WSC Office of Multicultural Affairs and Minoritiesin Accordance Coming Together (MACT), a WSCstudent organization.Featured speaker was Yano Jones of Omaha. A traditionalGhanaian drum and dance group, Ashanti alsoperformed.Jones is in his second year as assistant director ofrecruitment services at the University of Neb.-Omaha.A 2002 graduate of Wayne State, Jones worked at WSCin the Office of Multicultural Affairs as a student advisorand multicultural recruiter. He is a former studentathleteon the UNO and Wayne State football teams andalso played football with the Omaha Beef indoor/arenafootball team. He currently plays indoor professionalfootball for the Iowa Blackhawks.Adversity and diversity are some of the things Jonesknows best. During his first two years at UNO as a widereceiver, he helped UNO to its first outright NCC conferencechampionship. In the next year tragedy wouldstrike, his brother was killed, and Jones was assaultedon campus. He was hospitalized with no feeling in hishands and feet, not knowing whether he would playfootball again.After transferring to Wayne State, Jones playedcornerback and was a team captain. He then playedprofessional indoor football with the Omaha Beef, andfaced one of the biggest obstacles in his life, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He has now been cancer-freefor three years. Jones says his biggest desire is "to helppeople understand that they can do anything they puttheir mind to regardless of race, gender and ethnicity."Ashanti returned to WSC for the 2006 Martin LutherKing, Jr. celebration. A traditional Ghanaian drumand dance group based in Lincoln. Members of thegroup hail from Ghana, Kenya, Sudan and the UnitedStates.Traditional Ghanaian drum and dancegroup, Ashanti, performed during the2006 Martin Luther King, Jr. celebrationat Wayne State College, Jan. 17,in the WSC student center. The eventwas presented by the WSC Offi ce ofMulticultural Affairs and Minorities inAccordance Coming Together (MACT),a WSC student organization. Membersof the group hail from Ghana, Kenya,Sudan and the United States.12