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Article: NEW DIRECTOR WANTS CENTER TO FEEL LIKE HOME FOR FILIPINO-AMERICAN STUDENTS AT ODU SUZARA SAYS SHE WAS DRAWN BY SCHOOL'S COMMITMENT, UNITY OF LOCAL COMMUNITY.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
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- March 25, 1999
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Byline: LORRAINE EATON, STAFF WRITER
NORFOLK -- Tita.
Araceli Suzara, 51, has a doctorate in sociology, a decade of teaching experience, and now the title of director of Old Dominion University's new Filipino-American Student Cultural Center. Still, students insist on calling her tita, pronounced deeta, the Tagalog term for auntie.
Tita is just fine with her.
``In the Philippines, school is always part and parcel of the home; they are not opposing forces,'' Suzara said. ``It's like a home away from home.''
ODU's Filipino-American Student Cultural Center, a student and community center that is the first of its kind on the ...