Week of Action Events in Michigan
Central Michigan University:
Central Michigan University presents Living in America. Living in America is a week of educational programming to increase awareness about the issues of hunger and homelessness in the United States. This will include a reality simulation, a faces panel, a box overnight, and a political picnic among other things. The primary goal of the week will be to educate the students and encourage them to raise money for a culminating event, a hunger clean-up. The money raised from this final project will be divided between an international effort, a local soup kitchen, and the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness. To learn more or to become involved with Living in America, please contact: Elizabeth Orvis, Central Michigan University, Volunteer Center, volunteer.center@cmich.edu
Central Michigan University is also sponsoring Hyde Park Day on February 19, 2003. Hyde Park Day will honor free speech by inviting people with different positions on important issues to campus in order to share their ideas. Sample topics include: funding for education, legalization of marijuana, the Homeland Security Act, and affirmative action. Invited guests will be encouraged to bring materials to be distributed to the audience. Dialogue between speakers and the audience is encouraged and will take place throughout the day. To learn how to get involved with Hyde Park Day, please contact: Mary Ann Renz, Central Michigan University, Advisor of Communication Association, renz1ma@cmich.edu
Eastern Michigan University:
Eastern Michigan University’s Volunteer Center, in collaboration with the Women’s Center, Black Student Union, LGBT Resource Center, and Office of Campus Life, will be hosting an Issue Day on February 18. Issue Day is an evening of workshops and activities related to discrimination, hunger and homelessness, disabilities, domestic violence, human rights and youth violence. Each workshop is designed to give students the resources to become involved, and to increase the knowledge and understanding necessary to serve. To learn more or to become involved with Issue Day, please contact: Alena Frey, Eastern Michigan University, VISION Student Coordinator, Alena.Frey@emich.edu
Madonna University:
Madonna University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs will host a one-night activity on February 18 which will have a “two prong effort” in promoting intercultural dialogue among students, staff and faculty during Black History Month. There will be a cultural/artistic performance highlighting the contributions of different communities in the African Diaspora and their impact on U.S. society followed by a discussion forum. The forum is entitled “Current Diversity Issues in Metro Detroit: Is it Only a Black/White Thing?”. Students will explore how the current growth in diversity forces society to look at issues of race and ethnicity in non-traditional ways. To learn more about A Week of Action at Madonna University, please contact: Osvaldo Rivera, Madonna University, Director, Multicultural Affairs, orivera@madonna.edu
Olivet College:
Olivet College, in partnership with art collectors and twin sisters Velma Laws Clay and Vivian Laws Ritter will present the Journey to Freedom art exhibit. In an effort to preserve while educating, Clay and Ritter have worked over 15 years to collect pieces of art – ranging from prints and drawings to mixed media and sculpture – that tell the African-American journey through the eyes and hands of the artists they have met. In conjunction with the exhibit, Clay and Ritter will give a presentation as part of the college’s Lecture and Symposium series. This event is free and open to the public. The art exhibit will be displayed and tours given January 30 to February 25, 2003. Students will be asked to attend the art exhibit any time from January 30 – February 14 in preparation for the Self & Community classes that take place during the Week of Action (February 16-21). A discussion question will be raised, “How were you personally affected by the viewing of the Journey to Freedom art exhibit?” Instructors will engage students in conversation and have dialogue about the importance of bringing the art exhibit to Olivet College. At Olivet College it has always meant a dedication to the principle that the future of humanity rests in the hands, hearts and minds of those who will accept responsibility for themselves and others in an increasingly diverse society. Bringing Journey to Freedom to Olivet College helps to reinforce those principles.
Students will also have the opportunity to participate in a conversation with the President and Dean of the College on issues surrounding Affirmative Action and what students can do to affect change:
Raise Your Voice! - A Week of Action Discussion
University of Michigan: Are they wrong or are they right?
An open discussion about the Affirmative Action case currently before the Supreme Court
Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Oaks Dining Room
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Moderators: Don Tuski, Ph.D ‘85, President, Olivet College and Saleef Kafajouffe, Ph.D, Vice President and Dean of the College
To learn more about these events at Olivet College, please contact: Lynn Ward Gray, Olivet College, Executive Director of Special Projects and External Relations, lgray@olivetcollege.edu
Schoolcraft College:
Schoolcraft College will be facilitating a dialogue on February 18 among students regarding the possible war in Iraq. This dialogue will serve as a prelude to upcoming campus speakers Bishop Thomas Gumbleton and Gordon Judd on Nonviolence/Peacemaking the following week. We hope to stimulate a continued civic campaign for nonviolence among Schoolcraft students that trickles its way into more active means of change. Students’ strong emotions expressed toward the war will teach the importance of alerting the legislature of certain issues they feel strongly about and how their vote plays a major role in the outcome of these types of situations. To learn more or to become involved with Issue Day, please contact: Andrea McNinch, Schoolcraft College student at amcninch2@comcast.net.
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