October Calendar of Events
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3 SCALE “Sweatfest,” McCarthy Quad, 12pm.
SCALE Teach-in with Zack Knorr, VKC 106, 7pm.
BSA “Urban Poets, Urban Voices,” Ground Zero, 6:30pm
4 GLBTA “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Military Policy 101,” Topping 205, 12 pm
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6 GLBTA Models of Pride Conference, Occidental College, all day
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8 GLBTA Coming Out Week
GLBTA Coming Out BBQ, Alumni Park, 12 pm
GLBTA Film Soiree: “Yossi & Jagger” w/ guest speaker, 6:30 pm
9 GLBTA Human Rights Campaign Legacy of Service Tour, THH 101, 6:30pm
10 GLBTA “Gay? Fine by Me.” T-shirt Distribution, Tommy Trojan, 12pm
UNICEF “Water” Film Screening, THH 114, 6:30 pm
11 WSA “Period! The End of Menstruation” Documentary Screening, THH301, 6-8pm GLBTA National Coming Out Day
12 BSA-Soul Food Dinner, Friendship Auditorium in Griffith Park, 7pm
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22 WSA Pink on Campus Breast Cancer Event
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24 PSA”Mike Bonanno of The Yes Men,” THH 202, 7pm.
UNICEF “Holding Back the Flood” Concert, Ground Zero 6-8pm
25 WSA Women’s Spectrum Women in Academia, Doheny 204, 6-8pm
26 UNICEF “Nothing But Nets” Fashion Show, Tommy’s Place, 6-8pm
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29 GLBTA SpeakOUT Series, TSC 204, 6pm
30 PSA Nonviolent Direct Action Training with the Ruckus Society, El Centro Chicano, 6pm
31 PSA Forum on Immigration, Doheny Intellectual Commons, 12pm
Wanna be in the Know? Here’s Where to Go
By Noelle Miller
Are you ever overwhelmed by all of the meaningful demonstrations, movements, and displays that accost you daily on the USC campus? While navigating through the swarming masses in Hahn Plaza, do you ever think to yourself, “Wow, there’s almost too much activism on campus. I can’t believe how simple it is to promote progress around here”? Maybe…If you’re easily impressed or generally unable to interpret your surroundings effectively.
More likely, you’ve noticed the plethora of corporations on campus handing out free gum to passersby or hosting sweepstake-like games for which you literally have to grab as much fake money from the air as you can in order to win an iPod. Meanwhile, political demonstrations, when they do occur on campus, are being attacked or mocked by students and the administration.
Whether an increase in Marine Corp. recruitment on Trousdale and simultaneous decrease in “free speech” tolerance have any positive correlation, one can’t say for sure. What is certain though, is that all USC students have the obligation to channel their energy into loud, organized, and visible demonstrations in order to make positive change on our own campus.
You may remember the infamous sit-in that the Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation performed last semester, and you might have seen the somber Save Ourselves demonstration to raise awareness about the Jena 6 trial last month. Campus groups like SCALE, Environment 1st, WSA, and others are actively creating outlets for students to speak up and act out about local, national, and international injustices. On a university campus, the sheer number of students provides the potential for significant and undeniable progressive action.
For our first issue, we wanted to offer some practical information about activist groups on campus and facilitate increased membership for these dedicated organizations. We felt that we should make readers aware of these groups’ intentions, and assist interested students with finding their activist niche on campus. Read on to find your place within the progressive alliance…
• Environment 1st (USCenvironment1st@gmail.com)
Thursdays 6:30pm, VKC 106
• Always Living in View of the Environment (alive@usc.edu)
1st and 3rd Mondays 6pm, (Location)
If you feel passionately about assisting with ecological degradation and loathe the notion that our campus recycling program could become functional and efficient, you may think twice about participating in a meeting of E1 or ALIVE.
• Women’s Student Assembly (wsausc@usc.edu)
Thursdays 6pm, Topping 204
• Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (fmla@usc.edu)
Thursdays 5pm, Topping 202
If the fact that women are still paid less than men in identical job positions, and are denied easy access to morning-after pills represents a stable and enlightened expression of gender equality to you, then WSA and FMLA might not be the best places to spend your Thursday nights.
• UNICEF (unicef@usc.edu)
Wednesdays 6pm, VKC 111
If you feel that some people are entitled to human rights, namely white, wealthy, westerners, than you might hesitate before attending any meetings with this compassionate group.
• Students for Justice in Palestine (uscsjp@yahoo.com)
Every other Monday 7pm, VKC 261
If you are pro-international conflict, especially when the conflict is a long-standing battle with no end in sight, then SJP might not be your niche.
• Students Taking Action Now: Darfur. (usc.stand@gmail.com)
Thursdays 6pm, VKC arches
If you think that the crisis in Darfur is no big deal, you might worry about offending any members of STAND before you arrive under the arches. If you don’t even know where Darfur is, you should most definitely go out of your way to attend one of these meetings.
• Free Culture Club (freecultureusc@gmail.com)
Tuesday 5pm, THH 109
If the decision of the administration to delegate a specific time and place for free speech on campus, and then to restrict expression further by setting a quota of participating members in pre-registered “free speech” demonstrations seems like a logical and liberating action to you, don’t join this club in their ventures.
• Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Transgender Assembly (glbta@usc.edu)
Mondays 7pm, Topping 204
If non-heterosexual, non-misogynistic, non-gender identifying people scare you, then you may hesitate before participating with GLBTA, for your own safety and security.
• Latino/a Student Assembly (lsausc@usc.edu)
Mondays 6pm, El Centro Chicano
If you are uninterested in celebrating diversity or raising awareness about multiculturalism at USC, you may not feel at home with the LSA group
• Black Student Assembly (bsausc@usc.edu)
Mondays 7pm, Topping 205
If you think that racism doesn’t exist, stay home on Monday nights when BSA is meeting. Also, wake the fuck up.
• Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation (scale@usc.edu)
Mondays 7pm, VKC 106
If you love Kevin Bacon’s Hanes ads too much to speak up against the gross injustices occurring in the garment industry, the members of SCALE may be confused by your presence at their meetings. They’ll still accept you, and you’ll be skipping your important engagements in the name of protesting faster than you can tie your brand-new Nikes.
We hope that this rough guide to student activism was helpful and inspiring. This semester, there is a movement to form a progressive alliance to increase the amount of activism. Check out these organizations, and post this calendar on your wall. You will be glad to be heard, I promise.
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