4/23/04 - END OF THE YEAR HALF AND HALF PARTY! 9:30pm-12pm @ mcc. We will have games to play, DVDs to watch, food to eat (of course) and lots of great people to hang out with.

4/30/04 - Last day of Class!!

Final Get Together!

Friday, April 23rd 2004

@MCC

END OF THE YEAR HALF AND HALF PARTY! Please come for food, fun, board games, and even prizes! We will be ordering pizza, milkshakes, anything to spend the last $100 in our budget. Don't forget to meet our new exec board!

 

Elections Meeting! (Tuesday, April 13th 2004)

We're proud to present our new Exec Board for 2004-2005! Pictures will be available soon =)

President- Christine Lipuma '07
Treasurer- Jen Sheehan '07
Secretary- Anna Berg '06

Mixed Race Conference (Friday, April 2nd - Sunday, April 4th @ Pomona College CA)

SOO MANY WORKSHOPS, SOO MANY IDEAS, TOO MANY PEOPLE TO MEET, AND TOO LITTLE TIME! Christine Lipuma and Karen Law represented Bryn Mawr in this awesome conference dedicated to the mixed race experience. We met many different exec board heads of mixed race clubs around the nation and shared numerous ideas on how to bring our experiences to the rest of our campuses. Come to the April 6th meeting to hear more!

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Diversity Cultural Show! (Saturday, March 27th 7pm @ Thomas Great Hall)

Thanks to everyone who watched our "Mixed Memories" =D. Our presentors did an amazing job and thanks to everyone who contributed photos!

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CAMPUS WIDE DISCUSSION ON WHITENESS (Tuesday, March 23rd 8pm @mcc):

Amazing turn out! Thanks to everyone for making this an awesome event and thanks to Bethany Schneider for her insight and leading of the discussion.

After Pics:

Meeting for 2/17/04

GREAT meeting tonite!! GREAT turnout!! For those who came, thank you so much!!We had some great ideas for the diversity week discussion and for our part in the diversity week culture show. Below is a brief overview on topics covered.

-Diversity Week: For more info contact fwallace@brynmawr.edu - Faith
is an intern to OID so she is practically in charge of the whole week.
Discussion topic for diversity will focus on "whiteness" and whether or not whiteness is associated with a specific culture, whether or not there is such a thing as inter-ethnic whiteness and how some define themselves as mixed within the category of "white." Examples of this are like a person who is half italian and half polish. To most they are considered white, but arent they
techinically mixed? To spark your interest, visit: http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/02/18/whites.only.scholars/index.html
 
-Culture Show: For the diversity week culture show we are planning on putting together a mantage of personal stories about how each of our parents met. Contact us to participate!!! (no matter if you are mixed race, multiracial etc- all stories are good stories)

NEW SURVEY!

If you're over 18 and have one biological African parent and one biological parent of European descent, you can enter a lottery for $100 if you complete a 45 minute survey. Contact US for more information.

Ethnic Ambiguity Discussion

At this meeting we will be discussing if there is any truth behind the idea
that racial ambiguity is the new "hot thing." Come and voice your opinions or listen to others on the idea behind "hotness of racial ambiguity."

Links to read:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/living/7635889.htm?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0%2C3858%2C4828684-110360%2C00.html

After Pics:

Thanks to everyone who attended!! This was one of our best small discussions. Topics brought up: Changing club name to BLEND; whether there is such a thing as being ethnic or having culture if you are white in America; how the addition of mixed models might influence younger generations; should we be optimistic or skeptical of ethnic ambiguity being the "in" thing as of now?; how do monoracial individuals feel on this matter?

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