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Monday, March 4, 2013

VIP Social Empowerment

Hello-

Hope everyone had a great weekend. Starting off the week, I will be introducing Tunnel of Oppression to everyone. This is an organization hoping to find an end to racial discrimination and social injustices. Please sign up and email me that you have scheduled to volunteer. This is a great opportunity for everyone to help spread the word and make a difference. I have helped with this program last year and had a great time!
Here's some information: I know it is a month in advance, but we need to have a head count on how many are available for these days. PLEASE SIGN UP!!

Tunnel of Oppression: You can attend, volunteer, or do both! April 1-4, 2013
Professional staff members in the Office of Residential Life, in collaboration with various campus partners and students would like to extend to you an opportunity to participate in the Tunnel of Oppression. The Tunnel of Oppression is intended to be an opportunity for students of various identities and backgrounds to both share and experience the lives of other student identities around them.  Rather than hearing about the daily oppression and aggression that non-majority identities face, participants will live out that experience through skits, role-plays, video, and sound. It will be a full and living sensory experience, one that is intended to be both raw and honest. LGBTindividuals, Black/African-Americans, Disabled students, and I-SPARC which is a group dedicated to social justice will be among the featured identities.
In addition to the experience of these identities, students would also take time after touring the Tunnel to debrief with a trained facilitator. Staff will debrief so that students can walk away having resolved some of their feelings and emotions after the experience. Just as real oppression is traumatizing, the in-your-face simulation of it will shock and unnerve students. The debriefing will provide students with concrete ideas for how they can help alleviate oppression around them, and react appropriately to what they’ve just experienced.
Students interested in volunteering on the day off can sign up at: http://www.doodle.com/2g42htqrxzqmuxrx
If you are interested in just attending the event, it will be held in the SDRP on April 2 and 3 in 2025 Multipurpose Rooms A, B, C from 4-8pm. 

Email vip.social.empowerment@gmail.com for questions & concerns

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