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Chris Jones Ebbtide Reporter Last Fall in response to a perceived post 911 increase in incidents on campus directed against minority students, a group of student leaders and student program administrators held a one day retreat to discuss ways to combat intolerance in the SCC community. The result of these discussions now stands in the center of the PUB: a circular barrier assembled from wooden stanchions and chicken wire entitled. "Banners and Barriers." In support of the theme of the upcoming multicultural week (April 23rd - May 3rd), "Stop, Reflect Respect," "Banners and Barriers" invites all interested students to create "Banners" expressing pride in their own culture and identity as well as "Barriers" exposing or commenting on impediments and prejudices to which they may have been subjected as a result of race, gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. An art station on the HUB stage is stocked with paper, pens, markers, and graphic images which students can use to create the statements to be displayed on the wire mesh barrier. The art station will be open 9am-noon Monday and Wednesday and 11am till 2pm Tuesdays and Thursdays. As of this writing (4/9/03) only a gaudily decorated oven mitt with the inscription, "A woman's place is in the kitchen" and a matching pot holder declaring, "Barefoot and Pregnant" have been mounted on the barrier. Despite this slow start, Tizzy Asher, assistant in the Women's Center says, "The reaction so far has been really positive," with a number of students making positive comments about having this opportunity to both express pride in their identity as well as note some of the challenges which may arise as a result of that identity. The "Banners and Barriers" display started Monday the 7th and will run through May 2nd. © 2003 Shoreline Community College™ |