Elections!!!

On November 1, 2007, the Secular Humanists on Campus will vote for their official officers in concordance with the constitution. As of now, all positions are uncontested, but that doesn't mean your vote doesn't count... maybe it doesn't, but come anyway because we always have fun chatting and I need to address how you can be a part of everything we're doing.

Dr. Richard Leakey - “On the Origins and Future of Humanity”
Oct. 10th 7pm Wright Auditorium

Dr. Richard Leakey is an anthropologist who worked in Africa to analyze the first humans and is going to be giving a lecture at ECU. The cost of attendance is free for students and staff and 10$ for anyone else. More information can be found here on ECU's website.

Hate Out Week

SHOC is going to be attending hate out week unofficially to support the rights of being free from prejudice and abuse. The week will be filled with events to help people recognize and stop the injustices done to races and sexual orientations. So come on by and attend throughout the week if you can

Monday, October 1st
12 noon
Wall Of Oppression: The building of the wall
Location: LWCC Yard
The Writing on the Wall project serves as a shared experience of taking personal action to confront oppressive behavior and elements in our society through the act of literally constructing a wall representing our oppression of others throughout human history – and tearing down this structure -  we will be reminded of the need to act and personally experience the power to create positive change for the future.

Participants will be encouraged to write and/or mark on the wall, a moment in their own experience or in our collective history, an act of discrimination, an outrage, a crime or an act of inhumanity. They will paint or write this act on the Wall of Oppression. This monument will be erected on campus so we remember and witness the writing on the wall.

Monday October 1st
I’m in the closet, but I’m not coming out
6 p.m.
LWCC Gallery
This program will feature a panel of B-GlAD members who will talk about their experiences in coming out of the closet

Movie: Olive Harvest
Time:  7:00 p.m.
Location: Hendrix Theather

Tuesday, October 2nd
What did you call me?
Location: LWCC
Time: 6 p.m.
A woman’s empowerment discussion

Film: American History X
Location: Hendrix Theater
Time: 7 p.m.

Wednesday, October 3rd
Tunnel of Oppression
Location: Mendenhall Student Center
Time: 6 p.m.

The program is designed to create an awareness of different types of oppression, and its effects, within society and the campus community. The primary goal of the project is to create an experiential program for ECU students, staff and faculty. Participants will be taken through a variety of experiences to expose them to different kinds of oppression, including racism, homophobia, sexism, abledodism, classism, and anti-Semitism. The program will also incorporate issues of body image, domestic violence, and hate speech.

After going through the experience, participants process what they see and feel with trained counselors.

Thursday, October 4th
Immigration Lecture with Peralta
Location: Multipurpose Room
Time: 7 p.m.

Juvencio Rocha-Peralta is a local activist with the Association of Mexicans in North Carolina, AMEXCAN. His talk will focus on recent immigration to Eastern North Carolina

Friday, October 5th
Tearing Down the Wall of Hate
Location:
Time: 1 p.m.

The wall will be pulled down by human hands in a symbolic representation of humanity toppling the walls of hate and injustice, thus allowing passage to a proud and bright future.  Participants will be encouraged to take a piece of the broken wall to remind them to take action and be a catalyst for changing the writings on the wall

Multicultural Potluck
Location:  LWCC
Time: 2 p.m.
Stop by the Ledonia Wright Cultural Center and celebrate unity as we end Hate Out week.