AS Clubs Categorically : Social Issues
Big Brothers Big Sisters
As an AS Club, it is our intent to represent, advertise events, promote volunteering, raise funds, and coordinate meetings on behalf of BBBS of Washington (Whatcom County).
Contact Person: Grant Kinman;
360-931-4925; grizlyadams18@yahoo.com
Connections
Connections provides a supportive community for those who want to connect with others in a social and sober environment. Connections is committed to putting on alcohol- and drug-free events open to all students.
Contact Person: Amanda Daviau;
360-656-6633; daviaua@students.wwu.edu
Current Events Forum
The Current Events Forum is an opportunity for students and faculty to discuss current issues in an informal setting. The club aims to increase awareness of current events and their significance as well as provide students with the skills to discuss world events accurately and intelligently with their peers and their professors.
Contact Person: Anna Ellermeier;
206-369-9792; currenteventsforum@gmail.com or ellerma@students.wwu.edu
Fairhaven Free Press
Fairhaven Free Press acts as a forum for Fairhaven students to have an ongoing dialogue with the rest of the Western and Bellingham communities about important issues. The paper is meant to be a space for students to discuss and challenge each others'views, enriching the learning experience. While it was formed primarily to serve Fairhaven students, the Free Press is non-exclusive and open to submissions from all WWU students.
Contact Person: Jordan Bright;
260-599-9904; fairhavenfreepress@gmail.com or snowcrushed54@gmail.com
Institute for Village Studies Club
To raise awareness of global, international issues, specifically education. To raise money through fund-raising for international schools which I.V.S. visited on the Winter 2008 trip. Also to raise awareness in fellow students of the benefits of travel, adventure, and group learning.
Contact Person: Chelsey Eyre;
360-510-9619; eyrec@students.wwu.edu
Interclub Diversity Coalition
The purpose of IDC is to create a more holistic community among the many diversity and social issue clubs. The goal is to foster investment from student activists for the betterment of Western for all identities and experiences.
Contact Person: Brittany Otter;
425-478-3179; future.otter@gmail.com
QWEST (Queer Women Educating & Supporting Together)
QWEST (Queer Women Educating & Supporting Together) is a discussion group that welcomes all queer women, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender and allies. Our focus is educating one another on important issues with beneficial questions leading to beneficial conversations. This is an open minded group ready to tear apart stereotypes held against us and even the ones we hold against each other. QWEST embraces the opportunity to hear different points of view s that will expand knowledge of our own community.
Contact Person: Amy Wynkoop;
206-428-8309; qwestwwu@gmail.com or wynkooa@cc.wwu.edu
SDS Bellingham, Students for a Democratic Society
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Bellingham chapter is an education and social action organization dedicated to increasing participatory democracy in all aspects of our common life. We want to maintain a vision of a democratic society where at all levels people have the control of the decisions which affect them and the resources which they are dependant. We are attempting to build a society free from poverty, war, racism, exploitation, and oppression. SDS recognizes past and present movements and the importance of working together to achieve common goals.
Contact Person: Dillon Thomson;
360-470-8857; thomsod@cc.wwu.edu or SDSBELLINGHAM@LISTS.RISEUP.NET
Sexploration
Sexploration is a refreshing women's discussion group, which focuses on shedding the societal taboo around sexuality. The goals are honesty, empowerment, and fun, leading away from embarassment and towards open communication about these natural things. Although the focus is on women's issues, men are welcome & multi-gender talks will be held.
Contact Person: Grace Wischerth;
718-755-7771; ieatsoyandzeugma@gmail.com
STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition
To educate others on the ongoing genocide in Darfur, raise relief funds, and advocate for political action. Part of a national student coalition present on over 200 campuses. Raising genocide awareness.
Contact Person: Karena Rounsaville;
360-333-8770; wwustand@gmail.com or rounsak@students.wwu.edu
Website: http://groups.google.com/group/wwustand
Student Coalition for Immigration Rights
The Student Coalition for Immigration Rights is open to the Western Washington Unviersity community and its allies. It is a coalition devoted to bring attention and familiarity to the Dream Act and the positive social, political, and economic matters that accompany it. The SCIR is a safe haven for all people, regardless of residential status, who wish to learn or be involved in the mission of spreading the word of the Dream Act to the Bellingham community and contribute to the nation-wide attempt of informing and educating the public of the benefits of approving the Dream Act.
Contact Person: Maria Corona;
425-445-9311; cororam@cc.wwu.edu
Student-Homeless Outreach Team
To transform the WWU student community into one full of people who reach out and change reality and who take responsibility for their work. This new community will profess solidarity with the world, ,and live by the maxim that there is enough for everyone, and that everyone has something to contribute.
Contact Person: Alexandra Dammarell;
360-981-5004; students.reachout@gmail.com or dammara@students.wwu.edu
Students for Disability Awareness
Students for Disability Awareness is an organization meant to spread awareness and to educate the Western Washington University community about disability culture, to promote equal opportunities and better accessibility for all students, faculty, and staff with disabilities (regardless of nature), and to empower them with the strength and tools to have a positive university experience while working with local and campus resources.
Contact Person: Daman Wandke;
360-543-5646; Info@wwusda.org or daman@wwusda.org
Website: http://www.wwusda.org
Students for Educational Equality
To help change educational inequalities in America. To raise awareness on this issue and point those interested in the right direction. To work towards social justice. To provide resources (through fundraisers) to help aid in a sustainable education program for children in low income communities. To build a community at Western Washington University interested in evoking change and working towards a sustainable future for the youth in America.
Contact Person: Danielle Jackson;
edu.equality@gmail.com or jacksod8@students.wwu.edu
Students for Slum Doctor Programme
Our goal as SSDP Club is to provide a "plug in" for students at Western to inform them about the Slum Doctor Programme and spread awareness of international public health issues. We will be separate from, but working with, the Slum Doctor Programme and attempt to raise money via fundraisers for the Programme to assist their efforts abroad.
Contact Person: Kasey Hostetler;
509-430-9503; hostetk@cc.wwu.edu
Students for Social Change
The mission of Students for Social Change is to promote social awareness and encourage positive change with local and global communities through education, community networking, volunteer opportunities, and experiential learning. We are students dedicated to improving the quality of life for all people.
Contact Person: Elise Nelson and Erin Martin;
hsp_socialchange@yahoo.com or marti73@cc.wwu.edu
Teach For America @ WWU
Teach For America @ WWU hopes to raise awareness of the issue of educational inequality and spotlight Teach For America's role in the movement toward equity.
Contact Person: Briana Martinez;
425-213-4539; martin84@students.wwu.edu
The Vagina Club
To provide an empowering, positive environment for women. To have a place for women to talk about current issues, and have them understand they are not the only person to share certain views.
Contact Person: Lauren Wallace & Lauren Cooper;
wallac16@students.wwu.edu or cooper14@students.wwu.edu
TransPort
To create a positive, safe, respectful support system for people who identify as transgendered, transsexual, gender-variant, intersexed, non-identified, etc. We provide weekly meetings as well as open, fun trans-themed events.
Contact Person: Cory Hoffman;
425-753-5328; hoffmac5@students.wwu.edu
Viking Community Builders
Viking Community Builders brings awareness to issues affecting Western students and strengthens connections with the Bellingham community. The club provides a forum to discuss issues, generate solutions, and enact them all to promote dialogue among neighbors and build community.
Contact Person: Matthew Osborne;
253-224-3048; vikingcommunitybuilders@gmail.com or osbornm5@students.wwu.edu
VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood
To raise campus awareness about reproduction health and rights in order to further add to the national and international reproductive rights efforts. VOX supports comprehensive and complementary health care services, public policies that reinforce this basic right, and educational programs that enhance the understanding of human sexuality.
Contact Person: Laura Hughes;
253-740-0577; laura.hughes@mbpp.org
Website: http://www.plannedparenthood.org
Western Allies
The purpose of Western Allies is to provide a place for people to discuss social justice issues as well as to spread the word and start discussions on campus and in the community about these issues. We want Western Allies to be a place for community-building and networking, especially with other social justice groups, in order to support each other in our common goal of educating ourselves and those around us about privilege and oppression and skills for social change, or ally skills. We recognize that being an ally is never something we can completely arrive at, rather a continuing goal that we are constantly working towards and we want to creatre a space to share our experiences in doing so by holding regular, ongoing dialogues to discuss social justice issues.
Contact Person: Joshua O'Donnell;
360-650-3290; westernallies@gmail.com or Joshua.ODonnell@wwu.edu
Western Animal Rights Network
To educate about animal issues
Contact Person: Rebekah Kraft;
206-501-7395; wwuwarn@gmail.com or kraftr@students.wwu.edu
Western Men Against Violence
To create a campus and community free of violence, to promote relationships based on equality and respect, to encourage positive, healthy expressions of masculinity, and to be visible, outspoken allies for all who experience prejudice and discrimination.
Contact Person: Daniel Brendible;
360-383-6770; brendid@students.wwu.edu
Website: http://www.wwu.edu/~wmav
Western Students for Hunger Awareness
The purpose of this club is to raise awareness about hunger and poverty issues in Whatcom County. The primary focus is on Food Stamp Awareness and other hunger-related resources in the community.
Contact Person: Brandon Kilgore;
360-739-9584; brandonkkilgore@gmail.com
Western Women and Men for Feminist Praxis
To lead the Western Washington University community in spreading the ideals of feminism as a method of reshaping our society into one that reflects egalitarian values. We hope to create a welcoming, non-threatening environment for men and women alike of various knowledge levels and opinions to learn about feminism in a variety of different ways, predominately through weekly readings, discussion, and activism. We would argue that part of being a feminist is socializing with other feminists! Our weekly meeting serves as an opportunity for students of both genders to learn and have fun at the same time.
Contact Person: Morgan Haskins;
907-529-8648; wwu4feministpraxis@gmail.com or morgan.haskins@gmail.com
World Injustice Awareness
This club was started out of a desire to bring attention and compassion to the people and issues commonly ignored by the American Government and mass media corporations. As a club, our goal is to invite and challenge Western students, faculty, and the community to be informed and aware of international crises, by providing resources, presenting information, and connecting community members to further involvement opportunities.
Contact Person: Maria McGill Zupan;
360-305-8386; maria.causegirl@gmail.com or wiac.wwu@gmail.com
WWU People for Choice
We are a group of people that believe in a woman's right to make informed decisions about her body without guilt or threat of persecution. It is our wish, hope and goal to inform women of their options and fight for our freedom of choice.
Contact Person: Laine Keniston;
360-535-4839; wwuchoice@live.com or lainekeniston@gmail.com
Website: Facebook: WWU People for Choice
WWU-ACLU-WA
The purpose of the WWU-ACLU-WA is to promote the cause of civil liberties among the students, faculty, and staff at WWU and to take such action to further this purpose as is consistent with the policies and regulations of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington (ACLU-WA).
Contact Person: Matt Osborne;
253-224-3048; osbornm5@students.wwu.edu
Website: www.aclu-wa.org