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Thursday, December 6, 2007
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USC student Kathy Schmidt with Rwandan children this past summer.
Photo courtesy of Kathy Schmidt
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One million strong for Rwanda
Kathy Schmidt is no ordinary USC student. Instead of going to parties, going shopping or hanging out with friends, she dedicates the majority of her time to a group of people living more than 9,000 miles away from Los Angeles. Schmidt, with friend Angela Hilsenbeck, are working to establish an International Student Coalition Against Genocidal Indifference in order to reopen dialogue on the issue of genocide. Their goals are many, but their main focus is getting 1 million students nationwide to pledge their support in helping Rwandan genocide survivors. Will you be one of them?
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Students speak out, and sit-in, for workers' rights
USC is often called an unenthusiastic, uninvolved and politically apathetic campus. But last April, in an unprecedented display of student activism, the Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation staged a protest and a sit-in of USC President Steven B. Sample's office. The demonstration generated noise and sparked interest among the crowds of students who gathered around Bovard Auditorium. In vehemently showing their displeasure with the administration, the group successfully politicized students on the issue of workers' rights and showed the university that students can indeed unite for a cause.
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Talking back to take back the night
Sexual violence occurs too regularly on campuses across the nation. Instead of letting the issue slip by unaddressed, the Women's Student Assembly in cooperation with USC Men CARE and the USC Center for Women and Men spoke out loudly against sexual violence in the USC community. All social taboos go out the window at Take Back the Night, as rape victims speak about their experiences, feminist theatrical groups act out for women's rights and T-shirts bearing searing testimonals flap gently in the wind. Each speaker and student in attendance is dedicated to one thing: preventing sexual assault and sexual violence from occuring where they live and to people they know.
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