Student Events

Sycamore Safe Zone Level 3

Advanced Level 3 - Sycamore Advocates - Advanced Safe Zone trainings are designed for participants who have completed Safe Zone 101 and Sycamore Ally portions of Safe Zone. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of specific target topics and identities while focusing on sexual orientation vs. gender identity, coming out process, race, religion, identity development models, and cisgender privilege.

Sycamore Safe Zone Level 3

 Advanced Level 3 - Sycamore Advocates - Advanced Safe Zone trainings are designed for participants who have completed Safe Zone 101 and Sycamore Ally portions of Safe Zone. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of specific target topics and identities while focusing on sexual orientation vs. gender identity, coming out process, race, religion, identity development models, and cisgender privilege.

Taboo Topic : Mayor Pete and Me - Homonormativity, Queerness and Contemporary Social Institutions

Taboo Talks programming aims to create well-rounded and informed discussions on relevant socially charged topics. The program targets all students who wish to increase their social consciousness, and wish to say abreast hot topics. Professor Betsy Lucal teaches sociology and women's & gender studies, with a focus on first-year studies, at Indiana University South Bend. She is a former deputy editor for Gender & Society and currently edits the gender & sexuality section of Sociology Compass.

Critical Converstion Film Series #regeneration: This is an uprising

Ryan Gosling narrates this engrossing film about social activism, the forces that galvanized the Occupy movement, and how a new generation of young people is coming to terms with a rapidly changing world. The film skillfully weaves commentary from some of the country's leading political and social analysts with personal observations from a collective of young musicians, a tight-knit group of suburban high-school students, and a young conservative family, providing a nuanced look at the myriad challenges facing the next generation of Americans.

Critical Conversations Film Series: Why inequality matters?

  "What distinguishing feature do the world's healthiest and happiest societies have in common? According to acclaimed author Richard Wilkinson, the answer is simple: they have far less income inequality than other societies. In this new film based on his international best-seller The Spirit Level, Wilkinson focuses on why the U.S., despite being one of the richest nations in the world, lags behind so many other rich Western societies in a number of crucial statistical measures -- including life expectancy, violence, health, community, teen pregnancy, mental illness, and incarceration.

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