Popel Shaw Center for Race and Ethnicity

MOB sponsores Porsha Olayiwola's workshop on cultural appropriation and identity. Clarke Forum hosts panel on Islamaphobia. Play "The Vagina Monologues" hosted at the Cubiculo. Beta Epsilon sorority hosts annual "What's Love Got to Do With It" self-care event. Dickinson Model UN chapter is founded.  Salon discussion "Respectability Politics in the 21st Century" cosponsored by Clarke Forum, Popel Shaw Center, and Phi Beta Kappa. Clarke Forum hosts immigrant activists Hugo Castro and Jose Luis Hernandez Cruz to discuss their work with undocumented and disabled immigrants. 

Neil Weissman offers support to international students in response to Donald Trump's bans on immigration. Dickinsonians participate in DC Women's Marches. Clarke Forum hosts Kathryn Ellis and David O'Connell lecture on reproductive rights, politics, and ethics and Thomas Palley lecture on financial crisis of 2008. Popel Shaw Center for Race and Ethnicity host panel discussion for Black History Month. 

Students perform demonstration in the HUB to protest exclusivity. Students gather in ATS to watch vice-presedential debate between Tim Kaine and Mike Pence. Professor Lothar Probst from University of Breman, Germany, presents Clarke Forum lecture on the rise of populism in Germany and the United States during the election season. The Popel Shaw Center holds its first Interracial Mixer at Landis House to discuss racism, ethnic stereotypes, and ethnic erasure. 

The Belles Lettres society hosts a celebration of the revamped Dickinson Review, CSE Observes Earth Hour with a bonfire, community members share their failures and successes in TED-style forum, the Office of Diversity Initiatives is changing its name to the Popel Shaw Center for Race and Ethnicity, and a prize-winning poet visits campus. 

Actress Laverne Cox advocates for Trans-Rights during a lecture in ATS, the Popel Shaw Center for Race & Ethnicity hosts a vigil commemorating the lives of victims of racial violence, the Admissions office gives insight into the college admissions process, and the Wellness Center assists students in managing finals stress.