Amnesty International

Co-Chair: Kim Francis
Co-Chair: Alexa Roberts

The SLC chapter of Amnesty International lobbies on behalf of human rights causes both in the United States and abroad. Examples of action including letter writing campaigns urging heads of state and elected officials to review policies that may be having negative effects on certain people or groups, as well as vigils and gatherings to show solidarity with those affected by these policies. Past campaigns have dealt with the death penalty and social reform, ending genocide, corporate responsibility and helping to free prisoners of conscience.

APICAD

Co-Chair: Elysse Preposi
Co-Chair: Muriel Leung

APICAD is an open social awareness identity group on campus.  We are dedicated to promoting awareness  issues concerning Asian-Americans and all people of color.

Beyond Compliance

Co-Chair: Kristen Schuster

Beyond Compliance is an advocacy group of students united for disability rights. We will work to raise awareness about disability advocacy at Sarah Lawrence.  We plan to work with faculty and staff to support students.

Boulder This

Co-Chair:  Lynn Bailey
Co-Chair:  Tobi Tobin

This club will build a community of climbers on this campus, encouraging both climbing veterans and students who have never climbed before to join.  We will encourage each other to push ourselves and learn new techniques.  The club will make climbing accessible to the entire campus, creating a friendly space to discuss new climbing interests and issues.  We will be open to other climbing-related activities.  We will stress important climber-related issues such as safety and environmental preservation.

The Bubble

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The Bubble, Sarah Lawrence’s lampoon newspaper, is dedicated to mockery, cynicism and all things Sarah Lawrence.

Call and Response

Co-Chair: Carlea Holl-Jensen
Co-Chair: Kristin Maffei

Call and Response is a zine of responsive writing and art intended to encourage the creative communities at Sarah Lawrence College and Wadham College, Oxford, as well as to maintain an artistic dialogue between the two schools.

Common Ground

Co-Manager:  Nafisa Ferdous
Co-Manager:  Elijah Wong

Common Ground’s mission is to serve students of color and student of color identity groups, as well as to engage the Sarah Lawrence Community in discussions about the perceptions, realities, and consequences of racial and ethnic identity in our society and in the world at large.  The space serves as a meeting room, event space, lounge area, and resource center for students of color and members of APICAD, Harambe, Unidad, or any other student of color identity group.  While Common Ground works primarily with the student of color identity groups, it also hosts events with other student organizations and faculty or administrative offices that are committed to campus dialogues surrounding issues of multiculturalism and racial and ethnic diversity.  Common Ground programming includes speakers, performances, discussions, movie nights, conferences, workshops and other activities.

Cranked Up – Get Your Bike On

Co-chair: Carly Miller

Cranked-Up is all about bikes. First, we are about the promotion of energy-efficient and environmentally friendly means of transportation. Secondly, we love bikes. And we love bikes, because bikes have the greatest power. And as with Spider Man, with great power, comes great responsibility. As such, Cranked-Up wants to give SLC students the power of the bike, and also show them how to be responsible with this power, by training them to wield it with the utmost love and cherishment of all its parts, through the ancient practice of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mechanics. In the modern smog-filled world, we are a dynamo of change, sending forth masters of the mechanical arts of bicycle maintenance who will be gods among men in the post-apocalyptic world stricken of oil. , i.e., We will help people build bikes and teach them to take care of them.

Dark Phrases

Contact:  Alexandra Pauline

Dark Phrases, Sarah Lawrence College’s oldest running publication, is an annual student-run literary magazine created for the promotion of diversity!  The magazine accepts submissions from all students, faculty, staff and alumni of color, as well as any student involved in Sarah Lawrence’s identity groups.  Though the help of our diverse community as well as the members of Apicad, Harambe, Hillel and Unidad, Dark Phrases serves as a pillar of the SLC community.

Diabolical Chickens (Rocky Horror)

Co-Chair: Jessica Kaplan
Co-Chair:  Leigh Stone

The Diabolic Chickens is a Sarah Lawrence club that performs the shadow cast production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show each year on Halloween weekend.  We have become a tradition, running for more than six years.  Our goal is to provide an exciting and unique experience for cast, crew and audiences alike.

Eastern European Film Club

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The Eastern European Film Club strives to bring contemporary and classic East European films in an accessible and exciting format to the SLC Community. By showcasing a different film each month, we hope to create a regular time for showcasing fine Eastern European cinema on the SLC campus. We continue to push  for excellence in Eastern European filmmaking and directing and hope to introduce new audiences to classic and contemporary Eastern European cinema.

Empty Bellies

Co-Chair:  Vrinda Manglik
Co-Chair: Cody Trojan

FLUX

Co-Chair: Erin Burrows
Co-Chair: Beth Slutzky

FLUX is a student organization on campus which exists to actively oppose all interconnected systems of oppression, both on campus and off, in the name of feminism. Through education (or ourselves and others), collaboration (with other feminist and campus groups), encouragement, and rebellion, we seek to rearticulate the need for and relevancy of feminism at SLC, create a feminist community and have fun. FLUX is an inclusive organization open to any member of the SLC community who shares our fundamental belief in the equality of all people…or who just wants to talk.

Folk Appreciation Society

Co-Chair: Franklin Sammons
Co-Chair: Meghan Orbek

Food Gatherers

Co-Chair/Treasurer:  Vrinda Manglik
Co-Chair:  Cody Trojan

Food Gatherers works with Community Partnerships, Part of the Solution in the Bronx, Flik and various businesses in Bronxville to rescue leftover food and deliver it to communities without proper access to food. Every single day we collect food from campus and in Bronxville and help feed about 500 people a day in the Bronx.

Friends of Procrastination (F.O.P.)

Co-Chair:  Zachary Donovan
Co-Chair:  Leigh Elliott

F.O.P. valiantly quests to give people the chance to relax and unwind, get in touch with their childhood enthusiasm for life, and just generally have a good time.  This will be accomplished by exploring the widest possible spectrum of play, from card games and board games to romping around treasure hunt-type games, and everything in-between.

Grassroots

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Grassroots’ mission is to promote environmental and social awareness. To love, learn from and care for the earth and all of its life. To expand the definition of environmentalism, to include economic justice and to break down barriers and stigmas which impede holistic understanding.

Group for Design

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Group for Design is an informal group comprised of students who share the same passion or interest in architecture/design. Not limited to students of design, this club is open to anyone interested in any form of visual communication. We want to encourage a dialogue about how our world looks and functions…or how it should look and function! It’s important to emphasize that this club will not only focus on historical problems but future solutions. Most importantly, this club is meant to be fun and an open platform for all design enthusiasts.

Gryphons for Israel

Co-Chair: Chantal Gil
Co-Chair:  Alexandra Rosenberg

A forum for the exploration of Israeli culture and politics.  In addition to providing a space and opportunity for students to engage in activities that facilitate an understanding and appreciation of Israeli culture, this group seeks to cultivate a safe environment for the discussion of issues pertaining to Israel advocacy.

Harambe(e)

Co-Chair: Alexandria Linn
Co-Chair:  Ketty Henri

Harambe is an SLC identity group dedicated to spreading social, economic, and political awareness and cultural understanding of those who are of African descent.  By discussing black current events as well as black art and history.  Harambe celebrates black life and love within SLC and beyond.

Hillel

Co-Chair: Tracy Rosenberg
Co-Chair: Ma’ayan Weinberg  
Co-Chair:  Shayna Goodman

The mission of the Sarah Lawrence Hillel is to supports its Jewish population. (According to the Hillel International Office, its mission is to “maximize the number of Jews doing Jewish,” but we prefer to open up the “doing Jewish” to everyone.)

Hookah Club

Co-Chair/Treasurer: Joel Mockovciak
Co-Chair: Daniel Linfield

The Hookah Club’s mission is to facilitate conversation through shared hookah experience. The club also wants to gain legal status to join together multiple hookahs in one place without insulting any student or teacher. Hookahs are very prevalent on campus, and we wish to bring everyone together with hookahs, music, and poetry.

The Illiterati

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Invictus

Co-Chair: Ien DeNio    
Co-Chair: Kristen Schuster

Invictus would like to raise political awareness on the SLC campus and increase communication and cooperation between clubs and organizations.

Italian Club

Co-Chair: Pamela Julian
Co-Chair: Paige Lipari

Italian Club wants to create an organization to encourage the SLC community to learn about Italian Culture including:  art, music, film, history and to provide an opportunity for the SLC community to learn conversational Italian and to introduce Italian culture beyond the SLC community.

Kamikaze’s Anonymous

Co-Chair:  Katie LaBonte
Co-Chair:  Gabrielle Amato

Kamikaze’s Anonymous is a “Fan-centric” anime group.  We dedicate meeting time to appreciating manga (aka “graphic novels”), doujinshi (published manga drawn by fans), fan art and (of course) fan fiction!  We also watch episodes of our favorite Animes.

Our events include screenings of Anime movies,, manga exchanges, and fan fiction contests.  We plan to keep a Fall and a Spring showing of Gundam Wing and Cowboy Bebop.

The goal of Kamikaze’s Anonymous is to eradicate the stigma associated with Anime fans.

Magic: The Gathering Club

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The goal of the Magic: The Gathering Club is to provide a time and space for people with similar interest to meet, mingle and form relationships. To do this, the club seeks to break down monetary and commitment barriers to this game’s capacity for bringing people together.

Muggle Quidditch

Co-Chair:  Sarah Shields

Our mission is to develop basic quidditch skills while working as a team and promoting muggle pride.  Physical activity and having fun working in a team are two added bonuses.

New Kids on the Block

Co-Chair:  Mya Green
Co-Chair:   Kit Golan

We want to help newly arrived transfer students to integrate into the larger SLC community by meeting both former transfers and upperclassmen.  We also want to help newly arrived transfers have their questions answered by former transfers with similar experiences.  We hope to build a community of transfers as a stepping stone to becoming part of the larger SLC community.  We want to educate the SLC administration about the needs and problems associated with transferring into the SLC community and to create a dialogue in which to enact solutions.

New Orleans Student Coalition

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The Sarah Lawrence New Orleans Student Coalition is a group of students who have dedicated their time to promoting awareness of  and initiating action surrounding the social injustices still occurring in New Orleans.  We strive to network with and support other solidarity organizations, student groups and survivors around the country.

Nutshell Company Players

Co-Chair: Emma Breibart-White
Co-Chair: Katie O’Sullivan

Outing Club

Co-Chair:  Lisa Chodorkoff
Co-Chair: Samuel Bryant

The mission of the Outing Club is to unite people interested in exploring our local environment and the greater outdoors.  We will strive to organize trips, teach others and provide a community based around a common appreciation of what the wilderness has to offer.  Furthermore, we will encourage people to be safe, responsible and enjoy themselves when they travel through various environments.  The idea of “Leave No Trace” is of crucial importance.  The Outing Club is also there for discourse, travel tales, lessons learned, sharing dreams, hopes, meeting trail companions, comparing maps, borrowing gear and sharing pictures.  We will do our best to be outside even while doing this.  The primary focus of our group is to be as far out of doors as we can, at every possible time that we can.

PETA
People Eating Tasty Animals

Co-Chair: David Cantler
Co-Chair: Dylan Morgan  

People Eating Tasty Animals is a club dedicated to providing students with alternative food.  We hold barbeques  on the North Lawn. Vegan food is always provided.

The Petticoat Historical Auxiliary

Co-Chair: Alana Sliwinski
Co-Chair: Lauren Palmor

The mission of the Petticoat Historical Auxiliary is to preserve and interpret the history of Sarah Lawrence College.  Through white glove midnight cocoa socials and keeping tabs on each other’s midnight callers, we hope to echo many of the SLC traditions which have been lost throughout the years.  Please submit any relevant social notices and no suitors in your bedrooms, please.  If you would like to book a spring vacation holiday, the travel office is currently reserving tickets for a steamship cruise in the West Indies.  After a year-long hiatus, Petticoat is back in action!  Please sign up on our e-mail list to get information about upcoming events and meetings.

Poetry Festival Committee

Contact:  Brynn Saito

This year marks the fifth year anniversary of the annual Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival.  Over  the past four years, the Poetry Festival has earned a substantial nationwide reputation.  It has brought dozens of today’s most accomplished poets to Sarah Lawrence to read alongside our own undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in a weekend-long celebration filled with camaraderie and creativity.

Progressive Produce

Contact: Luke Simon

Progressive Produce is dedicated to general food awareness through action and education surrounding the issues of bioregional,organic and sustainably grown foods.  We aim to nourish the body as well as the mind.

Projekt Rhythm

Chair: Sarah Rosner
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Projekt Rhythm’s mission is to create and celebrate different urban forms of expression, in hopes of educating the SLC community about the beauty of Hip-Hop culture by adhering to the four foundations of Hip-Hop: dance, music, poetry and art.  One of Projekt Rhythm’s main goals is to seek out student talent and place it in a professional performance setting alongside seasoned professionals from New York City and beyond.

Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)

Co-Chair: Madison Schramm
Treasurer: Kara Rota

The Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization. We will work in conjunction with NY PIRG to run campaigns. These campaigns will include fundraising, publicity events, phone-banking, canvassing and visibility.

Queer Variety Coalition (QVC)

Co-Chair: Lauren Hourihan
Co-Chair: Shar Nims

QVC’s mission is to provide safe, fun, and educational programming for the student body as a whole with special emphasis on students who identify as Queer.

The Phoenix

Editor in Chief:Joe Lazauskas
Managing Editor: Kelsey Ford
Research Editor:Sarah Hopkins

The Republican is Sarah Lawrence’s main source for college news. We cover news, sports, opinions, arts and society. The paper strives for accuracy, relevance and quality in reporting, writing, photography and design.

SAC Bomb (Student Arts Coalition Bomb)

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SadieLou.net

Co-Chairs: Nevan Scott
Co-Chair:  Joanna Harmonosky

SadieLou.net is a small website serving the interests of Sarah Lawrence students. Think of it as a testing ground for the idea that the students know best how to represent themselves on the web. Currently, the site acts as an online zine, offers resources for current and prospective students, and provides a home for other publication websites.

The Sadie Lou Standard

Co-Chair: Echo Hopkins
Co-Chair: Ian Sullivan

The Sadie Lou Standard is a weekly newspaper dedicated to publishing relevant information and provoking dialogue in the SLC community.

Sarah Lawrence Christian Union

Co-Chair: Angelina Duell
Co-Chair: Joanlie Shiah

Christian Union seeks to provide an open community for Christians to share in their faith in an accepting safe environment through group meetings and Sunday trips to church. We seek to provide a support system for spiritual growth and a resource to clarify misconceptions of Christianity. We also work to serve the Sarah Lawrence community as representatives of Jesus by embodying love, compassion, generosity and acceptance through service and community events.

Sarah Lawrence College Literary Review

Co-Chair: Andrew Seidler

The Sarah Lawrence College Literary Magazine is the college’s oldest publication, and is entirely student-run. The Review has gone through a number of names throughout its history, and is currently titled The Looking Glass, the same name the magazine went by during WWII. The Review accepts and publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, visual art and music.

Sarah Lawrence Film Society

Co-Chair: Luke Simon

Cinephilia is finding from the heart of the American student. As André Bazin said, “film itself is organically deteriorating from its material sources, wasted everyday, every year, to nothing.” With all, for those born of a love that they hope will continue to grow, a maturation developed from every cinematic experience – by sight and by sound- the Sarah Lawrence Film Society come to you. We are here to encourage an active, thriving and passionate film culture on campus that will take the cinema seriously as an art, while appreciating its simple joys.

Sarah Lawrence Gospel Choir (SLGC)

Co-Chair:  Christine Spinelli
Co-Chair:  Sarah Livant

Our choir is not your average singing group.  We accept all levels of musical ability, we do not hold any auditions nor is any payment needed.  For whatever motivation anyone has for singing in this group, whether it be for religious purposes or just for fun, we would love to have you come and sing with us.  “If you can walk, you can dance.  If you can talk, you can sing.”-Zimbabwean proverb

Sarah Lawrence Survivalist Society (SLSS)

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The SLSS seeks to train and inform students in safety and survival skills, both urban and wilderness. Its goal is to provide students with a framework of abilities which would, in the event of a man-made or natural disaster, enable them to effectively survive.

Sarah Lawrence Table Tennis Club (SLCTTC)

Chair: Maxwell Neely-Cohen
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SLC Acts Up!

Co-Chair: Matthew Vail
Co-Chair: Jacki Lacey

SLC Acts Up! Will work to develop an awareness of LGBT/Ally issues at Sarah Lawrence.

SLC Cabaret (Midnight Cabaret)

Co-Chair: Spike Donovan

SLC Cabaret endeavors to create an open, creative environment for all modes of performance by showcasing student work weekly. SLC Cabaret also strives to serve as an enjoyable reliable entertainment on campus for the entire student body.

SLC College Democrats

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SLC Stitch n’ Bitch

Co-Chair: Alexis Gordon
Co-Chair: Sara Dholakia

SLC Stitch N’Bitch aims to form a sense of community among knitters, crocheters, tatters, and sewers on campus.  We share yarn, patterns, needles, and a love of crafting.

SLC Yoga Community

Co-Chair: Timothy Sullivan
Co-Chair: Luke Simon

The SLC yoga community seeks to create an environment in which to practice various forms of yoga and yoga related activities.  Along with bending, breathing, lengthening, strengthening, and relaxing, we also hope to bring the benefits of yoga to the campus through film viewings, lectures, meditation sessions, and myriad other activities.

SLURP

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It is S.L.U.R.P.’s mission to surprise the community with the goodness and virtue of time shared around a meal of soup by making soup available along with other meal – augmenting specialties at semi-specified times and locations on the Sarah Lawrence Campus.

Solidarity

Co-Chair: Samuel Bryant
Co-Chair: Alexandria Linn

Sports Fans Anonymous

Co-Chair:  Alexandra Rosenberg
Co-Chair:  Will Floyd

Sports Fans Anonymous feels its purpose is to create an atmosphere on campus where students can explore their sports fandom without having to explain it to the less enlightened (non-sports fans).

Student Body Meeting

Co-Chair:  Dylan Morgan
Co-Chair: Spike Donovan

 

Students for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Co-Chair: Aaron Lindenbaum

SIP demands campus awareness of the vibrant cultural heritage of the Israeli and Palestinian people. Through a myriad of media we drive to inform the student body of current events and lead the campus towards a peaceful approach to the Middle East. Our mission is one of peace; we attempt to understand the conflict that has plagued this land and those people for too long.

Students Promoting Awareness of Animal Rights (SPARR)

Club Chair: Jasmine Rivera

Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND)

Co-Chair: Tracy Rosenberg     
Co-Chair: Elena Towers  

STAND at Sarah Lawrence seeks to create a community devoted to the ending of and preventing of any current or future genocides.  STAND is committed to developing within our student body the tools necessary to combat one of the world’s most dangerous and frightening injustices.

The Sarah Lawrence Dueling Society

Co-Chair:  Thomas Tait Foster
Co-Chair: Dave Brody

The Sarah Lawrence Dueling Society’s desire is to facilitate gentlemanly conduct and community building through the act, or even art, of dueling.  We as the Society regulate and administer all duels to make sure they are sporting and fair.  We hope to see you on the green.

The Sarah Lawrence Student Union

Co-Chair:  Jacki Lacey
Co-Chair:  Brian Logue

The Sarah Lawrence Student Union seeks to create community between student clubs and the campus at large through monthly meetings and a student-run club space to facilitate club activities.

Sustainable SLC

Co-Chair: Meghan Orbek

TRANSaction

Co-Chair:  Jacki Lacey
Co-Chair:Tobi Tobin

TRANSaction is a club that provides a forum for students to discuss the ways in which our campus can be more supportive of community members whose gender identities fall outside the standard male and female binary.  These discussions will then serve as a platform for activism.

Treble in Paradise

Co-Chair: Jessi Cimafonte

UNIDAD

Co-Chair: Katherine Barahona
Co-Chair:  Viviana Niebylski
Co-Chair:  Brian Logue
Co-Chair:  Elanna Marinello

UNIDAD means unity, forging alliances when taking collective action. This club is devoted to opening and engaging everyone within our community, including staff. We meet in a “safe space” where students can comfortably discuss issues concerning them. UNIDAD works to increase awareness and understanding of Latino heritage and culture, seeking to educate the community about the history of Latino people.

Vocal Minority

Co-Chair: Eli Taylor    

W.H.A.T. (We are Here as Tourists)

Chair: Noemi Jimenez
Co-Chair: Yesenia Marquetti

A warm environment for international students and friends to get together and discuss any concerns or suggestions for activities to promote not only a sense of community on campus, but also a general awareness of any international affairs of the members’ respective countries.

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