Clubs

There are a variety of organizations you can join at Sarah Lawrence. Our registered student organizations include a wide range of clubs, identity groups, sports organizations, and publications. For more information about Student Organizations, please contact Jason Gloe, Assistant Director of Student Activities, at jgloe@sarahlawrence.edu.

Alliance for White Anti-Racist Action (AWARA)
Mission: AWARA is a student-run organization committed to supporting the self-educating white anti-racist community on campus. As white allies in training, we seek to raise awareness about current manifestations of racism, and what it means to be a white ally. We intend to contribute to a safe, educational, loving, accountable campus community that thrives with diversity through engaging with other student organizations and hosting campus-wide events. 

American Chemical Society Student Chapter
Email: AmericanChemicalSociety@gm.slc.edu
Mission: The Sarah Lawrence student chapter of the American Chemical Society aims to spark an interest in chemistry at SLC and within the Yonkers community at large. Through a variety of educational events and service projects (particularly those that promote green chemistry) for the campus, K-12, and general communities, we hope to shed light on the vital role chemistry plays in our everyday lives and in the longevity of our environment. Additionally, we wish to provide professional development opportunities to prepare and encourage those students considering a career in chemistry or related fields.

American Sign Language Club
Mission: American Sign Language club strives to learn and practice communication through American Sign Language. ASL is not offered through Sarah Lawrence’s curricular classes, and the ASL club feels that it is still extremely important to have on campus. We hope to expand our ability to communicate with the deaf population, which is an important part of this world. 

Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition for Action and Diversity (APICAD)
Mission: To engage the campus in discussions about Asian identity and to act as a resource to all interested students.

Body Art (Fashion Club)
Mission: Body art is a Fashion collaborative that supports fashion in all its forms and disciplines. We are a coalition of fashion enthusiasts who are interested in promoting fashion events and education on campus. 

Brainwashed
Email: Brainwashed@gm.slc.edu
Mission: Brainwashed is a group of individuals who are passionate about the brain. We will approach the exploration of the brain based on our interests, learning about the diverse effects of all activities from dance to psychiatry while focusing on everything from ethical issues to philosophical issues. This is a space in which we can learn about the brain by reviewing groundbreaking research through dialogue. A major goal of this group is to provide a platform in which individuals can pursue initiatives through an interdisciplinary context to spread our knowledge of the brain to the rest of the community in ways that will improve how we see and interact with the world.

The Capoeira Collective
Mission: The Capeoira Collective aims to provide an open and welcoming space for students of all levels to collectively learn and train in capeoira. Members collaborate to design training regiments and provide programming (field trips, workshops, film viewings, etc.) to further immerse themselves in the art of capeoira. The collective meets weekly. All styles and levels welcomed.

Clowned into Submission
Email: ClownedIntoSubmission@gm.slc.edu
Mission: Our aim is to provide a safe and creative environment for SLC students to explore the art of clowning.

Common Writers
Email: CommonWriters@gm.slc.edu
Mission: The purpose of this club is to provide a safe space for writers of any genre to meet, discuss, and write about issues that may make them uncomfortable to share in a class or workshop setting. These issues may include but are not limited to race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, classism, etc.

Compost Club
Email: CompostClub@gm.slc.edu
Mission: By May 15 2013 we will begin on-campus construction of facilities to compost all of SLC’s food waste. Too bold you say? Impossible? Impossible is not a word in our vocabulary! That’s why we need your volunteer help to make it happen. Proceeds from compost sales support environmental action as bold and radical as ours. We integrate compost education into college classes. Keep an eye out for us and you’ll see how we reach out to the community. We provide guest speakers who tour the country and give talks to other colleges about the importance of compost and soil ecology in our world. We provide tours of our facilities, research tools, compost helplines, internships, and the best compost in the entire planet! Ready to get your hands dirty everyone? Hurry up! What are heck are YOU waiting for? Do you think life just goes on forever?

Dark Phrases
Mission: Dark phrases is an annual publication whose main mission in to highlight and showcase the artistic work of people of color at Sarah Lawrence College - which includes students, alumnae, faculty and staff, and those members involved in Common Ground's identity groups (i.e WoCo, Harambee, APICAD, Unidad, QPOC, Voices for Palestine)

Enviro-Earth
Email: EnviroEarth@gm.slc.edu
Mission: Enviro-Earth desires to spark the love of learning in students in Yonkers. The group has an ongoing commitment to the Greyston Foundation to create new science lessons each week and to help every child grow in knowledge.

Environmental Community Outreach (ECO)
Mission: Environmental Community Outreach strives to involve Sarah Lawrence students in the greater community through environmental activism. We will do this by partnering with local outside organizations for one day of service per month.

Full Frontal
Email: FullFrontal@gm.slc.edu
Mission: Full Frontal is Sarah Lawrence's satirical newspaper.

Harambee
Mission: Harambee provides a safer space for Black students and their allies on the SLC campus. There will be weekly discussion meetings in addition to an array of programming that examines various aspects of Black culture. While we encourage dialogue surrounding Black identities and race, discussions are not limited to such topics. We encourage members to bring ideas and themes to explore. Harambee is an open space for all different expressions of Blackness.

Harts for Hope
Mission: Our mission is to promote biopsychosocial healing in a creative, interactive manner. We believe in healing rather than treating. The mind and body are two wonders that work together...and utilizing arts in a way that brings them together is our overall objective. We work with persons of all ages, ill and not ill, and persons of all cultures. We want to bring the whole picture of healing and promote it to the people we work with.

Hillel @ SLC
Mission: The mission of Hillel@SLC is to support it’s Jewish population. Hillel@SLC welcomes everyone to explore Judaism throughout the year, while also providing opportunities to learn about Israel, Jewish Spirituality, Torah, and Social Justice.

Iglesia Scholars: Saturday Enrichment Program at Iglesia San Andres
Mission: The goal of Iglesia Scholars is to provide avenues for program participants to develop relationships, discover creative outlets, and become lifelong learners, while simultaneously providing Sarah Lawrence student volunteers with opportunities to channel their passions into innovative, progressive education.

International Students Union (ISU)
Mission: The International Students Union (ISU) seeks to promote cultural diversity and awareness on campus, and complement the Sarah Lawrence educational philosophy of “experiential learning.” With the belief that individual experiences are enriched through exploration and understanding of others, we welcome international perspectives and intend to promote interaction among individuals who have come from different parts of the world. We seek to foster a friendly environment in which all members of the community are able to share and exchange their experiences. We also aim to provide a welcoming atmosphere for incoming international students, aiding them in the transition that many often make alone; as well as help solve issues concerning the international community on campus. We strive to promote cultural awareness on campus by organizing events that reflect the diversity of Sarah Lawrence.

Kamikazes Anonymous
Mission: Kamikazes Anonymous is an epic wonderland of laser swords and magical transformations and anime mech battles and lots of cuddling. It’s awesome anime screenings and the coolest nerds on campus. Come for anime, lols, and love!

The Known World Radio Crew
Mission: The Known World Radio Crew will perform a unique one-hour live radio theater program once at the end of every month in collaboration with student poets, authors, actors, and musicians.

The Melancholy Players
Mission: Established in 2006, the Melancholy Players is the longest-running non-departmental theater group at Sarah Lawrence. We are a group of artists, producers, directors, performers, playwrights, technicians and designers who hope to achieve a common goal of producing theater dedicated to equality, community, and creativity. Our productions often highlight the poetry and lyricism of language used in traditional and non-traditional ways. We produce both student written and published works, straight plays and musicals, and we have used both usual and unusual theater spaces on campus. We adhere to a strict policy of inclusion and kindness and encourage interdisciplinary collaboration.

Midnight Cabaret
Email: MidnightCabaret@gm.slc.edu
Mission: Midnight Cabaret strives to be an open, inclusive, and supportive ensemble dedicated to the creation and distribution of original performance pieces. We welcome ensemble members from all experiences and disciplines. We seek to create a strong community through our weekly performances. Each show will be unique and original. It will be written, developed, directed, and performed by a different weekly ensemble. The weekly shows consist of an assortment of newly written pieces that are devised and rehearsed over the course of a week. Like each show, each individual piece seeks to be a new and separate identity, to push the boundaries of our community by challenging the writers and performers to reach outside of their realm of experience and comfort zones in order to create something stunning. We attempt to be topical, original, and fantastical. We encourage and emphasize both exceptional performance and writing.

Model United Nations
Mission: The objective model of Model UN is to seek, through discussion, negotiation and debate, solutions to the various problems of the world: e.g. questions of human rights, protection of the environment, economic development, disarmament, the problems of youth and of refugees, as well as the more critical issues of war and peace. Delegates, in seeking solutions to these problems, can learn to break away from narrow, national self-interest and develop true international cooperation. The research and preparation required, the adoption of views and attitudes other than their own, the involvement and interaction with so many other students from around the world, all combine to provide a deep insight into the world's problems, to make students aware of the causes of conflict between nations and to lead them to a better understanding of the interests and motivations of others. Thus, MUN, through its conferences, attempts to fulfill the aims and goals set by founders of the United Nations in the Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations "to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good as neighbors."

Queer People of Color (QPOC)
Mission: Queer People of Color or QPOC’s mission is to serve students, faculty and staff of color who assume a queer or questioning sexual identity by creating a safe space for their intellectual thought. This is especially important on a campus and in a society where that thought has been given ** credence or validity as an entity of its own worthy of individual study. QPOC exists as a way to correct this and to reaffirm the legitimacy of its club body. QPOC proposes to be an inclusive group, allowing for open discussions among those of varying sexual, social, ethnic and gender identities. An ultimate focus, however, will remain anchored on issues of non-heteronormative **queer sexuality and gender that we often complicate by the perceptions and realities of racial identity. QPOC also proposes to be a sort of mobile group, with *** from the club **** of various SLC clubs. This, is an attempt to further engage the greater SLC community with its issues.

Queer Voice Coalition (QVC)
Mission: The Sarah Lawrence Queer Voice Coalition stands to provide a supportive, informed, and stimulating environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer, questioning and allied students. Through dissection, discussion, and action, we hope to create a harmonious and ebullient community on campus, to build student resources and knowledge, and to promote tolerance and acceptance beyond campus.

Reading Buddies
Email: ReadingBuddies@gm.slc.edu
Mission: Reading Buddies assists children with reading, mathematics, and homework at local elementary schools around the campus. Through a partnership with JCY-Westchester Community Partners’ after-school program, a dedicated group of students work one-on-one with a mentee each week, establishing a trusting friendship with the child while also immersing SLC students in the greater community.

Res Miranda
Mission: SLC’s only non-audition choir. All levels of experience and talent will always be welcome. Remember: If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.

Sadie Lou
Mission: Sadie Lou (http://sadielou.net) is a project of current students working with alumni to publish an Internet periodical. Publication occurs daily, excluding weekends, when content is available. This group represents the campus editorial staff, which is made up of current undergraduate students of Sarah Lawrence while the publishing process is overseen by alumni, chiefly Nevan Scott, the founder of the project.

Sandcastle Productions
Mission: Sandcastle Productions will produce musical theater with the intention of providing a constructive environment where we can learn. We aim to bring the community together to experience the joy of theater in a welcoming and entertaining manner.

Sarah Lawrence Activities Council(SLAC)
Email:SLAC@gm.slc.edu
Mission:SLAC is a student-run organization of volunteers who coordinate and plan a variety of weekly campus events including films, concerts, dances, and open mic nights. SLAC is comprised of two Co-Chairs, eight series, and general members. The Office of Student Activities serves as adviser to SLAC. Some SLAC events feature student performances, while other events feature outside musicians, speakers, or variety acts. The goal of SLAC is to host events that appeal to the interests of the student body. The SLAC members meet weekly to plan events and are always looking for feedback and new members.

Sarah Lawrence Christian Union
Mission: Christian Union seeks to provide an open community for Christians and those curious about Christian faith from all walks of life to share in their faith in an accepting and safe environment through group meetings and optional Sunday trips to church. We seek to provide a support system for spiritual growth through discussion and educational resources. We also work to serve the Sarah Lawrence community and surrounding areas as representations of Jesus by embodying love, compassion, generosity, and acceptance through service and community events.

Sarah Lawrence Debate Club
Email: DebateClub@gm.slc.edu
Mission: The SLC debate club’s objective is to showcase what Sarah Lawrence students do best: argue and persuade. We will compete with colleges across the East Coast developing out debating skills and leaning from the best teams in the country.

Sarah Lawrence Review
Mission: The Sarah Lawrence Review is the oldest running annual literary journal that provides an opportunity for writers and artists in the Sarah Lawrence College community to gain validation and exposure through publication in a high quality collection of works. We publish a wide range of literary and visual arts created by students, staff, faculty, and alumni. Our main objective is to showcase the exemplary talent of the Sarah Lawrence College writing community. We are entirely student run, and work hard throughout the year to solicit submissions for our magazine and to ultimately produce a tasteful and professional publication. Our staff, diverse in talent and committed to maintaining the standards of the Review, selects work in an unbiased and open-minded manner. We believe that the quality of the work in the Sarah Lawrence Review is comparable to any of the most widely circulated and respected literary magazines.

SLC Cheerleading Team
Email: CheerleadingTeam@gm.slc.edu
Mission: The Mission of the SLC Cheerleading team is to provide a competitive space for athletic expression and to serve in building a participatory community.

SLC Folk Club
Email: FolkClub@gm.slc.edu
Mission: The SLC Folk Club will support a community of folk music makers and lovers. We will arrange the yearly Folk Festival in Slonim Living Room, pairing well-known musicians and groups from around the country with student and area musicians. We will do our best to increase the presence of a warm, loving, and awesome music community on the Sarah Lawrence Campus, and also the presence of our famous baklava.

SLC Light Opera Society
Mission: The Sarah Lawrence Light Opera Society will explore and promote the genre of light or comic opera and operetta. Our primary focus will be one full production each year. We will also have an emphasis on education, holding workshops to develop the skills necessary for all aspects of such a production. We will offer all students the chance to be involved with our productions, whether onstage, in the pit orchestra, backstage, or in administration; we will also offer private and group instruction. Our goal is to bring light opera information, resources, training, and opportunity to any student, regardless of prior experience.

SLC Salsa Society
Email: SalsaSociety@gm.slc.edu
Mission: Ven a bailar amigos! As SLC’s brand-new Latin Dance club, come along and channel your inner Héctor Lavoe or Celia Cruz! Don't need a partner or previous dance experience. Just dress so you can groove and ladies bring heels for some spins! Hope to see you all there!

SLC Speaks
Email: SLCSpeaks@gm.slc.edu
Mission: SLC Speaks is a web-based, student-run publication that brings the voices of an individualized campus together. We reach out to every social group and student with interesting, thoughtful content and creative presentation. See our platform at slcspeaks.com.

SLC Stitch ‘n Bitch
Email: StitchnBitch@gm.slc.edu
Mission: SLC Stitch 'n Bitch aims to create a community of crafters on campus. We welcome crafters new and old to our club are more than willing to teach you how to knit!

SLC Street Readers
Email: SLCStreetReaders@gm.slc.edu
Mission: SLC Street Readers aims to draw from the diverse and talented pool of SLC poets to stage free, public readings in New York City. It is our hope to build community amongst SLC poets through bi-monthly workshops that aim to develop performance skills and material. We will then take these skills into the city to raise the visibility of SLC poets through readings in such public locations such as Union Square, NYC Parks, and NYC Subways.

SLC Vanguard
Email: SLCVanguard@gm.slc.edu
Mission: The Vanguard exists to provide representation for student non-fiction work and a forum through which the ideas of involved students can be openly discussed. Vangaurd is a space of collaboration and exposition for work philosophy, social science, and literary theory (though certainly not limited to these alone). Vanguard's ultimate object is, through events and publications, to stimulate interdisciplinary communication among students and professors throughout each semester.

Society of Ukulele Enthusiasts (SUE)
Email: SUE@gm.slc.edu
Mission: A society for ukulele enthusiasts, both those who are seasoned players and those who want to learn. We will meet weekly to learn to play a few new songs and, eventually, will perform around campus.

The Soundstage
Email: Soundstage@gm.slc.edu
Mission: The Soundstage is an outlet for the ambitious. Our productions challenge Sarah Lawrence's most passionate directors, performers, and designers, to think big and fully realize their creative visions. We tend towards works that highlight music or language-- which may as well be the same thing-- and aim to build campus community with each event. Through relationships with other student groups and recent alumni, we hope to be a source of constant opportunity for every SLC student. Our school is sometimes torn between pushing boundaries and honoring it’s history; If there's a way to balance innovation and tradition, The Soundstage will find it. We'll just play it by ear.  

Spoken Word Collective
Email: SpokenWordCollective@gm.slc.edu
Mission: Our mission is to introduce Sarah Lawrence to outstanding voices from NYC and the greater New England spoken word movement and to further the dialog between academic and slam poetry. We aim to create a safe space for students of all levels to share their works, receive feedback, and participate in workshops led by SLC professors and featured poets. We hope to broaden the traditional definition of poetry and to host and promote events devoted to strengthening the SLC writing community.

Terse Tales
Email: TerseTales@gm.slc.edu
Mission:   The aim of this society is to celebrate the work of superlative, dead writers through the recitation of their short fiction. Our goal is ultimately to immerse our members in the inds of those writers through a combination of tastefully animated story recitals, discussions about writers and their work, and, most crucial of all, food. Each meeting is devoted to a single writer. Writers under consideration for future meetings include, but are not limited to, Poe, Kipling, Chekov, Irving, Aesop, Anderson, the Brothers Grimm, Wilde, Mansfield, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Woolf, Dickens, Kafka, Lawrence, Tolstory, Dostoyevsky, and Nabokov.

Trans Action
Mission: Trans Action is SLC’s identity organization for trans students and their allies. We work to make the college a more trans friendly space and to provide trans students with a safe space to discuss their experiences. Most of all, we are here to provide all SLC people--students, staff, and faculty--with resources on gender and trans issues.

Treble in Paradise
Email: TrebleinParadise@gm.slc.edu
Mission: Our goal is to arrange a cappella music that is entertaining, technically challenging, and fun to perform! Our all-female group works together to choose an eclectic collection of music: everything from the Jackson 5 & Mariah Carey to Third Eye Blind & Destiny's Child. We are a passionate group of women who love music and to have a great time!

The Twenty Four Hour Theatrical Marathon
Email: 24HourTheatricalMarathon@gm.slc.edu
Mission: To perform 24 hours of uninterrupted staged readings of the plays of William Shakespeare.

Unidad
Mission: UNIDAD is a safe space for the Latino/a community at Sarah Lawrence and its allies to dialogue about identity and empower our communities through knowledge and support. We are a resource of unity, support, and solidarity to any students wanting to discuss issues relevant to the racialization and marginalization of our community on campus as well as in the United States more broadly. We strive to promote awareness and an ever deeper understanding of the language, images, and policies that impact and define us as a people. We celebrate the diversity of Latinas/os and our own intersecting identities, while remaining critical of the construction of race, class, ethnicity, language, sexuality, gender, orientation, and self-image within our own identities and the communities to which we belong.

Women of Color Affinity Group (WoCo)
Mission: WoCo is an organization for women of color and their allies, which seeks to celebrate and challenge identities such as gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, class, and other topics related to body image, education, our communities, etc. Our goal through these discussions is to raise individual and the multiple intersecting realities of woman-identified beings in hopes of collectively building new understandings of one's own oppression and privilege as well as that of others. Our mission is to use intentional womanist, feminist, and realist ideals in order to build ties among members of the group, SLC community, and larger outside networks.

Worker’s Appreciation Dinner Club
Email: WorkersAppreciationDinnerClub@gm.slc.edu
Mission: The Worker’s Appreciation Dinner is an annual even coordinated by students to celebrate the hard work and importance of the many workers on this campus. In the past years we have given out invitations to the following departments: AVI, Maintenance, Security, ABM, Bookstore, Post Office and Duplication. Each department is vital is making sure this campus functions properly. We cater the event to the workers and their families and friends, making sure that they have as enjoyable a time as possible. Previously, this event was sponsored by UNIDAD, Harambe, and other Common Ground organizations. However, this year we are truly trying to outreach to the greater SLC community, while still maintaining ties to Common Ground to encourage a greater participation in planning and Putting on This event. Ultimately we want to demonstrate our immense gratitude to the workers and their families by strengthening the bond between students and workers.