American Sign Language Club

Co-Chair: Margaret Herland
Co-Chair: Jenna Karlsberg
Treasurer: Juliet Breslin-Romano

Description: 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 and culture, which is an important part of this world.

Annual Rocky Horror Productions

Chair: Jesse Gelles-Hurwitz

Description: This club’s sole purpose is to put on a shadowcast production of Rocky Horror close to Halloween in Reisinger. We hope to put a creative, fun and sexified show on!

Call and Response

Co-Chair: Emma Forrester
Co-Chair and Treasurer: Ashley Getting

Description: Call and Response is a trans-Atlantic literary magazine designed to facilitate communication between Sarah Lawrence College and Wadham College, Oxford. Issues serve a dual purpose- they provide an opportunity for students to share their work with the community without the restrictions of more selective publications while simultaneously creating a literary conversation between the two schools. We will produce 8 issues a year and hope to create enough interest in the community to sustain the publication.

Club di Cultura Italiana

Co-Chair: Naomi Melati Bishop
Co-Chair: Emily Hayward
Treasurer: Elanna Mariniello

Description: Club di Cultura Italiana aims at creating a community of student members within SLC interested in exploring the rich and fascinating Italian culture. Our meetings and events will encourage the Club members to partake in activities pertinent to Italian culture, including film, art, history, music, cooking, and language within the NY area. Members will be given the opportunity to learn and practice conversational Italian, and to expand their knowledge of and ignite their curiosity for the Italian culture. Examples of activities may include: Italian dinners, lectures and discussions on a variety of topics, Italian language tables, showings of Italian cinema, and theatre/musical performances. We welcome all voices of the SLC community to participate.

Cranked-Up!

Co-Chair: Michael Bothwel
Co-Chair and Treasurer: Dakota Russell

Description: The mission of Cranked-Up! is to foster a safe, active and supportive bicyclist community on campus. We believe that bicycle awareness/bike riding is a key element to alleviating serious environmental concerns and enlivening our communities, as well as providing any one who rides with a rewarding and beneficial exercise experience.

Dark Phrases

Co-Chair: Kyle Chu
Co-Chair and Treasurer: Alex Lust

Description: This publication strives to amplify the artistic voices of people with color within the Sarah Lawrence Community, including students, alumnae, faculty and staff. It comes out annually.

GORP (Group of Outdoor Ready People)

Co-Chair: Rachel Bergquist
Co-Chair: Eleanor Blair
Treasurer: Megan Roguschka

Description: The mission of GORP is to encourage an appreciation of the great outdoors by creating communal opportunity to explore nature beyond the Sarah Lawrence campus.

Hillel

Co-Chair: Jenn Shepard
Treasurer: Hannah Steinberg

Description: The mission of Hillel is to support the Jewish population at Sarah Lawrence. Hillel provides a wide range of programs and services that are both social and religious. According to the Hillel International Office, its mission is to “maximize the number of Jews doing Jewish with other Jews,” but we are open to everyone.

Improvalot

Co-Chair: Julia Dolittle
Co-Chair: Maggie Jenne
Treasurer: Lauren Shepard

Description: Improvalot is a group dedicated to reminding you all that you do not suck at improv! This is a come-one, come-all inclusive group with no audition required to join. Improvalot is where you can learn improv techniques, improv games, and generally useful acting skills. It is also where you can find arguably the most clever and attractive people on campus.

Kamikazes Anonymous

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

Description: To provide a fan-friendly space for appreciating Anime, manga, fanart, and fanfic.

Melancholy Players, The

Co-Chair: Nora Tillmanns
Co-Chair: K. Hannah Friedman
Treasurer: Daniella Caggiano

Description: Established in 2006, The Melancholy Players is the longest running student-produced, non-departmental theatre company on campus. We are a group of artists, producers, directors, performers, playwrights, technicians, and designers who hope to achieve a common goal of theatre dedicated to equality, community, and creativity. Our plays often highlight the poetics and lyricism of language, and are interested in the female experience. Our productions are both student written and published works, straight plays and musicals, classic and contemporary, all performed on campus in traditional and non-traditional theatre spaces. We adhere to a strict policy of inclusion and kindness.

Midnight Cabaret

Co-Chair: Liam O’Brian
Co-Chair: Shannon Lippert
Treasurer: Sarah Livant

Description: We are a student run theater company that boasts complete creative freedom in five days.

Model United Nations

Co-Chair: Serena Wuennenberg
Co-Chair and Treasurer: Zeynep Goksel

Description: The objective 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 motivation of others. Thus, MUN, through its conferences, attempts to fulfill the aims and goals set by the 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 neighbors.”

PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals)

Co-Chair: Will Gorin
Co-Chair and Treasurer: Bobby Phillips

Description: We like to eat. We like to eat meat. We intend on hosting BBQ grill-outs featuring exotic and other delicious animals cooked hot and ready for your digestive system.

Phoenix, The

Co-Chair: Danielle Tarasiuk
Co-Chair and Treasurer: Bobby Phillips

Description: The Phoenix seeks to continue our coverage of campus news and stories relevant to the SLC community. We also desire to expand our readership and exposure.

Porcelain Baby Burlesque

Co-Chair: Zac Hewitt
Co-Chair and Treasurer: Lauren Stern

Description: Celebrating the tradition and history of burlesque, as well as exploring the new neo-burlesque movement. We write, choreograph and produce our own show twice a year.

Queer Voice Coalition (QVC)

Co-Chair: Jacki Lacey
Co-Chair: Zac Hewitt
Treasurer: Alexis Gordon

Description: QVC strives to create a safe and active queer community at Sarah Lawrence, through partnership with other clubs we strive to raise awareness about issues within the queer community at large.

Res Miranda

Chair: Tony Assande
Treasurer: Christina Sweeney

Description: SLC’s only non-auditioned 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.

Sarah Lawrence Christian Union

Co-Chair: Lauren Schott
Co-Chair: Amy Scoville-Weaver

Description: 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 representatives of Jesus by embodying love, compassion, generosity and acceptance through service and community events.

SLC Annual, The

Co-Chair: Emily Hayward
Co-Chair: Willa Robertson
Treasurer: Elanna Mariniello

Description: The Sarah Lawrence Annual will be the senior yearbook for Sarah Lawrence College. The new, improved version of the Annual for 2010 will spot light the senior class and the campus, utilizing clean graphics, green materials, and a new marketing campaign. The hope of the 2010 Annual is to not only create a beautiful yearbook, but to create a template (both physical and organizational) that future students can adopt.

SLC Book Clubbers, The

Co-Chair: Mila Pinigin
Treasurer: Tunu Wa-Dutumi

Description: The SLC Book Clubbers hope to encourage reading for pleasure and to unite the campus through reading.

SLC Chess Club

Co-Chair: Tommy Burt
Co-Chair and Treasurer: Jordan Sjol

Description: The mission of the SLC Chess Club is to provide opportunities for the play and study of chess, to network a community of chess players and through outreach expand this community, and to promote excellence of sport and strategic thought on the Sarah Lawrence campus.

SLC Stitch N Bitch

Co-Chair: Alexis Gordon
Co-Chair: Alexandra Luppens

Description: SLC Stitch N Bitch aims to create a community of crafters on campus. We welcome crafters new and old to our club, and are more than willing to teach you how to knit!

Solidarity Club

Chair: Robert Winslow
Treasurer: Hannah Steinberg

Description: Solidarity Club is an ally group of the New York Solidarity Coalition of Katrina and Rita Survivors on the Sarah Lawrence campus. From our experiences in that role, the club’s mission has expanded to confronting those core issues of social justice, housing, workers’ rights and advocacy both immediately on the Sarah Lawrence campus and across our greater community. We work closely with other student groups as well in the spirit of collective and constructive action to organize around these and other issues that matter for this community.

TransAction

Co-Chair: Ian Riese
Co-Chair: Jacki Lacey
Treasurer: Rickey McGhee

Description: The mission of TransAction is to represent the interests and fight for the rights and needs of the transgender and gender non-conforming community on campus through informative and entertaining programming, activism, and providing a safe space to discuss issues of gender beyond binary.

TravelAid USA

Co-Chair: Ashlinn Romagnoli
Co-Chair: Mary McDonough
Treasurer: Olivia Taylor

Description: TravelAid USA’s mission is to provide a link between the Sarah Lawrence student body and the international charity organization, TravelAid. This organization is dedicated to providing students with a diverse range of interests, the opportunity to partake in a holistic volunteer experience—with student involvement in everything from planning and fundraising to working alongside local partner charities—in countries as diverse as Georgia, Kenya, and Nepal. We aim to rectify SLC’s lack of service-based programming by providing the first American branch of an already reputable organization that is proud to be run by students for students.

Visual Art Review

Editor: Alanna Martinez
Assistant Editor: Jack Rohman

Description: To showcase student art and the art community at Sarah Lawrence.

VFP (Voices for Palestine)

Co-Chair: Hadara Dhuvia
Co-Chair and Treasurer: Jamelah Zidan

Description: Given the integral role of the U.S. in the ongoing and escalating conflict between Israel and the occupied territories of Palestine and given the fact that the voices of the Palestinian people and those who support their freedom and human rights are both not heard and often sorely misrepresented, voices for Palestine will bring speakers and screen films that reveal sides of the conflict often ignored. The speakers and films will aid discussions and actions that help the justice process.

WoCo (Women of Color)

Co-Chair: Aja Mujinga Sherrard

Description: WoCo is a collective of self-identified women of color, gender non-conforming people and allies. In gathering, we seek to create a safe and supportive community in which to explore and deconstruct the facets of our identities (race, gender, sexuality and class) how they intersect, and how we understand them. We will meet on a regular basis to share and explore ideas through language, art, and conversation, to plan events, and to simply exist.