Call to Action Event

I received this email from my RA and friend who is the chairman for this event that will be hosted Friday, March 19^th at 6:30pm!

The Call to Action is a campus wide social justice based event that seeks to bring together Washington University students, faculty and community members to educate one another and spread the word about pressing issues of social justice.

There are two major components of this event and the first is a speaking competition in Graham Chapel for Washington University undergraduate students followed by a keynote speech from Bob Hansman! 

The students will be delivering speeches on various social justice topics of their choosing. The speeches will be judged by Risa Wrighton, Dr. Sharron Cannon and other notable faculty and community members. The winner of the competition will be granted the title “Orator of the Year” and will be granted in addition a $100 cash prize. I hope you will encourage your members to apply to compete in the speech competition or consider participating yourself! If you or any of your members are interested, I have attached the application to this e-mail, and they can send questions or applications to washucalltoaction@gmail.com and the sooner the better!

Here’s where Connect 4 comes in! 

A major component of the event will be a social justice fair that will take place in the Danforth University Center immediately after the speaking component of the event.  We are trying asking any groups interested in participating to choose any social justice issue, cause or charity that they find important and create a booth display to inform others about their issue, cause or charity and let them know how they too can get involved. This could mean creating a display board, handing out informative material, advertising upcoming events on campus relating to social justice etc. We encourage groups to be creative! If this sounds like something Connect 4 would be interested in, please respond to this e-mail and let us know and then we can tell you what the next steps are and how we can help you out!

You can also check out the event on Facebook!

(http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=287864635821&ref=mf)

I hope to see you there on March 19^th!

Thanks so much