Student Organizations

Diversity Leadership Council (DLC)

Meeting Time: Wednesdays 6 pm Location: Board Room

Building Bridges

Meeting Time: Wednesdays 9 pm Location: Board Room

Chinese Culture Culture (CCC)

The DLC supports student organizations that advocate for on-campus diversity through keeping a unified calendar of scheduled events, sharing resources and information, and sponsoring and co-sponsoring events with those organizations. The DLC communicates with a collective voice when it recognizes the need to preserve and protect the advocacy of on-campus diversity.

Building Bridges is a student-intiated, student-led diversity conference dedicated to addressing the pressing social and global issues of today. Building Bridges promotes mutual respect and understanding about diversity throughout the college campus and larger communities.

CCC increases the understanding of the Chinese culture between Chinese students and students from other countries to help disseminate the merits of the Chinese culture. CCC also assists Chinese students at Gustavus in various aspects of life and seeks to establish relations between Chinese students at Gustavus and those at other schools.

College Democrats

Meeting Time: Wednesdays 8 pm Location: Board Room

The College Democrats promotes political discussions and provides opportunities for Gustavus students to be involved in the political process and learn the core values of the Democratic Party. All are welcome, regardless of religion, sex, race, sexual orientation, physical ability, socio-economic status, ethnicity, or nationality.

Hmong American Cultural Outreach (HACO)

Meeting Time: Tuesdays 7:30 pm Location: Beck 101

The Radicals

Meeting Time: Thursdays 4:30 pm Location: Gustie Den

HACO promotes the unity, culture, and heritage of Hmong students and serves as a social network to help Hmong students acclimate to Gustavus. It also educates and shares with the campus community about the beauty of the Hmong’s history, culture, and heritage.

The International Cultures Club (ICC) brings international and American students together to promote international awareness and appreciation of different cultures. ICC organizes many cultural events that are open to the Gustavus community. ICC also provides members with opportunities to interact with members of cultural organizations at other schools.

Organization for Latin American and Spanish Cultures (OLAS)

Meeting Time: Wednesdays 8 pm Location: Linnear Lounge

Pan Afrikan Student Organization (PASO)

Meeting Time: Mondays 9 pm Location: Beck 111

OLAS strives to educate the campus and St. Peter communities and develop awareness of the history and language of Latin American and Spanish countries through activities and events in which an interchange of cultures will take place.

PASO foster amiable relationships between its members and the campus at large by promoting cultures of the African homeland Black Diaspora. PASO welcomes all non-African members while still holding true to the practice and belief of the unity of the Black hearts, the Black minds, the Black bodies and the Black souls.

Queers and Allies (Q&A)

Meeting Time:Wednesdays 9:15pm Location: WAC

The Womxn's Action Coalition

Meeting Time: Tuesdays 9:15 pm Location: WAC

Q&A is a student-led organization that fosters a supportive environment for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, questioning, and allied (GLBTA) students on campus by providing written materials, workshops, and panel discussions on GLBTA. Q&A also facilitates Safe Zone Training to provide a safe place for people to learn and ask questions about the GLTBA community. (For me, see website.)

WAC is dedicated to increasing community awareness of women's needs, contributions, and potential for growth and service. The center's underlying assumption is that the advancement of women will benefit all of society. The center is a designated safe place for womyn and men interested in womyn's issues to think, discuss, argue, laugh, and freely be themselves. It also serves as a resource center for feminist, reproductive rights, justice, queer, and various other issues.