Minutes 10/12

• Discussing funding of bringing S. Bergman to campus. Nobody has our account number apparently.
• Talking about wearing our Gay: Fine by Me Shirts to the Taylor Swift concert
• We have a new shipment of the shirt at OID
• Including smalls!
• We need to access OID over the weekend so people can pick them up?
• Send out a students-l email.
• What is the nature of activism?
• Would wearing our Gay: Fine by Me t-shirts be activism?
• Is it too passive to qualify?
• What is a clear example of activism?
• The Hey Hetero! campaign from 2 years ago, potentially?
• Got people thinking.
• Definitely provoked a response.
• In retrospect, considered somewhat successful, but could have gone better.
• Well-recieved by prospective students.
• Made some feel uncomfortable.
• Made a few feel threatened.
• Kevin McSwiggin: a friend had 500 posters of a renaissance statue in a bright, tight-fitting ski outfit.
• What are the goals of activism?
• Raising awareness
• Change opinions
• How does queer-friendliness relate to schools?
• The attitude of a school towards queer issues is not as well advertised as other aspects of a school.
• There are religious schools that require you to sign a contract saying you will not be gay.
• College brochures often do not advertise the level of acceptance of the school.
• Not in the Harvey Mudd brochures.
• Would we want it to be? Response seems in general to be yes.
• Do we want to talk to Admissions about this?
• Though some school guides have begun to do grade schools on acceptance.
• Compiled from student surveys.
• Darbi from Pitzer introduces herself
• is studying the lives of various queer people on the 5Cs
• Cameron talks about Inner Varsity
• Inner Varsity is organizing a group of people of different faith backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities
• goal is to discuss bible passages at Saturday at 1
• Discussing people's first impressions of Mudd
• Google's primary image of Mudd is of West
• People's first visits to campus were kind of underwhelming
• Miranda: "The dorms are like motels from 60's horror movies"
• Beginning of queer activism and queer community
• Chance explains the Stonewall riots