upcoming events

STARS will be participating in the Athens International Street Fair. we will be selling different varieties of hotdogs from around the world

Discrimination/Racism Workshop (3/6/09)

We are giving a workshop Friday March 6, 2009 in the evening from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Brough Hall on South Green. It is hosted by South Green and they will be food provided.

We would love for anyone who is able, to join us, participate with us and give us constructive criticism.

Upcoming events/Community Service Opportunity

STARS members will be attending as a guests on Friday, March 6, 12p.m. - 2p.m. A program in McCracken Hall Room 309 about Racism and Education. The program shoudl have video/seminar

Saturday, March 7, Lunch and Community service with the STARS. We will be doing work at United Campus Ministries, cooking for the community. After we will go to Rio Grande's for a social! Meet at UCM, across from the Athens Police Department at 11 a.m.

email Don Jason with any questions: dj320306@ohio.edu

Community Service and Lunch-Social with the STARS!

March 7th we will have community service AND lunch with the STARS. We are working at United Campus Ministry in the morning and having a lunch social afterwards at RIO GRANDE!

Next STARS meeting

Next STARS meeting will be February 22, 2009 (Sunday) at 6 p.m. Pizza and juice provided! 

Students Teaching About Racism in Society

STARS will be having OUR FIRST MEETING OF THE QUARTER! Tomorrow Sunday Feb. 8th, 2009 in Baker 333 at 6 p.m. We need your input and ideas and programs we're coming up with.

STARS first meeting of the quarter!

STARS will meet Sunday, February 8th at 6 p.m. more information will be posted as it becomes available.

S.T.A.R.S. is back!

For those of you who do not know STARS (Student Teaching About Racism in Society) is a group that first discusses and educates themselves about racial discrimination and other forms of injustice and then comes up with strategies to engage the community in fighting these wrongs. The group is based on campus however is planning workshops at community venues in an effort to get the Athens community involved in the dialog. STARS also does community service projects.

We are restructuring our meeting schedule. Instead of meeting every week and having a community service project once a quarter we now want to meet twice a month and have a community service project once a month.

Who I am and how I got involved in Stars!

My name is Don Jason, and I am a junior journalism major at Ohio University. I decided to start this blog because I recently joined STARS at the beginning of this school year after seeing their display at the school involvement fair. I started going to meeting, which gave me a forum to discuss the topics that you all see in this blog. This was a relief for me, because before I would think about these topics, however, I really had no one who could relate to them, to talk about them with. The same quarter I joined STARS I took a class about online journalism, and one of the on-going projects for the class was to find a relevant story that could be told over-time or in blog format and follow that story as it developed over the course of the quarter. I chose STARS... I feel that this blog will not only work for my class project but it will allow me to act as a webmaster for STARS in the future. I plan to keep the blog up and running even after the quarter is over and hopefully I can give it to the organization to maintain once I graduate.