Student Activities
Student Advisory Committee
The Center’s Student Advisory Committee (SAC) is comprised of about twenty individual students who advise the Center’s director and associate director on programs for the year. Additionally, members help with conferences, contribute to the Center’s newsletter and blog, and initiate events and projects that fit with the Center’s mission. Students must apply to be considered for the committee. Applications can be found at the Center or by emailing the Center’s administrative assistant, Norine Zapata, nzapata@cmc.edu.
Claremont Speakers’ Bureau
The Claremont Speakers' Bureau, an extension of the Center's Student Advisory Committee, is a student-run group founded in 2006 to raise awareness about the crisis in Darfur. Members of the Bureau visit high school classrooms in the area to teach students about the genocide and encourage them to take action against it. For more information contact Lauren Smith, lsmith08@cmc.edu.
 Students Against Genocide
With the support of the Holocaust Center, Students Against Genocide was created in the fall of 2004 to raise awareness about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur, a western region of Sudan. Led by a committee of students at CMC, Students Against Genocide produced an extensive research report on the genocide in Darfur titled “From Kigali to Khartoum: Genocide in Western Sudan.” The paper, which explores the similarities between the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and that in Darfur, is available here on the SAG website. SAG also distributed fliers on campus and to student groups at other colleges. In January of 2005, the group traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with policymakers and experts regarding the situation in Sudan. The group met with more than 20 Congressional offices, with Jerry Fowler, director of the Committee on Conscience, and with Charles Snyder, the senior expert on Sudan at the State Department. In cooperation with other student groups at the Claremont Colleges, SAG facilitated the sales of thousands of “Stop Genocide in Sudan” t-shirts to students and activists around the world. The shirts, designed by CMC student Keara Duggan, are available online. SAG is supported by CMC’s Holocaust Center and its Student Advisory Committee. For more information, visit Students Against Genocide.
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Road Trip for Sudan Planned
Student Groups Focus on Darfur Crisis
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