Newly elected student leaders across campus are organizing many cultural events for Spring term in an attempt to serve their membership and reach out to the entire campus.
LaWanda Johnson '97, the newly elected president of Native Americans at Dartmouth, said NAD's main focus for this term is the 24th annual Mother's Day weekend Pow-Wow.
"We also want to create more interaction with other organizations on campus through different social events and have a greater outreach to the community," Johnson said.
Alex Zhou '98, recently elected president of the International Students Association, said she plans to introduce different cultures to the Dartmouth community by organizing group outings and panels on individual countries and international organizations.
"I am also exploring the possibility of an annual international day or fair type of event on the Green in parallel to the annual Pow-Wow," Zhou said, "but that may not be this term."
She said she also hopes to make the international community closer as a group.
Uriel Barrera-Vasquez '98, the new president of La Alianza Latina, said the organization is "trying to diversify itself with more cultural and social programming as opposed to its political role in the past."
"We were successful in securing a Latino advisor for the Latino Studies program at Dartmouth last term," he said. "We are working to establish a Latino resource center to complement the spiritual support that La Alianza currently offers with a physical plant for Latino students."
"We have great plans," Barrera-Vasquez said. "We are 100 percent committed to Colors. I'm sure more things will come out of that."
Colors is a student organization composed of the presidents and vice presidents of the seven minority student organizations.
Priscilla Cham '98, the new president of the Dartmouth Asian Organization, said she has many events planned for this term.
DAO is reaching out to welcome the Asian and international prospective students.
"We have been helping out with the admissions office in receiving the 2000's," Cham said. The international students will be coming from different areas and we want to let them know that there is a support group here for them.
Cham said she is also organizing a faculty tea to foster student-faculty relations.
She is also trying to work with other organizations on campus to make the formal, usually attended by DAO and KASA, a bigger event.
"The big event of KASA for spring term is always the Korean Culture Night," said Frank Aum '97, the newly elected president of the Korean American Students Association. The event is scheduled for May 11.
Members of the Afro-American society elected Tiffany West '97 to be their new president, according to former President John Barros '96. West could not be reached for comment.
Ruchie Kaul '99 was elected president of Milan, the South Asian students organization. Kaul could not be reached for comment.
