{"id":101,"date":"2011-01-29T13:20:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T18:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/undiscussed\/?p=101"},"modified":"2011-01-29T13:20:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T18:20:39","slug":"the-undiscussed-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/undiscussed\/2011\/01\/29\/the-undiscussed-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Undiscussed 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Life as a Bowdoin student is an unique experience.\u00a0 Each of us has diverse capabilities, interests, and backgrounds.\u00a0 Everyone plays an active role in creating a vibrant community &#8211; in and out of the classroom.\u00a0 But how often do we stop and think about our lives?\u00a0 How often do we have important conversations about difficult topics?\u00a0 The Undiscussed offers a challenge: participate in meaningful  discussions about your experiences at Bowdoin with a diverse group of  students and use them to create positive change.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Welcome to the Bowdoin Undiscussed Spring 2011! Our mission is to  provide students a space for discovery and reflection on their  individual attitudes about different aspects of identity  and then turn these thoughts into action. In other words, participants  and facilitators engage in personal discussions, identify problems, and  come up with ideas of how to address these issues at Bowdoin. Although  we present suggestions that come out of these groups to administrators,  this effort is completely student-run.<br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How it works: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Based on their schedule,  participants are placed into groups of 8 to 12 students led by two  impartial student facilitators. The groups meet for 1 1\/2 hour sessions  once a week for 5 weeks to discuss topics that typically go \u201cundiscussed.\u201d<strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>In the past, groups have discussed<strong> <\/strong>how socio-economic class, race, ethnicity, religion, substance-free housing preferences, sexuality, and other identities affect  our Bowdoin experiences. However, discussion is not enough. We ask each  group to get specific and generate an implementable action plan to  address specific problems at Bowdoin found in these conversations. The  steering committee and other interested students compile these findings,  present them to student leaders and administrators, and work in the  late spring and fall to make them happen.<\/p>\n<p><!-- @font-face {   font-family: \"Garamond\"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; }p { margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } -->This spring, we are tackling three related questions: <em>How do \u201cspaces\u201d shape our identity?\u00a0 How do the places we spend our time (or do not) shape the perceptions of others?\u00a0 What impact do \u201cspaces\u201d have on our individual Bowdoin experiences and those of others?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>How to get involved:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check back here the second week of classes for a link to sign up to  participate in a dialogue circle in 2011. Circles will meet the second  week of February through the second week of March.<\/p>\n<p>Explore this site or email us at <strong>theundiscussed@gmail.com<\/strong> to find out more!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2010-2011 Steering Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Will Cogswell \u201911<\/li>\n<li>John Cronopulus \u201911<\/li>\n<li>Chester Eng \u201911<\/li>\n<li>Liam Killion &#8217;11<\/li>\n<li>Chelsea Noble \u201912<\/li>\n<li>Nicole Woo &#8217;12<\/li>\n<li>Manuela Ekowo \u201913<\/li>\n<li>Tyler Silver \u201913<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life as a Bowdoin student is an unique experience.\u00a0 Each of us has diverse capabilities, interests, and backgrounds.\u00a0 Everyone plays an active role in creating a vibrant community &#8211; in and out of the classroom.\u00a0 But how often do we stop and think about our lives?\u00a0 How often do we have important conversations about difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/undiscussed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/undiscussed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/undiscussed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/undiscussed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/undiscussed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/undiscussed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/undiscussed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/undiscussed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/undiscussed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}