By Ashley Duncan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Diversity, Opportunity, and Togetherness (DOT) is a newly revised club this year on campus. DOT\u2019s purpose is to celebrate diversity, educate and advocate for all Morningside students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Diversity club used to exist at Morningside, but it died out and the founder handed it over to Camrie Miranda. With the help from Lukas Knudson, they revamped the club\u2019s logo and name, hoping to get more attraction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWith everything that has happened on campus recently, I think it is important to have a place for students to feel safe,\u201d said Camrie. Not only will they be discussing cultures on campus, but other less known cultures as well. The point of DOT is to educate about all diversities in religion, culture, gender, and so much more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lukas said, \u201cAs a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I think education is the most important aspect of prejudice. Education is the first step to decreasing prejudice.\u201d DOT will also be working with the faculties Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee on creating events for students. They currently have two Safe Zone Project workshops coming up at the end of September and the beginning of November.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DOT will also be working with the Spanish club for an event to celebrate Day of the Dead in November. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also in November, they plan to do events all week long from the 13th<\/sup>-19th<\/sup> for transgender awareness week, which leads up to transgender Remembrance Day on the 20th<\/sup>. During that week DOT plans to invite a transgender guest speaker and on Remembrance Day, they plan to have a candlelight guest speaker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Meetings for DOT will be every Monday at 4 pm in Pastor Andy\u2019s office on the lower level of the student center. Camrie and Lukas want to remind everybody that even though the meetings are held in a religious location, it does not mean people have to be affiliated with religion. \u201cIf you can\u2019t make the meetings, you can still make the events,\u201d said Lukas. They would love to see all kinds of students join and even bring in their own ideas for events or activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Ashley Duncan Diversity, Opportunity, and Togetherness (DOT) is a newly revised club this year on campus. DOT\u2019s purpose is to celebrate diversity, educate and advocate for all Morningside students. Diversity club used to exist at Morningside, but it died out and the founder handed it over to Camrie Miranda. With the help from Lukas…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":13487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13501,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions\/13501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}