Diversity Event

The event that I went to for my diversity event was "Relay for Life." At the event there was a great turn out and a lot of students were involved. Sign ups cost fifteen dollar and all the money was going to cancer charity. This rate off the bat reminded me of Kahne & Westheimer's article called "In the Service of What?" By paying the sign up charge, my money was going to charity and charity is one of the two broad ways of framing a service learning experience. Charity is more of a donation and giving to to the community or a certain group, in this case cancer research. The other service learning is by change. I felt that I also experience change at this event because we listened to speakers at the event, who told there stories and after wards we had some silent walks around the track to reflect on everything. They turned of the lights and lined up bags around the track and everyone walked around and placed a glow stick in the bags. On the bags were names of people who died from cancer and as we walked around the track silently we reflected and these experience had a deep impact on me.

This event i feel also related to Dennis Carlson because the event was diverse with people from different cultures and races involved, males and females, etc. It seemed to me that a lot of people were represented and included marginalized students to make them feel "normalized." For example, there was a live band playing and they were playing all different types of music including rock, some Bob Marley, dance music, ect. so everyone had enjoyment. Overall the diversity event i went to, "relay for life" had a deep impact on me and seemed like everyone had a lot of fun.