Black Law Students Association: UW-Madison Chapter

Our first General Body Meeting will be held this Tuesday, 9/15 at 6:00pm in Room 2260. Food will be provided. All members, new, old, and yet to be named are welcome, so grab a friend and join us for some a good time with some great people.

Update on Police Panel: Today, Sunday, February 15th at the Union South, BLSA/LLSA/AASAS, as part of the “Being Black at UW-Madison Student Forum” (1-4 pm), will be facilitating a panel with local law enforcement. It will feature the Unconscious Bias Unit of the Madison Police Department.

The panel will be offered at two times (2:00-2:40 pm and 2:50-3:30 pm) in the Alumni Room at the Union South.

While BLSA/LLSA are only co-sponsoring the police panel, law school attendees are invited and encouraged to check out the rest of the forum, which will run from 1-4 pm.

We still need people from BLSA to help table in the atrium for the BLSA/LSRJ AIDS Fundraiser. If you are available this week from noon to 1pm during any of the remaining days (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday), please consider helping to raise funds for this worthy cause.

Follow this link to sign up for a shift:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EOSJRt5HhX5LQ3rqEeUPl3NyAj2SRMj73MvN062-WGI/edit

BLSA and LSRJ are selling condom-grams this week to benefit AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin - ARCW and celebrate Valentine's Day! They're $2 each, and will be on sale from Monday - Thursday this week in the Atrium during lunch.

Hello BLSA Members,

This February, the UW chapter of the Black Law Student Association will be sponsoring and cosponsoring a series of events in honor of Black History Month. We encourage you to attend as many as possible, and to invite your friends.

BLSA General Body meeting:
Thursday, February 5th, at 6pm in room 2211

BLSA/LSRJ Valentine's Day AIDS fundraiser"
February 9th-12th, from 12-1 in the Law School Atrium

Student interactions with law enforcement panel (as part of the "Being Black @ UW-Madison Student Forum"):
Sunday, February 15, 2015 at Union South.

2015 MWBLSA Regional Convention:
February 18th-22nd in Indianapolis, Indiana

Read Your Heart Out:
Friday, February 27, at Hawthorne Elementary School

There will be a few more programs added later .

Thanks and let me know if you have any questions.

Last semester, hundreds of students, faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison took action in response to racially charged events in Ferguson, Mo., Staten Island and elsewhere.

Catalyzed by these events, UW-Madison will explore how responses to national and international events fit with last semester’s organizing efforts and the university’s evolving Diversity Framework. Chancellor Rebecca Blank joins Lori Berquam, vice provost for student life and dean of students, and Patrick Sims, interim vice provost and chief diversity officer, to facilitate the conversation.

The core of this effort involves continuing dialogues for engagement. These dialogues begin on Tuesday, Jan. 20 at 3 p.m. in Union South’s Varsity Hall. All are welcome. Blank and Sims will offer opening remarks and encourage discussion along several themes. For those interested in going, Mike Hall is getting together a group of attendees to meet in the atrium and walk over to the event together around 2:30-2:35. You can email him at [email protected] for more details.

At each table, facilitators will introduce specific questions at an individual level and encourage a takeaway: What can each participant do today to improve the campus climate? Through these coordinated sessions, the university’s efforts will feed into the short and long-term implementation plans of the Diversity Framework.

“Great universities depend upon an open exchange of experiences and ideas,” says Chancellor Rebecca Blank. “We are most successful when each member of our campus community feels that their role in this exchange has value. I invite everyone to join us in these important discussions.”

All staff may attend without loss of pay. Individuals requesting accommodation or translation should contact Argyle Wade at 608-890-0341 or [email protected].

More information on this event, along with an updated listing of future events during the spring semester, may be found at a new website, http://voices.wisc.edu.

UW–Madison Voices: Campus Conversations about Race and Inclusivity A campus conversations about race, climate and inclusion

It is finals season, so no pressure. However, if you are free tomorrow around 5 pm, consider going and being a part of this demonstration. See the flier for more info.

students, Your peers requested we share this info. Many will gather tonight at 10PM at the Kohl Center. Please spread the word. All are welcome.

students, Your peers requested we share this info. Many will gather tonight at 10PM at the Kohl Center. Please spread the word. All are welcome.

This Thursday at 6pm in room 2211, UW BLSA will be hosing a special general body meeting in which we will be discussing street harassment, also know as “cat calling”. The discussion will be open to anyone who would like to express his or her, views on this topic. Food will be provided and here are few articles if you would like to learn more about this issue.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/06/04/new-study-suggests-street-harassment-is-widespread/?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/black-women-street-harassment-even-if-you-dont-like-it-youre-supposed-to-appear-that-you-do/375175/?single_page=true

New study suggests street harassment is widespread According to the study, 65 percent of women and 25 percent of men in the United States have experienced street harassment.

Hello, I hope your first two weeks of the semester are going well. The Black Law Student Association (BLSA) is having its first general body meeting this evening at 6pm in Room 2211. All students are invited to come and learn more about our organization.