The Department of Residential Life’s Social Justice and Service Committee will host an informational meeting today for students interested in participating in the interactive Tunnel of Oppression program on social awareness.
The Tunnel of Oppression is a program conducted at many universities across the country. Students participating will be led through a series of rooms, each of which depicts a form of oppression that affects students, said Rony Die, chairman of the ResLife Social Justice and Service Committee.
After the approximately 45-minute tour, students discuss how they reacted to what they saw with a 15-minute debriefing session.
Die will conduct the informational presentation in the Feliciana Room of the Student Union at 10:30 a.m. and ultimately organize the program.
Die urges students who volunteer to propose an idea for a room that represents something important to them. Commonly used topics include discrimination against minority groups, sensitivity toward individuals with disabilities and fair trade rights.
The program is tentatively scheduled to run Jan. 23 to 28, but may be moved back one week to accommodate the schedule of students returning from winter break, Die said.
Die, who works as the ResLife coordinator for Blake Hall, said he came to the University in March from Texas Christian University and was not involved in previous productions at LSU.
“Previous institutions that I have been at include the University of Florida, the University of Miami, TCU. All have done the Tunnel of Oppression in some way, shape or form,” Die said.
Interested students unable to attend the meeting can contact Die via e-mail at [email protected] for additional information on how to participate.
 
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