It’s never too early to start planning for school year events, which is why the Multicul tural Center has a list of events planned and ready for this year’s batch of students.
The Multicultural Center is home to a variety of student or ganizations and is primarily a programming office that works toward promoting multicultural awareness and education, said Winsome Chunnu-Brayda, as sociate director of the Multicul tural Center.
“Because we have to get con tracts signed and do the things that go into bigger speakers, we have to do that planning now,” Chunnu-Brayda said. “But throughout the course of the year, we have various social pro grams such as ice cream socials that happen all of the time.”
The center helps fund these numerous programs through the money it receives from the Office of the Executive Vice Pres ident and Provost and through collaborations with other or ganizations such as the Black Student Cultural Programming Board and the LGBT Center.
Regardless of the day, there is always something happen ing in the Multicultural Center, said Kent Harris, vice presi dent of the BSCPB and a junior studying interactive multime dia design and media and so cial change.
“We will continue to have our Heritage Month programs and plan to provide students with newer educational, cultural and social programs this year,” Har ris said.
Having the center as a home base allows for different organi zations to collaborate and plan events together, said Markita Briggs, vice president of the Ohio University Recruiting Society and a junior studying strategic communications.
“You don’t always get to do things with all of the organiza tions, so I’m excited to see which groups collaborate this year,” she said. “Seeing how everyone interacts and seeing what hap pens is what I look forward to the most.”
There is always something going on in the Multicultural Center, but one of the best parts about the center is that it pro vides a place to relax, Briggs said.
“It’s refreshing to go some place and see familiar faces and talk to members of different or ganizations to see who’s doing what,” she said. “You can form relationships to make your col lege experiences better.”
