Posted on 03/10/2017 12:24:05 PM PST by jonascord
A new interactive art installation is opening the door for students to share their future dreams of diversity through “Nap-Ins” in Morris Library.
Student coordinator Marissa Amposta is facilitating four sleep sessions in March where students will be given the opportunity to nap for two hours in the rotunda during the library’s operating hours.
The sessions are meant to “internally generate student dreams of diversity,” said Amposta, a senior from Mundelein studying art.
“The nap-ins are part of the internal journey to diversity,” Amposta said. “All dreams start while sleeping.”
The nap-ins are part of the Dreaming Diversity Art Installation, which was established Monday. The exhibit consists of a 15-foot-long fabric scroll hanging directly in the middle of the library rotunda that has students’ dreams written on pieces of fabric and paper.
A labyrinth will also be set up in the rotunda surrounding the scroll to “help guide students to their dreams,” Amposta said.
“The maze is sort of a metaphor for the general path to diversity,” Amposta said. “It takes a while to reach, and it’s complicated.”
On March 31, the dreams pinned on the scroll will be discussed at a women’s panel in Guyon Auditorium held by the art and women, gender and sexuality studies departments.
“People forget we are still working for equality,” said Nicole Tabor, graduate assistant coordinator of the Women’s Resource Center. “It might never happen if we stop fighting.”
The art installation is part of the Women’s History Month events planned throughout March to highlight local women, Tabor said. There will be two other art displays throughout the month, which will honor female trailblazers in the business world.
What university is it?
Love to see what happens when they go to their first job and ask where the nap room is.
By ‘diversity’ they mean less white people.
I have a dream. I have a dream just like like Stanley Levison the communist handler of the Rev. Doctor Professor Martin Luther the King who wrote the I have a Dream speech. Only in my dream, there isn’t much diversity. Okay, there is no diversity whatsoever in my dream.
Did my freshman year there, before the Marines...
“People forget we are still working for equality,” said Nicole Tabor, graduate assistant coordinator of the Women’s Resource Center. “It might never happen if we stop fighting.”
The art installation is part of the Women’s History Month events planned throughout March to highlight local women, Tabor said. There will be two other art displays throughout the month, which will honor female trailblazers in the business world.
From the language at the end of the article, it appears that this pertains only to female (female-identifying?) students. But it never states that specifically anywhere in the article. So the "diversity" that they're talking about is all female-oriented, eh? That's ... how shall I put it ... quite diverse ...
Sleeping is about all these illiterates will ever do in the library.
On March 31, the dreams pinned on the scroll will be discussed at a women’s panel in Guyon Auditorium held by the art and women, gender and sexuality studies departments.
Diversity Without Men
Coming soon:
Diversity Without White People
This generation of college students is stark-raving mad.
Despite the media title of “Daily Egyptian”, this is Southern Illinois University.
Nap ins: Yawn...
Yeah, I remember having “nap time” when I was in kindergarten, too.
Maintenance needed in the library. Another student had a wet dream!
Seven Pillars of Wisdom?
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