On Feb. 1, California State University, Stanislaus, (Stan State), held a Club & Organization Fair for the Spring semester. Old and new clubs gathered in the quad to showcase their members, philanthropy and share what they do with the campus.
One new club, the Electronic Music Club (EMC), served as the live DJ for the event.
“Our club basically produces and helps teach electronic music,” the president of EMC, Aaron Maddocks (junior, Communications), said.
One member from EMC held up a cardboard sign that read, “Lit…EMC. Support local music please!!!” while another member DJ’ed in the booth as the rest of the members danced and bobbed their heads behind him.
“Our meetings are from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the library music lab every Monday. We offer assistance in electronic music, synthesizers, drum machines,” Maddocks said.
“We also have jam sessions once a month at our studio. Even if you don’t know how to make electronic music, just share your music that you love listening to.”
Adjacent to the DJ booth lay a queue of club tables painted in a myriad of colors. At a red table with a silhouette of Africa, Black Power fists and lettering that spells out “BLACK STUDENT UNION” in black paint, sat the president of the Black Student Union (BSU), Mi’Shaye Venerable (sophomore, Social Science), and her members.
“I’ve been in BSU throughout my whole entire life,” Ngozi Chibuko (sophomore, Pre-Nursing) said. “It’s multicultural. We talk about the problems that happen in the African American community. We talk about how to improve equality in society.”
“If you join BSU, you must be dedicated. You must have that encouragement or that motivation to really create equality. Really believe it because that’s what BSU tries to promote,” Chibuko said.
“We educate you on African American culture and we tell you what we want to do to create equality amongst us and other people, especially with who our president is and all the Muslim stuff that’s going on. People are already coming together.”
Some club representatives were roaming among the crowds of curious students. Terrence Battle (senior, Psychology) shared some information about the Penumbra club, for which he serves as vice president.
“Penumbra is a club specifically for bringing the writers of CSU Stan together, and we also do a book through a class. We have a reading for it at the end of the (academic) year,” Battle said.
“People can be involved by definitely contacting the president (Amy Machado) or the actual Penumbra email. Finding people with interest in writing is difficult.”
One can find more information on all of the university’s clubs and organizations on campus at StanSync, Stan State’s new student web portal. One may also contact Josh Edrington, Stan State’s student organization advisor, by going to the Student Leadership and Development office or sending him an email.