[/caption](Each Monday during the academic year, I feature a "Campus Highlight": a unique, interesting, and noteworthy student organization, program, or initiative that demonstrates the amazing things college students do each and every day across the country.)
Given that today is Halloween, I wanted to use this week's Campus Highlight to draw attention to a student organization that I mentioned in a blog last week and that has been receiving quite a bit of media coverage for their "We're a culture, not a costume" campaign.
Students Teaching Against Racism in Society (STARS) at Ohio University (Athens, OH) recently created a poster campaign that addresses the tradition of dressing up in a cultural "costume" for Halloween. As the posters so directly point out, for many people, these kinds of costumes "[are] not who I am and [are] not okay." All too often, these kinds of "costumes" reflect ignorance and stereotypes of the cultures and people behind them. You can see a few of the posters in my profile of STARS.
The campaign has received massive media attention, including the international media and even CNN. So congrats are definitely in order for an organization that not only created an effective awareness and education campaign, but also helped further discussion and dialogue about the very thing they are trying to combat in society. Well done, STARS!
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