University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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STUDENT ACTIVITIES OFFICE The Student Activities Office handles the business aspects of ail the RSO groups through a staff of trained professionals who can help a group plan concerts, conference, movies, speakers, ana other activities. 28

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DISTINGUISHED VISITOR ' S PROGRAM The Distinguished Visitors Program is a student-run, student-financed organization that brings writers, politi- cal figures, artists, and other guest lecturers to campus. Past speakers have included Dick Gregory, Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, Angela Davis, George McGovern, Red Sox stars Bill Lee and Carl Yastrezmski, Abbie Hoffman, and many others. DVP members coordinate all aspects of program pro- duction - contacting speakers, generating campus public- ity, working security, and providing hospitality. In addi- tion, we accept and review proposals for speakers from other student groups and individuals. Membership in DVP is earned by attending three con- secutive weekly meetings, and not missing more than three subsequent meetings in a semester. Members of DVP vote on outside proposals, generate and carry out their own programs,and assume responsibility keeping all DVP operations running smoothly. 27

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NEWMAN CLUB HILLEL The Newman Club is a group of interested students and community members of the Catholic Church on campus. Its goal is to help make University life more personal and meaningful to the individual student. Each semester the club promotes activities in three areas — social, spiritual, and service. It sponsers spa- ghetti dinners, cookouts, dances, intramural teams, Bi- ble studies, camping retreats, and guest speakers. The only prerequisite for the club is the desire for fun and self-satisfaction through the sharing of ideas, values, and talents. Hillel is an organization serving the full spectrum of the Jewish community as well as the general communi- ty on campus in a number of ways: socially, through parties, coffeehouses, and picnics; educationally, through one-credit colloquia and the Hillel library; cul- turally, through frequent films, speakers, Israeli danc- ing, singing, drama groups, and the annual Jewish Arts Festival; religiuosly, through Shabbat and holiday cele- brations and study groups; and geopolitically, through travel, study, and political information on Israel. 29