Spanish Tutoring Lab: Drop in help for Spanish 101-201
1st floor Library 2-4pm Fridays
What is the Spanish Tutoring Lab?
The Spanish Lab is a drop-in tutoring center designed to support the Spanish 101, 102, 103 and 201 courses at UMBC. Students are welcome to visit the lab anytime during operating hours and to stay as long they would like.
When? Fridays 2pm to 4pm
Where? First floor of the A.O.K. Library, behind the reference desk, in the Math and Science Tutoring Center space
Why? Students who go to tutoring tell us that they better understand course concepts and are able to apply new techniques they learn in tutoring later on their own.
Tutoring is an appointment you make with yourself to study and practice at least once a week.
In order to make the most of your tutoring session, prepare for it by bringing concepts and problems you want your tutor to work on with you.
All Learning Resources Center tutoring is free, provided by trained peers.
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Honoring stories/Consuming tragedy: Covering Take Back The Night as a photographer
Amelia Meman, ’15, is the program coordinator in the Women’s Center. She has worked in the Women’s Center as an intern, a student staff member, a volunteer, a part-time coordinator, and now as a full-time staff member. Throughout this tenure, Amelia has attended every Take Back the Night (and is looking forward to attending many more).
Among the fraught ethical tensions that anyone negotiates in their lives, there is one that the Women’s Center constantly must work through:
Are we honoring stories of trauma or are we passively consuming tragedy?
This is a conflict that comes up most often when we begin planning and setting up for our sexual violence-related events. We have to ask ourselves during Take Back the Night (TBTN): is this an event that is empowering for survivors and victims? Or is it spotlighting stories that are shocking and uncomfortable for an eager audience? Are we listeners observing moments of healing or are we spectators in awe of what trauma can be?
Now, we realize that we can’t control how participants are taking in the material we offer, but we can try like hell to build a context to our event that encourages folks to act as witnesses to a difficult and powerful process. Hence this blogpost.
Take Back the Night is an emotional and incredible event. As a staff member and an alumna, I have been to every TBTN since it was renewed in 2014, and every year, I am aware of the way the survivor speak out shifts the gravity in the room. I know there are tears and tense muscles and people holding one another–partially because I’ve been in that same position. I know that in the march that follows the speak out, I yell so so loud with this big chorus of powerful people and it is the closest I come to righteousness. The catharsis of shifting the emotional weight in my heart to my lungs and into the night air, it’s a feeling that you don’t soon forget.
That said, I’ve also been behind the camera for many of my TBTN’s and I know, as an artist, what lengths we can go to in order to get that shot that distills the moment as if the chant could echo through whatever gelatin or pixel displaying utility you’re using. Get that shot. Capture that moment. Frame it. Click. Shutter. Stop.
I get it.
But just as the Women’s Center frets about building a moment of witnessing rather than consumption, we must also ask our photographers and our artists to consider how they’re documenting this world.
As we get ready for another Take Back the Night, we meet and Jess is beleaguered: “Just please don’t be that guy running and hanging off of light posts with a camera in my face,” referring to the antics of some eager photojournalists who took the 2018 Take Back the Night march by storm. People with cameras ran in and out and through and about the march, and it led us as organizers to question whether or not this was the sort of event we wanted to organize.
Were we getting people together simply for the right Instagram grid?
Were those who were brave enough to tell their stories being minimized to the portrait of tears and traumatization?
Did these folks weaving and mending their way through the march even know what it was that brought us all together and why our voices were high with urgency?
Are we staging tragedy for people to consume? Are survivor stories a tragic movie montage–to feel things that we aren’t typically used to feeling?
There’s a responsibility here, as a narrator or a creator, to honor the folks whose stories we are trying to enliven. We teeter on that tension I spoke of earlier, between exploitation and empowerment. So as we move into another TBTN and another year of difficult publicly told truths, I hope that we can learn how to honor and respect the stories that are shared among us.
Some simple questions for all of the photographers out there, looking to document things like Take Back the Night and other important movements in our world:
Why are you taking pictures?
Where are you posting them?
If you had to write a caption, what would it say?
Who are you taking a picture of? Are they in a state you would want to be captured in?
Do you understand what this event is about and the goals?
How can you ensure that your creative work builds off of organizer goals?
Did you ask to take the picture? If you didn’t, should you?
Ultimately, this issue is one of exploitative objectification versus humanizing empowerment/embodiment. Viewing real human conflict, sadness, trauma does things to us. It might help us through our own shit. It might provoke a piece of ourselves we’ve never been in touch with. Either way, let’s make sure that in our reception, we are viewing, listening, etc. from a place of equal footing, rather than from the top down. Reach out, not down to the folks who have different experiences from you, and if you plan on taking their picture–hold up your mirror first.
This year, for Take Back the Night, the Women’s Center is assigning press passes to photographers. We hope this is a way to hold artists and journalists accountable to our mission, and create a firmer understanding of the context that brings us all together. If you’re interested in acquiring a press pass, email us at womenscenter@umbc.edu.
Further reading/viewing/listening:
7 with VII: Ethics in Photojournalism, Q&A with photojournalists Ron Haviv, Maciek Nabrdalik, Stefano De Luigi, Davide Monteleone, Ashley Gilbertson, Ed Kashi and Arthur Bondar
A Thousand Stakes: Photojournalism and Exploitation, Teresa Mathew
The Colonialism of Photojournalism, Clary Estes
Inspiration porn and the objectification of disability, Stella Young at TEDxSydney 2014
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Stipends for Unpaid Summer Internships & Service Positions
Apply by April 15
Do you plan to pursue an unpaid internship or service opportunity for Summer 2019? Whether you have already accepted an unpaid position or are in the process of obtaining one, you are eligible to apply for a competitive stipend award.
The UMBC Career Center and Shriver Center are proud to announce the Student Internship & Service Fund, thanks to the generous support of our alumni, campus and community members. The goal of this fund is to help you gain critical skills, explore potential careers, and create important connections in competitive, creative, and service-oriented fields providing unpaid internship and service opportunities.
Stipend Award Amounts:
$1,500 stipend for unpaid internships totaling 120 hours or more this summer
$750 stipend for unpaid service opportunities totaling 60 hours or more this summer
Eligibility Requirements:
- GPA of 2.5 or higher
- You must be a full-time undergraduate or graduate student who will return to UMBC in Fall 2019.
- If you have not already obtained an unpaid position for Summer 2019, you must secure a position by May 1, 2019.
HOW TO APPLY:
For best consideration, please submit your resume, unofficial transcript, and a brief statement of purpose in UMBCworks by Monday, April 15. The Job ID in UMBCworks is 9306955 or you can search "Student Internship & Service Fund."
Awardees will be notified by late April.
Questions? Please contact Kacie Lawrence, Associate Director of Internships & Employment, at
klawrence@umbc.edu.