[Imc-newsroom] Re: [Imc-info] [sila-bod] Co-sponsorship draft 2

[Sascha Meinrath]

Hi Lauren,

Thank you for contacting the IMC.  Our steering group meets every Sunday
and I will add your endorsement proposal to our agenda.  If you would like
to come to our meeting to answer questions or present information about
SILA and its current organizing, I encourage you to attend; we meet Sunday
at Noon at the IMC (218 W. Main St. in downtown Urbana).

In addition, SILA should utilize many of the resources available through
the IMC including: an open publishing website (which currently receives
over ten thousand visitors weekly -- www.ucimc.org), a collectively-run
monthly newspaper (contact: print at ucimc.org for more information), and a
weekly radio program (contact imc-newsroom at ucimc.org for info).

All of these groups are open to all, and would be more than happy to work
with you.

In solidarity,

--Sascha Meinrath
Co-Director
Urbana-Champaign IMC

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, lhurd wrote:

> Dear Independent Media Center,
>
>     I am writing to you with an exciting opportunity for the IMC to
> network and receive free publicity. Students Improving the Lives of Animals
> (SILA) has created a Student Choice Proposal which would allow students with
> religious and ethical oppositions to dissection the opportunity to use
> non-animal alternatives, and we need your organization's support!
>
>  SILA, with the help of Environmental Resources and Students for Environmental
> Concerns, is currently collaborating with the Illinois Student Government on
> this issue, and we are working for a resolution that the student body could
> vote on (See proposal http://www.uiuc.edu/ro/sila/dissection.proposal.html)
>
>   A Student-Choice Policy would not attempt to end dissection at the U of I,
> but would instead affirm the right of students to conscientiously object to
> dissection and complete a non-animal project which studies show meet and often
> exceed educational objectives. This follows the U of I Code of Policies and
> Regulations<http://www.uiuc.edu/admin_manual/code/rule_1.html> that prevents
> students from being discriminated against due to their religious beliefs.
>
>  Please check the following below that apply and e-mail me (Lauren)
> at lhurd at uiuc.edu by September 20th:
> ***********************************************************************
> ___ Yes, My organization supports the Student Choice Proposal for students
> with religious objections to dissection,
>
> ___ We want our organization to be advertised on your flyers for this
> campaign.
>
> ___ We want our organization to be announced at all ISG and Student Senate
>     meetings that discuss this proposal,
>
> ___ We want to be advertised on the SILA website for this campaign.
>
> *****************************************************************************
>
> Thank you!
> Lauren Hurd