DRC opens its doors with ribbon cutting

The Diversity Resource Center is hosting its official ribbon-cutting ceremony at noon  Wednesday in the Student Union.

Several guests will be speaking, including the school’s new president, Debra Derr, and a councilwoman from the City of Gresham. Once the ribbon has been cut, visitors may go inside the new Diversity Resource Center to look at the wall tapestries.

Various MHCC organizations will be sponsoring hours after the ribbon cutting.

There will also be two presentations held today and Thursday, coordinated by ASG and the DRC and sponsored by Oregon Humanities,

From noon to 1:30 p.m. today, there will be a presentation that will feature Courtney Campbell from Oregon State University discussing “Grave Matters: Life and Death Across Cultures.”

The presentation Thursday, “White Out? The Future of Racial Diversity in Oregon,” will feature Emily Drew from Willamette University. It will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the DRC.

Drew’s talk will address “assumptions of where we are in terms of racial diversity in Oregon,” and the larger picture of how Oregon is serving different ethnicities.

For both presentations, the first 25 guests will receive a free boxed lunch.

Melinda Bullen, coordinator of the DRC, said the college hopes to put on about 10 of these talks throughout the course of the year, while aiming to provide opportunity for insight, ways of thinking.”

For more information on these and upcoming events, please visit the DRC’s facebook page, at www.facebook.com/mthoodDRC.