{"id":3567,"date":"2019-10-07T11:49:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T17:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2019-10-07T11:49:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T17:49:42","slug":"new-club-on-campus-latino-a-book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/?p=3567","title":{"rendered":"New Club on Campus: Latino\/a Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Written by Arius Gatson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/latinobookclub-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3569\" width=\"583\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption>Group of Concordia University Chicago students sitting in the Klinck Memorial Library at CUC for the Latino\/a Book Club on Thursday, October 3rd, 2019. (Photo Credit to Arius Gatson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Concordia University Chicago (CUC) is a place for learning, a place to create friends, and a place for students to get involved on campus. There are many clubs and activities on campus that students participate in. Whether it\u2019s CAB (Campus Activities Board), BSU (Black Student Union), The Spectator, LSU (Latino Student Union) or any other club, there is a wide variety of options students can pick and choose which clubs to join.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, a new club has opened up on campus, that club is,\nthe Latino\/a Book Club. This club represents the learning and logical thinking\nof Latino\/a culture through poems, short stories, and open discussions. The\nclub was started by Dr. Karen Cruz, who specializes in American Literature and\nis the Assistant Professor in the English department, and by CUC students, Diana\nRodriguez and Viviana Mendoza, who are both co-presidents of the club. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Co-president, Diana Rodriguez, mentioned, \u201cWe hope to gain\nmore representation for students of color from this club. It\u2019s important that\nthey feel that they\u2019re represented in a space like CUC. We want this book club\nto be a space where anyone is welcome to join in order to learn about different\ncultures and what they each have to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first meeting was held this past Thursday on October 3rd on the second level of Klinck Memorial Library. The club meets twice a semester, and the next meeting will be held on Friday, November 8th. If students, faculty, or staff have any questions, they can contact Diana Rodriguez at <a href=\"mailto:crf_rodrigdd@cuchicago.edu\">crf_rodrigdd@cuchicago.edu<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Arius Gatson Concordia University Chicago (CUC) is a place for learning, a place to create friends, and a place for students to get involved on campus. There are many clubs and activities on campus that students participate in. Whether it\u2019s CAB (Campus Activities Board), BSU (Black Student Union), The Spectator, LSU (Latino Student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":3568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[56,457,458,523],"class_list":["post-3567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concordia-news","category-life-culture","tag-arius-gatson","tag-latino-heritage-month","tag-latino-a-book-club","tag-new-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}