Women's Aid Supply Drive, November 28 - December 9
The women of MacCurdy House collected personal needs items from the campus community to give the clients of Women's Aid Service, which helps local survivors of relationship violence and sexual assault. Several large boxes of items such as soap, shampoo, cosmetics, deodorant, toothpaste, perfume, lotion, & laundry items were collected. MacCurdy House also made a small cash donation to assist the program with any holiday needs.
Alma encourages its students to look beyond Michigan’s boundaries. The Posey Global Leadership Scholarship provides opportunities for Alma College students to travel anywhere in the world and complete a self-designed project. Alma students have completed projects on topics ranging from teaching to public policy, in places from the Philippines to South Africa.
Buddy Scarborough
Graduation: 2009
Major: Sociology
Minor: Women’s Studies
Prior to an “eye-opening freshman year,” Buddy Scarborough ’09 had never thought about the lived experiences of women. Once he started reading about the concepts of gender and social construction, however, he says he couldn’t get enough.
“The more I learned and understood, the more I wanted to be active in breaking down these constructs,” he says. “I broke down my own perceptions and actions and saw how the things I do on daily basis perpetuate or disintegrate restrictive constructions of gender.”
