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RSO Highlights: FLC Comedy club and AISES

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Author: Bodine, James/Wednesday, February 1, 2017/Categories: Home, Campus

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As a way of chronicling the student experience at Fort Lewis College The Independent will be running a series of articles spotlighting the Registered Student Organizations on Campus. The RSOs chosen for each article are randomly generated and featured in the order they were chosen.

FLC Comedy Club

The Fort Lewis Comedy Club is an RSO  on campus that is open to anyone who wants to laugh and have fun, president Elliot Weber said.

They attend as many comedy events in the  Four Corners region as possible, including open mics throughout Durango, the Durango Comedy Showcase, and the Laugh Therapy Comedy Showcase, Weber said.

The club does not have set meeting times, but they attend open mics around Durango.

“We would like to be more involved with the school” Cameron Rudd, comedy club vice-president, said. Rudd encourages anyone who is interested, to join the club and audition for the talent show on campus.

They will be attending the Snowdown Jokedown this Wednesday, Feb. 1 at 8:30 P.M. at Derailed.


AISES - The American Indian Science and Engineering Society

AISES is a club on campus that focuses on helping Native Americans and their communities,  Krista Glock, the club president said.

The club is open to anyone who wants to be apart of a group that tries to help the embetterment of the Native American population, Glock said.

You don’t need to be a science or engineering major to join the club, even though they are in the title, Glock said.

The club meets every Thursday from 1:00-1:30 P.M. in Jones 146.

The club is involved in two main conferences each semester.

Every fall semester a few students are sent to attend the AISES national conference. Students are able to network with businesses within their field of study, Glock said.

In the spring semesters, high schoolers from Native American communities are brought to campus, and given a tour of the science centers at Fort Lewis, said Glock.

Fort Lewis was granted part of a $94 Million funding project from the National Science Foundation that will make it easier for minority students to participate in research projects and better prepare students for their career after completing an undergraduate degree.

“What this club is about, is the embetterment of a population that is unfortunately not very represented,” Glock said.

 
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