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Wright State University’s Student Involvement and Leadership office has nine new organizations hoping to become registered on campus.
Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance
Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance was active before the COVID-19 pandemic, and its leadership group is currently trying to activate the organization once again. Stephanie Buettner, a sophomore political science major, is the current president who decided to restart FMLA.
Mindful Magic
Kaylee Raines created Mindful Magic for individuals interested in all things metaphysical: tarot, witchcraft, paganism, astrology, the paranormal and more.
According to Raines, who is also the president of the club, the group creates a space where all religions and beliefs are welcome.
National Council of Teachers of English
Madison Risner, a junior early childhood education major, is the current president of the National Council of Teachers of English. Risner explained the purpose of the group.
“It’s more of a career-focused organization, instead of the social aspect. We focus on professional development,” Risner said.
The organization was active before the COVID-19 pandemic, but since then it became inactive. The unfreezing process started last year, according to Risner.
Visual Arts League
Student Trevor Montei, along with April Gullett, Paulo DeMarke and professors Jeremy Long and Tracy Longley-Cook, founded the Visual Arts League.
Montei mentioned that this organization aims to emulate an artist’s space for students to explore the arts in a judgment-free space.
Montei, as the organization’s president, believes that this is an important organization that is rooted in the arts.
WSU Baja
According to Michael Ashcraft, the current president, WSU Baja has been a program at Wright State since 2005 as a senior project that Dr. Craig Baudenistel started.
Students build what Ashcraft refers to as an “off-road dune buggy,” and then compete to see if the “car” is durable enough to make it through the whole race.
“And we, as the club, [are] trying to obviously become official and assist them to simulate more of a real-world environment for engineers where seniors will be the design engineers, and underclassmen will be the engineering technicians that are out in the field making what they say to their specs and seeing if it'll work,” Ashcraft said.
Disc Golf Club, Future Actuaries, Progressive Students Coalitionand Student Veteran Association are other organizations that are going through the registration process. These organizations were unreachable for comment.
