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Wall of Reflection Project Purpose
The CSUN Wall of Reflection is intended to serve as a means of helping to foster a sense of community safety and unity within the campus community during this time of national crisis. The endeavor is, therefore, one of peace and healing. The project needs student, faculty, and staff volunteers to receive, review, position, monitor, and record works of art, prose, and poetry which are to be placed on public display around the construction site fence in front of the Oviatt Library, next to Sierra Hall. The digitally recorded Reflections will be uploaded daily to this website for public viewing.
2. Monitors will serve in teams of
two, assisting in positioning and affixing the Reflections on the appropriate
area of the fence. Monitors will conduct hourly inspection sweeps
of the Reflections from 9 AM until 5 PM, Monday through Friday. Periodically,
monitors will digitally photograph the Wall of Reflection.
Before volunteering, please read the General
Publishing Guidelines; by volunteering, you agree to adhere to the Guidelines.
To volunteer for the position of monitor, please print the Volunteer
Form. Complete all sections of the form and bring it in person
to the Student Health Center, second floor ...
3.)
Official Entry: To submit a Reflection of your own, please
bring a paper sketch of your intended work to the Student Health Center,
second floor ...
Conference Room 238
10 AM -- 3 PM
Monday through Friday.
Please read the General
Publishing Guidelines Entry Form (click
here).
Thank you for your interest
in the CSUN Wall of Reflection. The idea seems to be generally accepted
by everyone as a way to express feelings and thoughts of mourning and support
regarding the incidents of September 11, 2001. It is also generally
acknowledged that there truly is a need for all interested individuals
to be able to do something in order to appropriately express what is
in their hearts and on their minds … an activity that facilitates the
healing process to move forward to healthy resolution. What is
lacking, however, is a suitable means of expression and a place to do it.
Thus, we propose a public place in our community, where thoughts and feelings
can be expressed – a Wall of Reflection.
Our vision of the forum is
a place central in the university. The vision includes the opportunity
to see the Reflections grow ... a place accessible to our entire community,
for students, faculty, and staff to come together and collectively, yet
individually, express ourselves to each other and the world. We feel
the ideal symbol and location are synonymous -- the screened fence surrounding
the new landscaping for our central quadrangle in front of the Oviatt Library.
Further, we feel that cloth would be the perfect medium upon which to project
and convey our reflections.
Cloth is a soft material,
unlike wood, stone, or metal. Cloth can be sewn together to make
a garment that provides utility and decoration. Cloth can be sewn
together to produce a signal such as a flag – a symbol that might as well
be magic for the power it has, for it is very powerful. Cloth, when
painted on, has the power to affect human beings to the depths of our souls
– a place untouchable by time and decay. And for those of us that
are not painters in the artistic sense, we still have words to utter.
Words, as well as pictures, may be painted on cloth quite well ... or embroidered,
knit, inked, or printed. In short, cloth is very amenable to the
creative process of expression. It always has been before … and the
same is still true today.
When the landscaping is complete,
when the garden is restored, when the souls have healed ... the fence will
be taken down so that new paths, unobstructed and unconcealed, may be walked
under the same sun … but in the light of a new day, in a place more beautiful
than before.
We submit this letter to you, our
sisters, brothers, and neighbors, for your personal walls of reflection.
In this endeavor of peace and healing … please help us find a way
to enable each person in our community to publicly, and appropriately,
express their feelings and thoughts. Please lend your voice in support
of the CSUN Wall of Reflection.
Respectfully,
Karren Baird-Olson, Ph.D.
American Indian Studies Program and
Department of Sociology
Saba Borghei
Psychology Senior
CSUN
Susan R. Cohen, MPH
Assistant Director, Health Promotion
Klotz Student Health Center
Mary Ann Cummins Prager, Ed.D.
Coordinator, Students with Disabilities Resources
Center on Disabilities
California State University, Northridge
Jimmie Flanagin
General/Experimental Psychology Graduate Student
CSUN
Kim Goldberg-Roth
Psychology Senior
CSUN
Sheila K. Grant, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Chair, Faculty Senate Educational Equity Committee
Shannon Harp, Ph. D.
Department of Psychology
CSUN
Gary S. Katz
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
CSUN
Luciana Lagana`, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Christopher Lamb
Psychology Graduate Student
Diane Madjid
Reader Services Coordinator, SDR
Julie Nguyen
Senior, Psychology & Child Development
CSUN
Glenn Omatsu
Coordinator, Faculty Mentor Program, EOP (Educational
Opportunity
Program) & Asian American Studies
Jill L. Quilici, Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, CSU, Northridge
Joshua Rabinowitz
Assistant Professor
CSUN Department of Psychology
Mark T. Sakata
Assistive Technology Specialist
Students with Disability Resources
Vivian Tseng, Assistant Professor
CSUN Psychology Department
David Wexler
Graduate student, Dept. of Education
Michele Wittig
Professor of Psychology
CSUN
Jennifer C. Zvi, Ph. D.
Learning Disabilities Specialist
Todd M. Gross, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Psychology Dept., CSUN
Director, Human Factors, Medtronic MiniMed
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