Oberlin students began organizing around multi-ethnic, multi-racial issues by forming the MULTI student group in the fall of 2004. In addition to supporting these student based efforts, the Multicultural Resource Center (MRC) has also focused on these issues and concerns through our programming. In both the fall of 2005 and 2006, the MRC sponsored a Bone Marrow-thon dedicated to registering people of color, especially mixed race persons, who are grossly under-represented in bone marrow registries. The MRC also sponsored a panel and open-mic night focused on multi-ethnic, multi-racial identities in the fall of 2005. These efforts continued in the spring of 2006 when the MRC supported students organizing Asian Pacific American Heritage Month around a student panel on bi-racial identity.

Bone Marrow-thon, fall 2005 and fall 2oo6

Multi-Ethnic Panel/Open Mic Night, fall 2005