Students for Justice
Moderator: Mrs. Norma Dacrema

Student for Justice tackle issues of equity from distribution of natural resources to economic and political fairness worldwide. Projects on the slate for this year include: recycling on campus, Habitat for Humanity, Catholic Relief, and letter writing for Amnesty International.

Click here to download the brochure on Animal Testing.

Get more information from the PowerPoint presentation on Animal Testing.

To mark Earth Day 2007, members of Students for Justice and the Environmental Club participated in an all-night sleepout event to explore environmental issues, enjoy films about the issue, and plant a new tree on campus. The night’s events included a prayer service, a little bird-watching, a garden-party picnic of vegetarian cuisine, some tree-climbing, and screenings of environmental classics, such as An Inconvenient Truth and March of the Penguins. Chaperones were the English Department’s Mrs. Clare Ziff, S4J moderator Mrs. Norma DaCrema and Environmental Club moderator, who led participants in the 7 AM planting of a new dogwood tree outside Cuvilly Hall. Students who attended the sleepout included S4J officers Kate Rovinski, Cathy Blithe, Randi Scott and Danielle Collins, along with Liz and Sarah Furman, Leigh Ann West, Mary Kate Holman, Lisa Ulmer and Julia Tully. Read the press release.

During lunch shifts this week, S4J will be offering chances for NDA students to learn about pressing environmental issues (like threats to seals, polars bears, and wolves), as well as to write U.S. representatives and senators about three bills in discussion: The Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act (S. 309), the Safe Climate Act (H.R. 1590) and The Fuel Economy Reform Act (H.R. 1506).