Students - Student Organizations

Your involvement in these organizations can be recorded in your Co-Curricular Transcript at the following webpage http://www.stcloudstate.edu/csold/default.asp.  

Communication Studies Club

The Communication Studies Club is comprised of undergraduate students interested in Communication Studies who desire to work together in the areas of community service, professional networking and social support.  The club exists to encourage camaraderie and communication between students and faculty, to serve students in the pursuit of their educational and career goals and to provide a social outlet for Communication Studies majors and minors. Students meet weekly.

Contact one of the advisers or the main office for information about the club's meeting times.

Advisors:

Comm Club was awarded a SIFE/Target "Best On-Campus Community Service Project" for the Bone Marrow Drive. They were recognized at the Excellence in Leadership banquet April 25, 2007, and received $250.

Players Performance Group

Players Performance Group

The Players Performance Group is a co-curricular student organization dedicated to exploring social issues and diverse communication strategies through theatrical performance. No previous performance experience is necessary. We create performances through improvisation and group collaboration. Players does many on-campus performances and travels to national performance festivals to share their work with other universities.

Director:
Christopher Collins
308-2273
R 112B
cccollins@stcloudstate.edu

The Players Performance Group presented "What I am Teling You is 'Yes'" Wednesday, April 22, Thursday, April 23, 2009. This performance of original SCSU student writing charts difficult experiences in high school that are seldom discussed.  Through their own autobiographical writing, the performers depict experiences including depression, sexual orientation, isolation, and sexual assault.  The performers then offer strategies from their own lives for positive, hopeful, and supportive strategies for living.   The Group hosted the Spring Faculty Performance Hour Wednesday, April 29, 2009. St. Cloud State's Players Performance Group hosted the 3rd Annual Northern Plains Performance Studies Festival March 28 - 29, 2008. A list of events can be found by clicking on the title: "Immigrant Experience and the Geopolitics of Home".

      

Forensics Team 2008 - 2009

Forensics

Forensics is the competitive speech and debate team for SCSU. Forensics strives to create competition, competence, and camaraderie through in-class, one-on-one, and peer coaching.  Members of the program compete at regional and national tournaments throughout the year.  Forensics provides students with the opportunity to grow as a person, communicator and performer; the opportunity to strengthen research and organizational skills; the opportunity to experience literature and topics; and the opportunity to share performances in a variety of contexts.  The Speech & Debate program hosts two tournaments each year--The Icebox Classic Speech & Debate Invitational and the Winter Wrap-Up High School Speech Tournament --along with participating in various community/service projects.  

Director:                                                        Assistant Director:
Scott Wells                                                   Eric Short
308-3000                                                       308-5279
R 101                                                              R 213B
sdwells@stcloudstate.edu                        ejshort@stcloudstate.edu

The annual Icebox Classic Intercollegiate Speech and Debate Tournament will be held on February 5 - 6, 2010.  Dates for the annual High School Speech Camp will be July 20 - 24, 2010.  Dates have not been set for a High School Speech Workshop and Winter Wrap-Up High School Speech Tournament in 2010.


Click on the slideshow to see pictures from the Forensics team.  The Forensics team competed at Normandale Community College in Bloomington March 3, 2009.  They competed at Concordia College in Moorhead March 6 - 7, 2009.  The squad attended the Regional Tournament at Gustavus Adolphus College and the Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament at Louisiana State University - Shreveport March 19 - 21. Members attended the American Forensics Association National Individual Events Tournament hosted by the University of Akron (Ohio), April 4 - 6, 2009. 

Student Conflict Resolution Team

The Student Conflict Resolution Team (SCRT) is a group of volunteer student peer mediators who provide free mediation and conflict coaching services to SCSU students and groups.  The team also serves as a resource for those looking for assistance with conflict and/or communication skills.

Advisors:   Jeff Ringer                                Collette Rubel
                   308-5540                                    308-2903
                   R 204A                                         R 216B
                   ringer@stcloudstate.edu         csrubel@stcloudstate.edu

For more information on the Student Conflict Resolution Team check out their website, http://secureapp.netclubmgr.com/ICS/CM/V2/Student/Club.aspx?uid=STCLSU&ClubId=7022.  You can also contact them at (320) 308-3009, AMC 127, or e-mail scrt@stcloudstate.edu.

Lambda Pi Eta

Lambda Pi Eta (LPE) is the honorary society of the National Communication Association (NCA). The organization's title symbolizes the three ingredients of persuasion identified by Aristotle: Lambda = logos, or logic; Pi = pathos, or emotions; and Eta = ethos, or credibility and ethics.

The SCSU Lambda Pi Eta Chapter seeks to foster and reward outstanding scholastic achievement and to stimulate interest in the study of communication.   Membership Opportunity for students is available in the spring.

You need to have a 3.0 GPA overall with a 3.25 GPA in the Communication Studies major. You must have 60 credits minimum completed and 12 credits completed in CMST to qualify.

Advisor: 
                                                  
Renee Strom
308-1291
R G12B
restrom@stcloudstate.edu