Craft Studio:
The Craft Studio creates opportunities for MU students and community members to explore arts and crafts in a causal and recreational environment. Craft Studio classes are offered for a variety of skill levels ranging from the novice explorer to the seasoned craftsman. The Studio space is available for people of all abilities to explore art and engage in self-discovery. The Craft Studio maintains a Gallery to showcase the work of local artisans as well as providing new artists with their first exhibition opportunities. The ultimate goal of the Craft Studio is to help people overcome their fears about art and discover their inner creativity. The Craft Studio is a recreational art facility that includes a darkroom, pottery studio, and woodshop as well as tools for a variety of arts such as glass bead-making, leatherworking, metalworking, stained glass, sewing, painting, and drawing. The Studio is open to students and the public to work independently on art projects. Additionally, the Craft Studio offers short classes in a variety of media (check the schedule for a list of classes offered this semester). 882-2889

Rape Education:
The MU Rape Education Office is a comprehensive sexual assault education and resource service, which is an auxiliary of MSA/GPC in collaboration with the MU Women’s Center. Housed within 205 Brady Commons, this resource center is driven by the work of four dedicated student organizations: the Peer Rape Educators, the Greek Advocates, STAR (Stronger Together Against Rape), and MARS (Men Against Rape & Sexual Assault). The mission of the Rape Education office is three-fold: to increase awareness of the problem of sexual assault on our campus, in our community and in our society, to decrease the prevalence of rape and sexual assault on the MU campus and to serve as a resource for students, and to work towards social change by increasing support for victims/ survivors and by holding perpetrators accountable. The Rape Education office is staffed by students and graduate assistants who are available to provide information and support to survivors and their partners, families and friends. They provide referrals for counseling, medical and legal services. The various resources available in the Rape Education office: A book and video library, Informative brochures, Journal articles, Popular media articles, Packets of information for female and male survivors of sexual violence, friends and partners of survivors of sexual violence, and for students doing research in this area. They currently have a staff of over 30 undergraduate volunteers and two graduate students serving as co-coordinators of the office. 882-6638

Supportive Tigers Riding in Pursuit of Ensuring Safety (STRIPES):
STRIPES is a Mizzou service organization comprised of a community of students dedicated to having fun while increasing the safety of Columbia’s streets by providing free rides home for MU students. STRIPES operates every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night from 10 pm until 3 am while school is in session. It gives free rides home to any University student and will pick them up anywhere in the Columbia city limits, however, STRIPES will only take them home (they won’t take them to another bar or party). As far as organization of the program, STRIPES falls under the Department of Student Services (DSS) of the Missouri Students Association (MSA). The program is led by the Executive Director of STRIPES, an executive board, and team leaders. Each of the executive members is put in charge of one facet of the program such as our finances, publicity, or keeping records. The team leaders are in charge of making this an organization that is fun for everyone and as a way to get to know each other in more intimate groups. One of the greatest things about this program is that they are COMPLETELY student run - from the very beginning all of the work has been done by students. 442-9672
http://stripes.missouri.edu

Student Legal Services:
Student Legal Services provides free preventive legal education & legal consultation to MU students on the Columbia campus. Funded entirely through Student Activity fees, as allocated annually by the Missouri Students Association in cooperation with the Graduate and Professional Council, SLS is part of both the MSA and the University of Missouri Department of Student Life, Division of Student Affairs. SLS focuses on student learning, while providing legal service at all times consistent with the Rules of Professional Conduct of the Missouri Bar Association. Student Legal Services mission is to help students learn how to resolve any legal conflicts and disputes currently interfering with their goals, as well as how to apply this learning throughout their lives. Services provided include: free individual legal consultations, free trainings throughout campus regarding legal issues confronting college students, free conflict resolution trainings, a legal information center located in the reception area of A02 Brady Commons, and online legal information.
882-3621