Common Threads

Common Threads is the oldest student organization on campus, beginning in 1992. It is a roundtable discussion group that explores prejudice and diversity issues. The group is open to all students and meets every Wednesday at noon in the Student Services Conference Room (bring your lunch).

In past years, Common Threads has cosponsored a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration on campus.

For more information, contact Chuck Egerton in the Photographic Technology department at 336-633-0283 or caegerton@randolph.edu.

The Purpose:

to find genuine unity in our diversity.
to find our common threads as one human race.
to focus on racial and cultural prejudice as our most challenging issue.
to learn what prejudice and racism are and how they have divided us.
to understand why this division causes pain, anger and frustration.to stop the separation.
to find out correct information and fill in the missing information about each other.
to make new and lasting friends.
to welcome and include people who are racially and culturally different.
to bring awareness that the responsibility for harmony, justice and understanding lies with both
the minority and the majority.
to create an environment where everyone feels safe to express their feelings and views.
to strengthen the diverse fabric of our college community through positive action.

The Agreements:

we agree to follow the guidelines for discussion (see handout).
we agree that participating in the discussion is voluntary.
we agree to practice active listening to one another.
we agree to be honest and frank in our comments.
we agree to avoid placing blame, provoking guilt and demanding confessions from one another.
we agree that sugarcoating, grandstanding and personal attacks will not be permitted.
we agree to make an individual commitment to actively assess our own conscious and unconscious behaviors that may exhibit prejudice or racism.
we agree to try to leave each discussion with a renewed hope for the unity of the human race .

How to form a club.
Guidelines for Organization & Clubs.

For more information about student activities at Randolph Community College,
e-mail RCC’s Coordinator of Student Activities,
or call 336-633-0200.