Join us as we plan for the biggest USF Climate Event of the year! --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1977353

Thank you for your interest in participating in LEAD Day with USF SWS. The upcoming meeting offers both in-person and virtual options. We look forward to seeing you!Meeting Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NzI1YTU4NzQtYTIyNS00Y2FhLWFiOTYtYzdkODVjZGVkNzE3%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22741bf7de-e2e5-46df-8d67-82607df9deaa%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2251ce0018-2dd5-49e5-8801-79e6df786483%22%7d --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1976997

Presented by the Multicultural Programming Board, come learn from and engage with our Student and Faculty guest speakers about the culture dynamics and perspectives of black men and women. --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1977247

Join our first meeting of the semester discussing the fundamentals of muscle building! --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1976950

Student led Bible study. Open to all grades. --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1973866

We will be meeting weekly for 5 weeks on Tuesdays from 7:00pm-8:00pm to discuss The Joy Luck Club.. . There is no reading required for the first meeting.. . . . Reading schedule:. . Week 1: 1/28/2025 - Orientation meeting. . . . Week 2: 2/4/2025 - Discussion of Feathers from a Thousand Li Away (pg. 1-84 ). . . . Week 3: 2/11/2025 - Discussion of The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates (pg. 85-156). . . . Week 4: 2/18/2025 - Discussion of American Translation (pg. 157-235 ). . . . Week 5: 2/25/2025 - Discussion of Queen Mother of the Western Skies (pg. 236-329). . . . . . About the Book:. . Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.. . . . With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.. . . . “The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1972793