WRT310

Karoline Karlsen
Zack De Piero
12/01/1014

Artifacts analysis, the MultiCultural Center

The multicultural center uses a homepage to promote the organization. They have a
mission page, where you get information about the history of the organization.
Students of color who went to UCS created a hospitable and safe place for their use in
1987. They intended to come together and the reason was to be realized in part
through educational programming, which would promote changes in attitudes and
behaviors throughout the campus community.
The multicultural Center was born after dialogues among students and allied facility
and staff.

Students of color joined with international students to share a space, so it would

increase communication among people of different cultures.
The mission was then broadened to include combating racism, sexism, and
heterosexism.

The same problem is happening today. In addition to continuing to provide a safe

space for students of color, international students, and gay, lesbian and bisexual
students, the MCC offers a broad spectrum of events including lectures, panel

discussions, films and videos, musical, dance, dramatic performances and poetry
reading. Which also are all open to the general public.

The MCC board is composed of students, staff, and facility.

They have great facilities, a Lounge, a Theater, a meeting room and a kitchen. It is
great pictures taking of each of the places, that is a way to hook the readers and it
looks professional. The pictures are in great quality.

They have pictures and facts about each of the staff members, something that makes it
more real and you can see the people that are working for the organization.

They have great directions to how to get to the center. With a map and also good
directions if you come from the north highway or the south.

They have two videos on their homepage where you can se different happenings at
the multicultural center. They use great music and good quality (again) in the video.
That gives us an idea what they do and how they do it.

You can donate money on the web page, the MCC has nicely wrote down everything
the MCC does for the campus and community in Santa Barbara:
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A safe place where the people feel supported, acknowledged, heard and seen.

Host special series, MCCs ongoing efforts to address racismincluding

institutional racismand to achieve racial equality.

Presents the Santa Barbara community with cutting-edge performers whose art
provokes conversation, debate, and action related to pressing social issue.

Educates the public and raises their awareness of constituencies- such as the
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities.

Supports casual artists through presentation of their socially informed work in

the MCCs gallery

Premium facilities.

Creates forums for the inclusive, respectful exchange of ideas that

characterizes discourse in a civil society such as ours.

At the MCC home you can see a great video where Otha Cole explains the mission of
the multicultural center. They are using pathos to get our emotional and make us feel
that they are doing great things.

They have other social media stud, like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. It is a great
way to promote the organization, cause thats where the young people get their
information from.

Their Facebook account is active, and they have 1300likes so that is great. They have
a lot of good pictures there to. At Instagram to, a lot of great pictures and it makes it
so much more human and real then the webpage. Smiling faces and real people, thats
when you see that this organization is real and people that is smiling and you see how
happy they are, its amazing.

They have a really messy webpage though, the front page is ugly and it really doesnt
look good. Thats a thing that could make you depth the organization, when
something looks unprofessional, it is easy to judge and think that the organization also
is unprofessional. At the same part, that the webpage look nice or ugly has nothing to
do with the organization and how they are doing their job.

What questions could be asked about each artifacts from a studying

writing/rhetorical perspective?

Come up with 2-3 specific, original questions per artifacts.

The reason for the organization? Their experiences.

Ask questions about: How a text is produced? Why? Who is the audience? Whats the
perspect? Who gets it? Why do they choose to make Facebook? Instagram? Twitter?