The Founding of the Mediterranean, European, and Middle Eastern Culture Club

Throughout my time in the college, and especially as I got involved with the Student Association in the Events & Recreation department, I wanted to create a club to represent Middle Eastern culture. I was then presented with an idea from a good friend of mine in the SA who wanted to start a European club, but without any misconceptions that may come from that. It was at that moment I had an idea: merge the two concepts together to make one large club that represents both of these regions. As I thought on a name, the Mediterranean came to mind too, and that’s how the MEME moniker came to be.

Then, nothing came of it. We had the name, and a rough concept, but nothing was being done about it. My friend was in a position where he wasn’t allowed to start a club due to conflict of interest rules. I personally did not have enough time to maintain a club, or at least I thought. So, it sat on the backburner.

However, in my last semester, enough aligned that I was ready to bring this idea back. I told my pal that I will be taking sole responsibility for getting it off the ground until his contract was over, so he could take over for his last year (as I won’t be around to keep it going anyway). And so, I began planning out the club: its purpose, its objectives, the personnel, the campaigns to raise awareness, and everything in between.