The purpose of Student Organization for Sustainability (SOS) is to promote awareness in the campus community of the environmental problems affecting our campus as well as the environmental problems directly affected by our campus.

Through engagement with the campus community, SOS seeks to combat apathy towards environmental issues as well as promote lifestyle choices that decrease or reverse environmental degradation on our campus, in our region, our country, and our world.

SOS intends to engage and educate the campus community through a variety of activities, such as: organizing colloquia with students and faculty to discuss the environmental issues facing the campus community; organizing volunteer work outings to control invasive species on campus and in the wider community; holding recreational outings to facilitate a deeper understanding of environmental issues; staffing an informational booth to raise awareness of environmental problems on both the local and global scale.

The preamble to our constitution:

“The purpose of SOS is to promote awareness of environmental issues ranging from the local to the global scale and to take actions that might alleviate unsustainable activities.  Besides promoting awareness and organizing activities, we will also strive to educate and instruct the campus and greater community about what can be done to solve environmental problems.  Additionally, we will promote the sustainability of natural resources through appropriate means that affect and/or are affected by the campus, surrounding community, and global community.”