One small, post-communist island south of the border has permanently altered many study abroad students’ perspectives this past summer. Cuba in Transition, a program offered for class credit, took 20 students from IU Southeast and Spring Hill College, along with three faculty members, on a three-week venture to an island whose culture is not well known in the U.S. “The focus of the trip was to look at changes being made in Cuba,” Clifford Staten, professor of political science, said.

The Youth for Socialist Action held its first introductory and educational forum at IU Southeast in University Center North, room 122. Its purpose is to inform, educate and find students who are interested in their cause to join and build the IUS chapter. YSA is a youth affiliate of Socialist Action, which is a Trotskyist political party that advocates Leon Trotsky’s theory of Marxism. For now, the YSA is a study group. However, Christian Litsey, English sophomore and one of the founding members of YSA, said their main focus is to educate people on the theories of Marxism with the hope to come together and form a cohesive disciplined youth organization that can help lead the working class revolution.