Via Campus Reform:

Augustana College held an event on Monday to discuss cultural appropriation, asking them to “sign a pledge promising not to appropriate any culture.”

The Office of Student Inclusion and Diversity at the Illinois school held an event at The Gerber Center for Student Life titled, “There’s No Costume in Culture,” inviting students to raise their awareness of cultural appropriation on college campuses and its social consequences.

“The Office of Student Inclusion and Diversity invites students to a discussion about awareness of cultural appropriation on college campuses, and the social effects appropriation creates,” the event description reads. “Students will have the opportunity to sign a pledge promising not to appropriate any culture and may also buy a shirt from the office for $5 in the Brew.

The Office of Student Inclusion and Diversity Facebook page shared photos of posters for the event, defining culture appropriation as “the adoption of elements of a culture that is not their own.” It goes on to read, “It reduces a culture to a stereotype and removes the context that makes cultural elements meaningful.”