With the addition of the new sexual health club, the Gender Equality Club will combine with the Gay Straight Alliance.

This will become the Gender Sexuality Alliance, according to group adviser Kyle Sweeney. It will be meeting Tuesdays at 7:45 a.m.

“The GEC (Gender Equality Club)  started last year, and a lot of the people in it were seniors, so this year they had trouble getting started,” Sweeney said. “Because  GEC and GSA (Gay Straight Alliance) talk about similar topics, although gender and sexuality are different, they decided to merge.”

Sophomore Elise Bargman, who proposed the merger, said she suggested it to join their activism efforts.

“On Tuesdays when the GEC used to meet, the new SOAR club and sexual health club are meeting,” Bargman said. “I felt that in a club already struggling for members, we shouldn’t compete with other clubs.”

Senior Layna Crandell, who helped set up the GEC, said students can get involved simply by showing up.

“We are meeting at 7:45 or 8 a.m. depending on when students get to school, in Madame Sweeney’s room because she is the adviser for both,”  Crandell said. “If (students) are interested, they can just show up.”

Sophomore Willy Poulter said he thinks the merger was discussed enough, and he fears one club will consume the other.

“I feel it wasn’t a very inclusive decision,” Poulter said. “My fear is that one half of the club will be blocked out.”