The university’s United Student Government (USG) unanimously elected to recognize its only human advocacy club, the Point Park Students for Justice in Palestine Club, after reading its proposed constitution and hearing from the club’s president on Monday.The club was recently founded and is currently presided by global cultural studies major and political science minor, Samey Lee, a local activist and Point Park junior.  She hopes that becoming a sanctioned club will attract student attention to the Middle East when her board begins its work.  “There has never been a Point Park club devoted to activism of any sort,” said Lee, outside Monday’s USG meeting.  “We’re brand new and we’re looking for anybody.”Lee is the perfect fit for president of a sustainable club. She joined the “99 percent” at Pittsburgh’s Occupy movement to involving herself with the labor rights movement for United Steelworkers now called Fight Back Pittsburgh.“This gives an outlet for the politically minded and for people who want to learn more about Palestine and are sincerely dedicated to providing means of solidarity and support,” Lee said.Some clubs that ask USG for monetary support seem to come and go, as they are seen as “temporary fixes.”  Lee’s will not become one such club.  All it can do is grow in size and power.Students for Justice in Palestine was originally founded by the University of California-Berkeley students in the early 2000s, helps students across the country broaden awareness of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict while contributing in the fight for peace.During the first two years of the Students for Justice in Palestine’s existence, such racism began heating up, as Student for Academic Freedom website recalled 32 on-campus anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli-related conflicts, some of which resulted in fighting. According to East Bay Express, in the year 2002, 79 Berkeley protestors were arrested in a scheduled day of remembrance marking two significant events:  Yom HaShoah, the Jewish Holocaust remembrance, and the Deir Yassin massacre of 1948, in which a Jewish militia killed 107 Palestinian villagers.Regardless of the past conflicts, Lee hopes no such negativity will intrude on her club.  “We want to create change within the university,” said Lee.“I think it’s important to note that a lot of it is to make students aware of their role in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, even though they feel so far removed from it, and even though our University supports Israeli Apartheid and Israeli business, in doing stuff like selling such things as hummus.”“[The club is going to stay,” Lee said. “The problems in Palestine have been going on for so long that it’s not going anywhere.”Right now, there is a University of Pittsburgh Justice for Palestine Club that Lee and her comrades hope to join hands with in due time.  “There are no plans [to travel to Palestine], yet,” Lee said. “My hope is to eventually plan a trip through the university.”Getting the nod from USG was the perfect start.Lee and her club will continue meeting at 4:00 p.m. in the Lawrence Hall commuter lounge on Wednesdays. “We’re going to need a lot more than 10 people,” Lee said.