Election & Upcoming Event

Election meeting is this Thursday, April 28 at 7:30 in Bengal’s Lair (Memorial Union). Learn about the positions and maybe run!

Also, join us for the Global Sounds Music Festival:

Experience today’s club music from around the world with the Global Sounds Music Festival! Sponsored by MSA/GPC’s Department of Student Activities, this minimal-waste festival is free on April 30 from 1:00 – 11:00 p.m. and in Peace Park.

Keep updated with the latest news, updates and announcements at http://globalsounds.missouri.edu and tell everyone  to check out and RSVP to the Facebook event at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=147588021973803&ref=ts!]

What’s up?

All kinds of cool stuff happening around campus!!

First off, we met last Thursday and planned for One Day Without Shoes. If you offered to do something or have a brilliant idea or connection, please e-mail Kelsey (kem9vf)!!

Our next meeting is on March 10 at 7:30.

Our Invisible Children friends are screening their new documentary on March 17 at 7 in Neff Hall auditorium. Check it out!! Also, look out for their bake sales around campus.

This is Africa Week 2011. Here’s the schedule.

African Students Association present:
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Africa Week 2011
Monday February 28-Saturday March 5
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Monday, February 28 “Mama Africa: The Essence of the African Queen”
(Invitation only)

Tuesday, March 1 “African Spoken Words” ft Nigerian poet, Bassey Ikpi
Bengal Lair (Memorial Union) 7-9pm

Wednesday, March 2 “Self-Determination: The Development of Africa on Food Security and Water Scarcity.” Forum Panel
Stotler Lounge 7-9pm

Thursday, March 3 “African Kings: Our dedication to the African Man”
(Invitation only)

Friday, March 4 “I wear Africa” African fashion show
Mark Twain Ballroom (Memorial Union) 7-9pm

Saturday, March 5 The African Gala Extravaganza: Celebrating Empowerment in the African community
Alumni Center Doors open at 6:30pm, African After party at 9pm with music by DJ Jayo!
Tickets for the gala are $15 for students and $20 for non-students and they can be student charged at the box office!

Join the TOMS Network

Our TOMS Liaison, Kelsey got an exciting call from TOMS headquarters, and they want to feature us as the Campus Club of the week on the new Campus Clubs network! The network is basically a TOMS facebook. It’s a great resource for us to see what other clubs are doing, and a great way to send out information, get ideas, etc.

We’d LOVE if everyone would sign up!

Just go to http://www.tomscampusclubs.com/

Click on the “Find Your Campus.” Find Missouri. Scroll down to University of Missouri and sign up! Make sure you have joined as a member of University of Missouri. You might have to join the network first and then also join our campus.

This will better show off our club when we’re featured as Club of the Week. Also if you have pictures, please add them! (You can add them to our Facebook page too!)

Also, be sure to scope out other campus’s sites and get ideas for our upcoming semester.

When you sign up, e-mail Kelsey at kem9vf@mail.mizzou.edu. If we can get more than 20 people to sign up, she will enter everyone who signed up into a raffle for a $20 starbucks giftcard.

Look for an e-mail and a post in the next week about our first meeting. Good luck on your first week of classes and stay warm!

Tags: campus club, join

Happy Holidays!

Have a great break! We’ll send out an e-mail, tweets and a blog post when we restart our bi-weekly meetings in January. Meanwhile, checkout the holiday specials at toms.com. If you are looking for the perfect gift or something responsible to add to your Christmas list, check out our “Gifts that Give” tab for our favorite businesses that give back!

If you haven’t picked up your t-shirt yet, stop by our office space on Tuesday between 12pm and 1:30pm. If this time doesn’t work for you, e-mail Shannon at tomsmizzou@gmail.com.

Here are some of the ideas for next semester we brainstormed at our last meeting:

Concert/karaoke night

Filmfest

Another Style Your Sole and t-shirt tie-dye

One Day without Shoes

Craft Studio Meeting

Here’s a cool opportunity for our club! It’s called MyEdu.

MyEdu is donating $1 to One for One for every student that joins using One for One’s special link. We can recruit anyone- so spread the word because we only have until 12/15/2010!

We can use the proceeds for our benefit concert in the spring!

Sign up here:
http://www.myedu.com/free/oneforone

Meeting this Thursday (12-2)

See you in Memorial Union South S110 at 7:30!! Last meeting before break:)

Support our STAND friends tonight

Ragtag Screening tonight!!

Tonight STAND (Mizzou’s anti-genocide collation) is  screening The Devil Came on Horseback at Ragtag from 3 – 5 pm.  It’s totally FREE but donations are always accepted & the donations go to the Genocide Intervention & STAND Mizzou.  Also – little known fact: Uprise Bakery serves half off pastries after 2 pm every day…so perfect timing! (Click on Ragtag Screening for more event details)

Gifts that give back!

We’re contributing to a “Sustainable Gift Giving Guide” this fall/winter with some other social justice-focused organizations. We’re going to add TOMS Shoes, seekos and falling whistles for sure. If you know of any other cool sites or places with socially responsible practices, please comment on this post!