{"id":6952,"date":"2017-09-18T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=6952"},"modified":"2017-09-18T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:50:00","slug":"cultural-4-12-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/cultural-4-12-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural 4-12-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MEETING START TIME: <\/strong>5:30pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>ATTENDANCE: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Committee: <\/strong>Chairwoman: St. Amand Vice-Chair: Cummiskey Senators: McWeeney, Watka, Creese<\/p>\n<p><strong>Absent:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-Committee<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\"><strong> Amand Cultural Presentation<\/strong> \u2013 Began with Barack Obama quote (for Lovely Lady Kraft J)\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Improve participation in events (ex: Ace of Cakes)<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Diversity Week = Ice Breaker Idea\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Diversity Week @ Fall 2017 \u2013 Plans need to be finalized by last week of April 17<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Tangle people up and people have to get out<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Fears on paper \u2013 placed in hat \u2013 then try to guess how someone tries to confront their fears (learning experience)<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Superpowers!!!<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Think of ideas!!!<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Topics:\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Privilege<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Bias (Racial)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Counseling Center\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">URI page could be more interactive\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Eye-catching<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Links to resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Increasing hours<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Find a helpline to partnership with<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Simplify the initial counseling process (decrease wait time for students)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Mental Health\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Tackle stigmas\/lack of awareness<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Mental Health not mentioned on the Counseling Center<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">How to increase awareness?\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Increase resources available to students<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Increase programming<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Domestic &amp; Sexual Violence\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Bring awareness to domestic and sexual violence on URI campus<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Educate student populous<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Programs:\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Step Up \u2013 bystander intervention program<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Live the Green Dot \u2013 reduce violence<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Hollaback<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Future Plans\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Mental Health Awareness Week\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">National Alliance on Mental Illness Presentations<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Mental Health Quiz<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Depression Screening<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Yoga<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Speakers<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Ted Talk \u2013 talking mental health on a college campus<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Raise money for Heather Fund \u2013 URI raises money for programs and services for prevention and treatment of depression and suicide\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Other ideas welcome!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Liaisons to different centers on campus<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Have presentations every month on tackling important topics<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Safe Zone Trained!<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">The Things We Carry Activity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">New Info\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Disappointment with Evan over study abroad (I\u2019m sorry! Love me again)<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Tuesday @ 6:00pm = New cultural time next semester<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Tuesday, April 18 @ 4-6 Room: 300 MU Reaccreditation for the University &#8211; COME PARTICIPATE!<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Dollar Tree Store \u2013 Rhody Paws purchasing spree<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Puppy Raisers haven\u2019t responded yet L<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Rhody Paws moving into the MU with Health Services instead of doing a Rain day plan.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Increase advocacy of events<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Someone go to Equity Council &#8211; @Kelly or McWeeney\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Thursday 10:00am<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 6:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEETING START TIME: 5:30pm ATTENDANCE: Committee: Chairwoman: St. Amand Vice-Chair: Cummiskey Senators: McWeeney, Watka, Creese Absent: Non-Committee: &nbsp; COMMITTEE DISCUSSION: \u00a0 Amand Cultural Presentation \u2013 Began with Barack Obama quote (for Lovely Lady Kraft J) Improve participation in events (ex: Ace of Cakes) Diversity Week = Ice Breaker Idea Diversity Week @ Fall 2017 \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[34,39,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-affairs","category-cultural-affairs-minutes-2017","category-minutes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}