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Belated GSA Information

Wow, been a bit slack on getting information posted, huh? I have a good excuse though, I promise! I took on more hours this semester than I had last semester, so it makes my ability to frequently post decrease. Not to mention the fact that we’ve had quite a few events going on that have kept us all even busier.

I’ve lost quite a few of my notes from the first couple of meetings, so I have to dig through my own memory to report our activities since the spring semester started up.

Our first event was the Hypothetically Speaking Tour (Jan 31^st) with Julia Carroll and Corey Houlihan as the main performers. We had Starbucks pastries and coffee free of charge for our guests, and it was truly an amazing performance. To be honest, I’m not a big fan of Folk music or spoken word (which to me converts to softer rap), and I was blown away. I ended up buying both Corey and Julia’s CDs.

The next event we held wasn’t actually an event. It was actually a few of our members volunteering to run a camp for children. February 2^nd available GSA members went on their way to some place in South Carolina. Sorry, but I haven’t got the notes to know the exact place.

After that little trip, we had Mr. Bill Orberst return to FMU and give his presentation of The Biology of Sexual Orientation on February 7^th. That was, by far, one of the most interesting presentations I’ve been to. It was about sexual orientation being biological, obviously. J

Right before we went to see Bill’s presentation we had a small GSA meeting with a guest speaker. Laura Sims is the Director of the Performing Arts at Francis Marion, and is a part of the Performing Arts Center that is being built in downtown Florence. She came to us and wanted our opinions on what we wanted to be done with it. Those of us that found it interesting gave her our views, and if anyone else has any idea or opinions on the new Performing Arts Center that is being built, she encourages students to contact her:

Email: lsims@fmarion.edu

Phone: 843-661-1720.

In upcoming news:

March 3rd is the kick off for the Hope Health Aids Awareness week. We'll be having a forum in prevention and awareness on that Monday. Wednesday we'll be having testing from 9am-12pm; 1:30pm-4:00pm. It's a mouth swab, so no reason to be scared. Friday is the red ball. It will be a semi-formal ball.

We'll be having another event on Homophobia Awareness. More information on that when I get more.

GSA MEETINGS!

Meetings will resume this Thursday at 5pm. Every meeting will be Thursdays at 5pm now. Pay attention. The timing has moved up an hour! We'll see you there!

Meetings...

Welcome back to campus guys and gals!
There will not be a meeting this Thursday for GSA. Keep checking here and/or asking executive board members when the next meeting is.

Final Post of the Semester

After extensive exam studying and what not, I've finally decided that I should post the final GSA blog of this semester.

Our final meeting was more fun than official. I wont really mention the fun part, since it's obvious what fun is.

Our bill to the senate was approved for the money necessary for the concert we're holding on January 31st.

Also, one of our members had been working very hard on getting together the piece of the AIDS Quilt that we want to donate.

Sorry

Like the title says, sorry. I've been so busy and worn out I just haven't even had the energy to go through my notes and post what's been going on with the FMUGSA. Terribly sorry about that, but on the good side I only missed two weeks worth of meeting posting, instead of, well, more.
A quick thank you to all who turned out to the HIV Testing that we cosponsored with the ResLife peeps, we had a lot more people turn out for the free testing than expected, great work.
December 1 is World AIDS day.
Our friends at the center project will be hosting the AIDS Quilt at the beach.
Also there will be a Pee Dee AIDS walk bright and early that we would love to have volunteers for.

If you would like to help volunteer with the Adoption Agency's Day camp, applications are still available.

On another note, we would like to add a panel to the AIDS quilt. Joe did research on it. The panel can be anything that memorializes or brings awareness to the AIDS issue. We want to work on ideas for the quilt.

The next meeting will be November 29th.