Eye-Opening Week

posted by: Joshabel
topic: WOW! This past week felt like it was the longest week ever! I had two midterms in one day! I'm so glad that midterms are over, but this also means that I have to work harder to get great grades! I needed a break so I went home this weekend, and it was a well deserved break! Today, I got to present myself as a possible candidate for the Community Standards Board at Senate and I got in!! The Community Standards Board holds disciplinary hearings for students. There are two students and an administrator present to hear your case and everyone has an equal say in the process. The fact that students are allowed to be in this process is extremely important to me and it allows us to have input in what the outcome should be for our fellow peers. We have to be openminded and listen to everything that people have to say. We should do this because we should base our decisions on what they are presenting to us not our previous notions of the person. Another important thing that happened this week is that I saw two unbelievably eye-opening movies: INVISIBLE CHILDREN and An Inconvenient Truth. These powerful movies both have totally different points. Invisible Children is about children in Uganda that are abducted and turned into soldiers at the age of 5. An Inconvenient Truth speaks of the Global Warming Crisis! it is amazing how the world isn't taking action. I'm going to take responsibility for my emotions and say that it is amazing that I did not educate myself about this up until now! It only took three college students to make the Invisible Children movie, to make a difference in the world and it only took one person to challenge us to stand up and take a stand up against the Global Warming Crisis. They've already started and that's always the hardest part of a movement, now what are you going to do about it?

JOSHII
"Be the change you want to see in the world."-Mohatma Gandhi

My busy Weekend

posted by: Kathleen
topic: This weekend was really busy! But it was the fun kind of busy. On Friday
night I went to Bronc Bingo! It's so much fun there, especially when you are sitting at a table full of friends, who cheer for you when you win, or get close to winning. There were some awesome prizes too! There must have been at least 20 Target gift cards, and top prize was a portable DVD player. I really liked a lot of the prizes, but sadly, I didn't win anything. But it was so much fun; another free/fun event at Rider!

Sunday was Open House! I'm also a tour guide on campus, so that day was my day. I gave tours to a lot of families, and I have so much fun doing it- I meet so many new people. And the food's pretty good... But I always have fun on Open House, because my job is a fun job. If I look like I'm having fun, then so is everyone else. It's the best kind of job out there.

On Tuesday I went to a dodgeball game! Rider has an intramural program, and my fiancee is in Tau Kappa Epsilon, aka TKE, which I am also lettered too. I went to the game to cheer them on, and it was crazy! It seemed like so much fun to play, the game went so fast! I didn't realize how many rules dodgeball had! But it was cool to be almost like a TKE cheerleader.

Another busy week has begun at Rider, but most often its fun, so I can't wait!

~Katie

Updates...

posted by: Nicole
topic: It's been a while…

Hey everybody! It has been a while since I last did a blog so I have some great stuff to talk about!

Last time I blogged I told you about my club planning Midnight MAACness. Well, it was a huge success! We have gotten a lot of great feed back from students and faculty saying it was the best one ever! So thanks to everyone for coming! I also told you that I was going to see the guy that played Roger in RENT… he was AWESOME! And he is really cute in person haha. Also, last week I had a bunch of midterms!! I was dreading them because I heard that college midterms are soooo hard! So, I studied really hard and I am happy to say they were pretty easy! I learned a very valuable lesson that if you study what the teacher tells you, then you will do great! Well, this past weekend I made up, what I hope will be, my schedule for next semester. I met with my advisor and he said I am green lighted but I still cannot register until November. I just hope I get the classes that I really want! Oh, and on Tuesday I went to celebrate Halloween with little kids. The Catholic Ministry on campus took a trip over to Millhill. The little kids were so excited to see us and they loved the candy! Well I guess that is about it… talk to you soon.

Great Opportunity

posted by: Kathleen
topic: This weekend I went with a few of my sorority sisters to see my real little sister at her high school homecoming football game, because she got senior class princess on the homecoming court! She had a little section of screaming alpha xi deltas holding signs. I loved that I was able to bring my friends back to where I grew up.

Most importantly, I recently got a great opportunity, that I finally have pictures for! While I was studying abroad in London last semester, my advisor sent me an email about a scholarship from the American Women in Radio and Television. She wrote that I should try for the scholarship because it represents exactly what I want to do with my career. So while I was in London, I had my fiancee gathering my transcript request forms, and other papers like faculty reccomendations, to send them out as soon as possible, because if I mailed them from London, my application would have been late. But the best part, obviously, was that I won the scholarship!
I went to CBC Studios to receive the check and attend an event around me and a speaker, a co-anchor of the CBS Early Show. It was really exciting! I "networked" and met all different kinds of people from places like ABC, Lifetime, CBC and NBC. But most of all, I also get a shadowing opportunity where I get to hang out with people like Charlie Gibson from the ABC News! And this week, I am going to the Yale Club of New York, a female "gentlemen's club" where I will attend a luncheon with the big wigs in the media about reality television. I have all the awesome opportunities to get started in the career I want to have! I can't even tell you how happy I am that my advisor sent me the email.

Also, this past Tuesday, the News at Rider taped a special show that we are going to enter in college broadcasting competitions. The best thing about it, (besides me of course!) is that one of the students got an interview with former president Bill Clinton. Hopefully, we get some kind of cool recognition for it.

So look out for me on TV sometime, I may be telling you the news!

~Katie

Midterms!!!!

posted by: Joshabel
topic: Hey guys,
I had the LONGEST week, no make that two days of my life! I just had two major exams and two papers due in two days! I was dying from all the stress that I had on me, ha I got a nosebleed at lunch from all of this! But, in the end everything was okay because everything worked out and guess what? I didn't die! Midterms are not over and I still have two papers due by the end of this week, but, I'm trying really hard to put myself first instead of everything else that's on my mind. P.S. I gave my first tour last Friday and it was amazing! I'm so excited and I hope that the people I gave the tour to come cause they seem like great prospects for the future students at Rider!.. Well I guess my saying of the week would have to be, Everything will work itself out and when you think you've hit rock bottom the only way you can go is up, RIGHT?

joshii!

Bid Day

posted by: Kathleen
topic: This weekend was a huge weekend for Greek Life. It was bid day! It's the
day that our new members get their bids, an invitation to join our chapter. The new members run onto the student center balcony, and we scream and cheer for them. We make giant balloon arches for the front of our house, and we tie balloons to our jeans. It's such a fun day! We chant our songs on the way to the student center. Then after we meet our new girls at the balcony, we round up with our special chant, and we take them back to our house for a dance party. We get pizza and get our new girls presents. This year we made them picture frames with their names on them. It's always a fun holiday whether you are a new member or a sister. I did have to work that day, so I got back around 1am. But there was still stuff going on! There was music playing from all the chapter houses. I was excited that I was able to go to the balcony, and was still able to experience some of the excitement after I got out of work.

Another thing that I am super psyched about is that I got lettered by my fiancee's fraternity! It's a big deal to be lettered, to wear someone's else's letters other than your own. So I had a candlelight, a special ceremony. Then my sisters and I rounded up, and as a tradition, was thrown in our campus lake. It was a nice swim! Joking aside, I am really excited.

Can't wait for another awesome Greek holiday to wear my new Tau Kappa
Epsilon letters!

Unity Day

posted by: Joshabel
topic: Hey guys, I'm so exhausted from this VERY long week. I'm on the committee for Unity Day and after plenty of work it finally happened. We had the most dynamic and amazing speaker, Irshad Manji, come and speak to us about her controversial ideas on the change in Islamic culture. She didn't come to change our ideas on the culture, but, she did come to show us that we can use our voices to "Ask Questions! Out Loud!" This wasn't the end to Unity DAYS 2006 though because we had incredible amounts of multicultural food. All of our events had an incredible number of people; we were so proud of the turnout! All I can say is that if you haven't been on a committee yet, you don't know what your missing. If you have been on a committee at Rider you should know that you get amazing perks like: free food, and front-row seating at a packed event, and even getting to meet the person that is said to be Osama Bin Laden's Worst Nightmare! and it was AMAZING!

"Be the change you want to see in the world!"-Mohatma Gandhi

P.S. I just wanted to congratulate Monica on getting married!!

Love joshii!

Semester is Going Great!

posted by: Nikki

This week I wrote my first two papers! Two papers due within one day of each other. WOW that was not fun haha. But, the semester is going great! I love it here and all of my classes are awesome. I got some amazing help from the Academic Annex. The people there are really nice and very helpful. I wrote my papers and I went there to get help editing them. I am pretty good at writing but going there really made me better. If you have trouble just call them and make an appointment, they will definitely help you. Also, I am really looking forward to seeing Adam, you know the guy that played Roger in RENT. That should be really awesome! I am really
glad that Rider offers so many fun things to do and see. Earlier tonight, I attended an S.E.C (Student Entertainment Council) meeting. It seems like a really good association to be involved in. I also have been going to Emerging Leaders meetings. We are planning Midnight MAACness. It is going to be a really awesome night so everybody should attend! Well that’s about it. I hope everyone is having fun here at Rider!

~Nikki

Weekend trip

posted by: Katie

So this weekend was a busy one, as always. I went up to Massachusetts with my family for my grandmother's 90th birthday. We were in Boston for a while, and then went to her home in Boxford. It was really nice to be with my family, which, out of the 40 or so we have, 26 were able to make it. I had so much fun though! We had all 26 walk into a restaurant and ask for seating, but the college age cousins, meaning me, waited at the restaurant for an hour ahead of time. Which was fine, we got our food first! I loved being there for my grandmother's birthday. We saw pictures of her as a child, saw pictures of her and her eight children (one being my stepfather.) It was really sweet. We even went to a fair one day, the cousins and a few aunts and uncles. My fiance came with me and we walked around, saw pig races, pet sheep, that kind of thing. I even got a great picture on a tractor, in my sorority letters! I'm sure that was a sight for New England.

When I came back to school on Monday it was back to work and classes. For our entertainment show on campus, we decided to create a new segment, called Bronc Busters. It's where we ask questions, similar to Jaywalking and the show Street Smarts, but with Rider questions. We wanted to see how much the campus really knew. We got some great answers to who is Rider University named after, people said Mr. Rider because they didn't know. It was partially true, it was founded after Mr. Andrew J. Rider. And now we have to edit the footage and put it on the show, to premier in the next few days. It's a lot of fun to accomplish something that people will see and talk about in a positive way.

Katie

Busy week

posted by: Joshii

Okay, so this week I had two back-to-back events for L.A.S.O., the Latin American Student Organization, which I am the vice president of. The first event was the Chill Night where students just come, relax, eat and if you want, dance. We had an amazing DJ and subs; I think the turnout was great and the atmosphere seemed to evoke the word CHILL! The next event was the LASO annual welcome back dinner which was AMAZING. We must've had at least fifty people throughout the whole event and the place was packed. The dinner was scrumpt-deli-umptious! I think that everyone had a good time, and you could tell that everyone loved the food because there was none left when I went back to the table. GIVE College students food and they will turn out!! GOOD FOOD and they'll definitely come back for more! My lesson of the week is to never overstress a situation, organize yourself and everything will work out. Talk to you guys next week!!!
-joshii