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Social Chair Workshop from UNI- Bender Hall

BENDER HALL SOCIAL CHAIR WORKSHOP
by Brian Steinberg (Bender Hall Assistant Hall Coordinator).

1. List some of your ideas for both active (presentations or speakers) and passive (bulletin boards) programming this semester.

a) Diversity related programs.

b) Substance abuse related programs (drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse).

c) Life skills programs (programs that help the well being of residents (educational).

d) Social programs.

e) Community service projects/programs.

2. List some of the ways of promoting your programs.

POSSIBLE PROGRAMS

1. List some of your ideas for both active and passive (bulletin boards) programming this semester.

a) Diversity related program

Martin Luther King Day Bulletin Board.
            Show Malcom X movie.
           Famous African American People Bulletin Board.
          Brown eye blue eye and show Oprah video after it.

b) Substance abuse related programs (drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse).

                 Do or Dye- AIDS Program.
                    Booze Bowl- alcohol trivia.
                   About last night- sex and alcohol problems.
                   Breathalizers- UNI Public Safety Officers came and explained all about breathalizers.
                Party with Bubba- mock college party with characters.
                  Campus speakers talk about drug abuse (Len Bias’s Mom).
Interactive alcohol and drug bulletin boards.

c) Life skills programs (programs that help the well being of residents (educational).

                 Condom Olympics.
Interactive career goals bulletin board.
                   How to make a homepage on the internet.
How to use E-mail.
                    Be an RA for a day.
Resume Writing-invite a career counselor from Placement and Career Services to
     attend one of your house meetings.
Empathy belly.
Recruitment for RA’s bulletin board.
Spring break party-tropical fruits, fruit punch, halogen lamps, bathing suits, beach
     towels and Jimmy Buffet Music.

d) Social programs.

Coffee house.
Cinderella Dinner.
Miniature golf with another house.
Waterloo Black Hawk’s hockey game.
Shop at the mall (Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Mall of America).
Go to the movies.
Interactive bulletin board allowing residents to write down their likes/dislikes and
hobbies.

e) Community service projects/programs.

Help house/hall residents get involved in Big Brothers and Big Sisters Program.
Adopt-a-Highway Program.
Trick-or-treat, invite community kids to trick-or-treat during Halloween in your
house/hall.
Make cookies for local Senior Citizen Home.
Rake leaves and shovel snow for local elderly people.
Pop tab save for Kidney Dialysis.

2. List some of the ways of promoting your programs.

a) Food and the opposite sex.
b) Be tricky and do an unexpected program at a house meeting.
c) have a joint house meeting with an opposite sex floor and do a program together.
d) lots of different colored signs (bright).
e) laminate signs at MRC (in Redecker) and put the in bathroom/shower.
f) tape signs to the floor by the elevators.
g) ask me to put them on my office window (lots of visibility people going to meals).
h) ask residents to bring 25 cents to that program/house meeting and draw numbers to see who wins the pool.
i) UNI-TV, e-mail (UNI-TV@UNI.EDU)
j) Get the e-mail addresses of all your residents and e-mail them the information on a particular program that you are doing.
k) Voice mail all of your residents about a particular program that you are doing.
l) If you want people from around campus to attend your program use the Northern Iowa Newspaper, e-mail them at Northern-Iowan@UNI.EDU.
m) Create a contest! (guessing the first day of measurable snow, coldest winter temperature) winner wins a free pizza using house funds.
n) Challenge residents to go to so many programs a week and receive an invitation to a house wide pizza party.

SHARING SHEETS

What is a sharing sheet?

How do you fill a sharing sheet out?

When do we hand in sharing sheets?

Try to hand in sharing sheets to your RA the day after a program!

Bender Hall Things To DO Lists

Done by me each week, but you can put up additional lists to add just for your house!

Need some ideas? Need some help? I will help you!

The content on these pages was originally provided by Brian C. Steinberg, the founder of http://www.theallygroup.org and http://www.safezoneforall.com (Creater of the previous: http://www.residentassistant.com/reslifepro)