Last minutes of the year! T_T

We all said our favorite thing about Prism. Then we ate food and looked at our fun scrapbooks and chatted.

But there are also lots of things going on!

To go in order

Tomorrow - There is a survey by the Affice of Anti-Violence Initiatives. It is a survey on student's attitudes, response, and sexual experience put on by Dr. Eileen Alexy and Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse. You can take the survey in SCP201 (the math computer lab) between 3:30-6:00pm tomorrow. That’s the last time they are doing it. Doing the survey enters you to win $50, you must be 18 to do it.

Tomorrow Night – Game night in the Prism center. Hang out, play games, be awesome. 8:30pm, be there.

Friday – 5pm meet at the ATMs if you want to go to Fridays! Dress up, be silly, come eat with us!

Friday – A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer: Selected Readings. 8pm in the Library Auditorium, men speak out against violence towards women

Saturday – Picnic behind ABE at 2pm (if the weather is nice. Look for an email)

Sunday – Equality Forum’s Sunday Out! We’re leaving from the ATMs at around 11am to go into Philly.

June 6th – Prism is hosting the NJ Gay Men’s Chorus in the Music Building’s concert hall. Tickets are $15 for students, $20 for non-students. Email us if you’re interested in more info.

Do you like Six Flags? Well someone is selling discount tickets to Six Flags that are good all summer. Reply if you’re interested and we’ll get you more info. $35 tickets

If you have pictures from events please send the nice versions to the prism account, so we don’t have to Facebook stalk to get them.

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Hey guys,

Today we talked about NDOS and why it exists. We talked about how people are silenced and different ways you can react to people when they say things like “that’s so gay”

But hey, we have a lot of events coming up and fast. So I’ll try and be organized about this.

April 24 – TOMORROW – Baking night in the south main lounge at 7:30pm. If you signed up for it you probably already got an email reminder. But we’ll at least be making cupcakes and then anything else people want to bring and make.

April 25 – National Day of silence
- 10am-3pm – we will be in the student center tabling and demonstrating
- 5pm – meeting in the alumni grove (between Eick and the Library) to speak out against being silenced
- 8pm – Breaking the Silence party. (7pm if you want to help setup) in the Cromwell main lounge.

April 26 – do you want to help take the stakes around campus down on Saturday morning? Reply and I’ll give you more directions

April 30 – Last meeting of the Semester. There will be a party and scrapbooks to look at. Come be silly with us

May 2 – The Friday, the first reading day. TGI Friday’s Formal night. We’ll dress up extra nice and go out to dinner. It’ll be fun and silly. Meet at the ATMs at 5pm to get a ride.

May 4 – Equality Forum in Philly. It runs from 11am-6pm. It’s a big all day street fair. A more detailed email is coming.

I hope to see everyone Friday!

Our Ice breaker was to figure out what you could act out with a plate and then each person had to repeat the action and make up their own.

We discussed what it means to be a part of the GLBT community. Especially if you are an ally or know some and what that means. We also discussed stereotypes. Some questions we went over follow:

What does the work “Ally” mean to you?
Definitions of “ally” in regards to the GLBT community

Why are GLBT Allies different?
-They are assumed to be GLBT themselves

Why do people assume?
-stereotyping
-sexuality is intangible, it’s not something you can see

What does stereotype mean?
-assumptions based on a group you are a part of

Why do we stereotype?
- They are mental shortcuts, so we don’t have to get to know everyone in the world
- It’s easy to categorize people and make some people you meet exceptions

We then played stereotype charades. That means you pull a stereotype out of a box, act it out, other people have to guess the stereotype, then we discussed why it was acted out that way and why we guessed it.
Some examples were: 7-eleven worker, owner of a dry cleaning place, metrosexual man, terrorist, gay man, Italian, welfare mom, lesbian.

The media supports stereotypes in movies, news, and TV shows.

Announcements:
LIONSFEST is coming up next Wednesday before our meeting. Come out and see up and play games between 12 and 3pm in front of TW
-email Brenda if you want to help

We got Free Pizza and Soda and glowy bouncy balls for participating in a Survey for Kristine. If you’d like to help her out she left us some extra surveys. You won’t get free food but you will get the $5 compensation.
Emily W won the raffle for the Best Buy giftcard!

The survey is one what types of things make people feel comfortable with their sexualities.

The DRAG SHOW IS TONIGHT!
TW Main Lounge at 8pm. Go! Watch! Donate Money to Rainbow House!

NDOS is coming up fast. It’s on April 25th and we will be tabling on the 24th and 25th.
--Also, we’re baking goodies for the breaking the silence party on the 24th.

We are going to have OFFICIAL PRISM T-SHIRTS!!!!
--Do you want one? Of course you do.
--Fitted girls and normal boys white T-shirts with the Prism Logo. $10 or $11 if you want us to iron on some nifty nickname on the back. Email the account if you want one and weren’t at the meeting.

Tuesday April 15th we have a Cold Stone Fundraiser. It’s not the one in Mercer Mall though, it’s the one in Hamilton. We will be having a social in the Prism center at 7pm and people who go will be heading to get ice cream. Social with games and going out to ice cream and maybe scrapbooking.

The Women’s Center is sponsoring a Trans movie Night. It was supposed to be tomorrow but has been postponed for Take Back the Night. More info later.

On April 14th, Go buy Kyle in the CA Auction!
Then come clubbing with us at Woody’s! Doooo it!

The Cardboard Regata is happening during Lionsfest. Do you want to play in the lake but have no idea how to make a boat out of cardboard? Our wonderful advisor knows somebody in need of a team. Reply if you want more info!