Ice Breaker: linked buddies sitting and standing linked arms.
Announcements:
Tonight at 5 in THW lounge. Night of Halloween fun with beer goggles.
Monday at 7:30 in the rat. Tara Naomi is performing. Benefit concert.
Halloween party. Saturday 5:00pm then trick-or-treating after. Dress up! Have fun!
Interface student council: if you are interested. Next Wednesday at 2:00 in TW lounge.
Cosi Fan Tutti: Nick performing. Nov 13-15. in Black Box Theater.
AIDS awareness week.
We raised money at the talent show: $150.
Safe Sex Fest: tonight in Cromwell.
Living and Loving with AIDS panel: 3:30 in library auditorium on Friday.
HIV virus can be acquired: through fluid… transmission from fluid to fluid.
It dies in the air. That is why research is difficult, cause it dies.
Working on HIV vaccine in Thailand. Retrovirus. RNA that tells the cells to make more of it.
There is a gene called C40+something. Evolved in central Europe because it evolved to be resistant to things like “black Plague”. It is more difficult for them to get it.
The virus is a super bug and adapts. That is why the HIV vaccination may not work. It is like a fake ID essentially.
HIV kills T-Cells in immune system. They are the messengers that tell other things to kill sickness.
AIDS is when immune system is so compromised that you can get sick from anything.
Originally it was the gay syndrome cause they thought it only affected us. It was originally the rejection of the use of condoms.
Elections are soon.
Nominations for e-board (11/4)
Voting for e-board and nominating e-team (11/11)
Voting for e-team (11/18 at 9:00pm)
E- Board includes:
President: overall lead of organization. The face of the club on campus. Generally responsible. Oversees the entire E-Board and Haven and QAM
Vice president: run all logistics of events. Reserve rooms, gets chairs and tables, gets signatures. Oversees 2 chairs. Doesn’t actually plan events. In charge of forms.
Secretary: emails. Minutes. Oversees one chair. Oversee historian team.
Treasurer: oversees all monies. In charge of submitting base budgets and special apps. Oversee fundraising team to raise $200 a semester. In charge of vouchers.
Publicity: oversees a team. Facebook, flyers, table tents, chalk, banners, coming out doors. Maintain the website. Creates advertisement in a timely manner.
E-Team includes:
Public Health: focuses on mental health and diseases.
Activism: political both on and off campus (balanced between both) (gender blind housing at TCNJ vs. marriage equality) networking with college campuses
Advocacy: all about the love. Responsible for education (panels), making new members welcome, KidsBridge, welcome week, NCOD, NDOS (NEED TO BE ORGANIZED)
Haven: was an email based peer support. Expand to have in person peer support, if need be.
Possibly a Queer Awareness Month Chair: works directly with President to make sure QAM happens. Needs to make sure it is organized and creating a focus for the month. Has entire spring to plan for a month in the fall. in charge of 4 events for the month.
We plan on having a spiritual support person who talks to prism and makes sure they are still heard.
If you are not out: you can run for anything, (except president)
You need to be on team to go up to board. You need to be an active member to vote and run for a position on team. Active member is 3 meetings, events, or combination of both. To be president you need to be on the board at least once.
You need to be nominated, just raise your hand if you weren’t nominated.