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THE CIRCULAR Circle K at the University of Michigan September/October 2015
The mission of the University of Michigan Circle K is to develop leaders with a lifelong commitment to service.
Circle K Fall Look Back Committee Lock-in Look Back Fall Service Spotlight: Trick or Can
IAE Workshop Spotlight Members of the Month CONTACT INFO
President: Nicole npotchen@umich.edu Internal Vice President: Mary mhannosh@umich.edu External Vice President: Taylor taysull@umich.edu Secretary: Chiara chiaraks@umich.edu Treasurer: David lidavid@umich.edu Bulletin Editor: Carina cjateoh@umich.edu service | leadership | friendship
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Circle K Fall Look Back Circle K at the University of Michigan had an amazing first few months of the fall semester! From gaining new members, to awesome service events, and continuing the tradtition of Service, Leadership and Friendship, here is a look at our past few months!
A “moo-off� for the birthday challenge!
Meeting new members at our fall mass meeting!
Volunteering for Run Scream Run! More general meeting fun! service | leadership | friendship
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Circle K Fall Look Back
Meishi Cooking Workshop Volunteering for Arb Workday!
Volunteering for Greening of Detroit Halloween Costume Contest service | leadership | friendship
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Committe Lock-in Look Back
Committee Lock-in is our annual fall event where all new and returning committee members get a chance to all be together and experience what it is like to be a part of the committee system. Committee members get to interact with those both within and outside of their committee in an eventing of awesome activities. The 2014 Trick or Can Food Drive was a wonderful success this year! Trick or Can is an annual food drive organized by Circle K’s Hunger and Housing Committee that collects non-perishable goods from local neighborhoods on Halloween. Over 100 students from Circle K, Sister 2 Sister and Will Work for Food went door to door, collecting 2750 pounds of canned goods and non-perishables. The goods were then boxed up and donated to Food Gathers, a food rescue and food bank that serves Washtenaw County. Every year Trick or Can is one of the most exciting and inspiring events organized by Circle K. Trick or Can helps fight hunger and raises awareness of the need in our local community. This could not have been done without the support of the amazing volunteers, organizers, and community members in and around the University of Michigan! Thank you for making Trick or Can such a success! -Carina Teoh ` H&H Committee Member
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Fall Service Spotlight: Trick or Can
The 2015 Trick or Can Food Drive was a wonderful success this year! Trick or Can is an annual food drive organized by Circle K’s Hunger and Housing Committee that collects non-perishable goods from local neighborhoods on Halloween. 148 students from Circle K, Sister 2 Sister , Will Work for Food and other student organizations went door to door, collecting 2665 pounds of canned goods and non-perishables. The goods were then boxed up and donated to Food Gathers, a food rescue and food bank that serves Washtenaw County. Every year Trick or Can is one of the most exciting and inspiring events organized by Circle K. Trick or Can helps fight hunger and raises awareness of the need in our local community. This could not have been done without the support of the amazing volunteers, organizers, and community members in and around the University of Michigan! Thank you for making Trick or Can such a success! service | leadership | friendship
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IAE Workshop Spotlight Workshop: Erasure in the Media
This workshop, hosted by IAE, discussed the upcoming movie Stonewall, and its exclusion of marginalized people, transgender women of color Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, that were central to the historic pride movement that the movie is named after. This is not an individual phenomenon, however. People behind the screen make deliberate decision to exclude people of color, LGBT people, physically- and mentally-disabled people, and other oppressed identities. The importance, then, of more diverse people behind the screen is essential to greater visibility of marginalized identities in the media. The argument that these identities are unpalatable is invalid, then, if there is no opportunity for visibility in the first place. Discussing Stonewall and the implications of both racial and lgbtqia erasure in the media with my group made for tangential discussion which I found great. One of the goals IAE has is to go beyond discussing international issues, and to discuss perspectives on the issue, being college going students at an elite/often elitist university, and why those perspectives are relevant to how we educate ourselves on those issues. One of the focuses of our dialogue was how racial discrimination and lgbtqia discrimination intersect as do racial, gender, and sexuality based identity. Members of the group I facilitated respectfully asked questions about terminology and historical accuracy, and contributed to conversation on perspective. One member spoke on how media often reflects restricted convention, maybe government or nation controlled opinions are only showcased in media in different parts of the world. One member brought up the premise of popularity and how what is “popular” or mainstream, shows up on television. The lead male in the trailer for Stonewall is a white cisgender male, taking the place of a black transgender woman who spearheaded the Stonewall Riots and several lgbtqia movements Marsha Johnson. The factors that play into very deliberately made movie casting decisions, someone’s appearance, their race, gender, sexuality clearly deem the lead actor as the “popular” or mainstream. Our group members discusses how there may be some hope for continuing efforts at biopics on lbtqia poc communities as someone mentioned that Stonewall tanked in the box office. Conversations like these are ones we want to foster in IAE and in the greater Circle K, ones keeping lived experience in mind while we discuss discrimination and ones that regard how differences in perspective (global, local) effect our opinions. -Sandhya Medapuram - IAE Committee Member service | leadership | friendship
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Members of the Month September
Daphne Cheng is a member of the Health and Wellness Committee
Kat Li is a member of the Elderly Outreach Committee
October
Sandhya Medapuram is a member of the International Awareness and Impowerment Committee
Ariana Yea is a member of the Public Relations Committee service | leadership | friendship
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Circle K Goal Update 4240.5 hours of community service 161 dues paid members 63% of our members are active $2,357.26 raised for charity
Circle K Upcoming Events Snopia 7 November 2015, Oakland University Circle K Service Day 8am-8am, 14-15 November 2015, University of Michigan
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