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#bsuRAlife The Adventure begins in 22 days! Inside This Issue... Construction Updates More dirt on summer projects happening at #BSUlife
Tweetings from @BSURLH Returning RA Power Point Review & Quiz RA Training Updates The #RACorner #bsuRLClife Learn about the latest happenings with BSU’s Residential Learning Communities (RLCs)! Meet the 2012-2013 #bsuRAlife Staff!
RA Summer Newsletter - Volume 1 - Issue 2 A great place to live & learn
August 2012
The scoop on what’s happening this Summer! Miles/DiNardo Halls: The roof of both residence halls is now complete. The fence and construction materials have been taken away, and we are getting ready for opening! Shea/Durgin Halls: The bathrooms on the fifth floors and the quad rooms are finished. In about two weeks the ground floor will be ready for the residents. Weygand Hall: The steel frame is up and the geothermal work is complete. Right now the steel is being fire proofed, concrete floors are being poured and the underground utilities are being installed. Woodward Hall: The RA Office is complete and looks b-e-a-utiful! University Park News: Please bring Sneakers, bicycles, scooters, Skateboards, Roller-blades, Etc...
The underpass will not be fully open when RA Training starts.
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Tweetings from @BSURLH @ErinCourville - Fun in the sun, swimming a lot but can’t wait to see you all! Kym Turpin – Having a great time with family and friends, hope you are as well. See you in August! @bethmoriarty – great summer, #NEACUHO in Boston, #ACUHOI in Anaheim, lots of new ideas for @BSURLH See You Soon! @shellykeniston - One more vaca before I see you, time is going so fast, hope you are resting up for training!
The view of Weygand Hall from East Hall
Rita Camara - First year students are all assigned now on to Transfers and Preferences!
Rich Landry - I hope you are having a great break, see you in a few weeks!
The view of Weygand Hall from the Crimson Hall Bike Racks
The view of University Park from Crimson Hall
Can you find the Bat Signal?!! 2
RA Summer 2012 Newsletter
Volume 1 - Issue 2
#bsuRLClife The Office of Residence Life & Housing supports four Residential Learning Communities, and we want to share with you some important updates about #bsuRLClife! First-Year Honors Residential Learning Community Dr. Teresa King has been hired as the new Director of the Honors Center, and Dr. Sarah Wiggins is the new Assistant Director! • Honors RLC RAs: o Tiffany Hoyt & Dave Olbrych • Senior Programming Assistants: o Lindsey Clark & Heather Dupont First-Year Service-Based Residential Learning Community
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Faculty / Staff Partners: o Dr. Jonathan White & Rose Gage Service-Based RLC RAs: o Anthony Bazile & Steph Couitt Senior Programming Assistants: o Stephenie Hou, Evan Branco & Shannon Fernando-Cole
Science & Math Residential Learning Community • Faculty Partners: o Dr. Ward Heilman & Dr. Jeff Williams • Science & Math RLC RAs: o Kath Bukis & Scott Allen • Senior Programming Assistant: o Autumn Wood Social Justice Residential Learning Community Erin Kennelly will be leading the Social Justice RLC in the program’s first year! • Faculty / Staff Partners: o Dr. Judith Willison & Diane Bell • Social Justice RLC RA: o Meg Lawson • Senior Programming Assistant: o Andrew Larson
Please help us congratulate and welcome all of these wonderful folks into their new positions! Without their hard work and dedication, we would not be able to provide such an amazing experience to our students! 3
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The #RACorner BACHA RA Conference We are very fortunate to be hosting the Boston Area College Housing Association’s (BACHA’s) annual RA conference! Bridgewater and Residence Life will be hosting approximately 400 RAs from the Boston Area. Many of you have been at this conference before and have even presented at it. This is a mandatory part of your RA position so be sure to put the date in your planner right away! We will be talking a lot more about this during training and throughout the fall. The date is Saturday, October 20, 2012
RA Staff Summer Greetings! Hey everyone! I am going to be a new RA in East Hall! Cannot wait to start this journey with all of you! I just recently arrived from my 2 weeks vacation in the Dominican Republic with my family. I always go every year for about 2 or 3 weeks. It's always great to spend some time with my family that I hardly see and to just relax and have fun! The Picture I was attached with this is a traditional Dominican dish! Although, I am back to reality so in the meantime I work full time at the Randolph Showcase movie theater as a customer service representative! So if anyone comes to see a movie at this particular movie theater, come and say hi! Hope everyone is enjoying their vacation and see you all soon! :) - Tina Mata Hey everybody! I hope your summer is going well. Tia and I have been busy in the apartments and I have been driving the bus as well for the summer. There are a lot of changes on campus you will be excited to see and we look forward to everyone coming back for training! - Ryan Ford Hey everyone! I hope summer has been treating all of you well. I’ve been here on campus, working in ResLife and living in the Student Apartments. I’ve also seen the new roof on Miles and DiNardo go up the past month or two and watched progress on Weygand hall. It’s been a busy summer here on campus with construction and with all the questions students and parents are calling in with. I’m super excited to see everybody in just a few weeks back here for training. I’m really excited to get to know the new RA’s as well as see all of you again! - Sarah Fabianski Hello RAs! I can’t believe how fast my summer has flown by. I hope that all of yours went by a little slower than mine did, but if not, I hope they were great nonetheless. It has been very interesting to see campus develop and change from all of the construction. I think you will all be pleasantly surprised. I am very excited to see you all soon and meet the new members of our staff. Enjoy what remains of your summer! - Tia LeBlanc
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RA Summer 2012 Newsletter
Volume 1 - Issue 2
RA Training
It is officially that time of year when you need to start planning to come back for RA training. Here are some updates and highlights of training so you can best prepare: Return Dates: All RAs will return for training on Wednesday, August 22nd between 9am and 1pm (lunch is on your own) & SRAs by 11am to meet with RDs
**Everyone will go to the RLH Office in DiNardo to check-in and get your key or card coded, as well as find out your first meeting location. Camp Day: We will be going to Hopkinton State Park on Thursday, August 23rd , for the full day to do some camp type activities and get to know each other better. Items you may want to remember to bring are a bathing suit and towel, a change of clothes, sneakers, sunscreen, cash to rent a paddleboat or canoe, and any other items you need. Meals will be provided for you. Meals: All meals during training are provided for you and are mandatory except on Sunday, August 26th, because that is a day off and most RAs choose to leave campus for the day. You will still have access to the food your staff buys for breakfast, but plan to be on your own for that day of meals ( the dining halls are not available). Get Plenty of Rest: We can’t stress to you enough how important it is to take care of yourself during training and to get plenty of rest. It is easy to stay up until 2 or 3 in the morning talking with your friends and fellow RAs, but remember that you are expected to be awake and alert in all training sessions. Have fun during training and get all that you can out of training. Please contact your RD with any questions you may have
Shea/Durgin RD Office Hallway
Shea/Durgin
Shea/Durgin RD Apartment
Shea/Durgin Common Space 5
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Can you find ALL of the superheroes? The first two RAs to tweet @PMaxQuinn & @RyanGreelish will win some Swag! Don’t forget to include the #bsuRAlife hashtag!
• How many male superheroes did you find? once!) How many Female? Total? (Some appear more than Sample Tweet: • How many villains? 52 Superhero’s; 19 villains; 25 male; 15 • Where is the Bat Signal located? female; Bat Signal = The large picture on the #RACorner page does NOT apply to this challenge
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Meet the 2012-2013 RA Staff!
HEY RETURNING RAs,
The newly renovated Woodward Hall RA Office!! 6
Be on the lookout for an email from Shelly on August 6 for the pretraining power points and quizzes that you need to complete before your arrival!!
“Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option” - Spiderman -
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Chris Be aHemsworth Super RA...#BSUlife needs you! @ErinKennelly – Looking forward to the return of #bsuralife soon; I’ll say it – I miss you all!
Summer Greetings from @BSURLH
@amandasurgens- love being a mama of 2; getting good @ functioning on 4 hrs of sleep & doing everything 1 handed w/baby in other! @JustinBMcCauley Can’t wait for the RAs to return to the res halls. This place is too quiet without them. #BSURALife #BSULife #WoodWorld @RyanGreelish – Busy summer- went to my first rodeo, took a road trip w/ my brother, going to #RedSox games & loving the sun! See u in 3 weeks! @Sir_Richardson - Hope you all had a restful and exciting summer, and are energized and ready to start the new year. @mtgoodha - The @BSU_Apartments are thriving this summer, and I just had a relaxing trip to rural Maine. I'm excited for u all to come back on 8/22! @PMaxQuinn - #SuperPsyched for #bsuRAlife to return home! #Family #bsuRLClife #WoodWorld Michelle Demille - Getting ready for your return, I won't give you a count down though- plenty of you already have them! #relaxenjoysummer Courtney Ives - Enjoy your final weeks of summer & be sure to get lots of beach time! #relaxing Joe Amato - Tweeting is for the birds!