See you next Semester!

Clothing Drive Update

Unfortunately, ADC and Student Development were not able to collaborate with Alliance for Change concerning the clothing drive. So, we decided to try something of a smaller scale. On December 7th Kalina Dietzel and I went door to door in the Pine and Furness dorms to pick up clothing donations. The responses were beautiful! All of the students were concerned and willing to donate. We collected three large bags in that day alone.

What We Still Need

We would still like to slip a flyer under each resident of Juniper and the Spruce dorms door, but we need help doing so. If you are a Uarts student or RA and would like to assist us, let me know.

We still need to place donation boxes in Juniper and Spruce. AASU graciously has agreed to donate their donation boxes used during the Winter Ball to assist with our project but we are still waiting for them to be emptied out.

Our Last Meeting

We also had our last meeting of the semester on yesterday. After collecting the donations, Kalina and I returned to the Pine Study room for our end of the year feast! We had pizza, compliments of Pine Street Pizza, and hand tossed salad, fresh bakery bread and butter, and drinks.

We spent the night evaluating the program and sharing our meal with those who popped in, lured by the smell of pizza.

Surely we have had a rewarding year!

What's Happening Next Semester!

Eliminating Waste in Dorm Proposal

Every semester and program's end tons of food, furniture, clothes, and supplies are thrown out. AFCOM would like to collaborate with Residential Life in order to instill a program that will take this waste and contribute it to local outreach ministries or businesses.

University Communication Proposal

Flyers are always strewed any old type of way, making it hard for the students to know what things are going on. AFCOM has a proposal to eliminate this.

Feed the Homeless with collaboration of ADC

Working with the Inner City Youth

We plan to collaborate with ADC concerning this. More details soon.

Questions? Ideas? Comments?

Join Us, All Welcome!

This organization is open to everyone! Including the public, alumni, and outside students. If you are interested, please contact me. I would also like to ask returning members to please email me their schedules for next semester so that we can choose an appropriate meeting time. I can be reached at johnsonr@uarts.edu

Acknowledgement

THANK YOU KALINA DIETZEL FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK AND DEDICATION!!!

Hope to hear from you soon!

Greetings!

Winter Ball

Our collaboration with AASU(African American Student Union), LSU(Latino Student Union), and Friends not Food, was a great success! The event took place on Dec. 4th, this past Friday. It was a learning experience for everyone, but together we were able to collect over three boxes of toys for Red Cross and over $200 for AidsLaw... And this was with the help of generally college students!

The night opened with food catered by LSU, Friends not Food, and AASU. Quizayra Gonzalez's mom threw down in the kitchen for this event with some absolutely delicious Latin American Dishes. Everyone happily talked amongst themselves while enjoying the food and before long all the food that had been ordered, including drinks, were gone.

Our opening gig, "Swift Techniques," hyped up the crowd while everyone finished up their meals and had everyone on their feet and begging for more by the end of their act.

Next our guest DJ/MC came on. We transitioned into LSU's "Salsa Lessons" and danced our feet off with the help and instruction of PhillyBloco/Alo Brasil's Angelica Cassimiro(current dance student at the Uarts). Ashley Clark also shared her time with us by taking some beautiful photos of groups of friends, couples, or singles. All of this was free with a simple donation of $5 or a toy. We were able to raffle off a few gifts and then finally at the end of night everyone banded together to help get the auditorium back into its original state.

Needless to say, I was dog-tired by the end of night but still had a fabulous time! Several people approached us during the duration of the night and shared their enjoyment and how they had been so impressed by the event.

Thank you to everyone who contributed! Especially you members of the organizations. You all worked so hard and because of this we were able to put a smile on someone's face because of the generous contributions!

Special Thanks

We would also like to especially thank Josh, City Paper Journalist, AFCOM's Advisor, Tim Appignani, and other friends for joining us and also making a notable contribution.

Myself and some of the other organization heads had the privilege of being interviewed/videotaped by Josh who was collecting research for a project. I was thankful to be of service and it was nice to talk about the organization and it's work.

Thank you again to everyone who made this project possible!