There was cake (no lie)

New updates on the whole changing school, Minnesota, and the entire world thing.

If you've been wondering around the schools even for a bit, you may have noticed some of our new posters. Cool, huh? Ian thinks we can do better. If there are any graphic designers reading this let me know so I can fill you on some details.

Speaking of getting noticed, we are currently tabling to stop the HERC act. What is that you ask...I can't really say everything here so come by our table to find out!
we are stopping this act by having students write their names and addresses on a card which we will send to the city council.

We are also planning on having something called "Green Week" from the environmental side of things. When you pass by our tables during Green Week you'll see that we will have something new each day on way s to improve the environment!

We had a cake to celebrate some birthdays so that is why the title is about cake.

How do magnets work?

Hey time for another update!

So in this episode our co-chair, Ellie Krueger did not show up because she was sick so unfortunately I do not have as much to say as I normally would. What I do have though is that we came up with several new ideas from the environmental department. first of all this guy named Mike talked about a perpetual motion device that involves magnets despite the fact that perpetual motion is considered impossible he thinks it could work, he was assigned to do research on that front.

We're also considering painting the recycling bins with the help of the art club so that they are more outstanding (in more ways then one)

And there was talk about putting up multilingual signs but I don't think that's such a big deal.

Getting the gravy train rolling

Hey there readers,

Well now that the excitement of the kick off is over, we got down to the real bees wax. This time we talked over with some of the new people that actually stayed with us one the changes they'd like to see around here. Then we discussed plans on what we can do for those issues on campus. I was with the social justice division this time but sometimes I'll report on what the environmental people are doing if I go with them. Anyway we are going to spread awareness of consent culture. Consent culture is essentially the opposite of rape culture, do not blame the victim and try to prevent this kind of violence.

This Sunday I will be going to Duluth to attend a state wide meeting where all MPIRG group representatives meet once a month. I'm going because the guy who'd normally do it is busy and I'm an alternate.

Kick off meeting results

MPIRG had its first official meeting of the semester at Augsburg and man were my fellow team members satisfied. The meeting took place @ 5:30-6:30 in the Marshall room on Thursday. If you've been around Christensen center recently we've been handing out fliers for weeks just so we'd raise awareness about who we are and what we do. Read my past blog posts if you'd like to know a thing or two. We had 42 people attend our first meeting which, according to our campus organizer Ian, will be enough to give us grant money from the Augsburg staff. Everyone was really happy that we could achieve such a turn out and that we'll have more opportunities available to come! If you are still intrested you can catch us next time 5:30 in the Marshall room.