CSA is wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!
November 2010 Archives
Hey everyone! My name is Brooke Novak and I am the CSA Senator of Elections and Special Events. Here is a little update on what CSA has been busy with lately. Commuter Student Appreciation Week will be held from November 29th - December 1st. Each day from 10am-2pm in the Student Center, commuter students will be able to enter their name into a drawing for some awesome prizes! Coming up on December 3rd, CSA is once again hosting the "Santa Land" portion of Winter Wonderland. This year the event will be held at the Presbyterian Church and is complete with Santa, Mrs. Clause, and two elves! This event is a great chance for the executive board to interact with the Crookston community. The event will be held at the Presbyterian Church here in Crookston, starting at 5 p.m. Other clubs are participating by sponsoring other booths, so I encourage you to come out and participate in the festivities! Thanksgiving is approaching fast, so on behalf of CSA, I would like to wish all of you a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving break!
Hello everyone! My name is Brittany Novak and I am the CSA Senator-Liaison. Here is a little update on what CSA has been busy with lately. Commuter Student Appreciation Week will be held from November 29th -December 1st. Each day from 10am-2pm in the Student Center, commuter students will be able to enter their name into a drawing for some awesome prizes!
Coming up on December 3rd, CSA is once again hosting the "Santa Land" portion of Winter Wonderland. This year the event will be held at the Presbyterian Church and is complete with Santa, Mrs. Clause, and two elves! This event is a great chance for the executive board to interact with the Crookston community.
Don't forget that November 11 is Veterans Day! On behalf of the University of Minnesota Crookston Student Body, CSA would like to express their utmost appreciation not only to UMC's Veterans but to Veterans everywhere!
My name is Shawn Friedland, President of the Crookston Student Association. I would like to say that within the past three years I have been here at UMC, this year has sure been the most exciting so far. Between our record enrollment, to the last steps of the Otter Tail Power campus energy challenge, I have never been so proud to be a golden eagle.
We are proud to have a growing number of clubs on campus. From the new boxing and wellness club to the many academic clubs/organizations, there is something for each and every student to get involved in.
I want to remind all of you that the CSA Executive board is here to serve YOU, the Students of UMC! If you have any issues and see any of us in the halls, please talk to us and let us know. Morning and afternoon, you can always find someone to answer any of your questions in the CSA office, and grab some candy too. So please come visit us there in the second floor of the Student Center, 237A. I can assure you that each and every one of them has been hard at work on a number of projects. In fact, a few weeks ago we had our executive board retreat where we discussed a number of items such as amending our constitution and bylaws, forming committees for planning events coming up, and of course, activities to get to know each other better.
As you all are aware, we are on our last months of the Otter Tail Power campus energy challenge. I am proud to be a member of CSSD and the Sustainability Committee and see firsthand the initiatives and dedication they put for to make UMC a more sustainable campus. I would like to commend CSSD for all of their hard work so far this semester, especially Ben Williams and Ben Sullivan, aka "the Benz." We only have about 6 weeks left this semester, so remember to turn off the lights when you leave the classroom, unplug your cell phone and computer charger when not in use, and many other simple everyday things we can do to save energy and get that big prize at the end of the challenge!
As discussed earlier in this blog, there are many projects that the CSA executive board is currently working on. I will break it up into three of our biggest projects:
The first of the three biggest projects is the Recycling program. Greg Summers, our Senator for Recycling has put together a solid recycling program for this year. Straying away from having many clubs being involved, we decided to limit the number of clubs involved to 6. Therefore, 6 clubs will be in charge of taking on around 4-5 stations on campus, and also get paid a good amount as well.
The second project that we are currently working on is amending our Constitution and Bylaws. The CSA Constitution has not been amended since 2005. There has been a few working meetings lately to go over the entire constitution and bylaws and basically reconstruct/update these documents.
The third project that the executive board is collaboratively working on is working group committees. During our retreat, we assigned executive board members to one of three committees. First, Winter Wonderland committee. This group is planning Winter Wonderland on December 3rd, 2010. CSA holds this annual "Santa land" event and we are excited to put it on again this year. The second committee is the faculty/staff and student/commuter appreciation day. Student/commuter day appreciation day will be near the end of November, and Faculty/Staff appreciation day will be near the end of spring semester. The third committee is the Campus showdown committee. Campus showdown is an event put on by CSA in spring semester with a "battle" between the students and faculty/staff by doing all sorts of wacky and fun activities. This will be held on February 2nd, 2011, so make sure you are there!
In conclusion, I just want to say that this blog WILL be updated at least once a week. It has taken a little while this semester to get the blog back up and running, but I promise we will have weekly posts. J So, stay tuned!
Meet your Fall 2010 CSA Executive Board!
President: Shawn Friedland
Vice-President: Anna Wagner
Secretary: Alisha Aasness
Treasurer: Eric Morgan
Regents Rep.: Lauren Snively
S.S.C.C. Rep.: Thomas Haarstick
S.P.A.C.E. Chair: Angie Bartholomew
C.S.S.D. Rep.: Jennifer Rasmussen
Senator Liaison: Brittany Novak
Senator for Committees: Joo Hyun "Julie" Bae
Senator for Recycling: Greg Summers
Senator for City Relations: Brandon Sachwitz
Senator for Elections & Events: Brooke Novak
Senator for Student Concerns: Adam Switzer
Senator for Community Service: Dae Yeul Lee
Senator for Constitution & Bylaws: Zach Hennings
Senator for International Relations: Nana Boaten
Advisor: Lisa Samuelson
Advisor: Ken Myers
