November 21st Minutes

Hey everyone,

So Wednesday was our last metting for the term and we covered a lot in the meeting.

Shirts: They will say: est quod illa dixit (that's what she said) and the shirt will be blue this year. There is a sign up sheet on the table in the common room, it'll probably be put up on the board on Monday though, so if you are interested please fill in the required info. Or if you can't make it to the common room to sign up for a shirt then you can email us @ uwclassics@gmail.com telling us your name, quantity, and size. Once we have a general idea of how many people are ordering shirts, we can then order them. We contacted Star Sportswear and they seem to be a little cheaper, so we'll probably go with them and that'll also make the price of the shirts cheaper for everyone to buy!

Winnipeg Harvest: A reminder that the cut-off to bring in any non-perishable items is November 30th, after that we're going to drop off all the goods to Winnipeg Harvest.

Christmas Cheerboard: We are registered for a family of 4-5 people, we'll have conformation of who the exact family is by the end of next week. The list of goods was already distributed, but there are also other items that were suggested items if you are interested in donating to the family. Items such as: milk, potatoes, oranges, apples, eggs, frozen vegetables, cheese, cereal, coffee, nuts, and chocolate/candy.

Or you can give us money towards the cost of the turkey and gifts. My work currently has a major blowout sale, so we can get the gifts there for a bargain :)

Bursuary/Scholarship: We are looking into doing this privately this year since we have not received any info from the department that deals with making new scholarships. The bursuary/scholarship would cover the cost of tuition only for a 3 credit hour course and we also have yet to determin the exact requirements for that qualifying student. Also, we need to make a form.

Bake Sale: It's official, Monday's are not a good sale day! We made a grand total of $80.72 for our last bake sale. From now on we will be having our Bake/Pizza sales on Wednesdays from 11am-2pm. The meetings will still run from 12:30-1:20 on Wednesdays, but we'll just ensure that there are 2 people manning the table during that meeting and that they are in the know of what is going on.
Our first sale of the new term will be January 9th and it'll be a pizza sale, just so everyone knows!

Social Stuff: There will be a sign up sheet in the Common Room for jobs at the social. Same deal as last year, if you volunteer for at least one shift during the night, you won't have to pay to go to the social.
Moe will go around to a few places in the city during December and will have his photo taken. Then in January there will be 4 weeks of Moe, where one photo from campus and one photo from around the city will be posted online (and possibly in The Uniter) and then people will message us their answers and if they are correct they receive a social ticket. However, it is one social ticket a week. This seems a better way of promoting the social and hopefully to get more people to come. Why would someone want to win a social ticket and show up by themselves to a toga party, won't they want to bring their friends (who will have to pay)?
So yes, four social tickets will be given out since it's better than silent auction tickets where they might possibly win something, but a social ticket is a sure thing.

Also, we have the donation letters on the google groups (there is also a spread sheet on there that can be filled out) which you can print off and hand out while you are Christmas/Chanukah/general holiday shopping. If you are not part of the google groups and wish to hand out donation letters, email us and we can forward you a copy!

Cheers,
Your Consuls
Myla and Remi

November 14th Minutes

Hi Everyone!

Exciting news: November 16th from 4-5pm (in room 1L07) we're having a mini-colloquium! Come join us and hear some interesting presentations! There will be refreshments and snacks of some sort as well.

Winnipeg Harvest Drive: Drop off any goods in the Common Room (4G09), we'll be posting posters around campus as well to further promote the event.

Christmas Cheerboard: we forgot to bring this up in the meeting, but if you're interested in participating let us know on either the google groups or email us at uwclassics@gmail.com or find one of us and let us know! Here is a link to the Christmas Cheerboard site and there is a 'shopping list' if you are interested in looking at it: http://www.christmascheerboard.ca/feedfamily.php

Bake Sale: Our last one of the semester is on Monday, November 19th (we couldn't switch to the 21st everything was booked). So bring your bake goods or buy lots of bake goods!

Cheers,
Your Consuls
Myla and Remi   

Oct. 31st Minutes and Updates

Hi All,

This week's meeting was very informal and brief, so there is not much to be said. We did cancel the Winnipeg Harvest Trick-or-Treat because there was not enough people involved to do it. ...

However, good news! Instead we will be doing a Winnipeg Harvest Drive for the month of November. We will be setting up one of the big blue containers (there will be a little sign on it saying "Donations for Winnipeg Harvest") in the Common Room (4G07). So bring in canned goods and anything non-perishable and at the end of the month hopefully we can bring Winnipeg Harvest a decent amount of food.

You Consuls have decided on a name for the Social: "Groundhog Day Party" with the subtitle of "Dress up in your togas, the party will never end!" Sound good? We're not that creative.

Also, with our night at Rumor's we made close to $200 for the club's fund!

Reminder: We are having a pizza sale this Monday, November 5th, on the 2nd floor of Centennial from 11am-2pm. We are having a super, awesome deal of 2 slices of pizza and 1 chocolate bar for the low price of $5! So come buy pizza on Monday!

Cheers and have a great weekend!
Your Consuls,
Myla and Remi  

October 17th Minutes

Hello All,

Once again it was a very brief meeting since we had no update for the Social. However, Social stuff will become important in the next few weeks since we now have a quote on costs, so we'll keep you posted.

In other news: Dr. Maher will be doing a presentation on Wednesday October 24th at the Millennium Library in the Carol Shields Audiotorium (Second Floor) from 12:10-12:50pm. The lecture is titled:  "Scratching the Surface: An Archaeological Survey of Ancient Sikyon." The Wednesday meeting will be cancelled so we can attend this special lecture.

Reminder: We are having a pizza sale on Monday October 22nd on the second floor of Centennial from 11am-2pm.

Cheers,
Your Consuls
Myla and Remi

Minutes from Wednesday's meeting

Hey Everyone,

This week was a short meeting and so there is not much to be posted news wise.

Social news: We're waiting to hear from Fraser on quotes for costs, so until then we can't do much in regard to planning the social.

Radiothon: No one showed interest in the meeting and no one contacted us about it, so we will not be participating in the radiothon. It's that time of term anyways and everyone's busy, so it's understandable.

Rumor's Night: We are only selling tickets until Friday October 19th because the money is due on the 20th. So, please, if you would like to buy tickets contact Remi or myself via uwclassics@gmail.com, we're both on campus quite a bit and we have the tickets. They're $15.00 and we get half the proceeds and it'll be a fun night!

Shirt: We have decided that we will be putting "That's what she said" (in Latin) on a blue shirt. This idea has been popular for the past couple of years and will now finally be used!

Reminder: Tomorrow there is a special lecture in Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall from 1:30-2:30 pm. Dr. Kelly Olson will be presenting "Celluloid Cleopatras from 1899-2005," so don't miss out on this great opportunity to see a cool presentation on how Cleopatra has been portrayed in film (I unfortunately have to work).

Another cool event this week: Saturday, October 20th is National Archaeology Day! They will be having an Open Lab Day in 4C39 from 11am-4pm. It's a free event and open to everyone and you get to look at artifacts and "experience what it is like to excavate an archaeological site and to process and analyze artifacts (including ancient bones and tools). Materials from different excavations and displays of archaeology in action will be on exhibit for the public to view. A chance to indulge your inner Indiana Jones!"

Cheers,
Your Consuls

Bake Sale and Other News!

Hey Everyone!

Quick news before everyone can enjoy their probably well deserved long weekend!

The Bake Sale was a huge a success and we made a profit of $245! Thank you to everyone who brought in bake goods and also a huge thanks to those who bought and donated. We had some really, really generous people which is great. All the money we raise with these pizza and bake sales help us fund our social which then means we can raise money for the Children's Hospital.

Other news:

Radiothon: The CKUW radio marathon is coming up, the form is due on October 10th. So, please, if you are interested please email us @ uwclassics@gmail.com so we can start planning what we want to do exactly for our time slot and hand in that form.

Mini-Colloquium: The room is booked for November 16th and will be in room 1L07 from 4:00-5:00pm and we will be heading to Garbonzo's (most likely) afterwards for a pub night. We will be posting posters and advertising shortly. We will also be going to classes again to encourage people to come and watch the presentations.

Rumour's: We have tickets for Saturday October 27th for the 10:30 show. The comedian is Rory Scovel and it should be fun! Please see Remi or myself to purchase tickets which are $15.

As a final note, the UWCSA's first Pub Trivia was a success! Congrats to the winning team: Purple Cobras (Rob and Liam). Thanks to those who came out and we hope you all had fun

Cheers and have a great long weekend,

Your Consuls

Cancelled Meeting

Hey Everyone!

Tomorrow's meeting (Oct. 3rd) is cancelled because we are having our first Bake Sale of the year. It will be on the 3rd floor of Centennial. If you have any bake goods to sell, bring them to the Common Room before 11am tomorrow or drop it off at the Bake Sale table. We'll probably run the table from 11am-2pm.

Or if you don't have any bake goods to sell, buy some bake goods! The money that we make from our bake and pizza sales goes into funding for the Social and that means it will help us raise money for the Children's Hospital!

Cheers!

Minutes from September 26th

Hey Everyone!

TODAY, SEPT. 28TH, IS THE PUB TRIVIA QUIZ NIGHT AT GARBONZO'S PUB AND PIZZA IN THE UOFW ANX STATION @7:00PM! COME OUT AND HAVE SOME FUN!

Now is your weekly update of what went on in the meeting!

Social: We are officially booked for February 2nd 2013 in the Bulman Centre. Fraser from events will be giving us quotes on expenses soon. We will be starting at 9:00pm this year since no one ever really shows up to a social until after nine anyways. The Children's Hospital will remain as the charity that we are fundraising for (sorry Devon!), as it is local and well-known.

Also, Kerri proposed the title of "The Social that Never Ends", there was also the suggestion of "The Night that Never Ends". The suggested titles are referencing to the movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray, which is an awesome film, but if anyone has other ideas for a title for the social that's great and we will have a vote on it before making posters.

Mini-Colloquium: We are still waiting to get the room booked, it is being taken care of and we'll keep everyone updated. We will also most likely then go to classes in early November to promote this event and hope to have a nice size audience and then our bigger one will be in March and maybe students (such as first or second year students) will be interested in presenting after seeing how a colloquium runs.

Rumors: We have requested 100 tickets for Saturday October 27th for the 10:30 show. Please see either Remi or myself for tickets, we should have them by Friday or early next week. They cost $15.00 and we receive half the profits from any ticket sales with no loss if we don't sell tickets which is great. We are also able to order more tickets if necessary.

Bake Sale: Our first bake sale of the year will be taking place on Wednesday October 3rd from 11:00 am-2:00pm on the 3rd floor of Centennial (2nd floor was already taken). If you can bring bake goods that is fantastic and greatly appreciated!

Homework for the next meeting:

Think of restaurants that we can possibly go to for Professor Appreciation Night once they have chosen a date. We still have to email the professors when they would like this, but we would still like to have some ideas on where to go.

Shirt Ideas: We have received only a couple ideas so far:

• Hipster Caesar
• Venimus, Vidimus, Venimus Iterum (with a Trojan Condom image)
• or simply Venimus
• there was also "Goats" randomly written on the white board in the Common Room.

So if you have any ideas, please share them with us by either emailing us @ uwclassics@gmail.com, or bring them to the next meeting, or write them on the white board.

Final bit of news: We have a mascot for the Social! His name is Moe since the Latin name for a groundhog is Marmota Monax, but Moe sounds cuter.  We are also taking pictures of him around campus and it was suggested by Dr. Whately that we should also take pictures of Moe around town.

Why are we taking photos of Moe??? Moe is going to be used in promotion of the social, people will be able to guess where Moe was and win silent auction tickets. The exact set up of this contest will be set up a little later as it gets closer to the date, but it should be fun and a good way to promote the social!

Also, here's a photo of Moe:

Also, Brock University is having a Colloquium of their own in February, we will post the poster that was sent to us once we convert it from pdf to jpeg. However, we can give you some info now: It is being held February 16, 2013 at Brock University (in Ontario) with abstracts due by November 21st. The title of the confrence is Revelations & Revolutions!

Your Consuls,
Myla and Remi

Pub Trivia Night

Hey everyone,

The UWCSA is having their first ever Pub Trivia Night this Friday, September 28th, @ 7:00pm. Come on out, it'll be lots of fun! More details about the event are on the poster below or email us at uwclassics@gmail.com:

Do you need a job?

Hey everyone,

 

Mintues from Wednesday September 19th

Hey Everyone,

Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the term so far!

Something random but awesome: We officially have an account with Garbonzo's, so when you go dine/drink there tell your server that you are part of the Classics Club or the UWCSA and for every dollar spent we earn one point. For 1000 points we can get $50 which means we could have a nice Social prize or buy food as a group for a Pub Night!

Pub Quiz/Trivia Night: We are hoping for September 29th, starting at either 7 or 8pm. We will confirm with Trevor, the manager at Garbonzo's, tomorrow (September 21st) for the date and time. Everyone will be required to bring a wrapped gift with the maximum value being $10 and that will go into a Grand Mystery Box and the winning team gets to divide the prizes amongst themselves. We will also then start advertising for the event as soon as we know, so hopefully it'll be a big fun event.

CKUW and UWSA's first annual radio student programme marathon: Exciting news! On Tuesday October 16th the UWSA and CKUW are teaming up and producing their first 24 hour marathon where student groups/individuals can advertise or do radio programs. There is a meeting September 21st (tomorrow) in the UWSA general board room from 12:30-1:20 with more information, which Paul is getting for us. However, in the meeting there was general agreement that this could be fun and a great way to advertise the group. Hopefully we can have an hour time slot where we can play some music, give some fun facts about Classics related stuff, and talk about the group (thanks to Alistair for the idea of music, we don't want to bore any listeners!). If you have any suggestions for the radio programme, feel free to email us @ uwclassics@gmail.com, or you can write it down in the binder in the common room (we do check it!), or bring your idea(s) to the next meeting, or if you are part of the Google Groups post a new topic with your ideas because they are all valued and appreciated!

JDCWest: They are part of the business program at the Buhler Centre and they are doing a charity event on Wednesday November 7th from 10am-3pm. They are doing it for six different charities, they will have Virgin Radio (the former Hot 103) and possibly a Jets celebrity (we doubt the Jets player because of the NHL lockout, but who knows what will happen by then). The event is being on the Portage Commons (the field outside Wesley Hall) and there will be a pool where they will take a dive into the pool (like the Polar Bear Dive). As a group no one showed much interest in participating, it will be cold by then, but we could always go watch them that day as they take a dive! However, if anyone is interested or would like more information we can give you the contact's email and you can ask him for further information in regard to the event.

Professor Appreciation Night: Please think of somewhere we can go, not Homer's as some people complained they got sick last year. The date is up to the professors and will perhaps happen again in January.

Bake Sale: The first one will possibly be Wednesday October 3rd since the 8th is Thanksgiving Monday (and the usual day of the week we have are sales on) the university will be closed, we are waiting for confirmation for the table from the UWSA.

Colloquium/Lecture Series: We are going to have our first little colloquium November 16th @ 4pm, we are waiting for confirmation for the room booking. This is also one of our Pub Nights, so after we hear from 2 or 3 presenters we will all head over to Garbonzo's (or somewhere) and have some drinks! If you are interested in presenting your paper or something you are researching please contact us via email with details on your presentation.

Social: We have started to form committees! We have the sign up sheet in the common room in the binder if you are interested in signing up to a committee. The actual jobs for the night of the social will be posted at a later date. Also good news, Holly who is in the History Club says that the History Club may be able to help us with getting donations for the silent auction and volunteering at the social itself. Kerri suggested the title for our social: The Social That Never Ends (in reference to Groundhog Day the movie).

Shirt Ideas: We want them soon, so please come up with some ideas and share them!

Cheers,

Your Consuls 

Two More Things

Hey Everyone,

As the title of the post says, two more things related to Classics and possible fun times!

Liyana forwarded us a copy of a PR letter from Duke University, unfortunately it is a PDF and I don't know how to insert it into the blog without it going funny. So I'll give you a link to check out Duke University and what they have to offer for programs related to Classics. If, however, you want a copy of the PR letter email us and we will send you a copy, but it looks like most of the information covered in the letter is there on the site if you go through it.

Next: there is a new weekly event starting Wednesday September 19th until December 12th at Garbonzo's. The event is called Pub Stumpers Trivia! Trevor (the manager) said this in his email: "This is a weekly trivia league which will run every Wednesday until December 12.  We are now recruiting teams of 4-6 to participate.  The winning team each week will receive a free large pizza and a pitcher of Half Pints St. James Pale Ale.  At the end of the season there will be a grand prize for the team who has earned the most points through the season." (I decided to bold the info on free stuff to hopefully entice those who like free things!)

So if anyone is interested in forming a team and wanting to participate in this little weekly event let us know as soon as you can by emailing us so we can email Trevor and form a team. We will also need to come up with the usual awesome Classics related team name.

Hope everyone has a great weekend,
Your Consuls,
Myla and Remi

Minutes From Wednesday

Hey everyone,

First official meeting of the year went well. We would like to thank those who came out! Also, we will be posting here what we decided and discussed in the meeting and we also have the minutes in the binder in the Common Room (4G07) so that everyone will have access to the minutes and can participate even if they cannot make it to the meetings.

Social: We will be having one, hopefully February 2nd (Groundhog Day) and we will also have a groundhog plush animal dressed in a toga! We will be forming committees next week and start to go over budgeting for that as well. Also, we want to do it for charity again for the Children's hospital!

Colloquium: We want to have a min. of 5 people to run it, there was an interest of 8 people during the meeting. We were thinking of doing one in the fall, possibly November or quite possibly doing a small "lecture series" where during the free period or some time on a Friday and then hit the pub afterwards. The "lecture series" would then have just probably 2 or 3 presenters. On another note we want to have a bigger colloquium on March 2nd.

Trick or Treat for Winnipeg Harvest: It will be hosted at Leyna's house, unless things change, but we will post any changes on that.

Fundraiser at Rumours: We want to do this on Saturday October 27th and we will be contacting Rumours shortly.

Pub Nights: We want one on Friday November 16th and the next one in early December. We were also thinking about doing this at Garbonzo's. We also signed up at Garbonzo's for the Loyalty Points reward system, so for every dollar spent there a point is earned. All you will have to do is tell the server that you are part of the Classics Club and we'll earn points!

Pub Trivia/Quiz Night: We spoke with the manager at Garbonzo's and we cannot charge and have a pot of money to be won because that would be against Manitoba Lotteries laws. However, we were thinking that everyone could buy a small gift (max $10) and then the winning team wins the ultimate grand prize of all the gifts!

Zombie Walk: People showed interest and it is on Saturday October 13th this year. More info to come when it gets closer to the date.

Pizza and Bake Sales: We hope to book for the year 2nd floor Centennial at the escalators for Mondays. Every third sale would possibly be a bake sale (those take more effort and time and we don't make as much). We will be having the pizza/bake sales every two weeks. More info to come shortly.

Christmas Baskets: We want to do it and there was a general agreement, so motion was passed!

Classics Challenge: No one wants to run it and it is a lot of work, so we will not be doing a Classics Challenge this year.

Shirt ideas: This will be part of the next meeting! So please feel free to brainstorm and bring your ideas to the meeting or write it on the board in the Common Room or write it in the binder if there is no room on the board.

Cheers,

Your Consuls

AIA/CAM Lecture Series

One last post for today: AIA Lecture Series are back. The first one is Sunday September 23rd at 3 pm. The speaker is: John Dillon on The Alexandrian Quartet: Callimachus, Philo, Origen and Cavafy. Join us at the U of M in University College. Again if you need any directions, email us at uwclassics@gmail.com and we'll give you directions. They also have a blog where they will post the upcoming lectures: http://aiawinnipeg.wordpress.com

Cheers,

Your Consuls.

Scholarships

Prof. Golden wanted to let everyone know that the AHEPA scholarships are due Thanksgiving day 8 October 2012. These are a great scholarships worth $2,500 (for Manitoba residents of any cultural background) and $2,000 (for students outside Manitoba of Greek heritage). Anyone interested can let us know and we will send them the form (I seem to have some trouble posting it on this blog without making it ridiculously large).

Also, through the UW there are other scholarships and bursaries available: http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/services-awds-current-continuing

The first deadline is September 14th.

Cheers,

Your Consuls

First Meeting

Hello all,

We're due for our first meeting, Wednesday September 12th and we have a lot to discuss. First of all we got the room 2M74. If you have any trouble finding it, email us beforehand at uwclassics@gmail.com and we'll give you some directions.

Since we have so much to discuss, here's a list of things you can think about before coming to the meeting:

• Social: whether or not we want to do it
• Colloquium: when we want it.
• Trick or Treat for Winnipeg Harvest: where we'd like to do it
• Peer tutoring and outreaching in classes
• Fundraiser night @ Rumours
• Pub Nights: when and Pub Quiz idea (essentially a trivia night)
• Zombie Walk: who wants to do it
• Pizza and Bake sales
• Christmas Baskets
• Classics Challenge: does anyone want to run it?

In order to make the meetings more efficient, we'll be posting these agenda before every meeting.

See you there!

Your Consuls.

Welcome back!

Welcome back everyone!

The new school year has arrived and the UWCSA is excited to start it with you. We welcome back new and returning students to join us at our table during OWeek. We will be there Wednesday Sept. 5th in the afternoon, followed by Thursday morning, and Friday afternoon.

New to the UWCSA: Twitter!! Follow us @uwclassics and visit our Facebook page @ University of Winnipeg Classics Department for updates on we we're doing.

We also invite anyone interested to join us for our first meeting on Wednesday Sept. 12, 12:30-1:20. We will decide on the majority of activities we want to do for the year on that day, so your presence will be greatly appreciated. We will announce the room number and the agenda closer to the date.

Cheers!

Your Consuls.

New Co-Consuls for 2012-2013!

The UWCSA fondly welcomes their incoming Co-Consuls for the 2012-2013 academic year, Myla Held and Rémi Fontaine! Congratulations you two!

Classics Colloquium!

     You are hereby formally invited to participate in our 3rd annual UWCSA Classics Colloquium on Saturday March 3rd. As in previous years, we warmly encourage you to come and speak a little on your own research, or if you prefer, to simply attend and enjoy. The event will run from 10:00am to approx. 2:00pm in room 3D01, and refreshments will be provided. Afterwards there will be an excursion to Garbonzo's Pizza Pub, which is right next door.

     If you do wish to make a presentation, please submit an abstract to uwclassics@gmail.com by Feb. 27th at the latest. The room is power point friendly, for those of us who are technologically inclined. The presentations will be max 15 minutes, with a 5 minute question period.

Hope to see you there!

TOGA SOCIAL!!

Dear everyone,

     please be aware that the UWCSA is holding a Toga Social on Feb. 4th at the Bulman Centre, and also that you should come. 50% of all profits will go toward the Children's Hospital Foundation. Party starts at 9:00, that band at 10:00.

Tickets are 10$ and available from any UWCSA representative, as well as at the UWCSA Infobooth.