The Student Assembly Executive Committee for Diversity Initiatives is sponsoring a panel titled, “Mental Health Issues in the W&M Community.” This panel is aimed at exploring diversity through a new lens, the diversity of mental health here on campus. Each one of is exposed to different biological and environmental factors, leading to different responses to situations. In a general time of heightened stress, it is time for us to sit down as a community and discuss the various factors at play. What is the administration doing to curb this heightened level of stress? What was the response of the administration, the counseling center and the student body to the recent tragedies which shook our campus community?

Come listen and also have your voice heard.

Wednesday, April 20th at 8 pm in McGlothlin 20

Panelists include:

Patricia Volp, Dean of Students

Professor Victoria Foster, School of Education

Dr. David Goode-Cross, Counseling Center

Ryann Tanap, Junior, Performer

The event will be introduced by a student performance from IPAX.

I truly hope to see you there!

Thank you for your interest in the Student Assembly’s Gender Neutral Housing Option proposal.

Remember, the Gender Neutral Housing Option is a choice for students who decide to choose to take advantage of it. No one will be forced to participate in gender neutral housing.

Below is a summary of the four stages of gender neutral housing implementation as outlined by “A Guideline for Adapting Residence Life Policies to Demands for Greater Gender Inclusiveness (Revised March 2011).”

Stage 1A: This stage is currently implemented. Please see the Adaptative Housing page on Residence Life’s website. This policy allows individual students with approved special needs to apply to live in singles.

Stage 1B: This stage suggests Residence Life allow four students with approved special needs to apply to live in Ludwell Quads. The apartments would have same-sex bedrooms and mixed-sex living spaces.

Stage 2: This stage permits all students to choose to live in a Ludwell quad apartment in which the bedrooms are same-sex and the living spaces are mixed-sex.

Stage 3: This stage suggests all students may reside in a room with members of the opposite biological sex in any Ludwell apartment.

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I am absolutely thrilled to announce the first annual “I Am WM 5K”!  This race will take place on April 10, 2011, kicking off “I Am WM Week”.

Registration Form

Who: W&M Student Assembly Diversity Initiatives Committee
What: 5K Race for all ages
When: Sunday April 10, 2011 at 1 p.m. (registration and packet pick-up begins at 11 a.m.)
Where: W&M Student Rec Center
Why: To help your peers by supporting a scholarship fund for students in financial need.
How: Register at the SC tables or send completed registration forms with check, cash, or Express to CSU 0446.

This race, facilitated by the Student Assembly with the help of Colonial Road Runners, performs the dual function of both supporting a scholarship fund to help W&M students in need and raising awareness about socioeconomic diversity on campus.  We all know that education isn’t cheap, and your support of the “I Am WM 5K” helps your peers who otherwise may not be able to afford to attend William & Mary.

More details about the race can be found here in our registration form. Please contact Kaitlyn Adkins (kjadkins@email.wm.edu or 804-836-8722) with any questions.

Last year, President Reveley formed a committee to review the Honor System. The Honor System includes the Honor code, the Honor Council, and the Honor process.

For more information on the Honor System, click here

The committee is currently asking for campus input on the Honor Council process through a survey and small focus groups. If you have any questions, comments, complaints, or praise on/for the Honor System, please feel free to contact Zann Isacson at zisacson@email.wm.edu.

Additionally, you may access the student survey from this link:
https://forms.wm.edu/form/view/1757/1d08f892636b1c57a60218254657ed19

President Clemens of the Government Department chairs the committee and sent out the message below:

If you are like most students (and faculty) you get a bit weary of email surveys–but we promise that the one you are receiving here is both brief and important.

Last Fall, President Reveley charged a committee of students, faculty and administrators with reviewing all aspects of the College’s Honor system–its formal standards of academic integrity and its rules/procedures for upholding them.
Whether you have ever had direct involvement with the Honor Code or Council, your feedback would be invaluable in helping us determine what students think is most important in this regard, most in need of closer examination, and possibly in need of changing.

As promised, the survey below drawn up by the Committee’s student membership is brief but also offers open-ended questions allowing further comment, so please take a few minutes to complete and submit it.

Many thanks in advance,
Clay Clemens, Government Department
Committee Chair

Please answer the survey! The Honor System affects the entire campus community and the greater amount student input the committee receives can shape the Honor System to become more pro-student.

The Honor Council Election will take place on Thursday, February 23rd. You may vote online from 8am to 8pm on Thursday via a link that will be sent out to your email. To view the candidate profiles, click here.

Want to get updates about parking spots, ticketing, and special messages pertaining to parking?

It’s easy!

Log on to https://lists.wm.edu/wws and log in with your WM user ID and search “parking” in the search bar at the bottom of the sight.  Click on parking@lists.wm.edu and click subscribe on the left hand side along with OK to subscribe.

Or go to http://www.wm.edu/offices/auxiliary/parkingandtransportation/about/listserv/index.php with your WM ID login information!

Voter registration is one of the Student Assembly’s most important initiatives and is what truly gives us students a voice in the Williamsburg Community.  As a student at the College, we strongly encourage you to register to vote in Williamsburg, where local government will affect you most and where you also have the biggest ability to influence change.

Registration is simple: just fill out the on-line form here, print out a hard copy, sign it, and pass it along to Carlos Quintela at CSU Box 3578

We will turn in the form for you and you will receive your Voter Registration Card in the mail within a few weeks.

When you fill out the form, remember to write your dorm address, listed bellow, in the Residence (Permanent) Home Address line. You must then write your campus mailbox address in the Mailing Address line. The format for your CSU address is:

CSU# XXX P.O. Box 8793 Williamsburg, VA 23187

It is very important to follow these directions to expedite the registration process.

If you have any questions or problems, please email Carlos Quintela at cequintela@email.wm.edu

Campus Dorm Street Addresses: 

The Interfaith Council is hosting a Coffeehouse on Thursday, Feb. 24th! We will serve coffee and hot chocolate as well as munchkin donuts alongside the acts. If you or someone you know might be interested in participating in the show, please email krstephenson@email.wm.edu.  We are looking for everything from song and dance to poetry reading or short descriptions of what you believe.  Group or solo.  Pretty much anything goes.

Check out the facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=196314153728767#!/event.php?eid=196314153728767

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-Kate Stephenson, Undersecretary for Religious Affairs

Greetings on behalf of Office of Community Engagement and Scholarship’s
“Stand Up Campaign.” This year, the Campaign will aim to raise awareness
about key social justice issues, to honor those who have “stood up” for
social justice, and to help William and Mary students better understand how to
work for social justice on campus. The Campaign is Feb 7-11 and will have lots
of events throughout the week.

During the week, we will be putting up posters in the Sadler Center with
information and pictures honoring “Titans of Justice.” We want our campus
to be able to read and learn about key people who have worked for social
justice.

Email Marielle Larson, one of SA’s Undersecretaries of  Volunteer Services at mrlarson@email.wm.edu with any questions or ideas!

And check-out the Stand-Up Campaign and Active Citizen Conference book display on the first floor of Swem over by the group study area. The display consists of 50 books dealing with volunteering, service-learning, and broader conceptions of engagement. Feel free to grab a copy of the booklists which have been included in the display; one focuses on service learning/voluntarism and the other on the social responsibility of business. Special thanks to Swem for their support in this partnership.

Recyclemania is a friendly competition for university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. Over a 10-week period, schools report recycling and trash data which are then ranked according to who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables,the least amount of trash per capita, or have the highest recycling rate. With each week’s reports and rankings, participating schools watch how their results fluctuate against other schools and use this to rally their campus communities to reduce and recycle more.

Contact Ian Fuller, Undersecretary for Dining Services at ianbfuller@gmail.com for more information.