Stonewall

Brought to you by your Gender and sexual diversity advocate Hillevi Johnson 

Come check out the Stonewall Center, Western Oregon University's GLBTQ resource center! Located downstairs in the Werner University Center across from Abby's House, the Stonewall Center houses movies, tv series, literature, magazines, condoms, dental dams, and information brochures that are available to EVERYONE! While focused on GLBTQ-related issues and items, this center is welcome to staff, faculty, students, and anyone who identifies within the community or is an ally. It remains open with the help of student volunteers, and is open 38 hours per week this term! Check out and like "WOU Stonewall Center" on Facebook, email aswougender@mail.wou.edu to become a volunteer, or simply stop by and see what it's all about! 

Interested in learning more about the GLBTQ community or making connections? Join the Triangle Alliance club, a student-led group that hosts events, discusses GLBTQ-related topics, and has fun! Meetings are held every Monday in the Santiam room of the Werner University Center. Also, learn more about our Safe Zone program, as well as its Ally trainings. Check out www.wou.edu/safezone for more information!

Favorite Quote

Brought to you by your ASWOU J Board member Travis Meuwissen

"Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence.

Maturity is patience.  It is the willingness to postpone immediate gratification in favor of the long-term gain.

Maturity is perseverance; the ability to sweat out a project or a situation in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks. 

Maturity is the capacity to have unpleasantness and frustration, discomfort and defeat without complaint or collapse.

Maturity is humility.  It is being big enough to say, “I was wrong.”  And, when right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, “I told you so.”

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it.  The immature spend their lives exploring endless possibilities; then they do nothing.

Maturity means dependability, keeping one’s word, coming through in a crisis.  The immature are masters of the alibi.  They are confused and disorganized.  Their lives are maze of broken promises, former friends, unfinished business and good intentions that somehow never materialized.

Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change, the courage to change that which can be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference."

- Ann Landers

What is ASWOU up too??

Brought to you by your ASWOU Vice President 

What is ASWOU up to this week???

The real question is what AREN’T we up to!!

While we are approaching the end of our second week of Winter Term we have been busy! Whether that be prepping for Lobby Days in the capital, working in the food bank or getting the word out about our next bike workshop!

This past weekend a few of us attended the Oregon Student Association Board Meeting that happens every month. At this meeting Oregon State University proposed a campaign that they will be doing on their campus.

“Wear the Square” is their campaign.

With the successes of registering 50,000 students to vote across the state we also want to make sure that we are holding our legislators accountable for affordable tuition. This campaign is to raise awareness as well as educate the student body at Oregon State University and on different campuses in Oregon that are in support of this campaign. WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY supports “Wear the Square” so look out for information regarding this campaign!! We will be handing out squares and hoping that students will support in spreading awareness on tuition costs and how they are in constant rise.  

WHY THE SQUARE??

In February 2012 in Quebec, Canada there was a threat in raising tuition in public university students by $100 per year for five years in order to balance the budget. To symbolize their protest, they wore RED fabric squares on their clothes and backpacks. The color RED is used in ledger books to show that your balance is negative, so the students chose RED to show that they were “squarely in the red”.

ALSO!!

ASWOU will be taking a group of students that would like to Lobby in the capital on issues like:

·         Tuition Equity

·         Tuition Affordability

·         Cultural Competency

·         Schools not Prisons

·         Student Parents

·         University Governance

IF THIS IS SOMETHING YOU ARE INTERESTED IN GOING WITH US TO THE CAPITAL PLEASE EMAIL aswoustate@mail.wou.edu

If you are interested in sharing your story with any of these priority issues we are also collecting stories.

From me to You

Brought to you by your campus relations advocate Tyler Potter

ASWOU this term is doing a lot more tabling upstairs in the Warner center. We are going to be trying to be more visible at Western. If you’re interested about any events this term or anything that ASWOU is doing please come to the info desk 11-1 Mondays and Wednesday’s.  Also elections for positions across campus are coming soon. If you’re interested in running for a position please contact someone in ASWOU or email aswoucampus@mail.wou.edu.

On another note if you’re thinking about joining ASWOU but aren't sure yet, let me tell you what ASWOU has done for me. I live off campus, and its Oregon… so not the funnest place in the world to be walking around especially in winter. ASWOU lets me have flexible office hours that I’m about to schedule around my class schedule. I also love having an office to go on campus where I feel that I belong whether I have to do work or I want to do homework, I like the feeling of walking in having a computer I can use and working in a place where I would call all other ASWOU members my friends. It has been a great experience as far as work goes, my social life goes and my future goes. So in the theme of this year’s ASWOU members YOLO.

Campus Food Bank

Hello everyone. 
Fall Term 2012 was the first term that the Campus Food Bank was in operation. The term has been a great success, the Food Bank has served over 85 students, had close to 40 volunteers and raised over 1,800 pounds of Food. There was great volunteer support and many of the Food Bank's events were a great success. In the past few weeks the partnership between Marion Polk Food Share and the Food Bank was formed which was an important step in being able to now get large volumes of food donations. The Food Bank looks forward to the future where it hopes to communicate with other local Food Banks to figure out ways they can help one another to help support members in the community that are in need of food assistance. The Food Bank already has hopes of expanding and one day becoming a Food Bank that will serve the entire community. I hope everyone had a nice holiday season. 

Kind Regards,
Colin Albi