Make a difference in gender violence support on campus!  Become an Advocate.

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The Office of Gender Violence Education and Support is currently recruiting new Advocates. The Gender Violence Support Advocates (Advocates) Program is a network of dedicated and compassionate staff and faculty volunteers who are trained to assist students who are impacted by sexual assault, intimate partner abuse, stalking, sexual exploitation, and sexual harassment. In their role, Advocates provide initial support and referrals to campus and community resources and reporting options and then help students navigate all their options.

Serving as an Advocate requires, among other responsibilities, an initial 10 hour training, monthly meetings, being on-call, and attending campus gender violence prevention events.

If you are interested in serving as an Advocate, please contact Dr. Brooke DeSipio, Director of the office of Gender Violence Education and Support at bed4@lehigh.edu to learn more about the position.

Relay for Life 2021

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Throughout the weekend:

Virtual raffles

Auction sign ups online
Pre sales
Teams can donate

Mask fundraiser

Design masks that can be sold before and during relay online

FOR ALL EVENTS DESIGNATED IN PERSON:
-we would like to discuss how to make events on Lehigh's campus in person. Every event would uphold the current state and university COVID-19 regulations (such as restricting the number of people at the live event, wearing masks, social distancing, hawk watch, etc.). All in person events will have sign up sheets and once capacity is met it is met. All in person events will have the option to tune in over zoom so that all can participate. If for some reason in person events cannot take place, all events will proceed via zoom. The location would be anywhere outside to include a higher number of participants, hopefully the front lawn or the zoellner courtyard as locations on campus to use. You will notice below that we have decided to split relay into a weekend event to allow for in person events to be socially distanced rather than having a ton of people in one place for many hours at a time.
Friday, April 16th:

4:00pm: opening ceremony IN PERSON (front lawn)

First lap of the relay
Maybe a performance or an event

5:00pm: Guest Speaker ZOOM

Either a survivor locally or a famous survivor

This night: Relay night at a local restaurant willing to have a portion of proceeds go to us

Molly’s drink special???

Saturday, April 17th:

12:00pm: survivorship ceremony IN PERSON (front lawn)

Have megan create a plan for this

2:00pm: Guest Speaker ZOOM

The opposite of that from yesterday

4:00pm: Zumba IN PERSON (front lawn) AND ZOOM (tune in)

Hopefully can have pre-register for a zumba on the front lawn with the option to tune in via zoom

6:00pm: virtual performance and trivia ZOOM
8:00pm: luminaria ceremony IN PERSON (front lawn) AND ZOOM (tune in)

Week before relay have people register for a bag to be sent to them to decorate
Line bags around the front lawn and have people social distance during the ceremony
Lighting of the glow sticks (can also pre send out)

For those on zoom, can light a glow stick or turn on their zoom background in honor of their person

Play the video of everyone explaining why they relay over zoom
Moment of silence while we walk around the front lawn
Followed by a performance if possible in person if not in person on zoom

Sunday, April 18th:

12:00pm: Mr and Mrs relay ZOOM (maybe in person?)

Tasks that can be done at home
Vote over zoom

2:00pm: virtual performances ZOOM

Have several dance/singing groups perform

4:00pm: closing ceremony IN PERSON (front lawn)

Last lap
Announce the team that has raised the most
Greek cup

Hosted by: Colleges Against Cancer

Additional Information can be found at: lehigh.campuslabs.com/engage/event/7070492

Candy Grams for Midterms

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Purchase candy grams for your friend who is stressed during midterm week! Proceeds will go towards Pi Beta Phi's philanthropy Read > Lead > Achieve and Theta Chi's philanthropy USO. Students can purchase candy grams over Venmo and can customize a letter to go with it. Candy grams will be dropped off at the mail center for students to pick up so that social distancing can be implemented.

Hosted by: Pi Beta Phi

Additional Information can be found at: https://lehigh.campuslabs.com/engage/event/7010270

Make a difference in gender violence support on campus!  Become an Advocate.

Event Date

The Office of Gender Violence Education and Support is currently recruiting new Advocates. The Gender Violence Support Advocates (Advocates) Program is a network of dedicated and compassionate staff and faculty volunteers who are trained to assist students who are impacted by sexual assault, intimate partner abuse, stalking, sexual exploitation, and sexual harassment. In their role, Advocates provide initial support and referrals to campus and community resources and reporting options and then help students navigate all their options.

Serving as an Advocate requires, among other responsibilities, an initial 10 hour training, monthly meetings, being on-call, and attending campus gender violence prevention events.

If you are interested in serving as an Advocate, please contact Dr. Brooke DeSipio, Director of the office of Gender Violence Education and Support at bed4@lehigh.edu to learn more about the position.

Self-hosted Intra-dorm Contest (LU Table Tennis Club)

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We mainly wish to promote awareness of table tennis while bringing inspiration to on-campus students (especially freshmen,) signifying a brighter upcoming Lehigh experience.

For more information, please check the sign-up form attached below.

We named this event “Intra-Dorm Contest” because we want to pair participants from the same residence hall to minimize the possibility of cross-contamination. For example, players at Farrington cannot sign up for the event at Brodhead. Furthermore, our event allows only two designated players at a specified time slot, which does not concern the existing indoor policies. Our table tennis contest is more of a self-hosted event formed by whichever two players are competing at a given moment. When Lehigh is fully reopened, we will have a final inter-dorm contest to determine the undisputed Ping Ping Champion across all residence halls.

Players are randomly paired up from the same hall. Each match should take at most 30 minutes, which we will enforce as the signup sheet's time slot duration. A brief warm-up rally is allowed before the actual match. Each match consists of at most 3 games, so the first player to win 2 games wins the match. The current tournament employs an elimination style. Our final match in each dorm will use a first to 3 formats (at most 5 games.) That will give a 45 minutes time slot for the finalists to sign up.

Diner en Blanc

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Diner en Blanc is a Student Outreach tradition. It is a Lehigh spin on the Parisian tradition of a community dinner. The Lehigh tradition usually consists of having a mystery location which students are bused to. This year, the event will need to be reimagined to fulfill the celebration vibe that this event entails, but respect the Covid protocols.

Last years theme was "A Year in Review", since most people would rather not review this year, we plan to shift the theme to be "Completion" in order to represent the end of a very dark period in American history. We hope to keep the format from previous years where there will be one community speaker, one student speaker, and a speech from the Student Senate all about the event and around the theme.

Since previous years had about 500 students planned to be shuttled to a secret location, the event will really need to be reimagined. The Student Outreach committee has several ideas for this event, and we would love to get the CEAG's input.

"People are tired of zoom, they'll need to want to go online"
This was a quote from a Student Outreach member and sums up one of the most important points we are taking into account for this event. We would like to reimagine the large community dinner the diner en blanc is into a more pod versions, so groups of students/faculty/staff can sign up and celebrate together. This would functionally look like groups of students, individual faculty/staff members, signing up and being given a box with instructions and other goods. The instructions would had information on how to connect to how the event will be run for every group.

While the most normal idea would be to have a virtual video ceremony to go with this event, our committee believes students will find that annoying or boring. To rethink this idea of a virtual ceremony, we think it would be awesome to possibly utilize the school radio station and have the speeches and music run from there. Students would be able to stream the event from their phone or computer and certain large locations can have speakers. Since the radio would be a spin on streaming communication, we feel that it would be a great way to keep a little bit of surprise in Diner en Blanc.

While groups of students can sign up to celebrate together, we want to ensure everyone is following proper social distancing, so we might as the large grass areas on campus be laid out in a grid for groups of 5 to each fit in. These locations can then be signed up for celebrating the event.

The other things to be in the boxes are still trying to be decided on. There are several types of things Student Outreach would like to be in the box. First would be a memorial type of object: a piece of wood that says Lehigh, stickers, mugs. Another would be a type of celebratory gift: sparkling cider, champaign (21+ and not difficult of layout), sparklers. Something special: we are still trying to figure out ideas.

While a lot is changing this year, we hope that diner en blanc can still be an engaging, unifying event for the whole Lehigh community.

I look forward to meeting with the CEAG.
Thank you,
Declan

Hosted by: Student Senate XXXII

Additional Information can be found at: https://lehigh.campuslabs.com/engage/event/7067538

Make a difference in gender violence support on campus!  Become an Advocate.

Event Date

The Office of Gender Violence Education and Support is currently recruiting new Advocates. The Gender Violence Support Advocates (Advocates) Program is a network of dedicated and compassionate staff and faculty volunteers who are trained to assist students who are impacted by sexual assault, intimate partner abuse, stalking, sexual exploitation, and sexual harassment. In their role, Advocates provide initial support and referrals to campus and community resources and reporting options and then help students navigate all their options.

Serving as an Advocate requires, among other responsibilities, an initial 10 hour training, monthly meetings, being on-call, and attending campus gender violence prevention events.

If you are interested in serving as an Advocate, please contact Dr. Brooke DeSipio, Director of the office of Gender Violence Education and Support at bed4@lehigh.edu to learn more about the position.

Candy Grams for Midterms

Event Date

Purchase candy grams for your friend who is stressed during midterm week! Proceeds will go towards Pi Beta Phi's philanthropy Read > Lead > Achieve and Theta Chi's philanthropy USO. Students can purchase candy grams over Venmo and can customize a letter to go with it. Candy grams will be dropped off at the mail center for students to pick up so that social distancing can be implemented.

Hosted by: Pi Beta Phi

Additional Information can be found at: https://lehigh.campuslabs.com/engage/event/7010270

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