Residence Hall Association of Ithaca College

De-Stress Fest Tonight!

2010-12-07T18:55:00.001-05:00

Hi All!

RHA's De-Stress Fest at the TC Lounge is tonight! Come on up for tons of activities and free foods and a great time to just relax at 8pm.

See you soon at the TC Lounge!
RHA

RHA updates!

2010-11-10T09:12:00.002-05:00

RHA's sex fest this year was a HUGE success! We gave away lots of goody bags and shared penis brownies and information with all. Our focus was also on options to promote other things you can do and mental health and satisfaction!
We also just got back from our first conference this past weekend! We are very proud of our conference staff and especially our presenters as they were a great hit, see Gamy Wong's facebook for more pictures, videos and everything you could ever want regarding conference!
Lastly we're really gearing up for Are You Smarter Than An IC Faculty Member? Look out for signs all over campus and in your RAs halls and see if you think you're smarter than a professor!

Cheers!
RHA

New Executive Board... For real this time!

2010-05-24T22:37:00.002-04:00

So there have been some recent changes to our executive board and here is what we're looking at for RHA's leadership here!

President: Sheraz Iqbal
Vice President: Jamie Hom
Secretary: Clare Goldrick
Dir. Ad/Pr: Jason Rozet
Dir. Programming: Brittany Kenyon
National Communications Coordinator: Keona "Kiki" Campbell

Best of luck to our nationals delegation in San Diego! (Sam Gabel, Cole Lechleiter, Julia Dunn, Gamy Wong, Jamie Hom, Brittany Kenyon with help from Kiki Campbell and Sheraz Iqbal)

Elections already?!

2010-04-06T08:51:00.001-04:00

It's that time again! Welcome in our new eboard for next year so far:

President: Leana Testani
Vice President: Jamie Hom
Secretary: Clare Goldrick
Dir. Programing: Brittany Kenyon

Treasurer, Dir. Advertising/Public Relations, and NCC remain open for any of you who are interested!

Congratulations to all nominees, everyone had fantastic presentations thanks so much all and good luck!

<3
Old eboard

Ithaca's Got Talent!

2010-03-30T23:12:00.001-04:00

Hey all! Tomorrow night in IC Square from 7-9 is Ithaca's Got Talent! We have a ton of performers, some lovely judges and wonderful hosts all for a night of fun and some popcorn to give out with tons of prizes! It's definitely an event that you won't want to miss so we'll see you there!

<3
RHA Eboard

Open Nominations for 2010-2011 Academic Year

2010-03-28T19:22:00.003-04:00

The Residence Hall Association has officially opened nominations for all executive board member positions for the 2010-2011 academic year. You can nominate yourself by email or in person at meetings, or can be nominated by an assembly member. Basic requirements involve being a member of the Residence Hall Association for one semester. Please review our constitution at icrha.shutterfly.com for more information and our documents! Presentations and elections will be held April 5th, the same date we will close nominations at the beginning of our meeting and then run presentations in gavel order. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us at rha@ithaca.edu!

Good luck nominees!
RHA Eboard

New Elected Board Members!

2010-02-11T20:16:00.001-05:00

I would like to officially congratulate our new executive board members:

Leana Testani for Treasurer

Brittany Kenyon for Director of Programming

You both did an awesome job and had great presentations, can't wait to see what you can do!
RHA eboard

Recruitment Night

2010-02-08T14:08:00.001-05:00

HI ALL!
Glad to see you back and starting your semester off on the right foot, why not pump it up a little more and come to RHA's info night to learn a little more and get in on some FREE PIZZA! Tonight at 7pm in the Taughannock Falls Meeting room on the third floor of campus center, we'll tell you all about who we are, play some fun games, and hand out food and fun!

See you tonight,
RHA eboard

Last Meeting

2009-12-09T14:52:00.001-05:00

Hey all,
Once again thanks for an awesome semester and I hope you're ready to gear up again and really dig in next semester and finish up those goals that committees set and put on some awesome programs! Hope everyone is successful in finals and has a safe trip home and back and a fun-filled break. See you on the other side RHA!

Love
Eboard

Happy Holidays! :-)

Turkey Call!

2009-11-30T14:36:00.002-05:00

Alrighty y'all. Hope you're filled with turkey and ready for our last two meetings!!! Tonight we have some very important information for you, with a presentation by Katie Parrotte on NRHH and a presentation from the Sustainably Conscious Learning Community. It will also be Juan's first official general assembly meeting as acting secretary! There's a lot of excitement on the rise and don't forget about our Study Breakfast on Sunday and we will be having a group lunch on Tuesday in le pub at noon. With all that in mind keep pushing on and see you tonight!

<3
Eboard

Bizness!

2009-11-19T16:25:00.001-05:00

Hi guys!
Congratulations to our new Executive Board member Juan Duchimaza!!! If you want to go and celebrate with him he lives in East Tower but you didn't hear it from us! We wanted to take the time to post here and just tell you guys we've had a great and productive semester so far, we definitely want to keep it going, and have a safe and wonderful Turkey day/ break!

Much Love
Eboard
:-)
*gobble gobble*

Next Meeting 10/26

2009-10-22T16:50:00.002-04:00

Hey all!
Next meeting we've got a bunch of stuff, we are entertaining the Director of Residential Life on campus, Bonnie Prunty, so be sure to bring tons of questions to ask her! We are also hearing a funding request from Habitat for Humanity. In committee time we'll be working towards our Hall-oween event Nov. 1 and for CCC initiative talk so make sure you're coordinating and working! Also don't forget to join our relay team, relayforlife.org enter your zip (*2) and then click on Ithaca College and find our team!

Awesome have a great weekend all!
<3 Eboard

Homecoming/Alumni Weekend

2009-10-08T18:04:00.001-04:00

Don't forget this weekend there will be tons of events every day, all day long for Homecoming/Alumni weekend! Get involved/volunteer/network and HAVE FUN! Don't forget the homecoming dance tomorrow night after the pep rally on the fitness center quad. I know tons of people are performing so if nothing else come out to support our lovely on-campus talent!

See you all this weekend!
Eboard

RECAP!

2009-10-08T18:03:00.001-04:00

A HUGE shout out to everyone who attended Sex Fest IT WAS AMAZING(ly sexy). I'm really proud of everyone involved for our first really successful program it was banging (pun intended). Just wanted to thank you all for helping out and I can't wait for our next program which will be just as wonderful I'm sure!

Stay tuned,
Eboard

Make Sexy Time Very Nice!

2009-09-28T15:05:00.002-04:00

Hey guys!

So don't forget our meeting tonight and we have a lot to cover but remember Sex Fest is coming up! October 5th in IC Square, we'll have comedians, aphrodisiacs, give aways, lobsters... yes lobsters and plenty of other awesome things going on so bring friends, wear RHA shirts if you have them and come check us out!!!

See you tonight!
<3 Eboard

Meeting Tonight 9/21

2009-09-21T12:20:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone!
Hope your weeks are getting off to a good start. Tonight we don't have a huge amount of formal business to cover but we will hear a presentation from Will Matthewson, VP of communications for SGA. Please come prepared to ask him questions about SGA and what they're doing for the year. We will also hear a little bit of parli pro and don't forget to fill out and bring your voter rep forms back!

See you all soon!
Eboard

FIRST MEETING OF THE YEAR!

2009-09-11T09:04:00.000-04:00

Hey guys, so our first meeting will be this monday, September 14 at 8:15pm in the Taughannock Falls Meeting room on the third floor of campus center. We will discuss our regional conference, alumni homecoming weekend events, committees and divide for the first time into them and other points on our agenda to kick off an awesome year we have planned! We hope to see you there along with tons of new faces so bring friends!

See you soon,
<3 Eboard

RHAlly

2009-09-02T18:32:00.000-04:00

HEY ALL! Tomorrow night we are hosting a RHAlly in Williams 323 at 8:15pm to let you know what RHA is doing for the year, to get people to get to know us, and to host some glow-in-the-dark frisbee! This is Thursday September 3 and will be tons of fun so we hope to see you all there!

Love
Eboard

Dir. of Ad/Pr wanted!

2009-07-22T18:05:00.002-04:00

Hello all!
If you did not receive our earlier facebook message we have sad and good news, depending on your perspective! Saranya Misra has been accepted to transfer to NYU and she is leaving us, on the other hand that leaves an open position in our Executive Board for someone to fill. If you know anyone or you yourself are interested in our Director of Advertising/ PR position please ask us if you have any questions or if you are interested and want to know a bit more or if you're bored, that works too! Either way we welcome any and all applicants and look forward to an early fall election! SEE YOU ALL SOON!!! Hope you are having wonderful summers and we can't wait to hear your fabulous stories when we all return,

LOVE LOVE LOVE
your ever active restless e-board, minus one :-(

Woah NACURH 09!

2009-05-26T16:53:00.005-04:00

Hey Guys!
So we just got back from nationals and we had an awesome time! Pictures are up all over Facebook in multiple albums and you can check out our banner and display on Gamy's Facebook. The weekend was filled with great programs, new legislation for RHA and NRHH both, and just a great time in general. We found out that next year's nationals will be at the University of California in San Diego with the theme of reunite, recreate, reinspire!!!! Also Regionals 09 will be at RPI and you can check out more on that at the Facebook group and their website here. The theme is Where in the W.O.R.L.D. is Marty?

Here is our delegation's spirit vid!

Check out NACURH 10's bid video here:

And NEACURH's Roll Call video for NACURH 09 here:

There's a lot going on next year conference wise so get excited!!!
More NACURH feedback to come soon!

Last Post

2009-05-07T15:42:00.002-04:00

Hey guys, I hope your finals are all going well and in your favor or at least giving you entertaining stories to share! I just wanted to post a last little farewell note for the last post of this year (apart from me posting after the NACURH conference in two weeks!). It has been a great year and I really hope to see everyone and then some come back next year. I have so much planned for RHA and we're really jumping in and we want to see you guys jump in too with us next year and get down and dirty here at IC! That said, I hope you all have amazing summers and I can't wait to hear about all of them!

Love you all!
Julia
RHA Pres 09-10

Director of Programming

2009-04-29T20:11:00.002-04:00

We have elected a director of programming as of Monday April 27 for the 2009-2010! Sara Fitouri was chosen as our new director of programming and I'm so excited personally to have her on my executive board!

Looking forward to good things,
Julia

Executive Board for 2009-2010... We're getting it done!

2009-04-21T00:00:00.002-04:00

Alright so here is the rundown of everyone who was elected to a position for next year's executive board of RHA, it is filled with ambitious people, tons of spirit, and the means to get things accomplished and I'm really excited to drive this forward and really jump into everything! That being said here is what RHA's Eboard will look like next year:
Julia Dunn: President
Ian Starker: Vice President
Katie Wright: Secretary
Jessica Pawelczak: Treasurer
Director of Advertising/Public Relations: Saranya Misra
Director of Programming: currently available
Co-National Communications Coordinators: Sheraz Iqbal and Gamy Wong

Congratulations to everyone and thank you so much for everyone who presented, it was a great elections cycle and it warms our hearts to see so much involvement and participation on all accounts from asking the hard questions and bringing up important discussion points to presenting in front of a room filled with peers and begging them to vote for you!

We'll see you next meeting!
The old Eboad

ELECTIONS TONIGHT

2009-04-20T15:45:00.000-04:00

Hey everybody,
Please do not forget we have elections tonight! It is still not too late to declare or nominate someone for a position as long as they are prepared and ready to present tonight! That being said, it is going to be a great life-changing meeting and I am SO excited!

See you tonight,
Love love love,
eboard

Hello RHA people!

2009-04-15T15:37:00.001-04:00

Just a friendly reminder that elections will be this upcoming Monday! You can still nominate people before we begin elections and close nominations via online or in the meeting. Also expect a funding request from Juliana Gonzalez, an assembly member, for Terrace Rocks... part deux! They are requesting money to cover a projector charge from ITS to help them throw their event but you'll hear more about that from them! Remember we have this meeting and the next to hear funding requests and remember that even last minute nominations will present at this Monday's election with NO exceptions... not even me... not that I need one because I'm prepared to ROCK YOUR SOX! Vote Julia for president!!!

Moose love,
and RHA love a plenty
Julia and the Eboard

DO NOT FORGET: up in the sac is our scrapbook so if you find yourself with free spots of time here or there feel free to come on up and decorate a page or two and clip out some photos! See you in the SAC!

2009-04-08T08:41:00.001-04:00

HEY ALL, DON'T FORGET SEX FEST IS TONIGHT!!! If you are coming early to set up please arrive at 6:30pm, TEXT EVERYONE YOU KNOW, make announcements in your classes, GET YOUR FRIENDS IN THE PUB TONIGHT! Don't forget to wear your RHA shirt... however dirty it is by now :-p! See you all tonight! :-D

FEST OF SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE!

2009-04-05T13:29:00.003-04:00

Look familiar? You should see these posters all around your halls, and if you haven't let us know so we can fill in the gaps! Regardless, Sex Fest will be April 8 from 7-9 in IC Square and I know everyone has so been looking forward to it so HERE IT IS! There will be presentations from groups on campus like SAFER and also a plethora of sexual knowledge you never knew presented to you via RHA! So come, bring your friends, tell your friends, your animals and your bosses and cohorts! BRING EVERYONE YOU KNOW! See you in the pub on wednesday!

HOUSING NIGHTS

2009-04-05T13:26:00.003-04:00

As most of you know RHA and Linda Koenig from the Office of Residential Life have teamed up to help you the residents of Ithaca College solve your housing issues and address your concerns! We set up two nights, the first is Monday April 6 at 7pm in textor 103, and the second will be on Monday April 13 at 7pm in the Klingenstein lounge. If you or some of your friends are really concerned with how housing selection went and have anything you would like to say AT ALL regarding housing you should come to at least one of these nights (and tell all your friends the same)! See you soon!!!

GAME NIGHT!!!

2009-03-18T16:28:00.003-04:00

Hello lovely assembly!
So we have our next social event listed down with a date and everything! :-) GAME NIGHT will be on Wednesday evening at 7 o clock SHARP (sort of) in Clark and Klingenstein lounges downstairs in campus center. If you walk in the smoothie place is on the left and the information desk is on the right and just head straight back and you will see a bunch of people eating good food and having a great time! I would also like to remind you to get those I Am Diverse! sheets filled out and turned in as the deadline is quickly approaching us. Also do not forget that elections are coming up soon and consider your options and your future with RHA and if you want to kick up your involvement with eboard a bit! Last and certainly not least, Relay For Life deadlines are also approaching quickly! Register and fundraise because the night is going to be absolutely fantastic and will be that much more significant to you if you are there, a vip member, or just helped support an amazing night. I have to say, my experience with RHA last year was one of the most memorable nights in college I have had so far! Other than that we will see you Monday night! More updates to come soon keep checking back!

HAVE FUN AT CONFERENCE THIS WEEKEND!!! NE -NE -NE TO THE A, A -A -A TO THE CURH, NE TO THE A, A TO THE CURH NE-A-CURH!

yours truly,
moose-loving e-board

...USE ME!

2009-03-02T12:49:00.002-05:00

Hey all,
just got out of a meeting with IC's Vice President for student affairs and campus life, and it got me thinking I should remind assembly members, the E board, and residents that I am connected with many people, and this makes it okay to think of me as a resource!

Here's a brief summary of people and groups I stay in contact with:
Student Affairs and Campus Life (SACL)--we talk about issues that affect students living on campus. This includes services, public health, safety, housing issues, and more. If it pertains to students doing any kind of business on campus--this is the connection!

Residential Life--This is a part of SACL, but focuses on anything having to do with the operation and housing in the on-campus experience.

Student Government Association (SGA)--makes recommendations to the administration and keeps in contact with students regarding issues of academics, campus life and current issues

National Association of College and University Residence Halls (NACURH)--participate most directly with the North East Affiliate (called NEACURH). The world's largest student-run organization is a network of student-run residential organizations on college campuses mostly througout the nation. This is a great source of connections to see how problems are solved on other campus and to generate great ideas about creating the best on-campus living experience.

These are the most important ones, but feel free to contact me if you're looking for answers and information!

Cole

More lunches!

2009-02-23T19:33:00.002-05:00

Hey all,
Do not forget we have another lunch date tomorrow! Because the first one went so well and we all want to see so much more of each other outside of that dreary meeting room!!! Other than that we've got some good funding requests coming up tonight as well as Linda Koenig, assistant director of housing services and communication, coming in to speak to us about learning communities and other fun little tidbits! Don't forget to seek out your eboard member you are working with for other speakers to come in and keep an eye out for National Conference applications coming out soon!

See you in a few!
<3 eboard

HALL WARS STARTS TODAY!

2009-02-18T15:40:00.002-05:00

Alrighty, second post today and still going strong!
Tell everyone you know, the guiding eye dog in training down the floor, the bugs in your light, your roommate, your obnoxiously loud neighbors, EVERYONE YOU CAN FIND, challenge them to participate in Hall Wars and win a significant prize/victory for your residence hall! It's a fight to the... well not death but something similar so duke it out! Don't forget to invite everyone to our facebook group!

Enjoy!
Eboard

Funding Request considerations

2009-02-18T15:36:00.000-05:00

Hey all,
Our last meeting was a little packed in terms of funding requests and business of that nature. As we decided to ask OALC to come back with more concrete numbers, what you should be thinking about is a confirmation of what kind of numbers, how much we want to give him unless we want to give per resident, and how many residents will be involved. Since the program is March 1 we really need to make decisions here and we do not typically ask a presenter to come back again once they have presented. My advice to you is to consolidate your own thoughts and figure out what you need to know to decide what to give this program. That being said there will be another request from Terraces 5-8 for a Planned Parenthood speaker to come in and food, they are requestiong $100. You all have a lot to think about so prepare for a fantastic meeting next monday!

See you then,
Eboard

Funding Requests!

2009-02-16T15:42:00.002-05:00

Hello darlings,
I had a pleasant afternoon at our lunch last week and we all decided in EBoard that we want more of those fantastic luncheons! Moving along we have a packed meeting tonight with three funding requests. Our first will be from yours truly, I'm planning a pancake dinner/movie night for my floor and am requesting $25 and inviting anyone who wants some pancakes! Secondly we will hear from the whole of the West Tower from Ruthie Goff, our SGA representative and she is presenting a Winter Carnival program and requesting $250. Lastly we will hear from the Outdoor Adventure Learning community from Andrew Casler who is requesting $1,000 to take his floor on a ski trip to Bristol Mountain in Rochester, NY.

That said, we will see you tonight for an amazing meeting and some great discussion and a budget update!
Love you all,
EBoard

OUTSIDE FUN!

2009-02-10T10:32:00.002-05:00

Hey all!
Hope you didn't forget but just to remind you we are meeting for lunch today in the pub at 12. Get grab and go and bring it with you, check out la vincita on webfood.com, or get something from that assortment of goodness on the other side. Whatever you decide to eat, we will see you at 12 with your RHA t-shirt and a ridiculously large smile on your face! :-) Oh and don't forget to send emails and talk to Cole and Katie about our game night coming up! I think you should all know that Cole is a ddr god... little known secret... but it is literally like watching someone who was BORN to play ddr. It's a life changing experience. Don't miss it. He's better than this guy:

And definitely cooler than these guys, although this is pretty sick:

See you all in about an hour!
<3 marty/eboard

Meeting tonight!

2009-02-02T19:07:00.002-05:00

Hello lovelies,
Last meeting we threw some questions out there for you all to answer and asked you to brainstorm some guest speakers you would like to have come in and talk to us, so hope you all remember to bring those in tonight! There are no funding requests tonight but there will be plenty of other fun and important things going on like preparations for our mini-no-frills conference coming up and NATIONALS! That being said I will see you all in about an hour and DO NOT FORGET to bring a friend and sign up for that Relay Team!

Share the love RHA
Eboard

First Meeting Back!

2009-01-26T19:33:00.001-05:00

Hello everyone,
I'm personally really excited that we're getting back into the thick of things and kicking off the year right with a BIRTHDAY! Happy Birthday TZ, hope you love the recognition. Other than that I would really love some help from you guys making this blog happen so that means cross discussions between various committee groups on what you're doing, contributions from eboard on things that are going on as well as updates on CCC projects. Because let's get serious, this blog is here for us to maintain more updated information and get more from RHA and also to tell people more about RHA so let's use it! That being said... see you all in 40 minutes!

:-)
Marty and the Eboard

All I Have to say is... Where My Party People At?

2008-12-04T14:22:00.003-05:00

IT'S TIME FOR OUR SASSY DANCE! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOO! Our next meeting will be at 7 and there will be tasty desserts... two ss's because you want more indeed!... and it will be a DANCE PARTY! Dress to impress people, I'm pumped and you should be too! To set the mood a little bit and teach some dancing skills I've attached this YouTube video:

And yes, I LOVED Mark from So You Think You Can Dance and would've picked him over Joshua ANY DAY! But that's just me :-).

Can't wait to see you all in your best dancin clothes!

Love love loooooove,
Eboard

Relay For Life!

2008-12-02T22:40:00.002-05:00

RHA has created a Relay For Life team to gather, have fun, stay up late, and contribute to a good cause of course! The event details are all on this site here and it's only a 10 dollar registration fee which is really a donation to your team. From there we can fundraise and reach our goals!!! :-) So join today! K thanks bye.

Love
E board

Hey Thanksgiving fans!

2008-11-07T15:50:00.003-05:00

Do you love eating a pie?
Do you want campus bragging rights?
Do you feel a need to pelt people with dodgeballs?
WELL THEN, if one or all or none of these things apply to you I suggest you create a Thanksgiving Olympics team! Student organizations, residents, or groups of friends with 8-10 members can sign up with a registration fee of $10. All proceeds will go to a non-profit charity of your choice, or your Relay For Life team! Feel free to raise additional funds beyond the required fee. The event date is Wednesday November 19, at 7 pm in Emerson Suites. Bring friends, uniform t-shirts, tie dyed socks, whatever you have, SHOW US WHAT YOU GOT!

Love RHA E-board

This is a test!

2008-10-28T20:03:00.002-04:00

This is our first blog post here at RHA at IC.blogspot.com and we are just figuring out whether we're going with this or not... we'll see! :-)