Take a few minutes to relax and let yourself unwind. Student Council is sponsoring complimentary coffee, tea and hot chocolate during finals. Available from May 4-11 in the Library. Coffee service will be operating until 8:00pm daily. Don’t forget to check out the rest of the events going on this week to help take your mind off of the stress of studying!
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Get a Relaxing Massage
Relax and de-stress with a massage from a professional massage therapist from the Monterey Institute of Touch. They will be on campus at the Holland Center on Thursday, May 8th from 12-3pm for your relaxation needs. Massages will be scheduled at 10 minute intervals. You’ll want to show up early to sign-up and guarantee a spot! Questions? Email Student Services.
Puppy Room!!!
It’s puppy time! Join our four-legged friends from the Animal Friends Rescue Project on Tuesday, May 6th from 12-2pm in the Holland Center for some puppy love! Just show up and be ready for cute attack!
*please note that the animals will be a mix of younger and older dogs, but all still worth a visit and a cuddle.
MIIS Trivia Night!
Student Services and members of the Student Council are co-hosting the first official MIIS Trivia Night!
Thursday, March 6th from 8-9:30pm in the Samson Center: Questions will be intercultural, fun, challenging and there will be food and prizes. The entire MIIS campus is welcome (i.e., students, staff and faculty). Don’t miss this fun evening! Teams of up to 4 people can sign-up at the door. See you there!
Save the Date for the 27th Annual International Bazaar
The 27th Annual International Bazaar is coming soon! Save the date! April 12th from 12-4pm at the Samson Center. Students, staff, faculty and families welcome. Enjoy multicultural cuisine, a beer and wine garden, entertainment and more. See you there.
H&R Block Tax Information Session
The Office of Student Services at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, A Graduate School of Middlebury College is hosting a tax workshop for resident and non-resident students on March 4th. Students from Monterey Peninsula College and California State University Monterey Bay are welcome to attend the session.
Representatives from a local H&R Block will be on campus on Tuesday, March 4th from 12-1pm in Morse B104. They will be talking about the often confusing process of filing your taxes, and what you need to know to have a successful, stress-free tax season.
Date: March 4th
Time: 12-1pm
Location: Morse Building, Classroom B104; 426 Van Buren Street
The information provided will benefit both resident and non-resident students. So stop by and get your tax questions answered on the 4th!
Carmel Jewish Film Festival Finale on MIIS Campus
The 2014 Carmel Jewish Film Festival and the Monterey Institute community outreach committee the eMIISsaries is proud to present a the screening of its finale film on Sunday, March 9 on the MIIS campus.
The Attack will be screened in Irvine Auditorium followed by a panel comprised of MIIS faculty with expertise in the films’s subject, and moderated by Provost Amy Sands.
Reception: 6:30pm
Film: 7:30pm
Panel to follow film
MIIS students are being offered a *special ticket pricing that includes the pre-film reception, the film and post film event for $10, a $27 value. Tickets are available in Student Services.
*Special pricing is for the finale screening, reception and panel only. Additional tickets to the festival may be purchased through the Carmel Jewish Film Festival’s website.
Student Council E-Waste Fundraiser
The MIIS Student Council presents an E-Waste Fundraiser for Sparks Micro Grants! Help your program(s) raise the most E-waste in February & Win a prize for your program! Stay tuned for more information from your program reps!
Every year, an estimated 135,000,000 cell phones are discarded in the US alone and only 13% are collected for reuse or recycle! Read some more facts about cell phone waste.
- The production of cell phones are dependent on one or more rare metals such as platinum, palladium,rhodium and even gold!
- The mining of metals for cell phones and other electronics is the #1 cause of toxic pollution in the U.S.!
- Over 100 million cell phones are stockpiled in U.S. households creating 50,000 tons of potentially
- hazardous waste.
- On average Americans replace their cell phones every 12-18 months.
- Cell phones contain toxic substances including Arsenic, Antimony, Beryllium, Cadmium, Copper, Lead, Nickel and Zinc which leach into soil and groundwater and form toxins during incineration which have been associated cancer and a range of reproductive, neurological and developmental disorders.
- The cadmium from a single cell phone is capable of polluting 158,200 gallons of water. (That’s 2.4 million
- 8-ounce sodas!)
- Recycle Today!
WHAT’S SPARK
Spark MicroGrants helps poverty-stricken communities in east Africa find and implement solutions to their most urgent problems. Spark provides unconditional grants to communities to build whatever project they decide they need the most (schools, health clinics, water wells, etc). Unlike most other organizations, Spark does not tell communities how to use the funds, but instead gives community members the trainings and skills to do it themselves. Since 2010, Spark has worked with 71 communities and impacted 31,000 individuals.
WHY PHONES
Spark facilitators work in some the most hard to reach communities in east Africa and spend hours each week “off the grid”. As you can imagine, that doesn’t make it easy to measure and record data. And it involves a lot of time consuming paper forms. The most efficient way to stay connected to our remote communities is by equipping our facilitators with better technology. With the money we receive from your old phone, we can purchase a smart phone for a Spark facilitator. In short, your old phone = no more paper forms and the facilitators have more time to spend with their communities.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
- Participate in our phone drive!
- Donate your phones – we know you have them sitting in one of those junk drawers. Don’t let it go to waste and donate it!
- Spread the word – amplify your impact and share your drive or donation with friends on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr using @sparkmg and #DonateIt
Get started here: http://secondwaverecycling.com/spark-microgrants. Questions? Email britney@sparkmicrogrants.org
Volunteer for VORP at Restorative Justice Partners
Are you interested in helping mediate resolutions between victims and offenders and polishing your conflict resolution skills? Restorative Justice Partners, Inc in Marina is looking for volunteers for one of its key programs, the Victim Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP). VORP brings together the offender of crimes and the victim of crimes together for a mediation. The mediators for these are volunteers (you!) from the community. Due to continuing county-wide buy-in VORP is seeing an increase of cases, which is exciting, but has increased the need more mediators!The next training for mediators will be during J-term, but we will have other trainings in the future. There is a student discount for the training ($10 instead of $30).
Attached you can find a flyer that has some information about this program or you can email our VORP Coordinator at rjp.vorp@gmail.com.
Happy Holidays!
Zumba Your Butt Off!
Burn off finals steam with a fun Zumba/Bollywood class! Join us on Tuesday or Wednesday evening at 4:30pm at Z Club Fitness on Pacific Street for a special class guaranteed to help you feel ready to tackle finals week!