Anthropology Student Association

UP-COMING EVENTS

2005- 2006

 The ASA is looking forward to another year of organizing exciting events for its fellow students. Please check here frequently for dates, times and locations. If you have ideas of activities you would like to see happen, email us at paulas@yorku.ca

OCTOBER

Meet and Greet Your Anthropology Student Community at York

Are you overwhelmed, confused about your positionality? Still think Margaret Mead is a brand of pancake syrup??? Don't let these pesky questions keep you up at night! The ASA can help and feed you! 

Come together and meet your fellow students at the first ASA event of the year!  Become known by your peers as someone other than the person at the back of the Lecture Hall. 

   Date: October 12, 2005

Time: 12:00-1:00

Location: Multipurpose Room-

Vari Hall, Room 2054

Grad School Applications Workshop

Need help with Grad School Applications? Unlock the age old mystery of filling out government forms and getting money. This workshop is pertinent to those considering Grad school as OGS and SSHRC submission dates are upon us.  

This workshop will be extremely helpful with OGS, SSHRC and Grad-School Application Forms. 

Date: October 12, 2005

Time: 10:00-12:00 AM

Location: Multipurpose Room-

Vari Hall, Room 2054

Classroom Orientations

ASA Executive will be visiting first and second year classes for Active Member sign-up and discussions of major upcoming events. Feel free to ask us any questions!

Dates: October 24- 28, 2005

Location: Your Lecture Hall!

NOVEMBER

ASA T-Shirt Design Competition

Be Proud, Be Loud!

This year the ASA is holding its first ever design competition. This is a chance for all anthropology undergraduates to find a space and immortalize their expression of representation on a t-shirt- that's right, on a t-shirt. 

Winner will receive a free T-shirt, that fits! 

Click below for contest and submission deadline and guidelines. 

T-Shirt Submission Design Guidelines 

All profits generated from T-Shirt revenue will go right into the ASA Events Fund.  

**Competition has been extended to November 25th for those students that still wish to submit a design to Betty**

Disaster Relief for Victims of Gulf-Coast Hurricane Katrina

Although the preliminary organizing is still in effect, we hope to collect monetary donations in anthropology classrooms for the victims of Hurricane Katrina through the non-profit organization "Canadian Rescue Coalition". Their website is still being put together, but should be in operation by the beginning of November.

www.canadianrescuecoalition.com 

This is a newly established organization that acts as an umbrella for certain charities and we therefore provide the following information: 

"... [T]he non-profit organization that Canadian Rescue Coalition has chosen to work in conjunction with in order to expediate monetary and material relief donations to the hardest hit and neediest areas of greater New Orleans. After careful research we chose this organization as they are a grassroots organization comprised of members who are living in, or are familiar with, the geography and specific individual community needs in the hardest hit parishes in New Orleans: East Jefferson Parish, Orleans Parish, the lower Ninth Ward, Treme, the Eighth Ward and St Bernard Parish. The Greater New Orleans Resource Coordinating Committee is now active in helping us to seek out and secure four to five holding centers for material donations to be stored when they arrive at the Port of New Orleans in the future. I will update you when we have secured these said warehouses/ holding centers. We will rely on them to help distribute the above said donations to the appropriate persons and communities who need it most. They have an established ten year track record of doing this kind of work and since it is their organizations only mandate, we believe them to be the best choice. The Greater New Orleans Resource Coordinating Committee was established in the early nineties after a hurricane left particular communities, and their members, in dire need for monetary and material relief. Today, this non-profit, fully volunteer operated organization appeals to public and private sources for donations and disburses everything from relief cheques to water to food and clothing to the neediest people of New Orleans. In keeping with their mandate to supply immediate help, and support the poorest and marginalized members in their community, their focus is to help those return to a state of health in order to rebuild and continue within New Orleans. The Greater New Orleans Resource Coordinating Committee was established over ten years ago by a number of religious and respected community leaders throughout the parishes of New Orleans. It is a non-government, non-profit organization which donates 100% of all donations back to the people. It was conceived in the early nineties by it's present Director:  Minister Paul Frederick Longstreth - BA Univ. of Tulsa - MA Southern Methodist University - PhD work Univ. of New Orleans; and co-founder, present day Coordinator: Mr. Bill Boulbin of The Southern Ulster Project. At present this organization is disbursing relief cheques to those who have not received relief cheques from FEMA, and to those that are displaced and can not, or have no, home to return to in their respective parishes in New Orleans."

Paula Stoyanoff, ASA President

Any questions concerning the ASA's Disaster Relief Effort can be directed to Paula @ paulas@yorku.ca 

Date: TBA

Time: Your Lecture

Location: Class-by-Class Donations 

or at the Anthropology Department,

VH 2054. 

 **Please be advised that Earthquake Relief Efforts for the victims of South Asia are in the works as well. The ASA is in the motions of aligning themselves with the York Pakistan Student Association, who are currently accepting donations. 

Holiday Food Bank Donations

Once again, the ASA is collecting donations for the Food Bank for the upcoming holiday season. Boxes will be located in the Anthropology Department, Vari Hall 2054, where you can bring in non-perishable food items, clothing or blankets. Let's make this years' donations as plentiful as last years'. More information will be explained during classroom orientations. 

Date: October 26th- Mid-December

Location: Anthropology Office, 

Vari Hall 2054

Post Midterm Stress Relief Beer Night

For those anthropology students that are over the age of 19, the ASA is holding a social pub night to detoxic your midterm stress. Join us at the Cock 'n' Bull, at 6 o'clock sharp, and the first round of beers are on us!  More details will be given during classroom orientations. Also, bring non-perishable food items with you and we'll buy you another beer! Hope to see you all there!

Date: November 2, 2005

Time: 6:00PM- 9:00PM+

Location: Cock 'n' Bull Pub

Basement of Founders College

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