iACEs for February/March

Now through February 15 Kyonna was able to get this awesome traveling Black History Month exhibit to be displayed in the Center for Diversity and Inclusion. The interactive component is the display itself! But a meal together would be nice :)

February 9 Founder's Day celebration during Golden Hour. It is actually a cool ceremony to celebrate how old and awesome Ripon College is-and we award some people for contributing to our local community. It is a nice ceremony-is always done by noon and usually there is cake to eat in the Commons to celebrate our birthday! Lunch discussion about how cool old stuff is- like a College founded in 1851 should follow with the cake!

February 10 Health Services and Counseling Services are celebrating love the Old School way by having everything for you to send Valentines to people on campus and off. They pay the postage! It would be interactive to have your residents to send one to another person on the floor, like a secret Valentine for each other.

February 10 A Valentine's Craft night with RAD. Tavia will be there to help you make crafts for your floormates-the interactive part here is the crafting at a table with each other!

February 11 The Black History Month event is a cartoonist that looks at Police brutality. This event is sure to spark some conversation. Meet with your floor afterward and have everyone bring their favorite comic and talk about why those were their favorites. Some political cartoons, Sunday funnies and even Calvin and Hobbes can say a lot about our society and such.

February 12 If you are not on the planning crew for ExtravaGamesZa you can make this an iACE with your floor. If you compete against one another and stay together through the event-your interactive component is DONE.

February 13 The SMAC Mayhem Poets is going to be an AWESOME show. Slam poets never disappoint. Before you head to the event you can all gather around a computer and google some slam poets and even try your hand at it in preparation for the event!

February 14 Join the Residence Life crew as they bring everyone together in the best Ice Breaker program EVER. Eat pizza, ice cream sundaes, and meet new people! Maybe afterward you can get together as a floor and giggle at bad pickup lines to round out the evening.

February 15 Join LaUnida as they help answer all your questions about voting in Ripon and voting in general. The interactive part can be a trip to SAO to all register for your absentee ballots or printing out the directions on how to register here in the city of Ripon to get that out of the way before Wisconsin's primary on April 5, 2016.

February 16 Black History Month event. BSU is sponsoring a Diversity Town Hall meeting during Golden Hour. A great way to talk about our campus climate and how to work together to make sure that climate matches the community we want to live in together. The interactive component here can be going to lunch together and continuing the conversation with some prompts- like what would their ideal world look like? Their ideal college? Their ideal residence hall? What things would be part of it.

February 20 BSU is showing the movie Mandela about Nelson Mandela and his life. The interactive part of this iACE could be imagining what Mandela or MLK felt like in jail and talking about how to maintain momentum for change in those kinds of environments.

February 23 The Library puts on these awesome workshops at 4pm through out the semester. On this day it is about video production and things like YouTube. How cool would it be to make a YouTube video with your floor to remember this year after you get some sweet skills to learn how to make it awesome.

March 2-11 The InFocus and Off Campus Study photo show in Rodman. This features art from places you could actually go as a student at Ripon. Maybe grab some brochures from the Commons or the Registrar's office about studying off campus and the interactive part of your program can be helping your residents talk about their former experiences or research for future opportunities.

March 2-5 The spring play "Holiday". Get fancy, go out to a show. Take some photos. Make it a special memory for your floor.

March 5 If you are not part of the planning crew- Bingo Bonanza is an iACE to end all iACE's. It is a residence life program, so you know it is guaranteed to be a blast.

March 9 De-stress on National Panic Day with a RAD event. Prep for this event by listening to Panic! At the Disco for 15 minutes during a dance party before you head to the event. Or you can have your residents put all the things that stress them out into a bucket of some sort-you can take them to this event and leave them there. Leave the stress there and do not bring it back to the floor. The symbolism is sometimes enough to reduce stress.

March 22 The Mitzvah Project is a one man play about half Jewish soldiers in the Nazi army. There is a short discussion that follows, you and your floor can participate in that and learn more about bias and inclusion from our history.

March 30 Orson Scott Card is the author of many books-including Ender's Game which was recently made into a movie-there is a speech (more details to follow soon) about him at 4:30 this day. The interactive component could be a trip to the Public Library or Lane Library and see if any of his books are available to check out-or learn what authors are similar to his style for those interested in reading more.