Thanksgiving Back

Every term the Freshman area residence halls get to do one big 'All-Hall' event. This is when all six Residence Assistants (RAs) get to create a program that is beneficial to the residences, but also gives back to the community. I love this program as an RA because we always get to have fun, but the girls are all giving back either to Mercyhurst or our surrounding Erie community. In the past, we have collected money to donate books to a local elementary school, had a canned food drive, and even helped to train Mercyhurst's own therapy dogs!

This term we decided to keep it really close to home. Baldwin decided that for the Fall term we were going to help fund-raise money to support the Thanksgiving dinner hosted over break for any and all students who were not going home or had a chance to go home for Thanksgiving. This event has been put on in the past through the Multicultural Center. The reason they are always active and willing to help is because a majority of students who spend Thanksgiving break on campus are international students!

Our program is set to start the collection this week, November 5th-9th. Our three floors of residents will be competing to see who can raise the most change to benefit this year's Thanksgiving. I'll let you all know the outcome after this week! It is always a good feeling to give back though!

I also just wanted to give a quick shout out to our Laker's sports team for all the accomplishments this weekend! Men's Soccer: 2012 PSAC Champions, Men's Waterpolo for their historic wins in the CWPA Southern Championships (beating John Hopkins and Princeton!!), and our Laker Football team for winning the West! Way to go Laker Nation!!

Looking forward to the Senior game next Saturday and another Open House!

Until next time,

Adrianne