Williams Campus Family Housing: March 2008

Updated Calendar

This is the newest and updated calendar with the correct information on it. Like always, you can click on the picture to enlarge it. Enjoy!

Apologies for the April calendar on the back of this month's newsletter. Some of the dates and activities are incorrect. The information throughout the newsletter is the correct information. We will post an updated calendar soon. Thank you for your understanding!

Earth Hour

Earth Hour is on March 29th from 8pm-9pm. All of ASU's residential areas are participating in this, so please note. This is a voluntary activity for residents on campus. Essential security and services will NOT be included.

Here is some background information on Earth Hour:

In 2007, the city of Sydney, Australia, turned off their lights for one hour to symbolize the power of collective action and how it can affect positive change for our environment. Started by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the event turned into a world-wide phenomenon. More than 2.2 million turned off their lights in Australia, sparking media coverage and raising awareness about this important issue.

This year, WWF is taking the event worldwide and Phoenix has been chosen to be one of only four U.S. Cities to participate. On the night of March 29th, the downtowns in Phoenix, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco – along with a host of cities around the globe – will turn off their lights from 8 pm to 9 pm local time. (Essential services/security will not be included)

Housing Office Closed

The Housing Office will be closed on March 21, 22, and 23 due to the holiday. Thank you for your understanding. There is always the drop box and the CAs on duty if you need anything while the office is closed. Enjoy your holiday!

Community House Re-opening BBQ Pictures and Feedback

We had a great turn out to our Community House BBQ! We loved having the chance to get to know our neighbors and discussing our great plans for use of the community house. We are planning on doing a program there at least once a week and we would love to hear any ideas that you might have. It could be something large scale or even small like watching a t.v. show together. We are really excited to use the house more and we hope that everyone else is as well. Please leave us some feedback on the program whether good or bad. If you leave us a comment anywhere on the blog along with some kind of contact information, you could win a prize! Thanks to everyone who came out! Enjoy the pictures!

Spring Fling!!!

We had our Spring Fling event on Saturday, March 1st. Spring Fling is one of our larger programs and also our large fundraiser for our Relay for Life team. Relay for Life is a program that raises funds for The American Cancer Society and cancer research. The actual Relay for Life event is in April. There are several teams that all try to raise money for the cause and our housing team is called the Wild Willies. All of the proceeds from Spring Fling go to our team's contributions to Relay. This year we were able to raise about $250.00.

Thank you to all of those who came out to the event. We had a lot of fun activities. It was held at the track and we had a lot of things to do. We had a ton of field games including playing with a large ball, a water spoon relay, a rain gutter boat race, rug of war, and many other activities. We also had a great DJ as well as some live entertainment from a band here on campus. We had an old-fashioned lemonade stand that the children could work at where we sold pickles, popsicles, and lemonade, of course. We held pie eating contests along with cupcake contests for the little ones. We had chance drawings and sold Papa Johns pizza along with soda and water. Chic-fil-a came out to our event with sandwiches for sale as well as the prize wheel. The housing office staff had a tent where people could do renewals and lock in a cheaper rate on their license agreements.

It was a beautiful day, and we had a great time. We appreciate all of the volunteers and anyone who came out to Spring Fling and we hope everyone can make it out to next year's event as well. We put together a slide show with pictures from set-up and throughout the event. There are over 190 pictures, so it slides through pretty fast, but if you would like to look at each one better or save one, you can click on the slide show and it should take you to a different screen where you can choose what you want to look at and save by right clicking. If you have any questions you can leave us a post comment and we will help you out. Also, if you leave a comment anywhere on the blog with some sort of contact information, you could win a prize. We appreciate any kind of feedback from the event as long as it is constructive so that we can continue to make your experiences even better. Please leave us a comment!