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The ACE UW-Manitowoc Blood Drive is a little over a week away and we need your help! There are so many appointments still available to donate blood! Please sign up in Student Services to give blood on Tuesday, November 8. This is such an easy opportunity to make a difference in our community!! Someone needs YOUR blood - please give!!

And, as an added bonus, all donors will receive a free visor ice scraper, compliments of Student Senate!


 * Campus Events this week…**

 **Friday, October 28** Bike Club Meeting, noon, Commons Elegant Farmer orders due in Student Services University Theatre presents “The Real Inspector Hound,” 7:30 PM, University Theatre (free to students w/ID)

 **Saturday, October 29** University Theatre presents “The Real Inspector Hound,” 7:30 PM, University Theatre (free to students w/ID)



Hello!

With the 2011 holiday season fast approaching, the Future Nurses have volunteered to do a stuffed toy collection for children. The stuffed toys will be split/donated to Aurora Hospital in Two Rivers and will be given to children during the year who come into the emergency room and/or require a hospital stay. They will also be given to the Manitowoc Police Department and Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Department to give to children who they see in difficult situations. Both entities have requested that any toys donated meet the following criteria: 1. They are new (this is for sanitary purposes – no “germs”) 2.The toys do not have button eyes and noses (can be swallowed by small children) 3.The toys are not seasonal (not Santa bears, etc.) since they will be used throughout the year.

The toys will be collected starting on Monday, October 18 th  and will be collected through Monday, November 21 st . There is a collection bin outside of Student Services where you can put the toys you wish to donate. This is a great and inexpensive way for you to make a meaningful donation to children. Hope you are able to help us out! Thank you so much!



 Hello Everyone!

As a grand finale to our Breast Cancer Awareness campaign, the Future Nurses would like everyone to **wear PINK on Monday, October 17** **th**, to show their support of the cause. If you “show your pink” please be sure to stop down in the Commons between Noon and 1:00 on Monday to have a free scoop of pink ice cream compliments of Student Senate and the Future Nurses.

Thanks to everyone who purchased a pink ribbon or has worn one on their lapel for the last few weeks. This has been a great campaign and we are hopeful you have more of an awareness of the disease that affects so many.

Cathy Buchner For the Future Nurses

Hello!

Denise Sweet, an Anishinaabe poet (Anishinaabe = Chippewa/Ojibwa) is coming to our campus on Thursday, October 20, 5:30-7 in Hillside 102. Denise Sweet was the Poet Laureate for the State of Wisconsin and has won many prestigious awards. The reading, sponsored by Lecture and Fine Arts, is free to UW-Manitowoc students with ID. For, campus staff and community members, the ticket price of $20 includes this event paired with a poetry reading by Roberta Hill, coming in November.

You can learn a bit of Denise Sweet’s biography and read some of her poems on these web sites:

<span style="color: black; font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">First, an interview with Denise Sweet http://gmfranci.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/charmingly-discharming-an-interview-with-denise-sweet/ <span style="color: black; font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Here is a bit of biography and links to several of her poems: http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/sweet/ <span style="color: black; font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Or try the Wikipedia info on Denise Sweet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Sweet <span style="color: black; font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We have an amazing poet coming to visit our campus next week. Please join us for the experience!

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"> **Hi Everyone!**

**The Future Nurses would like to invite you to join our “Good to Know” Contest as we continue our breast cancer awareness campaign this month. Each week (on Wednesday) during the month of October, a question will be sent to the campus community about breast cancer. A box will be placed outside of Student Services on the awareness table with pieces of paper and pencils for you to write your answers on. Each Friday at Noon, names will be drawn from that box and the first person whose name is drawn to have the correct answer to our question that week will receive a $5 gift certificate to the Blue Devil Grill (which by the way has delicious food in case you haven’t tried it yet** **J** **). Please watch your campus email every Wednesday through the end of October for the question of the week. Winners will be announced on Friday afternoons.** **//Any names submitted this week will be eligible for a special drawing on October 17//****//th//****//!//**

**Also, we’d like to remind you that we are still selling the pink ribbons for $1. C’mon UW-Manitowoc…we haven’t even spread hope the length of a hallway yet and we’d like to do it throughout Founders Hall. So dig in your pockets, take out a $1 and buy a pink ribbon! Future Nurses are all selling them and we also have them available in the Student Services Office. All proceeds benefit the Holy Family Memorial Free Mammogram Program. We appreciate your support.**

**Cathy Buchner** **For UW-Manitowoc Future Nurses**

media type="custom" key="10805112" On September 22, students from UW-Manitowoc paddled a 14-passenger Voyageur Canoe down the West Twin River as part of a 3-credit course called Spirit of the Rivers, taught by Dr. Kerry Trask and Laura Apfelbeck. The purpose of the trip, according to Apfelbeck, was to learn what was here before roads and cities, to understand the significance of using a canoe for commerce, and trade, and to discover how canoes changed our world. Dr. Kerry Trask lectured on the birch bark canoe to students and the community how beneficial canoes built the fur trade, making our waters one of the main highways for commerce. Voyageurs who hauled the furs from Montreal to Mackinaw Island a 650 mile trek down the river. The French fur traders based the creation of their craft on how the Sauk and several other Indian groups prepared their canoes. The canoes were made light weight for easy portage and shallow enough to maneuver through low streams. Sea worthy, easy to propel with one paddler facing forward to take in what may come. Soon everyone adopted the canoe.

The canoe is to the Great Lakes what the horse is to the West. Traveling by canoe is much different than traveling by horse. In the west the cowboy on his lone horse traveled town to town. With the canoe, paddlers are immersed in the water, directly responding to the natural environment. The canoe was a way for people to come together, work together for a common purpose in rhythm with the water, wind and current. A big thank you goes out to Jerry Disterhaft and Glen Gorsuch, with Fox of the River, Neshkoro, WI for having the voyageur canoeing experience available, thanks again. Viva La Compangie!



<span style="font-family: calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">We’re giving away 10 gas cards worth $25 each. All you need to do is take the e-Chug online. The **e-Chug is an individualized, confidential, alcohol survey that takes about 5 minutes to complete**. Once submitted, you will receive several pages of personalized feedback related to your drinking choices. All students are welcome to take the survey and enter into the drawing. (Non-drinking students are welcome to participate, but may find the survey tool to be non-applicable). Feedback will include how many alcohol calories you consume in a month, what % of your budget you spend on drinking, and what, if any, risk factors you have based on your using choices.

<span style="font-family: calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">To complete the survey go to http://www.uwc.edu/aode/alcohol/index.htm and click on e-Chug. <span style="font-family: calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">After you’ve read your personal feedback, you will be given an option to send a certificate of completion. **You need to send an electronic copy of the completion certificate to** **nathan.hilgart@uwc.edu****.** Please write e-Chug in the subject line. <span style="font-family: calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Deadline for submission is Friday, Oct. 28. Winning entries will be randomly drawn and winners notified on Oct. 31.

<span style="font-family: calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">If you have questions about your feedback, please reply to this email.

<span style="color: #ff0066; display: block; font-family: calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">**Good Morning!** <span style="color: #ff0066; display: block; font-family: calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">**October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the Future Nurses have elected to help bring hope, awareness, and support to our campus. How can you help you ask? Well…there are several things you can do.**

<span style="color: #ff0066; display: block; font-family: calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">**First, please purchase a pink ribbon for $1 (on sale over the lunch hour in the Commons and in Student Services during our regular business hours). You can write a message of hope or just buy a ribbon. We are trying to spread hope throughout our campus by posting these ribbons in the hallways. We will start in the hallway outside the Commons area and string them as far as we can go. All proceeds go to the Free Mammogram program at Holy Family Memorial Medical Center.**

<span style="color: #ff0066; display: block; font-family: calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">**Secondly, you can wear a pink ribbon on your lapel during October and pick up a mammogram reminder card to give to a woman you care about. These are also available during the lunch hour in the Commons area.****The first 36 people to stop by our table on Monday through Thursday of this week will also receive a coupon for a FREE pink cookie at the Blue Devil Grill.** <span style="color: #ff0066; display: block; font-family: calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">**Our campus campaign will run from today through October 17****th** **so please don’t wait…take advantage of one or all of the above TODAY!** <span style="color: #ff0066; display: block; font-family: calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">**Thank you so much!** <span style="color: #ff0066; display: block; font-family: calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">**Cathy Buchner** <span style="color: #ff0066; display: block; font-family: calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;">**On Behalf of the UW-Manitowoc Future Nurses**