UC Merced OSL

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Bobcats...you still have time to vote!

ATTENTION BOBCATS:

Title: What Triggers Are And Why You Need to Understand Them
Date: Friday, April 24, 2020

Time: Noon-1pm

Description:
Someone makes a joke, a snide comment, thinking ‘no big deal,’ but all you can think about for the rest of the day are those words, over and over again. You find yourself feeling off-center, anxious, guilty, angry, or even in shame.

Does this sound familiar?

We all have emotional triggers. It can be challenging to identify exactly what those triggers are, but the process of getting to know and understand them can help us heal and learn how to cope better in response. Please join us, as we explore the power of triggers and discuss why it is so important for us to understand them.

Join us and register at: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwuc-msqTMoHNx446HqVd7XQGdfrGvKTrSg

Attention Bobcats...check this out!

We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during these uncertain times and that you continue to successfully navigate through your online courses as the end of semester approaches.

Announcing the Spring 2020
Womxn's Empowerment Webinar Series
presented by UC Merced's Women's/Womxn's Programs

RSVP Now! : www.tinyurl.com/UCMWomxn
UC Merced's Womxn's Programs, a unit of the Office of Social Justice Initiatives & Identity Programs, is excited to bring to you the 2020 Womxn's Empowerment Webinar Series.

The theme of this year’s conference is “Our Voices” and will feature keynote speakers Margo F. Souza and Jess Evora on Monday, April 13th, as well as workshops on finding your voice in leadership, advocating for change, and how to stop apologizing amidst a patriarchal society throughout the week!

Thanks to the flexibility and dedication of our amazing presenters, we have moved our previously planned one-day conference into a virtual format with five live webinars taking place over a week's time span.
We hope you will join us for these exciting opportunities to learn and engage with one another.

Together we stand. Would your service club like to donate supplies to pass out FREE cloth masks for the community? Please message us to join our efforts. This goes out to ANY service club. Lets connect and concur. We have a plan.

Just for you...

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Attention Bobcats!

Bobcats...check this out!

Bobcats, check out this year's 14th Annual Human Rights Film Festival!

Attention Bobcats...vote for this! It takes less than 5 minutes!

UC Merced has partnered with the City of Merced to apply for a grant to fund a 10 concert – concert series in Applegate Park in 2020. Receiving this grant would help bring the campus and community together in a meaningful way while also revitalizing a once vibrant public venue in Merced. Concerts would be on Friday evenings starting in August and running through mid-October. Performances would be free and open to the public.

Here is the link to vote: https://grant.levittamp.org/voter-registration-page/
Here is a video about the program: https://vimeo.com/368941474?ref=em-share

Sign Up to Vote - Levitt AMP [Your City] Since all Levitt projects are community-driven, we’ve opened the grant selection process to YOU! Sign up to vote for the Top 25 Levitt AMP finalists.

Bobcats...check this out! An opportunity to hear your feedback and connect with other Bobcat scholars!

Bobcats check it out! Space is limited!

Come join us this Saturday and enjoy SF MoMA! Register AND attend the pre-meeting this Friday at noon in KL 169!

WWW.TinyURL.com/MOMA2k19

Back for summer session 2019? Follow the new OSL ig to stay updated with events going on campus!

For more information and how to register for this event, visit:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScK17XWJ7-Qhv64-P_0-e_yi2ls-umuuMvgakUxvvrnr7jhWg/viewform

Attention Bobcats, OSL Summer Programs has officially started...hope to see you there!

Attention Bobcats check it out!

Hello Bobcats! See the line up for this year's 13th Human Rights Film Festivals!

UC Merced OSL updated their business hours.

Join the Office of Student Life on a trip to Sacramento to see Sacramento King's play the Washington Wizard's on Friday, October 26th, 2018.

The bus will depart from the campus at 2pm and return the next morning at 12:30am.

Space is limited for this trip. To sign up, please complete the form at the link below AND visit OSL (GP 163) to submit a $20 cash deposit. BOTH online registration and a deposit are required to secure a spot on this trip.

This event is sponsored by the Office of Student Life. For more information, please contact James Hatten at [email protected].

Rufus is in the building!

Big Vic's BBQ is in full force with ribs, tri tip, mac and cheese, and baked beans! Come catch the Via shuttle from the Marketplace stop, and join us at the Lake! Show us a selfie with and win a prize!

Come join the Office of Student Life at their Splash Into Summer, end of the summer BBQ! This event will be held at Lake Yosemite, at Rotary Cove 1! This event is open to all students, staff and faculty that are enrolled in Summer Session. We will be serving food from 11am-2pm or when food runs out! So head out to Lake Yosemite for great food, music and a game of volleyball.

Come by the OSL tent, in front of the OSL office, from 11:30am-12:30pm and sign up for our Santa Cruz trip! First 10 people that sign up and place a deposit will get a prize!

*****Attention Bobcats!!!*****

OSL will be tabling from 11:30am-12:30pm today, July 6th, to get you signed up for our Santa Cruz trip! Come by and sign up and put in your $20 cash deposit to secure your spot on the summer’s hottest trip! The first 10 people to sign up and put in their deposit will get a prize! Follow the music to the outside of KL184 (OSL) and get signed up for Santa Cruz!

Sign up for a chance to visit Santa Cruz for the day. Join other Bobcats to get some Vitamin D on the beach and check out the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk attractions. Participants will receive an unlimited ride wristband for the day! The Office of Student Life will provide transportation to Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and participants will need to be responsible for bringing snacks/food/meals for the day. (Deposits will be returned upon participation day of event.)
Both online registration and a deposit are required to secure a spot on this trip. To sign up online, visit: https://tinyurl.com/SplashSantaCruz18

This event is part of OSL's Splash into Summer Events. For more information, please contact James Hatten at [email protected] or OSL at (209)228-5433.

Come one, come all! Join the Office of Student Life's, event, on 6/28/18! Bring your creativity and join us in a Summer Paint Event, hosted by local artist Tonia Hemme Fine Art & Creations! This event is scheduled for 3 hours, so be sure you can commit to the entire time before signing up. There will be light refreshments and snacks at this event. Space is limited to the first 40 people! Go to the link: www.tinyurl.com/splashpaint2018 and sign up now! Also, visit Tonia's art studio in downtown Merced at, 561 W. 18th Street , Ste C , Merced CA 95340.

Attention Bobcats! Come join the Office of Student Life's, event on 6/20/18! Professors & Pancakes is a great way to meet your faculty and TA's in a non classroom setting. We will be serving pancakes, sausage and beverages from 10am-Noon in the Bobcat Lair! Hope to see you there!

Bobcats check it out! Oakland A's baseball game!
To register and more information:https://tinyurl.com/splashbaseball2018

This Friday, becky martinéz from Inifinity Consulting will be joining the Bobcat community for a Deep Dive dialogue.

About this Deep Dive:
This deeper dive will provide an overview of student activism, ways to build coalitions, and strategies for self-care and healing to stay in equity work for the long-haul. We will also have the opportunity for an open discussion about concerns with and suggestions for creating greater inclusion on campus.

Bobcats....check it out!

Please join Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Students Intern Kamyar Nekoui, in collaboration with Social Justice Initiatives, for an introductory workshop to restorative justice.

The informational session will focus largely on what restorative justice is, and then serve as a space to discuss and collect ideas as to how the practice can be implemented on our campus.

For any questions regarding this event, please email Kamyar Nekoui at [email protected]

Congratulations to the newly elected ASUCM Senators!

The 2018 Spring Special ASUCM Election has begun!

You can get to the election ballot at this link: https://catlife.ucmerced.edu/submitter/election/start/163250

Bobcats..check this event on 2/14 in the Bobcat Lair at noon-3pm

Hope to see you there!

About the event:
This presentation is a cartography of q***r and trans Latinx love in Los Angeles. Working with an archive of oral histories, cultural production, and urban geographies of love, pleasure, and loss, Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. charts the affective, physical, and imagined spaces of q***r brown LA. Informed by sequined dresses and dancefloors, immigrant rights marches and hospital rooms, this project weaves together multiple sites and memories that show how jotería find sequins in the rubble of erasure, displacement and silence.

Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., PhD
Assistant Professor
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department
and University Studies Program
Affiliate, Chicano/Latino Studies Department
Portland State University

Check out this year's Human Rights Film Festival
For more information about the films visit:
http://studentlife.ucmerced.edu/program-areas/social-justice-initiatives/2018-human-right-film-festival

Bobcats check it out! Film screening of First Daughter and The Black Snake is about Winona LaDuke who is this year's Spendlove Prize Winner!

For more information about Winona LaDuke's work visit:
http://www.ucmerced.edu/news/2017/indigenous-activist-winona-laduke-wins-spendlove-prize