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Hello, members of Red Bison!
Good morning, members of Red Bison!
Hi team! Hope y’all are doing well as we approach fall break. Hang in there!
Quick addendum to Rachel’s email – voters in this election will have to have attended 3 Red Bison meetings this semester in order for their vote to be counted. This is done to try to put Red Bison in the hands of its most active members. We will be checking our attendance records in order to ensure that voters have met this requirement. If you are unsure as to how many meetings you attended, or concerned that your presence may not have been recorded at one or more meetings, please email us ASAP at redbison.rso@gmail.com.
Finally, if you have been to 3 or more meetings this semester, please vote! It takes 5 minutes at most. If you’ve been to 3 or more meetings, you are the most qualified to vote for candidates, because you likely know them personally. Your participation helps keep Red Bison strong. My hope is that by voting, the general members will be encouraged to take greater ownership of the club – to help make it what you want it to be.
You can cast your vote here. The winner will be announced at the meeting this Saturday. Thank you, and take good care of yourselves.
Michael
Red Bison PresidentHi, everyone!
This week, Red Bison is looking forward to electing a new Secretary on the Executive Board for the Spring 2022 semester! We have three candidates running for this position. To hold the election fairly, we have created this ballot on Google Forms.
Hello hello!
I hope you all are doing well as Fall break approaches. I am emailing to let Red Bison members know that there will be no meeting this weekend. Instead, the Executive Board will be meeting to do things like organizing our files, working on the website, setting up online banking, etc. We will also be planning the rest of the semester’s meeting, including next week (11/20). So stay tuned! I’d like to use this opportunity to remind folks that we will need a new Secretary on the Executive Board for the Spring 2022 semester. If you are interested in the position, please fill out this Google Form.
I’d like to use the rest of this email to share campus events coming up that have a focus on sustainability.
1. The Student Sustainability Leadership Council (SSLC) shared this event with us:
Climate strike this Friday:
2. From UIUC Amnesty International – This week we are hosting an Environmental Justice Campaign! We have 4 events coming up:
3. From iSEE’s website: Illini Lights Out is happening this Friday (11/12) from 5:30 – 7:00 pm in the lobby of the Foreign Languages Building:
That’s all for this week! Have a good weekend, everyone 🙂
Best,
Rachel Waltermire
Red Bison Secretary
Happy Halloween, Red Bisoneers!
As many of you already know, this Saturday (10/30) Red Bison will be having two Halloween-themed meetings: one at 10 am and one at 6 pm, both held at the Red Bison shed.
At 10 am, Wildlife Extension Specialist and Assistant Professor Joy O’Keefe will be there to teach us all about the ecology of bats in Illinois and answer any questions we may have related to that. We’ll also be carving pumpkins, drinking apple cider, and some of us will be wearing Halloween costumes at this time! All extra activities are optional, so no pressure. If you’re able to bring your own pumpkin for carving, that might make it easier to accommodate everyone. We will have some to provide, though (check for updates in the GroupMe regarding this). Later in the day at 6 pm (weather permitting), we will be using our fancy new fire pit to make a fire and have some s’mores together. To RSVP to either time, please fill out this Google Form: https://forms.gle/3pgntuFDcgz1PW9c9 You can choose whichever meeting you’d like to attend – we would love to see you at either time and have our first real Red Bison social day in a very long time!
Additionally, I wanted to bring awareness to the fact that Red Bison will be in need of a new Secretary on the Executive Board in the Spring 2022 semester. I will be leaving the University next semester and we’d love to find someone to fill my shoes for next semester soon. If you are interested in this position, please fill out this Google Form: https://forms.gle/NqeXbysVQkWiVGqz8
Lastly, if you’d like to join our GroupMe, you can use this link! See you all soon!
Have a great rest of your week,
Rachel Waltemire (she/her)
Red Bison Secretary
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Hello!
Hello all! Hope you’ve all had a good second week of classes. We will be meeting as per usual at 10 am tomorrow, Saturday, September 4th at the Red Bison shed for another workday. We’ll be continuing where we left off last week: cutting out tulip trees and honeysuckle, stacking loose wood, and digging our fire pit. Hope to see you there! Unfortunately, although the temperature will be pleasant, there is a good chance of rain tomorrow. If it’s raining heavily, we’ll cancel the meeting and move it forward one day to Sunday. Same time, same place. We’ll also announce the cancellation on our GroupMe. I know not everyone who requested to be added to the GroupMe has been added yet – my apologies. We’re working on it. If you want to be added before tomorrow, try clicking this link (you will have to make a GroupMe account if you don’t already have one).
Having said that, if we are able to meet tomorrow, please prepare for the meeting by wearing long pants and sleeves, work shoes, sunscreen, and bug spray. And please RSVP here.
That’s all for this week! See you tomorrow!
Best,
Michael Dzianott (he/him)
Red Bison President
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Hello all you beautiful Red Bisoneers! Welcome back to campus and a warm welcome to all our new members. My name is Michael Dzianott (he/him), and I am the President of Red Bison. I am a senior in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES), and I’m from Northbrook, a northern suburb of Chicago. I enjoy spending time outdoors, reading, and singing, and I just can’t wait to meet all of you. There’s a lot to say, so I’m going to start with the most important bit: we have an upcoming workday this Saturday, August 28th at 10 am at the Red Bison shed. We’ll be cutting invasives, piling wood, continuing to dig out our fire pit, and familiarizing new members with the area. A map to the shed can be found here. Our meeting will last one hour this week. It’s going to be hot! I encourage you to wear long pants, long sleeves, work shoes, and sunscreen to protect yourself from insects and from the sun. Bring water! We will be working hard! And if you’re planning on coming, please RSVP here. The weather’s looking good, but in the event that we get rained out, the meeting will be moved to Sunday at 10 am.
Now then, a few updates: Our plant sale is already a smashing success! We blocked out 3 days to sell our plants; we sold them all out on the first. Thank you! We still have a couple books remaining, and Kasandra still has plenty of lip balm and lip scrubs, so she will be out in front of the Union tomorrow from 1 to 3. I encourage you to drop by and pick up a little something for yourself or a friend. If you’re still interested in a plant, you should check out Plant Mode at 75 E. Chester, in Champaign. The owner is knowledgeable and generously donated all our plants so that we could use the money raised from the sale to support a minority student in the fields of environmental science, activism, or policy.
Mark your calendars: Saturday, September 18th at 10 am is our birding tour! NRES student and birder extraordinaire Colin Dobson will be leading us in a birding tour of the south Arboretum. Bring binoculars if you have them!
Finally, for new and returning members: don’t forget to follow us on social media and check out our new website! It’s still a work in progress, but it’s coming along nicely. And if you have any Red Bison photos, feel free to send them our way!
That’s it for this week. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please shoot an email over to redbison.rso@gmail.com. See you all Saturday!
Best,
Michael Dzianott (he/him)
Red Bison President
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