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Welcome to our first
episode of the rcbc SGA sit down
series podcast. Let's take adive into what this podcast is
all about. Come learn more aboutrcbc, from student life to
public safety to the ins andouts of the president's office.
I'm Madeline, your host, and SGApresident. Joining me today is
my co host, josby, another SGAofficer. Our special guest today
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is John costo from our StudentLife department here at rcbc. We
want to know more about how toget involved in clubs and other
campus activities. How iseveryone doing today? Thanks,
Maggie for asking. I feel reallystressed right now because you
know, it's on finals. We'retired, we're overwhelmed, we
have exams and final reports,but we're getting there. It's
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summer, like summer's coming, sowe're excited. How are you
today? This is the best dayever. Thank you for having me.
This is super exciting. You feellike you've actually made it in
life when you make it to apodcast. So thank you so much
for inviting me to be a part ofthis. You're welcome. So we want
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to get a chance to know you. Sowhat are your hobbies? My
hobbies? I am. I'm a huge sportsguy, like I Philadelphia sports.
Love it. One of my biggesthobbies is I'm a softball coach
in my spare time. I used to bethe rcbc softball coach when we
had athletics here. But mydaughter's 10, she plays
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softball. I coach an 18 newteam, so I'm out every weekend
on a softball field somewhere.It's just, I love working with
players and, you know, helpingthem get better and sharing how
these sports relate to life andthose life skills. So do we have
any sports coming out at rcbc?We don't have sort of we used to
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be a division two, divisionthree school, depending on the
sport, but we do have a lot ofintramurals now. So we actually
have a coordinator forintramurals, and he I've you've
walked outside on the quad,which I'm sure you both have at
some point or another. You'veseen basketball nets, you've
seen volleyball courts. You'veseen soccer nets that have got
soccer goals that have gone up.So we're always coordinating
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some sort of recreationalactivities for our students so
that everyone's sort of engaged,and not just, you know, the
athletes we were recruiting hereto just play here now everyone
can be a part of therecreational experience as a
student. So, yeah, okay, andwould you rather travel to the
past, to a specific day, or tothe future for one day. Oh,
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that's a good look. I mean, youcould go a couple different ways
here. This movie is way too oldfor you, but Jay will get it if
you go back to the future. Thesecond one, where he goes
forward, he can learn, you know,who won what sporting events,
and he comes back and, you know,can, can cheat a little bit and
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knowing who wins what, but no, Ithink really, probably to the
future. Because, you know, Ihave two kids. I have a 10 year
old and a 12 year old, just tosee how successful they were in
life. And you know, what madeyou work with college student?
You know, it's funny.
Student I've been in studentlife for roughly 25 years. Now,
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I know I don't look that old,actually, I do, but that's okay.
And I started at TempleUniversity, and it really was
the dean of students there. Iwas a quiet kid in high school.
I wasn't involved in a wholelot. I ran track, which is like,
the most isolating sport youcould probably run, right and
cross country. So
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I went to college, I went totemple, had the Dean pull me
aside one day and said, Whydon't you be an orientation
leader? I think you'd beawesome. And I became an
orientation leader, and I lovedit, interacting with students
and connecting with the incomingclass. And from there, just
snowballed. I founded my ownstudent organization after that,
based around community service.I was SGA president after that,
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and then once I graduated, theDean's like, hey, we have a grad
assistant job where you can helpplan events and activities for
students. So I did that. Andthen, you know, the Coordinator
of Student Life became availablethere, and then I jumped into
that. And it just, I've been toprobably eight schools doing
Student Life type things. It'sjust for me, I love that every
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day is kind of different. Imean, event planning you guys
get to see, you know, when wehave the cow, the stress relief
cow outside, or, you know, wehold a dance or something like
that, you get to experience thefun part of it. But there's a
lot that goes into that, fromcontracts to, you know, working
out insurance and all that sortof thing with these vendors. And
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it's.
Just to me, it's exciting tocome in, and every single day is
completely different. I did trya year in academic advising.
It was not for me. It was very Iwas at Temple doing it, and I
only advised education studentsbecause it's very different than
it is here with 25,000 students.You know, there were specific
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advisors for specific majors,and it was, I felt like I was
saying the same thing day in,day out. You know, take this
class. It just wasn't for me. SoI jumped back in the Student
Life after that. It's just, Ifeel most comfortable here, and
seeing helping students learnoutside the classroom is
exciting to me. Okay, okay. Andhow long have you worked here?
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And when did you start workinghere? So I started in 2016
so I've been here, you know,roughly eight years now, prior
to working here, I worked inkind of the complete opposite
scenario. I was working at amedical school in student life.
And students from medical schoolare like Harvard Yale. You know,
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they've never they've had thislife path set out for them since
the day they were born.
And it kind of got boring to me,like I like when I love it here
when a student takes a class orparticipates in an event, a co
curricular event, and they'relike, I figured out what I want
to do with my life. Like, to me,that's that's exciting when a
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student has that aha moment, andI just didn't have that at a
medical school, you know,they've never failed at anything
in their life. So, you know, andI'm generalizing. I get it. Not
every medical student is thesame, but I just love here when,
when students aren't even sureif they want to come to college,
so they try a couple classes outat rcbc, because it's, you know,
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super cheap and and you get agreat education, and students
sort of realize something andwhat they want to do with their
life. That's fun. I really enjoythat part of it, and that's what
keeps me coming back every day.Okay, that pleased to hear that.
But what majors Did you pursuein college? It's I started out
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as a biology major. I was gonnabe a doctor. I don't know why.
I'm not, I'm not sure why. So Imade it a semester as a biology
major, and I got to physics, andI was in one of those classes
where you're in this lecturehall with like 400 people. Oh,
wow, that's a big class. It wassuper big. I do not do well in
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that environment, apparently,because I did not pass chemistry
physics, and that's when Irealized I had to figure
something else out, because, youknow, I was, I born and raised
in New Jersey, so going acrossthe bridge to Temple, you're
paying out of state rates, whichare significantly higher,
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even though I live closer thanmost of you know, the students
who went to temple, but theyjust happened to be in
Pennsylvania. So I was about tolose scholarships because I was
on like, academic probation, Iknow, so
that would have been done in mytemple career. So I had to
figure out something that, youknow, I wanted to pursue, if
biology wasn't that passion. SoI became a political science
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major, believe it or not, and
I just, I loved it. I lovedgoing to class. I had to take,
like, public speaking classes,and that's stuff I never did in
high school because I was thisintroverted, you know, kid, and
I got to get up in front of aclassroom as terrified as I was,
and got to do thesepresentations, and it just made
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me more comfortable, you know,speaking in front of people. And
it just, I love that Iimmediately would I had to do an
internship my fourth year, and Iworked for a congressman, so I
was all in on this, like, I'mgoing to be this work in this
political, you know, arena andand one day be in politics and
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that sort of thing, but Irealized working in the
congressman's office that peopledon't call their congressman
when they're happy, so you'rejust getting yelled at all day
long by senior citizens.Usually. That's crazy, you know?
And it's sad stuff too. It's,you know, I didn't get my Social
Security check this year, thismonth, and I don't know why, and
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they're calling theircongressman. So it's my job to
help figure out. So I'm, youknow, calling up. It was in
Pennsylvania, where I wasworking, calling up Harrisburg
and figuring out what was goingon. It was but you would come
home and you'd be exhaustedbecause you got yelled at all
that no one calls theircongressman to say, great job.
You guys are doing awesome. Noone ever calls to say that.
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So I realized maybe that was thejob. It is just stressful. It
was very Yeah. That sounds sostressful, yes.
So I and on top of that, I wasan intern not getting paid a
dime.
Yeah, and even if you get intoit in the field office, when you
first start, you're getting paidlike at that time, like $20,000
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you know, to live off of it. Itjust it did not end up as a good
career path for me. Okay, sowhat is your favorite part about
your job here at rcbc. I lovethe students. You know this. I
get so many people who come upto me, co workers, or people who
visit the College and they lookin the Student Success Center,
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and we look at it, and we'relike, oh my god, this is
chaotic. Like it's crazy inthere at any given moment, like
students are playing ping pongor video games, or I've seen
hacky sack in that, likebadminton they were playing
inside at one point. But, yeah,guitars, you've got amplifiers
going. So many different thingsare happening. But it's funny,
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you hear so many of ourcolleagues from other schools
saying, our school isn't likethis at all. How do you get your
students so engaged in andinvolved in what you're doing,
and it's the students for me andmy coworkers, like I love the
team that I'm a part of withMateo. Adriana, sorry. Adriana,
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Ariana,
sorry. We've had plenty ofpeople coming up. Ariana, I'm so
sorry.
But Adrian and Nicole and Mateoand Dominica. I mean, they,
their whole job is to make yourexperience fun and to help you
learn something. So, I mean, wehave the best job in the world,
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and, you know, to see the levelof activity that and the
response of the students, basedon, you know, what we've
provided in terms of ping pongand that sort of thing, see, the
students actually use thehammocks outside, like, you
know, that was for us, was like,I had this cool this email come
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in from this hammock company.I'm like, Oh, this is kind of
cool. Would our students wantthis? And every day I see it,
and even after we bought it, youknow, I think Adrian was like,
What are you doing? Like, whyare we buying hammocks? Are
students actually gonna usethis? So we put it up. And, like
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you said, I mean, it's, it's,every single day, people are
sleeping in it. Two people aresleeping in the hammocks as I
walked into this right now. So,you know, it's things like that.
Our students are just soresponsive to the things that
we've provided, and they'rehappy to give suggestions of
other things that we can andcan't do.
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But you know it's it just makesit fun to come to work every
day. So we know that you're thepresident of Student Life, but
Student Life is kind of a broadterm. Tell us what you do every
day here. First of all, thankyou for calling me the
president. I'm gonna makeeveryone else refer to me as the
president of Student Life.Please tell President seoc
Tomorrow,
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he'll get a big kick out of itif you tell him that, because
people get he and I confusedmore than you think. No,
literally, when I first startedhere, I thought you were the
president. Do look alive.Absolutely, he tells everyone
I'm his better looking brother.
But please tell him thattomorrow he will get such a kick
out of it at saxbys, they alwaysconfuse us too, because, you
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know, the President has anaccount there. If he's giving a
tour to, like, the Board ofTrustees, he wants to be able to
go and say, like, hey, you know,put this on the President's tab.
So there's a picture of himbehind the counter,
and so they know who it is, andnot me, not that I've ever tried
to get free food from saxophonestrying to be the president, but
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he will get such a kick out ofit. But back to your question,
josby, so Student Life is such.It really is a broad term and
and the way I think we bestdefine it is pretty much
anything that happens outside ofthe classroom, right? Is, is
student life, and it's changed,very dear. It's very different
now from when I started workingin in student life 22 years ago,
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or whatever it is
we used to be, it is it used tobe extracurricular planning. So
basically, we were the partyplanners, like we weren't
considered educators. We justplanned this fun stuff for
students to do to keep them outof trouble at night. You know,
living in a resident working ina residence hall facility,
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nighttime is when alcohol'sinvolved. So if we kept them
occupied, then they wouldn'tdrink. So we were just these
people to keep students occupiedand let them have fun. And over
my career, I've seen it shift tomore of a co curricular model,
meaning we're trying to help youlearn. It's sort of building on
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what you're doing in theclassroom. So if you're learning
about, let's say, in a criminaljustice class, like surveillance
and.
Drones. Well, the next week,we'll have someone coming out to
do a drone demonstration whereyou can actually fly a drone. So
it's learning by hands onexperience outside the classroom
what you're learning inside theclassroom. You know, it kind of
dovetails and fits together. Soit's really made that shift. And
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I have to say, Here, more thananywhere, I feel like faculty
deans, anyone involved inacademics considers us educators
as well for what we do with thestudents. You know, it's, it's
really, it's not only theacademic stuff. It's kind of
helping you guys learn lifelessons. This is the last stop
before you're an adult, right?So I've got to help you learn to
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balance a checkbook, you know,save money.
How to de stress on your ownwithout a cow outside, you know,
or the dogs walking through. SoI feel like we we in student
life, have an important role inhelping you figure out how to
survive as a human being outsidein the real world,
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and it's very helpful to all ofus on campus. Well, we
appreciate that. It's our goal.You pay to come here, so we try
our best to make sure that whatwe do is things you want to see.
So yes, actually, student lifemade this campus feel like home,
and I wanted to thank you forthat. And look, I'm gonna
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publicly on the microphone,apologize to the library just
because of our setup in studentlife. Like we are directly below
the Library, and at any giventime there's amplifiers with
guitars, and, you know, we couldhave a speaker talking about
whatever, you know, just beingit's Student Life typically is
loud. The library is typicallyquiet. It's just a recipe for
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disaster, and they are usuallygreat sports. And, you know,
understand that we're living inan environment where we are
complete opposites in terms ofnoise, but we try and work
together and make it work. Okay?So what is included in student
life? So Student Life, here isstudent life at any institution
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is really different, school toschool. You know, for us, we are
the events, activities that yousee on a daily basis, and then
we also are wellness we have awellness coordinator. We're
recreations, so we deal withsort of the non official
athletic side of things too.
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We are conduct, which iscomplete opposite of student
life. I mean, Student Life isfun, exciting. Conduct is when
you're in trouble and you dosomething wrong. So we see at
your best and your worstsometimes, and we plan a lot of
the college's major events. Soorientation comes through our
office as well as commencement.So we see you the first day
you're here. We see you the lastday you're here too. So it's
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really anything that happensoutside the classroom at rcbc
usually involves student life tosome degree or another.
Actually, I didn't know thatstudent life handled conduct
hearing. Tell us more about it.Yeah, oh, it's, it's conduct
hearings are usually when astudent is at kind of their
lowest point, and we don't havemany, you know, there's not a
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ton of fist fights or any sortof violence, things that a lot
of conduct offices see. We don'thave a residence hall, so we're
not dealing with alcohol relatedissues or that sort of thing.
Thankfully for us, a lot of whatconduct is revolves around,
sometimes academic integrity,where, look, you ran out of
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time. You know you had to work.I get it. Our students work,
two, three job. Two, three jobs,sometimes, and school comes
second, and sometimes you take ashortcut in finishing a paper
and you get caught. Those willcome through our office and our
goal, really, we're not out hereto punish you. You know, that's
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not our end goal, though.Sometimes it's part of the
process, but our goal is reallyto help educate you, educate you
on how the negative behaviorthat you've engaged in is going
to affect your future, you know,and your time here at rcbc.
Look, if you want to get intolaw enforcement, if you want to
get in a federal agency,anything that shows up on your
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rcbc conduct record they'regoing to ask about. I've had
people call me from the FBI.Hey, so and so applied for a
job. Can you tell me I need toknow their conduct record while
they're there. And it could havebeen 10 years ago, and I'm like,
I have no idea who that is, or Ididn't think I'd hear that name
again and that stuff, really,you're an adult now, right? So
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that stuff follows you around.We get schools that call and
say, hey, you know, this studentapplied to be a student here and
finish their degree. Can yousend me their conduct record?
And you know, if something showsup, I have to share that, and
it's.
Trying to help students realizewe have a lot of safety nets in
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place for students, so that whenit's a first time offense, we're
not putting something on yourpermanent record, usually,
unless it's something absolutelycrazy, but when it's, you know,
first time plagiarism orsomething like that, we're
trying our best to work with youto help you understand where
things went south and why, andif it's time management, your
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punishment, quote, unquote, willbe, hey, we have a time
management class that's runthrough Career Services, or, you
know, our wellness coordinator,we're going to require you to
attend that. So it's it'spunishment, but at the same
time, it's helping you learn theskills so that you don't repeat
the same thing again. How do yousuggest students get involved on
campus? It's really hard to getstudents to take that first step
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out of your comfort zone, right?You might not know anyone here,
or the students that came fromyour high school who are here
with you at rcbc. Maybe youweren't close with them, but
it's really about taking thatfirst step. Just come to an
event. Just come to an event.You'll meet someone, I promise
you, you know, anytime, usuallywe have three, four or five
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events going on during the weekin student success, and we go to
other buildings as well to tryand connect with students who
don't come to the studentsuccess building all the time,
but it's really taking thatfirst step out of your comfort
zone and just come to an event.
We send all the events on aweekly email to you know, every
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email address we have forstudents. You can go on campus
Lab, which is student,
campus life and organizationsnow, so you can find out what
clubs are doing there. Come to aclub meeting. If you can't come
to event, meet people through aclub. There's a lot of different
ways to get involved, but Ican't force you to come to
anything, right? I need you totake a step out of your comfort
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zone and come on to a clubmeeting, club event, something
like that. Okay, so to go offwhat you were saying, what was
your favorite event youorganized for student life at
rcbc? Oh, that's a I feel likethere's so many that I have to
say, and I'm not kissing up onthis one. But my boss is super
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open to any event that I couldimagine. And I learned this
early on Dr Kathy Briggs, who'sthe Dean of Student Success, any
event I've ever come to herwith. She's like, do students
want to see it? I'm like, Yeah,all right, we're in.
So I think my favorite there,there's a couple. So I'm gonna
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name a couple, the cowobviously. Like, who, who gets a
chance to pet a cow? I mean, Ihad to stay in line for 20
minutes. That was what's crazy.For an hour, we have staff
meetings, and people proposeideas from my staff, and they're
like, you know, this one, thatone. And we're always sitting in
there, like, Are students gonnaactually come? Like students
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want to see a cow, and then webring the cow here, and there's
a line of like 40 people. And,you know, it's awesome. I think
my favorite was
we did a wild wild westWednesday one year, and it was
wild, wild west themed, youknow, cowboy themed. We had the
old time photos where you canput on, like cowboy and, you
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know, that sort of thing, andtake pictures with your friends.
There was some movie, oldwestern movies playing on TV, on
the big screen there, and thenwe had a mechanical bull as well
that students were right. So wehad, like, a whole bunch of
activities. There were cowboycheeseburger there was just a
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whole bunch of things aroundthat theme. And I just remember
how loud the lounge was. I'msorry again library, but how
many students also just came outthat we see the same students a
lot of the times, but we knowit's a good event when we get a
bunch of students we've neverreally noticed before that that
our first time, like, Hey, thisis my first event coming, and it
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was pretty awesome. And then,you know, before you know it,
they're one of our loungefriends who are always in the
lounge, hanging out, playingping pong, doing their thing.
And my other favorite one, webrought an indoor, like ice
skating rink into the SSClounge. It's not real ice. It's
this, like synthetic, but youhave to put ice skates on. Yeah,
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it was, it was pretty cool. Wehad a lot of students come out
for that. It was before thepandemic, so it was like 2018
something like that.
In the name of all the studentsat rcbc. We want those events.
We try to space them out. Butyeah, I think it's time for the
ice skating rink to come
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back.
I.
Feel like it's cheating if Ibring in the same thing year
after year. So we gotta, like,we give it a little year couple
year break on certainactivities. Okay, so what was
the wildest request of an eventyou were asked to have? But had
to say no to yes, that's anawesome question. So
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we used to, I don't know if youguys are still here or here,
yet, we had someone indominica's role. His name was
Herson.
He was super energetic. Heprobably was five feet, nothing
tall, but just super hyperenergetic. Awesome guy who was
great for the role, because hereally engaged students and he
came, we were sitting in abrainstorming session, much like
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a table like this, and justchatting through ideas. He's
like, I have the best idea. AndI said, What is it? We're gonna
bring a rock wall into thelounge. And I said, All right,
I'm trying to think through thelogistics of getting a rock
wall, because they come in onthese giant trailers and they're
rolled in and, look, I think itwas an awesome idea, but we
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physically, we did themeasurements, we had the company
come out, and we just couldn'tget it through the doorway to
set it up in the lounge becauseit the trailer was too wide, or
something, by about, you know,six inches too wide to get it
through the door. So we had tohave the rock wall outside. But
an indoor rock wall would havebeen really cool to climb up to
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the area where, like advising isto be able at the top of the
rock wall to look over and seepeople in line for advising.
People would have been pierced.Yeah.
But the theme, I'm trying tothink through what the theme
was. It was something like
surfing, beach related, like wegot had the mechanical surfboard
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too, and there was supposed tobe this rock. How it all tied
in. But that's how a lot of ourmeetings go. In brainstorming
meetings, it's like, throw meyour craziest idea, and nine out
of 10 times I can figure out away to make it work, and that
was just that one out of 10times. Couldn't figure it out.
We just had no way to get thatthing in there. How can a
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student create a new club here?So we when I first came here,
the club process was prettydetailed and in depth, and for
me, the goal really is ease ofaccess for students. We want
students to just be able to findstudent life and get involved
some way, somehow, to make theirexperience more meaningful. So
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Adrian Dobbs and I really justcut that process down
dramatically. It was one of thefirst things I did when I got
here and we made it so. Look,you just need yourself and three
friends who are interested inthe same club that you are. You
need to find an advisor who's afaculty or staff member, and we
can help you through thatprocess. If you don't have
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someone, I'll find you someone.And then it's a template of a
constitution. We just need toknow how the club's gonna
operate, and if, for somereason, you all graduate, it
gives us something to go off ofbase, you know, we have this
document that if the club goesdormant for five years, and
someone comes back and they'relike, We want to start the, you
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know, basket weaving club. Wehave a document that says how
the basket weaving club ran fiveyears ago. So it's really those
three things, couple friends, anadvisor, fill out this template
of a constitution we're going togive you. You can basically have
a club started in about an hour,and you'll have access to funds
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to hold events, meetings, youknow, all that sort of thing.
We've really made the process aseasy as I possibly can make. Can
you tell us how many clubs youhave on campus and what are the
main clubs that students usuallygo for enjoying? Yeah, so it
really varies year to semesterto semester, really, month to
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month. Actually,
we have about 32 different clubsthat are active at any given
time on campus, and that numberchanges dramatically throughout
the semester. As you canimagine, when you get here in
September, there's like, 10clubs active, and those are the
clubs where students carried itover from last spring. And then
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as the semester goes on andstudents get more comfortable
with their class schedule, andthey're like, oh, I have free
time. I can, I can make thiswork. Those that club list grows
pretty dramatically from there.Our biggest ones, we have. We
have a couple really big clubs.ESports club is probably our
biggest on campus. That eversince we created that esports
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room, it's really taken off. Andthere's about 100 different
students who are involved inthat club, because there's so
many games involved witheSports, that is really attracts
a large number of students.Human Services Club is a really
big one.
Yeah, there's, there's a bunchof them that that you.
Know, creative art skill,they're out there now selling
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stuff to try and fundraise. Wehave a lot of professional
organizations as well. Like wehave a nursing student nurses
radiography club. So it's notjust fun. There's also ones that
are tied to majors as well. Andthen there's the general
interest ones, like chess club,eSports, that sort of thing,
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yeah. And then there's honorsocieties too. We have tri alpha
and, you know, just so manydifferent options for students
to get involved. And then wethere's always something new
that pops up that we didn'tthink of. That a student's like,
hey, we want to form this club.We had a biochemistry club.
Like, I didn't really know thatthere weren't that many people
interested in biochemistry, butsure enough, we had a club form
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around biochemistry. Yeah,biochemistry isn't really a big
thing at this campus. I've neverheard of it. You'd be surprised.
It's, you know, especially whenyou only have to find a couple
other people, usually that makesthe process a little easier for
you. Like you said earlier thatit's easy to form a club, and
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the students will get a documentabout how the club is running
everything. But how do they getthe document so explain the
process more? Yeah. Sobasically, what you're going to
do is you're going to sit downwith Adrienne DOM. She runs all
the clubs on campus, and she'sgoing to give you that document.
But basically, if you go toCampus Labs, there's a tab that
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mentions or student life orstudent organizations, that
mentions, do you want to form aclub? And that'll connect you
with her so that you can havethat initial meeting, and she
can explain that process to you.Most of our clubs form from a
student just catching me walkingby, saying, Hey, do we have a
blah, blah, blah club? And I'mlike, nope, but make a send me
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an email, send Adrian an email.Here's our here's our contact
info, and we can make it happenfor you. Before we wrap up. Is
there anything you'd like topromote, or something we missed
that you would like to telllisteners about? I'm just super
excited to be here. It'scommencement season, like that's
one of my favorite
times of the year, just seeingour students, when you see them
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come in as a first year student,that maybe mom or dad was like,
Look, you don't want to be here,but you're going to do something
and then just to see themaccomplish things that they
didn't think they were capableof, and then walk across the
stage. I mean, I that's whywe're anyone in in higher ed.
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This is why we're there, right?It's, it's for those moments
when you see students come from,you know, this starting point
where they didn't think theycould make it, and through their
perseverance and and theconnections they've made, they
make it right? That's, that'swhat we're here for, and that's
what's exciting. This is, thisis my favorite time when it's
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commencement. So you knowwhether you're graduating or not
graduating, it's live streamwatch. I mean, it's
inspirational. Whether you'rewatching just the speeches or
you're hearing the the familymembers and the crowd just
cheer. You know what I mean?Like, like, that's, that's what
is exciting and inspirational tostudents. So if you're not
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graduating yet, take a look.Watch commencement. It's, it's
really inspiring, awesome. Well,thank you, John for joining us
today and sharing thisinformation about how to get
involved in clubs on campus. Andstay tuned for more exciting
episodes where we exploredifferent aspects of rcbc life,
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and until next time this isMadeline and my co host Josie,
signing off. Thank you. Bye.