Kindness Friday 2007
What happened in 2007 around campus?
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Cookies & Treats to be distributed to medical students from 10:00 - 11:30 am in the Student Affairs Office, Facutly of Medicine.
Mary Dray, Medicine/Student Affairs
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Donations to St. John's Women Centre on behalf of The Faculty of Medicine. Donations can be dropped of at the Main Desk, HSC Library anytime before Friday, October 26th.
Sherry Squire-Grace, Medicine/HSC Library
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A silent auction of handmade or contributed items will be conducted during I Love MUNdays week, concluding on Kindness Friday. All proceeds will benefit the Janeway Children's Hospital. Items will include baby quilts and coupons for specialty cakes and services such as photography and babysitting. Plus lots more. All departments are welcome to bid!
Laura Chapman, The Department of Human Resources
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The Communications Team of the Business Faculty are collecting donations for the SPCA for Kindness Friday. We want to show some kindness towards our four-legged friends!
We’ll be collecting any old sheets, blankets, towels, etc, as
well as cleaning supplies and cat/dog food.
Dale Foster, Faculty of Business Administration
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Collection of clothing and household items for the St. John's Women's Centre. The General Office staff of the Faculty of Business is coordinating the collection from October 9 through October 26.
Dale Foster, Faculty of Business Administration
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Baking & delivery of cookies to a local senior's home, on behalf of IS professors in Faculty of Business.
Dale Foster, Faculty of Business
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Cookie give-away to people who look like they need a sweet!
Dale Foster, Faculty of Business
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The Sustainability Office, in
conjunction with student volunteers and in particular MUN Project
Green, will be holding an "Idle Free" campaign from 12-2pm in front
of the Eduction and Arts buildings.
During this event students will be approaching vehicles, whether
they are idling their engines or not, and letting them know they
are in an Idle Free Zone. The students will also be handing out a
small information leaflet that outlines the economic and
environmental benefit to not idling car engines.
Everyone will benefit from not unnecessarily idling vehicles - the
air/ozone/environment, people with breating difficulties or those
at greater risk of developing lung problems, and the pocketbooks of
the people driving the cars!
Shelly Pardy, Sustainability Office, Department of Facilities Management
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MUN Project Green will be kind to
the earth (and their heath) while also promoting their newest
project called BikeShare.
Project Green members and bicycle enthusiasts will be going for a
bike ride together to celebrate biking as a fun and healthy form of
transportation and bicyclists as valid transportation roadway
users.
Participants will meet at the clocktower at 4:30 for an hour-long
ride
Shelly Pardy, Sustainability Office, Department of Facilities Management
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We will be collecting winter clothing and household items for the St. John’s Women’s Centre. They have issued a plea for assistance and we are happy to offer our day of kindness to the Centre. We will collect the articles during the week of MUNdays with delivery planned for the 26th - Kindness Day!
Dawn Roche, Alumni Affairs and Development
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We encourage you to bring in old eyeglasses for donation. We are inviting Faculty, Staff, Students and Alumni to participate. Eyeglasses will be collected by the IT Group and donated to the CNIB for distribution overseas.
Dennis Flynn, Faculty of Business Administration
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The IT group at the Faculty of Business Administration will collect used novels, books, reading materials, etc., for donation to an Adult Literacy Program here in the province. Also if you have any RECENT magazines we will take those as well for donation to doctors /hospital waiting rooms. This is an excellent opportunity to put books and recent magazines you no longer require to a good use. Please NO old text books :)
Dennis Flynn, Faculty of Business Administration
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The department will be holding a United Way coffee break, where we will distribute information to department members about this fundraising organization for charitable groups, and invite people to sign up for payroll deductions to them.
Anne Sinnott/Marie Codner, Biochemistry
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The department of Student Affairs and Services will host: Dr. Walker vs. James Farrell in a Sumo wrestling match with all proceeds going to the United Way. Admission will be $2, Friday October 26th, Noon-1 p.m. in the Breezeway bar. Students, staff and faculty are all encouraged to attend!
Mandi Wilson or Kathleen Wall, Student Affairs and Services
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In the Faculty of Education, there
are plans for a food drive, collection of clothing for the
women’s shelter, and as a random act of kindness, we will be
distributing a limited number of Chartwell’s dollars (of a $2
value; enough for a cup of coffee) to students in the hallways in
between classes. For faculty and staff there will be a coffee break
in the Dean’s Office sometime during the day. As well, we
will have a cake for students, faculty and staff, bearing the image
and name of our ‘Kindness Mascot’. On our posters
leading up to the 26th, we are advertising a contest to ‘name
our Kind Face’ (which is a variation on the classic happy
face). Contestants will click on a link (also the image of our Kind
Face), and add their contact details as well as their submission.
The winner receives a prize.
The people who will benefit are any recipients of the food and
clothing bank items, as well as the peopl! e who populate the G.H.
Hickman building, which will be filled with the aura of kindness
throughout the day! Anyone who partakes in the activities and
contest will also benefit. With cake, what can go wrong?!
Bernadette Power, Education
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Donations of kitty litter, cleaning
suplies, office supplies, Sobeys and Dominion receipts, and
Canadian Tire Money for the SPCA.
Donating blood to Canadian Blood Services.
Michelle Honeygold,Career Development & Experiential
Learning
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“Pay It Forward”: Students, faculty and staff will be given the opportunity to carry out a good deed for other individuals and then those individuals will “Pay It Forward!” Let’s pass the kindness on in the Grenfell College way!
Pamela Gill, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College
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Collecting books/magazines/short stories etc to donate to the Seniors Resource Centre and the Iris Kirby House.
Lisa Hickey, Division of Co-operative Education
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CPC Coffee Break. The CPC (Computer Purchasing Centre - CS-1000) will have coffee and treats all day during business hours (10am-4pm). Open to all faculty, staff, and students.
Colleen Brennan, Computer Purchasing Centre, Computing & Communications
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EWB has a Fair Trade Coffee Club that operates every
Monday to Friday, 8:15 to 11am. We always have fair trade coffee,
teas and hot chocolate available. During Kindness Friday everything
will be complimentary! Swing by EN-4000 (first left off the
elevators) and hang out for a while in a comfortable atmosphere
while enjoying some free coffee/tea/hot chocolate.
The best thing about this is that they are all fair trade products
(even the sugar) so the farmers producing the goods are receiving a
fair wage for their labours and will be able to afford to take
steps that will help bring themselves, their families and their
communities out of poverty! Literally everybody involved will
benefit from this simple act of drinking coffee!
Jonas Roberts, Engineers Without Borders
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The Faculty of Arts is holding a coffee break for front end and other staff in all its departments, to recognize their contribution to the success of our departments. The staff have been invited to come to the Dean of Arts office (A-5015) for coffee and treats from 10-11:30 a.m.
Maureen Porter, Faculty of Arts
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The Office of Faculty Relations and the offices of Enterprise Risk Management, Information Access and Privacy Protection, and Legal Counsel have teamed up and will be collecting non-perishable food items for the Campus Food Bank.
Cathy King, Faculty Relations, Enterprise Risk Management, IAPP & Legal Counsel
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Marketing & Communications has developed a project for Kindness Friday that both supports the campus food bank and United Way. Called United Weigh, the concept involves the staff in MarComm -- plus Human Resources, Alumni Affairs and Development and possibly other advancement units -- collecting food items for the food bank and then for one or more corporate sponsors to match the weight of the food in dollars ($1 per kg, to a maximum of $500 per company) in support of United Way’s Community Fund. Already The Telegram has agreed to help ‘balance our load ’; more info on other sponsors who sign up will be forthcoming. Stay tuned!
Victoria Collins, Department of Marketing and Communications
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Collection for the Women's Centre
Kristine Hamlyn, Distance Education and Learning Technologies
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To celebrate Kindness Friday on October 26th, the Department of Student Success Programs will be collecting non-perishable food items for the Campus Food Bank and the International Student Advising Office will be hosting a Pumpkin Carving contest for International Students.
Suzanne Craig, Student Success Programs
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As a part of the MUNdays celebration, The Commons and
CP2003/4 computing facilities will be offering each student 50
pages of free printing on Kindness Friday.
The offer is valid only at the following times and locations:
• The Commons from 8:00-12:00 & 16:00-18:00
• CP2003/4 from 12:00-16:00
To get free printing you must have a Labnet account. To activate
free printing on your account, please visit the following link*:
https://webtools.cs.mun.ca/cgi-bin/print/apply_exempt.py?page=apply
*Note this link will only work from computers on campus.
Shawn Pendergast, C&C/QEII Library
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Free coffee will be served in the main lobby, beginning at 8:30 am by MI’s executive members. In conjunction with this, pennies will be collected to help aid MI International in shipping the books collected with their “Got Books” campaign. In total more than 30 cases (450 books) of College level books were collected in subject areas ranging from English, Business, Calculus, Biology, Physics, and Environmental Science
Stephanie Barrett, Marine Institute
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Who says there’s no such thing as a free
lunch?
If you’re an engineering student then lunch is on us!
Where: Faculty Lounge
When: 11:50 a.m. to 2 p.m., Oct. 26.
This event is hosted by the staff and faculty of Engineering and
Applied Science, in partnership with Engineers Without Borders and
Engineering Student Society ‘B’
Kelly Foss, Engineering and Applied Science
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"Have a Sweet Weekend!" Kindness Lollipops will be distributed by the Masters of Business Administration Students Association (MBASA).
Lesley Ann Smith/Jennifer Tupper/Amy Hsiao, Faculty of Business Administration
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Guy Court baked cupcakes for the people who work at housing.
Amber Legge, Guy Court
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Guy Court is holding a movie "theatre" night to collect food for the campus food bank. Admission for the movie was a non perishable food item.
Amber Legge, Guy Court
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Orange you glad it's Kindness Friday!!
The President's Office and the 3 Vice Presidents' offices are
having an "Orange you glad it's Kindness Friday" in the foyer of
the Arts & Admin bldg.
Margot Brown, Presidents Office and Vice-Presidents Offices
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The Registrar's Office will have treats at our various reception areas and will be making a donation to the United Way Avalon.
Linda Noseworthy, Registrar's Office
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Community Service Learning Cooridnators are planning to pass out packages of Crocus Bulbs
Gerry Sullivan, Student Affairs and Services
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All units of Facilities Management will be treated to an early morning muffin to start their day - visits beginning at 5:45 am to various buildings, shops, and plants with maintenance, custodial, administrative and technical employees. Small thanks for big contributions to keeping Memorial running tip-top!
Claude Horlick and Shannon Dawson, Department of Human Resources
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