STEVE'S PIZZA TONIGHT! And a few pics... :)

Reminder: Steve's Pizza Fundraiser is TONIGHT!!

And here's a few pics of invites and the November 18 Mondavi event, courtesy of Heather Cantua!

Spotlight: Pragya M

Here's a little blurb from one of our members who was away from Davis last quarter!:

Last Spring Quarter, I had the opportunity to live, learn, and intern at the nation’s capital as a participant of the Davis Washington Program. During my time in Washington DC, I interned at the National Education Association, the largest teacher’s union in the country. As an intern, I was able to attend educational policy meetings, lobby congress, work on specific projects, and network with professionals who shared the same passion for education. My time in DC has given me valuable work experience and has given me direction in my career goals after college.

If you are interested participating, please come talk to me! I am a student advisor for the Washington Program and would gladly help you out!!

“Living, learning and interning in DC has helped me apply what I was learning at UC Davis to real life work in the nation’s capital. The city is full of life and offers many opportunities for everyone. The ten weeks I spent in DC were amazing and I strongly encourage students to apply and experience this incredible program for themselves.” – Pragya Mathur, senior.

Note to Self (and future Fundraiser Chairs)

When signing up for Mondavi events, try to stick to dance performances--the flashier the better. Huge turnout with intermission. Solo artists and speaker series are usually lackluster in terms of $$.

Restaurant Fundraiser!! -- Please note date change!

314 F Street
Davis, CA 95616
(530) 758-2800

Our first restaurant fundraiser of the quarter will be at Steve's Pizza, next Tuesday (November 24) from 5-9PM!

During those four hours, 20% of all proceeds from ANY customer that brings in a Prytanean fundraising flyer or mentions "Prytanean" will go to our organization. That money, in turn, will be sent to Yolo County's Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Center which, as always, is certainly in need.

This fundraiser is valid for dine-in, takeout, AND delivery, so LET ALL YOUR FRIENDS / NEIGHBORS KNOW. Tell them, "You gotta eat! So you might as well make it pizza with an extra helping of good will."

Prytaneans and friends will be encouraged to join members at the actual restaurant from 6-8PM. YAY PARTY.


Check out Steve's menu here!

Snapshot

A quick look at what one of our members is up to...

Due to a scheduling conflict, Elizabeth Takahashi (more fondly known as Liz) has not been able to make Prytanean meetings this quarter. However, she assures the Pryt Blog that she misses us all. She writes, "I'm being a typical senior and trying to figure out what the heck I am exactly doing after graduation! When I'm not in class, I'm continuing my research in the psychology department on neural mechanisms of aggression / breast cancer and stress. I am also volunteering at UCDMC in the cardio thoracic wing."

Fundraising Update

Two things: Mondavi and Farmers Markets

Firstly, thank you so much to the ladies who helped out with the Salzburg Mozarteum event on October 28! It seems that most of you thoroughly enjoyed working with Marissa, the new Concessions Manager, so I'm really glad about that. I hope you had fun! Heard that Beryl and others got autographs from the cellist?

I have just signed up with Sodexo for Winter Quarter's Mondavi events. Out of popular request, I have chosen an event on a Saturday as one of the two dates that we have (so far), which works because Joshua Bell, the performer, is supposedly a Mondavi favorite. That will be Saturday, February 27. We'll also be working the Russian National Orchestra Mondavi event on February 18; we should see a rather good turnout.

Also, since Wednesday night Farmers Markets will not return to us until March 17 of next year, we'll have to do with Saturdays for now. Princess crowns feel a little seasonally out of sync, especially because the weather's getting colder, so I'm trying to think of something to do that's more weather appropriate and money appropriate. Ideas?!? I was thinking at first of different sorts of hot chocolate, but that may be competing with some other FM business. Maybe winter headbands? In UCD colors?

I'm also getting on restaurant fundraisers--sorry for being slow on that!


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Activities Faire + Catering Event

An update on Prytanean happenings...

Last Wednesday (10/14) was the Activities Faire at Freeborn. Thanks to all who helped out!! There were a decent number of girls who came up to our table wondering who we are, what we do, etc. What's even more exciting is that many of them had received emails from us--meaning that their GPAs were high enough to qualify / alert them to the fact that we exist. So that's a good sign, and there's a high probability that many of our applicants will be from that particular pool...

Right around lunchtime, I snuck away from the student org festivities to make a quick trip to Richard of Catering's office and came away with a $211 check for last quarter's Mondavi event. YAYYY!!! I LOVE MONEY!!! And a girl serving at the Nourish lunch recognized my Prytanean shirt (the new one) and told me that she had been emailed. I ended up talking to all the servers there about applying. So these shirts really work!! Wash them and wear them repeatedly, please! Applications are due October 29--we still have time to get the word out!

Last Friday (10/16) Lauren M, Ava, Jamie R, and I worked a really fun 4-hour shift at--get this--a Sodexho catering event for a women's community in Davis (forgot the official name)! It was quite the coincidence, and I saw Sharon Rose and Marya Welch with a whole ARC ballroom full of important-looking ladies. Very inspiring, very neat. The catering itself is really cool too--prepping and perfecting the luncheon tables with silverware, centerpieces, plates full of delicious-looking food. I don't know about anyone else, but whole entire thing was a perfectionist's dream... making sure the dessert fork was laid out just right...

Definitely check your emails sporadically from now on since I'll hopefully be offering more and more of these catering events and whatnot in the future. They usually come at short notice, but it's worth it!

What else... Apparently we need more volunteers for tabling this week. Officers are going nuts over membership (nah, we're okay) and we'll be having an extra meeting to go over deets on a few very, very practical changes to the Constitution. Dun dun dun! It should go over well. :D


Always,

e

Downtown Davis Shopping Spree Thingy

CALLING ALL PRYTANEANS! And friends with good connections / ideas.

If you're a secret marketing genius, or are good with money, or are good at graphic design, or clever with words, or can easily tap into the shopper psyche, or are good at ANYTHING you're good at, listen up!!...

So in our meeting tonight, I briefly mentioned a project I hope would come to fruition in the near future. This creature does not yet have an official name--for now, I will call it the Downtown Davis Shopping Spree Thingy, or the Shopping Event. There are a bunch of ideas I'm wrestling with and, armed with optimism, I can only hope to tie everything together in some neat little package, ready for pitching...

The idea is more or less a shopping event with a non-intrusive focus on charities, and the goal of it all is to promote Prytanean, boost downtown Davis business sales, and make money for charity--all in a single night. Much of this depends on impeccable timing, incredible marketing, and a very cooperative Davis Downtown Business Association. It should not just be any ordinary sale--it should feel electrifying, people should genuinely look forward to this.

Businesses (and art galleries) will be asked to open late, beyond the usual 6, 7PM closing times, but with a twist. Not only should they be able to sell what they normally sell, they should select one item or a series of items to push especially, with a mind-blowing discount, or just some really good deal that Davis students (or anyone in Davis that night) cannot resist. There are a million ways to do this--Pinkadot can offer a really special sale of jeans, Starbucks / Peet's can create a drink available for just this night, etc. And for every purchase in every participating store during these extended hours, Prytanean gets a cut of the $$.

What's more, DJs (I'm currently working with the Electronic Music for Change group on campus--they threw a rave on campus last year that sold out and made the Children's Hospital $5,000) will be scattered throughout downtown so that there is some cohesive party, shopping-happy feeling.

For the charity part... if Prytanean does not choose the charities to benefit, I'm hoping that DJs willing to spin that night for free will be able to choose charities with causes near and dear to their hearts. The businesses will then choose from the DJs' list of charities so that whatever they make that night will go to them. What might be fun to do is to display large posters in the windows of the businesses announcing which charity sales are helping that night, just so shoppers know up-front that they are contributing to something good.

The possibilities are ENDLESS, anyway. But this is a night that can be PRYTANEAN'S--if it goes well, it might just become a recurring event.

LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!! Because I need help!


Thanks,
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Note for Membership: The Buzz

"Borrowing" ideas from another group on campus... "The Buzz" seems to be a good place to be in the future for Fall Membership drive. Seems like there is a lot of freshmen involved, and that groups can work at events (e.g. a basketball bungie game?) on this particular night. Also great start for publicity AND getting Kaplan signups.

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First call for posts!!

What did YOU do over the summer, Prytaneans??

Vacation abroad? Romantic roadtrip with the significant other? Worked in a prestigious lab, big corporate office, family restaurant? Hung out with your besties, watched a million movies? Frequented a local club and drunk yourself silly every other Thursday (disclaimer: PLEASE be responsible. Prytanean does not endorse underage or over-consumption of alcohol?

Email the Pryt Blog at prytblog @ gmail!! TELL ME WHAT YOU DID!! Send a picture or two, too!

"GOTCHA!!"

About a week ago, my parents and I made a random trip to Portland, Maine. We trapped lobsters! Not too smelly, very fun and delicious with butter. They really look like alien bugs.

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The Prytanean Women's Honor Society...

...now doesn't that just sound divine?

Hello to all the lovely Prytaneans (and guests) who will be reading this!

As you can see, I have taken the liberty of creating a blog, which will hopefully become an informative (yet unobtrusive) space for ideas big and small, striped and spotted, furred and feathered... you name it. Prytaneans, as long as you are passionate about IT, whatever IT is, you should have a chance to present your thoughts regarding IT to your fellow members. After all, we are a SOCIETY--feel free to express. If anything, this will be an experiment with another means of communication--and maybe a really good excuse for not getting sleep on my part.

So let's see where this takes us! This should be light, fun--a way for us to feel more in sync with one another. This should NOT be burdensome. My predictions say that baby Pryt Blog will be part brainstorming space, part officer bulletin board, part investigative journalism, part newsletter, part frivolity, part rally ring, part press release / PR...

As long as it harbors even a modicum of relation with the Honor Society, as long as it's clean, sensitive, and fair, anything goes. HAVE AT IT!*


Sincerely,

Eda C, your adoring Fundraising Chair



*Whoops. There is a catch. We will have a system for posting, editing, and commenting. I just need to figure that out first.