Hello WSACers and friends,

WSAC needs your help! The space allocation people want to move us to a room half the size of Coffman 202. This would severely limit our community-building and programming, the amount of resources we can provide for students, and this decision would eliminate the use of 202 as a safe space. WSAC has been in 202 for years, and we have established a community around this room. Help us stay! Come into the WSAC room to sign our petition, or email a short testimonial of what the WSAC room has meant to you to wsac@umn.edu. Our appeal is this Thursday, so please make sure to email us or stop by in the next two days!

If you would like to do more, like petition for us or come to the appeal, email wsac@umn.edu indicating how you would like to help. Our appeal is 4:15 this Thursday. We appreciate all the help we can get!

Thank you and continue reading for our events and meeting notes!

Upcoming Events!
• Don’t forget to vote for Cortez and Mandi on www.sua.umn.edu/vote .
• Vices to Verses Conference! Brought to you by Voices Merging and the Cypher Coalition, cosponsored by WSAC!
Watch this please: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3fYHI-lDwk

Do you love hip hop, spoken word, drums, dance and good people?
Register for our Hip-Hop Conference!
From Vices to Verses: A New Era of Hip Hop Education, Art and Action
Three-day conference at the University of Minnesota to highlight hip hop activism. From April 9 to April 11, the University of Minnesota will be hosting “From Vices to Verses” a conference featuring workshops, performances, discussions and educational events centered around how hip hop pedagogy, activism and culture can educate, empower and transform communities.

Registration for the conference is FREE! Register at http://www.vicestoverses.com ASAP before it closes!

Want to see the whole conference schedule?
Click here: http://tinyurl.com/yj3vpox
On April 10th, Voices Merging, Substance, and the Cypher Coalition will be hosting “Vices to Verses Hip-Hop Concert”...a concert to supplement a conference celebrating the ways hip-hop pedagogy, activism and culture can educate, empower and transform communities!

Featuring Performances By:

DEAD PREZ, Toki Wright, Maria Isa, Guante and Tru Ruts, ill Chemistry, PosNoSys, B-Boy/B-Girl Battle...

When: Saturday April 10th, 2010
Where: The Cabooze 917 Cedar Ave SE in Mpls
Cost: $15 Advance/ Doors, $10 Student/ Conference Attendees
$12 if bought from a Voices Merging Rep.
Doors at 8:30pm, Performances begin at 9pm
with DJ MIXWELL ON THE 1s and 2s ALL NIGHT!
18+

Find Voices Merging Representatives to get your tickets for just $12! Or puchase from 5th Element, The Cabooze or online at vicestoverses.com. Email vicestoverses@gmail.com with any questions.
• MPIRG & WSAC present: Take Back the Night! an annual march and rally to combat violence against women, transgender, and gender non-conforming people. April 23rd, 6pm @ Brian Coyle Center (420 15th Ave S Mpls). Free food and music!

April!!! 5th 2010 WSAC Meeting Notes.
• evals: LGBTQ Health Fair (huge success!), “Finding Dawn” (good discussion), AWC teach-in (informative, 20 attendees), BMW gala (Did no one go or table? If you are unable to go to something you volunteered for, remember to let us know by emailing wsac).

• APPEAL! 4/8 at 4:15pm. critique draft. Get lots of people to attend? Meet at 3:30 to rehearse? We should institute a log book: the officers on duty for office hours will record how many people come into the room.

• Caitlin: Tarnish & Gold. WSAC likes this! We wanna help build it, contribute financially, and have our concerts there! Need to check out budget first. WSACers sign up for newsletter or to volunteer at http://tarnishandgold.org/.

• Vices to Verses update: Molly. REGISTER online at http://www.vicestoverses.com. Tabling: Jessie and Aidan tabling Sunday.

• RATH committee to meet 4/6 at noon and 4/9 at 2:15: theme is film!

• S.O.S. coalition to meet in WSAC this wed. 4/7 at 11:30. All are welcome.

• Tabling on Fridays? Need volunteers.

• Take Back the Night: review budget. MPIRG is asking for $400. Tabling volunteers? Speaker? tabled.
• “The Greatest Silence” on 4/29 at 6pm. Cosponsored by STAND and Amnesty. Andrea and Carla to make FB event. Both are now admins of FB site (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=5482609549&ref=ts).

• Sex Ed for Everyone discussion continued: tabled

• ski-u-mah: Daily distributes 25,000 on 200 racks around campus, and instead of paper on 5/6: tabled

• Mental Health Advocacy Day update? tabled

• yard sale to be part of RATH? tabled but start collecting donations for yard sale!