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News: February 2008

Art Show Website Online

Friday, February 29 2008 - Jacob Emerick - Tags: art show, website

The second annual awesome IRHC art show will be held in early April, and publicity and a website have been launched. While some areas of the site will be updated over the next few weeks (like, the 2008 rules and photos), there's a bunch of information online already about the history of the show, how it's run, and even pictures from last year's amazing creations. There's going to be several cool additions this year that will be included in upcoming announcements, so keep your eyes peeled!

To view the new site, visit housing.mtu.edu/irhc/art.

Dodgeball Finals and Pictures

Friday, February 29 2008 - Jacob Emerick - Tags: dodgeball tournament, event, website

Out of the fourteen teams who are playing dodgeball this year, only twelve made it to the single elimination tournament that will determine the overall champions of this tournament. The playoff schedules is available at housing.mtu.edu/irhc/dodgeball/schedule.html. Also, the photo gallery and standings have been updated on the site, so be sure to look around a bit.

Prizes for the tournament this include 100 film board passes, free dodgeball t-shirts, and sweet trophies. There's only one more night of dodgeball action left, and it's sure to be a good one!

Dodgeball Updates

Wednesday, February 27 2008 - Jacob Emerick - Tags: dodgeball tournament

Roughly half of the games are already done for Dodgeball, and so you can already see what teams are aiming at making it to finals. Also, due to some issues with Broomball schedule changes, our tournament schedule has been shifted around. To see more information, you can check out the dodgeball site at housing.mtu.edu/irhc/dodgeball.

News Page Updated

Monday, February 25 2008 - Jacob Emerick - Tags: website

IRHC never really had a good method of handling past news posts. In previous websites, the past posts were deleted, thrown aside, and trampled on in favor of the 'most recent posts'. This obviously creates a giant hole of missing information. While some web programmers could make a tagged xml database with hands behind their backs, this took the webmaster some time, mostly because he's a bit thick in the head.

Anyways, you can now view different posts based on category, author, and date. We will be looking at different options, including some simple pagination and search options, but if you have any ideas, let us know at irhc@mtu.edu.

Dodgeball Schedule Online

Monday, February 25 2008 - Jacob Emerick - Tags: dodgeball tournament, event

Over the past weekend, fourteen different teams signed up to compete in the fourth annual Dodgeball Tournament. This tournament will last almost two weeks and involve both a round robin and single elimination tournament. For more information about the tournament, visit the site at housing.mtu.edu/irhc/dodgeball/. You can also go straight to the schedule page at housing.mtu.edu/irhc/dodgeball/schedule.html.

Cocoa Shack Schedule for Finals

Friday, February 22 2008 - Jacob Emerick - Tags: broomball, cocoa shack, event

As the broomball season winds down and final games are played, IRHC decided to follow suit with the cocoa shack. It's been a great year for the shack, with well over 2500 cups given away over the season, so we've decided to keep it open during the major final games of Broomball. While it will be closed over this weekend, the shack will remain open this week from Monday through Thursday with varying times. You can view our event schedule to see exact times, but for the most part, if there's a final game being played then the shack will be open. Oh yeah, and it's still free.

Pop Tab Wars Results

Friday, February 22 2008 - Jacob Emerick - Tags: fundraiser, event

Over 260,000 tabs were collected during IRHC's third annual pop tab wars, which weighs over 175 pounds. This is a lot of pop tabs. About 17 houses participated, and a clear winner emerged: La Maison. You can view the results in a few different formats below...

Summary in pdf format.

Full breakdown with graphs in Excel 2007 format.

Full breakdown with graphs in Excel 2003 format.

Thank you to everyone who participated in this fund raising event! All proceeds will be going to Ronald McDonald house (we think).

Event Information Available

Wednesday, February 20 2008 - Jacob Emerick - Tags: event, website

While there were several technical difficulties to overcome, the event information on the IRHC website is now available. Not only is it available on our homepage and under the 'events' tag, but you can view it in RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and Atom 1.0 formats. More formats will be available in the future, including iCal and vCal, and one day we might actually release a dynamic pdf calendar too.

IRHC Donates $1,600 for Three Groups

Tuesday, February 19 2008 - Jacob Emerick - Tags: governmental meeting, budget

After three separate presentations, the Inter-Residence Hall Council approved a total of $1,600 to three different groups at the February 18 governmental meeting.

The first donation was to the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in support of their Broken Bread program, which will be held in the DHH Dining Hall on February 28. More information about Michigan Tech's IVCF can be found at ivcf.students.mtu.edu.

The second donation was to the Residence Hall Association of Northern Illinois University as a show of support in the face of their recent tragedy. Information about the happenings at NIU can be found niu.edu.

Finally, after a professional presentation from Dustin Sommer about his Prince's Point Project, IRHC approved $1,000 to be spent on needed equipment for the development of this area and voiced a lot of support for the residential interest in his work. Some information about his project can be found on the USG website.

For more detailed information about the IRHC donation process, funding requests, or these presentations, feel free to email us at irhc@mtu.edu.

charity:water Movie Fundraiser

Monday, February 18 2008 - Kyle Done - Tags: event, fundraiser

charity:water is a nonprofit organization stimulating greater global awareness about extreme poverty, educating the public, and provoking compassionate and intelligent giving. Most notable work has been drilling new wells in Africa for clean:water. IRHC decided to work with the African Student Organization and Film Board to show a movie during African Week in order to raise money and awareness. The movie "Blood Diamond" was chosen by the three groups and seemed to help spread awareness of the condition in Africa. The event had 80 people show up to purchase raffle tickets and concessions to raise the $130. Before the movie started a 4 minute video about charity:water was shown to shed light on the conditions of people living in extreme poverty and the organizations work to bring clean and safe drinking water.

Dodgeball Registration and Rules Online

Wednesday, February 13 2008 - Jacob Emerick - Tags: event, dodgeball tournament

After a bunch of discussion regarding on- and off-campus students participating in our Dodgeball Tournament, the Inter-Residence Hall Council leadership has decided to allow off-campus residents to participate without paying special fees as long as they are on a team with at least six on-campus residents. The Danielle Heights Apartments, by the way, is off-campus for all we care. More information about the tournament can be found by visiting the site at housing.mtu.edu/irhc/dodgeball, and if you have any specific questions you can contact us at irhc@mtu.edu. Hope to see you at the tourney!

Flower Fundraiser raises over Five Hundred

Tuesday, February 12 2008 - Jacob Emerick - Tags: event, fundraiser

Once an annual event, the Inter-Residence Hall Council has not held the Flower Fundraiser since the spring of 2005. While it was profitable and enjoyed by the residents, approximately five sales were made during that year, and IRHC quickly decided to drop the event. However, members wanted to bring it back as part of a general service events push and saw surprising success. Over 198 total sales were made, raising $555 dollars for the Barbara-Kettle Gundlach Shelter in Chassell. These sales included anything from two dozen roses to a lucky individual to many single carnations being sent to dear friends. All together, 211 roses and 127 carnations will be sent out on Thursday, February 14 (Valentine's Day), so keep your eye out to see if you received one!

New RSS Format Available

Tuesday, February 12 2008 - Jacob Emerick - Tags: website, rss

After several frustrating technical hurdles and at least one 'No Duh!' moment, RSS 1.0 has been added to the feed format options. For the layman, RSS is a way that you can easily view updates to this website without actually visiting it. Our feeds allow you to be updated whenever a new 'news item' is posted. RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 has been available for this time, but we had a hard time scripting for RSS 1.0. This format is seen as more strict and RDF-ish for some users, but most can use whichever feed they prefer. For more information and available feeds, you can simply scroll up to the top of this page.

Dodgeball Site

Monday, February 11 2008 - Jacob Emerick - Tags: event, dodgeball tournament

Another IRHC event has sprung up, this time featuring everyone's favoritest game, Dodgeball! This site, found at housing.mtu.edu/irhc/dodgeball, has both information for interested competitors of this event and updated stats and schedule (once the tournament begins. Be sure to check it out if you are interested in our fourth annual tournament!

Winter Carnival Events

Wednesday, February 6 2008 - Jacob Emerick - Tags: event, winter carnival, broomball

During Winter Carnival, IRHC is working with Broomball to bring several fun events to participate in throughout the night! From Broomball Skills competitions free hot cocoa, we have something for everyone to enjoy.

4:30 - 6:00 Broomball All-Stars Competition
8:00 - 2:00 Free Hot Cocoa
9:00 - 12:00 Ice Skating on the Rinks
9:00 - 10:00 Broomball All-Stars Game

Whether you're just looking to drink something warm or want to skate with Blizzard T Husky on the rinks, we have something for you to enjoy. We'll be near the Broomball Rinks all night, so be sure to stop by!

Deans List Raffle

Friday, February 1 2008 - Jacob Emerick - Tags: grade raffle, event

The six winners of this year's Dean's List Raffle were:

Josef Schwarzer
Benjamin Lucas
Emily Kelly
Anthony Giesey
James Buckingham
Lukas Morse

Josef Schwarzer was the lucky winner of the PS2 Game Console with Guitar Hero 3, while the other residents won twelve filmboard movie tickets each. These prizes will be given away later this afternoon through the reception desks.
Congratulations to everyone who got on the Dean's List Raffle!

Tetris Website

Friday, February 1 2008 - Jacob Emerick - Tags: event, tetris tournament, website

Another IRHC event website has been created this Spring, this time for the Tetris Tournament. You can view it at housing.mtu.edu/irhc/tetris. This site includes information about the tournament, with timelines, rules, and general information. Of course, it is fully xHTML 1.0 compliant, as is all IRHC websites these days :D.