{"id":27392,"date":"2014-04-03T10:49:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T15:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=27392"},"modified":"2014-04-03T10:49:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T15:49:34","slug":"brock-residence-action-council-maintains-its-winning-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/04\/brock-residence-action-council-maintains-its-winning-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Residence Action Council maintains its winning ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27391\" title=\"orha-2014\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/orha-2014-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"orha-2014\" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brock University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/residence\/residence_life\/rac\" target=\"_blank\">Residence Action Council<\/a> has maintained its winning ways.<\/p>\n<p>RAC delegates walked away with a truckload of accolades from the recently held <a href=\"http:\/\/interhall.org\/conferences\/orha\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario Residence Hall Association <\/a>(ORHA) conference at the University of Guelph.<\/p>\n<p>Among RAC&#8217;s honours at this year&#8217;s annual conference were school of the year, best display, best roll call, first-year student of the year, and most-spirited delegate. Last year, RAC received two awards.<\/p>\n<p>Nikka Collison and Elena Milenkovski earned one of the top awards for a presentation called Leading through Improvisation. Amber Cooze took home the award for first-year student of the year, which was presented by ORHA, and Taylor Cove of Vallee residence won the honours for most-spirited delegate.<\/p>\n<p>The conference, which last year was held at Brock, engages delegates in sessions about student growth and development, and how better to involve residence students in daily programs.<\/p>\n<p>Brock&#8217;s RAC provides a forum for the views of about 2,400 residence students. It also consults with <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/conference-services\/groups\/conferences\/food-beverage\" target=\"_blank\">Food Services<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/residence\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Residences<\/a> staff to improve facilities and services within the residences. In addition, RAC organizes several residence-wide social events and philanthropic fundraisers for off-campus organizations like RAFT.<\/p>\n<p>Carley Webb, a five-year student resident who is completing her final undergraduate year in <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/humanities\/departments-and-centres\/dramatic-arts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dramatic Arts<\/a>, is this year&#8217;s president of the volunteer-run RAC. The awards, she says, signal the continuing positive evolution of living in residence at Brock.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year has been the most impactful and transformative I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; says Webb. &#8220;With the different events, initiatives and training days, there have been numerous opportunities for growth as individuals and as a core group. I have never seen this much attention to detail, care and integrity with the organization&#8217;s student volunteers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A reflection of RAC&#8217;s growing popularity is represented by the sharp uptick of students who want to volunteer for the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Fleming, Residences director, said the awards reflect &#8220;the high quality of our residence life program, in general, and of our student leaders, in particular.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University&#8217;s Residence Action Council has maintained its winning ways. RAC delegates walked away with a truckload of accolades from the recently held Ontario Residence Hall Association (ORHA) conference at the University of Guelph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1411,578,1778,121,1779],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27392"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27396,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27392\/revisions\/27396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}