Can you believe this school year is already over? It literally seems just a few weeks ago that we were spinning away on the Y-Intersection and eating poutine and now we’re all cooped up in the likes of Schulich, McLennan and Redpath. LIFE, DOE. I’ll keep this update short and sweet since exams are next week (I have 3 next week lol), so here we go!

1. DODGEBALL: Unbelievable display of athleticism and healthy competition! Huge thanks to all who participated—Players, referees, and spectators! Special thanks to Smoke’s Poutinerie and Gert’s for hooking us up with some SWEET prizes, and big ups to the lovely RedBull Wings Girls for coming out and giving us some much needed RedBull! We raised over $400! WELL DONE!
2. NEW EXEC: We’ve got a fantastic bunch of new executives and reps who are now part of the 2013-2014 Right To Play fam. Get stoked to meet them in the coming academic year!
3. OLD EXEC: We say goodbye to these beauties who will be leaving us after this year:

• Amy Harrington, Co-President
• Trevor Clarke, Co-President
• Neelum Wadekar, VP Communications
• Caroline Murdoch, VP Membership
• Varun Korla, VP Technology
• Jess Wallace, VP Community Outreach
• Brian Farnan, VP Events
• Andrew Amen, VP Events

Be blessed, stay blessed! Thank you for all your hard work this past year– Until our paths cross again!

We’re hittin’ the ground running come September with some awesome things planned, so get ready to pull your socks up and run with us then! Best of luck during your final exams, thank you for an amazing and humbling year!

Yours,

Junger
President (AYYYYYYYYYY!)

BIG SHOUT OUT to everyone involved in the FIRST EVER RIGHT TO PLAY DAY! The RTP team lived the #FTK dream on Tuesday, February 12 with over 300 students from St. Gabriel’s and Jeanne LeBer. playing Right To Play inspired games and educating the students about Right To Play! Special thanks go out to our VP Community Outreach for making this possible, and YOU the volunteers! We braved the “I don’t know if I want to be powdery or watery” snow among some gnarly winds, and we made the event a huge success!

Now, I know middies have started for most, if not all of us. If you fall in the middie boat (aka you do), then follow these steps to achieve dat 4.00000000!

A.) Study for midterms (lol jk go on Spotted: McGill Library).

B.) RIGHT TO PONG

C.) RIGHT TO PONG

D.) Write midterm

E.) Achieve 4.0 (lol jk but you had fun at RIGHT TO PONG)

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED RIGHT TO PONG WILL OCCUR ON FEBRUARY 20, @ GOOD OL’ BDP. Grab a teammate and $20 and sign up to contest to be crowned the Best Beer Pong Team at McGill! Teams must sign up by FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 AT MIDNIGHT, AND ALL TEAMS MUST SIGN UP BY EMAILING CATHERINE.BELANGER2@MAIL.MCGILL.CA YOU KNOW THE SIZE OF BDP. YOU KNOW HOW POPULAR THIS EVENT IS. CAPACITY IS LIMITED. DRINK DEALS. PRIZES. DO YOUR THANG. LINK TO FB EVENT here

Got pennies lying around? DROP ‘EM OFF AT NEW REZ WHERE THE FIRST YEAR TEAM HAS ORGANIZED A FANTASTIC “PENNY WARS” EVENT! Drop them off between 6-8PM and let’s see how many pennies we can collect!! AND BIG UPS TO CANADA FOR DITCHING THOSE PESKY COINS THO YA KNOW?

CHECK OUT THE FB PAGE HERE!

That should keep us occupied for now until the Reading Week! Good luck on those zammers, but remember, at the end of the day, regardless of whatever mark you receive on those middies, Biggie says “It’s all good, baby baby.” #RIP.

ForeverJung(er)

VP Membership

Want to be more than just a member? Apply to be on the McGill Students for Right to Play Executive team here.

Happy New Year to you and yours, McGill!

First of all, THANK YOU FOR AN AMAZING FALL 2012! We absolutely killed it this semester with all of our events, and sent in over $11,000 to the Right To Play Head Office! Special thanks to RTP’s First and Second Year Teams, Zeta Psi Fraternity Campus Perks, Smoke’s Poutinerie, Wildcard, Club Sportif MAA, McGill Athletics

Hope amidst all of your Carnival-ing, Science Games-ing and general debauchery-ing you’ve been thinking about the BIG things we’ve got planned with RTP!! Keep reading to find out some sick ways you can get involved, and what to look forward to this semester!

But first, HUGE SHOUT OUT to Emma Stanton and the McMUN staff and delegates for organizing and participating in a fantastic conference this past weekend! We were hugely blessed by being selected as the charity of choice, and we had some big exposure to over 75 universities stretching Canada, USA and abroad! Canada’s most decorated female Olympian and Right To Play Athlete Ambassador Marnie McBean spoke at the conference, and in total the weekend at McMUN raised over $3,500!!

THINGS TO EXPECT THIS SEMESTER:

1. If you missed SSMU’s Winter Activities Night on January 28 and would like to be a part of the McGill Students for Right To Play team, follow these steps!

• Click the GET INVOLVED tab on this website
• Complete the BECOME A MEMBER SECTION

If you are a First or Second Year student interested in joining our First or Second Year Team, please email membership@rtpmcgill.ca and we will appropriately hook you up!

1. EXEC APPLICATIONS FOR 2013-2014 ACADEMIC YEAR will be released via email and social networks on February 1, and will be due by March 1. If you are keen and committed to taking on a bigger role with us, please apply!

1. FEBRUARY 12: This is a big day for us!! Come join us in the FIRST EVER Right To Play Day at two elementary schools in Montreal! We’ll be playing Right To Play inspired games all day from 8 AM-3 PM. Hit up this link to volunteer at a time slot, or be dope and volunteer all day! HASHTAG FOR THE KIDS YA FEEL?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDhId0I3aWhIZjhZWHozOXNyaXdWZWc6MQ

1. The First Year Team has been busy organizing the residence competition PENNY WARS. Stay tuned and check FB to get more info!

1. The Second Year Team has responded to the hugely successful Right To Crawl and will be hosting ANOTHER APARTMENT CRAWL THIS SEMESTER. BIGGER. BETTER. BEER-ER. STAY TUNED.

1. Remember Right To Like? AKA “the day all social networks hated us” aka “the day we got #RTPDay trending on Montreal Twitter?” REMEMBER IT. AND REMEMBER IT WELL. IT WILL MAKE A RETURN IN A VERY BIG WAY.

1. RIGHT TO PARTY 2013. ENOUGH SAID.

1. DODGEBALL 2013. No better way to end the semester than to stretch that arm that’s been writing midterms all semester long and sling rubber balls at each other, right? RIGHT.

This is going to be a sick, sick, SICK semester. Make sure you like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/rtpmcgill and follow us on Twitter @RTPMcGill to get the latest scoop on these events, and how you can get involved!

BIG THINGS POPPIN’, LIL’THINGS STOPPIN’

BALL ON THESE SUCKAS, SHAWTY LOSIN’ AIN’T AN OPTION

Junger

VP Membership

Midterms. That’s where the semester went. That feeling of being swamped with assignments and labs but trying to study for midterms… we know that feel.  Compile that with having to go to classes that aren’t recorded or don’t upload slides on My Courses…sucks right?

RIGHT. BUT THIS SEMESTER IS ALMOST OVER. HANG IN THERE AND GET EXCITED WITH WHAT MCGILL STUDENTS FOR RIGHT TO PLAY IS WHIPPING UP IN THE NEXT WEEK. SPECIAL SPOILER FOR THE WINTER SEMESTER IF YOU KEEP READING!!

1. DARE NIGHT: Brought to you by the crew responsible for the HUGELY successful Right To Crawl, grab a team of 5-10 of your buds and biddies and complete the most dares (with photo or video proof!) on Tuesday November 20! Sign up is $2 a person, and the winning team GETS BOTTLE SERVICE AT RIGHT TO PARTY. RIGHT TO PARTY. BOTTLE SERVICE. ESSENTIALLY FOR $2. WHAT.

Hit that Facebook link for the event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/388146781260862/

SIGN UP SPACE IS LIMITED, SO YOU KNOW THE DRILL!! THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15 IS THE CUT OFF TIME FOR SIGN UP!

1. RIGHT TO PARTY: BANG BANG, your favorite semi-formal club snafu is back! Right To Party is FINALLY here, and we’re just as stoked as you to get out of that midterm slump and get wild! Quick-fire of deets:

• When: Thursday, November 22
• Where: Club Ivy
• Cost: $10, BEING SOLD AT BRONFMAN, SSMU AND BMH, NEW REZ AND RVC DINING HALLS
• *Attire: SEMI FORMAL
• Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/322509257856220/
• We’ve got some ridiculous drink deals, and some of McGill’s finest DJ’s, SO JOIN US AND LET’S END THE SEMESTER RIGHT

1. WINTER 2013 SPOILER ALERT- McMUN: The McGill Model United Nations Assembly is the largest and most prestigious conference of its kind in Canada and has been held annually since 1989.  It is one of the most highly anticipated and competitive conferences of the international collegiate Model United Nations circuit, and this year we’re so fortunate to have them select Right To Play as their charity of choice! It will be held from January 24-27 in the new year, so be sure to mark it on your calendars! If you’re interested in the conference, check out their website at http://www.mcmun.org/home . Committee, Logistical and Events Staff applications are also available online!!

That’s just about it! Oh, and also, RTP is currently KILLIN’ it in CoRec D Volleyball. Undefeated 4-0! Next game is at 6:30 PM On November 22 against Asian Math Club—come out and help us finish off the season undefeated! The pre before the pre to Right To Party!

Best of luck with the rest of your middies! Finals are looming so let’s get wild one last time!

~~*2 CHAINZZZZZZZZZZ*~~

Junger, VP Membership

First of all, WOW. What a successful Spin-A-Thon! We raised over $5500 for Right To Play! This translates to:

* 97 children enrolled in weekly education play programming for an entire year

* 16 coaches trained in Right To Play programming

BIG THANKS to the donors, spinners, bakers and everyone who showed up! Huge shout out to Smoke’s Poutinerie for dishing out some delicious, piping hot poutine samples all day! Make sure you check them out on 2109 Bishop—arguably one of the best Montreal has to offer!

Some updates for dat newsfeed:

McGill Students for Right To Play recently competed against Concordia’s John Molson School of Business in the World Poutine Eating Championship: Campus Edition! Amidst the controversy, gag reflexing and artery clogging, WE CAME OUT ON TOP! Stay tuned for official results on the rest of the competition— We’ll know by October 25 if we’ve won $1000 for Right To Play! Big pats on the back for our poutine eating team: Doug “Deep Dish” Chalke, Andrew “Junger” Jung, John “Dirty Mike” Hopkins-Hill and Nick “Big Cheese Nick” Norsker!

Thursday, October 18: The McGill International Foosball Association (MIFA) will be hosting its 3rd annual Charity Foosball Tournament in support of Right To Play! Even if you won’t be playing, it’ll be a lot of fun and will be a great networking (and spouse hunting) opportunity for you!

<The goods>

4:30 PM-8:30 PM in the Atrium of the Law Faculty Building (3644 Peel)

FREE BEER until 5:30 PM!

DELICIOUS CUPCAKES!

WIN AMAZING PRIZES LIKE A SAMSUNG PHONE!!

DID SOME1 SAY RAFFLE??!

Friday, November 16: RIGHT TO PARTY. Three words that will lift you from your midterm slump, get you dressed in your Sunday best and have you RAGING until you become your frosh-like worst. . BALROOM. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16. DETAILS TO FOLLOW. START FEENIN’, MCGILL.

That’s all for now! GOOD LUCK ON YOUR MIDDIES.

-Junger

Whas Gucci RTP fam!

What a wild, wild WILD weekend! We hope you had a great time at the inaugural Right To Crawl! A BIG shout out goes to Hansen Tsui and the Second Year Team, the AUS for getting us some sick beverage deals, and all of the hosts of the apartment crawl! Keep checking our Facebook page for updates on winner of best dressed team!

Thought Right To Crawl was dope? Check out what we’ve got coming next!

1. SECOND YEAR TEAM MEETING: If you are in second year and are interested in being a part of our Second Year Team, we will be meeting on Wednesday, September 26 (time TBA)! Be sure to check the McGill Students for Right To Play page (www.facebook.com/rtpmcgill) for updates!
2. SPIN-A-THON: Throw on your RTP gear* and meet us at the Y-intersection on campus! We will be spinning on stationary bikes all day in order to raise money for Right To Play! At the end of the day, we’ll count our mileage and see how far around the world we’ve gotten!

Deets: When: Wednesday, October 3

Time: 10AM – 5PM

Cost: If you’ve got a team or a group who want to spin for the    full 7 hours, you must raise $400! Residences and sports teams, we’re looking at you! If you don’t have a team, it’s $20 to spin for 20 minutes!

Dat Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/402415809825051/

*Don’t have any RTP Gear? We’ll be selling our infamous yellow t-shirts all day during the Spin-A-Thon! Be a part of greatness- all for $10!

1. WORLD POUTINE EATING CHAMPIONSHIP: CAMPUS EDITION- This year we’ve hooked up with Campus Perks to compete against Concordia in an all-out cheese squeaking, artery clogging poutine snafu! The first challenge is the HYPE CHALLENGE: We need your help in getting McGill stoked for the upcoming poutine eating competition! Here’s what to do:
   1. Like and share our photo on Facebook (all taken during Right To Crawl- video coming soon!): https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=361597833921746&set=a.361597820588414.85163.261267210621476&type=1&theater
   2. Tweet to @Poutinerie with the hashtags #WPEC #CampusEdition and #BeatConcordia. You can mention @RTPMcGill as well!
   3. Repeat a. and b. as much and as creatively as possible until September 30!

If we win, we get $1000 for Right To Play! LET’S GET ITTTTT MCGILL!!

If you have any questions or ideas for any of these (or future) events, give us a shout!

See you all soon. Be a Redman and not a Bumblebee. One love,

Junger

VP Membership

Wow, that was summer, eh? To those of you who have left the organization, thank you for your support either on the executive or club levels and to those joining us for the first time; welcome!

For those who do not know, Right To Play is a non-profit, charitable organization that brings relief and support to developing communities all over the world – from Canada’s North to South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Through various fundraising endeavors on campus, we bring structure and play to those who are deprived of it. As stated by the United Nations, every child has the basic human right to play.

We are very excited to announce that we currently have two executive members representing McGill Students for Right To Play in Kigali, Rwanda at the (Global Youth Summit. This is an unprecedented and unique event. Fourth year Co-President Amy Harrington of West Vancouver, B.C. and Andrew Jung, our second year, VP Membership from Calgary, Alberta will return with a wealth of knowledge and experience that we will be able to parlay into a positive outcome for the local Montreal community and McGill Students for Right To Play. Be sure to stay updated to hear their first hand testimonials.

We will be hosting a table during Discover McGill, an event during Orientation Week to introduce first-year McGill Students to many of the organizations and social infrastructure to facilitate involvement – working together with like-minded peers pushing towards a common goal. We understand that there is always a flurry of activity during the first weeks of the new academic year, but be sure to keep an eye and ear out for tabling at SSMU Activity Night and the Right To Play Spin-A-Thon!

Always remember, we provide the means to your involvement. We encourage that members looking to become more integrated be proactive with their efforts for McGill Students for Right To Play. We hope to become the premier charitable organization at McGill University, becoming synonymous with a fun, active and dynamic charity that people will on the minds of the charitable masses around campus.

McGill Students for Right To Play has been taking part in the CampusPerks BlackBerry Be Bold challenge! Help RTP win $1500 by viewing/liking/commenting on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDrnchHl=Qn0!

www.rtpmcgill.ca/dodgeball

So, with February throwing everything it can at you, why not take a step back and look into all of the amazing events McGill Students for Right To Play are hosting this coming March! Following reading week, we have Right To Party: Round 2! This is NOT to be missed. Ask any body who is anybody about this event last term. It rocked, we looked good, and we raised enough money to make McGill Students for Right to Play one of the most successful university chapters in the country! It all goes down March 3rd at Ballroom (aka Ball-So-Hard-Room). Be sure to stay updated for tabling, bake sales and ticket information!

Thursday, 22 March 2011, all those who wish to bear witness to the Howitzer that is Max Charness’ right arm can do so at Tomlinson Fieldhouse. That is right; DODGEBALL will be making its triumphant return to the McGill University campus for the view pleasure of all members and spectators. Make sure that you sign up your co-ed team and sling some rubber with the best of ‘em!

SKATE NIGHT. As one of our new and exciting Community Outreach Projects, McGill Students for Right To Play will be up at the outdoor skating rink on Mount Royal! Sport your RTP t-shirt, rent (or bring) some skates for a great time. Especially considering Trevor Clarke, our VP Membership, cannot skate. Comical? I think so.

Executive Applications for next year’s council are now available online @ www.rtpmcgill.ca/apply We are looking for motivated, enthusiastic and committed members of the greater Right To Play community to join and help spread the word and raise awareness on our glorious campus and in our magnificent city!

Best of luck with Midterms and have a great Reading Week!

- McGS4RTP Exec.