![]() ![]() ![]() “You can always make a difference with that one student letting them know that the purpose for the police department is to be here for their safety and security. “ their perspective on law enforcement,” Gamboa said. Gamboa shared why she loves participating in these events. EIU Chief of Police Marisol Gamboa attended Bingo Night and even called numbers for two of the six rounds. Student Government has also collaborated with the EIU University Police for this week’s events, as they plan on participating and attending all the events throughout the week. The event was part of the HERC and Student Government collaboration for safety week before spring break. From right, University Police Chief Marisol Gamboa reads numbers as Esperanza Murillo, a graduate student studying health promotion and event organizer from the HERC, pulls them from the bingo wheel in Thomas Dining Monday night. Spring Into Safety Week is a 4-day event hosted by Student Government that enables students to have fun while also learning how to have a safe and happy nine days off. Again, I wish we had more bingo cards, but I think that people took away some safety tips and had a good time.” ![]() People were already here and were realizing that bingo is coming on, so we’re super excited about the turnout. “I think that we definitely should have brought more bingo cards, because our main goal was to have as many people as possible, and we achieved that pretty well because it was Late Night Pizza. Yusef was also extremely impressed with the attendance of the event. “We wanted to show that we can have fun and learn about things at the same time.” “The main goal was fun, to have some fun with students, but to also spread awareness about things that are really important like mental health, sexual assault awareness and alcohol awareness,” Yusef said. Jasmine Yusef, a senior English major, is on the board for Student Government and helped organize the event. The event was held at Thomas Hall’s dining center, with over 80 participants attending for the bingo festivities and free pizza. Several different forms of bingo were played including: regular bingo, 4-corners bingo, “blackout” bingo (which requires participants to fill their entire bingo card to win) and more. A total of six bingo games were played for six prize baskets alongside a raffle that was awarded to one lucky audience member who matched the winning ticket. Over $200 in prizes were handed out as well as educational tidbits on mental health and alcohol awareness. ( Rob Le Cates)ĮIU Spring Into Safety Week started with Student Government, the Health Education Resource Center (HERC), and EIU University Police collaborated to bring students a night of bingo. 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code to be used in such recipient organization’s charitable, civic, community, benevolent, religious, or scholastic works or similar activities or, in the alternative, such remaining proceeds shall be used as specified in subsection (3).MaThe event organizers ran out of bingo cards so several students were unable to play Safety Bingo in Thomas Dining Monday night. Any net proceeds remaining after paying prizes may be donated by the association to a charitable, nonprofit, or veterans’ organization which is exempt from federal income tax under the provisions of s. ![]() 720.301, a mobile home owners’ association, a group of residents of a mobile home park as defined in chapter 723, or a group of residents of a mobile home park or recreational vehicle park as defined in chapter 513 to conduct bingo is conditioned upon the return of the net proceeds from such games to players in the form of prizes after having deducted the actual business expenses for such games for articles designed for and essential to the operation, conduct, and playing of bingo. (4) The right of a condominium association, a cooperative association, a homeowners’ association as defined in s. ![]()
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