Quarters For Cancer/Mr. UC

Mark your calendars ~ Come to UC for Dinner and a Show on Wednesday April 16th ~ Quarters for Cancer and the Mr. UC Contest!

The Union Catholic Student Movement Against Cancer (SMAC) will be hosting a Quarters for Cancer Dinner in the cafeteria. All monies raised will help support the Relay for Life in May. Our students have been busy planning this special evening and the menu sounds wonderful ~ all are welcome - doors will open at 5PM and close at 7:30 pm.

After you have finished dinner and dessert, you can stroll down the hall to the auditorium for the Mr. UC Contest. Doors for Mr. UC will open at 6:30 with the opening number beginning at 7PM.
Union Catholic's Student Council Executive Board promises a very entertaining night! Who will be the new MR. UC? You'll have to come to find out!

Hope to see you on the 16th!

New Lock-In Date ~ April 18th

At UC we have a saying ~ "no sense making a plan unless you are going to change it!"
Each year we plan the UC Lock-In in early March. Due to Easter being so early this year we needed to use the date of February 29th ~ "Leap Year". We were excited thinking of all kinds of themes we could use like "Class of 2012 Leaps into High School". Well, it was not to be! For the first time in the lock-in's history, it snowed and we needed to postpone our date.

New Lock-In date is: April 18th - 7PM - 11PM

This is one of our favorite events of the year. It is the first time our new freshman class comes together and we were so disappointed that we needed to postpone ~ that was until so many of our senior big brothers and sisters came to us and let us know that now they would be available to help. You see, the first date was also the weekend of the senior retreat and our seniors could not be part of the lock-in on the 29th ~ but now they can. Guess it was all part of the plan all along!

It is going to be a great night! Big Brothers and Sisters are busy planning the evening of food and activities ~ if you haven't registered yet, feel free to e-mail me at bthornton@unioncatholic.org

Can't wait to see you on the 18th!

RIAA trial verdict affects your children and you.

To all who download music and your Parents,

If you haven't followed the news lately a very important verdict has been reached by 12 jurors. The jurors found Jammie Thomas guilty of copyright infringement through her illegal actions of downloading music. They fined Ms. Thomas $9,250 per illegal song on her harddrive. Resulting in a fine of $220,000 for 24 illegal songs.

This plus the other 20,000 cases that are either currently being negotiated or are already completed in the United States should warn us about the importance of teaching our children that we are responsible for our behavior on the Internet.

Some programs your children may be using to download music illegally (if they are on their computer that is what they're using it for) are: Bearshare, Limewire, Morpheus, and Ares.

If you would like to read the article on the court case visit:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071004-verdict-is-in.html

You can search for P2P file sharing to learn more about the programs used in this illegal activity.