All week: Purple Punch Cards: Show your Capital pride by wearing purple all week long! Stop by the AMP table to pick up your Purple Punch Card and receive a ‘punch’ for each day you wear purple. Redeem your prize at the AMP table on Friday!

Find more details for each event on Engage and Corq, and follow the SCE and AMP on Instagram for daily highlights of activities!

The Homecoming Court will be presented during halftime of the game this Saturday and Homecoming Royalty (the top two court members receiving the most votes) will be crowned. Vote for two members of Homecoming Court using this link:

https://capital.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3jANMzJuUf9Rwzk.

You must be a current student for your vote to be eligible. You may only vote ONCE with a student ID number. Any additional submissions under the same ID number will not be counted.

Join us for Yochum Hall-oween Student Trick or Treat! For added fun, come dressed in your best costume.

Students are invited to stop by the steps of Yochum to pick up a bingo card, then walk around inside the building for some “treats.” There are nine specific departments identified where you can get your card stamped. Once all nine blocks are stamped, return the bingo card to the second floor of Yochum for a drawing to win a gift card to a local eatery.

Student Government just wants to …

✦ Congratulate everyone on surviving their midterms, and remind you to engage in self-care in whatever ways are safe and comfortable! We also want to remind you to use the resources of:

✦ Remind folks to follow us on Insta@capitalsg for all of the latest updates!

✦ Remind you that our general body meetings, open to the public, take place on Sundays @4 p.m., both in-person in Blackmore 119 and virtually.

✦ Remind students of Cap Comback. Cap Comeback aims to bring the entire Capital community together by encouraging students to attend programs on campus to build community! Certain events and programs will be categorized on Engage as Cap Comeback events. For every five Cap Comeback events attended, students will be entered into a raffle of cool prizes that will be drawn at the end of the semester. Students will submit a form on Engage to verify the events they attended, and entries will be verified by SCE and submitted for the drawing. Here are some examples of events that will be categorized as Cap Comeback Events: Family Weekend, Homecoming, AMP programs, Capital Day of Service, Tree Lighting, MLK Day of Learning, Engagement Fairs, etc. Watch for more details to be announced via SGA and SCE social media!

✦ And finally, we're announcing our new initiative, Cap Congrats! From the first day to the last Wednesday of each month, use this form to submit gratitude for folks on campus, shout out acts of kindness, or tell us anything worth celebrating. We want to cheer you on! You can find your submissions on the SG Instagram's CapCongrats post on the last Friday of every month! CapFam can follow this link, which will also be posted on our Instagram, to submit their celebratory items for October!

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Asian American Alliance, Interfaith Student Organization, and Global Student Association invite you to join in the celebration of Diwali, a festival of lights and one of the major festivals celebrated by Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, and some Buddhists. Diwali is meant to be celebrated with family, so we ask you, our Capital Family, to join us!

We will have activities such as doing your own henna and painting diyas (traditional clay pots). Food will be provided so please RSVP on engage or CorQ by Sunday, October 31. We hope to see you there!

Capital University students are partnering with Home For Families and holding a donation drive on campus November 1-19. Donation boxes will be placed on the first floor of Blackmore Library, in the Convergent Media Center lobby, and in the Student Union.

Please help us help families in need by donating holiday items such as wrapping paper, gift bows, stickers, boxes, lights, ornaments, etc. If you have any questions about what items to donate, email emadison@capital.edu.

Home for Families believes that families deserve and have the right to housing, economic, and educational stability. HFF exists to help bring about an end to homelessness and work to address the profound role that systemic racism, generational poverty, and redlining play in creating and maintaining a homeless population. They strive to be the transformational force for families in housing, economic, and educational stability. To learn more about donation opportunities, please visit homeforfamilies.org.

Thank you for supporting the Columbus community and Capital University students this holiday season!

Emeritus (singular), Emeriti (plural), Emerita (feminine) … adjectives used to recognize individuals retired from their professional lives who are permitted to retain, as an honorary title, the rank of their last office held, most commonly at a university – professor emeritus. Capital has retired faculty and staff who were employed at the University for at least 10 years, who hold this honorary title of emeritus. The Institution also has faculty and staff who were former employees of the University who are not emeriti.

In July 2019, a group of emeriti, faculty and staff retirees, and friends of Capital collaborated to form Cap Connections Continued (CCC), a group of retired personnel and friends of the University. The mission of the CCC is to facilitate opportunities for Capital University retirees and friends to remain connected with each other and with the mission, values, and people of the University. Since its formation, the group has been active in helping to plan the MLK Day of Learning, financially supporting the Cap Cupboard food pantry for food insecure students, serving on the Crane Opportunity Grant and the Professors' Hall of Honor Committees, and serving in an advisory capacity to the provost.

The goal of CCC is to help its members maintain the numerous relationships they made over the years and continue Capital’s mission. The good news is that as active members of the University community, CCC members can remain valuable participants of the CapFam long after their retirements.

All Capital students can access the full functionality of the Calm app by following the instructions below. Calm is the No. 1 app for mental fitness and offers a diverse content library with resources to suit individual schedules and needs. Explore guided meditations and specialized music playlists to help with stress and focus, mindful movement video and audio, relaxing Sleep Stories, tailored content for children, wisdom-filled masterclasses led by experts, and much more.

This pilot program will be in place from October 2021 to September 2022. We will periodically evaluate the pilot to make decisions about continuing the subscription service. Calm only shares aggregated user data. For more information on Calm’s Privacy Policy, please visit calm.com/privacy.

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On Monday afternoon, the Ohio Athletic Conference released another edition of its athletes of the week, and featured this week for Capital University is men's soccer freshman and super-sub Devon Hess.

A three-goal week for Hess earned him the conference's Offensive Player of the Week honor. So far this season, Hess is Capital's third player of the week, as both Bailey Lach and Brady Frydl have previously been selected as the defensive player of the week.

The Capital University football team had a statement win this past Saturday with a 35-28 victory over Ohio Northern University. The Comets, who entered the game winless in the OAC since November of 2018, out-gained the hosts in total yardage and made their possessions count to grind out the win.

Sophomore quarterback Ben Everson took all snaps at QB for Capital and powered the team offensively, throwing for 351 yards and four touchdowns, a new career high in both categories. The effort lifted the Zanesville native to OAC Offensive Player of the Week accolades, as announced by the conference on Monday afternoon.