“I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that.” – Ava DuVernay – Filmmaker

 

“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley – Writer-Philosopher-Spiritual Teacher

 

“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.” – Chuck Palahniuk – Journalist-Author

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS
(notes provided by the unconventional and unorthodox Paul Conforti)

Lou and Darrell reminded us that The Fund Drive to Rotary International will end April 20. If you have an interest, you can make a pledge and bring your check or mail it to Lou. We are matching the first $100 in cash and also applying 100 points, so you will get $300 credit towards your next Paul Harris Fellow award for your $100 contribution. Checks can be made to Sunrise Rotary Foundation.

The club has the following upcoming service opportunities:

-April 23: Central Interact 4th Annual Trivia Event (we are sponsors, contact Darrell if you’d like to be on our team)

-May 9: Books to Prisoners (Larry)

-May 14-21: The Bottom Line Diaper Drive – newborn, 1, 2, 3 and pullups. Bring to Logic 8am to 5pm

Rod Roberts was contacted by Jan Seeley asking for volunteers on Friday, April 29 and or the morning of Saturday April 30 to prepare for Illinois Marathon weekend. From Jan: We need over 250 volunteers for course spots Friday and Saturday. We will give you info and training and you get great swag, plus lots of love from our participants. If you can get any other members of your Sunshine Rotary group to also volunteer, we can donate to your Rotary Club $25.00 per person. There’s a place on the registration flow where someone can enter Sunshine Rotary as their affiliated group, which lets us track your members. 

Here are the volunteer sign up links:

Friday, April 29 Course Team Positions: https://illinoismarathon.volunteerlocal.com/volunteer/?id=61309  

Saturday, April 30 Course Team Positions:  https://illinoismarathon.volunteerlocal.com/volunteer/?id=61465

 

PROGRAM

This week’s speaker, introduced by Bob, was Dr. Pat Vargas, Professor of Advertising, UIUC. 

The United States is one of only two countries worldwide in which advertising of prescription drugs is allowed (the other country being New Zealand).

Direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) for pharmaceuticals generates $4 for every $1 spent. 73% of doctors believe DTCA causes patients to believe that drugs work better than they actually do. Furthermore, doctors filled 55% of requests for brand specific antidepressants for disorders for which the drug was not indicated.

Adverse drug events are the fourth highest cause of deaths in the US after stroke, cancer and heart disease. Annual adverse drug events more than doubled in the decade after DTCA was introduced in 1997, and that number has continued to grow.

Pharmaceutical ads are constructed to show the drug creating an idyllic lifestyle if used to treat certain ailments irrespective of the side effects associated with the drug which, while listed, are listed as to be not necessarily noticed and certainly not the ad focus. Advertising regulators are concerned with the accuracy of propositional content of drug facts. However non-propositional content (happy families, peaceful ocean views, couples holding hands, etc.) which is not regulated are powerful belief conditioners causing consumers to avoid conducting drug evaluations and reinforcing positive attributes about a drug that may not actually be true.

 

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  April 21st April 28th May 5th May 12th
Introductions Tod Satterthwaite Jarrod Scheunemann Jen Shelby Lou Simpson
Reflection Joe Rank Rod Roberts Tod Satterthwaite Jarrod Scheunemann
Greeters Tod Satterthwaite Jarrod Scheunemann Jen Shelby Lou Simpson
Diana Dummitt Ata Durukan Mary Hodson Larry Johnson
Notetaker Perry Hodson Conforti Perry

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UPCOMING SCHEDULE (with program committee member responsible listed in parentheses)

 

April 21st – Mayor Diane Marlin, City of Urbana (Cary)

April 28th – Jordan Dziura, the Executive Director at Illini Media Co., will discuss the Daily Illini’s 110th anniversary, upcoming reunion for IMC alums, and the future of college media (Charlie)

May 5th – TBD

May 12th – Scott Schwartz, Curator and Archivist for the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, University of Illinois Library (Joe)

May 19th – Major General (ret) William L. Enyart (Mary)

May 26th – Jacque Kalipeni, representing the Kalipeni Foundation that helps communities in Malawi

June 2nd – TBD

June 9th – TBD

June 16th – TBD

June 23rd – Pass the Gavel