CULTURAL COMMITTEE MINUTES 12, 06, 2013
MEETING START TIME: 02:05 PM
ATTENDANCE:
Committee: Consuegra (10 minutes late), Goldstein, Lee, Maynard, Montecalvo, Natowich, Schaeffert, Solomon, Patterson, Uy
Absent: McQuade
COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:
- Ace of Cakes Reflection
- Feedback Based on Survey
- What we did well:
- Well organized
- Fun event
- Everyone said either strongly agree or agree to was the overall event good?
- Suggestions:
- People don’t see how it brings different groups of people together, work on that
- Better advertising
- More diverse judges
- More useful/helpful information before start of competition
- Give a list of rules to each table
- Send out an email to each group (which we did)
- Chairs?
- Judging took too long, not as long as last year, though!
- If groups bring a lot of their own supplies, there should be a place to put on judges sheets that it’s there
- Gloves, hand sanitizer
- Separate supplies table, separate sides
- Table cloths
- Alert them that there will be a secret item, but don’t tell them what it is
- Category for people that don’t bring any of their own ingredients?
- How should teams get ingredients?
- “Hunger Games Style”
- Food dye
- Teams must share
- What we did well:
- Donations thank you cards
- Judges: thank you cards and chocolate covered oreos (from Short n’Sweet) (3 boxes)
- Short n’ sweet lady for a judge next year?
- Waiting on Schmuter for pictures and videos
- Feedback Based on Survey
- Rhody Paws
- End of January, start contacting
- Other Ideas for Spring Semester
- Rammies
- LGBTQ Liaison Report
- Gender Neutral Bathroom:
- Everyone who needs to be on board, is
- Originally stated: you had to use the bathroom that your gender is
- Now it is what you identify as
- Healthcare on campus: to include hormone replacement and top and bottom
- Gender Neutral Bathroom:
- Naomi’s Event:
- February 28, 2013, midday
- Mixture of 20,000 voices and panels and study groups for professors, students, anyone
- Menu of things being offered
- How to teach a diverse group of students
- Eliminate bias on campus
- Would we be interested in sponsoring/ helping?
- ACE
- Work with ACE to plan an event for second semester to get them integrated into the URI community
- BBQ?
- Organization Mentor (Senate mentor)
- Work with ACE to plan an event for second semester to get them integrated into the URI community
- Assignments:
- Patterson: Thank you cards
- Consuegra: 3 gifts for judges: Sherri, Gail, Pamela (from Shortn’Sweet)
- Maynard and Natowich: GET SCHEDULES TO JENNA ASAP
MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 02:26 PM