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
    • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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