CULTURAL COMMITTEE MINUTES April 9, 2014
 MEETING START TIME: 4:31 PM

ATTENDANCE: 

Committee: Patterson, Schaffert, Natowich, Montecalvo, Pasquale, McQuade, Ogbemudia,

Non-Committee: Consuegra, Solomon

COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:

• Introductions J  
• Rhody Paws
• Water- accessible to the quad (Bliss)
  • Easily accessible
  • Pete says he will double check  
• There are buckets in the building  
  • Able to get 8-12 gallons of water
• Lady for trash bins has not called back  
• AVS dept. is good  
  • Get a stamp to prove someone donated
  • Get extra credit for that etc.
• A lot of dogs are coming at 11
• Wear URI student senate/ URI shirt
• Student senate will be “security”  
• 25 dogs throughout the day  
• 6 search and rescue dogs
• Risk management accepted the electronic forms  
• Keep sharing the Facebook page!!
  • Dog with a blog- description of a dog a day  
• Liaisons
• LGBTQ
  • Get advice
  • She what she needs
  • How to improve relations
  • Pasquale
• MCC Liaison
  • Meet once a month
  • Work with Melvin
  • Ogbemudia  
• Campus Chair
• Morgan met with VP Dugan  
  • He wants programming!!
  • Resident hall student boards  
• 2 programs a semester for each building
  • Patterson meeting with VP later to see what they need from cultural
  • Dorm/Residence Hall tours online  
  • Also wants co-sponsorship for trivia night
  • He very excited for “Taste of RI”  
• “Taste of RI”
• Marylou’s- shut the idea down L  
• Allie’s- weird hours, maybe someone else take over

 

 

• Don’t want to combine laser tag and Taste of RI
  • Maybe after 1st night to give people stuff to do (not very popular)
  • Maybe the same day, taste of RI first then laser tag after  
  • Check in with Morgan about where she is at
• Invite the vendors / Flea market  
• Contact WRIU – Solomon
• Contact Musicians Guild – Solomon
• Flag sellers are selling the Monday from 9-5
  • Can they sell flags on the quad without paying for space?
• Call and check on reserving space for anyone on the quad, ex- wicked good, allies donuts  
  • Need to appeal to finance committee for orders over $500
• Find the costs of what each vendor would charge  
• Find a quote for mini golf  
  • Jenna talk to Amanda  
• Dels- Natowich
• Iggys- Consuegra
• Brickleys- Pasquale
• NPC- backup (awful awful Mondays) Montecalvo  
• Wicked good- Patterson
• TLC- Consuegra
• Orange Leaf- Consuegra
• Jitters- Solomon  
• Burger Shack, UMELT, Caliente- Patterson  
• Coffee milk- under 500  
• Ronzios- Montecalvo  
• Allies Donuts- Patterson  
• Dance Marathon
• Brittany emailed Patterson w/ all important info
• Everyone’s on board J
• Musicians Guild staging is good  
• Location: Mackal  
• Date: November 21-22  
• 12 hours à 9pm-10pm to 9 am – 10 am ** tentative
• Get in contact with rep and go to Hasbro to tour the hospital
  • 4 interested  
• Hospital Rep- Schaffert  
• Sponsorship-
• TEDTALKS
• Register Swan Auditorium for the first talk
• Can’t have more than 100 people
• People from community talk to campus community about *random things
• ACE has similar body like ours  
• Need our help with events  
• ACE will have a booth at 1st night to advertise  
• People who could talk:
  • Happiness guy  
  • Cheryl Foster  

 

 

• Melissa or Alison from SOLC  

 

 

• Assignments:
• EVERYONE– CALL PLACES FOR TASTE OF RHODE ISLAND ASAP
• Everyone– contact professors for TedTalks and think of overarching themes  
• Patterson- Contact WRIU  
• Patterson- Contact Musicians Guild
• Pasquale- meet with contact from LGBTQ  
• Ogbemudia– meet with contact from MCC Liaison

 

 

 

MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME:  5:25 PM