MEETING START TIME: 3:00pm

ATTENDANCE:   Pishdadian, Sit, Weinreich (Sit taking minutes – Blanchette Absent)

 

COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:

 

Slam Poetry

• Slam Poetry is a performance poetry
• Activities
• Shows at the Coffee House
• Slams as fundraisers
• Bring in professionals
• Member attendance
• 24 people

o   10 people at the first meeting

o   16 people from Student Orgs Fairs and 8 people emailed from cigar

o   P: Sounds like a great group to have 24 people sign up for the first meeting

• Election of Executives
• Not everyone was there so it was done by ballots

o   P: should be done in protocol – announce nominations and let it sit on the floor for a week

o   P: We can’t vote on you since you didn’t have formal elections

o   W: set up a consistent meeting time so it can be easier on the members

• Working with Departments?
• Not really working with the English department

o   Did ask some professors to spread the word but no real work with the English department

 

 

URI Breakers

• Intro
• Break dancing club
• Learn the real history of Break dancing and the culture
• Teach basic skills of break dancing
• Activities
• Dances and performances
• Collaborating with groups such as
• Members
• 10 active members
• Elections
• Elections were had but not by protocol

o   P: We will vote on recognizing Breakers once they do elections

o   W: Open up nominations at the next meeting and vote next week

• Breakers: We are the three people that are really involved

o   P: that’s fine, just do the elections compliant with the bylaws

• P: Used to have a Break dancing club that fell off the face of the earth so we like to keep an eye on groups that dissolve.
• Breakers:
• Advertising: Can we just post anywhere?

 

 

o   P: Nope, do not do that. There are guidelines.

o   S: Here are the forms that talk about what you can do. This is the Master advertising list

o   P: whoa, do you normally carry that stuff around?

o   S: What do you think I am? I’m a super senator. J

• g.Safety:
• We have had many years’ experience break dancing but no trained safety
• P: you may want to get risk management waivers

o   P: It’s not the activity that’s actually dangerous, it’s the tricks

• P: I’ll email Risk management and get back to you

 

 

Safety Waivers

• We used to not be so crazy over waivers until 2 years ago
• Not all groups need waivers and while it would be good to have them, they’re not required for all groups.
• Alima and eXposure don’t need waivers but Breakers may want them.

 

 

Re-Recognition

• Blue: in paper not yet scanned
• Model Constitutions
• Decent number of groups that have submitted paperwork haven’t submitted model constitutions

o   We’ll have the presidents and treasurers sign anyway and then get the model constitutions

• W: we should just have a big meeting
• E: it’s hard since members have schedules and W & B have Finance
• W: we just need quorum
• E: send me your schedules and perhaps we can find another time to meet
• Chair absence
• E: I won’t be there next next week (Oct 22) so we need to get and have everything done ASAP.

o   Blanchette knows so she’ll be running the meeting

• Student Athletic Advisory Committee
• Contact person isn’t in contact with group anymore
• No rerec paperwork from them
• W: they should have a compact since they aren’t selective but they really are.
• Category Changes
• Sign Language isn’t getting funding from departments or anything
• Absence from President’s meeting
• Stewart and Pishdadian are planning a separate meeting for those not that.

 

 

Improvements

• We should put all the re-rec paperwork in one link
• Go from PDF to Google Forms or something

o   Needs to be printable

• Starting clubs
• We need to outline how to start a club better

o   Include protocol for proper elections

 

MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 3:36pm