Cultural 9-21-16

MEETING START TIME: 5:00 pm

ATTENDANCE:

Committee: Chairwoman Brittany Kraft, Senator Romanuel Percy, Senator Michael Bachilas, Senator Michael Steiner, Senator Kevin Speckmann, Senator Laura Creese

Late:

Absent:

Non-Committee:

COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:

  • Diversity Week:
    • Senate program on Friday (9/30) 11:00-11:50 AM
      • At Multicultural Center
    • Still looking for people to volunteer
      • Counts as an office hour for Senators
      • Sent out to RAs
      • Responsibilities include: Going five minutes early, asking presenters what they may need, taking a headcount of attendance
      • Sign up to volunteer on Google Docs
    • Sign up online to go to events (some have limits)
    • Keynote Speaker: Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw
      • Tuesday, Sept. 27th
    • Pumpkin Festival:
      • Pumpkins are NOT free
      • Buy some pumpkins and partner with Slow Foods’s event (?)
      • Movie on the quad (?)
        • Expensive to put on
      • Programming Ideas
        • Homecoming
        • Consider other ideas

MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME:  5:08pm