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 Shortn’Sweet) (3 boxes)
• Shortnsweet 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