MEETING START TIME: 4:30 PM
ATTENDANCE:
Committee: Solomon, Patterson, Schaffert, Natowich, Lee, Montecalvo, Pasquale, Maynard, Consuegra, McQuade
Absent: Uy
COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:
- SADIV (Student Affairs Diversity Committee)- McQuade
- Committee goals:
- Professional Development
- Improved communication and celebration
- Want to hold an event for the Fall
- Focus on civility and Holocaust Week
- Rhody Paws- April 28th, 11-3 PM
- Solomon and Maynard met dogs in Barlow
- 15 dogs, goal is 20
- pugs, golden retrievers, full list to come
- Search and Rescue
- Ton of insurance
- Will be set up in a different area with equipment, obstacles, and scents
- There will be an info booth about search and rescue
- Put on through one of the RI cops services
- Jennifer Anderson
- URI police officer is a member
- 2 canines, 4 dogs total
- Demonstration all day along with dogs
- Kathy will email info about dogs after spring break
- Volunteers from Student Senate
- She’ll let us know when people will be arriving to send people to retrieve them from the parking lots
- What if it rains both days?
- Ballroom is booked
- Booking a room could be iffy
- Maybe the atrium or Mackal Gym—more room and area
- Donations
- Pet Partners is a national corporation (last year we gave the donations to them), but they don’t really need the money
- This year donations will be donated to local animal shelter
- Toys, collars, money,
- Maynard: Contact Tony Mallilo about donations and extra credit
- Last year we raised about $167
- Photos:
- Pet Partners’ photographer coming?
- How can we regulate?
- Security: Consuegra
- Risk Management: Schaffert
- Pitu will start a flier
- RhodyRAMa
- SEC’s lobster bake is the 21st
- Not this year, maybe next spring
- Montecalvo:
- Kappa Delta wants to get their feet wet in programming
- Hasbro Dance-A-Thon?
- Online sign up to plan with Hasbro?
- TED Talks- Montecalvo
- Contacted Emily from ACE
- Meeting next Tuesday after break
- License is free
- Must bring in your own speaker, who cannot be paid
- Or you can have a screen and show a previously recorded one not preferable)
- Can’t all be on the same topic (so not everything can be about diversity)
- Capped at 100 people in the auditorium
- each viewing room can only have 100 people as well
- Only one live webcast in a room with a max of 100 people
- You can have a sponsor, but you need an application for sponsorship
- Start with “nobodies”
- Professors
- Michael LaPointe– “Happiness”
- 18 minutes maximum
- Promote all the events on campus and lectures
- Something better than URI communications to get students interested
- Assignments:
- Everybody: The meeting after break, dress nice
- Patterson: Counseling Services, forward Schaffert the risk management email address
- Uy: “Dog With A Blog”
- Montecalvo: forward TED talk info
MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 5:10 PM