ATTENDANCE:

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

Absent: Schaffert,

Non-Committee:

 

COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:

• Rhody Paws
  • Don’t forget April 28 11-4!!!
  • Water should be fine
    • Checked with the main office—not a problem
    • No one uses it down there
    • Keep double checking
  • Buckets à some there
    • Patterson- got the buckets
  • Wear Student Senate apparel!!
  • Stamps at the dollar store – Patterson
• Liaisons
  • New LGBTQ center groundbreaking at the top of campus
  • Meet in September to discuss because everyone is very busy
• First Month Carnival
  • Food Trucks come in combo with Campus’ event
  • “Roaming Hunger”
    • RI association
    • Sent in a request
    • They will contact all the food truck
    • They will let us know if they are interested
  • Taco Food Truck
  • Fresh Fish Food Truck à RI Shuck and Chuck
  • Momma Kim’s – Korean BBQ
  • Rocket street Food- American
  • Sugar Rush Truck
  • Grilled cheese truck
  • Vegan Food Truck
  • Spanish/Portuguese Food Truck
  • Do some research and see if there are any other food trucks
  • Not sure of the layout of the quad for the event
• TedxTalks
  • Need to get license reviewed by Michael or Bruce
  • Aware of the restriction of the event
  • Need to be conscious about the advertising for the event
  • 3 other students came in wanting to start TEDxTALKS at Uri
    • Have their contact information
    • “URI tedxtalks think big we do”
  • Send questions out to review for license
  • Subjects are constantly changing in order to keep audience’s attention
  • Bryant University does TedxTalks
  • Check with Liaisons College of Pharmacy and CELS to see the capacity of auditorium
    • College of Pharmacy- Alex Goldman
    • CELS- Katherine Egan
• Dance Marathon
  • Emailed back Brit Davis (Northeast regional director for Children’s miracle network hospitals)
  • Schaffert got in contact with Hasbro Rep
    • Meeting May 2 at 11:30 am
    • Carly Blossom
  • Sent a packet of all the information for Dance Marathon
    • Many info is not applicable because we have some stuff done already
  • Donor Drive
    • You fundraise before the event
    • This website is the website where you donate the money for the cause
    • (Ex) www.helpmiracle.uri.dancemarathon.com
    • Register your team with $10 and each member donates money etc.
    • People can go on your page and donate on your behalf
  • Maybe have a booth at First Night to have people sign up for the event if they want to help plan
    • DOM is helping make advertising flyers/marketing materials
  • Musicians Guild is sufficient for staging
  • Sponsorship
    • SAA or SEC
    • Email Sarah Moffitt (SEC) to explain the event
    • Help plan programming within the event
      • Anything else they would like to do
  • Committee Structure
    • Publicity and
    • Recruitment
  • URI catering?
    • Need to get a waiver if we don’t want to use them
    • Something to think about for the next week
    • Appetizer type of food
    • Finger foods
• Assignments:
  • Montecalvo-  
    • Email Moffitt for SEC
    • Check with College of Pharm and CELS auditorium
  • Patterson-
    • Dollar Store Run for stamps
  • Everyone-
    • Think about Food truck vendors
    • TEDxTalks topics, themes, speakers

 

 

MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME:  5:05 PM