SOARC 2-3-2014

Attendance: Brianna Monticalvo, Un, Dayo, Jeremiah Bromel, Amanda Rode, Taylor Doyle Kyle Weinrich,

Absent: Rebecca Allemay Dan Bertel, Joe Maynard, Thomas Thees

 

Notes:

URI Pre-Physicians Assistant Club

  • President, VP, and Treasurer attended
  • Meet Wednesdays location and time TBD (the semester just started)
  • Members – 34
  • Elections held to our standards
  • Help students feel more comfortable applying to grad school. Anyone can attend
  • Facebook.com/uriprepa …?
  • RECOMMENDATION: FUNDED BY CONTIGENCY
  • Vote: ( 6 – 0 – 1 )
  • They need to come February 12th

 

 

Creativity Raises Awareness For Tomorrow

  • President, VP, and Treasurer
  • Meet: Fridays at 7 in Hillside
  • Members – 20
  • Elections held to our standards
  • Know they have to donate all money
  • They have donated to children in Syria
    • They have dues
  • RECOMMENDATION: UNFUNDED
  • Recommendation because they are philanthropic
  • Vote: ( 7 – 0 – 0 )
  • They need to come February 12th

 

 

Institution for Healthcare Improvement

  • President, VP
  • Meetings: They currently only have 1 meeting a month, however they will now hold two meetings a month
  • Members – 32 to 35 at URI
  • Elections held to our standards
  • In college of Pharmacy – they want to improve patient safety. They are reaching out to students in colleges other than Pharmacy
  • All students welcome
  • They work with medical students from Brown Medical School

 

 

  • They need to talk to Brian about having a Brown bank account
  • RECOMMENDATION: FUNDED BY CONTIGENCY
  • Vote: ( 7 – 0 – 0 )
  • They need to come by February 12th

 

 

Student Advocates for Education

  • President
  • Meetings: Wednesday MCC 203 at 6pm
  • Members – 15
  • Elections held to our standards
  • Purpose – for help education majors and people interested in teaching. They want to bring in different teachers, professors, and community members. They participated in Make A Reach Foundation (charity) – make holiday card and for each card a dollar went to Make-A-Wish.
  • RECOMMENDATION: UNFUNDED
  • Reason for unfunded, do not currently demonstrate a need for funding
  • Vote: ( 7 – 0 – 0 )

 

 

Young Americans for Freedom

  • President
  • Meetings: Sunday at 5 pm room TBD
  • Members – 15
  • Elections held to our standards
  • Purpose – make students more knowledgeable about conservative views. Focus on being conservative NOT republican. Anyone can join.
  • Goals: bring a speaker, bring Alan West for Black History Month (possibly delayed)
  • Warnings: do not endorse specific political candidates
  • RECOMMENDATION: FUNDED BY CONTINGENCY
    • Vote: ( 7 – 0 – 0 )

 

 

Next week we need to talk about points and standards

 

 

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