Meeting Summary - March 20th

Today was a Scavenger Hunt focus day. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, April 21st. We discussed the online sign-up, and revised the rules. People were assigned different trivia sheets to work on, all of which should be dropped off in Ms. Donohue's room sometime next week, since we will not be meeting. The Scavenger Hunt is about a month away, so start to hype it up!

Our next meeting, on Friday, April 3rd, will focus more on the Dine Around, because the Scavenger Hunt seems to be going pretty smoothly.

Darfur Meeting Summary - March 13, 2009

Small turnout today...where's our 30 plus committee members? We miss you. Please come next week!

Here's what we discussed:
- news update about Omar al Bashir's arrest (see Ginny's previous post)
- Holocaust Remembrance and Genocide Awareness Day is set for April 16th. We will be showing the movie The Devil Came On Horseback again.
- We have THREE major events to focus on for the rest of the year. 1) Scavenger Hunt - set for April 21st. 2) Dine Around - set for May 29th. 3) Darfur Doors - to be up by April 16th.

We MUST get prepared for these events!

Good News!

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for the President of Sudan based on his actions against the people of Darfur. Let us hope that he does not react violently before he is detained!

You can sign a petition to President Obama urging that he assigns someone to the Darfur crisis by following this link.

Bake Sales Next Week - We Need Help

We are unable to meet this Friday, so we called a brief meeting for today, Wednesday. Thanks to all who stopped by.

We are having a bake sale NEXT Thursday, February 13th. We need people to bake and to sign up to sell at the table. We need people periods 4-8. (Periods 4 and 8 right now we have no one slated to do..)

Also, we will continue the sale on Friday if we have enough leftovers. We will need people to sell on Friday too. Please post if you can commit to sell on any of these periods on either day.

Also, please bake stuff! You can drop your baked goods off in F206 on Thursday morning.

Lastly, we will need people to hang up flyers on Tuesday. Please come to F206 to get the flyers.

Thanks!

Meeting Overveiw for 1/9/09

• We were not able to do the DVD sale this week and have to cancel it.
• At next Friday's meeting, we will be watching the documentary Sand and Sorrow about the genocide in Darfur. Try to encourage new members to come and learn about our cause! Fliers will be going out at the beginning of the week- please stop by the room to get some to hang up.
• We decided to donate money raised from the comedy hypnosis show to STAND, an organization that provides alternatives for women who have to leave the camps in search of firewood, often being met with danger. Money goes to alternative-fuel stoves, hiring patrols, and paying for firewood.
• Our major upcoming fundraisers are the Scavenger Hunt and the Dine-Around. Does anyone have any additional ideas?
• We are trying to get the big display case near the library, and we already have a nice banner to hang in it, but we may have to take down our other display case in exchange.

See everyone next week!

DVD Sale - Part 2

If we are able to proceed with this on Jan. 6th, and Jan. 7th, people would need to hang more flyers on Monday (I have them in F206) and we would need to get an announcement to E-administration early on Monday.

DVD SALE - IMPORTANT

Well, good thing we didn't sell the DVD's last week...only one person came to my room to hang up flyers. So, I reserved Jan. 6th and 7th (Tuesday and Wednesday) of the week that we are back to have a table in E-Commons to sell the DVD's. However, because of Friday's snow, we had no meeting and therefore no one is slated to man/woman the table on these days. If we can work this out through the blog, great. If not, we may have to cancel and find new dates.

Also, I think we should have an example of what one of the DVD's would look like, so people can see ahead of time what they are purchasing. Can anyone make a case and label for the DVD?

Please respond if you could sell at the table Periods 4-8 on Tuesday (Jan. 6th) and Periods 4-8 on Wednesday (Jan. 7th). Thanks!