ACTIVE VOICES
September 27, 2005
LSF 60 4pm
Members Present:
Camie Tyler
Susan Antoszewski
Dr. Joanne Urschel
Dawn Ulicni
Carol Wilson
v Advisors Dr. Janusz Duzinkiewicz and Beth Rudnick in attendance.
v Approval of Agenda: Motioned, Dawn; Second, Sue.
v Approval of 9-15 minutes: Motioned, Dawn, Second Camie.
v Marrs/Norris Katrina relief effort – slow, donated items trickling in. Camie posted flyers around campus in hopes to keep effort in mind of students. Drop off location: LSF 68 Student Newspaper office.
v Fundraising: Camie brought in the flower bulbs the club purchased (200 total). Sale days: Oct 5-6 from 11am – 3pm in Tech Lobby. Also will add Oct 11-12. Bulbs will be 3 for a $1. Sign up sheet available, Camie will also email reminder out for table coverage.
v New Business: Oct. 6 Relief Meeting of all PNC Clubs. Annette Meadows, Student Club Advisor, asked Camie and AV to head meeting and brainstorm for an idea the campus could rally behind. Club came up with “The House That PNC Built.” Fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity and Keri Marrs and PNC students wishing to go down south and help with Habitat building. Main Ideas:
o Money fundraiser for the rest of the fall semester to contribute a percentage (talk of a 90/10 split) of total monies raised. 90% Habitat for Humanity the organization, 10% to help fund Keri Marrs and students from PNC wanting to go down south for holiday break and help (for transportation down south).
o Possibly getting display case by cafeteria and post inside information on Habitat and relief efforts, photos, magazine articles, newspaper articles, anything that will catch the eye and hearts of students to get them aware and to donate. Also build a house out of Legos. As the money from donations grows, the house grows and is used as a visual to show how much PNC has built.
o If agreed upon by the entire PNC club community, then each club would have one person from said club to be on the relief committee, that committee then electing a chair. Active Voices adamant on NOT taking the project on by themselves. If idea is not accepted by the group, it will not be done. The Relief Committee would then handle the project as its leaders.
o Tables would need to be set up in front of the cafeteria (in front of display case) EVERYDAY until the semester is over. Clubs would need to get their members to man the tables. It would be imperative to have tables manned everyday, all hours. It’s the only way it’ll work – to get maximum donations.
o Flyers, posters, emails, posted all over campus and getting word to Carol Connolly of Campus Relations to get the word out to community papers so communities can get involved also.
o For night students, another idea would have to be figured out, possibly use of the drop box at the Bursar’s office?
o Committee would need to approach Chancellor/Vice Chancellor for a possible “matching” program. For each dollar PNC raises, the Ch/VC could get their community ties to match a dollar.
o Committee would need to approach Faculty-Senate for cooperation from the faculty/staff. (Nick Williams could do this as SGA President since he has a seat on the senate as the student rep.)
o For Oct 6 meeting, need Keri Marrs to possibly speak and a rep from Habitat if possible.
o Need TOTAL cooperation from the campus and clubs or project will fail.
o Also brought up at AV meeting that this Oct 6 meeting should only be on the Relief idea and not on any campus smoking issues. Need to keep the issues separate.
v Next meeting: Thursday, October 13
7 p.m. LSF 60