Meeting Minutes 11/13/08

ONE Minutes

-C. Reed bought the scrapbook and the Bentleys bought the pictures for it

-putting it together as the meeting goes on

-Keith Hamrick, president of Gay-Straight Alliance, attended the meeting

-On Thursday of World AIDS Day week, ONE and GSA are doing a joint movie night (RENT)

-GSA wanted to know if ONE was going to contribute to the movie night

-ONE is providing plates, cups, and napkins

-GSA has extra money in their budget

-GSA has card from Omegas to get extra-large pizzas for a cheap price and C. Reed has coupons

-Do movie night in Mason Center

-GSA will buy pizzas and drinks

-RENT discussion panel: C. Reed and C. Ryan are both willing to participate in discussion

-Want to ask Mary Rose Zink, Missy Holmes, Renee Pinkelman

-ONE has $25 for World AIDS Day -- was originally going to use it for a gift certificate for the person who wins the quiz on Monday

-Do we want to do this or use it for extra funding?

-Keith thinks that extra incentive would be good

-Arin suggested a $10 gift card to Buffalo Wild Wings

-Allyssa wants to do Grassroots Soccer

-Mike's scavenger hunt will be done the Friday of World AIDS Week

-Mike and Arin will work on it

-C. Reed wants to draw chalk corpse outlines outside and write poverty facts inside them so people can see the death inside them

-This week's challenge: write a note about our experience with the ONE Campaign, poverty, etc., on Facebook

-Have to add Maisie Pigeon as a friend

-C. Reed already wrote her note

-We moved up to ninth place :)

-Open house - next Wednesday, so no meeting

-Stevie is going to the resource room to make a giant poster and already put fliers in the RAs' mailboxes

-C. Reed is going to finish the scrapbook while on duty tonight

-Still need a panel of people affected by AIDS

-Stevie suggests talking to Mary Rose

-Tony is hoping to help as well

-Ana Dorr attending the meeting and recorded parts of it to submit for the video bonus

New ideas!

I haven't blogged in a while, but I need to start up again. I have re-inspired my commitment to ending poverty. I was going through the motions for a while but I saw a video in my Social Justice class today that reminded me of all the people in the world who have nothing, while I sit here in my relative splendor. I make about $275 a month. That's not a lot when you're going out with friends, buying groceries, and doing whatever else college students are doing. I'm also trying to save a little for my upcoming wedding or in case my car breaks down or something.

But some people have NOTHING. People are dying of preventable diseases like diarrhea while I complain about the taste of Pepto Bismol. People are living on little to no nourishment while I complain about the offerings of my school's dining services.

What would I do, were our situations reversed? What would my life be? Who would help me?

Those were my thoughts today as I thought about new ways to increase people's excitement about the cause.. and as I thought of all the people dying in the world and people's excuses for not helping with global poverty being "we need to take care of who is here before there" - I had a thought. What if we brought poverty, disease, and death to campus? What if people saw the dead while they walked to class?

I want to do chalk outline sketches of "corpses" on the sidewalks all over campus. Adults, children, everyone. In the outlines I want to write statistics and facts about the poverty in the world, and how it is affecting those who are less advantageous than we are.

I love it.

My other idea involves toilet paper rolls! I want to take the paper tubes from toilet paper and use fake money wrapped around them with something like "We waste so much money - why not help others?" or something. I haven't worked that one out quite yet.

Check out one.org/campus and get involved!

Homecoming

We made our Homecoming banner and it is prominently displayed on the fence by the football field. It took us about four hours total to make... I have pics
now of the unfinished banner, and I will have pics of the finished result later!

Global Day of Action

We have decided to turn the Global Day of Action against Poverty into the WEEK of Action Against Poverty. Here's the calendar:

Monday 10/13: Create a country and develop your own Millennium Development Goals to make poverty history in your country.

Tuesday 10/14: Tabling in Pyle Center about ONE Partners

Wednesday 10/15: Showing of "The Bicycle Thieves," the story of a poor man searching the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle, which is the only means he has to work.

Thursday 10/16: Poverty Games - Third World Dodgeball, Capture the Flag: Survival, and Clusterbomb games.

Friday 10/17: Speaker(s) from the Clinton County Homeless Shelter and/or Sugartree Ministries will be on campus to discuss local poverty and ways students can get involved to make a difference in the community.

More information later!

Making Progress

Today three of our ONE Chapter officers went to the store to get supplies to create our Homecoming banner, which will be displayed at the Homecoming football game this Saturday for all to see! It's an '80s theme, and we're taking a few creative liberties to incorporate some funk and some color to make it fabulous! I shall post pictures this weekend :)

Back in Action - Game On

We're back in the swing of things for OCC 2.0! So far, we've been holding weekly meetings (Wednesdays at 8pm in the CSCE) and brainstorming ideas for the weekly challenges. We came out on top last year after not winning a single challenge, but I think maybe with a little more creativity and some motivation we can snag a weekly challenge win!

Details about our plan for the Global Day of Action Against Poverty will be up soon!

Meeting 2/20

ONE Chapter Meeting

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

6:00pm @ TOP Dining Hall

Minutes

1. Elections:

VICE PRESIDENT:

Mike Weidman nominated Caitlin Reed

Caitlin Ryan seconded

Vote: unanimous in favor

SECRETARY:

Caitlin Ryan declined nomination

Position still open

For the time being, Caitlin Reed will assume responsibility of secretary

SGA REPRESENTATIVE

Caitlin Reed nominated Mike Weidman for SGA Rep

April Bentley seconded

Vote: Unanimous in favor

TREASURER:

No nominations

Position still open

For the time being, Arin Bentley will assume responsibility of treasurer

2. Rank: We were 6^th in standings at the time of the Top Ten decision. Since we were in the Top Ten, we now will continue on in the competition to receive the grand prize. We will receive a $1,000 grant from ONE. The blog announcing the Top Ten schools is on the OCC Website.

3. Paint your poverty: Arin is setting up around 12:15 tomorrow (Thursday, 2/21) in the CSCE. So far, only 4 people have RSVP’d on Facebook. Arin will have publicity in Pyle tomorrow for day-of advertising. We will try to get the artwork displayed in Pyle.

4. Weekly blogging/Personal blogging: Keep it up!

5. Questions/concerns:
1. We don’t know if we can still submit things for points. We need to email OCC to ask.
2. Make sure you sign the petition to send the next President to Africa! April sent a Facebook message to the Wilmington College ONE Chapter group.
3. For the next meeting (Monday 2/25), have at least one idea of how to use the grant money. We will discuss and write up a proposal.
4. Sweatshirt raffle: We will table next week in Pyle to sell raffle tickets. We may also have information on Heifer International.

Schedule for table:

MONDAY

11-12: Lindsay

12-1: Arin

5-6: Caitlin, Mike

TUESDAY

11-12: Mike, Arin

12-1: Caitlin, Mike

5-6: Caitlin, Mike, Arin

WEDNESDAY

11-12: April (?)

12-1: Arin

5-6: Lindsay, Mike, Arin

THURSDAY

11-12: Mike

12-2: April, Arin

5-6: Mike, Arin

FRIDAY

11-12: Lindsay

12-1: April, James

5-6: Caitlin