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

Top Ten!

Here's today's OCC Blog:

The Top 10

After almost 5 months of open competition, we’re now narrowing the competition down to the top ten schools:

1. Sacred Heart University
2. University of Nevada, Las Vegas
3. Brandeis University
4. Western Kentucky University
5. Princeton University
6. Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio
7. Kansas State University
8. George Washington University
9. Hofstra University
10. Campbellsville University

Each school will receive a $1,000 grant to create their own poverty advocacy program.

Thank you all for waiting patiently while we processed points. We know that the leader board might shift around a little, but at the point that we cut off the competition (Monday) these were the schools that made the cut for the final 10.

This doesn’t mean that the competition is over for everyone else. If you didn’t make the top ten, you can still create you very own advocacy project and submit it for a chance at a “wild card” spot. In late March when we all vote for the final winner, we’ll include the wild card entry in with the top 10 schools for voting.

Though the competition of the Campus Challenge is narrowing, the larger competition against extreme poverty is far from over. We’ve got lots of work to do, and it is crucial that we all continue to do the work we have done during the campus challenge, even if the fun and games are coming to a close.

Meeting Minutes

ONE Meeting
Monday 2/18/08 6pm
CSCE

Rank – We are currently 6^th. We intend to have everything logged by the end of the week.

Officer Elections – Elections are Wednesday at 6:00pm. All people interested need to have a list of what you’ve done and a short speech about why they are qualified for the position.

ONE Voice – The concert was Wednesday 2/13. It was a success! Dan and Chris were very impressed and we had several faculty members attend.

Paint Your Poverty – Thursday 1-4pm in boardroom, we will have paper and markers, etc. for people to “paint” their idea of poverty. We will try to display them around Pyle and other campus buildings. We will submit it as a creative project. Bring people – the more the better! Arin is working on publicity to be out tomorrow.

Posting events – If you do something, post it and let the exec board know that you posted something so we don’t repeat anything we log.

Cincinnati Enquirer

Hey hey! We made into the Cincy news :)

Here's the article:

NO. 1 IN ACTIVISM

Wilmington College has been ranked first among 1,438 colleges and universities in the One Campus Challenge.

This initiative focuses on eradicating extreme poverty, along with development goals such as improving education, promoting gender equality, combating HIV-AIDS, reducing child mortality and improving maternal health.

College chapters can also earn points for activities ranging from recruiting members and gaining campus support to lobbying elected officials.

On Jan. 25, Wilmington chapter members shared the One Campaign story with the college's board of trustees, who were so moved by the sincerity of their presentation they formally declared Wilmington College as a "One Campus."

That action was on the heels of Mayor David Raizk proclaiming Wilmington a "One City," helping the college vault from third place to the lead in the competition.

The Wilmington chapter gained recognition with projects geared toward poverty awareness such as spearheading the Global Day of Action Against Poverty during homecoming, fostering campus involvement in Third World dodgeball, and the Oxfam hunger banquet.

Students created a Web page and sold wristbands and T-shirts with the slogan, "I'd Rather End Poverty Than Do My Homework."

On the OCC Blog!

I was asked to submit a blog for the OCC, and here it is!

Wilmington College (Wilmington, OH) didn’t win the “On Campus Educational Project” with these, but I was asked to blog about them.

The first thing we did is a really easy, interactive way to spread the word about the ONE Campaign. I folded sheets of construction paper in half and put a huge question mark and the words “Did you know” on the front. On the inside, I wrote a statistic about world hunger and poverty. It’s more unique than just posters or flyers because people get intrigued and then they go to read the inside…not knowing what they’ll find. The idea was to shock people with statistics and inspire them to get more involved to make a change in the world.

Pictures of the “Did You Know” cards are on Flickr.com with the tags “WILMTONOH” and “ONE.” Click here to check out the set.

The second thing we worked on is a game called Worldopoly. Obviously, it is modeled off Monopoly, but we used the GDPs of all the countries in the world to make a ratio that directly related them to the values on a traditional monopoly board. For railroads, we used the four highest grossing oil producers in the world. For the “Water Works” property, we substituted a new well for the community, and for the “Electric Company” property, we substituted yearly vaccinations for the community.

Click here to check it out on Flickr.

In addition to these projects, we also set up a table in Pyle and asked people to take short quizzes about poverty. When they were finished, we gave them a fact sheet with the answers and information on how to get involved with ONE.

-Caitlin Reed

Wrapping up

The house party wasn't as popular as we would have hoped...but we had a handful of people come, and we had fun playing games :)

The only thing left to do is LOG EVERYTHING!!! Yikes.

We're down to 5th place, by the way. Maybe logging all our stuff will bump us up. OH! And we got in the Cincinnati Enquirer! It's pretty awesome :)

Friday

Today, there was a Mardi Gras themed dinner at the TOP and there was a mini-float contest. Arin made a ONE float for the contest!

Other than that, we're still 3rd. We have to get the concert on YouTube :)

I think that's it for today... I'll write about the house party tomorrow.

RAK

This week is Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) week, and today the activity in Pyle Center was writing letters to Congress members about co-sponsoring acts to relieve poverty.

I wrote one encouraging my Congressman to co-sponsor a bill that would increase funding to get immunizations, vitamins, clean water, etc. to impoverished people and increase maternal and child health care. Over 500,000 mothers die each year as a result of childbirth complications. One child dies every 3-5 seconds! Children in the world are dying of preventable diseases that we could stop with vaccines and medical attention. But we have to provide for others, since they can't provide for themselves.

Many Singers. ONE Voice.

The concert was tonight and it was AMAZING!! The choir sang Bambalela, We Are The Ones, I Am Willing, A New World, and I'll Make The Difference. I sang Imagine. Kevin and Micah sang For Good. All the songs rocked!!

There will be video on YouTube hopefully by the weekend :)

I'm so excited - it was amazing to put my talents to use for a cause.

Now Cathy and Chris DiBiasio (the President's wife) are talking about taping us singing "A New World" and sending it to the Obama Campaign... amazing. I'm still excited. I've been grinning forever.

Meetings this week

Our meeting was canceled on Monday because a lot of the Chapter members were going to an off-campus speaker.

I'm not sure when elections will be held for other officers...possibly next week.

We won't be having a meeting on Wednesday, because the ONE Concert is at the regular meeting time.

This week's challenge is to show off our skills - and I think that singing is definitely a skill. I think we can win this week's challenge with the concert. I certainly hope so.

I'll be putting together a short introduction for the concert today or tomorrow :)

This week's activities!

This week is gonna be crazy for us!

Monday at 6 we have a meeting.

Wednesday at 6 we WOULD be having a meeting, but we have the concert! It's only three days away!! I need to practice my solo... yikes.

I imagine that we'll do elections on Monday. We also need to attack the next weekly challenge. Coming down the last stretch is going to really put a strain on us.

The votes are in...

After a long wait, we finally have an answer: Arin is the new ONE Chapter President.

This will be an interesting experience.

Elections

We started the election process tonight, and it was basically a train wreck. Arin and I are vying for the Presidency. We each presented a list of things we had done for the ONE Campus Challenge, and we discussed our goals for the growth of the Chapter and campus involvement in the ONE Campaign. We wound up suspending the elections until further notice. That was all that happened at the meeting tonight, and I really just don't know what to do anymore.

I know that I care about ONE for ONE's sake. I don't care about the OCC for the points, I care about the cause. I want to bring awareness to people and spark that fire in student's idealism - because I know it's there. Once people realize their voice counts, they use it, and I want to be the person to help them realize that.

...I just don't know what's going to happen.

3rd again :)

Well, they bumped our points because of the LTE issue. We're down to 3rd and Sacred Heart and Brandeis are #1 and #2, respectively.

It was nice being number 1 for a while, but like I've said before; it's not about the points, it's about the cause. I just wish it was that way for everyone. I'm feeling really discouraged because it's become a contest to see who can get the most points, not who can make the most impact on their campus or in their community. I hope that after the OCC, all of these ONE Chapters continue, because we are going good things by getting the word out. I sure wasn't highly involved with the ONE Campaign before the Challenge.

ONE Meeting

We had a meeting today - it was pretty interesting. Here are the minutes:

ONE Chapter Meeting

Monday, February 4, 2008

6:00pm

CSCE

Minutes

• Standings: 21,975 pts this week. Thanks to Bri (LTEs) and Mike (blog, monopoly)
• Today is the last day for LTEs!
• Log events: log your events – April logged educational activity (educational survey – she will have statistics to display). Caitlin did “Did You Know” flyers.
• Partner project updates:
• Arin: working on ONE float- Jonna organizing float competition for mini cars during Mardi Gras week, waiting on R. Sarvis to get us pics from Trustee dinner
• Caitlin Reed: House Party vs. Poverty – working with L. Storck for RAK week
• Mike: Working on it.
• Caitlin Ryan: submitted Witness article. Randy Sarvis is doing an article too.
• Poverty-opoly: it fell through last week because we couldn’t get a room. This week’s challenge is to do an educational project off-campus. We’re going to try and do Poverty-opoly. Bri will contact Sugartree to see about Thursday. Issues & Artists conflict: we could make it 9pm on Thursday. Name change to Worldopoly to keep it neutral.
• Relay for Life team: We can have up to 10 people – we have 6 so far. April and Arin are checking to see if Chi Alpha needs people before signing up for our ONE team.
• Elections: April is President and student leader on the ONE site. We need to have elections because we need a SLEB rep, but SLEB has decided that we need to elect this week to determine the ONE Coordinator position. The new President will not take effect until after the OCC is completed. Elections are this Wednesday. There will be open elections. The Presidency will be decided before other positions are filled. Each person running is to prepare a short speech including what they have done for the ONE Campaign, who they worked with, etc., and why they are qualified for the position. Each contested position will have a discussion.
• Bri moves to amend Article 2.2 in the Constitution
• Caitlin Reed seconds movement
• Amendment: members who have attended at least three (3) meetings of the Wilmington College ONE Chapter will be able to vote in elections.
• Pass unanimously
• Next week on the 12^th there is an SGA meeting (Tuesdays at 4pm) – our newly elected SGA rep will start attending SGA meetings at this time.

Officers: VP/Marketing Coordinator, President, Secretary/SGA Rep, Treasurer

Tabling

Today is a ONE Day, and we're out in Pyle letting everyone know we're here! April and James made ONE quizzes that people are filling out, and that's also part of our educational activity (though I didn't know that when I submitted our report for the Weekly Challenge, but we can just re-submit... so much for people logging their own activities).

Uh Oh!

ONE is going to be limiting the points for LTEs to 5/person. This is happening because, without a limit for submitting, people were submitting up to 200 LTEs per person! ONE feels that this isn't an effective way to fight poverty; it's spamming. I agree to some degree, but it's not spamming if different letters are going out, and it's not all to one newspaper.

I don't know how this will affect the rankings. Brandeis and Sacred Heart will probably go back to #1 and #2, and we'll either be #3 or #4.

I honestly thought I was still dreaming.

I just wanted to immortalize this moment in WC ONE History:

Yes. That says #1. And it's on Wilmington College's page. We, out of nowhere, have over 400 LTEs. I don't know how long it will last, but I put out my educational activity today and that will be submitted as well.

I and precious few others still believe that the OCC is about the cause, not the points. I hope that, even though we managed to get here once, it doesn't become the focus of all our efforts. I want to raise some awareness.