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!