ESU Interfraternity Council

February 11h2014

Call to Order:4:30

Fraternity / Chapter Delegates / Alternate Delegate
Alpha Kappa Lambda / Kevin Flanders / Alex Hull
Kappa Sigma / Austin Lewis
Sigma Pi / Anthony Howell / Geoff Cross
Sigma Tau Gamma / Micheal Torres / Daniel Falk / Josiah D’Albini
Sigma Phi Epsilon / Drew Knolla / Dominic Eliot / Taylor Weisman
Phi Delta Theta / Cheynne Swanson / Victor Acosta
Phi Sigma Kappa / Carter Smith / Brady Harris

*present delegates’ names are bolded

Approval of Minutes:

Approved by: Kevin Flanders

Seconded by: Anthony Howell

Guests:

Officer Reports:

President:

  • Reminder of parliamentary procedure and speakers list.
  • Read Preamble
  • Scholarship and Awards packets due Feb. 28th. Nomination will be due on the 19th
  • Promote G3 meetings.
  • Fraternity/Sorority Life calendar
  • Phired phone conference is being rescheduled.
  • Happy Birthday Jason Bosche
  • Exercise on Frat boy and Fraternity man. Oxford dictionary.
  • IFC academy was good. Learned some good examples on how to fix the constitution.
  • Allocation forms are due tomorrow February 12th.

Vice-President of Internal Affairs:

  • Sent out emails about judicial review boards to Fraternities about delegation.
  • Waiting till JRB is finished to start the academic list.
  • Allocating $75 for the polar plunge. Jordan will jump.

Vice-President of External Affairs:

  • Need to figure out the Greek policy on sports.
  • Three chapters represented in the last conference. Let people speak on their experience.

Treasurer/Secretary:

  • Passing around contact sheet for corrections.

Directors of Programming and Recruitment:

  • Need recruitment chair contacts for Sigma Pi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and Sigma Tau Gamma.
  • Will be contacting everyone’s recruitment chair.
  • Need a better grasp on Phired up before talking about it.
  • Bid night will be March 11th unless said otherwise. Time will be brought up.
  • Not on a contract with the rec center. They are our top choice

Old Business:

Open discussion on bid night:

  • Mohammed: Bid night has always been on a Tuesday. If we want sororities to be there it would have to on a day other than Tuesday.
  • Mohammed: How involved would Sororities be? Some of them aren’t recruiting so far.
  • Anthony: We need more information about this before talking more about it.
  • Kevin: Would be nice to have them share their goals with us.
  • Micheal: If we are going to involve them then we need to do the same thing we would normally do.
  • Cory: If they are just guests then the turnout might not be as good. Go big or go home.
  • Roger: Maybe setting it later will make it easier for them to show up. Everyone will already be dressed up on a Tuesday
  • Victor: It is a roughly 2 hour long event. It might go to late into the evening.

New Business:

Chapter Reports

  • Alpha Kappa Lambda:
  1. None
  • Kappa Sigma:
  1. None
  • Sigma Pi:
  1. Signed 1 more guy. Ball rolling with recruitment.
  2. Officers are transitioned.
  • Sigma Tau Gamma:
  1. Signed a man this last week.
  • Sigma Phi Epsilon:
  1. Made the changes to the exec board.
  2. Working on recruitment
  • Phi Delta Theta:
  1. Recruitment workshop in Texas on the 15th
  • Phi Sigma Kappa
  1. None

Open discussion on Greek Room:

  • Jordan: Thoughts on ways to improve the Greek room.
  • Micheal: Would this be part of our budget? Most the things in the Blue Key room are from alumni donations.
  • Cory: Josiah and I haven’t talked numbers.
  • Roger: Taylor and the rest of her committee may have ordered crests for the Greek Room. A big graph of fraternal words. 150th photo exhibit will be up there temporarily (vintage photos of life on campus)
  • Alex: would be nice to talk to Taylor about getting this done, or having each chapter donating something.

Discussion closes

Open on discussion video to promote Fraternity Life:

  • Jordan: Could team up with PHA and MGC to make a video promoting Fraternity and Sorority life.
  • Kevin: Get screen time on union TV’s to promote Greek Week. See about getting this during the passing period.
  • Victor: Getting things on the TV screen is simple. Talk to the people in the ID office. Just a matter of making the video.

Discussion Closes

Open discussion on recruitment work shop with Sigma Alpha Epsilon:

  • Roger: We would role-play with members from Sigma Alpha Epsilon to practice recruiting rather than doing it with people you may know. Maybe a 3 or 4 hour event on a Saturday.
  • Micheal: New partnership would help people stop being iffy about Phired up.
  • Jordan: Jason Bosche wanted to see if we were willing to do this. It is also Interfraternalism.

Discussion Closes

Open discussion on FRAP evaluation.

  • Roger: It will be announced for the next meeting. It is good to evaluate ourselves to keep us improving.
  • Cory: Fraternities that do well on a nationwide evaluation don’t always do as well at ESU.
  • Daniel: Seems like they just want to know what we are doing.
  • Micheal: It is good to have our chapters to align with the Campus goals.
  • Kevin: the process for getting done doesn’t have the best structure. No other RSO has to do a FRAP besides Fraternities.
  • Jordan: Might want to space out how often we have to do it.
  • Roger: It is a big investment of time on both sides. Maybe the process could be streamline. Work on simplicity.

Discussion Closes.

Announcements:

  • Kevin: For Basketball Washburn Ichabods are coming down February 22nd. Pack the house! Pep rally will be beforehand.
  • Roger: Student Gala associated with the 150th which will be on the 20th at 8pm. They will show the video.
  • Mohammed: Email sent about registering for the Gala.
  • Jordan: Help up till dawn raise money for St. Jude. Mosaic is soon.

Advisor Report:

  • Been meeting with chapter presidents. Rescheduled some meetings due to the snow.
  • Encourage chapters to use AFLV info.
  • We need to define ourselves before other define us. We do good at setting the standard. Always room for improvement.

Ajournment:5:31

Motion: Anthony Howell

Second:Kevin Flanders