Minnesota State University, Mankato IFC Agenda
Thursday, February 12th, 2015
Call to Order: 6:31pm
I. Roll Call:
Sigma Chi / x / Delta Chi / Phi Delta Theta / x / Lambda Chi Alpha / xSigma Nu / Phi Kappa Psi / x / Phi Kappa Theta / x / Tau Kappa Epsilon / x
VP of Recruitment / VP of Marketing and PR / x / VP of New member education development / VP of community service and philanthropy / x
VP of Conduct Review / x / VP of Risk Management / x / VP of Council Management / x / IFC President / x
i. Approval of Minutes: (Check Dates) Approved
ii. Approval of Agenda: Approved
II. Officer Reports
Vice President of Community Service & Philanthropy, Mr. Zach Gunby; (952) 393 2969
· Will make a Facebook page for your chairs
· Thank you to all the chapters that attended the community service and philanthropy roundtable
o If you missed the roundtable, have your community service and philanthropy chairs contact me.
· Dance Marathon
o February 28th 5-11pm
o Continue getting chapters registered and fundraising
o Bake sale- In need of volunteers
§ The fraternities will be baking cookies (Individually wrapped)
§ If you bake 1 dozen that counts as one community service hour
§ The cookies must be in the GO by 10:30 on February 16th
o Since the theme of Dance Marathon is Super Hero’s and Villain’s each chapter is responsible for making a super hero display
§ Delta Chi- Flash
§ Phi Delta Theta- Captain America
§ Lambda Chi Alpha- Hulk
§ Sigma Nu- Spiderman
§ Tau Kappa Epsilon- Wolverine
§ Sigma Chi- Thor
§ Phi Kappa Theta- Iron Man
§ Phi Kappa Psi- Green Lantern
o We will need setting up Dance Marathon up as a whole, please contact myself or Alex Simonieg if your chapters are willing to help
· If you haven’t yet go like the MNSU Community Engagement page on Facebook. It will keep you update on opportunities around the Mankato area
· Community Service Opportunity that is coming up-
o 12 hour Candle Light Vigil- February 27th
o Need more volunteers
o Talk or email Karen Anderson who’s the Director of the Community Engagement Office
o Questions (Na) Did you collect hours from last year (response) no
o (Jesse) What is the 12 hour Candle Light Vigil
§ Response - an event to promote domestic violence, there are opportunities to get involved with this
Vice President of Risk Management, Mr. Connor Donohue; (651) 214 9697
· Risk Management Roundtable
o February 26th9 PM Nickerson 238
· It’s On Us Campaign
o ROTC Got back to me I will be having 4-5 Cadets involved in the video and campaign
o Women's Center is going to partner with the campaign
o Working on the script for the video
o Going to talk about it at All Greek
o (Questions)- (Jesse- TKE) What are cadets?
· Reponse - people from the ROTC program
§ (Mitch) What will this viedo roughly be about
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Vice President of Conduct Review, Mr. Walker Johnson; (651)303 7029
· Need conduct review members for the CRcommittee
o Need 3 more delegates, Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Nu, Delta Chi.
o They need to be trained in procedures
Vice President of Member Education & Development, Mr. Akorede Teriba; (612) 607 9871
· FVS Friday 13th1-3pm Ashley Strom will be there
o 5 new members
· Emerging leaders emails were sent out to members – have your guys keep an eye out
o (John) Emerging leaders will not start next week but rather on the 27th
o This will cause FVS to hold two sessions back to back
Vice President of Recruitment, Mr. Chris Rife; (507) 317 6946
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Vice President of Marketing & Public Relations, Mr. Steven Clark; (612) 845 4248
· Ashley and I are working on ways to get PR and Marketing out for chapters like the CAN (Captivated Audience News)
· Making a Facebook page for the PR and Marketing chair
· Watch out for your chapters Snapchat stories (keep those under control)
Vice President of Council Management, Mr. Colby Ackerman; (651) 352 7183
· Greek budget proposal next Friday the 20th (time and location tbd)
· I’ve received dues from 2 chapters
o Due date extended to next Thursday the 19th at IFC
§ Every business day past that your chapter will be billed a late fee of $5
· This fee will accumulate every business day at 4pm
President, Mr. Na Chum: (507) 995 7098
· All Greek in the Center Ballroom for February24, 9:30pm
· What is IFC?
o We took an oath as council members to help build our Greek community for the betterment of the larger picture, school and city
o Members what to do more, they want more than they are doing now
o "being men for the betterment of our fellow man" - Na
o Why do we have to do everything seperate from eachother. There are strength in numbers and with unity comes greatness, we can be the change that levels the gap between us and PHC.
o We need to change this campus to "Strive to our greatest potential"
o Ask your chapters "WHAT DO THE FRATNERITIES ON THE MNSU CAMPUS NEED"
§ Discuss this next week
· Questions
o (DJ) What should we be doing first
§ Look at your chapter and find the purpose.
§ Make sure all of the members are working towards that purpose
o (Gunby) Lets do more All Fraternity events and keep eachother responsible for our growth
o (Mangione) We need better communication for what the Fratnerities should be doing, which would be great if we could work on things together. *communicate goals and needs
o (Jesse) Lets look at why we do all of this.
o (John) Set up goals and milestones so if the long term goals aren't achieve members could get discourages. "Golden Circle" Simon Sinek - start with why.
o (DJ) Set a time out during the year where we are recruiting collaboratively to grow our community
o (Na) lets shoot for 100 guys recruited during a semester, this would be breaking a goal
o (Gunby) Make sure you PR those good aspects of your chapter so our communities can break
o (Na) look to left and right, how would you feel if something happened to your brothers.
§ Thats how we get the why
· NPC ruling on sweethearts
o wouldn't allow the sweetheart process to be competitive or against values
Greek Advisor, Mr. John Bulcock; (507) 389 6076
· Awards due tomorrow! Presentation sign-up available. “Presentation Question” has been sent to Presidents.
· Greek Housing Meeting @ 10 a.m. Friday in CSU 238. Be sure your rep knows.
· Composite bid info has been sent to vendors. Info due from them on 2/24. We’ll meet as a group shortly after.
· 14 men’s bid cards in: 5 Sigma Nu, 5 TKE, 1 Phi Psi, 1 Phi Kap, 1 Lambda Chi, 1 Sigma Chi
· 6 women’s bid cards in: Alpha Chi Omega
Greek Graduate Intern, Ms. Sarah Schliesmann;
III. Old Business:
a. Order of Omega Day of Service Event in April
- Clothing drive
- Pop tap water jugs
- Entire month of April
· Motion to vote on both these events: motion passes
- 2015 Greek Awards Criteria
· Motion to vote on the new Greek Awards Criteria: motion passes
IV. New Business:
V. Announcements:
· Presidents Weggy's Noon on Sunday
· Greek Week packet will be coming out soon - look out for this information
· GA - applications and interview are on the horizon for our next Grad assistant
· Greek Awards Criteria passed will be for the 2015 calendar year
· John is getting old but still loves his chapter (was bidded 16 years ago)
· Greek housing meeting - get reps
· Can self nominate for awards except for brotherhood award
Meeting adjourned at: 7:23pm