SAAC Executive Board

1/19/2010 Minutes

communicate perspective, support needs, promote MIT athletics, serve community

  • Hoops for Haiti
  • Wed 6 and 8 pm, Sat: 1, 3
  • Collect donations
  • Check with facilities for table
  • Email captains to tell about towels, Frisbees into crowd
  • Rally towels maybe for Saturday instead
  • Tech cash? Maybe later---cash for Hoops
  • Pink Zone, Feb 6, 2 pm
  • Promotion and Staffing for donation
  • Sally Susnowitz – Community Service Discussion
  • Paul and Mindy – MIT Athletics on Facebook and Twitter
  • (Beat Wheaton in fb/ twitter page!)
  • Appeal to student body for sports events in place of people just relying on website
  • Their page to connect with alumni population
  • Their goal: coordinate with SAAC to announce events
  • Interactive—students can post their pictures too, for example
  • Choose someone from athletics promotion committee to be point person
  • , (temporarily)
  • Other pages that need to be updated:
  • UA page—update and link to their page
  • Save MIT Athletics page
  • Feb General Body Meeting—Feb 10
  • Handout
  • Edits (see attachment)
  • Email to coaches/ captains
  • Food – cost?
  • Athletics Promotion
  • Rally Towels are in!
  • So pretty!!
  • Feb 6 Pink Zone Basketball game
  • SAAC Supports Sports Form online

Up and running

  • Email to captains (email below)

Ready to send out today

  • Health and Wellness
  • Survey
  • Email to captains
  • Before GBM
  • Add question to handout
  • Penn Survey

-When will the survey be sent to athletes?

-SAAC will send a reminder email (email below)

  • Dining?

Probably don’t need a survey for this—can get info through GBM

  • Community Service
  • Support Service Appreciation Day (see budget proposal)

Feb 22

Proposed Menu (190): Apples, Bananas, Crème Cheese, Chocolate Covered Strawberries, Muffin Halves, Coffee/tea

Raffle Tickets

Thank you notes: matching up

Email to Captains: Here are the people you’re writing about/ what they do…get us the notes in by 15th….ask for donations

  • March 19th Sixth Graders come to MIT

Academic and Athletic activities

Meet them at T-stop, tour activities, lab? w/ some faculty mentors

Classroom to view, Media Lab?, quick tours, here w/ activities…sports

Sports

Lunch

Q&A

Faculty Mentors

Start to brainstorm ideas—liquid nitrogen, different labs, hackers

  • Other

SAAC Supports Sports email to captains:

Dearest MIT Athletes,

SAAC's Athletic Promotion Committee would like to promote your conmpetitions! In order for us to create the greatest event and get the most participation from your MIT community we need your help. We have designed a short form for you and your fellow captains to fill out that will help us help you. If you have any rivalry, must wins, or major events you would love to publicize SAAC's Athletic Promotion Committee is here for you.

Please use the following link - - or search "SAAC MIT" and click the Athletics Promotion link found on the left hand side of our home page, and fill out a Promotion Request Form.

Thank you!

Love,

Your SAAC Athletics Promotion Committee

SAAC reminder email about Penn Survey:

Captains,

Please remember to have you and your teammates fill out the 20 minute PennState Student-Athlete Climate survey (SACS): (link here).

This is a survey to determine how student-athletes view athletics their institution. More information about the survey can be found at: If there are any questions, feel free to contact us at .

Thank you!

Your SAAC Executive Committee