[11491] in APO News
Items to Solve for CPPC Part II (Thursday 7:30pm 2-139)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Goldstein)
Fri Jan 9 03:47:30 2009
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:45:44 -0500
From: Matthew Goldstein <austein@MIT.EDU>
To: apo-news@mit.edu
Hi!
Thanks to everybody who came to tonight's CPPC. We went through an
awful lot of material and came up with a list of things to bring
solutions for to CPPC Part II next Thursday.
Please look through these items and choose a few (or more) that you'd
like to look at over the next week and come to CPPC on Thursday to
present your thoughts. From there, we'll decide on a direction for the
chapter and figure out who should make the things happen.
Committees and officers: I have tried to break this list into sections
to make it easy for you to find things that your office should be
looking at in particular. Please read through the entire list, though,
as some items may be pertinent to multiple groups.
Pledge Recruitment:
Timing:
*Can we find a way to use IAP as an open recruitment period before
taking pledges?
(What mix of projects, fellowship, and skills training to
advertise to get the people we want?)
*Can we organize a project or help PMD during Citydays?
*Can we let people get involved with APO after pledging ends without
being unfair?
More Pledges:
*How can we get more people outside the two over-represented dorms?
*How can we get more guys?
*How can we differentiate ourselves from other service groups?
(That we're a fraternity? That we do particularly interesting
things?)
*Can we come up with an identity to explain who we are, relevant to MIT?
*What skills should we advertise for recruitment?
*What can we include in the office tours to show off these skills?
*How can we get all brothers to help with recruitment?
(And interest people in their other clubs who would like APO)
*Can we get more advertising to freshmen through services?
(like reg day cards)
*How can we keep on the ball with recruitment so it doesn't run late?
Pledge Training:
*What should a Big Brother training program consist of?
*How to we make sure everybody in the chapter (not just bigs) looks
after pledges?
*How can we make pledge training meetings most useful?
(Better scheduling, more/fewer, information for those who miss, etc)
Service Projects:
*What should we do for a new big project?
(Servcomm should consider location, ability to work on our own
schedule, and visibility on campus)
*What can we do to improve distribution of projects over term?
*What can we do to get more one-off off-campus projects?
Skills:
*What should we do to start ramping up offerings of skills shops to
other student groups?
*What sort of skills seminars can we run to improve chapter knowledge?
*Do we have any new skills we want?
(face painting? balloon animals? tutoring training?)
(tent pitching, knot tying, other boy scout style?)
Project focus:
*What new projects can we have that focus on: (ordered most to least
popular)
Projects around Cambridge like building park benches
Projects working with kids
Projects focused on sustainability
Projects with campus beautification
Leadership Aspects:
*How can we get PCs to include more info about projects/events when
sending mail?
*What should go on a PC cheat sheet for each type of PCship?
*What sub-PCs do we really need for fellowship events?
(SFF didn't have any and felt fine without)
*Can we get any help from the MIT Leadership Center?
*What projects don't need PCs?
(like HMMT, Splash)
Fellowship and Retention:
*Should we have more casual social events?
*How can we get alumni more involved?
*How can we get more contact with our advisors?
Misc:
*Do we need to revamp/get rid of UMOC or SFF?
*Should we have retreats or retreat material built-in to chapter weekends?
The Office:
*How can we keep it from being a mess?
*What should we do to keep communal food from being a problem?
*What toys do we want to replenish it with?
*Do we want to rearrange it?
Treasury:
*Do we want to have a position to review the books?
*Do we want to restrict debtlist use?
*What debtlist debts do we want to forgive?
*How do we want to structure the budget preparation process?
Administrative:
*Can we have an Athena training so people can better use the locker?
*Should we form a committee responsible for the website?
*What do we want the WUAPO to do for us?
*Should we have a scrapbook?
Bylaws:
*Do we want to change the set of committees?
*Should webmaster be an elected office?
*Do we want to go through the bylaws entirely to see if changes are
needed?
If you were at CPPC and read through this but didn't see an item you
thought we decided on listed, please let me know - I tried to write down
everything we wanted to find solutions to, but may have missed something.
YiLFS,
Matt
