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(2000-01-17) Minutes of ServComm Meeting, January 17, 2000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Lai)
Wed Jan 26 10:25:51 2000
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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:25:33 EST
From: Ian Lai <ilai@MIT.EDU>
Minutes of ServComm Meeting, January 17, 2000
Administrative notes:
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Start: 7:12 pm; End: 7:43 pm Present: Sam, Katherine, Carolyn, Jake
W., Ann Marie, Laura, Ian, Ping Huang, David McIlroy, Alan, Ellen
Interchaper Activities:
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SVP (Sam): I contacted BU. We'll try to have a project with them.
Currently suggestions include a river cleanup. Another idea is
to have a joint Chapter Weekend II with WPI.
MVP (Ann Marie): Initiation is currently set for CWII. Do we think
it's a good idea to have another chapter present during Initia-
tion? Also, it's a week before the last full week of classes, which
is a big exam week.
Carolyn: Perhaps we can have some people coming for just the night
of Initiation?
Ann Marie: Maybe we can do CWI with WPI.
SVP (Sam): CWI is at Camp Knobscott.
Ping: It's closer to here than Camp Resolute.
It is decided that Initiation remain at Chapter Weekend II, and to have
WPI with us at Chapter Weekend I. Sam will contact them soon.
Service Requirements:
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SVP (Sam): We should formulate a ServComm recommendation for
service requirements.
MVP (Ann Marie): The idea we had from Afterfinals is that brothers
would need 6 projects for a total of 20 hours, while pledges would
do 5 projects for perhaps 15 hours.
Carolyn: Approximating would probably be a good thing.
MVP (Ann Marie): The time requirement for pledges is only a
maybe, since it would be good for them to meet five different
sets of brothers at five different projects, whereas satisfying the
15 hour requirement could be done all at a big project such as
Big Screw.
Carolyn: We could use the 15 hours as a goal for the pledges, rather
than a requirement.
It is decided that we should treat the time requirement as an experi-
ment, and have it for the brothers only for now to see how it pans out.
There will be no time goal or requirement for the pledges this term.
Service Outside the Chapter:
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SVP (Sam): We should probably give brothers credit for service out-
side of APO, such as one-on-one tutoring, but we would like to
remain a fraternity serving together. How about an allowance
of one project or three hours of service outside the chapter?
Carolyn: People should generally not take advantage of it. It might,
however, come up for brothers who feel that they should be
counted as inactive, but have done service outside APO.
MVP (Ann Marie): Perhaps towards the end of term, we should
send an e-mail that asks brothers feeling like they fall short on
projects to talk to the MVP.
It is so decided.
Open Projects:
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Sam calls for ideas on open projects. Suggestions offered include:
o Food Bank
o Painting project
o Construction
o Destruction
o CWI projects (caveat: that may cause more pledges than we can
handle)
o Registration Day
o Habitat for Humanity
Project Chair Scramble:
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David McIlroy volunteers to be the head PC of Big Screw. The pledges
will probably PC Chapter Weekend II, and CWI does not yet have a
PC.
SVP (Sam): E-mail will be sent out to recruit for PC-ships.
