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(2000-01-25) Minutes of MemComm, January 25, 2000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Lai)
Sun Jan 30 16:42:41 2000
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:41:33 EST
From: Ian Lai <ilai@MIT.EDU>
Minutes of MemComm, January 25, 2000
Administrative notes:
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Start: 7:30 pm; End: 7:54 pm Present: Alan, Eric, Jake, Carolyn,
Laura, Ian, Ann Marie, David McIlroy, Ellen
Membership Requirements:
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MVP (Ann Marie): The pledge requirements are identical to that of
fall 1999. Pledges have no time requirement specification. One
change is for brothers_they would be asked to attend "at least
6 service projects or 20 hours of service." I'm not sure about
the wording though.
Carolyn: Perhaps remove the "or"?
MVP (Ann Marie): Okay, it will be "at least 6 service projects/20
hours of service." How about fellowship events? We will change
the requirement to three for brothers. Do we want to keep the
requirement of brothers to attend all ceremonies and rituals?
Carolyn: We want to encourage people to come; I suggest we keep it.
MVP (Ann Marie): We will cut line encouraging people to help the
Contact Chair [given experience from last term].
Pledge Meetings:
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MVP (Ann Marie): I talked to Ellen about pledge meetings, and I
want to make them more structured. The first one will be an ice
breaker for the pledges. The subsequent ones will be [alumna]
mrn's talk about national and chapter history; Sam's guide to
PC'ing an event; Ari and Oscar's presentation on the Robert's
Rules of Order; and an alum story time meeting.
Big/Little Program:
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MVP (Ann Marie): I would like to revive the Big/Little program.
I am also changing the way we get big/little pairs. There are
forms for bigs to fill out, and the pledges will go through and
put smiley faces next to the ones they'd like. Then the MVP
will assign the pairings.
Jake: There should be no harm in actually meeting brothers.
MVP (Ann Marie): That is true, and this shouldn't stop them from
doing so, but there are some people intimidated by the process
of meeting brothers.
Carolyn: How about a system of smiley, normal, and frowny faces?
That way pledges can also express displeasure with a certain
choice.
MVP (Ann Marie): Okay. Some one suggested also (I think at
Afterfinals) a Big/Little Talent Show...
Laura: I'm busy that night.
MVP (Ann Marie): ...also known as the Big/Little Stage Fright
Night. It might happen, and would be a start to strengthening
the Big/Little program. Any more suggestions?
Carolyn: Bigs should take littles out to dinner. Is there any way to
enforce that?
Alan: How about a guide to how to be a big?
Eric: Here's a problem: as long as you have a guide, it's okay, but you
get what you put in. If you force things, the end result may not
necessarily be quality time.
Carolyn: Every pledge should have two people they can talk to for
problems, advice, etc. Their big is a more personal contact
point, since the MVP may not be able to focus on every pledge.
MVP (Ann Marie): How about a Do-something-nice-for-littles-day?
Perhaps advertised through the list apo-big-brothers?
More Discussion:
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MVP (Ann Marie): Membership retention seems to have been the
task of the Fellowship Vice President, so I guess Foley will take
on that. At this point we have positive growth in the member-
ship.
President (Carolyn): We should be careful though, and watch out
for last term's pledge class, and get them to stick around. Also,
should we start making a list of people interested in pledging?
MVP (Ann Marie): It's okay, it seems like we may already have
more than ten pledges. Maybe later?
Pledge Manuals:
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Alan: Do the new brothers have any suggestions about the pledge
manual?
Carolyn: Perhaps we should make sure that the pledges read it? Some
stuff in there (e.g. Athena instance) are quite useful.
MVP (Ann Marie): I'll do that. I'll tell people to read it before
certain meetings.
Announcements:
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Ann Marie: I love Katherine Reid [for volunteering to be PubDir for
a week].
MVP (Ann Marie): Tomorrow there's an open meeting at 5:30 pm.
I will provide cookies, milk, and Hershey's kisses. CAC changed
rooms on us, so it will happen in PDRs 1 and 2 instead of West
Lounge. Instead of spamming apo-prospectives, a brother
will be stationed near West Lounge, and signs will be posted to
tell people to go to the PDRs.
