FMO Executive Board Minutes:

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Start 7:11 pm

1. Minutes Read
2. Minutes Passed
3. Marrion
1. Agenda order to be revised each meeting
2. Board’s behavior
1. Be conscientious of timeliness
2. Attendance at events
1. Tell person in charge of event and Marrion at least a day before if you cannot attend
2. Express attendance if event is voluntary
3. State of MSA
1. Student group leaders fed up with Ms. Cooke, and many of them don’t even know her
2. Meeting with VP Banis and Coalition of Colors tomorrow
4. Racial Profiling Event
1. Successful
2. People were fed up with racial profiling incidents
3. Marrion sent African American Studies department email. They are going to discuss Ms. Cooke and racial profiling. They will support us.
4. NUBAA will also support us
5. Want university and Kellogg to issue apology to Josh personally
6. University stance on racial profiling? There needs to be.
7. Rally next Tuesday or Wednesday
8. (Beth) Task force idea – emailed people about it
9. Lots of ideas need to be narrowed down
10. Ideas?
1. (Tyris) Forum with officers on campus
2. (Kellyn) Compile list of complaints
3. (Camille) I wasn’t aware of this before. People are probably looking for FMO to take the lead on this
4. (Nissi) Felt frustration and anger. It’s a lot more serious than black students on this campus have been taking it Officers say these complaints have not been filed. Hand out material at the beginning of the year so that officers are completely aware of what racial profiling is and how to avoid it.

1. (Marrion) FMO should focus on this, possibly our focus for the year
2. (Nissi) Mention students knowing their rights
3. (Marrion) Add to handbook or website. Go through students’ rights at Black Student Experience
1. (Tyris) Upset a comments about situation on NBN. Rally should not be passive.
2. (Nissi) Tone of rally should be as purposeful and crafted as possible
3. (Camille) If we co-sponsor, it is imperative FMO has the last word. Josh made his plea, and it unnerved people. Then, the white guy diluted the situation. It’s okay for people to go home upset. If FMO is on the forefront, we need to have the last say because the other minority groups don’t completely understand our struggle.
4. (Beth) We can focus the firesides around this issue. We can possibly talk to fraternities as well.
5. (Marrion) This should continue to resurface next year. When this happens, we’re surprised because we don’t know it happens often. This could be a them throughout the year. State of the Black Union could be focused on this. Publicity on campus and off campus.
1. Unity Fashion Show Mishap
1. Last year, Zach signed us on as a co-sponsor and we were called in for reprimand. The groups that took power didn’t know about how contracts work. They got Mr. Chi City. They got a verbal agreement and started to publicize, but he said he was not coming. We got group misconduct from SAFC. They gave us a timeline about how to do this process.
2. Meeting with VP Banis on Tuesday and Cooke on Wednesday
1. Banis just wanted to know if everyone was on board with this.
2. Marrion stressed that we were upset with Ms. Cooke because she doesn’t communicate with us. Leaders of groups like ASA know who she is but she doesn’t know who they are. We need to make this as unpersonal as possible
3. Ms. Cooke seemed like she wanted to jump on board about racial profiling
1. Camille
1. Satellites and affiliates to send availability for first meeting
2. Told satellites and affiliates to send in constitutions (by June 13), pictures, blurbs
3. Picked a theme for BSAC meetings, each will have one
1. Team-building

2. Theme for first BSAC meeting about legacy
1. What is your organization’s legacy?
2. Make a note of the fact that NPHC did not have a representative at the leadership retreat
1. Some reprimand will happen
3. (Marrion) With calendars
1. Afropollo and big events that cannot be rescheduled, send info in now
2. Reprimanding NPHC
1. Come up with penalization rules over the summer
2. Black student leadership conference is not in the constitution as mandatory, but we can punish because they might not have attended BSAC meetings
3. Meeting with NAYO
2. Nissi
1. Michael Eric Dyson will be fall speaker
1. Formal vote to be taken
2. Tried to get Angelou
1. Cheapest was $43,000
3. Talib Kweli didn’t give a price
4. Dyson best choice because he was professional and stable
5. Initially offer was $20,000; EJ talked them to $17,000; now looking to lower to $16,500
6. Vote for Dyson
1. Passed
7. EJ and Nissi will extend offer, which they’ve done somewhat
1. Hopefully within the next two weeks, we’ll have contracts, hotel, and ground transportation
2. Help with Dyson event? Come to Nissi’s committee meetings
8. Who would introduce him? We should use the exec board.
9. Banquet
1. After?
2. (Marrion) Banquet should be after. Seems more legitimate to come from Parkes to Cahn. More organized.
10. (Nissi) In terms of transportation make sure he gets here early
2. Black Family Reunion
1. When you think of a black family reunion, what do you think of?
2. Send responses!
3. Itinerary
1. Programming committee meeting Tuesday
4. T-shirt ideas

3. Unity Ball
1. Send feedback
2. (Marrion) find out prices, so we can gear Financial Freedom Campaign toward it
3. This quarter, research is taking place and they are thinking of fundraising ideas
4. Next quarter will be geared toward fundraising
4. (Camille) Secretary should make a database for Exec Board
3. Beth
4.               Islamic Studies Program
1. Research; met with Dean Finn
2. Conflict between doing this and Middle Eastern/North African program
1. (Marrion) should be Islamic Studies Program
3. NUPD task force
1. Meeting on Tuesday
4. Website
1. List of exec boards for other cultural groups and contact information
1. Have ten now
2. Under external relations
1. Link
5. Committee meeting Wednesday Reading Week
6. Black Church Fair/Black Business Fair
1. HOTR didn’t have formal exec board
2. This past week, they revamped their exec board
3. Letters during reading week or senior week
4. (Francesca) Evanston churches? Yes
7. Firesides focus
1. Racial profiling
8. (Marrion) Everyone should pay attention
5. Adam
1. $6.04 in outside account
2. We paid for Blackboard; the old board decided not to but Elisa got money for it, but we fronted the rest; Marrion donated $100 to account which will show up soon
3. Check from NUBAA to be put in account tomorrow
4. Check stubs to be resolved by end of quarter
5. Talk to Ama about ticket sales from Big Sean/Solange concert
6. Marrion has check for LUNA; talk to EJ; UP didn’t take money out of account
7. Collect Financial Freedom Campaign monies
1. Deposit money into OO account
2. Have to deposit money through cashier’s office

8. Receipts
1. Give to Adam
2. Reconcile reimbursement for Camille
3. Make sure it is not ninety days past
4. If you want reimbursement, you have to be proactive
1. Adam will send one reminder
2. Other money will be used for Financial Freedom Campaign
8. Kellyn
1. Newsletter
1. Will finish newsletter
2. (Marrion) Come on Tuesday to office hours to show template
3. This should be out by Friday of Reading Week
2. PAC
1. Rally next week for racial profiling
1. Date?
2. Racial profiling
1. Ideas? Email Kellyn
9. Kristin
1. FMO website released
1. Reached fifty members yesterday
2. Logistics
1. Voice and Vision and CaribNation to send info for website
2. Distributed list of things we can do
3. Old constitution on website
4. Correct version of Camille’s name, two new positions, new groups, move around inactive/active satellites
5. Chat
1. We should have it because it will help people stay on website
2. Vote
1. Passed
6. Google Analytics shows stats
1. Main, racial profiling parts of site popular
2. New members should upload profile picture
2. Cleaned up GMail account
1. Everyone has their own folder
2. Send stuff to old folder in gmail account
10. Dallas
1. Handbook
1. Emailed Beth, Camille, and La Donna
1. Beth – add 820
2. La Donna

1. History
1. Condense; minimize paragraphs
1. Add students’ rights
1. Francesca
1. T-Shirts
1. Talked to Nissi
2. Came up with idea
3. Tree
1. Possibly put satellite and affiliate names in tree
4. Need nice image, quote (empowering black people)
5. Color
1. Black shirt with different colors
2. Flyer for rally?
1. (Camille) do quarter sheets instead of flyers
2. Pluggers with stories?
3. Make our profile picture and event on facebook
4. Ready by Monday
2. Amin
1. Financial Freedom Campaign
1. Met with committee
1. Hard to see $100 from everyone by next week
2. People may have $30 or $40
3. Can extend deadline
4. NUBAA giving us $50 for Black Family Reunion to go to Financial Freedom Campaign
2. Concessions and Thank-a-thon next year
3. Tyris
1. Coupons for student groups
2. New shuttle route amazing
1. Dropped stops that people did not use
2. Added stops
3. GPS coming
4. Nightly shuttle shortened so will move faster
5. (Marrion) When will we get shuttle? Next year
3. Ms. Cooke legislation
1. Working on it. To send out info to other senators. Would be difficult to pass because we are trying to remove someone from their job
1. More like no-confidence in Ms. Cooke; sounds better than removal of Ms. Cooke
2. (Nissi) She need not be in this position; passability – majority of people either don’t know or don’t care about issue
4. Letter over ASG listserv about Josh’s story

5. Trying to figure out if SAFC will be changed to SAFB
1. Malivika upset because she is not VP anymore
5. Marrion
1. Sunday, May 31, 2009 – Tribute to Black Men, Norris Louis Room, 5 pm
1. Reception first
2. Tuesday, June 2, 2009 – NSBE banquet
1. Talk to Francesca

End 8:58 pm

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