RHAC General Meeting, October 1st, 2015

Call to Order

5:35pm  

Approval of Last Week’s Minutes

• Motion to approve last weeks minutes

• Motion passes 20-1-1

New Business

Guest Speakers

• Joe Gow

• Field House/New Res Hall

• Field house is more likely to get going versus a res hall
• Res hall less likely to be built because of polices in Madison

• Shared governance

• No pros, too many cons

• Dr. Nick
• Students for free Tibet
• Native American Student Association
• Jacob Sparks (OTM NRHH)

• Acronym stands for “Of the Month”  
• OTM’s are used to recognize great leadership on UW-L
• Creating an account is easy, just go to www.otm.org and you put in your information
• You can submit OTM’s for a number of categories
• They are always due the 3rd of the month @ 11:59pm (for example, Oct 3rd for Sept)  
• Email Jacob Sparks with questions:  www.sparks.jaco@uwlax.edu 
• When writing OTM’s, make sure the event/person you are writing about did something that month  

Executive Reports

President (Bridget Fish)

• The Buzz: UW-La Crosse (App)

• This is in replacement of the paper version of campus newspapers
• Survey will be taken at mid semester to evaluate the reception of the app with the students  
• Looking for a brand ambassador

• www.College.usatoday.com/brandambassador

• Meeting Place change

• On October 29th, meeting will be held

• NRHH/RHAC social

• November 1st 11am

• OTM

• Motion to write two OTM’s per RHAC member per semester

• Motion passes 19-3-0  

Vice President of Administration and Operations (Sarah Rademacher)

• Camp Pepin

• Reminder to respect privacy

• Res Life Games Update

• Sign up sheet went around for reps to assist in games
• Expected to stay about an hour into the event

Vice President of University Affairs (Erynn Hoff)  

• University committee undate

• Everyone is signed up for a committee but a spot is still open in Students for Sustainability

Secretary (Nicole Shaffer)

• ARC/SI secretaries

• Please remember to send me your meeting minutes by 1pm on Friday
• Also be aware of formatting your minutes!

• Remember to email me with your question if you are having problems reading the minutes!  

Treasurer (Stephanie Drefahl)

• No fund requests, amount still at $5,500 for program aid and $1,000 for sig funding
• Grub tubes

• Upcoming event, dates and times are undecided but Stephanie will keep everyone updated when decisions regarding the event are made.  

National Communications Coordinator (Mandy Fabry)

• GLACUR

• Application due Saturday (10/3) at 10pm  

Senators (Madi Bentdahl and Pat Brever)

• Scholarship Resource Center

• New part of UW-L website

• University Accreditation

• Happening in the spring!  
• Survey will be sent out asking for student imput regarding classes and professors

• The $64,000 question continued

• Motion has been tabled, will be discussed next week
• Consensus from the halls is in favor

• Shared Governance

• Motion to have RHAC sponsor the resolution for recommending shared governance

• Motion passes 21-0-1

Public Relations Coordinator (Emily Clement)  

• Showing of the RHAC promotional video
• T-Shirt Designs

• Design possibilities to be emailed to Emily

NRHH

• No reports

Advisor Reports

Chris Dziekan

• No reports

Dylan Kersten

• No reports

Scott Thibault

• No reports

Hall Reports

Angell

• First hall council meeting

Coate

• First Fund request
• Coate Hall Snap Chat

Drake

• Hall Council

• Used Oreos to draw

• Harry Potter Marathon

• Nights in Drake Hall

Eagle Gray

• Eagle Grey’s New Banner

• Voted on new banner

Eagle Maroon

• Hall council meeting
• Yard Games

• During the day

Hutch

• Hall council meeting

• Food and T-shirt promotions
• Res Life Games talked about, positive feedback

Laux

• Friends with Friends

• Mug making tonight

Reuter (proxies)

• Pumpkin Painting

• Two weeks from this weekend

Sanford

• Pumpkin decorations
• Door decorations

Wentz

• Hall council meeting

White

• Movie

Committee Reports

Activities and Relations Committee (ARC)

• Winter Formal

• December 4th 

• Feedback needed for

Specific Issues (SI)

• Safety Walk

• Thursday (10/8) 8pm

• Partnering with Sexual Assault Task Force
• Planning a research trip

• Location to be determined

University Committees

Active Minds

• No reports

Broadening Horizons

• No reports

Campus Activities Board (CAB)

• Free Movie Friday

• Vacation Valhalla (10/9)

• Costume Contest

• Bring your receipt and your designed costume in order to win (goal is to make the cheapest costume) on 10/16    

Dining Services

• No reports

Diversity Organization Coalitions (DOC)

• Hate Biases Report

• Able to report a hate crime through UW-L website
• Search ‘hate bias report’ and click on the first link

Greener Living

• Visiting an elementary school

• Talk to younger kids about the value/importance of recycling

• Composting
• Green for Life

• A door deck that says ‘green for life’ which acts as a reward system for people doing environmentally friendly things
• Pilot program going on in Laux

Leadership Development Committee (LDC)  

• No reports

Rainbow Unity

• First meeting
• Next week to discuss bi-laws
• Meetings held at 7pm on Tuesdays

Sexual Assault Task Force

• November 9th flag football tournament
• Companion app

• An app to encourage safety for students
• App is designed to automatically text a friend by pressing a button

• Slogans

• The mission is permission
• We represent consent

• Awareness Video

• Working on a promotional video in order

Students Advocating Potential Ability (SAPA)

• No reports

Students for Sustainability

• No reports

Announcements

Updated video for Res Life Games

Dining Services committee survey created/questions to be directed to either Easton or Micheal

Adjourned

7:31pm