Middle Earth Community Council Meeting Minutes
Community Council Meeting #4Winter Quarter
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Call to Order: 7:30
Adjourn: 8:30
I. Roll Call – Kristen Clark, Programs Advisor. Last year’s CC Secretary. It brought back the memories for her. Yay Kristen!!
II. Pizza, Soda, and Chips
III. Residential Dining updates
· Melissa Cerro of Evenstar reported back on the “Dine with the Director,” which took place last night. She got to test out the new dishes and said that the new desserts were very good. Some suggestions brought up was having a variety of different fruits as well as harder vegetables.
IV. Announcements/Information
A. Applications for M.E. jobs available: Community Council, Office Assistants, Brandywine Student Center, Tolkien’s Toys
1. Due Friday of the first week of Spring Quarter (April 4th)
2. Applications available at the Housing Office
3. There is one application for all the jobs – just provide information pertaining to the position you are interested in.
4. Information session Thursday, March 6th in Gandalf’s.
B. ME/Mesa Dance on Friday, February 21, from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. – Please hype it up. Karen asked the Dance Committee to meet with her after the meeting.
C. Coffeehouse on Sunday, February 23 in Gandalf’s Classroom: Frame making and henna tattoos. Nimish said setup for the coffeehouse would be at 6:15 p.m.
D. MECC entered in float contest for Campus Wide Mardi Gras celebration (Friday, February 28, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.)
1. Our themes: Tropical Island, Harry Potter, Masquerade, and Lord of the Rings.
2. Shopping carts (our floats) are provided for us: pick up on Thursday, March 20, between 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the ARC by the tennis courts.
3. Float preparation (this is optional; come if you want to participate): this Saturday from 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. in Gandalf’s and Wednesday next week from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Gandalf’s.
E. CC Blood Drive (Thursday, March 6th in Bucklebury): We need volunteers for tabling (getting donors) during week 8. Sign up after the meeting.
F. CC t-shirts have been ordered. We should get them by the end of this week or early next week. Still taking t-shirt money. Thanks for your patience!
G. Reminder: Next official meeting will take place Wednesday of week 10 (March 12). It won’t be a general meeting. We’ll have a scavenger hunt, and it will be fun!
V. BSC attendant: Shelly Bujo
A. BSC updates: Finishing up dodgeball. The names of the winners of the different BSC competitions were announced. The Shire is currently in 1st place in the Hall Olympics, Rohan 2nd, and Snowbourne in 3rd.
VI. General CP Richard Huang on PAIR
· Wednesday, March 5th in SSLH from 9 to 11 p.m.
· There will be 17 acts.
· Asked delegates to help with PAIR set-up. He passed around a volunteer sign up sheet.
· Set up volunteers guaranteed to have seats for PAIR.
· Asked for one delegate to be a judge. Priyanka Thairani, Jason Amansec, Ilene Paik, Jimmy Tong, Andrew Tan, and Patrick Thatcher expressed interest in being a judge for PAIR.
· Kristen Clark: How competitive was the audition process?
· Richard Huang: Very competitive, over 30 auditioned, which is more than last year. So it was harder to get accepted. This year there will be a variety of acts, very diverse.
· Is CC interested in performing a skit for PAIR?
VII. Open Floor:
A. Mardi Gras Floats:
1. Volunteers to take charge of floats? Laurie Andress of Hobbiton and Kelsey Rico of Calmindon will be in charge of the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter float. Kevin and Lisa Ly of Shadowfax will be in charge of the Tropical theme. Nimish will be in charge of the masquerade.
2. Ideas? Suggestions? Do the times we’ve arranged work for you? We need to go on a cardboard hunt.
B. Fundraising Ideas? (Krispy Kreme donuts?)
1. Likely option: Do a test run on Thursday, March 6th and see how it goes and then possibly sell them during finals week, 10 p.m. each night.
2. General consensus among delegates that this is a good idea.
3. Pippin has finals treats as well, so will this be a major conflict?
4. Priyanka Thairani: Should we serve coffee as well? We should also keep in mind that 9th week may not receive the same response as finals, when people are all “crazy.”
C. Anything else? What’s going on in your halls? Gripes? Comments?
1. Andrew Tan from Grey Havens: Could we get condiment and straw dispensers in Pippin?
2. Laurie Andress: Hobbiton is having a Commando game.
3. Lauren Woon: Whispering Wood has study breakers at 10 p.m. on Wednesdays. A suite organizes a fun activity that goes for about an hour.
4. Ben Leong: Shadowfax is having “Shadowgrams”.
5. Esther asked the above delegates to see her after the meeting to tell her about the stuff going on in their halls, so newsletter could do an article on hall activities.
VIII. Break into committees. Those who don’t need the extra time may leave. Email the rest of CC with any new information your committee may have.
