Carol Bassuener Chapter of the
National Residence Hall Honorary
Chapter Meeting Minutes 2/11/15
Call to Order
 Gathering called at 9:01 PM
o Betsy is absent.
 Flannel!
Guest Speakers/Fund Requests
 Coate Hall-Brushes and Bottles: ceiling of $200.00
o All Glazed up with be instructing students to do canvas painting
o Benefits
 Popular activity
 Financially viable for students
 Interaction and collaboration with community business
 Creative opportunity
o Friday, February 20th 5pm and 8pm
o Eagle Classrooms and Eagle Basement
o Maximum of 120 can attend.
o NRHH will be covering 11% of the program
 Program cost is $1900
o Unused funds will be returned based on percentage contributed.
o NRHH would be on all publicity.
o Will write an OTM for the program!
o Questions
 How long will it take?
 About 2 hours to paint start to finish.
 How many students could it reach?
 120
 If you have more than a 120, what would happen?
 First come, first serve.
o Discussion
 We should fund the arts!
 It was really cool how they stepped out the box and it’s new!
 It’s about $15 per person versus $30 a person.
 Really awesome how they reached out to the community.
Not that much to fund.
o Fund request has been approved with 2 abstentions noted.
Hutch Hall-Casino Night: ceiling of $215.00
o All campus event where students play casino games
o Saturday, February 28th, 7pm-11pm
o Most money will be spent on food and prizes.
o The total cost of the program is $1145
o NRHH will be put on all publicity.
o Questions
 Will you write an OTM for the program?
 Yes.
o Discussion
 Casino night went successful last year so optimistic for this year.
 There will be cool green visors there.
o Fund request has been approved with 4 abstentions.
First Year Experience Halls-Be a Part, Reach a Heart: ceiling of $150.00
o A service trip for a weekend to Chicago.
o 48 first year students will be able to go.
 It’s a great way for students to create community among each
other and stay connected through their time at UW-L.
o There are various service opportunities that students get to be a part of
during the weekend.
o Lydia News cruise, senior breakfast, dress for success, fresh market bag
delivery.
o The total of this trip is $3370.
 Majority of funds are coming from ORL and FYE Halls.
o Question
 When is the trip?
 April 10 and 11th.
o Discussion
 How is this being split in our budget?
 Maybe split from 3 halls. Maybe from non-res life fund.
Will talk to Troy.
 Is the money that they are spending valued in what they are?
 Are halls close to spending their allotted budgeted money?
 Not really.
 Students still benefited from the trip last year and is still valuable
for them to do it.
 Speaking from experience, it was a great experience and $150 is
not a lot and felt like we made an actual impact especially in the
morning-Spenser
 How many people are going?
 48 first year students.
o Fund request approved with 1 no and 2 abstentions noted
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Orris White-Little Party Never Killed Nobody: ceiling of $275.00
o It’s a 1920 murder-mystery party
o A dance in Port O’Call
o Travel in groups around Cartwright.
o (A scooter ran across the screen)
o Asking $275 each from NRHH, RHAC and AA.
o NRHH will be on publicity
o An OTM will be written
o Questions
 When it is?
 March 6th, 7pm-9:30pm
 How close will it be to clue?
 Each hall will have a character.
 Will there be live eagles there?
 No
 Do you have to solve the murder to win prizes?
 No, but if you do you can collect more tickets.
 Will having large groups danger the chance of involvement?
 Planning on having small groups.
o Discussion
 Think it will be a great event.
 Great idea for involving each hall as a character.
 Really cool that they are using Cartwright as a building especially
when it’s not used very often.
o Fund request has been approved with 3 abstentions noted.
Wentz Hall-90’s Throwback Night: ceiling of $300.00
o Saturday, March 7th from 8pm-Midnight
o Dancing, crafting, space jamming, pokemon-ing. 90s Cartoon watching,
N-64ing
o The program will cost $1500
 Wentz will be covering $700
o NRHH money will be focused on buying prizes.
 Looking at getting Gameboys
o NRHH will be on all publicity.
o Will write an OTM for the program.
o Questions
 How is money being broken down?
 Each themed room will have a prize basket pertaining to
each theme.
 How is the Pokemon room going to look?
 Not sure. Paul is not in charge of that room.
o Discussion
 I am little concerned with the budget breakdown
 I am very concerned with the budget breakdown
I am concerned with the prizes built in the room and how people
can
 From what Luke gathered, each room will have activities in each
room to gathering tickets
 New idea and cool themes.
 Loved how there are different rooms so you don’t have to wait
long for each activities.
 We all grew up in the 90s so people are going to come.
 People at this institution were born in 1996…scary thought
o Fund request approved with 3 no’s and 3 abstentions
Student Association-We Love Our UW-La Crosse: ceiling of $185.00
o It is a page to show we love our campus pertaining to campus,
professors, faculty, stories, etc.
o We are asking NRHH to help fund for paper supplies.
o We thought NRHH would be a great place to ask money because this
page is meant to show recognition.
o Questions
 What is the reason to going to Michaels for supplies?
 We didn’t want to assume we could get donations from
the residence halls and just take them.
 Have you reached out to other UW schools to start this initiative?
 Yes, it is in the works.
o Discussions
 I love the recognition built into this.
 Concerned due to the political backstory behind the UW budget
proposal and don’t know what could happen if we sponsor them.
 Does SA have funds they can use?
 Yes
 Concerned for buying things from Michaels. Could they find a
cheaper place to buy them from?
 $70 is a lot of money to spend for envelopes.
 If we put our money into the, I feel like we are supporting their
views.
 Liked how any supplies that are left over will come back to us.
 Just seems like if they have money to use, they just want us to
 What could the ramifications be if we supported them and it
would backfire?
 I don’t think there are huge ones but I don’t it
 Could we give them the money if we support the recognition and
say we don’t take a side?
 I think as individuals we have the right to support it or not but as
an organization we cannot make that call.
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I think as an organization I don’t think it’s our place to take a
stance because everyone in the organization might not agree with
the stance.
Fund request was not approved with 7 abstentions noted.
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New Business
 Survey Results – Ryan
o Service Opportunities we want
 Children’s Museum
 Elderly
 Shelters
o Chapter Gathering Structure
 Like activities
 Can get off topic
 No consensus on length
o Change one thing
 Know more about each other
 Dates!
 Bigger presence on campus
 No one wanted go get rid of the pillars
o How can Execs Improve?
 Concise reports
 Better connections with members
o How can Advisors improve?
 Engagement with members
 Feedback in reports
 Nick-wear your soup sweater
o Favorite memories
 All of the memories!
o How has NRHH impacted your life?
 Not always in spotlight
 See impact leaders have
 Leading as example
 It hasn’t
 Voice how we, NRHH, can be better!
o Favorite Pie?
 French silk, apple, and strawberry rhubarb are top 3
 Chicken pot pie made the list
Old Business
 None
Executive Reports
 President - Alex Joers
Shout Outs
 New sign up sheet.
 If you sign up, be expected to plan an activity for the chapter for
that week.
o Alex will gavel people if he needs to so shut your pie holes (get it? We all
like pie).
Vice President - Andrew Treu
o No Report
Communications Coordinator - Emily Hilby
o WURHA is next weekend!
o Candy grams are at the front desks! Except Eagle.
o Save your pop tabs! It’s the philanthropy fundraising for NRHH.
Secretary - Ryan Hoye
o NRHH website will be going under construction soon.
Finance and Fundraising Coordinator - Jason Chambers
o No report
OTM Coordinator - Anna Nachreiner
o OTM Presentation – Sparks
o The effects of showing gratitude
 It can affect your attitude and make you happy!
 Science proves that being thankful makes you happy and it is
shown that the happiness last for long term
o OTMs make you feel good!
Community Service Coordinator - Kacy Rozwadowski
o Volunteering at the clock tower for We Love our UW-L is now “cancelled”
due to the unaware political background.
o Thoughts on
o Discussion
 Would we be able to differentiate helping out with a program
versus being helping out the community?
 Are we volunteering or serving?
 Eagle Haunted house counted towards it so would be
backtracking?
 Could it be half and half? 2 hours at the program and 2 hours in
the community.
 We shouldn’t be doing service out of convenience; we should be
doing it out of sacrifice.
 Would programs outside of residence life be counted?
o Proposal for residence life programs to count as service hours was not
passed with 5 abstentions noted.
o Proposal for non-residence life programs to be counted only up to 50%
hours as service as been passed with 5 abstentions noted.
o Sign up sheet for the indoor triathlon at the REC on March 7th.
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Team Reports
 Recognition - Jacob Sparks
o Working on getting out pins for GPA goals.
o Please fill out the GPA goal form.
 Service - Jaron Frederick
o Service Opportunity
o We are going to attempt to a chapter serving experience together.
 Fill out Cara’s handmade doodle!
o Each person on the service team will head a service opportunity each
gathering for the Chapter.
 Fundraising (Fellowship of Beau) - Beau Sandleback
o Working the calendar.
o Reaching out to offices for them to give us information for the calendar.
o We have a group of people brainstorming for other fundraising ideas.
 Programming, Events, and Promotion (PEP) - Sarah Lang
o Induction will most likely be on April 19th
o We are looking for keynote speaker ideas.
RHAC Report
 Cara 1/30
o It was fun.
o Events that were spoken at that meeting have passed already.
 Emily 2/5
o UW-L is adding a 3rd and 4th level to the parking ramp.
 1st-3rd floor will be commuter, 4th floor will be residential.
 Over a 100 parking spots will be relocated during constrution
Advisor Reports
 Nick
o Don’t be the first person to be gaveled.
o Great job on discussion
o ½ people have taken Nick up on sushi this year.
o Don’t leave without signing the in-person doodle
 Patrick
o Thomas Harris Scholarship
 Thomas Harris works in OMSS
 Used to be Wentz Hall Director
 Used to be Assistant Director for Leadership
 3 people from NRHH and 3 people from RHAC come and meet to
select a winner of this award from the nominations they have
been given.
 There is a scholarship attached with the award
 Winners will be announced at RHAC Awards night.
 Nominations
Jaron
Tayler
Spenser
Possible fundraising opportunity
 A shelving unit.
 More to come
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Pass the Pillar
 Caitlynn
o Caitlynn broke the pillar! (And our hearts)
o The pillar has been passed onto Katie!
Announcements
 Theme
o Dress for Success!
 We will be doing NRHH dates again!
 Student Association has an unbiased website regarding the budget so you can
ask question about that there.
 If you want to take a picture with the heart, you can take a picture at the end!
 We are taking a flannel picture!
Shout Outs
Alex Joers
Jaron Frederick
Gathering adjourned at 11:08PM