American University
Residence Hall Association
c/o Housing & Dining Programs | 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW | Washington, DC 20016-8142
Phone: (202) 885-1878 | FAX: (202) 885-1154 | E-mail: info@aurha.org | www.aurha.org
Reiter Boldt
President
(202) 885-1878
reiter@aurha.org
Devon Wallick
Vice President of
Administration and Finance
(202) 885-3606
devon@aurha.org
General Assembly Agenda
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Rajita Sanji
Vice President of Advocacy &
Community Coordination
(202) 885-1742
rajita@aurha.org
Hayat Abu-Ghazaleh
Vice President of
Programming
(202) 885-2772
hayat@aurha.org
Patricio Barnuevo
National Communications
Coordinator
(202) 885-3676
patricio@aurha.org
Marieka Cober
Chief of Staff
(202) 885-2179
marieka@aurha.org
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Daniel DeHollander
Advisor
(202) 885-3138
deholla@american.edu
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March 20, 2014
Call to Order
o President Reiter Boldt called the meeting to order at 9:44 pm.
Attendance
o Anderson
 4/6
o Cassell
 4/5
o Centennial
 5/5
o Hughes
 6/6
o Leonard
 4/6
o Letts Clark and Roper
 6/6
o McDowell
 3/4
o Nebraska
 0
Minutes Approval
o Motion to approve the minutes, unanimous consent
 seconded
Agenda Approval
o Motion to approve the agenda, unanimous consent
 seconded
Hall Reports
o Anderson
 Planning an ice cream social for the EBI survey
 Working on Hall Wars and advertising
 Filmed Do it in the Dark video with Green Eagle
 Planning spring egg hunt
 Tabling for finals passively
 Working on Holocaust Remembrance Week
 RA Appreciation
o Cassell
 Planned events for rest of semester
 Allocated money to block party
 Started planning finals event
o Centennial
 Filmed Do it in the Dark video
 RAs put on events during spring break
 Passive programming for the EBI
 Taste of DC was awesome
 Planning Chopped event, floor to floor competition
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 Working with RAs on study abroad event
 Working on transition documents
o Hughes
 Filmed video and submitted
 Trivia night on Hall Wars kick off day
o Leonard
 Started working on North Side Block Party
 Signed up teams for Dodgeball tournament
 Working on Taste of Leonard planning
o Letts Clark and Roper
 Successful cereal bar before break on snow day
 Working on video and editing it
 Fitness week next week, free Zumba and healthy snacks
o McDowell
 Video completed
 Planning Relay fundraiser
 Planning McFormal at the end of April
 Went to Block Party planning meeting
o Nebraska
 None present
Executive Board Reports
o President
 What I did
• Attended Conduct Advisory Board meeting
• Worked with Paul and Constitutional Review Committee
o Timeline established
• Began scheduling and holding one-on-ones with Presidents
o Send Reiter an email with availability within the next
week
• Worked on elections with Paul
 What I didn’t do
• Scan and sign resolutions
 What I’m going to do
• Schedule time with Rajita to work on analytics for spring
training
• Complete feedback and analytics brief on Strategic Plan and
Goals
• Attend Dining Services Committee with Rajita, March 24
• Continue to assist and facilitate the e-board with elections
o Vice President of Administration and Finance
 What I did
• Finalized t-shirt design with CustomInk, should be hear by
Wednesday
• Started transition document
• Finished changes to financial policies
• Sent the poster sale contract to Daniel
 What I plan to do
• Work with Reiter to incorporate the financial policies
• Update budget, as always
• Keep working on transition documents
o Vice President of Advocacy and Community Coordination
 HALL WARS
 HOTY does and don’ts!
 Don’t
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Send pictures of residents holding shirts, they must be
wearing them for spirit
Send me events from more than a one month ago, it’s
probably been counted already
Email Hall Wars stuff to HOTY or vice versa
Send more than 10 pictures of an event
Send an email about writing an OTM, Rajita already gets it!
• Put a subject line
• Look at different ways to earn points and be creative
• Specify if the person wearing a shirt is an RA or resident
• Encourage your residents and hall councils to send in points
Vice President of Programming
 What I did
• Looked at Aramark for catering for Transition to get pricing
• Got 2 contracts approved (Do It in the Dark and Hall Wars)
• Postponed Do it in the Dark to next Wednesday because of
weather :(
• Continued finalizing things for Hall Wars
• Finalizing Founder's Payments to different vendors
• Final Perk meeting
 What I’m going to do
• Finalize transition details
• Start working on transition document
• Finish Founder’s Day payments
National Communications Coordinator
 Thank you for applying to NACURH!
 Can submit School of the Year feedback by Monday at the latest
 What I did
• Decided travel for NACURH (probably planes)
• Completed NACURH Conference Application
• Completed NCC Constitutional Amendment
 What I plan to do
• Present NCC Amendment to constitutional review committee
• Select NACURH delegation
Chief of Staff
 What I did
• Contacted facilities and scheduled an appointment for the
plaques in the office
• Worked on transition document
• Checked in with GA members, send a short update!
• Helped to label envelopes for My Favorite Student
 What I plan to do
• Meet with facilities on Tuesday and get a quote for moving
plaques
• Keep working on transition with Hayat
• Write OTMs
Advisor
 What did Daniel Do?
• Met with Reiter, Patricio, and Marieka
• Attended NASPA TPE to interview potential new Resident
Directors
Completed GPA and Conduct Checks for all Executive Board
Applicants
o Thank you, Shelby Woods!
• Printed and helped label/ship My Favorite Student Letters
• Helped to reschedule the Do it in the Dark kick-off event to
3/26/2014
• Worked with Custom Ink and Devon to make sure shirt order
was submitted correctly
• Worked with Rajita to create liability forms for Hall Wars Fair
• Attended Constitutional Review Committee
 What did Daniel Not Do?
• Schedule meetings with deputies
• Write speech for Transition event
 What does Daniel Plan to Do?
• Schedule meetings with deputies
• Write speech for Transition event
• Meet with Patricio, Sam, and Tim about NACURH
delegation/advisor
• Work with Maxine and RA Natalie to write and submit two
March OTMs by 4/5/2014
 HDP and Other Updates
• As the end of the semester comes closer and your
commitment to Hall Wars is expected, consider collaborating
with other events already occurring on campus and in the
halls:
o Breakfast with Champions (CAS Peer Advising Event)
 Thursday, March 27, 2014 at 9pm in Letts
Formal
o Poker Run 5K (Rec. Sports and Fitness)
 Sunday, April 13th at 9:15am
• As the fiscal year comes to an end, please work closely with
your hall council advisor to ensure that all contracts/P.O.
requests are submitted by 4/4/2014 and received by
4/25/2014
• Daniel will be out of the office at the ACPA conference from
3/30/14-4/2/14
Administrative Board Reports
o Parliamentarian
 What I did
• Talked to all candidates in e-board election
o Campaigning starts on Saturday! May the odds be ever
in your favor!
o Everyone running will be posted in Facebook group
o Forum/Q+A with candidates during GA
• Met with Constitutional Review Committee
• Met with Tyler to go over Qualtrics for voting
 What I plan to do
• Keep working with Qualtrics
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• Keep working with Constitutional Review Committee
• Contact paul@aurha.org with any election questions
o Deputy Programmers
 Working on Record Setters
• Donations coming in!
 Do it in the Dark presentation later
 Multicultural Night getting pulled together
 First Final Perk meeting
• Successful meeting with lots of good ideas
 Next Thursday in Friendship Heights AMC…
• Divergent!
• Show ID to get a $5 ticket, 7:30 pm
• Only AU students are allowed in then
 Met with Hayat and Rajita about Hall Wars
• Organizing Costco trip
• Making play list
 Preparing game for GA next week
o Social Media Deputy
 What I did
• Discussed Hall Wars advertising
• Fitness Week posters for Lecloper
• Scheduled meeting with Daniel
• Scanned digital posters, 5 left
 What I plan to do
• Finish digital posters
NRHH Report
o Of the Month Awards
 Presented by Bianca!
 Check the NRHH facebook page for the winners
o NRHH members tell about themselves
o Update
 Working on website to get it up-to-date
 Planning STARS week
 Sending cards to all those nominated OTMs
 Promotion video running on all of the monitors
 Planning the Dogs on the Quad event
 New NRHH t-shirts
 Working on Constitutional changes
 Apply!
New Business
o Monthly Awards
 Presented by e-board
 President: Nicole, McDowell
 Finance: Brianna, Hughes
 Advocacy: Nate, Anderson
 Programming: Ryan, Hughes
 General Assembly: Alya, Centennial and Rebecca, Lecloper
o Do it in the Dark Update
 Presented by Meg
 Cassell isn’t on it, Meg will talk to the Green Eagles
 Get competitive! Save energy!
o EBI Presentation
 Presented by Lindsey
 Survey about resident satisfaction
15 minute survey to give feedback for HDP
• SUPER important
 Only sent out every 3 years
 Benchmark results with other universities, competitive
 Facts!
• Takes 15 minutes if you do it slowly
• Completely anonymous
• Influences policy on campus
• Entered into drawing for prizes every day
 Incentives? HOTY points!
 Plan an event for the survey!
 Tell people why they should take it!
 Contact information for Lindsey
• whipple@american.edu
• Office is next to Daniel’s
• Direct line: (202) 885-1345
 Questions
• When does it go live?
o March 26-April 9
• How will you be notified if you win?
o Lindsey will email you
• Will be emailed the survey on the 26th
o Will send reminders
o So do it
o Don’t get a ):
o You will make Lindsey sad if you don’t do it
o RHA Elections and Endorsements
 Presented by Paul
 No campaigning until 9 am on Saturday
• There will be problems if that happens
 NO ENDORSEMENTS
• Don’t ask, won’t do it
• Do not tell people RHA is endorsing you
• SG endorsements also not allowed, RHA is NOT endorsing
 E-board is not individually endorsing anyone
 All posted materials need to be submitted to e-board
• Will get poster approval back in 24 hours
• Just physical posters need to be approved
• Social media, invite Paul so he can monitor
• RHA logo only for posting purposes, not a campaigning tool
Open Forum
o Holocaust Remembrance Week, April 6-12
 Name reading starts at 5:30 pm on Tuesday
 Want to do it? Contact Nate!
 Anderson tabling that week
 Schedule tabling if you want!
o Shoutouts
 Hall councils for the videos, they were awesome
 Anisa for sending in SotY bid updates first
 Glenn, new Cassell Hall GA member
 Candidates for are running for e-board
 Courtney for being awesome and sitting through things
 Hayat for being busy and working hard
 Rajita and Sam for the shopping and social
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NRHH members who came to the meeting, especially the people who
stayed
 Reiter for running the meeting well
 Connor, floor rep from 3 South in Anderson, is AMAZING
 Paul for getting Marieka through GA meetings
 Paul for dealing with elections
 Paul for dealing with Constitutional Review Committee
Adjournment
o Meeting adjourned at 10:49 pm.
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