American University
Residence Hall Association
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General Assembly Agenda 6 October 2011
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Call to Order
o At 10:36 pm President Peter Wynn-Reifsnyder called the 3rd General
Assembly meeting of 2011-2012 to order
Attendance
o Quorum is established
Agenda Approval
o Motion to approve the agenda
 Seconded, passed
o Motion to set the adjournment time no later than 11:45pm
 Seconded, passed
Hall Reports
o Anderson
 A lot of security issues through advocacy
o Centennial
 Had first Hall Council meeting and a meet and greet event
 Great turn out
 Discussing a South Side Halloween party with Anderson and Lets
 Looking to work with the Perch to throw events
o Hughes
 Formed two new positions
 Secretary
 Marketing
 Discussed North Side Halloween party
 Working on OTM’s
 Renaming the Leonard Lounge
o Leonard
 Will have first event on 10/9 – “Advocakes”
 Working on North Side Halloween party
 Working on renaming the Leonard Lounge
o Letts, Clark, and Roper
 Reverse trick or treated this past Sunday to let their residents know
what RHA does
 Working on a pumpkin carving event
o McDowell
 45 students came to their first event
 A meet and greet with residents
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o Nebraska
 Having an Ice Cream Social this Sunday
 Working on Pumpkin carving for Halloween
 Working on a Pool Tournament
o Tenley Campus
 Will have a meet and greet on Wednesday
 Working on a tailgating event on Tenley campus for before sporting
events
Executive Board Reports
o President
 Administrative Operations meeting
 Job Fair
o 1000 students attended
o Students didn’t do enough research and didn’t dress
well enough
 Book Store forums
o Redoing the book store and looking for input
 Creating another CONGO (Committee On Government
Organization)
 Wanting to transfer the responsibility of advising the Hall
Councils from the VPoA to the RHA President
o Vice President of Advocacy and Community Coordination
 Please get involved in CONGO
 It’s a great way to get to better know how the organization
works
 Deputy of Advocacy
 Application due this Monday
 Email kate@aurha.org
 Email Kate and Brian (brian@aurha.org) meeting agenda and
minutes
 Advocacy Rountable is working on a lot of resolutions
 Set goals as a Roundtable
 Leadership Conference
 November 6th
 Probably in SIS
 Open to all student leaders on campus
 Registration is due October 24th
 Professors, Staff, and RAs will be doing leadership
presentations
 If you interested in leading a discussion, email Kate
o Vice President of Finance and Administration
 RAs have been requesting funds!
 You must have full attendance at GA meetings to request Hall
Discretionary funds
 You must request funds 3 weeks in advance
Finance Director in HDP is leaving this Friday
 Expect JV transfers and check clearing to take a bit longer
than usual
o Vice President of Programming
 Diversival
 This Wednesday, 12-4pm on the Quad
 Set up starts at 11am
o Please help set up and volunteer
o Email Paige!
 This Monday, planning on painting “Diversival” on canvas
and chalking around campus
o Please help!
 Manhunt
 This Tuesday
 A campus-wide hide and seek game
 The winning team gets promo items from Paranormal
Activity 3
 Hall Programming Collaboration
 If you want to plan a collaborative event, let Paige know,
just so she can help coordinate
o National Communications Coordinator
 Deputy NCC
 Applications are due tomorrow at 11:59pm
o Chief of Staff
 Remember to email Kate and Brian your Hall Council agendas and
minutes
 Placard System
 No GA meeting next Thursday
 Friday is fall break!
Old Business
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New Business
o CAACURH 2011
 Marie get GA to do the CAACURH cheer
 Everyone looks silly
 Everyone looks REALLY silly
 Why are we the cougars?
 CAACURH’s mascot is a cougar
 Attending CAACURH
 Nick Rangos of Anderson Hall
 Fiona Erickson of LeCloper
 Sam Smithson of LeCloper
 Marie Scholz
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 Peter Reifsnyder
 Tonei Glavanic
 Sarah Glassman
 Matt LeBrasseur
 Jason Autry
o General Assembly Meeting Location Discussion (How do you like our
current meeting location?)
 Marlena Luhr: This room is good- a perfect size.
 Jasmine: It’s too difficult for the people in the back to see. The
room we used last year (WARD-5) was better.
 Dan: The projector shines in your faces.
 Tim Walsh: there’s a room in Kogod with stadium seating with a
table in the front.
 Marlena: What about WARD-1 or 2?
 It might be too big.
 Tim Watkins: There isn’t enough desk space in WARD-1 and 2.
 Hussein: A smaller room has more of a community feel, but
stadium style would be better.
Adjournment
o At 11:45pm the 3rd General Assembly meeting of 2011-2012 is adjourned