American University
Residence Hall Association
c/o Housing & Dining Programs | 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW | Washington, DC 20016-8142
Phone: 202-885-1RHA | FAX: 202-885-1154 | E-mail: info@aurha.org | www.aurha.org
General Assembly 26 January 2012
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Call to Order
o At 10:02 pm President Cindy Zhang called the 11th General Assembly
meeting of 2011-2012 to order
Attendance
o Quorum is established
Agenda Approval
o Motion to approve the agenda
 Seconded, passed
Approval of Minutes
o Past minutes will be emailed out
NRHH OTM’s for December
o Advisor: Keesha
o DR: Jerod Lee
o Social Program: A Charlie Brown Christmas, Centennial 1
o Student: Frank Baptista
o Spotlight: Sarah Glassman
o You have until February 5th to submit OTM’s for January
Hall Reports
o Anderson
 Excited for Recyclemania
 Meet Wednesdays at 9pm in Anderson 2U
o Centennial
 Looking for a printer for south side
 Working on a hang-out lounge with pool tables
 Superbowl Party
 Meet Tuesdays at 10:30pm in the Centennial 2 Lounge
o Hughes
 Appointed a Deputy Programmer
 Pizza Feedback event yesterday
 Meet Wednesdays at 9pm in either the Hughes Formal Lounge or
the Honors Classroom
o Leonard
 Meet Sundays at 10:30pm in either the Chancery or the Leonard
Classroom
 Has a coffee event earlier this week
 Oscars event
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 Superbowl event
 Tastes of Leonard in the planning stages
o Letts, Clark, and Roper
 Meet Wednesdays at 10pm in the Letts Formal Lounge
 Taco Bar event was earlier tonight
 Cereal Bar last night
 Oscars event coming up
o McDowell
 Welcome Back Mixer last night
 BYOM (Bring your own mug) event this Sunday
 Meet Mondays at 10:30 in the Informal Lounge
o Nebraska
 Has no members
 Rory, the Hall Buddy, is working on getting them involved
o Tenley Campus
 Working on filling the rest of their E-Board
 Appointing floor representatives next week
 Cookies and Coffee event next week
 Just had a Welcome to Tenley event
 Very successful
 Sleepover in the Smithsonian event
 Looking into the possibility
 Meet Wednesdays at 12:30pm in the 1st Floor Lounge
Executive Board Reports
o President
 Met with Office of Sustainability to work out how to implement
Recyclemania
 Live True to You campaign
 Sophia Benedictus presentation next week
 Discussing facilities
 Preparing for No Frills
 This weekend!
o Vice President of Advocacy and Community Coordination
 Please only send your minutes to HOTY@aurha.org,
brian@aurha.org, and your hall buddy
 Not to kate@aurha.org
 HOTY Points
 If your hall council appoints all floor reps by February 17th
you get a lot of points
 Of the Semester Awards
o Outstanding Leadership: Swag, Hughes
o Outstanding Advertising: Jacqueline, Centennial
o Most Impactful Resolution: Shelby, Leonard
o Programmer: Sarah, Hughes
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o Financier: Tim, Leonard
o Advocate: Sam, LeCloper; Patricia, Anderson
o Volunteer: Nick, Anderson
o Most Active GA Member: Fiona, LeCloper
 Open Gender Housing has passed and is happening!
 Thank you so much for your help tabling
 Centennial and Clark will be open-gender starting next
semester
 Clark will also be a Social Justice Living Learning Community
 Roper will be Substance-Free housing
Vice President of Finance and Administration
 Will be ordering various office supplies
 Brian is now a Super Administrator on the aurha.org Gmail server
 Care Packages
 Thank you to Tim Watkins and Jacqueline Cassell for helping
label
 Roundtables tentatively meet Tuesdays at 9:30pm
Vice President of Programming
 Masquerave
 Tomorrow at 8pm in the SIS Atrium
 Blacklights and snacks
 Please come and bring your friends!
 Recyclemania
 Please table in your halls!
 Tabling for ____ Grams
 For a non-profit organization
 Relay for Life
 Join RHA’s team!
 RHA will try to subsidize the registration fee
 Hall T-shirts
 Design contest!
o Make sure there’s a place for a hall name
National Communications Coordinator
 Working on a long-term action plan for the NCC position
 To get GA involved in the regional and national areas
 No Frills is this weekend
 Outstanding Advocacy Initiative
 Leaving tomorrow morning and will return on Sunday
Chief of Staff
 Ordered Executive Board name tags
 Contact Information Sheet Google Doc
 Hall Presidents- please update!
 aurha.org
 In the process of being updated
Deputy of Communication
 Will be sending out an application in the coming weeks
 Organize office computer files
 New Google Groups
 generalassembly@aurha.org
o Emails everyone in GA
 ebaord@aurha.org
o Emails all E-Board members
 aboard@aurha.org
o Emails all A-Board members
New Business
o No Frills Bid Presentation
 Rory Slatko presents his presentation for No Frills Outstanding
Advocacy Initiative
 Bid and presentation are attached to minutes email
Adjournment
o At 10:52pm the 11th General Assembly meeting of 2011-2012 is adjourned
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