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 9 February 2012
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Call to Order
o At 10:00 pm President Cindy Zhang called the 13th 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 Motion to approve the minutes
 Seconded, passed
OTM’s
o Tonei Glavinic presents
 Educational Program
 It’s all Greek to Me, Civic Engagement RA Committee
 E-Board Member
 Rory Slatko
 First Year Student
 Sam Smithson
 Faculty/Staff
 Daniel Rappaport and Sarah Glassman
 RA
 Nadia, McDowell
 Spotlight
 Facilities Management
 Regional Winners
 Miss Margaret, Hughes Hall
 Jerod Lee, Anderson
o OTM’s for February are due March 5th at 11:59pm
Hall Reports
o Anderson
 Karaoke tomorrow night with smores
o Centennial
 Centennial Hall Council will be resigning from their posts
 Motion by Wynn to address the GA
 Wynn is resigning as of right now
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o Motion to recess for 2 minutes
 Seconded, passed
o Meeting called back to order
 Cindy: We’re all in shock right now, but throughout this meeting we
will stay professional.
o Hughes
 Sold almost 100 candy grams today
 Hughes Wants Cake event
o Leonard
 Had a Safe Sex event that was a “rousing” event
 Will be holding an Oscars event
 Is not resigning
o Letts, Clark, and Roper
 Valentines day grams
 Spoke with green eagles at their hall council meeting
 Oscars party
 March Madness bracket party
o McDowell
 Sold ~50 kiss grams in the past few days
 Started an “I am beautiful” camapaign
 Will decorate the lobby for valentines day
o Nebraska
 Will be holding a barbeque
 Planning a goodbye event for the faculty leaving at the end of the
semester
o Tenley Campus
 Bring your own mug event
 Karaoke night
 March madness event
 Appointing a VP of Advocacy and floor representatives by next
week
 Will be coordinating with WASSA on events
 Planning a diversity week
Executive Board Reports
o President
 Working on getting a survey out to RA’s to see what they want
from RHA
 University Council meets next week
 Cindy will make sure our voices are heard on the council
 Hall Wars
 Beginning coordination
 Working on a spring training
 Transition Banquet
 Will be April 29th at 2pm at Maggiano’s
o Vice President of Advocacy and Community Coordination
 Talked about security at the advocacy roundtable
 Brian, Cindy, and Kate will meet with SG tomorrow about
security
 Open Gender Housing
 Housing Lottery
 Numbers have been randomly assigned for housing next
year
 Make sure you know about dates and the places where
residents can live
 Leadership Training
 March 4th?
o Vice President of Finance and Administration
 Resigned
o Vice President of Programming
 Smores Event
 Will be on each side of campus
 February 24th
 Check your email
 Paige emailed some waitlisted RHA members to asked them
volunteer at Founder’s Day
 Lobby Decorating
 Just distributed supplies for hall decorations
 T-Shirt Design
 Please design a t-shirt!
 Relay for Life
 How many of you would be interested in joining an RHA
team?
o 6-7 GA members
o National Communications Coordinator
 Committees
 All 4 are filled
 Meeting with each E-Board member to discuss transitions and how
transitions effect the NCC position
 Contact Rory if you’re interested in submitting a letter of intent for
a program
 Submitting an NCC budget proposal
 Website proposal will be ready for next thursday
o Chief of Staff
 E-Board name tags have been ordered
 Deputy of Communications application has been sent out
 If you are interested or if you know someone who might be
interested, please apply!
 Researching RA stipends at other schools
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 Laminating sheets for placards have been ordered
 Letterhead has been updated
 Designed new grocery bag recycling design
 Organized I-Drive
New Business
o Disciplinary Review Council
 Hussien Salama, Parliamentarian
 We need to appoint 4 members of GA to be on the Disciplinary
Review Council
 Members must be nominated within the GA
 Carson Lewis is nominated, accepted
 AJ Poole is nominated, accepted
 Nick Rangos is nominated, nomination declined
 David Horowitz is nominated, accepted
 Ali Swietek is nominated, accepted
Adjournment
o At 10:33pm the 13th General Assembly meeting of 2011-2012 is adjourned