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 23 February 2012
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Call to Order
o At 10:01 pm President Cindy Zhang called the 15th 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
Open Forum
o Women’s Basketball game next Thursday at 7pm
 We should all go!
Hall Reports
o Anderson
 Had a breakfast at night event
 Planning similar events in the future
o Hughes
 Tabling for advocacy next week
 “Hughes News” newsletter
 Midterm event on March 5th
o Leonard
 Put up a lot of posters last night
 Preparing for Oscars party this Sunday
 Preparing for a breakfast for dinner event on March 6th
o Letts, Clark, and Roper
 Oscars event in the Perch at 7pm
 March Madness bracket
 Hall Council is really getting into hall wars
o McDowell
 BYOM event
 Discussed security and vandalism in the hall
 Personal security event
 Teaching self defense
 Looking into creative philanthropies
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o Nebraska
 Preparing for Oscars event this Sunday
o Tenley Campus
 BYOM event last week
 Oscars night in the TARC at 7pm on Sunday
 Appointed all floor reps
Executive Board Reports
o President
 Leadership Training
 March 4th from 12-3 in the Butler Board Room
 Required training
 Panera is catering!
 Hall Wars
 Working on it with Hall presidents
 RecycleMania update
 Currently in second place, nationally!
o Vice President of Advocacy and Community Coordination
 Student Conduct Code
 Talking about sexual assault and amnesty policy concerning
alcohol and drug use
 Talk to Kate if you’re interested
 External Reviewers came to talk to SG and RHA about
student perceptions of the Student Conduct Code
 Thefts
 Working with Sarah on how to communicate to residents
what’s being done about the thefts
 Making door hangers to remind residents to deadbolt their
doors
 Hall Councils
 You should have full hall councils by this point
 HOTY Points
 Send Kate submissions
o Vice President of Programming
 Smores RecycleMania event tomorrow night
 On each side of campus
 7-8pm
 Muppets
 Tuesday at 11pm in WARD-1
 All fo GA should go together!
 Founder’s Day Ball
 This Saturday!
o National Communications Coordinator
 Regional Committee
 Working on the DC Community Charter
 Will be meeting with local schools to adopt the charter
Conference Committee
 Working on the Conference for Digital Exchange
o Will be the week of July 16th
 DC leadership conference
 Bidding Committee
 Created 5 pillars
 NACURH Committee
 Planning a letter drop to local businesses
 Rory will send out a sign-up sheet to help out
 Creating newsletters to go out every other week
o Chief of Staff
 Deputy of Communications
 We chose Tori Vogel, to be appointed later this meeting
 Centennial Hall Council
 Planning general interest meetings
 Hoot Suite
 Started scheduling tweets
o Advisor
 Campus Plan
 Construction of North Hall will begin in March
 Support us during construction
o Keeping morale up
o Planning events around construction to make it fun
New Business
o Appointment of Deputy of Communications
 Tori Vogel presents
 Tori exits room
 Motion to affirm Tori’s appointment by unanimous consent
 Seconded, passed
 Tori is sworn in
o Hall Wars Tshirts
 Front and back of shirts might be switched
Rules of Procedure
o During presentations, please tilt your computer screens down and put
your phones away
o Article II, Section ii, Subsection 4
 All electronic devices including cell phones, music players and other
audible devices shall be silenced and out of sight during the
meeting of the General Assembly. Use of internet-accessible
devices by members shall be allowed, provided General Assembly
members are present in mind during debate and voting.
Adjournment
o At 10:30pm the 15th General Assembly meeting of 2011-2012 is adjourned
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