We, the Inter-fraternity Council, exist to promote the shared interests and values of our member fraternities: leadership, service, brotherhood, and scholarship. We believe in Fraternity and that the shared values of Fraternity drive the IFC to create better communities, better chapters, and better men. We work to advance the academic mission of Missouri State University, Inter-Fraternity Council General Council July 1, 2016 to enable fraternal organizations to grow and thrive through collaboration and teamwork, to provide an outlet for self-governance and accountability, and to model and teach ethical leadership. In a spirit of mutual support and betterment, we, the men of the Inter-fraternity Council, pledge to elevate the Ritual and the values of the member organizations. President (Zane Clark - Zane555@live.missouristate.edu ): Bylaws Presentation Training Discuss the purpose of changing the bylaws Making sure that bylaws are transparent Rick Barnes – Speaker o Council wide Roadmap - Next project after budget VP of Community Relations (Zack Sutter - Sutter488@live.missouristate.edu ): The last liaison position to be filled is the NPHC, I am going to attend these meetings, so if you are interested please let me know. Meetings/ Liaisons o Traditions council- Chase Jackson o SGA- Matt Stauder might not have gone this week there is an application process o Phi sigma Upsilon- Chris Strange o FSLSA- Caleb Hitsman and Joe Murphy VP of Membership Development (Brandon Simpson - bs1860@live.missouristate.edu ): FSL Award Presentations are ending today. Haley and I are scoring next week when we receive all the binders from the judges After Greek Week, Haley and I will be looking into revamping this process to make it more efficient. More information to follow. Questions about the community service rule or philanthropy, please contact the respective Greek Week chairs. They are Calle Bertram (CalleMae28@live.missouristate.edu) and Jeffrey Schaumburg Schaumburg151@live.missouristate.edu. Make sure you order the Greek Week t-shirts through your chapters! Make sure to those of you who applied for individual awards that you get Greek Jam tickets. Just in case you win an award! VP of Recruitment (Cody Applegarth - Applegarth15@live.missouristate.edu ): Had roundtable on Tuesday, most will be brought up in New Business VP of Academics (Chris Satariano - Satariano0828@live.missouristate.edu ): Month of the Scholar is February - giveaways for students studying and wearing their letters so encourage members to do so. Student Spotlight o Recognize those individuals exceling in academics. Please send me your chapter’s nominations. This is a great way to represent your chapter and its members. VP of Administration (David Everman – Everman127@live.missouristate.edu ): Proposing the annual budget, please let me know if you have any questions. Director of Social Awareness (James DeGreif - James2323@live.missouristate.edu ): Round Table - great turnout Emailing the chapters that didn’t show up and let them know that they cannot have socials until they have a one on one with either myself or Katie o Roundtable in April about drafting a Tailgating Polic FSLSA - General Council meeting - next one will be March 17th at 8:30pm in PSU 313 Diversity Event in April will have three speakers and then a Q&A. Set date to come. Doing a Mental Health panel for people who have struggled with Mental Health. If you have anyone interested in your chapter to be on the panel please contact Alyssa NAMI on Campus- thanks to Theta Chi for helping out with the Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament. Looking for volunteers for Warm line training. It’s like a hotline, but not that extreme/far. If interested please contact me. Director of New Member Education (Justin Roux - Justin0718@live.missouristate.edu ): Spring New Member day set April 19th from 1-3 o Applications out March 16th and due on April 6th Looking for resources for New Member Educators and Phi Sig What discussions should we go over in Phi Sig? Academics Leadership Accountability Finances Risk Management o Applications out now, due March 30th Director of Marketing (Francis Ahrens - Ahrens3733@live.missouristate.edu ): In process of ordering promotional items for fall Chief Justice (Cody Stout - Cody915@live.missouristate.edu ): Standards Board Training went great, thanks for all the chapters finding a representative o Scheduling a roundtable with those representatives sometime in late April Reminder that joint roundtable will be rescheduled for March 17th at 9pm, room 317A Associate Chief Justice (Darren Wallace - Wallace1414@live.missouristate.edu ): IFC Advisor (Terry Weber –TerryWeber@MissouriState.edu) Recyclemania o Use #Recycle on tweets o See if we can recycle a lot more than last year and place better than we did last year, which was 4th. o Goal is to recycle as much as possible Old Business: New Business: Recruitment Schedule o August 22nd – September 4th o August 22nd – August 23rd would be formal rotations Budget o Bringing up a proposed budget. Announcements: St. Baldrics o Having an event on, April 29th 2015 o The event will have games and raffles along with shaving heads to raise money for St. Baldrics o Asking to work event on this date and receive community service hours o Can also help raise money by becoming a shavee or have a team and have someone (or all) shave their head Goal is for team to raise most money o Goal is $7,000 Zeta Phi Beta o Having fundraiser from Tonight 5 – 8 PM o Incredible Pizza Company SGA o Come up with painting about public affairs o First 10 organizations get to paint underpass o Top 3 winners get money Presidents meet o Monday @ 8:30 PM Peer Leader o Apps due next Tuesday March 3rd