Panhellenic Council Meeting Minutes
January 28, 2016
Formal Election Meeting
Officer
Michelle
Thea
Heather
Emily
Riley
Haley S.
Leah
Kayla
Excused
Absences
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Unexcused
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The regular meeting was called to order by President Michelle Fetter at 6:32 pm in CSU 238.
❖ Reciting of the Panhellenic Creed
❖ Reading of the Greek Mission Statement
➢ Read by: President Michelle Fetter
The roll was called by Vice President of Council Management Thea Rief. A quorum was met.
Roll Call:
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Alpha Sigma Alpha - Here
Alpha Chi Omega - Here
Gamma Phi Beta - Here
Sigma Sigma Sigma - Here
Guests:
Approval of the Agenda
President (Michelle Fetter): Are there any additions or corrections to the agenda?
Seeing none, the agenda is approved.
Previous Minutes:
The minutes of the January 21, 2016 meeting was approved as emailed.
Open Forum:
❖ None
Executive Reports:
VP of Council Management- Thea Rief
❖ Contact Information
 Email: Thea.rief@mnsu.edu
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Cell #: (651) 248-1376
Office Hours
Monday: 11:00am – 1:00pm
With Stone: By appointment
Treasurers Roundtable: Thursday February 11th at 830pm in Morris Hall 102.
VP of Recruitment- Heather Antkowski
❖ Contact Information
 Email: heather.antkowski@mnsu.edu
 Cell phone: (262) 349-5567
❖ Office Hours
 Monday 9:00-10:00
❖ Roundtables: Tuesday March 1st in CSU 256 at 8pm
 Pi Rho Chi Applications are out on Orgsync and due February 7th at 11:59 pm
o Panhellenic Portal under forms
 Thanks for a great social! We had 35 girls show up!
VP of Member Education and Development- Emily Sweeny
❖ Contact Information
 Email: emily.sweeny@mnsu.edu
 Cell phone: (651) 795-8190
❖ Office Hours
 Monday 12:00-1:00pm
❖ Roundtables:
 Scholarship Chairs: Wednesday February 24th at 6:30pm in Morris Hall 103
 Member Educators: Wednesday March 2nd at 6:30pm in Morris Hall 103
❖ New Member Workshops:
 Wednesday March 2nd at 8pm in Morris Hall 103
 Tuesday March 29th at 7pm in Morris Hall 103
 Emerging Leaders- Friday 10:30-12:30 starting February 12th. Application is
on Orgsync, due February 5th.
 Fraternal Values Society- Application on Orgsync due on February 8th.
VP of Marketing and Public Relations – Haley Severson
❖ Contact Information
 Email: haley.lenz-severson@mnsu.edu
 Cell phone: (763) 229-3822
❖ Office Hours
 Wednesday with Brett: 11:00am – 1:00pm
 Roundtables: February 2nd at 6pm in Armstrong Hall 0040.
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We are starting the ReThink Greek Campaign, please like and share the posts
that we start doing.
Snapchat: maverickgreeks
Our goal by next All Greek 2/23 is to have 5,000 likes on the Maverick
Greeks Facebook page. Please everyone invite 20-40 people and we can
definitely make our goal!
Our round table is next week and we would like all PR chairs and T-shirt
chairs to attend.
Greek of the week is Brad Revier - for having the biggest fraternity social in
years!
o There is a form on Orgsync to fill out to nominate someone for Greek
of the Week.
VP of Community Service and Philanthropy- Riley Devenport
❖ Contact Info
 Email: riley.devenport@mnsu.edu
 Cell #: (907) 229-2286
❖ Office Hours
 Wednesday: 10:00am – 12:00pm
❖ Roundtables: Tuesday February 2nd at 9pm in Armstrong Hall 211
 Sign up for Dance Marathon!
 Send a delegate if your Philanthropy or Community service chairs cannot make it
 Dance marathon made our goal for 6k in a day! $6,514!
VP of Risk Management- Leah Kellogg
❖ Contact Info
 Email: leah.kellogg@mnsu.edu
 Cell #: (651) 528-9204
❖ Office Hours
 Monday with Patrick: 4:30pm – 5:30pm
 Tuesday: 4:30pm – 5:30pm
 Roundtables: February 9th at 9pm in Armstrong Hall 211
President- Michelle Fetter
❖ Contact Information
 Email: michelle.fetter@mnsu.edu
 Cell phone: (612) 386-7655
❖ Office Hours
 Tuesday and Thursday with DJ: 11:00am-12:00pm
❖ Presidents’ Roundtable: February 3rd at 7:30pm in the Greek Office.
❖ All Greeks:
 February 23rd at 9:30pm in CSU Ballroom
 March 29th at 9:30pm in Ostrander (Basket Auctions)
 April 26th at 8:00pm in Ostrander
❖ Off weeks:
 February 25th: All Chapters
 Next week will be paper minutes since the whole council will be gone. Have
a great week!
Asst. Director of Student Activities for Greek Life- John Bulcock
 Congratulations on the $6,000 goal! We have never had this much raised at
this time.
 Greek awards are all due February 12th. This includes chapter awards and
individual awards.
 Greek housing committee is moving along. Please be on the lookout for
online surveys or even in person surveys.
 Looking for a team of 4 men and 4 women to compete in a snow sculpture
competition.
Unfinished Business:
 None
New Business:
❖ Election of Vice President of Conduct Review
➢ President (Michelle Fetter): I entertain a motion to suspend the bylaw stating a
delegate may speak no more than twice during discussion and to end time of
elections by 8:00pm tonight. So moved by Alpha Chi Omega delegate (Samantha
Ness). Second by Alpha Sigma Alpha delegate (Makayla Paulson).
■ Motion passed.
Vice President of Conduct Review
o Applicant (Jenna Lahlum)
 Applicant gave her speech.
 Alpha Chi Omega Delegate (Samantha Ness): You’re at a registered greek
party and it gets out of hand, what do you do?
 Applicant Jenna Lahlum gave her response.
 Gamma Phi Beta Delegate (Alex Bennett): What past experience do you have
and how would you bring that to this position?
 Applicant Jenna Lahlum gave her response.
 Alpha Sigma Alpha Delegate (Makayla Paulson): How would you handle if
your chapter were under review?
 Applicant Jenna Lahlum gave her response.
 Sigma Sigma Sigma Delegate (Julia Armstong): what would you want to
change or keep the same as last year?
 Applicant Jenna Lahlum gave her response.
 Sigma Sigma Sigma Delegate (Julia Armstrong): How would you go about
maintaining confidentiality?
 Applicant Jenna Lahlum gave her response.
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Alpha Chi Omega Delegate (Samantha Ness): How would you handle your
job, PHC, school and personal life?
 Applicant Jenna Lahlum gave her response.
 Assistant Director of Greek Life (John Bulcock): This position is often looked
at as a fun hater, can you handle this in this position? And can you give an
example of a time you had to make a decision unpopular among peers?
 Applicant Jenna Lahlum gave her response.
 Vice President of Risk Management (Leah Kellogg): are you available
Thursdays at 8am?
 Applicant Jenna Lahlum gave her response.
 Applicant Jenna Lahlum stepped out for discussion.
o Applicant (Kayla Cremers)
 Applicant gave her speech.
 Alpha Chi Omega Delegate (Samantha Ness): You’re at a registered Greek
party and it gets out of hand, what do you do?
 Applicant Kayla Cremers gave her response.
 Gamma Phi Beta Delegate (Alex Bennett): What past experience do you have
and how would you bring that to this position?
 Applicant Kayla Cremers gave her response.
 Alpha Sigma Alpha Delegate (Makayla Paulson): How would you handle if
your chapter were under review?
 Applicant Kayla Cremers gave her response.
 Sigma Sigma Sigma Delegate (Julia Armstong): what would you want to
change or keep the same as last year?
 Applicant Kayla Cremers gave her response.
 Sigma Sigma Sigma Delegate (Julia Armstrong): How would you go about
maintaining confidentiality?
 Applicant Kayla Cremers gave her response.
 Alpha Chi Omega Delegate (Samantha Ness): How would you handle your
job, PHC, school and personal life?
 Applicant Kayla Cremers gave her response.
 Assistant Director of Greek Life (John Bulcock): This position is often looked
at as a fun hater, can you handle this in this position? And can you give an
example of a time you had to make a decision unpopular among peers?
 Applicant Kayla Cremers gave her response.
 Vice President of Risk Management (Leah Kellogg): are you available
Thursdays at 8am?
 Applicant Kayla Cremers gave her response.
 Applicant Kayla Cremers stepped out for discussion.
o President (Michelle Fetter): Is there any discussion?
 Alpha Chi Omega Delegate (Samantha Ness): gave discussion.
 Alpha Sigma Alpha Delegate (Makayla Paulson): Yield to Amanda Graves.
 Amanda: gave discussion. Yield.
 Alpha Sigma Alpha Delegate (Makayla Paulson): gave discussion.
 Sigma Sigma Sigma Delegate (Julia Armstrong): Yield to Brie Werner.
 Brie: Gave discussion. Yield.
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Gamma Phi Beta Delegate (Alex Bennett): gave discussion.
Alpha Chi Omega Delegate (Samantha Ness): Yield to Kacey Slattery.
 Kacey Slattery: gave discussion. Yield.
Alpha Chi Omega Delegate (Samantha Ness): Gave discussion.
Vice President of Council Management (Thea Rief): Gave discussion.
Gamma Phi Beta Delegate (Alex Bennett): Gave discussion.
Sigma Sigma Sigma Delegate (Julia Armstrong): Yield to Christina Hickey.
 Christina Hickey: Gave discussion. Yield.
Sigma Sigma Sigma Delegate (Julia Armstrong): Gave discussion.
President (Michelle Fetter): Seeing no more discussion we will proceed to
vote by paper.
 We have reached an election, congratulations to Kayla Cremers you
are our 2016 Vice President of Conduct Review.
Chapter Reports:
❖ Alpha Sigma Alpha
➢ We have had a few COBs and one tonight at Wowzone!
❖ Alpha Chi Omega
➢ We had our first COB and it went great. We have one tonight making cookies and
we have our retreat coming up
❖ Gamma Phi Beta
➢ We hope everyone has had good first couple weeks back.
➢ First open sisterhood on Monday, which is what we are now calling our COB
events
❖ Sigma Sigma Sigma
➢ We finished up retreat and have great goals for the year.
Announcements:
❖ John Bulcock: Still an opening on MSSA in arts and humanities.
➢ Riley: Can you explain benefits of beingon MSSA?
■ They connect our senators with our campus and they allocate 6 million
dollars to students and student organizations. Every senator on MSSA has
on serve on 2 committees. They need to be available from 4-6pm on
Wednesdays.
The next meeting will be on February 11, 2016 in CSU 238.
Meeting Adjournment:
The meeting adjourned at 7:14pm.
Thea Rief, Vice President of Council Management