The following are meeting minutes from the House of Organizations meeting. The House meets every Tuesday at 5:30 PM in Room 318 on the third floor of The Commons. These meetings are open to all students to listen to discussion. If you would like to present an issue, please contact the Speaker of the House, Nayana Davis, in advance so you can be added to the agenda.
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I. Call to Order
5:33
II. Approval of Minutes
Approved
III. Roll Call
Absent: NONE
IV. New Business
A. HL25-0607- Additional Allocation for Washington International Horse Show
Ozele- how many people is for admissions?
Ross- 10 people $30 a ticket.
Ozele- When is it?
Ross- Sometime in December, it will be indoors.
VOTE For 4 Opposed 0 Abstaining 1
B. HL26-0607- Additional Allocation for Halloween Bash
Ozele- What are the pumpkins for?
Ross- Art
Joy- Where is it being held?
Ross- one of the rooms in the commons
Joy- Everyone or just members?
Nayana- everyone
Ozele- What is considered for the food
VOTE For 4 Opposed 0 Abstaining 1
C. HL27-0607- Additional Allocation for Career Day at the Zoo
Ross- they are taking more than ten less than 20 members to the zoo.
Nayana- The purpose of this trip is to provide a job fair type thing for Bio members.
Ross- The cost of tickets depends on how soon they get the tickets. The number of people depends on how many people go.
Ozele- Can we hold this off until we know for sure when they go. I move to table this.
Ross- The longer they wait, the more the tickets will cost.
Joy- Do they come for a lot of money.
Nayana- not a lot.
RECESS
Ozele- The price as given is $15 for individuals, they called the zoo about group discounts. The price we have here is from the website.
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D. HL28-0607-Additional Allocation for Party Like a Greek
Nayana- Party like a Greek, Hero came to us to ask for the money because they were unaware that the game room didn’t come with room set up or sound system.
Nayana- We already have some money invested in it.
Alex- lights were $500 and we have cut it down some.
VOTE For 4 Opposed 0 Abstaining 1
E. HL 29- 0607- Additional Allocation for New Haven Mock Trial Trip
Nayana- This is for 12 people. Comments/Concerns. When they come to us they come to us for a lot of money.
VOTE For 4 Opposed 0 Abstaining 1
F. HL30-0607-Additional Allocation for Society of Mock Trial Philadelphia Trip
Nayana- Funding for 6 people.
Ozele- This is a competition?
Nayana yes
VOTE For 4 Opposed 0 Abstaining 1
G. HL31-0607- Additional Allocation NSBE Fall Regional Conference
Nayana- they are bringing 20-25 people.
VOTE For 4 Opposed 0 Abstaining 1
H. HL32-0607- Additional Allocation for Students for a Greener Black and Gold
Nayana- Yesterday, Senate recognized the last Friday in October and November as SGA days.
Ross- I would like to change And where as several organizations has requested.
It will be a big event. We are trying to get 200 volunteers. All of the fraternities, there are a lot of groups. SGA just has their name on it.
Ross- Where is this?
- The commons terrace or the academic walkway. The trash monster is a urban sculpture which is an environmental education.
Joy- Is the building of it, the same day as the collecting?
- It will be an ongoing process
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I. HL33-0607- Additional Allocation for Nobel Prize Nominee Speaker
Nayana- The speaker almost won the Nobel prize 3 times. When this group came to us, the $250 was originally transportation but it went for Honorarium.
Ross- She collects experiences from war-faring areas.
Nayana- They may need money for security.
Ross- They are also getting financial support from something on campus. She will be in a lecture hall.
VOTE For 4 Opposed 0 Abstaining 1
J. HL34-0607- Additional Allocation for Period Prom/Bake Sale
Nayana- They are asking for baking ingredidents.
Ross- This is two events. The bake sale is advertising for the event.
Joy- The money from the bake sale?
Nayana- It is going to the organizations.
Ross- The bake sale is a week before.
Nayana- The 7th floor of the library is where the bake sale is.
VOTE For 4 Opposed 0 Abstaining 1
K. HL35-0607- Recommendation for Recognition of Student Organizations
Nayana- We looked at the constitution for the organizations, they wish to be funded. Student life committee was okay with them. We need to make a recommendation for recognition.
Ozele- What does the craft club do?
Ross- Craft club gets together to make crafts and criticizing music.
Ozele- Esporanto club?
Ross- Made up language, 200 people speak it as their first language.
VOTE For 4 Opposed 0 Abstaining 1
V. Reports
Gabe- College bowl, 4 people per team, jeopardy type thing. This year we want ten teams to participate. October 28 will be he competition. Two rooms on 3rd floor. If they beat the college bowl team then they will go on to nationals.
Ozele Gift certificate?
Gabe- UMBC bookstore. Has to be UMBC students.
A. Executive reports
B. Ex- officio Reports
C. Officer Reports
XI. General Discussion
A. In- House elections- Turn in applications by Friday to David Hoffman. We are getting them next week.
Stan- Are the rules still in effect, like you have to be in UMBC for 1 semester?
Ross- I know they used to have fall elections. I don’t know where that rule is stated. I think that is a dumb rule.
B. Organizational hearings-
Nayana- most of the slots are filled up with budget hearings. We need house members to sign up. I spoke with an event advisor, we are getting a room hear in the commons. We may need to use the Greek Life office. SGA office gets a lot more use. This room won’t work because the event advisor said no.
-You can look online and see where it will be open.
Nayana- we want it for our own members so we can be consistent. I am open to suggestions. For now, the hearings will include September and October of the next fiscal year. We also have to plan a way to train SGA members how to do budget hearings.
Ross- we could create a short film that is us mocking a budget hearing.
Nayana- When would you like to do that?
Ross- Next Thursday, I’ll write a script by Thursday.
GOOD IDEA!!!
C. Review SOP- We have a problem with an organization that was recognized as a special interest group. They are acting as a Greek organization. Multicultural Women. It is a violation of our policies. We have a student organizational policy, we need to make a decision at Thursday.
-Some organizations are represented as special interest, they can wear Greek letters, etc. but they operate like they were Greek.
OSL- they were never recognized as Greek. you can’t stop an organizations from wearing Greek letters.
- In terms of legislation, how did this get passed?
Ross- these organizations are in violations of their constitutions as presented to us.
Gabe- One of the biggest problems was how the advertised, they advertised themselves as a sorority. There is a waiting list and a numbers of those who haven’t even applied.
D. House Project Ideas
Nayana- I asked house members to think of ideas for projects that we could do to help student orgs.
Ross- Space has always been a big issue for me. Last year we tried to create a catalogue of space by creating a database.
Ozele- Find a way to show more active Greek life, to show numerous fraternities and sororities to show this. Put something on display to advertise and raise awareness.
Joy- Courts. The gym is closed so we want to put basketball courts in other places and use fields for club sports.
Alex- Tennis club is not getting funding. How athletics can get a forum or something to get a direct answer from the Athletic director.
Nayana- People always come asking for security, we get the people from the Safe committee.
Ross- We could fight to get those fees down. Only half of the money goes to the student marshal. I don’t know how you would affect that fee. I was talking about space, like the fine arts amphitheater. I know the Senate last night was talking about moving the bookstore to another building. But it would be cool if we could put where the retriever or the radio in that space.
Nayana- I think doing the safe committee is a priority and we should have some knowledge about it.
Ross- When do they meet?
Ariane- 2:00 on Mondays.
Nayana- We can only pick one.
Ross- lets not pick space.
Ozele- if we did a basketball, it would be outdoors
Steve- If you are really interested in more athletic spaces, we are trying to get an extra fee as recreational enterprises. It wouldn’t be able to use for varsity sports, talk to Steve or Jordan.
Nayana- so that takes out Courts. Let’s not do space. Let’s start off small.
Ross- what would be a good way to show off Greek community.
Ozele- If we had something big in the commons, maybe a mural or collage.
Joy- It sounds like something that would be good for all the Greek life to get together for that projects.
Danielle- SGA already funded money for wooden Greek letters.
- We should put the mural in the Academic walkway.
Ross- we shouldn’t do it for Greek life, we should do it to get people involved.
Colus- All they know is that Greek life doesn’t get funding for a lot of events.
Danielle- in SIC we started doing a spotlight on student organizations. We could make a month for Greek life and a month for academic departmental.
Ross- I really like that idea.
Joy- I think we should do that as a project.
Ozele- I am taking that idea.
Nayana- how athletics spend money? Doesn’t that go with what Steve is doing.
Alex- I am still trying to figure out how they are spending money. Like why do the courts lights go off at different times. I want to audit athletics and see what is going on.
Ross- lets all create an objective to get done in the next week.
Nayana- I think we should all have a topic to work on. And from there we have an objective.
All representatives are for moving forward with the spotlighting thing.
Nayana- I will discuss Safe on Thursday. Come up with spotlight objectives for next meeting.
XII. Announcements
Talent show Friday. 28 black and gold day. tickets.
Sign up for bonfire. All finance committee can help out with the bonfire.
pie will be at finance committee meeting.
if anyone want to volunteer for the conference, the times are 11-12
Movie night Wednesday- but isn’t it wet and cold.
XIII. Roll Call
Everyone is here
XIV. Adjournment
6:44