Meeting Minutes – Feb 15, 2010

Attending: Moffett, A., Sugumaran, K., Macdermott, J., Dawon, A., Brown, R., Dipietro, M., Lemoine, G., Holmes, M., Jost, J., Pearson, M., Kurtich, B., Anderson, W., Levitan, P., Barnes, T., Venooker, A., Khushalani, J., Fox, J., Neyhart, K., Slocum, J., Nokes, D., Bliss, J., Vasquez, R., Corthell, C., Dawson, Z.

Alumni: Gilb, B.

Absent: Desheneaux, J., Gilmore, R., Paquette, D., Corrieveau, R., Silvia, C., Villegas, J., Williams, M., Trzpit, J., Holly, P., Lees, J., Miller, T., Demarco, T., Sandakli, A., Fedorenko, D., Trzpit, R., Cummings, N.

Old Business

Third Party Vendor Policy

• “All 3rd-party socials must be sanctioned by the Executive Council and approved by a 2/3 majority vote by brothers in attendance at an official Pi Kappa Phi meeting in order to have alcohol at that event.”
• 21 voted yes
• 1 voted no
• 1 abstention
• Approved

Interim Historian Brandon Kurtich

• Congratulations & thanks

Congratulations to the New Pre-Initiates

• Dan Murphy
• Kevin Cunningham
• Don Wykstra
• Mike Esposito
• Andrew Costain
• Kurt Chamberlain
• Ben Chase
• Brian Leavy
• Ted Seavey

Nick Cummings

• Our new brother, transfer from High Point University
• Welcome to Theta Mu, Brother Cummings

New Business

Ladder of Risk Presentation next Sunday – Russell Brown

• CC Room 803 @11:00 am
• We need 80% in attendance or we get fined
• Ryan Giglia (RPI) will be the facilitator

Committee Updates

Budget – Mike DiPietro

• $130 due today

Push America – Andrew Venooker

• March 28th – Variety Show
• Corporate gift-matching
  • Any employee that donations cash to Push America can be matched by the company
• Expanding this semester and not just having singing groups perform so if you know if anyone or group please notify Russell Brown or Andrew Venooker

Intramural Basketball – Paul Levitan

• Game: Tuesday February 16th, 8:30pm
• Dodgeball team was disqualified unfortunately because of a time conflict with chapter meetings

IFC Update – Andrew Dawson

• Looking for a liaison between the SGA and or the Amherst Select Board
  • Would love to have a PiKapp up there, especially if we want to make an effort to get a house in the future
  • Mike DiPietro has volunteered
• New Member Education
  • One-night presentation from University of Colorado Boulder

Social – Greg Lemoine

• Bowling in Northampton with Sigma Kappa, March 11th
  • Vote on 21+ brothers being allowed to drink alcohol
  • Yes – 19
  • No – 2
  • Abstentions – 2
  • Approved
• Other Socials
  • Sigma Psi Zeta Sorority wants to have a social with us
    • March 1st
    • A career resume building night
  • Potential Monkey Bar social/event with our Greek Week partner, Kappa Kappa Gamma
  • White rafting trip with a sorority?
  • Greg will look into it

Recruitment – Joe Bliss

• Recruitment events are over – but we might keep playing football every Friday
• Recruitment numbers
  • 9 pre-initiated
  • 1 drop-out
  • 4 undecided
• Thank you to everyone who helped make recruitment a success
• The girls’ t-shirts are done

Academic Program – Joe Villegas

• Academic Program has been fleshed out and is almost ready

Constitution – Russell Brown

• Constitution is completed
• Will be emailed in the next week
• Please review and email Rusty with comments, questions, and concerns

Things Coming Up

• Ladder of Risk Presentation – Sunday, February 21st, 11am-1:30pm
• Next Chapter – Sunday, Feb 21st, 1:30-3pm (after Ladder of Risk)

Shadowing Program

• A younger member interested in a position will shadow the current executive for a month to learn the position’s duties & gain experience which prepares them for taking that position
• Looking for volunteers to shadow the Push America Executive
• If interested, please contact Rusty Brown or Andrew Venooker

Announcements

• Individuals who are no longer brothers will be introduced and named so that everyone is aware of their status and situation