Meeting Minutes: October 2, 2008

  • Reports
    • General
      • We had an officer retreat on Saturday, September 27
      • We discussed how DaVinci will change in the coming year
    • Vice President
      • More coming out stories needed for the newspaper
    • Treasurer
      • $4,000 remaining in gift account
      • $150.40 remaining in general account
    • Stuco
      • History of the DaVinci Society is in the works, more updates to come
    • Advisor
      • DaVinci Alumni are forming an organization, more to come
  • National Coming Out Week/Allies Week
    • All needed reservations have been made
    • We will be setting up booths on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday both weeks
    • Each day will represent one letter of the GLBT community
    • Monday, NCOW: Gay/Lesbian
    • Wednesday, NCOW: Bisexual
    • Friday, NCOW: Transsexual
    • Monday, AW: Queer/Questioning
    • Wednesday, AW: Allies
    • Friday, AW: Allies
    • We will be selling T shirts for the Trevor Project, a GLBT focused anti-suicide hotline
    • Minimum donations will be $5
    • We will have diversity beads for students to put into a jar to represent the diversity of the Missouri S&T campus
    • We will also be giving pins and buttons
  • Constitution
    • Our constitution is broken and the e-board is taking steps towards revising it
    • Our current topic: financials and spending rights
  • Gay History Month
  • Unity Day
    • October 22, 2008
    • Theme is turn down your stereo-types
    • We will be working with BMTT
    • More details to follow
  • Focus Groups
    • We're trying out 3 focus groups, each with a specific goal to help improve DaVinci
    • They are: Activism, Social, and Public Relations
    • Members ranked the groups they would do best in, and they will be split up into the most fitting committees next meeting.
  • Discussion topic: Pope-tastic double feature!