General Meeting Minutes: November 9th, 2007

November 10th 2007 02:57 am

  • Time: 4:39 - 5:31 p.m.
  • Location: Degree’s
  • In attendance: Trevor Bekolay, David Wesst, Brian Latour, Katie Hamilton, Caelin White

1. Read minutes of last meeting.

2. Constitutional amendments

  • Statements of affirmation/condemnation
    • Can’t vote - not enough members for quorum
  • Trevor will open a forum to propose statements of affirmation/condemnation

3. Bank account

  • Dave went to HSBC to open an account
  • Opening an account requires a non-profit business number
  • Will apply for the business license on Monday

4. Movie Night

  • On November 22 (Thurs) at 5:30 in E2-105
  • Showing Jesus Camp and two episodes of Bullshit
    • Episodes suggested: Superstitions and Alien Abductions (Trevor will make final decision, for he is a powerful and benevolent tyrant)
  • Will serve pizza
  • Will design a flyer over the weekend, using new logo
  • Put up flyers early next week
  • Use UMSU’s advertising channels:
    • Event listing on website, LED board, Manitoban page

5. SiGEC Meeting

  • Trevor went to the SiGEC meeting on Tuesday
  • Met members of Campus for Christ, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, and others
    • Intervarsity Christian Fellowship is having a lunch-thing on November 21, from 11:30-1:30, at the Grad Students Association room in University Centre. They are supposedly engaging in some debate; it might be a good idea for us to go and join in the debate. Will find out more details and email with details.
    • Campus for Christ is having a debate in January; apparently they invite a Christian speaker and an atheistic speaker. Trevor said that we could provide the atheistic speaker and co-host the debate.
      • Katie recommended her friend in Brandon for the debate; he is an atheist and has won provincial debate competitions
  • Got details on the January recruitment week. Goes from Jan. 7th - 11th, the application form must be filled out by December 10th
    • Preferred days: Tuesday and Thursday first, Friday second, the rest third
    • Will discuss our display at next meeting

6. New Business

  • CBC’s Alex Freedman
    • Came to talk with Katie’s small class and spoke about a creation science museum in Alberta
      • Partially funded with public money
      • Near an actual science museum
      • Reactions
        • Article for the Manitoban? (Trevor / Katie will write)
        • Statement of condemnation?
  • Fundraising
    • Set up donations through paypal
    • Other ways to get money without direct donations on the website (affiliates, filling out surveys, etc)
    • Designing and selling T-shirts, hoodies (start off with T-shirts)
  • Darwin Day (Feb. 12)
    • More info: http://www.darwinday.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Day
    • “Darwin is my homeboy” T-shirts?
  • 5:26 - Caelin arrives
  • Logo designs
    • Caelin showed two pages of possible designs
      • Consensus seemed to be on a design with a circle within a circle with mash inside the smaller circle
        • Design is already in photoshop and being refined; bonus!
        • Caelin remains modest, but the logo is super awesome
        • Will try to finish this weekend so it can be used on movie night flyers
  • Next meeting on Friday, November 23rd at 4:30 p.m.

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