Board Meeting Minutes 10.12.09

1. SASA rep! Farhan Gilani

Tell SASA about AASiA reception

Get RSVP counts back for reception (Farhan), anticipate 17, apparently.

Weekly attendance (dinner mtg)(2hrs) – 42 people

As compared to CASO (12-15 for general mtg), KOW (12-20 people)

Farhan tell SASA that AASiA office is open for its use (for uses other than storage too)

2. AASiA reception

We may be underestimating reception attendance (yay!)

20 people from all subgroup boards + 4 MCC people + 6 faculty/staff = 30 givens
catering is for 50-70 people

10 confirmed from CASO

Tasha fwd faculty email to Gary

Greg figure out KOW RSVP counts

3. Diwali Dinner SASA

6pm, Congo Church

Dance Dhamaka, perhaps other student performances?

+ 1-2 groups sing a song

Same day as Women’s Center event, but not Mooncake event

Volunteers: servers, clean-up, dishes (Farhan ask SASA board)

4. CASO Moon Festival

Saturday, 10/17, 6:00pm, Goodrich

Facebook event says 9-11 (Tasha fix this)

Send AASiA listserve email out (Tasha)

5. Neighborhood Review Committee (NRC)

Convinced NRC report to include public opinion survey results of Asian students category

One sentence line (better than no line), yay!

6. KOW movie

Group: LINK Liberty in North Korea

Screening and talk

Thursday, 7:30pm, Paresky Theater, 10/15

Publicity: have AASiA send notice out to the listserve (Gary)

7. Curtis Chin event

Curtis Chin can’t go to Skidmore, so we’d have to pay $300-400 more

Susan has asked many other schools to see if they want to host him

Will ask Middlebury, perhaps try MCLA? (Susan)

Perhaps we can just show the movie and lead the discussion ourselves?

See Professor Scott Wong about leading movie discussion (Susan, Gary)

Money requests – wait until next week for further news

8. MinCo rep

Email Sam Teng (Seohee) to see if she still wants to be MinCo rep

Email AASiA listserve if Sam doesn’t respond

MinCo meeting, Jenness, Tuesday, 6:45pm (Farhan yay!)

Make sure we get the tailgating space

9. AASiA office furniture

MCC office is giving us meeting table and chairs

10. Block party

MinCo co-chairs and Justin Adkins like the idea of block party

But getting cold? Spring block party?

Perhaps AASiA can take the lead on this?

This semester?

11. 10/16 Friday pre-frosh activities

CASO solicited to do something

KOW is showing a movie and serving pizza

SASA? (Farhan ask)

12. Homecoming

No news on tailgating car and space

SASA (Farhan ask) for car, and for food they want to bring

CASO will bring potstickers

KOW will bring beef