Inner-Fraternity Council
Grand Valley State University
Meeting Minutes
1/28/2003
v Call to Order
v Roll Call
Ø AlphSig - Present
Ø DeltSig - Present
Ø SigEp - Present
Ø Theta Chi - Present
Ø Lambda Chi - Present
v President’s Report
Ø Goals for position
§ 1 on 1 communication with chapters
§ More delegates from chapters
§ To see more active involvement as a Greek system
§ Coordinate chapter calendars
Ø Questions to chapters (Responses follow)
§ What is the purpose of IFC?
· Stand up for the chapters
· Work with media for more positive PR
· Help out more with recruitment (More PR, more information meetings)
· PR tends to be at the last second, needs to be more planned
· Freshman survey with possible interest of Greek life
· Flyers for Freshman orientation classes
· Promote Greek life in dorms or Freshman seminar classes (Lets go to them)
· Talk about issues that effect the Greek system in IFC
· Make committee meetings productive
· Do more socials and such with other fraternities
§ What do you think of the issues with the Lanthorn?
· IFC needs to take a stand
· Divert attention instead of retaliating
· Lets turn it around and show the positives of what we do
· As IFC we need to educate people about what there really is to being Greek
· Get an outside stand point of someone who knows what good the Greek system does
· We need to put a positive image out there
· Advertise in the Lanthorn
· Series of articles “Why I went Greek”
· We need something in the Lanthorn every week about Greek life
· Greek of the week in the Lanthorn (major, name, organization, leadership rolls, etc)
· Putting out a positive image is silent retaliation
§ How was Winter Rush?
· Rush 365 – Fraternities are not out there enough for prospective students to see
· Open forums before rush on rush ideas
· Didn’t see many posters around
· Recent happenings caused problems
· 2 weeks was too long, latest was too short, week and a half would be good
· Greek week has been disappointing the past few years
· Greek week needs to be more about unity rather then competition
· During rush week just call the guys
· Five rules to rushing (Meet the guy, make him your friend, have him meet your friends, (Rule 4), ask him to rush)
· There’s no reason why someone who spent their time to come out (to orientation) should not go Greek.
· Greek week needs to be about getting our name out there
· IFC can raise interest and put on events but it’s every ones job to get people out to events
§ Expansion
· We need to be willing to open up and expand otherwise the whole Greek system won’t expand
· A new Greek organization can help grow the current Greek community
· A new organization trying to get guys can help bring out guys who might look at us as well
§ Feb 12th – Co-sponsored w/ Women’s Center 9:00PM @ Place TBD
· Winter and Fall Rush pledges are required to attend
· Anyone can attend
v Officer Reports (Goals)
Ø Rush
§ Look forward to next rush
Ø Judicial
§ Getting party policies put up in houses
§ Working on Greek unity
Ø Programming
§ Doing more events focusing on Greek unity
§ Coordinating calendars
Ø Academics
§ General Academic Survey
§ Try to promote the “Academic Greek”
Ø Public Relations
§ “I want to be in your face” – Person to person PR
§ Some PR that is not directly event oriented
Ø Finance
§ Get dues in by Feb 18th
Ø Secretary
§ IFC Webpage
v Advisor’s Report
Ø Dinner meeting next week with Dean Merkle make sure you are represented
Ø Good job SigEp
v Old Business
Ø None
v New Business
Ø Meeting Schedule
§ Feb 11th – Risk Management Meeting (Change from Schedule)
v Chapter Reports
Ø AlphSig
§ Service event tomorrow
§ Feb 11th – Date Auction 6pm – 10PM @ Cook Dewitt
§ Feb 15th – Dance
§ Pinning this week
Ø DeltSig
§ COB Rush Events this week
§ AOP & ASA Socials coming up
Ø SigEp
§ Social this Friday open to Greek
· Requiring complete up to date list of members
· Email DavisJM@student.gvsu.edu
Ø Theta Chi
§ Date party coming up
Ø Lambda Chi
§ COB Rush coming up
v Announcements
Ø None