Inner-Fraternity Council

Grand Valley State University

Meeting Minutes

8/26/2003

 

v     Call to Order

v     Roll Call

Ø      AlphSig - Present

Ø      DeltSig - Present

Ø      SigEp – 1 Present

Ø      Theta Chi - Present

Ø      Lambda Chi – Present

Ø      Sigma Lambda Beta – Present

v     President’s Report

Ø      Welcome Bar-b-Que

§         Best turn out yet, we had 17 guys sign the sheet

Ø      Campus Life Night

§         Sept 2nd – 7:00pm

Ø      Schedule

§         Meeting on the 9th will be at 9:00pm

§         No meeting September 30th because of homecoming

§         October 7th meeting will be added to the schedule

Ø      Women’s Center Event

§         Tuesday, September 30th Dating Violence Speaker

·         8:00pm

·         Won’t be co-sponsored because of Homecoming

Ø      Thanks for coming to the first meeting

§         Remember there needs to be 2 members from each organization at every meeting

 

v     Officer Reports

Ø      Rush

§         Car parade

·         Tuesday, September 16th

·         Meet in the Department of Public Safety Parking lot

·         Be there 15 minutes before to get setup

·         That means be there at 11:45pm and 4:45pm

·         Add one rule to car parade rules: No running over freshman (first year students)

·         The order will be:

¨      1. Delt Sig

¨      2. Lambda Chi

¨      3. Sig Ep

¨      4. Lambda Beta

¨      5. Alph Sig

¨      6. Theta Chi

¨      7. IFC

¨      8. Lambda Chi

¨      9. Lambda Beta

¨      10. Theta Chi

¨      11. Alph Sig

¨      12. Delt Sig

¨      13. Sig Ep

§         Orientation Rooms:

·         Delt Sig – Room 215

·         Lambda Chi – Room 216

·         Sig Ep – Cabins A,B,C

·         Lambda Beta – Room 104

·         Alph Sig – Cabins D & F

·         Theta Chi – Room 058

·         Sigma Pi – Room 201

§         Remember: No Events on Saturday or Sunday of Family Weekend

§         Cobb’s Phone is wrong on the sheet

·         Correct: 890 - 6460

Ø      Judicial

§         Need Risk Management / Party Policies from everyone who doesn’t have them in

§         We will be revamping the IFC Judicial Policies this semester

Ø      Programming

§         Flag Football tournament in the works

·         After rush we will set the teams

·         Greek Unity: We will split pledges up into a couple teams so they can get to know each other

·         I need your calendars!

Ø      Academics

Ø      Public Relations

Ø      Finance

§         $7 Per new member

§         Get you dues in

Ø      Secretary

v     Advisor’s Report

Ø      Remember: Don’t disclose information about Panhel Rho Gamma’s to potentials

 

v     Old Business

Ø      None

 

v     New Business

Ø      Greek Community Activity

§         We spend more time worrying about our own organizations instead of the Greek Community as a whole

·         We need to do more things with other Fraternitys

·         We need to know that helping the Greek Community helps our organizations. IE helping Sigma Pi to get established will help our organizations as well

¨      Were more concerned with our own rushes rather then everyone’s

¨      The welcome luncheon was good because we saw the Greek community as that a community instead of individual organizations

·         T-Shirts

¨      They specify the Grand Valley Greek System instead of as separate organizations

¨      Instead of seeing the letters you see the people and maybe someone that you could fit in with

¨      It felt easier for Greeks to mingle because we were there as Greeks first

¨      It doesn’t show how many an organization has but instead how many people the Greek Community has

¨      We need to get shirts we want to wear

¨      We need to not just wear them at the beginning of the year but at other times through out the year

¨      They show good community to the freshman

¨      It tried to hide the Stereotypes of the different organizations

¨      What were some of the negatives:

Ø      Besides the fact they are ugly? Yep.

Ø      Don’t get to associate yourself with the letters that mean so much to you

Ø      Selfishness: Were afraid that they are going to steal our guys

·         What are ways that we can make our community healthier?

¨      We need to act more as a community and less just for ourselves because the stronger the community is the stronger we are

¨      More events where its not separate organizations but as a whole community

¨      It seems that everything that IFC does turns competitive

Ø      We should have an all IFC shirt

¨      Working harder to break the negative stigma of Greek life

Ø      A lot of the potential Freshman last semester still had a bad image of Greek life

¨      We need to be able to ask for help from other members of the community

¨      The shirts did a good job of promoting Greek life.

Ø      Let potentials know how good Greek life is and then promote your organization first.

¨      We concentrate too much on numbers while there is so much internally that we need to get done first

Ø      Being more supportive Interfraternally

Ø      We worry too much on the bigger picture of numbers and not really the unity

Ø      Why don’t we just through a cool event that has no connection to Greek Life at all

¨      Leading by example

¨      We need to take what we have already established and use it to help the new organizations and not worry about ourselves for one semester

¨      We need to figure out why we individually went Greek (reflect)

Ø      All the great things we do that makes being Greek so great

¨      Support is a big thing

Ø      Too often we think too much about our events instead of going out to help the other organizations events

¨      We basically just need to hang out more together as organizations

Ø      Why can’t we just have 2 fraternities and 2 sororities just get together whether there is alcohol or not

¨      We need to be more open minded to other organizations

Ø      Cobb likes Cribbage

¨      We need to remember back to when our organizations were founded and think about why our organizations were founded

Ø      Why does Greek life exists? What is the original reason?

¨      It’s not just focusing on Sigma Pi but helping those organizations that are here as well

¨      Are we willing to help another fraternity?

·         Encourage the Heart

¨      The 7 Steps

Ø      Set Clear Standards

Ø      Expect the Best

Ø      Pay Attention

Ø      Personal Recognition

Ø      Tell the Story

Ø      Celebrate Together

Ø      Set the Example

¨      These are steps to making our community better

¨      I copied this so you can give it to your members

¨      These are in many ways the things you should be doing or looking for when recruiting new members

 

v     Chapter Reports

Ø      AlphSig

§         Saturday, September 6th we will be having an alumni get together

§         In the next couple of weeks we will be completing alcohol edu

Ø      DeltSig

§         Golf Outing

·         Saturday, September 13th

·         Teams are $350

§         We will be hosting the hot spot on September 19th

·         10:00pm, Kirkhof Center

Ø      SigEp

Ø      Theta Chi

§         Fill-a-Bus

·         September 12th and 13th  and the Meijer in Jenison

·         Can foods, clothing

Ø      Lambda Chi

§         Teeter Tooter Event

·         Will be out at the Clock Tower all day and night

·         August 26th – 27th

Ø      Lambda Beta

§         September 13th IGC / MPHC Ice Breaker

§         September 27th Salsa Dance Instructor

·         Date and Time TBA

 

v     Announcements

Ø      Orientation Leaders did a great job at Freshman Orientation

Ø      Monday September 1st, On the History Channel “Frat Life”

§         9:00pm

§         History of Fraternities and such

Ø      We regrettably need a new VP of Academics