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