Humboldt State University Residence Hall Association

Meeting # 13
6:00pm, 02-18-08
Mad River Room

I. Call to Order
A. 6:02
II. Roll Call
III. Approval of Agenda – Add UC Board Rep to new business, J door to same, no-frills out of old business and into report. Creekview first, Hill second. Passes, with 12 yes.
IV. Approval of Minutes- Creekview first, Hill second. Passes, with 10 yes 2 no’s.
V. General Forum
A. Introductions. Also, Nick is now Leticia.
VI. Tabling Request
A. HEMI wants to table inside the halls themselves, giving out free CFLs. Okay’d by Nick if we approve it. During this week, 3rd week of energy competition, early afternoon. Motion of approval, Creekview first, Hill second. 12 yes. 0 no. 0 Abstain. Passes.
VII. Executive Board Reports
A. President LATE- No frills had frills, shook their plumage. Having a chat on AIM tomorrow with other presidents to create transition reports.
B. Vice-President - Working on RHA week. Class conflict Thinking about making separate G-mail accounts for exec board. Worked hard.
C. Secretary- HI O.O
D. Treasurer- Got rid of all the finals packs (finally). Still need other treasurers to contact her for BOF meeting. Going to make due if she doesn’t hear from everyone.
E. NCC- No Frills was fun, also included frills (candy on beds?). More detailed report next meeting. Looking for a NCC-IT, (NCC in training). Shoot her an e-mail if you’re interested NNT3 for an app.
VIII. Representative & Committee Reports
A. RPB- V-Day candy gone in two days (yay), planning Feast and Fest (April 10th?), need two royalty from all councils and servers. RPB@humboldt.edu
B. ROBOT PROXY- Still planning March of the Machines (EPIC), almost filled up the whole month. Tuesdays will be Anime Club, Wednesday ROBOT, Thursdays DDR Workout. Bunch of other programs in the works, RvB Marathon, professors, video game competitions.
C. ROCC- Going to be showing the Colour Purple at the bottom of the J, lots of food. Thanks to Ravin, new budget. Wednesday will be showing a miniseries (Transgeneration?), ROCC block coming soon?
D. NAKED PROXY- Scheduled to have a Mental Health fair @ the bottom of the J March 2nd. Might be working together with Canyon staff. Might buy NAKED Milers gear. More NAKED movie nights, with CAPS included for the talks. Might do a program from PACCURH, swimming on Sundays from 12-2 with Janine.
E. ResLife- Planning a larger scale staff event for March. Did a staff appreciation for V-Day, Nick came and gave a presentation. Talked about restructuring ResLife council to be more awesome.
F. NRHH - No meeting last week. Movie and popcorn event Thursday the 21st 7 PM Klamath, watching Cool Runnings. Write OTMs!
G. Creekview- Fire alarms, so no meeting.
H. Canyon PROXY- Held a Snog Fest dance on V-Day. Meeting tomorrow.
I. Hill - Having a Toga Dance in Sunset Friday at 8pm. Voting tomorrow on quiet hour changes.
J. Cypress- Planning Sexland Sexpot with the health center. Ridicilous Olympics for RHA week. Need a new treasurer.
K. Manor PROXY- Short meeting, just trying to allocate money.
L. AS (meets every other Wednesday from 3p-6p) PROXY- Long meeting, Learning Center and Children’s Center presentations. AS is giving a proposal to the Dean about the German Program to stay on for 2-3 years longer. Preparing for AS elections, April 22-24. Big event promoting AS in KB Room on the 23rd. $3,000 digital display for the library? AS scholarships due Feb 29th
M. UC Board of Directors- Updated bylaws and brought together goals and objectives from other sections. NHE will have men, women, and gender neutral bathrooms. SBS marketplace will be closed when the new one opens, old one to be taken over by UPD. Won’t be completed for awhile.
N. Alcohol and other drug- Got minutes from the December meeting. Have Option B stadium cups, figuring out what to do with them. Worked on goals and April being alcohol awareness month. Sober Dance April 8th. Goals might included art coaster contest, college health survey to be done again. Looking to reassess the policy on hookahs.
O. SHAC NO- None
P. Rec Center- Meeting this Wednesday at 10am. Ten Hail Mary’s.
Q. Elections Commissioner- HI. Intro to all that is Alex. Chose the elections committee (Nick Sweeton, Porchee Battle, Ashley Rubay, and Mike Emmanuel). Have gotten an awesome flyer from Ravin. Confirmed budget of $250 to make colour copies of flyers. Want to get as much advertising out as possible. Whore out RHA like nobody’s business. Want to get a fixed URL on the RHA website for ease of direction, with job descriptions, maybe even online app. Still need timeline for interviews. Pens? NO DO NOT WANT KTHXBAI. Might just use old pens from last year. Perhaps we need to use the pen money in some other form of recruitment?
R. Dining Committee- Should be meeting this Friday.
S. Publicist- Putting up posters today. Need ROCC posters. Publicist#2 is getting sick, but started to clean up the RHA computer. 3 people now posting on site.
T. Advisors- Nick: Mock Rock needs more help, please come on Tuesdays or get ahold of Nick. Looking for acts. Advertising will be up next week. Looking to add advisors to special living areas like OACS has now. Applications for those are coming out soon. If anyone sees a pack of purple hair dye, let him know (What will he do with it??). Leti: The Family is doing Fairy Cakes and Tea on Thursday during dinner. OTMs are due next Friday. No Frills was great, but we really need to do more OTMs.
IX. Old Business
a. Slam Fest- J9 brought the e-mail. Asking for participation from RHA. Suggested last week for councils to bring in a small object to respresent their council to combine as a whole (3D Diarama, middle school style?). Nobody wanted to do it. 
b. RHA Programs- We haven’t done anything. Just saying. Work with NRHH to make a pancake breakfast? Jannah wants to hang things on people’s doors. Basketball competition against different areas. WE TAKE JAMES. Maybe another sport. Mini tournament? Just no puking. Gross. Secretary suggests Ridiculous Olympics be changed to Ew-Gross Olympics. Karaoke maybe? Dance-off or Dodgeball. RHA Idol? Tabled to next week.
X. New Business
a. RHA week—April 6-12th- Spring Preview is on the 11th and 12th. Still pinning down a date for Feast and Fest. Think about what days we want. Manor wants to work with another council. RHA Bingo is held at the bottom of the J, yay, battle of the bike. Lots of fun and a big deal, traditionally the exec board’s RHA week event. Teeter-a-thon is done for a specific cause, keep the teeter-totter going for 36 hours to raise money for the cause. J-point/C-Card donations were taken last year. NRHH event. Won’t do it again due to liability. Will do “Arrest-a-Staffmember” program, each staff member has a cup with money donated to it. UPD comes and arrests person in the middle of the J? As a staffmember, this sounds terrifying.
b. Smoking Areas- Local group is talking to remove Quad smoking areas. Want to move it to the North West area of the parking lot. Mostly saying it’s a disturbance with noise, social interactions, and smoke. These were created as a balance of people’s rights. Janine thinks the Cypress lower smoking area is more of a concern, because you have to walk past them to get anywhere (especially the one between the hill and Cypress). Enforcement could be an issue. Sarah suggested a cover for lower Cypress smoking area. Table to next week? Hill first, Creekview second.
c. UC Board of Directors Rep- Talk to Jannah for details, they do all sorts of awesome stuff and have food at meetings. You know you wanna do it! Lots of perks, discounts, and free passes. Must have 12 credits last semester and 2.0 GPA. To bring up next time, will nominate then. Lynn is interested.
d. J-Door- The J wants to close the J-door closest to Cypress because the doors don’t close properly all the time, wasting energy when trying to heat the J. Problem is, most people will probably just go through the second floor, which presents the same problem. Makes it incredibly in convenient for Cypress. Revolving door if possible? Fire hazard if locked? Change to pull doors instead of automatic doors? Depends on financial options. Would be left as a fire door if it were closed. Problem also that the revolving doors are being misused. Possibly tinkering with the push door to restrict misuse. Problems with alarms being ignored. Big debate. Alex suggests a trial run, looking at energy use. Need more information from the J on their financial options. Maybe close at the bottom of the stairs with reasoning.
IV. General Discussion
a. Sending something to NIC for support. Table to next week. NRHH first, Hill second.
V. Announcements
a. Sex in the Elevator on Friday during dinner.
b. Write OTMs!
c. Bots have to be used if you’re requesting one! Too expensive to buy and not be used.
d. RHA exec board needs to write OTMS (*coughSarahcough*)
e. ResNews pilot episode coming soon, in sock puppet-o-vision!

Adjourn at 7:25 pm!