Minnesota State University, Mankato IFC Agenda

Thursday, November 5th, 2015

Call to Order:

  1. Roll Call: 6:30pm

Sigma Chi / x / Delta Chi / Phi Delta Theta / x / Lambda Chi Alpha / x
Sigma Nu / x / Phi Kappa Psi / x / Sigma Alpha Epsilon / x / Tau Kappa Epsilon / x
VP of Council Management / x / VP of Marketing and PR / x / VP of New member education development / x / VP of community service and philanthropy / x
VP of Conduct Review / x / VP of Risk Management / x / VP of Recruitment / x / IFC President / x
  1. Approval of Minutes:Approved
  2. Approval of Agenda:Approved
  1. Officer Reports

Vice President of Community Service & Philanthropy, Mr. Zach Gunby; (952) 393 2969

  • Bake Sale planned for next week for Dance Marathon
  • November 9th - November 11th, 11:00am - 2:00pm
  • They are also looking for baked goods
  • Collecting community service hours, emailing
  • Chapter reports are due tomorrow
  • Anyone interested in VP of Community Service & Philanthropy should talk to me!

Vice President of Risk Management, Mr. Connor Donohue; (651) 214 9697

  • Halloween weekend is over!
  • End of the semi-formal season and initiations are underway
  • Roundtable is coming up
  • Anyone that's interested in VP of Risk Management, let's arrange a time to meet

Vice President of Conduct Review, Mr. Walker Johnson; (651)303 7029

  • If you are interested in VP of Conduct Review, let's meet to talk

Vice President of Member Education & Development, Mr. AkoredeTeriba; (612) 607 9871

  • Greek Graduation Ceremony on November 24th
  • If you have not yet sent in a list of members from your chapter who are graduating please do so as soon as possible
  • We have our Alumni Speaker, but if you know of a graduating fraternity man that would like to be the fraternity community speaker please ask them to contact me
  • Emerging Leaders has two sessions left and has been going well!
  • We finally finished up all of the post-event stuff for U-Lead
  • Etiquette dinner February
  • If you are interested in VP of Member Education and Development, let's talk

Vice President of Recruitment, Mr. Chris Rife; (507) 317 6946

  • AFLV Packet
  • Still no alumni response yet about the formal recruitment process
  • If you are interested in VP of Recruitment please feel free to speak to me!

Vice President of Marketing & Public Relations, Mr. Steven Clark; (612) 845 4248

  • Greek Life - Perception/Awareness Survey sent out to members of MNSU (alumni and faculty)
  • 1, "I Am A Fraternity Man" (IAAFM) video is completed. October was very busy, but I will send out a sheet by email with my availability to film
  • I want to push this project through before the end of my term!
  • Working on my AFLV packet

Vice President of Council Management, Mr. Colby Ackerman; (651) 352 7183

  • Roundtable on November 10th, Morris Hall 209
  • The budget is being kept up to date
  • Getting my AFLV Packets ready
  • Collaborating with PHC Council Management, Nikki Kramer on Calendar Format
  • IFC Officer Applications will be sent to all of those that are nominated tonight
  • New Member invoices will be sent out upon receiving the information from John
  • Greek banquet invoices will be sent with these if not already paid
  • Will be due two weeks after being received
  • Please get in contact with me if you are interested in running for Council Management

President, Mr. Na Chum: (507) 995 7098

  • Working on preparing IFC Officer Transitions
  • IFC Applications and relaying information
  • November is a storm of a month!
  • Semi Formals, Philanthropies, Finals Week, Thanksgiving, Retreat Planning, Chapter Elections, Initiations, etc.
  • Qualtrics Greek Survey
  • Chapter with the highest percentage of members who have completed it will receive a $100 discount off of next semester's dues
  • Web-based survey, saving trees from printing all of the surveys
  • Phi psi: can you send the information from the roundtable

Greek Advisor, Mr. John Bulcock; (507) 389 6076

  • Future's Quest is for a leadership opportunity for new fraternity men across the nation. If you have an idea about a newer member that should attend please feel free to ask John Bulcock for more information.
  • IFC & PHC Council Officer and Chapter President Retreat is on January 7th - 8th. It is expected that all officers and presidents attend.

Greek Graduate Intern, Ms. Marissa Hulshizer;

  • Officer Installation for IFC and PHC Councils and Presidents will be held on:
  • December 6th starting at 2:00pm
  • Once Chapter Presidents or Council Officers are elected please attempt to have this date free for your installation.
  • If you have parents that you would like to invite please make sure to contact John Bulcock, and that letter will be sent to their home address
  • Student Events Team Applications have opened up and are due on November 20th
  • If you want more information ask Bill Tourville in the Student Activities Office (CSU 173) or simply contact the front desk of student activities and you will be directed accordingly
  1. Old Business:
  2. New Business:
  • Nominations for Interfraternity Council Executive Officer Elections for 2016
  • President
  • DJ Gries (Sigma Chi)
  • Vice President of Council Management
  • Stone-Andy Nguenkam (TKE)
  • Vice President of Community Service & Philanthropy
  • Hunter Gross (Sigma Chi)
  • Vice President of Risk Management
  • Patrick Riesterer(Lambda Chi)
  • Vice President of Conduct Review
  • Jake Hruska (TKE)
  • Flavius Stanici (Phi Delta Theta)
  • Vice President of Member Education and Development
  • Sam Anderson(Phi Delta Theta)
  • Vice President of Recruitment
  • Patrick Riesterer(Lambda Chi)
  • Bradley Revier (Sigma Chi)
  • Vice President of Public Relations and Marketing
  • Brett Marshall (Phi Delta Theta)
  • Motion to increase emerging leader budget from $25 to $50
  • Approved
  • Motion to suspend by-laws
  • Sigma Nu: this would just be to suspend a specific section instead of all of our by-laws
  • Tabled to next week
  • Motion to amend the by-laws by a Majority to a 2/3rds vote
  • amendment passed
  1. Announcements:
  2. Phi psi: Thanks for coming to our philanthropy event. "I will remember this moment for the rest of my life"

Meeting adjourned at: 6:56pm