Asian-American Student Union
General/Board
2008-02-26
Asian-American Student Union
Board Meeting
Asian-American Student Union
Board Meeting 02/26/08
I. Canned Food Drive
a. Donate to canned food shelter
b. Raffle
i. Two weeks of raffles
ii. Three One canned good=one raffle tickets
iii. April 14th-25th, Monday
II. TCAR Meeting
a. Had a TCAR meeting on Sunday
b. Changes
i. Retreat
c. U of M hosting next TCAR Meeting, March 9th, Sunday, 1-2PM
d. TCAR budget $50
e. Potluck, Friday, May 2nd, 5-8 PM
i. Ausgburg
III. Grace Lee Project
a. Movie Length: 5- 7PM
b. $200 for theatre
i. Availability: Tues, March 25th
ii. Alternative: Moos Towers
iii. Talk to classes about attending
c. Food
d. Expected turn out: 30-50
e. PRing
i. Facebook and fliers
1. printing downstairs
ii. PRing to classrooms
1. Asian American Studies
2. Language classes
3. Journalism
- Lulu and Florence are going to contact professors
f. Contacted professors about speaking
i. Richard Lee
ii. Professor Her
iii. Getting students to attend
f. Meeting at 5:30, GA at 7:00, and then movie at 7:30 PM
IV. Tony Diggs
a. March 5th, nominations are due
b. Link on sua.umn.edu website
V. Spring Conference
a. PR Updates
i. T-shirts
1. TK’s design
a. Have Meng send it out
2. Ordering 70 shirts
ii. Bookmark
1. front is done (spring colors), back is going to be altered (different colors)
2. Education committee does fliers for indivisual workshops
iii. Sending out fliers to dorms
1. residential gives mailing lists ($75)
iv. Personal Invitations to profs/departments/alumni
1. Reservations
v. fortune cookies
b. Programming Updates
i. Fashion Show
ii. Working on decorations
iii. Tentative Program
c. Logistics Updates
i. Received $700 in cash and $300 in product for coke
ii. Asian beverages
iii. Meeting tonight
iv. Restaurants
d. Education Updates
i. Keynote speaker lives in HK, so is possibly unavailable
ii. Alternative:
1. Robert Ridgeway: Executive VP for Ridgeway, plans events such as superbowl involved with Chinese orphanages
2. David Chung: Head of Naked Juice
a. Started as a medical student, wanted to become a writer (didn’t have money), brought over Naked Juice
iii. Free Yoga Instructor from Boytons
iv. Representative for Professional Workshops
e. Video Updates/lyrics
i. Lyrics almost done
ii. Dancing and skit
iii. Ask Dan or Noa about sound extraction and recording
iv. Maybe play music on piano
v. Kha and Ashley will be the freshmen
vi. Irene will split the song up in to parts
vii. Start practices on Sunday, March 2nd at 12
viii. Wear blue and/or green and jeans
VI. Questions, Comments Concerns
a. Keep room clean
b. Volunteering at feed my starving children
i. April 19th, 7-9 PM, 30 spots available
General Assembly Meeting
I MSA Speaker
a. running for president of MSA
b. asking for endorsements from ASU and affiliates
II Rice Bowl 2008
a. Fourth annual Rice Bowl
b. Committee made up by representatives of all participants in the Rice Bowl
c. Looking in to alternative locations (River flats? St Paul?)
d. Sunday, April 20th or 27th
e. Format changes
i. Limit number of players from outside of U
ii. Rosters will be enforced
iii. Focus on referees
iv. Combo teams
II Affiliate Updates
a. CASA (casa@umn.edu)
i. ice skating on Friday, February 29th
a. meeting in the back of Coffman at 5 PM
b. at the Depot
c. VSAM (vsa@umn.edu)
i. Tet Appeciation this Saturday, March 1st
ii. VASCON, Aprils 4th-6th
iii. Via-1 Conference, April 11th-16th
d. CSAM
i. New Year Event, April 5th at Northstar Ballroom
a. Doors open at 6PM, show starts at 7
ii. Mentorship program
a. Tutoring students from Kennedy
b. Looking for potential mentors
c. On Fridays
e. APAHC
i. International Music Night
a. Friday, March 7th , 7-10 PM
b. Weisman Museum
f. KISO
i. Movie night on March 28th
a. Korean War Movie
b. Moos Towers
c. Starts at 7PM
g. St Kate’s is having a big event, on March 28th
i. Dance at 7- 11 PM
III Keeping ASU Clean
IV Questions, Comments, Concerns?
V Adjourned