Asian-American Student Union

Board Meeting

2008-11-23

Asian-American Student Union

Board Meeting Agenda
Sunday, November 23. 2008
Argyle Meeting Room

• Position updates
• Event Reflections
o Equity and Diversity Breakfast (Andy, Vanessa, Meky)
 Were under the impression that there would be more students at the event – a little awkward, but other than that it seemed like people were interested
 500+ people most were university officials. Talked about boards of equity and diversity.
 We will be invited back next year, according to the lady in charge
o Operation: Pasta Bar (Board)
 About 100 people, successful for the number of people showing up
 Pasta was good, but underestimated due to information from Buca (they said it would be plenty)
 It was good to be able to work with a group of people outside of our affiliates
o MAASU (Jimmy, Meky, Irene Tran, Vanessa)
 A lot of fun; opened with a lot of performances going on. Included instrumental as well as singing. Impressive show  Jimmy hoping to give the leadership activity to us after Thanksgiving
 Other workshops on perceptions of workshops, branding you, and how the Asian community needs to get out and vote more
 2nd day was all workshops, such as personal values and leadership.
 What Irene got out the most: got her re-motivated as to why she does ASU (re-ignited her passion for ASU).
• Room cleaning (Jimmy)
o Hopefully next semester, when we don’t have meetings on Fridays, a lot of the communication problems about when we need to clean the room will take care of themselves.
• AnySoldier updates (AnySoldier committee)
o Operation Door Step: Nov 30. Going around Eden Prairie to collect item donations.
o Information for donars included a letter of who we are, and what we’re working on, and a list of items they can donate to us.
o December 5th: Packing night
• Spring 2009
o Send your schedules to Nehal
o Send office hour availability to Nehal (3 hours a week)
o Tentative: Tuesday evening at 8 PM
• Winter Gala
 Theme – A Night in Downtown
 Tickets
• Early Bird (before January 20, 2009)
o UMN: 10 single / 15 couple
o Non: 15/20
• Normal / at the door
o UMN: 12/17
o Non: 17/22
• Waiting for an email back from the fees people, to make sure that these are alright to charge
 PR
• Tickets/Flyers/Posters
• Fliers will be sent to print this week, hopefully here to distribute the week after Thanksgiving break
 Food
• Chef will pick out 8-10 varieties for us to serve
• They will be writing out a proposal – a little bit of everything
 Decorations
• Have not yet met. Will be sending out an email sometime this week to figure things out via email
• 30th Annual ASU Spring Conference
o Committee updates
 Logistics – start thinking about what restaurants we will want to cater from
 Programming - start thinking about affiliates to contact
 Education – workshop ideas. Start thinking about key note speakers
 PR - waiting until things start to get figured out
o Performer updates
• Volunteering updates (Jimmy, Joe)
o Waiting for a response from Kinship
o FMSC is pretty packed between now and holidays on the weekends, keeping posted
• Secret Santa
o Two separate, one for board, one for GA --> GA keep an eye out in ASU regarding information for the process!
• Miscellaneous
o Questions, comments, additions

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