Minutes from the May Meeting

From: Jonné Brown (n-brown@UIUC.EDU)
Date: Wed Jun 19 2002 - 15:17:52 CDT

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    >       Dancing Illini General Meeting Minutes   May 30, 2002
    >       7:08pm
    >       Officers and Chairpersons present:   Jen, Jesse, Tanja,
    >       Richard, Ron,
    >       Mike, Jeff, Emily and Jonne'.
    >       Officers not in attendance:  Lynn and Janice
    >
    >       Jeff called the meeting to order.
    >
    >       There was a discussion about the third beginning's class
    >       rumba and
    >       cha-cha.  Emily suggested that we have the rumba and cha-cha
    >       class with
    >       Adrian teaching it.  She had already made arrangements with
    >       him.  There's
    >       a concern that the class would be reated in the fall, but the
    >       group felt
    >       that students will get better if the class is repeated and
    >       perhaps Adrian
    >       can include new steps.  We decided to go with this class.
    >
    >       The PR chairs have the posters made and are ready to have
    >       them printed.
    >       They received the account number from Richard and Emily.
    >       Jesse will
    >       distribute the fylers on norht campus.  Jeff will take some
    >       to Parkland.
    >       Help is needed to get them distributed in areas where
    >       students will see
    >       them.
    >
    >       Ron talked about having some incentives for students to sign
    >       up for the
    >       classes.  Tanja will send him a from that was used in the
    >       past.  There
    >       was discussion about how many coupons to use.  Jeff suggested
    >       that we
    >       place an ad in the Daily Illini with a discount coupon.  The
    >       PR chairs
    >       will look into an ad for $100 for 5 days.
    >
    >       Richard is taking care of any bills that are due.  Krannert
    >       room rental
    >       fee for the summer of $300.
    >
    >       There was a discussion about the number of people on
    >       dance-official which
    >       has only about 180 names.  How do we encourage more people to
    >       sign up for
    >       the lists.  Dance discuss is underutilized.  At the class we
    >       could have a
    >       clipboard for sign up and a poster board with a list of
    >       events.  Teachers
    >       are encouraged to highlight coming events.  Officers could
    >       pass out small
    >       flyers at the beginner classes.
    >
    >       Jeff would like to continue practices on monday night.
    >       Students need to
    >       have more incentives to use what they have learned in a
    >       different
    >       environment.  We tried to look at how many new people are
    >       coming to the
    >       practices.  Tanja thought if 15 people come it's good
    >       barometer, if they
    >       are new.  Ron said more people would come to the practices if
    >       they were
    >       held at Krannert in a room with mirrors and if we had a
    >       sing-up and email
    >       remind students.  Jeff will look into alternate locations.
    >
    >       We decided that September 7th would be the date for the 1st
    >       dance with a
    >       salsa lesson in Room 314 Illini Union.  PR will have posters
    >       for this at
    >       Quad Day.
    >
    >       Summer events
    >         late June - Cosmic Bowling
    >         July - May Sue's
    >         August - Water Event
    >
    >       Space requests for Spring 2003 can be turned in now.  We are
    >       looking at
    >       October 5 and 20. During the 5th or 6th week of classes we
    >       should
    >       reschedule a dinner-dance at the Regent with discount
    >       coupons.  One
    >       suggestion would be to have a practice at the Regent on the
    >       Monday before
    >       the dance.
    >
    >       Mike is concerned about the video tapes that have not been
    >       returned to
    >       the Video Library.  We feel some action should be taken to
    >       get them
    >       returned before they are replaced.
    >
    >       The next General Meeting will be on Tuesday,  June 25th at
    >       8:00pm at
    >       Krannert bewteen the classes.
    >
    >       The meeting ended at 8:07pm.
    >
    >       Respectfully Submitted
    >
    >       Jonne' Brown
    >
    >
    >       N Jonné Brown                       Phone: 217-244-3814
    >       University of Illinois               FAX:   217-244-4974
    >       1308 W. Green St.  MC-272
    >       Urbana, IL 61801
    >
    > N Jonné Brown                       Phone: 217-244-3814
    > University of Illinois               FAX:   217-244-4974
    > 1308 W. Green St.  MC-272
    > Urbana, IL 61801
    >

    N Jonné Brown                       Phone: 217-244-3814
    University of Illinois               FAX:   217-244-4974
    1308 W. Green St.  MC-272
    Urbana, IL 61801



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