Wednesday, August 17, 2005

1. General Club Issues/Comments/Ideas

Stuff we need to do, think about, respond to, act upon to make this club the CDA Chapter of the Year.

2. Beginning of the Year Shite

What do we need to do to get the club off the ground when we get back to school?

3. Membership Drive

Emily Follett, Membership Director. Tabling schedule, dorm rush, move-in day, flyering, t-shirts, buttons, parties.

4. First Meeting of the Year - September 14th, CC 165-67

What do we need to accomplish at this meeting? What do we need to talk about?

5. CONFERENCE: General issues Ideas, Planning

What needs to happen between now and November 12th? Who is gonna do it, and by when? What else haven't we thought of?

6. CONFERENCE: At-Large Speakers

What speakers do we want? Chris is responsible for this aspect of the conference.

7. CONFERENCE: Economic Workshop

What speakers do we want? What would be beneficial to conferees that should be covered in the discussion? Chris is responsible for this workshop.

8. CONFERENCE: Envorinmental Workshop

What speakers do we want? What would be beneficial to conferees that should be covered in the discussion? Rachel is responsible for this workshop.

9. CONFERENCE: Social Issues Workshop

What speakers do we want? What would be beneficial to conferees that should be covered in the discussion? Linda and Kendra are responsible for this workshop.

10. CONFERENCE: Healthcare workshop

What speakers do we want? What would be beneficial to conferees that should be covered in the discussion? Manjiri is head organizer for the healthcare workshop.

11. CONFERENCE: Education Workshop

What speakers to we want here? What would be beneficial to conferees that should be covered in the discussion? Chris is responsible for this workshop.

12. CONFERENCE: Healthy Democracy Workshop

What speakers do we want here? What would be beneficial to conferees that should be covered in the discussion? Chris is responsible for this workshop.

13. CONFERENCE: Saturday Night Date Auction/Party Planning

Kendra Salvador, Director of Programs. Do we have people to auction off? What is our strategy for publicizing this event on campus? to the Five Colleges? to the MA college dems? Are we having a live band, or just a DJ? Should we split the proceeds, or are we too desperate for cash? Who's in charge of decorations?

14. The Direction of the Club

What do we want to do this year? This is where we talk about our priorities for this year: What battles do we want to wage? How winnable are they? What resources are required? How do we measure if we're sucessful or not? Who's in charge of overseeing what initiative?

15. Campaign Initiatives

Campaings Director: position vacant! Here's where we talk about and coordinate our efforts to get democrats elected. Who are we going to support? How are we going to support them? What are the logistics involved? Who's in charge of organizing for which campaign?

16. Legislative Initiatives

Political Affairs Director, Jason Poulos. Here's where we talk about what bills in the SGA, in the State House, and in Congress we're going to try to support, and how we're going to do it. Ballot Initiatives? Awareness campaigns?

17. Fundraising

Alex Kostadinov, Treasurer. Here's where we talk about ideas to raise money for the club.

18. Constitutional Congress

Here's where we evaluate what is and what isn't working within the club, and we try to institutionalize the good stuff into a new constitution.

19. Press Corner

Stephanie Costa, Communications Director. Here's where we talk about fine tuning our message to campus, as well as where we'll post any press releases we write, or publicity we get.

20. On-Campus Coalition Building

Liz Ayers, Student Government/Registered Student Organization Liaiason. Here's where we talk about which kids we want to get elected to the SGA, as well as what's happening with other progressive groups on campus.