University of Northern Colorado

Panhellenic Council Meeting

March 27, 2017

I. Call to Order: 5:00pm

II. Panhellenic Creed

Please pass the creeds to your left and leave on the last remaining chairs

III. Attendance

Alpha Omicron Pi: here

Alpha Sigma Alpha: here

Alpha Phi: here

Delta Zeta: here

Sigma Kappa: here

Sigma Lambda Gamma: here

IV. Approval of Agenda/Minutes: approved

V. Guest Speakers:

Campus Connections

Seeking Students for Mentoring Youth (flyer attached)

APCE 385: Practicum in Community Engagement, Campus Connections (offered fall and spring)

Campus Connections is an interactive program at UNC that pairs students with youth (ages 11-18) referred from the local community in a one-on-one mentoring relationship. This is a for-credit course, open to all majors, at both undergraduate and graduate levels. As part of the course, students will receive orientation and training on becoming a mentor and working with youth. Students will spend one evening per week with their mentee and provide support through promoting pro-social behaviors, academic success, wellness programing, and having fun! For more information, visit the Campus Connections Website.

Interested students must fill out a Mentor Application and attend a Mandatory Information Session (see flyer or website for dates). Applications will be considered in the order they are received until the course is filled. For more information or any questions, please contact: campus.connections@unco.edu.

Kevion Ellis

He is running for 2017-2018 Student Body President and wants to introduce himself to Panhellenic, his platform and wants to share his goals for UNC and Student Senate for this next school year. He also wants to hear opinions, concerns, and ideas, and answer any questions Panhellenic might have for him.

Speech is at the end

Cami Reynolds

She is going to be talking about the St. Baldricks, Bears Go Bald event.

They want support:

Shaving your head, 8 inches or more to donate, go to the event, donate $5 to canidents, Facebook page: share, like it

April 29th at 11-2 in the garden theater or on central probably gunter gym if there is bad weather.

Global Cultural Festival

April 1st at 7pm at Lindou auditorium

Brian from Delta Chi

This week is Jimmy V week

Puppies and Pizza- Monday

Pie a dchi- Tuesday

Date auction- Wednesday

Car bash- Thursday

Basketball and costume contest- friday

VI. Reports

A. Officer Reports

President Michaels (Katelyn.Michaels@unco.edu):

Circle of Sisterhood meeting on Tuesday, March 28th at 6pm in the Office of Student Life area.

Reminder, next week on Monday, April 3 at 5pm are the Greek Awards in the UC Ballrooms.

No PanHellenic next week

Get ready for Greek Week next week!

Director of Recruitment Koontz (Karter.Koontz@unco.edu ):

No report

Director of External Affairs Ward (Eliza.Ward@unco.edu):

Greek Week is next week and there will be a mandatory meeting Wednesday at 5 in columbine A

No one turned in scholar of the month

Wednesday IFC is hosting a blood drive and the chapters with the highest attendance will receive 50 points for Greek Week

Director of Risk Management Cable (Julia.Cable@unco.edu):

MGC Showcase is on Thursday at 7pm in the ballrooms!

First come first serve

Director of Internal Affairs Phalen (Haeli.Phalen@unco.edu):

Changes to the Bylaws and Constitution, Ill talk more during new business.

Director of Public Relations Ursetta (Angelina.Ursetta@unco.edu):

The all Greek photoshoot will be the Monday, April 3rd.This is the Monday of Greek Awards. I need one representative from each chapter to attend wearing block letters and jeans. The shoot starts at 3:00pm! I will send a follow up email to each chapter, please make sure you have a representative of each chapter in attendance.

I will be starting a Women Crush Wednesday photo challenge on Panhellenics Instagram page! Chapters, please send me your nominees at Angelina.ursetta@unco.edu

Greek Week is next week, dont forget to tag UNCO Panhellenic in your photo posts!

Assistant Director of Recruitment West (Madi.West@unco.edu):

The retreat was this weekend and it went amazing.

B. Cabinet Reports

IFC Liaison:

Delta Chi Jimmy V week is this week

Delta Tau Delta is hosting a concert April 14th tickets are $20 online

Lambda Chi watermelon bash is this week

Sigma Chi Derby Days is April 17th-22nd

MGC Liaison:

RHA Liaison:

Student Senate Liaison:Last week at Student Senate we went over the SPA (Student Programming Allocation) budget and reached a conclusion that we can fully fund all of the programs and presentations we heard. We will formally vote on this at our next business meeting on April 5th.

UPC Liaison:

C. Greek Advisor:

Rebecca Ingraham (Rebecca.Ingraham@unco.edu):

Final rosters for grade reports are due Friday, April 28th by 5pm. Please send a digital excel document to me and note which members joined this semester. Do not include anyone studying abroad or student teaching.

D. Chapter Reports

Alpha Omicron Pi:

We have a philanthropy event on Wednesday to get ready for Relay!

We are extremely excited for our sisterhood retreat this weekend!

Have a fantastic week ladies!

Alpha Sigma Alpha:

No report

Alpha Phi:

I hope everyone had a nice and relaxing weekend and a great rest of their week

Delta Zeta:

We had our wonderful spring sisterhood in Loveland this past weekend

We are excited for all the events planned this week for Greek Week!

Have a great week

Sigma Kappa:

We hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Were celebrating our womens accomplishments in academics today in meeting.

Cant wait for MGC Showcase.

Hope you all have a lovely week!

Sigma Lambda Gamma:

Come to show case

VII. Old Business:

VIII. New Business:

Changes to the Bylaws and Constitution.

IX. Motion for Adjournment

Motion for Adjournment at: 5:19 sigma kappa

Seconded by: delta zeta

If elected Student Body President, together I believe there are actions we can take to continue making UNC advantageous and prosperous for everyone! I would greatly appreciate if you could forward this message to the members of your society, and vote Kevion Ellis on elections days: April 4th-6th

My platform, Lets BRIDGE the GAP is about inclusivity, togetherness, and unified action. As a Student Senate Councilor for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences this academic year, I have listened to many students voice their concerns and opinions about UNC. After thinking about and studying these concerns, I have formed my goals to BRIDGE the GAP between the student body, administrators, and Student Senate. Having a year under my belt on Student Senate provides me with the background needed to address the issues of our past and look forward to a great future.

Lets Bridge the Gap with Administration!

This 2016-17 school year, I have heard many students voice their concerns and opinions about wanting university administrators to become more present in student activities and events around campus. Most recently during our Presidential election, some students felt discouraged, unsafe and uncared for by our administration. My plan is to CHALLENGE our administrative body to join us (students) in events and activities all around campus. We encourage the VISIBILITY of our campus staff, even if their support is non-partisan, it is still comforting to have an administration that stands beside its students. We want to see them as a part of us, even if visibility means just hanging out in the University Center lobby for a few minutes a day, we are a UNC family and we need to know they are there.

Lets Bridge the Gap with Student Senate!

In my opinion, Student Senate has not fully met the bar of REACHING and ENGAGING with students in years past. Lets engage in deeper communication, so we as representatives of the student body can hear more opinions, concerns, and ideas from YOU who we represent.

One of the bills I plan to draft would have our Senate Councilors become more visible in different clubs and organizations around campus, especially those within our cultural centers. How can we ask Administration to appear when we are not there supporting each other? We will sit in on club meetings and take notes, hear concerns, ideas, etc. and bring them back to Senate to discuss and act on collectively. Communication is KEY! Any chartered club or organization on campus would be able to request representation from Student Senate as well. We need to be there for everyone!

I also want to change the very low student attendance at our meetings and town halls this next year. I know Student Senate meetings can be intimidating, and at times hard to understand because of the way we do procedure. That's why I want to take steps towards making Senate meetings and events a warm, comfortable, fully involved, and inclusive experience for everyone who attends!

Lets Challenge the System.

All our lives we have followed traditional systems, some that we've challenged and some that we have never questioned because it's all weve ever known. We have to change this mentality. We come to college to explore lif