November 13, 2006
General Body Meeting
Start: 4:38 pm - End: 6:04 pm
Present: Ramy, Shan, Maher, Shafi Ahmed, Hany,
Ayman, Aisha Farooqi, Kelly, Awais Alem, Zeshahn, Amal Hassan, Sharif Aref, Samad
Mohammed, Hodhaifa, Nousseiba, Asmaa Awad, Madina Kadri, Amna Karim, Yaman
Al-Hadidi, Rania, Abrar Founas and Majed Afana
1.
Opening Du'a by Ramy
2.
Eboard Minutes
§
Need
to read minutes. The following did not read them: Ayman, Hodhaifa, Nousseiba
and Rania
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Important
information is in there so you need to read them
3.
Education
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Halaqa
·
Dr
Ridwan will be speaking about Importance of Seeking Knowledge
·
Advertising:
Put fliers around the campus, facebook event
·
Room
is not confirmed yet – Zeshahn will email to see the status tonight
·
No
Halaqa next week nor November 29
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Aisha’s
Dinner
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December
1 – two Fridays from this Friday 6:30-9
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Small
Banquet in FCS
·
Will
be free
·
2
lectures: Kamran Riaz and Saeed Khan.
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Budget
$1,000. Raised $1,400
¨
Food:
$600-$700
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Speakers
(a) Need honorarium
(b) Bought ticket
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Advertising
$200
¨
With
extra money get entertainment
·
Food
¨
Will
have appetizers
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Dinner:
Biryani, meatballs, chicken with curry, yogurt, salad, hummus, bread. Maybe
pizza for the kiddos.
(a) Someone from
¨
Zeshahn
needs to talk to Opera Bakery for pastries
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Program:
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7:00
Dinner
¨
7:30
Speaker 1
¨
8:15
Speaker 2
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Entertainment
·
Entertainment:
Lazorath, Shamoo, could get a group of people to do poetry sound of reason
¨
Some
feel that it entertainment might not fit with theme of dinner. Could do without
it
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During
dinner could play music
¨
Could
do something similar to what MCA did during global fest
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Name
of dinner:
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Islam
in the West
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Muslim
Families in(and) West *
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Islamic
Values in
¨
Holding
on: Muslim Families
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Improving
Family Relations
·
Topic:
Family relations in
4.
Outreach
§
Jummah
·
Ashraf
Khalid will do it this week
·
Last
week – Dr Al-saeed. Good attendance
·
No
jummah next week
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Islamic
Awareness Week
·
Came
up with a schedule
·
Dawah
Table each day, in the UC or outside Kochoff Halls. Could have the table in
each building
·
Monday
– Legacy of Prophet: 3:30-4. Have question and answer. Suggestion – Instead of
this have the tent idea otherwise speakers
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Tuesday:
Student Panel. Have students answer the questions that students might have
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Wednesday:
Gender role. Have Sister Najah Bazzy as speaker. (in past a very popular topic)
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Thursday:
Have an Imam or Sheikh answer the tough questions. “Ask the Imam”
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Friday:
Aisha’s Event
·
Have
random hadith posted all around campus.
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Tent
idea – would be effective on Monday
·
Wear
MSA shirts that week.
¨
Could
discount MSA shirts and have those people pass out fliers
·
Talk
about the 5 hallmarks of MSA
·
Could
have cider outside UC and direct people to Kochoff Hall
·
People
could have speakers talk for a few hours about a topic. Then the next few hours
restart the topic, and have the same speakers
·
Jeopardy
on UC stage, make it educational
·
Give
something for people who have been there all day
·
Non-MSA
members give them a raffle ticket each day they attend, collect them on Friday
and randomly select one. Will give them something.
·
Have
breakout sessions
·
Will
work on room reservations
·
Advertising
needs to start tomorrow. Shan needs start contacting professors.
·
Maher
and a group of members will meet Wednesday to finalize everything.
5.
On-Campus
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Community
Service – December 2 from 9-12
·
St.
Aloysius – confirmed for 20 people, will be packing boxes.
·
Start
letting people know
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Last
Eid Social
·
Didn’t
have dodge ball. Wasn’t satisfied with it
·
Try
to have them in the gym from now on
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Need
to talk to
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Planning
on having another one for December 4
·
Have
it on campus, and work on planning it now, including room reservation
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Sister’s
Eid Social
·
Good
attendance – met some new faces
·
Food:
pizza, cake, ice cream
·
Spent
$80-$90
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Would
recommend it for next year
6.
MISC
§
Change
for Change community service event November 18th
7.
Closing Du'a by Maher
Zeshahn Humayun