Meeting Minutes February 22, 2007

General Body Meeting

Start: 2:46 pm - End: 3:31 pm

 

Present: Zeshahn, Hany, Shan, Ramy, Shafi, Mohammad Sherri, Hadeel al-Hadidi, Amal Hassan, Rania, Nabila Ikram, Nousseiba, Amna Karim, Sharif Aref, Kenan Katranji, Usama Khalid, Majed Afanah

Absent: Hodhaifa (excused) and Maher (unexcused)

 

1.    Opening Du'a by Ramy

 

2.    Outreach

§  Jummah – Someone already confirmed

§  “Ask a Muslim”

·         Good idea

·         Wasn’t too successful

·         The boards put up on the table didn’t have anything related to “Asking a Muslim”

·         Only one Non-Muslim asked a question

·         Location of the table – when we put a board it would block the board with the fliers and would look too busy

·         Table Manning

¨        Received more attention when more people were manning the table

¨        Both genders should be manning the table

¨        Have a better time schedule

¨        Training peoples so that they can answer questions

·         Should have put simple boards up

·         A bit unorganized at the start

·         Get more fliers – on Dawah

·         Have stuff to pass out

¨        Hadith suckers

¨        Cookies

·         More attractive decoration

·         Lack of preparation

·         Try to do it away from other tables to attract more people – do it by the UC stage

·         Not well planned out

·         Need to double check the questions

·         More advertising

 

3.    Ethnic Diversity Day

§  Ask a Muslim thing at this event

§  It will be Tuesday April 3rd at 4:30

 

4.    Education

§  Circles

·         The attendance is low

·         Send out another email asking people to register

·         People might think of this as another class making them not interested

·         Maybe post interesting topics

·         Probably get a halaqa going-maybe get  people to come

 

5.    On-Campus

§  Ski Trip

·         Everyone going on Wednesday to Mt. Holly for $42

·         Arrive there at 9:30 – skiing from 10-5:30

§  MSA Film Festival

 

6.    MSA Elections

§  Nominations – start second week of March

§  Have to end before March according to the constitution

§  Mariya Nadeem will be election commissioner

 

7.    Closing Du'a by Majed

 

By Zeshahn Humayun