September 11, 2006
General Body Meeting
Start: 4:35 pm - End: 5:32 pm
Present: Ramy,
Zeshahn, Hodhaifa, Hany, Shafi Ahmed, Awais Alam, Nousseiba,
Amal Hassan, Ayman, Shan,
Maher, Samad Mohammad, Adnan
Ahmad, Asmaa Awad, Aneesa, Hamza Latif,
Farhan Latif, Sharif Aref, Rania
1.
Opening Du'a by Hany
Ramy: Welcomed
all. Nice to see all of you. Had a
brief introduction.
2.
Jummah
§
Usama
Khalid did it last week
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Imam Salie will do it this week
3.
Welcome Week Booth
§
Table
from 11-2
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Put
up poster, have sign up sheet, freebees
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Would
need volunteers for that.
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New
shirts will be in by Thursday
4.
Socials
§
They
are once a month
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First
social will be Thursday September 14 at 3:30
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Will
have food, jeopardy and an activity a race
§
Will
be selling shirts at social
5.
Halaqa
§
Imam Salie at 4:30 in CASL on September 20
§
Have
them lined up until November
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6.
IT
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Have
a suggestion spot on website
7.
Ramadan
§
Will
have iftars on campus Monday – Thursday
§
Amal
discussed donations procedure. NEED IT.
§
Average
iftar is $300. Everyone please collect
§
Task
force has checked prices and gotten health licensed and menus
§
Will
try to have a set schedule on the website for the iftar
locations and menu to let people know ahead of time
§
Local
Masjids might want to sponsor some days in Ramadan.
8.
Community Service
§
Possibility
– before Eid decorate a Masjid.
·
Next
community service event is September 30, rely on general members to make
community services successful
9.
Unity in Diversity
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Will
be the 5th year we do it
§
Attendance
in the past has been 1,000- 1,200 and it’s a free event
§
Help
is needed – volunteer email will be sent out soon
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Sponsorship
·
NCCJ
will give a bronze sponsorship
·
Life
looks like a $3000 sponsorship – will get a booth
·
Islamic
Relief’s contact just talked to the manager and will get back to us soon
·
CAIR
will let us know by tonight
·
Total
Collected - $4,500 – budgeted for $9,000
·
Next
year – make a program event about the dinner, who it
is affected and benefited. Present it to the school and show that it is a
school tradition
·
Talk
to:
¨
Difficult
dialogues – Dean Anderson’s Office might be able to get from her. Ramy will talk to her. From there Pluralism Project
¨
Halal
Rice Krispy Treats
¨
Asmaa
will talk to
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Speakers
·
Imam Salie is confirmed. For him at the dinner have an extra
microphone
·
Ayman
emailed a Christian and a Jewish Speaker. Waiting for their response
§
Entertainment
·
Mohammad
Amer is the comedian for the night.
·
Maher
is talking to a group that plays a tubla want a
professional group
·
Possibly
have videos – skits
¨
Islamic
Makeover
·
Something
loud – Shaif’s idea
·
Poems
·
Talk
to YMA for entertainment
·
Dabkah
was discusses as a possible entertainment. Didn’t know if it was appropriate
for the dinner
·
Unity
Experiment (the people who did the picnic in the summer) they do poetry
·
Maher
contact YMA – get names for entertainment talk to Tamaam
from unity experiment
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Food
·
Invite
Duria to the next meeting
·
The
cooks need all 3 ovens and need pots and pans
·
Hodhaifa needs to reserve ovens. Also needs to submit floor
plans.
·
Paper
products, check Costco, Sams
Club, Sihails Uncle. Need plates, silver wear, cups
and napkins
·
Dessert
Zeshahn will talk to Opera about Sponsorship
10. MISC
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Suggestions
– Freshman Welcome. Some event geared towards the freshman. Have a way fro the
new students to get to know the members and the members get to know the new
people. Big brother. Orientation for MSA – ice braking evens.
§
MSA
Central Zone Conference in
11. Closing
Du'a by Shafi
Zeshahn Humayun