Branford College Council
Meeting 4
Monday September 28, 2009
Independence Day
- Congrats to Jeff Rosen, Organizer of iDay!
- Congratulations to the Junior Class! Yeah 2011!
- If you have comments, email bcceboard@gmail.com, ann.chou@yale.edu, Jeffrey.rosen@yale.edu or Sabrina.karim@yale.edu
IM Updates
- IM Player of the Week: Zach Dean. Congrats!
- Trumbull IM Secretaries are trying to take away points; Branford IM Secretaries are meeting with them tomorrow night to try to get our points back
- Otherwise, we are sitting at THIRD place for the Tyng Cup. Way to go!
- Today, we won Men’s Soccer, Football and Co-Ed Football
- Freshmen have been outstanding!
STEP Announcement
- Rachel and Alex went around all of Vanderbilt to see if freshmen knew where recycling was and if they had right recycling bins
- Contact them if you need recycling bins
- Check out bulletin board near the laundry room!
- Contact Branford Step Coordinators Rachel Shaffer (Rachel.shaffer@yale.edu) and Erica Rothman (erica.rothman@yale.edu) with questions and ideas.
Spirit Committee
- Will be taking care of apparel
- Andy is very proud of the way things meant for iDay – shoutout to the freshman class. Seniors, you need to pick it up.
- JE Invasions to come – look forward to those!
- Spirit Committee meetings, 9:30pm every Monday in Branford Common Room
- Email andy.shumaker@yale.edu with ideas or comments, or if you would like to join the committee
Community Service Committee
- Had first meeting today
- Need more people to join committee
- Apple Picking, tentative date is October 17th, 2009
- Other projects: mentoring program with middle school in the area, every few weeks having community service day (go to soup kitchen)
- YHHAP is doing a program that every weekend there is a community service project. Branford could pick a weekend and go as a group.
- Email Co-Chairs, Christopher.lee@yale.edu and Guillermo.peralta@yale.edu
Branford Life
- Talked to manager of dining hall today, we can get anything we want, just send out a survey
- We do have a panini machine, and the manager will try to get that out
- If coffee and hot chocolate aren’t filled, just ask
- Oatmeal and grits don’t happen until it gets cold enough
- Email Chair, runqi.song@yale.edu, with comments or ideas
YCC Updates
- Collegewide email to come out soon
- Looking for people to apply to join the Spring Fling (biggest event that YCC organizes every spring, day-long concert) Committee, open to all Yale College students
- Job Shadowing Day (two days over two weeks), one in New Haven and one in New York
- Dining survey to come out soon
- Bike Share pilot program to start; there will be about 25 bikes available. Pay $10 to use (pays for repairs), sign out keys from Master’s Office, dropbox for keys
- Meeting with various cultural groups this weeks to discuss Brinner (breakfast at dinner) to serve different cultural foods
- Meeting with Yale Dining for Iron Chef this Friday
- Email jia.huang@yale.edu or Guillermo.peralta@yale.edu with ideas or comments
Screw
- Preliminary Ideas: Bubbles, Beach Party, I’m on a Boat, Paris, The Great Gatsby (need to integrate Courtyard and need a band), Industrial Construction, Paradise Lost, Discotheque, Oktoberfest, Rainbow, Lisa Frank, Fairytale, Quantum of Screw (James Bond), Toga Screw/Socrates/Greek, Healthcare… Swine Screw, anyone?
- Top three:
- Construction – Caution tape, eat pizza, construction signs, screws, take a picture of Harkness, have part of it outside under Harkness, construction food competition the night before, eat creations the night of screw
- Welcome to the Jungle – urban jungle
- Discotheque – a club in the dining hall could be really cool – strobe lights, black lights, and bubble
- Party AT a Construction Site?
- FINAL DECISION: Discotheque at a Construction site!
Open Floor
- No comments tonight
Present: Christian Vazquez, Joyce Li, Alix Perry, Rachel Ruskin, Mike Boyce, Luke White, Francesco Ciabatti, Lisa Simon, Runqi Song, Andy Shumaker, Chris Lee, Guillermo PeraltaAnn Chou, Marta-Hodgkins-Sumner, Jeff Rosen, Sabrina Karim, Ian Snow, Kristin Johnson
Absent: None!
Thanks for coming out tonight!
Feel free to contact the BCC eboard at bcceboard@gmail.com,
with any comments, questions, or ideas.
See you at next week’s meeting on October 5th!