Branford College Council
Meeting 2
Monday September 14, 2009
Introductions
- Congrats and welcome to the newly elected BCC!
Branford Independence Day
- Friday September 25, 2009, 3-5pm
- Lots of awesome events
- Class Reps should be well on their way to recruiting
- Lots of fun activities: Tug of War, Defender Dome, Four Square, Relay Race, Water Balloon Toss, Egg Drop, Twister
IM Updates
- TUESDAY: 8:00pm Co-ed Table Tennis
- THURSDAY: 3:50pm, Co-ed Volleyball; 5:00pm, Women’s Soccer
- IM T-shirts are coming!
- Contact IM Secretaries Mary Altonji (mary.altonji@yale.edu) or John Lockwood (john.lockwood@yale.edu) with questions
YCC Updates
- Congrats to new reps!
- Freshman Class Council: Alexis Wise and Roger Hurd
- Sophomore Class Council: Chris Lee
- Junior Class Council: Ryan Carter
- YCC Reps: Jia Huang (Events) and Guillermo Peralta (Issues)
- World Fellows Night, Thursday at 5pm, Betts House
- Lots of World Fellows, emerging leaders, you can meet them
Step Coordinator Update
- Ideas: Waste-free Study Breaks, Waste-Free BCC Meetings, Sign the Sustainability Pledge, Waste-Free Master’s Tea, make recycling areas more obvious and exciting, encourage you to go trayless
- Ideas from the Council: recycling in the buttery, CFLs
- Contact Branford Step Coordinators Rachel Shaffer (Rachel.shaffer@yale.edu) and Erica Rothman (erica.rothman@yale.edu) with questions and ideas.
Viva’s Night – THIS THURSDAY! (September 17, 2009)
- 10pm – midnight
- Viva’s Mexican Restaurant, 161 Park Street
- Yummy nachos, snacks and drinks
- Fun way to start off the weekend!
Branford Screw
- More exciting to go off-campus
- God Quad can still host a party, whether or not it is on-campus or off-campus
- Talk to Master Smith about getting extra help
- Off-campus location is incentive for upperclassmen
- Have one AWESOME event vs. three mediocre ones
Open Floor
- No comments tonight
Members present: Ann Chou, Marta Hodgkins-Sumner, Jeff Rosen, Sabrina Karim, Ian Snow, Kristin Johnson, Runqi Song, Francesco Ciabatti, Lisa Simon, Luke White, Mike Boyce, Rachel Ruskin, Alix Perry, Christian Vazquez, Joyce Li
Members absent: Andy (due to the H1N1), Chris Lee
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 September 21!