Minutes

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!