Meeting Minutes 3.5.13

7:10 - Attendance
7:13 - Student Community Services Presentation 

• Center for Community Engagement UU 217
• Student Community Services Located there
• student-run organization
• Hunger Banquet
• Change the Status Quo
• Homelessness Awareness Week
• See the Need Week
• 8 different volunteer programs
• Also Includes:
• Americorps
• Alternative Breaks
• Volunteer SLO

7:30 - Nate Honeycutt, ASI President Candidate

• philosophy: Make Students First
• believes ASI should promote student voice
• has been on ASI for 2 years
• strong advocate to remain on quarters
• was part of Armstrong's Semester Review Task Force
• questions from Nate:
• How could the success of the Honors Program be documented on campus?
• Nate (N8) Honeycutt
• nhoneycu@calpoly.edu
• email him if you have any more questions and feedback!

7:45 - Sign Poster for Honors Professors
7:45 - Suggestion Box
7:48 - S.H.O.W.

• Tanner Cook, Action in Africa
• raised over $200,000 dollars to build schools in Africa
• story about experience in Uganda
• pass around picture of Shafeik

7:55 - Announcements

•  if you want to thank someone else in the club... email Jenni and she will do something special for them: jdragan@calpoly.edu
• help set up or clean up luncheon this Thursday to get another event credit!
• pick up Honors Shirts after meeting
• Academic
• We have fishbowls for Dead Week! Thank you, Academic Committee!
• Monday, March 11th (6:30-8:30 pm) 216S
• Wednesday, March 13th (12:00-3:00 pm) 216K
• Thursday, March 14th (11:00am-1:00pm) 216P
• Marketing
• logo design competition
• check your email
• accepting designs until first day of finals week
• looking for new face for Honors Student Board
• you'll get an event credit for HSB
• email hsbmarketing1@gmail.com
• Social
• right now: intramural sports sign ups and glow stick tag
• Root Beer Pong at Cerro Vista next Friday @ 6:00 pm (TENTATIVE) look on Facebook or email for update
• Community Service
• Friday March 15th in Arroyo Grande @ Oceanview Elementary (5:00-8:00 pm) volunteer at elementary school fair
• donate books in the UU, or in Cheri's office, or at next week's meeting for Worldwide Book Drive

 

Meeting Minutes 2.26.13

7:10 - Attendance
7:13 - Announcements

• bring up money for T-shirts ($5 dollars)
• 3rd Event Proposals due today
• next meeting is last meeting
• stay after meeting if you want/need event credit: break down

7:15 - Break into committees

• Fundraising and Academic meet with E-Board

 7:20 - Committee Announcements

• Social
• March 5th @ 8:00 p.m. (next week after meeting): "Frolicking in the Field"
• team building activities
• form Intramural team
•  next Friday, March 8th: Root Beer Pong
• Community Service
• textbook drive
• donate books in boxes in UU
• can also bring to meeting
• dropping off book = 1 event credit
• look on FB page
• Habitat for Humanity later in quarter or next quarter
• Fundraising
• Marketing
• rebranding HSB
• logo design competition
• submitting logos = 1 event credit
• email to hsbmarketing1@gmail.com
• winner gets prize!
• working on newsletter
• Academic
• reserving fish bowls for dead week/finals week

7:26 - Dr. Brown's Class Next Quarter

•  Philosophy professor and HSB advisor
• take his class next quarter!
• C2 GE class
• PHIL 231 
• Spring: MW 2:00-4:00 p.m.
• Fall: MW 10:00-12:00 (tentatively)
• asks 3 questions
• how do I live well?
• what is the right thing for me to do?
• why care about morality at all?
• also teaching PHIL 314 C4 GE on early modern empiricism (MW)
• investigates 17th and 18th century theories of the mind
• teaching Ancient Greek Philosophy class in Fall

7:30 - Dr Brown's Video Presentation

• Christopher Langan
• Bouncer in Long Island Bar
• his IQ = 195-210
• "smartest man in the world"
• Interviewer: Errol Morris = NY Times Blogger
• TV Series: First Person (on YouTube)
• www.ctmu.org
• buy his book: "The Art of Knowing" ($10 dollars)
• learn about his theory
• sounds like Spinoza
• if this interests you, take PHIL 313 with Dr. Brown

8:07 - What did you think?

• why does he still work at a bar?
• no education beyond high school
• wife is professor
• what is the value of an IQ test?
• IQ and age
• IQ may not have as much precedence as people give it
• athletes and IQ, does it test every kind of intelligence?
• Socrates was willing to acknowledge that he didn't know things
• perspective on knowledge
• intellect as part of self
• Langan thinks he is his intellect in a body
• His theory
• what is he doing with it?
• website hasn't been updated
• he could rule the world?
• he hasn't done much
• media interest starting in late 1990's
• game show 1 vs 100 - walked away with $250,000 dollars (2007)
• many people don't know about him
• what bothered people?
• standardized values
• acts like his ideas are new (Plato's Republic, Brave New World, etc.)
• immune to criticism
• never considered another human being's intelligence
• thinks he's far wittier than he is
• thinks in black and white
• has he ever seen a psychologist?
• abuse and criticism as child
• cannot reason through that abuse
• lacking social skills?
• makes up for that with intellect
•  values vs facts/truths
• "cannot derive "ought" from "is"
• making assumptions
• lives in intellectual vacuum
• no feedback or criticism
• never encounters "peers" in his opinion
• aware of the world's problems, but not self-aware
• lesson:
• Brown hopes we don't psychologically isolate ourselves like Langan
• Honors program puts you in community with large variety of people
• are highly educated people the most respected?
• college education serves same function as high school education used to
• almost need college education to get a respected job
• Langan seems suspicious of those with trained education
• he may not thrive in academic environment
• hasn't had to overcome intellectual resistance

8:30 - Next Quarter:

•   another Errol Morris interview from Dr. Brown

8:33 - Meeting Dismissed

Meeting Minutes 2.19.13

7:10 - Attendance
7:15 - Honors Seminar Opportunity

• Colleen Fitzgerrell
• went to Grand Canyon Semester through Honors Program
• one of field trips: Black Mesa Coal Mine
• another Coal Mine really close to woman's house, she got Asthma
• research project on coal mines affect on people who live around them

what this means for you:

• Honors Seminar next quarter
• Honors Credit!
• focused research group on that project
• group will meet once every week for 1 hour
• email Colleen if interested in being a part of the group
• she will give you permission number
• ckfitzge@calpoly.edu

7:20 - Tower Wars!

• pre-built tower in the next room
• build tower as close as you can to the model
• one group representative will go look at tower for 30 seconds
• explain it to the rest of the group
• cannot touch materials

7:40 - Tower Presentations

• team 3: missing many things 
• traded with other teams
• how did you feel when you found out you were missing things? 
• betrayed
• how does this relate to HSB?
• we need more supplies
• we need to work together (with other committees)
• how can we encourage collaboration?
• committee leader meetings outside of regular meetings
• it's not about winning- there is no winner

7:45 - Announcements

• Academic Trivia Night
• groups, maximum of 5
• go!
• T-Shirt Sign ups and money
• 5 dollars
• ordering T-Shirts tomorrow or Thursday morning
• you can put your money in UU Box 408 in Epicenter (our box)
• make sure to put your name with money
• suggestion box
• 2nd Event Proposals Due today
• Teacher Luncheon
• March 7th (11am-12pm)
• clean up before and after for credit
• about 10 professors have RSVP'd
• SHOW (Show Something Humorous or Wise)
• like show and tell
• bring things/knowledge to the next 3 meetings
• 6 slots left this quarter
• sign up for this quarter or next quarter
• about 10 mins per person
• Next Quarter:
• 3rd committee event = plan one HSB meeting

7:50 - Meeting Dismissed

Meeting Minutes 2.12.13

7:10 - Start Meeting
7:15 - Feed My Starving Children Representative

• Jordan with SLO Cru came to speak
• 2nd year - packaged over 200,000 meals last year
• 550 kids getting to eat for a year
• 22 cents per meal
• fmsc.org
• food specifically designed for starving children to restore them back to health
• want to show that Cal Poly cares about this
• campus-wide event
• February 22 and 23 @ Mountainbrook Church
• sign up for 90 min shift
• letter writing campaign to thank people helping with organization overseas
• can sign up with club (working on time and date) or as individual
• awareness gallery
• asking for donations of 25 dollars to help raise $44,000
• look for email for more details

7:25 - Attendance
7:27 - Honors Battle of the Bands

• Honors Program in danger of being cut!
• planning Battle of the Bands to benefit Honors Program in May
• asking for help getting local sponsors
• need people to staff event
• look for future emails
• local bands on campus
• bands win money and recording time
• bands and solo competitions
• Chumash Auditorium
• $5.00 admission

7:30 - Announcements

• passing around list to buy Honors T-Shirts
• working on getting more sponsors
• let us know if you know any local businesses in community
• tutoring at local schools
• sign up sheets being passed around
• volunteering as HSB
• looking for webmaster position to redesign website
• also looking for someone to do website as Senior project
• like this new Facebook page made by HSB students!
• https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cal-Poly-SLO-Honors-Students/426167734126148?ref=ts&fref=ts

7:40 - Break into Committees

• work on second event proposals

7:56 - Committee Announcements

• Social
• Valentines after meeting!
• stay to get credit
• February 26th - Frolicking in the Field
• looking to make intramural team
• interest meeting after HSB meeting that night
• Marketing
• rebranding of Honors Program
• want a logo
• if you're good at design, send design to HSBMarketing1@gmail.com
• Community Service
• February 16th - Firefighters Charity
• sending 5 HSB volunteers
• February 23rd (2:00-3:30 pm) Feed My Starving Children  
• February 16th - Hearts and Soles Run
• dress up
• couples discount if you cross the finish line together
• heartsandsolesrun.com
• Academic
• February 19th @ 8:00 pm Trivia Night at Ciao!
• teams of 5
• Honors students
• after HSB meeting
• Fundraising
• no announcements
• still looking for sponsors

8:00 - Announcements

• fill out surveymonkey if you haven't
• thinking about starting food NEXT WEEK!
• look for email about food money
• committee chairs meet with E-Board after meeting

Meeting Minutes 2.5.13

7:05 - Meeting Start
7:07 - Guest Speaker

• HNRS 145 student looking for Honors Students in Greek life to participate in video to show Honors Program is diverse
• sign up sheet passed around

7:10 - Roll 
7:12 - Brainstorming Activity

•  Why did you join the Honors Program?
• I thought I would get priority registration
• honors housing
• intellectually challenging
• honors on diploma
• smaller classes
• better professors
• sibling rivalry
• community
• why not?
• invited
• Why did you join HSB?
• Honors credit?
• community
• meet people
• leadership
• resume
• team building activities
• Talk amongst each other and come up with some goals for this quarter
• social events to be for entire Honors program to meet more Honors students and build a bigger sense of community
• Marketing to be more involved with other communities
• clear up some misconceptions about Honors program
• having a more dedicated group
• create a sense of familythink of new things to do during the meetings
• community outreach
• Cheri has a few ideas about adopting a school in the community to tutor
• more food
• look for survey monkey about FOOD
• get in contact with other Honors organizations (fraternities, etc.)
• test bank
• study hours - fish bowls?
• facilitate study groups
• book swap
• book club
• more Dr. Brown... more speakers
• TED talks
• intramural team
• ongoing community service events
• booth in the UU/Dexter
• current events discussion every week
• revamp mentor program
• we want to innovate the club and give it more purpose

7:45 - Break into Committees

• discuss future events
• event proposals due tonight

7:50 - Committee Announcements

• Social
• Valentine Making: 2/12: after the meeting
• make extra valentines to spread HSB love
• Academic
• Trivia Night: 2/19
• max 5 people per group
• Marketing
• trying to get in Poly Live
• submit "burning" questions about Honors program to hsbmarketing1@gmail.com
• Community Service
• Firefighters Ball Volunteering: 2/16 around 7:00 pm
• Fundraising
• working on sponsorship for shirts

 7:50 - Meeting Dismissed

**Committee Chairs stay after for meeting

Meeting Minutes 1.29.13

7:05 - Announcements

• Faculty Luncheon date set for March 7th from 11-12 pm
• probably in the Honors office in the Library
• open to Honors Professors and HSB students only
• first event proposals due next week
• We have a suggestion box now! Put your suggestions for the club in it at future meetings!

7:10 - Attendance

7:15 - Leadership Activity

• True Colors activity
• brainstorm common characteristics, values, and learning styles
• share color traits with everyone else

7:40 - Break into Committees

•  discuss event for event proposal due next week

7:50 - Committee Updates

•  Social:
• February 12: "Making Lustful Love Lusciously" Valentine Making
• Community Service
• Textbook Drive
• dropboxes all over campus
• every book = $1 for the club
• bring flyers to other clubs and organizations
• February 16: Volunteer at SLO Firefighter Ball for Charity
• Academic
• February 19th: Honors Trivia Night
• details TBA
• there will be PRIZES!
• Fundraising
• Calling businesses to get sponsors for shirt
• if you know local businesses, let E-board know!
• $50 er business to get them on back of T-shirt
• Marketing
• trying to get in Poly Live - getting questions together and seeing if we can make appearance

7:55 - Picture with True Colors Groups 

8:00 - Meeting Dismissed

Meeting Minutes 1.15.12

7:00 - Sign in and update contact information as students come in

• pizza served

7:05 - E-Board Announcements

• welcome new members

7:10 - Leadership Activity

• what's my line?
• question game

7:25 - Break into Committees

• Plan skits

7:45 - Committee Skits
7:55 - Announcements
8:00 - Meeting Dismissed