the walkabout/fundraising update

got convinced that not having a receipt in hand is a bad way to start out, by tim, so what i have for everyone right now is the copy of the letter and a promise to have a tax deductible receipt as soon as i can get that information from national office place. this will become a sponsorship packet that can be downloaded. it will be very cool. thanks. 

.adam.

ps. let me know if any modifications need to be made to the below––which is printable by the way, just click and be happy. 

weekly fundraising update

nothing of substance across the board. 

adam expects to do some store to store knocking on tuesday to see how that plays out. 

will report tuesday night. 

Fundraising Meeting "Minutes"

Members present: 

Roberto Martinez

Andrew Moser

Jesse Snavlin

Adam Speirs 

Resolved: 

We will be working with locally owned small business and larger corporations to fundraise outside of campus. 

Andrew Moser will be investigating opportunities on the corporate side, 

Adam Speirs will be investigating the locally owned. 

The potential exists for 'percentage days' and other like events that could be used as fundraising activities along with sponsorship and charitable donations. 

Roberto Martinez will be leading on departmental and on-campus fundraising activities. 

We'll be posting updates weekly regarding progress. 

Any questions please contact Adam Speirs and the correspondence will be forwarded to the appropriate member. 

thanks. 

.adam.

president - alpha psi 

Fall Induction

Sigma Tau Delta Inductees: (from left) Michael Prince, Brandon Pearce, Mark Reagan, Nessa Conley, Ellysa Lewis at the Fall Induction ceremony 18 Nov 2008. 

Also congratulations new members, 

Viola Nathan 

Tim Durant

Jennifer Moxon

Sarah Black 

Mackenzie Freese 

Kathy Doherty

local conference

This is a great opportunity for students of the English to demonstrate the changes that have occurred in the language and literature. I highly recommend 

The Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Behavioral Science and the anthropology student organization ALPACA invite you to participate in the Spring 2009 "200 Years of Darwin" conference at the Auraria Campus.  The conference theme is "Are We Still Evolving?" and examines the state of human progress in many areas of life.  

Students from all academic disciplines are invited participate as presenters, panel or roundtable discussants, or as attendees.  

For more information, please click on the following link to view the Call for Papers:

http://www.mscd.edu/~soc/anthropology/events.shtml

Please share this information with others.

nanowrimo

For those of you participating in NaNoWriMo this year, there is a write-in group that meets on Wednesdays and Thursdays at the Auraria Library at 4pm and Noon, respectively.

Click on the calendar link to the right for 

Fall Induction

New members will be inducted into the International English Honor Society on Tuesday, November 18. 

KC-417 – 4-5pm. 

and: 

Members interested in attending convention in the spring are invited to attend a convention information meeting on Tuesday November 11, KC-417 – 4-5pm. 

Sigma Tau Delta Halloween Costume Contest

Wednesday and Thursday, October 29-30 

Dress up your best and find the Sigma Tau Delta shirt, and you could be selected as the best costume at Metro! Sigma Tau Deltans will be perusing the hallways on Wednesday and Thursday for the spookiest outfits around, so be prepared.

Halloween Salon and Flash Fiction Scary Story Writing Contest

Monday, October 27th - 3-6pm at Sigi's Cabaret in Tivoli. 

Got a scary story to tell? Sigma Tau Delta's having a flash fiction contest. We're looking for the best scary story around to tingle the spine and prepare Auraria for a Friday Night Halloween. Looking to enter? 

1. Type it up, double-spaced, and makes sure it's less than a page. 

2. Bring it nameless to Sigi's Cabaret sometime between 3 and 4:30pm. 

3. Eat some candy. 

See you there. 

Prizes for: 

- Best Costume 

- Best Story 

- Best Reader

quick announcement

We had a last minute thought about throwing a Halloween party, but after some assaying decided that such a project requires a bit more than a few weeks to properly put together. 

And so, we are contemplating a late fall semester event of some large kind. 

Let me know, members, if you are interested in joining a planning committee. 

Adam Speirs 

Alpha Psi - president 

metrostatesigmataudelta.blogspot.com

Grant Writing Workshop

click on flyer for printable version 

Could your organization use extra funding?

Would you like to write a winning proposal?

Come join us in the King’s Center Room 417 4:00-5:00 pm

for a Proposal/Grant writing Workshop.

Marilynn Rhoads will be the guest speaker of the evening.  

She is a retired minister who has served as a consultant to the Colorado Department of Education, a VISTA Trainer, Board Member for the Neighborhood Health Program and numerous other community groups.  She has helped many of the groups secure funding for innovative programming and will share some of her strategies with you.

upcoming events: october

October 27th - 

Halloween Salon and Flash Fiction Scary Story Writing Contest!

October 28th 

Don't forget to check the calendar link on the right.

 

poetry salon - September 25, 2008: photos

FAFI a.k.a. 3Percent Free 97Percent Enslaved

FAFI a.k.a. 3Percent Free 97Percent Enslaved

Jamie Walborn

Nessa Conley

Karla Schorzman

Alpha Psi Secretary: Jesse Snavlin

Kristi Denke

Alpha Psi President: Adam Speirs

Dr. Jefferey Taylor

Tameca L Coleman

Tameca L Coleman

Aimee Herman

All Photos Credit: Jo Gerlick

Poetry Salon PIctures

banned books week Sept 29 - Oct 3

BANNED BOOKS WEEK EVENTS 

Monday Sept 29th 

at Auraria Library 

1-1:30pm - Professor Mackenzie Carignan

1:30-2pm - Professor Karla Schorzman

Wednesday Oct 1st 

KC 417

1-3pm - Dr. James Aubrey 

Golda Meir House 

4-6pm - Harry Potter Censorship Party/Fundraiser

Raffle Items: Hogwarts School, Ravenclaw, and Griffyndor scarves. Books - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Hardback. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, new condition. 

Thursday Oct 2nd

Honors Lounge WC 147

12:30 - 1:45

Honors student readings of excerpts from banned books.

Poetry Salon - September 25, 2008

poetry salon flyer

and program (printable on legal sized paper in landscape)

The Minutes for the following meetings are a little late. Unfortunately, your lovely secretary is also your SR, and so she was a little buried under a load of work. For those of you who aren't in the know: SR is a position on the regional level that occasionally sends you to a state to sit on a board meeting.

That is what I ahve

Community Outreach/Historian’s Report:

Survey responses are okay. Sweet.

President’s report:

The Poetry Salon is going swimmingly.

2. Adam: Should every officer run a salon?

In the interest of sharing labor, let’s split salons over all members so that knowledge base is spread out.

T-shirts. Budgets: different t-shirts, different styles.

Dr. Weber: Let’s talk about baby-doll cuts; women’s cuts.

Business Cards

Please edit for your own information.

Alliteration

Out to members - let’s start putting this together as a social organization. Adam will bring it up at the meeting. If there’s a good response, we’ll bring it up. If there isn’t...

Jessica brought up a worry of overextension.

Grad School 101 Workshops

Dr. Weber is going to be our liaison to the inner sanctum of faculty meetings. Teaming up with Sigma Tau Delta to create a regular workshop is extremely useful!

Treasurer’s Report

Pizza Kitchen Check: Fund Raising Check, someone who was a member of Sigma Tau Delta last year.
Banned Books Week: American Library Association Website - elect to read! Use the theme to work on a display or we can do our own theme.

Speakers - Erik Baker, Dolph Grundman?, Youth Slam? No. They’re typically flakey.

Let’s talk about making a fundraiser based on Young Adult Books. We’re going to do this stuff up.

Hello, Sigma Tau Delta!/Minutes for Opening Officer's Meeting

Hello, Sigma Tau Delta! The 2008-09 year looks to be a year of rejuvenation for Metro State Sigma Tau Delta , Alpha Psi - among many other projects, we hope to involve members more fully with open meetings and wider communication. This includes posting minutes for meetings up here on this darn board.

As secretary, my position with Sigma Tau Delta is largely of organization. Part of my responsibilities (in case you, yourself, might be interested in my position next year :) ) is to take notes during meetings and organize them into semi-coherant lists of what we discussed. In the interest of open disclosure, I've attached these notes to the rear of this post.

Further, there will be an open member's meeting on September 2nd. We encourage all members of Sigma Tau Delta looking to do more with their membership to take a step on over.

And, for you Sigma Tau Deltans worried about conferencing in the coming year, submissions are canonically due at the end of November. Be thinking about what writing you'd like to submit! Metro usually has a strong showing and we'd never want to disappoint. :)

See below for the minutes of our last meeting.

Minutes Sigma Tau Delta 8/12

ATTENDEES
Adam Speirs, President
Trina, Historian
Jessica Snavlin, Secretary
Wendolyn Weber, Assistant Advisor

First introduction of Robert's Rules of Orders.

Just for the Officer's Meeting.

General Meetings - What should they be like?
DR. WEBER: Bringing motions to the table by the lower members. Officers are supposed to bring motions to the table for lesser Members. They create the proposals and then pass it along.

The regular meeting, etc; Do people really want to do this?

Without bouncing ideas off of the members there's a chance to have something without member support, which means that members will again feel alienated.

JESSICA: There is a habit of friend-only communication, previously instilled from former generations.

We will be reorganizing schedules, as the first member meeting lands in DNC. It will actually occur the week after DNC, with the next Officer Only meeting being September 7th.

Motion to accept Robert's Rules of Order - approved.

Vice President's Report.

Proposal for more community and growth oriented activities.
Proposal for Constitution creation or revision.

A brief discussion of the roles of Advisor - an Advisor ought be Advice.

TRINA: There used to be a banquet for new members. Swearing in - etc.

Trina will work on a proposal for next meeting.

ADAM: Motions.

Motion to have Officers review the constitution, and offer suggestions of revision for approval at the next Officer's Meeting.
Passed with 4/4 votes.

Motion to have a calendar produced for the internet that would be approved by all officers at the next meeting.
Passed with 4/4 votes.

Motion to establish a partnership with Metrosphere Publications.
Passed with 4/4 votes.
*Discussion with Dr. Jason Miller pending

Motion to establish tutoring surveys through internet, with further implications in advertising to outside English students.
Passed with 4/4 votes.

Unfinished Business: Office Hours at Club Hub. Voluntary at this meeting, will be discussed on September 7th as one-hour a week minimum.

Office Hours to be discussed on September 7th -- Member meeting will be September 2nd.

Trina's proposal for banquets.

Necessary Email Communication:
Please review homecoming communications immediately.

Upcoming Events: Banned Books Week, First Member's Meeting, Unconventional (at Metro)

Other tid-bits:
Adam's gonna make us some flyers!
T-shirts. They will happen. Swear..

The schedule for meetings, generally, will be every 2nd (closed) tuesday and every 4th (open) tuesday. Sept's funky because of DNC, and Nov will be funky because of Fall Break (we will adjust accordingly!)