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By Luis Zapata
– October 22, 2009
Meeting time
- A new meeting time was instated at 12:30 p.m.
- Lots of late and absent people. Maybe not a good time after all?
- Will discuss further when more members are present.
New Member/Inductions
- Congrats to Megan Myers on her official SCJ induction!
National Freedom of Speech Week
Logo
Will be held Oct.19 to 25
- Megan will contact D.H. Hill about a banned books display for and during NFSW
- SCJ’s DJs will talk to Jamie Gilbert at WKNC about running either:
- a downloadable Public Service Aannouncement from the NFSW Web site, or
- our own PSA, made by SCJ and WKNC
- Have WKNC play the PSA twice a day during the week and on the weekend
- Susannah will make speech bubbles posters to put around campus
- Will still hold the speech bubble photo booth to raise awareness of NFSW
- PSA for Free Speech Week
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Posted in Meetings, Minutes.
By Luis Zapata
– October 16, 2009
New Members/Inductions
- Congratulations to our new members Tim O’Brien, Meredith Faggart, May Chung, Brent Kitchen and Luis Zapata for completing the official induction/initiation ceremony. The inductions were held at the Lebanese restaurant Sitti.
Constitution Day
- Free Expression Tunnel was a success. Luis & Tim, please upload your pictures.
Elections
- May wins the VP seat!
- Luis wins the Historian seat, vacated by May!
Freedom of Speech Week
October 19-25
- Speech bubble out on the brickyard and take pictures of them standing next to it, then put them on the website. Driving people to the Web site will get our name out there.
- Make Technician house ad.
- Go to freedom of speech website and look up ideas and bring them to the next meeting: http://www.freespeechweek.org/.
- Print out 11×17 posters shaped like speech bubbles, cut them out and place them around/on buildings, then collect them at the end of the week to see ›what students write on them.
- we could start them by writing something on them
- pehaps a title: “Life is…”
- have SCJ/Freedon of Speech Week on the bottom of it
- everyone should post a few around campus before the week starts
- Have photo booth two days during the week to get a different crowd both days.
- Pass out a flyer with our website on it after we take their picture.
November
- We’ll take some sort of field trip.
- Martha suggested talking to FYC students. She has a contact.
- Luis suggested speaking to students at his high school paper/yearbook. He has a contact.
- Susannah suggested a tour of the News & Observer. She has a contact.
- Everyone else should think of ideas. We can go to more than one. We will take a vote.
December
- Founders Day/End of Semester Celebration
- We’ll go over this some more when it is closer.
Next Meeting
- New meeting time for the next meeting: 12:30pm
- Next meetng will be Friday, October 2nd at 12:30pm
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By Luis Zapata
– October 16, 2009
The members of SCJ decided to celebrate the birthday of the Constitution and spread the word about Constitution Day by spray-painting the Free Expression Tunnel the night before. We met at 10 p.m. at the tunnel. Meredith and Helen brought painting materials, and Luis brought the stencils he laser cut in chip board. Helen and Susannah had spent a few hours earlier in the week designing our mural and creating the stencils in Illustrator.
This was our first bonding experience of the year, and everyone seemed to have a really great time. Tim, one of the new members, really stepped up — and helped us with our math, as Helen and Susannah felt it was important to keep the flag proportional to the real thing. Everyone participated in the painting, taking turns to make it look really cool and unique. We had several passersby tell us how awesome they thought our design was, so we knew we’d done a good job when we were through.
We discussed doing another Free Expression Tunnel mural for other events in the future, like Free Speech Week and Sunshine Week, because everyone had such a good time, and we were still spreading the word about Constitution Day to the campus. Plus, it only took us two hours to paint the entire thing.
Thanks to everyone who helped out! And more photos to be uploaded eventually!
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Tagged with constitution day, design, free expression, tunnel.
By Susannah Brinkley
– September 24, 2009
Friday, Sept. 18 meeting has been cancelled.
Next get-together: Friday, Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. Meet at Sitti Restaurant at 137 S Wilmington St.
Let Susannah and Martha know if you can’t make it.
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Tagged with inductions, meeting.
By Susannah Brinkley
– September 24, 2009
Constitution Day
Thursday, Sept. 17
- Painting part of the entrance into the Free Expression Tunnel
- Need to come up with some type of design
- Need to buy paint and get together stencils for tunnel
- Susannah, and Helen are working on design for Luis to lasercut
- Meredith will buy materials:
- gallon white/reject paint
- black, red and blue spray paint
- fuzzy roller covers (Martha and Helen will provide rollers themselves)
- Luis will purchase chip board for lasercutting.
- Martha and Krystal will provide step stools.
- If you have any painting materials at home, bring them.
- Meet at the tunnel at 10 p.m. Wedensday, Sept. 16.
- Wear old clothes.
New member interviews
- Congrats to new members Brent Kitchen and Tim O’Brien
- New Member Inductions will be Friday, Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. at Sitti, 137 S Wilmington St.
- Please mark your calendars. Let Martha and Susannah know if you can’t make it.
Schedules
- We are trying to come up with a new meeting time and day.
- Print out your schedule and fill in all extra-curriculars. Give to Martha so she can try and work something out.
Next Meeting
- Friday, Sept. 18 at 4:15 p.m. in the office.
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Tagged with application, constitution day, inductions, meeting, Minutes, tunnel.
By Susannah Brinkley
– September 24, 2009
September:
- For Constitution Day, Sept. 17, we’ll paint the Free Expression Tunnel entrance wall.
- Materials needed:
- red, white, blue and black paint
- laser cut stencils of preamble (Luis)
- We are going to paint the preamble on the wall in different colors; not sure what color we are actually painting the wall yet.
- Talked about doing a late-night paint the day before Constitution Day around 11 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 16.
October:
- Free Speech Week
- Idea was to make a “Free Speech Bubble” and display in the brickyard three or four days out of the week
- Anyone can come out and write something in the bubble and take a picture with it. We’ll Post pictures on website
- Materials needed:
- laminated paper or some type of board easy to erase after each writing
- black or blue dry erase markers
- laptop?
- We’ll hand out slips of paper encouraging students to check out their pictures on the Web site.
- New Member Inductions on Friday, Sept. 25 at 7 p.m.
- Gout to eat on September 25th to Raleigh Times or similar restaurant.
- Everyone should be there.
- Martha will make reservations
- Applications due Friday, Sept. 4
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VP Nominations
- Send any nominations to Susannah by Friday, Sept. 4 at 5 p.m.
- You can nominate yourself or someone else.
- Read rest of Susannah’s e-mail for more info:
So, we’re taking votes to see who will replace our former VP. Since I know some of you have standing conflicts on Fridays, we’re going to do this a little differently than usual. This is how it will work:
- Send any nominations to ME, Susannah, by Friday, Sept. 4 at 5 p.m. You can nominate yourself, if you like, or another member on staff. And, if you hold another office, we will hold another election for your position after VP is filled in. I’ll let you know if you are nominated, and you can let me know if you want to be on the ballot. (I will assume that if you nominate yourself, that you want to be on the ballot!) Remember, student leaders of any media may not hold any SCJ office.
- Then, after I have all the nominations, I will put together a ballot over the weekend and I will e-mail it to you.
- You will print it out, or write your own, fold it up and stick it in Martha’s box and/or hand it to Martha. There will be a place for you to put your initials on the ballot. We just want to make sure everyone votes and no one votes twice. (You can vote for yourself, if you like. Only Martha will know.)
- Martha will tally the votes and we will notify everyone at our meeting on Friday, Sept. 11 at 4:15 p.m.
Next Meeting
- No meeting next Friday due to Labor Day, so next meeting will be held Friday, Sept. 11 at 4:15pm, in the usual spot.
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Tagged with constitution day, elections, events, free speech week, inductions, meeting, photo, tunnel.
By Susannah Brinkley
– September 24, 2009
Want to know more about SCJ? If you have a 3.0+ GPA and you’ve worked for NCSU Student Media for more than one semester, then you’re qualified to join.
Meet us Wednesday, Aug. 26 in the Witherspoon 3rd Floor Common Area (near the Student Government and Agromeck offices) to learn more about the organization.
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Tagged with application.
By Susannah Brinkley
– September 24, 2009
1. CALENDAR
- Susannah distributed a calendar of SCJ events and meetings for the year, here are some highlights:
- WED AUG 26: Information session for members of Student Media; newcomers will talk to us and learn about SCJ, and hopefully join! (7 p.m. @ Witherspoon 3rd floor)
- I (Helen) will design a poster (email to Martha by Saturday, print on/by Monday) advertising the even; poster will feature photos, some in b&w, some color
- SEPT 4: applications due for potential new SCJ members (emailed to Martha)
- SEPT 17: Constitution Day celebration? let’s paint the free expression tunnel red, white, and blue
- SEPT 25: new member inductions; let’s go out to dinner somewhere to celebrate! maybe Amedeo’s?
- OCT 19-25: Free Speech Week: Martha encouraged us to involve professors, as they are a good way to get support and get our message out there — however, they are busy, so we need to contact them soon if we want to pursue that
- NOVEMBER (sometime): let’s get out of the board room. We could tour WRAL, visit high school journalism classes, or collaborate with First Year College. Since FYC students are unsure what major they want to follow, doing a presentation about journalism would be applicable.
- not sure who a good faculty coordinator for this would be over at FYC?
- DEC 11: Founder’s Day Celebration: Potluck dinner at someone’s house, perhaps?
2. GENERAL INFO:
- This year there will be a $30 membership fee for new members, and a $10 semester activity fee (for existing members only). These are due by SEPT 15 to Meredith, our treasurer.
- All SCJ members should encourage their Student Media friends to join SCJ – I think May was going to talk to Nubian Message during their Friday meeting? Everyone should follow her lead!
- Ask Susannah for a calendar if you did not get one. Don’t lose it!
3. ATTENDANCE IS IMPORTANT!
- Please show up to things!
- The next SCJ event is the SCJ Info Session on Wednesday, August 26, at 7pm in Witherspoon. Be there or be square.
(Minutes taken by Helen Dear)
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Tagged with application, awareness, ceremony, constitution day, discussion, events, free expression, free speech week, inductions, tunnel.
By Susannah Brinkley
– September 24, 2009
The first SCJ meeting of the 2009-2010 school year will take place Aug. 18 at 11 a.m.
Members are expected to bring ideas and enthusiasm!
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By Martha Collins
– August 11, 2009
