The homecoming committee at State University has been meeting
regularly since spring semester of the last academic year. The members
of the committee are:
Tom Carleton ---------- President, Residence Hall Council
Diane Wheaton---------President, Greek Council
Carl Green--------------President, Black Affairs Union
Toby Miller-------------President, Athletic Council
Maureen McNamara—Off campus representative, elected at large
Kirk Everitt--------------Fraternity representative, elected at large
Gail Holmberg----------President of student body at State University,
Ex officio member
.
Tom Carleton and Diane Wheaton, co-chairpersons of the homecoming
committee, are pleased with the progress that the committee has made
thus far. There seems to be a revived interest in homecoming at State
University, and the committee is interested in producing an exciting
homecoming weekend.
The committee has worked its way down to two decisions: determining
the final criteria for building this year’s floats and finalizing the
sequence of floats. The purpose of this one-hour meeting of the
committee is to produce decisions on the two issues.
CASE LOG
FIRST 40 MINUTES OF THE MEETING
Tom opens the meeting by having Maureen distribute the minutes from
the previous meeting. Receiving no corrections to the minutes, he
, distributes the agenda. The first item on the agenda is a presentation by
Diane on the costs of floats last year compared with projected costs this
year.
DIANE: As you remember, last year organizations were limited to $300
for float materials, all of it had to be purchased at Wal-Mart and K-Mart,
and receipts had to be turned in to the homecoming committee. Cars and
float wagons were donated. The receipts from last year show that all but
three organizations spent all the allotted money. I called the presidents
of all the fraternities and sororities last week, and they all felt that the
allowable ceiling should definitely be raised by at least $100.
Considering inflation and the increased interest in homecoming, I
would recommend to the committee that we raise the ceiling to $400 per
float.
KIRK: Why have any limit? Let’s take the ceiling off and find out how
really great homecoming floats can look. Dartmouth has used that
method with their ice sculpting during their ice festival, and they receive
national attention. If we’d throw our energy into homecoming floats, we
would make a name for this university and ourselves.
CARL: Let us all bow our heads in reverence to the wealthiest fraternity
on campus.
(Carl is drowned out by group laughter.)
TOBY: Yeah, if old “moneybags Kilpatrick” hadn’t died and left your
fraternity all that money, you wouldn’t be in favor of eliminating the
financial ceiling.
KIRK: I’m serious; why do we always have to put mediocre equality
ahead of excellence? It’s not that we would spend that much more
money than other groups; it’s just that people would work harder. With
regularly since spring semester of the last academic year. The members
of the committee are:
Tom Carleton ---------- President, Residence Hall Council
Diane Wheaton---------President, Greek Council
Carl Green--------------President, Black Affairs Union
Toby Miller-------------President, Athletic Council
Maureen McNamara—Off campus representative, elected at large
Kirk Everitt--------------Fraternity representative, elected at large
Gail Holmberg----------President of student body at State University,
Ex officio member
.
Tom Carleton and Diane Wheaton, co-chairpersons of the homecoming
committee, are pleased with the progress that the committee has made
thus far. There seems to be a revived interest in homecoming at State
University, and the committee is interested in producing an exciting
homecoming weekend.
The committee has worked its way down to two decisions: determining
the final criteria for building this year’s floats and finalizing the
sequence of floats. The purpose of this one-hour meeting of the
committee is to produce decisions on the two issues.
CASE LOG
FIRST 40 MINUTES OF THE MEETING
Tom opens the meeting by having Maureen distribute the minutes from
the previous meeting. Receiving no corrections to the minutes, he
, distributes the agenda. The first item on the agenda is a presentation by
Diane on the costs of floats last year compared with projected costs this
year.
DIANE: As you remember, last year organizations were limited to $300
for float materials, all of it had to be purchased at Wal-Mart and K-Mart,
and receipts had to be turned in to the homecoming committee. Cars and
float wagons were donated. The receipts from last year show that all but
three organizations spent all the allotted money. I called the presidents
of all the fraternities and sororities last week, and they all felt that the
allowable ceiling should definitely be raised by at least $100.
Considering inflation and the increased interest in homecoming, I
would recommend to the committee that we raise the ceiling to $400 per
float.
KIRK: Why have any limit? Let’s take the ceiling off and find out how
really great homecoming floats can look. Dartmouth has used that
method with their ice sculpting during their ice festival, and they receive
national attention. If we’d throw our energy into homecoming floats, we
would make a name for this university and ourselves.
CARL: Let us all bow our heads in reverence to the wealthiest fraternity
on campus.
(Carl is drowned out by group laughter.)
TOBY: Yeah, if old “moneybags Kilpatrick” hadn’t died and left your
fraternity all that money, you wouldn’t be in favor of eliminating the
financial ceiling.
KIRK: I’m serious; why do we always have to put mediocre equality
ahead of excellence? It’s not that we would spend that much more
money than other groups; it’s just that people would work harder. With
