Meeting - Monday, March 26, 2007

We discussed about a lot of things during the meeting. For the couple months, the club has a busy schedule.

Rally For Darfur
It takes place in Minneapolis on Friday 03/29/07 Amnesty is doing it and will try to collaborate and see if you can do it with them.

Potluck with Colleges
For the up-coming conference we need to collaborate with other schools (UMD, LSC, UWS). It will take place on Thursday April 19 @ 6:00 pm in the ICC. Rhonda is going to work on the invitation letter and she will sending it to all committee members and feel free to send it to people you have contacts with that can help in the conference.

Nomination For Next Year
The club voted on the new leadership members.

Movie Showing
"Dairy of Darfur" a student from one of Duluth’s high school would like to show this movie this week. He is aware of the situation in Darfur and would like to help, he has been in touch with a member in Amnesty International to do a collaboration.

Potential Funds for the Conference
Student Senate is willing to offer $40,000 to the CJL if the clubs collaborated and did something (activity) on campus, the conference is one activity.

Update on Conference
Sent Kelly our ides 3 weeks ago and still waiting for the final response about our ideas. But we had gotten an email from Kelly confirming that she has gotten the email. Conference date has been decide on and it will on April 18-20, 2008.

Easter Basket Raffle
The club will have the basket out in the union on M-W-F from 10:00 – 1:00 this coming week. Drawing day for the Raffle will be on April 4. Proceeds will go to Darfur Solar pots but we need to decide whether to give 100% or 50% and keep the other half for the conference.