Thursday, August 28, 2008
ISU meeting minutes
Members attended:
Ken, Jessica, Cameron, Leonard, Caleb, Anita, Mark, Bunny, Jo Jo, Smith, Marcus
Members unattended
Ploy, Nathan, Day
Invited guest:
Jeff
Thursday 28th August 2008 – Started 14:05
• Recapped on last weeks minutes. Made corrections for facebook topic.
• Recapped on Amazing race- great turn out.
Quick note
• Next week put up posters for the Payap dance. Thai side already put of big cardboard posters. Get more IC students to attend. Hosted by business department in the gym. Band playing, dancing, social event. Sep 5. 4pm-11pm. Posters are already up but need more. Need ‘in your face’ posters. Inform all the reps. Mark is responsible for making posters.
CD Drive
• Over to next week.
Newsletter – Reps
• All reps must either find someone or write themselves for the newsletter. Must be submitted 5 days before the end of the month.
• Chinese/ Burmese or any other language can write for the newsletter in their own language and it will be posted on the newsletter.
Policy for lockers
• Caleb will email the policy for the lockers to all ISU members. Everyone must view it and send back any changes.
• Caleb will send the proposal to Jessica
Fundraisers for ISU
Ideas for fundraising-
• selling at graduation in November
• Car wash
• International day. Dec 3rd
• Loy kratong selling
• Bake sale – christmas cookies
If any other ideas, can go to see caleb
Halloween
Discussed whether to do Halloween or not. Halloween is during a break. There will be no Halloween event next year. Considering Halloween flash mob – Cameron, caleb and ken will discuss further. Trick or treating at payap to the offices on last day of school can be an option.
End of term event
Social secs didn’t attend the meeting however Cameron will hold a meeting and discuss with ploy what will happen.
International day
• Moved to Dec 3rd.
• ISU should have their own booth
• Have 4-5 members discuss concept for ISU
• Fundraising opportunity
• Idea - Photo gallery – attracts peoples attention to ISU booth. Need good printer etc. take photos of people and then put on the board. Then get people to vote for the nest picture.
EC Representative
Jo Jo was voted in by 5 members in the meeting. Jo Jo is now the EC representative of the International student union for this academic year.
ISU email address
Reminded everyone of the new ISU email address. Discussed how to work outlook. Mark will go find out
Note
Payap website has a page where you can post anything on. Good way for IC to get across to thai side and thai side can know what events are happening. Have 2 members of ISU do that and keep posting on it and checking it. Talk to Jeff if you are interested or want more details.
Sports representatives
We currently have 2 Sports representatives Nathan and Smith.
Nathan is very good at getting things done however never attends the meetings.
Smith is also a very good representative
Marcus Wolter is interested in taking a position of sports rep. making it 3 sports reps. Marcus, smith and Nathan can get together and plan together how they want to pick up the sports.
Marcus was voted in by 6 members therefore he is now our third sports rep for the ISU for this academic year.
Cover for PYU Journal
Any student from IC can design a front cover for the PYU journal and who ever wins it, will get a prize. 10,000 bht scholarship prize.
PYU Open house
Wednesday 3rd sep. at 9am.
Dara school coming to visit. Speak some English. Have 4 ISU members attending. Cameron, Caleb, Lenny and Anita.
Very formal, ISU should do an ice breaker e.g. games etc
Sam was going to present the university as a whole but they think students should do it. Want students to interact with students instead of teacher. Jeff can prepare a powerpoint for the presentation just wants some ISU members to present it. Jeff will go talk to Sam about what he intends to present then the ISU can do the powerpoint presentation.
Additional note
• Smith wants a memo written wanting part of the soccer field every Wednesday from 5-7pm for IC football can practice. Jessica will find out where to submit and how.
• Adam sent an email to ISU, thai and south east asian talks- payap presents. An event happening. Caleb will send out the email to everyone
• Assembly coming up hosted by Esther wakeman. May have ISU help. Will discuss further in a few weeks.
Meeting ended – 15:15
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
The "Amazing Race" is happening today at Payap. Tom Suparat will be reporting on it later. Stay tuned for an exciting report!
by Mark Hefner (email richard10365@gmail.com)
Making the effort to blog is not going to be easy for me. I use to think of myself as technologically savvy. However, when I wasn't looking, people started blogging and now I find myself having to catch up to the craze.
I did try to avoid blogging. It was suggested to me to do this instead of making a newsletter. I prefer the newsletter better than a blog. Right now, I find doing a layout of a blog is a lot more restrictive than a newsletter. When I do the newsletter, I can put photos and text anywhere on the page I desire. On the blog, they have to go in a particular place. I suppose I will get use to it.
I figure the best way to become good at blogging is just to do it. So for the next few weeks my post might see a little erratic and strange but perhaps they will get better with time.
You might ask if I am so negative about blogging then why do I do it? The answer is because I am the communication officer for the ISU and the ISU president gave me the responsibility. I'm a bit older than my fellow classmates and ISU memebers (only by about 20 years). Hopefully, fullfilling my responsibilities will be a good example for them to fulfill their responsibilities.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
ISU Members present
Jessica, Calab, Lenny, Bunny, Mim, Mark, Ploy
Open house on September 3rd
Talk to ying and find out what she wants the ISU to do.
Weekly ISU meetings
Rearrange the office before the meetings on Wednesday. We will try to move the meeting to a larger room. Jessica will try to book rm 119 from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Freshy Camp Review
Overall, the camp was very good and the ISU was very instrumental in the success of Freshy Camp.
The nurse did a great job and something should receive a thank you letter. The letter will be done by Anita and translated by Mim. Putthapaun@yahoo.co.th
School Dance
It happens on Sep 5, 4pm to 11pm. Signs are up. Spread the word
Amazing Race
August 20, 2008, Jake Aj. Charon have more details about this. Songtows will drive students across town. The theme will be environmental awareness and community service. Everyone will end up bowling at the end of the day. ISU needs to spread the word. Max participation is 25/major. The scheduled ISU meeting will be the next day from 1 p.m to 2 p.m.
EC Rep
Jojo from Burma
Lockers
Working on a policy stating how the lockers will be used. We need some help writing the policy before the proposal goes forward to request the funds to buy the lockers. Next Thursday is the deadline to have the policy.
Computer Policy for the ISU office
Should we have a policy for use of the official computer? Only the people in the ISU can use the computers. Official work only has priority over homework being done on the computer. We don’t need to write it down but it will be the policy.
Printing will be done by only ISU members. Non-ISU members will not be allowed to use the computer. We don’t want anything to happen to the computer. There is only one and we need to take care of it.
Newsletter
Each representative should provide an article for the newsletter.
Face book
Mr. Payap IC has been added to Facebook. Ken is adding students as part of Facebook.
Email
Payap ISU was given an email address.
isu@payap.ac.th
Need to contact John Ross to get him to put it on the website.
Open house
September 3rd is the open house. Payap admissions want the ISU to assist in the open house. Cameron, Lenny and Calab will decide who will go assist the open house.
Outdoors Club
There is a meeting tomorrow. Jessica says any clubs should be supported by the ISU. If they need something we should help them to get it.
Secretary/Social Secretary
The new secretary will be Anita and the social secretary will be Ploy
Fundraisers
We need to discuss when all the reps are in the meeting about how to raise money.
Coffee Maker
We can raise money somehow to buy a coffee maker.
Office Telephone
We are trying to get one so we can function better. It might take a while because of all the official paperwork needed to get it.
Burmese students
Still need help with Cyclone victims
Freshmen Sports Day
The communications channel between the ISU and TSG (Thai Student Government) is not very well.
