Meeting 4 Spring Semester 2012

Hello Anthropology Club Members,

Below you will find the meeting minutes from the last meeting, held on 2/6/12 at 2:30.  As always, our meetings are held every Monday at 2:30 in CLA 125.  The meetings usually last an hour, occasionally longer if we are involved in entertainment or heated discussions.  Our officers meetings are held weekly meeting in our club office at 1:30pm, (CC 225), all officers are expected to attend or communicate their expected absence.      

We are still awaiting responses from the doodle survey sent out with the last club email.  Many of you may have a junk mail filter that does not allow an email with a link to go to your inbox, please check your junk mail folder if you have not received this.  The last meeting minutes had two doodle survey links within the email, one for a date to attend the Como Zoo and one for a date to attend the Science Museum Pirates exhibit.  Pending information discussed at the last meeting, the AC may attend Pirates on February 22nd at 7pm.  A future email will confirm or deny this date.  

The AC symposium planning is in the works.   The date will be April 20th beginning at noon.  We are reserving two rooms for presentations/posters, etc. We have started a sign-up for student presenters.  Please contact a club officer or Dr. Mallery if you would like to participate.  

The AC has also decided to joint-host Stress Relief Day with the Veterans Club per their invitation to our club.  Our specific involvement has not yet been decided.  

Please join us at the next meeting, we will be partaking in some entertainment and enjoying some food.

Additionally, our first Officer's Meeting with new elected officials was held February 6 at 1:30PM in our club office; CC225.  All officers are expected to attend weekly officers meetings.

Anthropology Club

2/6/12  Meeting 2:30 -3:30 Room 125

Reintroductions of new and currents members

Report from Kyle on Student Senate Meeting

-New clubs that got voted in

-Secretary for Student Senate seat is now open

-Leadership Training

-Rock the Caucus

-Volunteer Opportunities

Symposium Discussion

-What room to reserve from noon-?????

-Possibly get a lecture hall

-Fill out student event forms

-Sign-ups for presentations at the symposium

-Discussed dates and exhibits for Science Museum and Como Zoo Field trips

Discussion on ancient shaman rituals of Sammi

February 22^nd- Possible Social Science Trip to Science Museum

Vote on Entertainment for Future meetings

Reminder

Just a reminder the next anthropology club meeting will take place during the tryouts for the talent show, (the joint campus-wide event held by the Anthropology Club and the Multicultural Club), in CC231 at 2pm.   If you care to join us you can participate in the tryout judging, otherwise join us at the following meeting.  Officers meeting will take place as scheduled on Thursday at 12:30 in the Anthropology Club office.

September 27 Meeting Minutes

Anthropology Club Meeting September 27, 2011

            For our meeting today we met with the Multicultural Club in CC 231.  We addressed a few of the items to be accomplished for the joint talent show we are all helping with.  The show itself will be held on November 4^th at 3 pm, with a dress rehearsal at about 1 pm for a run through.  Auditions will be held from 2-4 pm on Tuesday October 4^th in room CC231.  We are looking for judges for the Auditions to be representative of both clubs, let an officer know if you’d like to attend.

If possible we want members to begin thinking of if they would like to help with the staffing for the event, such as stage manager, reception manager, etc.  No positions will be determined until we are closer to the Talent Show date.

We want to include food for the event, probably mainly pizza.  There was also talk of hummus and Chinese food.  Suggestions are still welcome as always.

Anthropology Club Officers meeting to be held on Thursday September 29^th in the Club Office room in the Campus Center.

We're Back!

After a couple weeks of coordinating, the Anthropology Club of NHCC is back in action.  For the time being we will be meeting in CLA 134 at 3:30pm.  Additional meeting times may be added in the future.  The club will hold elections next week for the available Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Alternate Student Senate Representative.  We plan on orgainzing the campus-wide club activity for the semester during the next meeting, your input and ideas are appreciated!  If you cannot attend the meeting but would like to be involved, please contact Dr. Mallery or Kat.

 If you are seeking tutoring help in either Physical Anthropology or Cultural, group sessions will be scheduled this week.  Additionally, one-on-one sessions are available by appointment in the tutoring center.

More Pics from WIA week.

Photos courtesy Andy, our documentarian.

Kat, Jamie, Kelly and Jon holding down the fort
for the last day of our event.

Andy, club documentarian and textile specialist showcasing
a australopithecus skull model.

Jon, Jamie and Derek passing on some anthropology
knowledge.

Kelly, Jon and Jamie engaging a student in some
anthropology trivia.

Dr. Mallery and Christina.

Club Representative Katie explaining changes in the skull
for our ancient hominid ancestors.  

Meeting 4

Some highlights from the March 28th meeting and our upcoming events include:

*Our proposed "What is Anthropology?" week will be held in the Campus Center April 25-28th, if you would like to volunteer your special skills to help us put this together please come to our meeting or contact Kat or Dr. Mallery.

*A planned trip to the MIA to review the artifacts there. (A doodle survey to determine the best day will be sent out shortly).

*The King Tut field trip is temporarily postponed pending another attempt at funding, and explanation of why our funding request was denied.

*We welcomed some new members to the meeting.

*A study group is in the works, tentatively and unofficially, if you are seeking help in anthropology you can come to our next meeting where we hope to spend the second half of the meeting offering our services as a peer study group. We are pending "official" approval on this from the faculty here at NHCC, so for the next session it is informal, (April 4).

*Discussed the highlights of the Como Zoo field trip.

*Suggested a deadline of the end of summer for the book club book.

*Discussed anthropological news – Current events
                  U of M Undergrad Anthropology Conference April 9th and 10th, contact Kat or Dr. Malley of
                  you would like a registration form, (due by April 6th).

                 Social Science at the Science Museum of Minnesota, March 30th.

*Discussed projects still in the works:
                 Posters
                 Logo
                 Jeopardy game

As always, our meetings are in the Campus Center, (second floor), room 231, Monday at 3:30. We hope to see you there! Please also check our blog for continued updates.

Meeting 3 Re-Cap

Our third meeting has brought about some changes to the club's inner-workings.  Steve has stepped down as secretary, this position has been filled by Jamie Martel.  Additionally, Reuben has stepped down as treasurer and assuming the position is Katie Kowalski.  We really appreciate Katie and Jamie taking on the additional tasks to keep the club going.  

As a reminder to everyone, our Como Zoo field-trip is Sunday March 27th at 10am.  The zoo opens at 10am, we will convene at the zoo main entrance and make our way to observing the primates after everyone arrives. 

There will be a study group formulating for Anthropology hosted by the Anthropology Club.  More details on the dates and times coming soon.  This group is open to anyone looking to help other students learn about anthropology and prepare for anthropology exams and also to students looking for help.  

An email will be sent this week for the coordination of a date to view the King Tut exhibit at the Science Museum.  Funding for this event was denied by the Student Life Offices/Student Senate so admission fees will be the responsibility of the student.  

We are still hoping to have a book discussion about the Jared Diamond book Guns, Germs and Steel.  If you are interested in participating please start reading!

The club is in the process of creating an Anthropology Jeopardy Game.  If you would like to help create this game please create your question/answer and write it on an index card, (answer one side, question the other), deliver it to one of the anthropology club officers or Dr. Silas.  Feel free to make more than one question/answer card.

The Anthropology club is in the process of organizing a "What is Anthropology" event in the Campus Center the last week of April, dates including the 25-28 from 11am-1pm.  If you have any ideas or would like to contribute please contact the Anthropology Club Officers or come to the next meeting and help us plan this campus-wide event.  

Don't forget to check you email for the upcoming date survey for the King Tut exhibit.  Hope to see you at the next meeting!