meeting ideas

[Kevin]

Is there anything that you do in your meeting that you think makes things more productive? Anything that is different from what other houses do? Here are a couple of things my house does in meeting that I really enjoy.

1. Roll Call -- We state another chapter name -- location/letters(this way we learn other chapters and are reminded of how large Sigma Nu is). Next we state how many absences we had for the past week. Finally we state whether we were at LEAD or not in the past week and why.

Example:
Recorder: Kevin Taylor
Delta Theta, Knox College, zero, I was at LEAD

The recorder keeps track of how many abensces the chapter accumulates during each year so we know our chapter's average attendance rate. This is one way we emphasize grades.

(We stole this idea from the Epsilon Epsilon Chapter [Oklahoma State] -- our chapter advisor is an Ep Ep alum)

2. Roses & Thorns: Each member gets to give out a "rose" which is something positive such as:

"A rose to the Sigma Kappas for their great work with us in Greek Week"

or thorns.. Thorns are something negative we have to say that we want to share with everyone else...

"A thorn to the people that keep parking in our parking lot. I kicked 3 out last week".

The recorder tallies up the roses and thorns so we can have something of a attitude barometer.


Here are just a couple of things we do. Please share if anyone else does anything that would be considered "different" in their meetings.

LHT
Kevin Taylor
MT 5
University of Central Oklahoma