HSA Minutes
Our meetings are held every Thursday at 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Manor Lounge
(MINUTES ARE TAKEN BY THE SECRETARY. FOR QUESTIONS OR CLARIFICATIONS AS TO THE MINUTES, PLEASE CONTACT CHOUA VANG AT cvang04@hamline.edu)
February 23, 2006:
HSA News/Updates:
*High Priority*
2006-2007 HSA Executive Nominations will take place next week, March 2nd, 2006 and final elections will be on March 9th, 2006. If you want your votes to count, be at the next couple of meetings. Nominations for next year’s executive board will be coming up next week. It’s time to start thinking about taking a role. All executive board members will be more gladly to talk about their experience taking on their role this year, only if you ask.
Campus Updates:
Asian Heritage Month – Be sure to check out what’s going around in campus for AHM.
Genesis Weekend – Thanks to all of those who went and help out with phone banking of GW. If you’re interested in hosting a student for GW, contact Ho Nguyen at hnguyen04@hamline.edu. You don’t have to live on campus to host one. They will find you and your host an open room on campus for the both of you to stay overnight. GW is on March 10-11, 2006.
Black History Month
A Tribute to August Wilson will be held tonight in Sundin Music Hall at 7:30pm. There will be a performance at 7:00pm called Ma Rainey’s as well. We have some of our very own Hamline people that will be performing as well as people from the Prenumbra Theatre will be in the play also. It will be a great show! Don’t miss out!
Community Updates:
Hmong American Student Association
University of Wisconsin – Madison invites you to their HASA Conference on March 31st - April 1st. Workshops and guest speakers will be there. Conference is open and free to public.
Town Hall Meeting
Thursday March 2nd, 2006 at Lao Family, 5-9:30pm. This will be a training and letter writing session about the digging of the Hmong graves in Laos/Thailand. Come and express your thoughts and feeling and write letters to stop this incident.
Hmong College Students of Minnesota State-Wide Conference
Saturday, February 25th at Concordia College from 9-5pm. Registration is open and free to public. HSA will also be tabling there as well.
Other business:
Alex Erickson who is running for HUSC president came to talk about his election. His running mate Kristin Falde is not able to come due her busyness. There were questions brought up from the members regarding to their vision as President and Vice President. There were issues brought out about students of color and how his involvement towards diversity is. We also asked him about what he can do to make things better towards diversity and students of color and so on. I think we pointed out some major issues for him.
Elections will be out on March 9th, 2006.
Be sure to get out and vote!
Candidates who are running:
Mike Pesko for President
Taylor Seeman for Vice President
Alex Erickson for President
Kristin Falde for Vice President
Next meeting will be on Thursday, March 2nd, 2006.
We will be doing nominations for executive board for this meeting.
HND participants are also required to attend this meeting.
February 16, 2006:
Elections for the new executive board 2006-2007, is coming up on March 9th, so
think about a position. We will be talking about nominations at our general
meeting Thursday, April 23rd. Elections will then be on Thursday, March 9th. You
should be present for nominations, unless are not able to be there for some
reason. Nominations can also be emailed to Michelle at
cvang04@hamline.edu before March 9th.
HSA 10th Year Update
Do we want paper plates or Hamline plates and silverware? If we do get Hamline
plates then it will look more professional, but will cost us extra. However, we
do get free service. For sure we do not want paper plates, because it is our
10th year Anniversary and will look unprofessional for a semi-formal event. We
also have the option of having Hamline food catered to us, or we can still cater
through Foodsmart, both will cost at or about the same amount, but could vary.
Logistics, funding, and publicity committee meets on Tuesday, February 21st in
the MISA office at 4:30pm. Come and share your thoughts and help us plan for the
anniversary. Please contact Amee,
mxiong02@hamline.edu, or Michelle,
cvang04@hamline.edu.
Campus Updates:
NCORE – (National Conference on Race and Ethnicity) applications are due
Wednesday, February 22nd in the MISA office by 5pm.
SOS Leader applications are due Monday, February 20th. Turn it in at the Student
Center front desk.
RA/CA applications are due Monday, February 20th at the Residential Life,
located down in basement of Manor.
Circle of Excellence – Applications are available in the Student Center front
desk.
Genesis Weekend is coming up on March 11 – the 12th. Help with phone banking,
duties are calling students of color to come to campus and spend a weekend with
current Hamline students to see the opportunities and living life at Hamline
University. Phone banking will be taken on Monday, February 20th and Tuesday,
February 21st, starts at 5pm till 8pm. If you are interested in helping out,
please contact Ho, at
hnguyen04@hamline.edu.
MAASU (Midwest Asian American Student Union) Conference will be on March 31st to
April 2nd. Applications are available in the MISA office. Deadline to turn in is
Friday, April 24th, at 6:00pm.
Community News
HCSM 2nd Annual Conference will be held at Concordia University on Saturday,
February 25th at 9:00am till 6:00pm. If interested in going, please contact
Cheng Vang at
cvang03@hamline.edu.
There will be a rock concert at Metro University, featuring Watching Leona,
Shattered Echoz, and The Rice Channel. Concert starts at 7:00pm. Cost is $8.
Come and support our Hmong rock artists. It will be a great show!
“Summer Reads” is a Minnesota Council Program opportunity; this is a job
opportunity which will be over the summer of June 21st through August 15th. If
interested, please let Pa Kong Lee know at
plee06@hamline.edu. Applications and information are in the MISA office jobs
folder. Take this opportunity and take one.
February 9, 2006:
We would like to thank Ka Vang, the assistant MISA director for
attending the meeting today.
RA/CA Resident Assistant/Community Advisor Postition
Apply by Feb. 20th for a position. Applications available in Residential Life,
located basement of Manor.
Amee speaks about her experience being an RA. Go through a two week training.
Coordinate a month of events for the floor to go to. Residents gets points for
attending events.
Duties:
-Volunteer with room selection, help set up and everything.
-Work 7:00pm to 7:00am.
-Pay for your whole room and board, and if you pay for the
Mai Nhia speaks- a lot of time commitment that you have to do.
If you get a long with your floor and you really like it, then go for it and
apply.
*HSA website is up, go check it out, if you haven’t already.
http://www.hamline.edu/students/orgs/hmong/
Hamline campus Updates:
Crash: The Movie and Discussion will be held on Wednesday, February 15th 2006,
Klas Center ballroom
Reminder: Black History Months, please check events posted throughout campus for
more information.
SFT (Students for a Free Tibet)
Google and the Chinese Government
Google is helping the Chinese government in censoring and distorting the truth.
Shocked and Outraged. You can help on February 14th, join people around the
world and break up with Google.
Visit site: www.noluv4google.com
*Wear you Gay Fine By Me t-shirts today at stop the Military from coming to
Hamline to recruit. *NO DISCRIMINATION ALLOWED!*
Community Updates:
HCSM-State Wide Conference at Concordia University on Feb. 25th, 2006.
For those who are still interested in attending this conference, please contact
any executive members.
The Center of Hmong Studies announces The First International Conference on
Hmong Studies: Impact of Globalization and Trans-nationalism on the Hmong. This
conference will be held on March 10-11, 2006 at Concordia University, St. Paul.
The purpose of the International Conference on Hmong Studies is to provide
opportunity for scholars to share their research findings, to inspire and
motivate students to engage in scholarly research, to promote the field of Hmong
Studies, and to recognize distinguished scholars for their work in the field of
Hmong Studies.
For more information on the conference, please contact Lee Pao Xiong at xiong@csp.edu
or Tzianeng Vang at tvang@csp.edu. To register, please go to http://www.csp.edu/hmongcenter/Conference_Web_Page.html
10th Year Anniversary Planning
Amee Xiong speaks Agenda from the Logistics meeting.
Attached is the schedule.
Ka suggest additional people, she will send out the list through email.
Any suggestions or ideas for the 10th Year Anniversary Agenda?
Cheng speaks first before the 2006-2007 president.
Cheng will introduce the new President.
Have speakers to talk about a specific something, because do not want speakers
to overlap.
Pa Seng: Talk about his involvement as advisor towards HSA these past 10 years.
Carlos: HSA involvement in the larger community and MISA, collaboration with
other organizations.
Pa suggests to put President Linda Hanson in the beginning, because she is just
speaking general stuff.
Mai Nhia thinks that if President Linda Hanson goes first, then it will seem as
she is presenting HSA, she should stay in the middle.
Co-Founder: Speak about his involvement in HSA as the co-founder and President.
Teng suggest that President Hanson should not be giving the award, because she
has only been here for a little bit.
Vote on it: President Hanson should give the award
Teng suggest that why can’t Carlos or Alan Sickbert who has been here for a long
time give the award for Paseng.
Voting wins: Co-founder and President Linda Hanson to present the award for
Paseng.
Cheng will speak about his experience and introduce the new HSA President of
2006-2007 and the new executive board.
Entertainment: Tou Ger Xiong to come and perform, C2C will bring him in.
HSA would like to do something as well?
Tou Ger Xiong to do a specific theme, because he is a comedian and it will throw
off the whole anniversary, it doesn’t seem to fit, because the anniversary is a
serious thing.
It will be RSVP and open to the Hamline campus community.
The Logistics committee will be meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 14th. Anyone is welcome
to come and give their thoughts and ideas.
Pa, Houa, Michelle, and Maisue have met for the funding.
Pa and Houa is working on the proposal to give it to the departments.
Proposal will be done by next week.
Michelle is in charge of committee, Maisue is contacting newspaper such as Hmong
Times and Hmong Today to publicize HSA 10th Year Anniversary.
We are going to combine the Logistics and the funding committee together, so
that we can all come up with a budget.
Most of the communications are in all three committees. We will combine the
Logistics, Publicity, and Funding altogether. Mostly everything falls under the
Logistics committee, we will all work together.
Total budget: $1,500 and other previous fundraisings in the past.
February 2, 2006:
- The Hmong National Development Conference (HND) will be coming up this year on From March 17th-19th. The conference will be held in Minneapolis this year. If your are interested in going to HND with HSA this year, "Please pick up and submit applications to the Multicultural International Student Affairs office (MISA) by February 10, 2006."
- This is HSA's tenth year in existence since it was established in 1995. In honor of this, HSA will be having a celebration. Everyone's participation in the planning and running of HSA's 10th Year Anniversary will be greatly appreciated. Please volunteer your time and effort into the success of this momentous event. Because of scheduling and timing difficulties, some HSA general meeting times will be allocated to working on the 10th Year Anniversary. There will be three committees to choose from. They are Funding, Publicity, and Logistics.
1)Funding: Run fundraisers, manage contributions/donations
2)Publicity: Publicize event to campus/community, make posters/etc. for the event, send out reminders to invitees
3)Logistics: Make the agenda for the event(s), take care of food/drinks, awards, inviting guest speakers/performers/etc.
NOTE: The duties in each committee are subject to change and adaptability as necessary.