HALO Meeting 09/01 Minutes

Welcome everyone to our first general meeting of the year!

-Introductions/Ice Breaker

Now we know everyone’s a weirdo

-Hispanic Heritage Month – Sept. 15 – Oct. 15

Events

-Sept. 15 – HHM Fiesta – 7 p.m. in Multicultural Center
During our regular meeting (7 p.m. in the Multicultural Center, which is located on the second floor of Memorial Union North tower), we will be having food from Rio Grande and playing salsa music as a small celebration of the first day of Hispanic Heritgae Month.

-Sept. 25 – Making Movies Concert – 7:30-9 p.m. – Mark Twain Ballroom
Making Movies, a Latin Wave band from Kansas City, is stopping their tour in Columbia for HHM. We are hosting the concert in Mark Twain Ballroom, which is on the second floor of Memorial Union North tower).

-Sept. 30 – documentary showing of “Made in L.A.” – 7 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium (J-school)
We have a guest speaker from the Cambio Center on campus coming to introduce the movie, which is an Emmy award-winning feature documentary that follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from a trendy clothing retailer. Popcorn and drinks provided.

-Oct. 4 – Club el Fuego Latin Dance – 7-10 p.m. Mark Twain Ballroom
This is a tentative date, but since Columbia has no Latin dance clubs, we like to occasionally host our own by reserving the campus ballroom and playing our own music.

-Oct. ?? – Albert Pujols at Mizzou – Time TBA in Jesse Auditorium
We are trying to bring Cardinals baseball player Albert Pujols to campus to speak about growing up in the Domincan Republic, immigrating to the US, and achieving the American Dream. Event is very tentative at the moment, but we are hopeful!

-Oct. 13 – Hispanic Faculty/Student mixer – Time TBA in Reynolds Alumni Center
Networking opportunity for students and MU faculty and staff. Dinner or appetizers will be served pending on our budget.

-Oct. 15 – Latino Legacy – St. Louis Belas Artes Multicultural Center & Art Gallery
Our group is traveling to St. Louis to participate in the Latino Legacy program, which will include a showcase of traditional regional dances and an exhibit of Latino culture through time.

-HALO Regional Conference

HALO’S from Kansas & Missouri will come to Mizzou!

*Tentative Date: Sometime in March or April

-CoMo Sabe?

Sort of like a Taste of Columbia; Once a month we eat at a different ethnic restaurant around Columbia

- Diversity Comedian night

We would try to get Bill Santiago and host other comedians with LBC and AAA (and Tri-Co)

-Homecoming

Parade Entry

It does cost, but if we submit before Oct. 1st, it’s free!

Nominate 3 seniors to represent HALO in the homecoming royalty

-FC Fuego

Soccer Team

Contact Fernando for more info

Minutes 03/04/10

Hey guys these are the minutes for the meeting. we need help finalizing all of the HALO week events so please contact who ever is in charge of an event and help them out! thanks!!

Introductions

HALO Week!!!!!

Updates! Need to update the Prez and VP

Monday

Concert: Making Movies from KC.

Time: 9 p.m. in Stotler Lounge

Tuesday

Piñata and La Siesta Food Expo

Time: 12-1 p.m. in Lowry Mall

Wednesday

HLAFSA Movie Night:  Motorcycle Diaries

Wrench Auditorium @ 8:30 p.m.

Free Pizza!

Thursday

NAHJ Speaker: Cecilia Alvear

At Smith Forum 7:00 p.m.

Friday

International night rehearsal night

Saturday

International night Dance

New Subject: Cotton Ball Incident

What do you guys think about the Diversity course requirement?

HALO minutes for 12/9 General Meeting

- FOOD!!!!

 - Introductions

•       Shante from Sigma Lamda Gamma
•       Angelica from Sigma Lamda Gamma
•       Rob

- THANK YOU, SIGMA LAMDA GAMMA FOR HOSTING OUR MEETING/STUDY NIGHT

- HALO has $11,000 left to spend for the year

•       This is a lot of money left to spend
•       Pablo wants us to: 1) Plan a retreat for the first two weeks of next semester. 2) Plan programs for HALO week. 3) Start developing a leadership core that will be excited about recruiting new HALO members. 4) Find an artist that we’d like to bring to campus

- Carolina suggests bringing in “Girls in a Coma,” a band based out of San Antonio, TX

- We should all try to find a group to come in that’s interesting to college students

•       What do we, as Hispanic college students, want to see?
•       It should cost no more than $2,000 per artist/band that we want to bring in
•       We’ll discuss this the first meeting that we come back from break, so start getting names ASAP

- Pablo suggests maybe an auto show…?

- Regional meeting

•       If we want to host the HALO regional meeting next year, we need to attend the regional conference this spring

- HALO shirts

•       Carolina’s idea: blue shirt, “reaching for the stars” theme
•       Other ideas: Spanish words in the shape of Latin America; a hand reaching upward with the Latin America shape inside the palm
•       Come up with any other ideas over the break, and we’ll vote on a color and design the first week that we’re back

- HALO week: March 14-20

- Fundraiser idea

•       Multicultural dance night
•       Involve all interested ethnic groups on campus to participate
•       Each group teaches another group a dance to perform (no group dances their own cultural dance)
•       Idea for next semester? It may be too late to plan something like this for this Spring

- Welcome new members!!!

•       Alex Severrs – as3kb@mail.missouri.edu
•       Carlos Rosales – car68d@mail.missouri.edu
•       Can we add them to the listerv please???

- HAVE A GREAT BREAK EVERYONE!!!!!!!!

Love, Alaina

Fall Fest 2009 performance

Every year HALO is invited to perform at Mizzou’s Fall Fest event on campus.

It’s an mix between performance and activity’s mart (which is basically the tabling of organizations equipped with fliers and information, sometimes candy). Fall Fest is a weird name for this event, mostly because of its nature… the event is dedicated to bringing together minority organizations on Mizzou’s campus to kick off the year. The Black Greeks headline the performances with stepping and other dance variations, so being able to perform is a huge honor for HALO.

Every year the the dance group is typically made up mostly of freshman new to the club and its senior members. I performed a long time ago when I was a freshman, and remember it as being really scary and exciting at the same time. It’s great way of making friends and getting to meet other people on campus.

General Member Meeting Minutes 11/11

Carnaval de Como – Nov. 17 at 6 p.m. in Stotler Lounge
-Last event before Thanksgiving Break!
-Co-sponsored with AIESEC
-Come eat, decorate masks, and learn about internship opportunities in Brazil!
-Our Fuego dance team performs at 7 too!

Carnaval Helpers:
(if you would like to help, email evrhf2@mail.missouri.edu before Tuesday!)
Cooking night before
Gaby, Beba, Ana
Food/bev booth
-Beba and Ana
Set up
Gaby, Moises, Adrian
Clean up
Shannon, Liz, Andrea
Greeters
-Shannon, Jackie, Alyssa

Hurricane Ida Relief effort
-After break, we will be hosting a Latin Dance Lesson Night where people can pay hourly for lessons
-All proceeds with go to help the people of El Salvador effected by Hurricane Ida
-More info will be available after break!

Card Signing
-We signed an Christmas card for Noah and a get well card for Carolina

FC Fuego Soccer Team
-Congrats on finishing the season! We look forward to watching you next Spring as well!

HALO Minutes for 10/28 General Meeting

- Dia de los Muertos

 

• Shopping was completed this Wed (about $100 was spent)
• To honor a deceased friend or family member, members were encouraged to bring a picture to put on the altar during the event
• Set up scheduled to begin around 6:00 pm
• Memorial Union North

- AIESEC is having a Brazilian carnival

 

• Stay tuned for upcoming details
• AIESEC theater opportunities?

-  NAHJ brownbag rescheduled until Pablo provides dates

-  Next general meeting (2 weeks from 10/28 meeting) there will be a US Cellular presentation

- Clothing drive for service project?

- Fundraiser dinner/dance?

- Winter formal?

- Car wash?

- HLAFSA costume party

 

• Friday, 10/30 at the Artisan
• 9:00 pm – close
• Costume contest

- Filipino Student Association

 

• Event Thursday at 7:00 pm
• Memorial Union (Stotler Lounge)

- November 12: Fiesta en el Barrio

 

• Master yoyo champion is coming to perform
• Do we want to sponsor another event?

- Minority potluck (Four Front)

-Club El Fuego

 

• Next Saturday in Mark Twain Ballroom

- Aaron Bunker

 

• 4th year doctoral student
• Is working with HALO for a class project
• He needs to interview HALO members. Any takers?

- Gary Cotton

 

• ARS 
• Stop day: Dec. 10
• Do we want to dance at the event?
• Theme is Las Vegas: there will be game tournaments
• EA Sports is working with ARS to participate in the event
• Located in Mark Twain
• Please bring food or let ARS know who might be willing to donate food
• Contact Gary at muarsstudent30@missouri.edu

- Latino USA radio story

• “Puerto Ricans Speak Up”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dia de los Muertos a success!

A big thank you to everyone who came out to support H.A.L.O., Stop Traffick, and Centro Latino for the Dia de Los Muertos celebration! Our ancestors would have been proud of the beautiful alter display.

(Photo by Naomi Lahiri)

HALO minutes for 10/21/90 Exec Board Meeting

- Jess Sodie

• Attended the meeting because she’s following Latino students for a class project
• She’s attempting to research the Hispanic culture
• She may interview students from HALO
• Please respond if she contacts you through the listserv

- Dia de los Muertos

• 6:00 pm – midnight on Halloween
• Stotler Lounge
• Set up begins at 5:00
• We need decorations
• Make an altar?
• Donate door prizes for a raffle for the kids?
• Shopping for decorations will take place Wednesday, October 28 at 3:00 (meet at multicultural center)

- Club El Fuego

• Cancelled homecoming weekend
• Next event will be in two weeks
• Does anyone want to run the event on game days?

- Social

• Do we want to do Venture Out?

- HALO wordpress

• All members: feel free to blog about your HALO experiences
• Please post any HALO pictures that you may have

- Reschedule a brownbag for next Wednesday about the Puerto Rico trip

-Viewing of “Latino in America”

Dia de Los Muertos

Please come to the Dia de Los Muertos celebration in Stotler Lounge this Saturday! H.A.L.O. will have an alter.