Individuals for Freethought

Executive Meeting Minutes

4/5/00

All officers present except Amy Walker (Public Relations Director)

1) Officer Notes

a) Paige

i) Said that the shirts are coming soon

b) Eric

i) Wants to put a humor section on the IF website

c) Jason

i) Said that forming a database of IF alumni would be a good idea (in 4-5 years, current members could call them to see if they would like to donate money to the organization)

d) John

i) Is in the process of going through the listserve archives and extracting good quotes for the IF website

ii) Passed out officer duties for the next year

iii) Said that creating a user’s guide to IF would be a good idea to give new members

e) Ross

i) Said that there will not be another Religiously Incorrect this semester

ii) Wants to get a co-sponsorship with CRU for RI (so that UPC will get interested in co-sponsoring the event)

iii) Has religious quotes

f) Paul

i) Wants to sign on for the liaison with QSA regarding the “Proclamation of Freedom, Justice and Peace”

2) Next General Meeting

a) On April 12, we will be holding a literary meeting. We decided that there should not be any limitations on what people read, and we also discussed putting up fliers for the meeting.

3) The Soul Auction

a) Since this semester is almost over, we decided to move it to next fall.

b) Ross will set up a date and time for the event.

c) We want to get religious organizations involved.

d) A portion of what we make will go to a charity.

4) Next Semester Ideas

a) We would like to organize another formal debate (possibly with Robert Price or Jeffery Jay Lowder) and/or a large speech.

b) Sponsoring a movie to be shown at the Union was also discussed.

c) Someone brought up the idea of having a lock-in for IF members.

d) It was decided that the fire walk was probably not going to be next semester.

5) Website Updating

a) The quotes page needs to be updated, so if anyone goes though the listserve archives and finds anything worthy, e-mail the quotes to Paul Youk (ply9686@ksu.edu).

b) Regarding the humor section, we could possibly get a cartoonist (e.g., Randy Regier of the Gongfarmers) to draw something for us.

c) Since we have lots of web space, we can keep an entire archive of meeting minutes.

d) It was mentioned in the agenda that Paul’s April Fools joke should be posted on the website along with Keiv’s response.

6) Having AllAdvantage.com work for IF

a) Some IF members already have signed up with AllAdvantage, so we could have other IF members sign up under them, and then those people can refer themselves to others, and so on.

b) A certain percentage of the money made from the references could be donated to IF (this would be voluntary so it is not an abuse of organizational power).

7) Other business

a) There will be an IF party on April 14.

b) The annual IF cookout is scheduled for May 6.