Go DAC!

Board Meetings

Board meetings will now be held on Sunday at 9 PM at Allison's apartment. All are invited to come!

11000 Ophir Ave, Apt D

New recruitment plan

This change to the letter writing component of the recruitment plan is passed.

Recruitment plan for this year

So, the plan for recruitment this year is to engage the new recruits who come to the first meeting in a letter writing campaign if they want to volunteer. We want to have some DAC vets go with them to get letters signed at student groups that are friendly to us and that we have some kind of partnership with. This way the new recruits get engaged from the onset and don't feel too overwhelmed because we will be there with them and because the student groups are likely to be sympathetic to the cause.

What do you guys think?

Webmaster constitutional amendment

Legislative text:
*Add one position to the Outreach and External Relations Committee called "Webmaster".
*Webmaster would be responsible for making changes to and managing the Darfur Action Committee website, including, but not limited to the following URL's: www.international.ucla.edu/darfur, and the DAC Facebook group.

Notes:
-Webmaster would essentially be responsible for telling Sheila Breeding, DAC's rep at the African Studies Department, what changes we want to make to the UCLA-based website so that she can make them herself.
-Adding this position to the OERC means that the OERC's co-chairs are responsible for overseeing the work of the Webmaster.

ARC Constitutional Amendment

Amendment passes. Yay!

Youth Noise

In case anyone is interested......



I'm Kate from YouthNoise (www.youthnoise.com), a social networking site for young activists. We have partnered with Nike to create Play City, an initiative to encourage young people to use sports to make the world a better place. You can find out more about Play City at www.youthnoise.com/playcit

y - you should check it out, it's actually pretty cool (I didn't design it so I can say that).

Anyway, I'm writing to you because you are an admin on the Darfur Awareness Week at UCLA group. We are contacting college-aged people in the Los Angeles area to help us start a movement that would encourage people to use sports for good- having a skateboarding competition to raise money for cancer research or organizing a soccer tournament for disadvantage kids, for example. We still have a few spots left in the first-ever Play City Training Camp in LA, and we thought that this might be something you might be interested in being a part of. To learn more, check out http://www.youthnoise.com/playcity, or go to our YouthNoise Play City page (http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/YouthNoise-Play-City/18339579876?ref=s) for some ideas and resources for potential projects.

Oh, and one last thing - could you send this out to your group's members and let them know about this opportunity? We really need your help in spreading the word about this whole deal. If you have any questions/comments/complaints, feel free to email me at kate@youthnoise.org or respond here.

Thanks so much,
Kate Lewis
YN Intern
www.youthnoise.com/playcity