Year Objectives

Hey guys,

I hope this gets posted in the right area, I'm still not a blogging expert.

I first year objective is basically to second what Allison already said about US humiliation. We'd like to leave this open for discussion and get your feedback. I have a couple ideas about it. The first is that it's necessary. When Allison and I have talked about it we've brought up the fact that is an uphill battle, it will be incredible difficult (especially because the US political climate still holds that US safety is more important than Darfuri lives, lets just be honest) and yes there is a good chance that we won't get what we want. BUT, I think it's a tad hypocritical to call attention to all these other governments, groups and their roles and just ignore the role the US plays, either because it's just too hard or because we think that we're going to be lone voices in the fight. And if we do it, we probably will be. If that means that you guys think it's not a worthy effort that's okay too, we'd just like you to think about it and tell us what your ideas are.

I think that we did a fairly good job last year with making DAC more visible on campus, and one of my year objectives is that that continues. I think we need to re-evaluate our tabling methods (which has been discussed earlier) and I'm open to all sorts of advice/criticism about that Ashish and I will work on it together. Also, the publicity committee has 0 members right now (well, me and Allison but Allison also has another large position) so I'd like to see the committee grow and take some new approaches to publicizing events, ect. I think that instead of publicizing just DAC we should focus on publicizing how people can have a real effect on the situation, hands on. It's always more fun to actually do something and understand how it's going to help. So if someway we could find a way to use that to draw in new people that would be great.

Also, this isn't really so much of a year objective as, well, I guess it is a year objective. I'd like to see us become more efficient, and see our meetings in general (both general and board but especially board) function a bit more smoothly and quickly (especially quickly). So if we could find a way to do that and still keep things running well that would be awesome! Maybe we can allot certain amounts of time to a topic so that people stay on track? I know that sounds very controlled, but I think a lot of us have been frustrated by the meetings at various times.

That's it for me. I'll post more if it comes to mind.

Kristen