Monday, October 31, 2005

Hey Animal Science Club!

Here's the minutes from last week's meeting on 10/26:

Treasurer's Report
account: $1474.38

Budget Requests
Jen Puttress made a request to the club to put aside a budget that would cover costs associated with printing digital pictures for the Animal Science Club scrapbook. (It was suggested to keep copies of club pictures on CD in the ANSC Club cabinet.) Jodi Lasko also requested a budget allowance that will cover the costs associated with printing/mailing the club's annual alumni Newsletter. They will present itemized budgets at the next meeting in order for club approval. (Note: As per the ANSC Club's Constitution, expenditures greater than $50 need to be voted on.)

Webpage
All those who were present at the meeting got to be in our Club picture that will be on our webpage. Jodi wanted to remind the club that if you don't like a specific picture of you being on the ANSC Club webpage, please let Jodi know and she'll kindly remove it. Also, if you have any good snapshots from club events, please give them to one of our historians. (Jodi at jlasko@udel.edu or Jen at jenp@udel.edu.) You can check out our club's webpage at http://copland.udel.edu/stu-org/ansci/.

Haunted Hayride and Commitment Remarks
Thanks again everyone who helped out with the Hayride! We made $300 from ticket sales, but our net profit from the event is still being calculated. If anyone has any receipts concerning Hayride purchases, please get them to Matt.
We were very impressed with our members' overall commitment to the Haunted Hayride weekend. You guys came out and gave it your all, in spite of the lousy weather. Also, not enough can be said about the awesome turnout by our Freshmen members! Our new members' dedication and commitment to the club surpasses previous year's, and the entire club is benefiting from our new members. However, with that said, a few words concerning club commitment was necessary. Our members are the sole body of this club--and although we want to have fun, this requires a certain level of commitment. If you say that you will do something, or if you sign up for an event, the club expects you to follow through with your commitment. In fact, a member will receive negative points for an event if he/she fails to attend an event that he/she had signed up for. Dan Severson also remarked that he has "never gotten a job because of his college gpa." He said that it is all about working well with others and proving that you can stick to your commitments. It's important to get into good habits now, because future employers and review panels will definitely notice your previous club involvements. Also, professors who are writing your letters of recommendation can say little about the 4.0 student who was inactive outside of the classroom. We just ask our members to keep these things in mind concerning their activity and level of commitment to the Animal Science Club.

Committee Reports
Pre Vet: The club decided that we will be going to the Brandywine Zoo on November 13th, and tentatively meeting in the Russell parking lot at 9:30am. We decided on the Brandywine Zoo instead of the Philly Zoo, because the Philly Zoo's Big Cat exhibit won't come out until next Spring, and also the Brandywine Zoo is cheaper, closer, and has a special Discovery Tours event.
Fundraising: Matt is still in the process of contacting Dr. Emara about planting plants for our Plant Sale.
Social: Instead of our November 2nd meeting, we will be going out to Damon's Grill for dinner. A sign-up sheet was passed around for those interested in going. If you couldn't make the meeting, but would like to go to Damon's, please email Jenna at jscib@udel.edu. We will be leaving from the Russell parking lot at 6pm!
Service: Our AgrAbility speaker will talk to the club about AgrAbility on Tuesday, Nov 22nd at 6:15pm. This will take place instead of the club's regularly scheduled meeting for Wednesday, Nov 23rd. (Please take notice to this change!) Also, Danielle is still in the process of contacting Steve Cook about our service/livestock judging activity on his farm
Livestock: We ended the meeting with a friendly Regionals Quiz Bowl question game. Good job, everyone! (And congratulations to everyone who remembers more about livestock nutrition than the Seniors do--Carolyn excluded.)

Food Drive
There will be a Food Drive in Trabant on November 22nd. The ANSC Club would like to participate in this event, so we encourage our members to bring non-perishable foods (no bottled water, please) to our November 16th meeting. Reminders will be sent out when this event gets closer.

Regionals
Animal Science Regionals will be taking place in Amherst, MA from Feb 24th to Feb 26th. There is a registration fee of $55, and there will also be additional costs for transportation and hotel accommodations. Fees and forms are due by Jan 13th, so we ask our members to please start thinking about if you would like to participate in Regionals! Also, there is an Individual Research competition with a 1st place prize of $150. So, if you conduct undergraduate research, you may want to think about submitting an abstract and presenting your research at Regionals. (Last year, one of our graduating club members received 1st place in the research competition! I also received 3rd/4th place recognition.)

Alright, guys. That's it from last week's meeting. Remember that there will not be a club meeting this week (11/2), and instead, we are going to Damon's! Have a Happy Halloween, everyone!

~Jess
ANSC Club Secretary

Monday, October 24, 2005

Hey Animal Science Club!

Sorry that these are getting to you so late, but here are the minutes from last week's meeting:

Treasurer's Report
Account: $648.65

Ag Carnival T-shirts
There are a lot of Ag Carnival T-shirts left over, so if you are interested in buying one, please contact Amanda at akilby@udel.edu. They are navy blue with "Ag Carnival 2005" on the front left breast, and they cost $10 each.

Committee Reports
Pre Vet: Dr. Marshall will be our guest speaker at the November 16th meeting. Plans for a trip to either the Philadelphia Zoo or the Brandywine Zoo are still being looked into.
Livestock: We will start having quiz bowl questions (in preparation for Regionals) at this coming week's meeting. If you have access to previous quiz bowl questions, please email Lynsey at Lschoon@udel.edu.
Fundraising: Matt will be contacting Dr. Emara about planting plants for our Plant Sale.
Social: Instead of our November 2nd meeting, we will be going out to Damon's Grill for dinner. Damon's is a rib/steakhouse with an apparently very fun interactive game set-up that allows everyone in the restaurant to compete against each other about trivia questions. There will be a sign-up sheet passed around at this week's meeting for all who are interested in going. If you can't make the meeting, but would like to go to Damon's, please email Jenna at jscib@udel.edu. Also, Sara Daub asked Friendly's about any available Wednesdays this semester for Family Fun Night, but Friendly's is all booked for this semester. So, we will wait to coordinate a Family Fun Night until the Spring semester.
Service: We are waiting to hear back from a our AgrAbility speaker about what day she would like to talk to the club about AgrAbility. Also, Danielle will be contacting Steve Cook to coordinate a service activity and possible livestock judging practice at his farm.

Haunted Hayride
I want to personally thank everyone who came out this weekend and helped with our Haunted Hayride. I know that the awful weather conditions put a damper on the event, but I was really impressed by everyone's commitment and cooperation. You guys are awesome! And although we didn't give many wagon rides, those people who went on the Hayride said that they really enjoyed it. So, once again, thank you all for your dedication--and I hope that everyone had a good time!

And just as a reminder, if you put up any Hayride flyers around campus, please make sure to take them down. Thanks, guys!

See you all at this week's meeting on Wednesday, 10/26 at 6:15pm in 037 Memorial!

Monday, October 17, 2005

Hello Animal Science Club.

Here are the minutes from Wednesday's meeting:

Treasurer's Report
Account: $1,174.38
The Allocations Board gave us $100 for the Hayride, which will go toward the various expenses for the stations. Also, we are still working on getting New Member certificates from the Block and Bridle website. So for the new members, you will hopefully receive these before the end of the semester.

Hayride Committee Reports
Jason Peiffer, a Plant Science major from Alpha Zeta, came to the meeting and told us about the stations that AZ is working on. AZ will have a Salem Witch Trial station, a Dracula station in the hayloft of the Nutrition Barn, and one of their members will be dressed as a monk and greet everyone on the hayride as they first start off on the route.

As far as the ANSC Club stations, here's what we're doing:

1. There will be a mini-station by Allen Lab, where Carolyn will be dressed up as a little girl running around ripping up stuffed animals. We're also going to have a lot of bloody doll heads on spikes right by the road. This station is just meant to be really disturbing and creepy.
2. Next the Hayride will come to Jen Puttress's station near the woodlot. The driving force behind the scariness of this station is definitely the use of chainsaws. There will be people tied up to the fence screaming, and others will be running around with chainsaws (with the chain off, of course). If you have any chainsaws that Jen can borrow, please email her at jenp@udel.edu.
3. We're doing another mini-station by the corn field. This one is going to involve Robert's truck and scary people standing in front of his brights. (Trust me, when a person stands in front the car's headlights, it produces one eerie effect!)
4. Next stop is Amanda Pisano's station. This one will be right where the road turns left, heading down to the Beneficial Insects building. Amanda's station is based on the legend of the Goat Man. This legend involves a government experiment that went wrong, producing the evil Goat Man, who goes around chopping up pretty girls.
5. The next station is Allison Jervis's station, which will be right by the Beneficial Insects building. Her station involves a girl who turns into a scarecrow. There will be straw, body parts, and lots of general scariness.
6. The last ANSC club station is at the Nutrition Barn (opposite to AZ's Dracula station). This is Jay Tobias's station, which is based on The Ring. Sam Sack will be playing the part of the creepy well girl. This station was a hit two years ago when we did it... so let's hope for another success!

The budgets for the stations were due at the meeting. Carolyn and Jen will be shopping for the supplies, and they'll hand them out to the station leaders at next week's meeting. Also at the meeting, we signed up for kiosk shifts. In order to further publicize the Hayride, we have a kiosk in Trabant on 10/20 from 11am to 2pm. If you'd like to help out at the kiosk, please email me at jesshall@udel.edu. Lastly, we decided that we will have a run-through for the Hayride at 6pm on Friday, 10/20 (right before the actual Hayride starts running). Station leaders, your stations must be set-up and ready to go at 6pm on Friday. It is up to you to make sure all of the props and such are ready at your station before this time.

Committee Reports
Social: Kahunaville last week was lots of fun, and everyone really enjoyed the line dancing. We're planning a restaurant trip for Nov. 2nd. However, we haven't decided on a place to go yet. Some of the ideas mentioned were Lonestar, Hibachi, and TGI Friday's. If you have any other ideas, please email Jenna at jscib@udel.edu. Also, Sara Daub informed the club about Friendly's Family Fun Night. If a club registers ahead of time, they can get 10% of the profit that Friendly's makes between 5-9pm on a given Family Fun Night. This could be an excellent social/fundraising opportunity for ANSC Club, and we will look more into it.
Service: If you haven't paid up your money for stuff you bought at the AgrAbility auction, you must do so soon! We also talked about moving the the club meeting to another night of the week in order to better accommodate an AgrAbility speaker. (We'll get back to the club on when the meeting would be moved to.) Also, the club will be volunteering at Steve Cook's Farm. Steve Cook is a UD Alumnus, who is also a disabled Farmer. We've helped out at Steve Cook's Farm in the past, and the club members got to do some really fun stuff, like weighing piglets, helping halter break calves, and even chasing after goats. The tentative volunteer date is November 12th, but we will get back to you once things are more finalized.
Livestock: With Regionals coming up in February (it'll be in Amherst), the club members really need to start thinking about whether or not they want to go. In order to prepare ourselves for Regionals, we want to have a livestock judging practice some Saturday in November. We talked about maybe incorporating the livestock judging practice with the volunteering at Steve Cook's farm... but before we start judging other farm's animals, we'd like to have some training with livestock judging on the UD Farm. Also, to prepare ourselves for potential Quiz Bowl questions, we are going to start having practice questions at our meetings.
Pre-Vet: Dr. Marshall will be our guest speaker at the November 16th meeting. We also talked about getting Richard from Dairy to come in and talk to the club about careers other than in Veterinary Medicine. Also, the Pre-Vet committee decided that instead of going to the Plumpton Park Zoo, we'd like to go to the Philly or Brandywine Zoo. The tentative date for our Zoo visit is Saturday, November 5th.
Fundraising: The Fundraising committee will be contacting Dr. Emara to set up plans for our Plant Sale. The Club decided that we will be doing the Plant Sale again, because although we didn't do so well with it last year, we traditionally make a lot of money with it, and it has the potential to be a really good fundraiser. Dr. Emara donates the plants, and all the club has to do is help her pot the plants and then be responsible for selling them at Ag Day.

Alright. That's it from Wednesday's minutes. Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, October 19th at 6:15 in 037 Memorial. Hope to see you all then!

Monday, October 10, 2005

Hello Animal Science Club! Here are the minutes from this week's meeting:

Dues
Today was the last day to pay dues! Hopefully everyone was able to get their $10 in to Matt.

Thank You Notes
In order to thank the companies for their generous donations to our auction, Thank You notecards were signed at the meeting. Cards will be going to Ag Industrial and Atlantic Tractor for their pedal tractor donations, and we're also thanking Bigg's Inc. for their donated auction item of the upright toy engine. These auction items brought in about $250, and the entire auction ended up making $714. This money will be donated to AgrAbility.

Ag Carnival Re-cap
We had a really great turn-out at Ag Carnival, and it was a lot of fun. Our pedal tractor event was a hit--although (as the boys painfully found out) an event much better suited for the ladies. Some winning highlights for the ANSC Club were Matt for placing 1st in the pie-eating contest, and Jen and Megan for coming in 1st place in the pumpkin chucking. The ANSC Club's team New Holland finished up in 4th place for the overall day's events! Awesome job, everyone! If anyone has suggestions for next year's Ag Carnival, please email Amanda at akilby@udel.edu.

Service Report
Sally, a representative from AgrAbility, would like to come and give a talk about her organization. However, she isn't available to come to our meetings on Wednesday. The club needs to decide if we would be willing to attend her guest talk on some other day of the week, and what day would be best for the club. Although the Animal Science Club has been raising money for AgrAbility for some time now, we've become slightly detached from the organization, so it would be very beneficial if Sally came in and explained to us more about AgrAbility. We will discuss this matter further at a future meeting.

Hayride
A contract has finally been drawn up between the Animal Science Club and Alpha Zeta. Some of the key aspects of the contract include:
-ANSC club and AZ will share responsibility of publicity, planning, filling out appropriate forms, and getting drivers.
-There will be at least six designated spots for haunted scenes along the route, with ANSC club responsible for at least 4 of the spots, and AZ responsible for at least 2.
-All profits from the hayride will be split as 60% to ANSC club and 40% to AZ
-ANSC club is required to provide at least 22 people each night, and AZ is required to provide at least 12 people. For every participant who does not show up on a given night, that club will receive a 1% deduction in profit.

Forms requesting funding from the Allocations board have been turned in, and our event is officially registered with Activities and Planning. As far as publicity is concerned, we have a kiosk in Trabant reserved for 10/20 from 11am-2pm. Flyers and signs are being designed by AZ, and we will hopefully be distributing them soon.

For those of you who are station leaders, you need to email Jen with your ideas and preliminary budgets ASAP. We're just two weeks away from the hayride, so we've really got to get ourselves in gear. Attached is the finalized station lists. If your name is not on the list, and you would still like to help out (we can use all the help that we can get!), please email Jen at jenp@udel.edu. Any other questions or concerns about the hayride can also be emailed to me at jesshall@udel.edu. NOTE: times for the Haunted Hayride have been slightly modified: The hayride will be on Friday, 10/21 from 7-11pm, and on Saturday, 10/22 from 6:30-11pm (with a kid-friendly ride from 6:30-7:30).

Kahunaville!
We ended the meeting by adjourning to Kahunaville for some country line dancing. Hope everyone had fun!

That's it for this week's meetings. Our next meeting is Wednesday, 10/12 at 6:15pm in 037 Memorial. Have a great Homecoming weekend, everyone... and try to stay dry. ;)