OMN Advisory Board Meeting Minutes

January 25, 2022

Attendance:

 

Jenny Munoz Toledo

Eliza Ortuno – CHAIR

Jillian St. Jacques

John Larison

Natalie Harris/Tosca Ruotolo (Proxy for Natalie)

Shweta (proxy for Dakshata)

Laurel Brinson

Adriana Gutierrez

Naz Berhe

Uwe Keist

Kytan Van

Jakob Jones (proxy for Draken)

Josh Saunders

Luke Reynolds (Proxy for Jaycee)

 

 

ABSENT – Sophie Moreland

  • Meeting called to order 4:06pm
  • Updates from Board
    • John
      • Not a lot of enrollment for Practicum but hoping to increase awareness next term
    • Natalie
      • Prism in review committee right now, going through submissions
      • 270-something submissions
    • Jillian
      • Scholarship committee at SWLF is starting to convene. 7 scholarships for SWLF students available, including 1 for Applied Journalism students
    • Adriana
      • Finishing the February issue.
      • March housing issue will be a 30-page collaboration with Beavers Digest. Also a March Baro issue coming out concurrently
    • Luke
      • March housing issue will be half newspaper articles and half magazine articles
      • Also planning Best of Beaver Nation issue next month. Event in the MU plaza being planned. More info coming in the next two weeks
    • Jakob (Damchic)
      • Production just ended for photography and now doing layout for magazine
    • Laurel
      • FM is training 20 new DJs. Schedule has 50 active DJs on it. Will have 70 shows after training is done.
    • Josh
      • TV initially planned a concert for February but pushed back to spring due to COVID
      • Shows have begun production last week
    • Jenny
      • OSUPC is finishing events this term. Saturday is the cereal killer event
    • Naz
      • ECC is finishing up the self-defense workshop Friday 7-9. Collabing with public safety
    • Shweta
      • International peer mentoring program has mentees assigned during winter break. Due to COVID doing 1 to 1 mentor to mentee.
      • Valentines day celebration on Feb. 19
    • Kytan
      • Clubs and Orgs started a social justice podcast.
      • Working on cultural nights. Tawainese student association cultural night on Friday
  • New business
    • None
  • OMN Board meeting plans for posting student leader positions
    • Do we want to keep dates as set?
      • Application posted: Mar. 17
      • Application deadline - Mar 31
      • Student Leader packets send to OMN Board members for review - April 5th
      • Student Leader Elections - April 12th and April 19th
    • Plan is to keep process as – applicants submit video presentation, board reviews video and materials prior to April 12. April 12 and 19 meetings are for interviewing applicants and deliberation by board.
  • Discussion on onboarding student leaders tabled until February meeting.
  • Meeting adjourned 4:32pm