VERITAS PLANNING MEETING (last meeting of the quarter): TUESDAY 3/6/07 @ 5-6 PM NURSETERIA LOBBY MEETING OUTLINE: 1) Decide on a topic- DONE! a. Generally speaking, the topic will center on suffering (as regards health, social justice, local, global, etc)/ i. The way we envision this talk is to invite 5 speakers representing different faith traditions and have them speak on the topic of suffering from their particular worldview. ii. We will come up with a list of ‘stock’ questions to begin with, and we will have a moderator who will ask each representative to share their opinion. It will be sort of debate format, a la presidential election debate. iii. Then we’ll open it up to questions from the audience! b. thanks to a stroke of brilliance by Johannes, the current central question is ‘Where is God in all of this?” 2) Brainstorm potential speakers --mixed religion panel (or all christian panel) a. The faith traditions we came up with are as follows. i. Christianity – everyone look please! good resources: CMDA and Veritas websites ii. Islam – Danielle iii. Buddhism – Jen iv. Atheism – Johannes v. Judaism – Dr. Mason Lee 3) Division of labor a. faculty sponsor: ** I’d rather not contact every potential mentor at once since we only need at most one or two. does anyone feel strongly about any of the people below? I’d lean towards Jane Anderson or Byron Lee, only because they’ve done work with CMDA before… i. Jane Anderson (Jean do you think you could email her? you can take the description of veritas from any of the previous emails that jen and I have sent, or you can look at the veritas website and use that) ii. Byron Lee – I can email him and see if he’d be interested. iii. Andrew Ko – Anne, what do you think? Do you think he might be interested in something like this? iv. more? (all of the above are MDs, anyone have any pharmacy or dental faculty in mind?) b. ‘email person’ :) – Jean i. Jean will be sending out these kind of meeting recaps and email reminders about upcoming meetings c. treasurer – Johannes i. apply for funding (Jeremy could you go over all of that with him since you’re the ones that taught us? :)) ii. also potentially register Veritas as a separate RCO d. marketing director (advertising) – James i. Synapse articles ii. fliering ad campaign iii. etc etc etc (see below!) 4) MORE cool ideas from our last meeting a. creating a ‘teaser’ ad campaign that we build on over the time leading up to the event b. post interesting statistics or pictures relating to suffering with the tag line ‘Where is God in all of this?’ c. begin the event by showing a short video with a montage of images of suffering, from local (ie here in the hospital) to global (ie Darfur, the AIDS epidemic in Africa, etc). ***FOR NEXT TIME! 1) everyone assigned to a ‘worldview,’ please come w/ at least ONE (preferably more than one) potential speaker! 2) updates on faculty member involvement? 3) start thinking about logistics: a. funding b. venue c. dates!! 4) start coming up with a list of questions! 5) cafe outreach *** | 