Mini Minutes August 23

8/23/26

Start: 4:02pm End:5:33pm

Welcome back brothers!

SHOUTOUTS-

• Rides home- Locke
• Work done by Katie and Sydney- Murphy
• Kristina on her good work on the social media pages- Jack
• Monsoon season and all the rain- Isaac

Announcements

The Kappa music festival table was a success! Kellin is becoming inactive due to schedule conflicts and wishes the chapter well :(. Charlie is returning which will be discussed during next the meeting!

Committees!

Membership- Joining committees with ritual and brotherhood to discuss returning member’s education, high school outreach for next year, a recruitment calendar, and NMDP.

Service- Arranging an Odyssey themed uniform checkout (you must sign up if you didn’t help with band camp yet for requirements!), asks people to please sign up for ensembles set up, discussed getting together the band banquet planning committee, and went over the regular service projects (stand fixing practice room cleaning, band room reorganizing).

Treasurer- We are on budget yay! Budget for each committee was discussed and approved by vote and the president at 4:33 pm. The reimbursement form is also available at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGRN5Zoj_GW_kvDwBWmNpEBzZtw52EaEyYpxrJBYJkwVtyHA/viewform?usp=send_form

Money money money

Community outreach (hey guys that’s me)- Meeting on Wednesdays at 4 to discuss fixing the website donations issue, reaching out to more music majors and other chapters, the social media page plans, and figuring out digitization with the historian, alumni outreach with the alumni secretary, and plans with the social media crew. 🙂

Fundraising- Craig got a new puppy! He also showed us his very cool fundraising calendar here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mYQK03CyheQMGP8mU8K0DPQbH04VuT7PsMD4iFlSCJY/edit?usp=sharing . Craig also discussed different fundraising options that have worked in the past such as Panera bread and Kappa Kappa Pie. There is a spike ball tournament possibly happening on either the 4th or 9th of September and more information is being gathered on becoming an RSO.

Ritual- Jarah gave a general overview of making Dr.Sorey an honorary member in the spring along with possibly either Emma the TA or Dr.Kaiser. Jarah also discussed starting ritual practice in the fall so that we can have lines memorized as well as have more props prepared and talked about going to other chapters degrees to support them.

Yay

Historian- Katie brought up the issues with digitizing our files and requests help from those available. Katie would also like to harvest your data for more information on our chapter through this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckayzItQvQFPUydiPqn4WMtdCb7l7MlahCGYqC48auRNwIFQ/viewform . Also discussed was a possible kappa final prep test to sort people into groups based on test grades.

Baller data harvesting

Music chair nominations- Ehryn, Isaac, and Kylie were all nominated and special nominations will occur next chapter!

Membership requirements!-

• Pay dues
• Get 15 hours
• Help with band camp and banquet
• Be an active member on a committee 
• Attend all chapter meetings

Chapter goals such as conflict resolution and rumor training, improving brotherhood, growing the chapter, and some smaller possible projects were discussed.

See you all next time!

Riddle of the day (DM EJ with the answer before we meet for a treat next chapter!) : I’m odd, but take away one letter and I become even. What am I?

Mini-Minutes Feb-Mar, 2026

Hello brothers! Given my significant delays in getting the mini minutes out, and in the interest of your time and inboxes, I will be condensing the past 2 months of minutes into one post – sort of like the minutes, but miniature (someone should make something like that, that sounds like a good idea!). Please enjoy the look back at what our chapter has been up to for the past 2 months, and as always, the full minutes are available here: [2/1] [2/15] [3/1] [3/22] [3/2🐄] [3/29]

(how many shoutouts could we have in 2 months ??)

• Murphy shouts out the new MC class officers
• Jo shouts out the Men’s basketball team
• Jak shouts out the Women’s basketball team
• Sydney shouts out Locke for running the MEPs
• Jamie shouts out everyone who came to that breakfast
• Jack R shouts out everyone who came to the degree rehearsal
• Caroline shouts out Raleigh for turning 21 (happy birthday!)
• Adie shouts out Molly for also turning 21 (last week)
• Raleigh shouts out Dr. Sorey for coming to chapter today
• Craig shouts out anyone that helped with or came to game night
• Jo shouts out all of the snacks and everyone who brought them
• Murph shouts out all of the MCs for their banger projects
• Raleigh shouts out everyone who helped him with the MEP process and presenting slides when he was having difficulties
• Jason shouts out CU Honor Band
• Craig shouts out MCs for KKPie squared
• Murph shouts out his shower for getting all of the whipped cream out of his hair
• Jamie shouts out the sinus device for getting whipped cream out of her nose
• Jack R shouts out everyone who came to setup and run through degree this morning
• Caroline shouts out Kristina for going to watch a movie
• Jak shouts out Andrew for being subbed in for a speaking role
• Jamie shouts out Dominoes for making the 40 (not actually 40) pizzas she ordered
• Murph shouts out Jamie

• Jack shouts out Jamie for finding another time (+ space) to hold chapter
• Bodie shouts out the buffs for making it this far
• Jarah shouts out waka-flaka (mr. flame)
• Jamie shouts out the hat store for having 30% off
• Jack shouts out Chip for squaring up with Caroline
• Shoutout Craig
• Shoutout all the people who traveled for basketball band (Jason)
• Shoutout for reorganizing and getting S102
• Shoutout Sydney
• Shoutout Women’s team, put up a difficult fight
• Shoutout to Mike from Big O Tires in Sedona AZ
• Murph shouts out sound effects
• Jason shouts out the women’s team for making it back from Tennessee
• Caroline shouts out birthdays
• Bodie shouts out Jamie for giving us a Tennessee meeting
• Jarah shouts out the really cool chapters / people at district day
• Ehryn shouts out the graduate trumpets at national trumpet competition for sweeping finals
• Ehryn shouts out Amy for getting a job
• Kristina shouts out the people who came to the championships

Turns out, there’s a lot that we can do – and did do – in 2 months! Here’s a quick summary:

• Held a stunning degree 2!
• Held a fabulous degree 3, where we welcomed our entire 18-person MC class!
• Sent roughly 6 brothers (including Glory) to District Day at the University of Wyoming!
• Sent 8 brothers to District Convention in Minneapolis!
• + so much more!

There are also still some currently relevant announcements:

• Our final chapter meeting (elections) is 4/19; expect it to run long!
• Re-PSI-tal is 4/24 in S102 at 4:40pm – sign up to play something, and please, please come watch!

(this is a smidge unconventional, sorry)

Exec

• Met (almost) every Sunday at noon over Discord!
• Thank you for being consistently flexible!
• Please mind your language; you’re always representing the chapter in some capacity
• Make sure to get your hours by the end of the semester (so soon…)
• Make sure to also participate in at least your primary committee and make it to all chapter meetings!

Membership

• Meet Fridays before chapter at 5pm
• Got brotherhood event ideas? Send them in #brotherhood-events or to this form!
• Events that have been suggested: (remember that anyone can throw things in #brotherhood-events)
  • Cheap movie x Pizookie Tuesday
  • Top golf or mini golf
  • Elementary school-style field day
  • Kappa Kappa Gainz
  • Study groups
  • Hike or sunrise hike
• MC class project was pretty lit!
• Retreat will be 5/11-14 in Estes Park!

Service

• Meet Thursdays before chapter at 5:30pm
• Cool service projects we put on:
  • 100,000,000,000 receptions!
  • Stand fixing!
  • CU Honor Band!
  • Practice room cleaning + notes of encouragement!
  • Miscellaneous concert help! (manning cameras, moving chairs and stands, etc.)
• Plus some upcoming and / or regular service events:
  • Band library reorganization every Thursday at 5pm and Friday at 4:40pm!
  • Eli’s recital on 4/23! (come watch even if you aren’t helping!)

Treasurer

• We still have money as a chapter!!!!
• MCs got their dues in!
• Send Locke reimbursement requests if you need them!
• Planning on restarting our Commissioning Fund; should have info soon:tm:

Fundraising

• Met Wednesdays before chapter at 5:30pm
• Cool fundraisers we did:
  • Game Night!
  • KKPie: the pie-ening!
  • Movie and Craft Night!
• Restaurants are mean!
  • If you’re reading this big restaurant this is my personal view that does not represent the views of the Alpha Iota chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi and you should totally do a collab fundraiser with the Alpha Iota chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi it would make you so cool and bring you so much fame and brownie points please please please

• We are looking into becoming an RSO again!

Secretary

jk i didn’t present anything for 2 months 😎

Historian

• Meet Fridays after chapter at 5pm
• Bulletin boards are looking cool and epic!
• Made an awesome scrapbook and brought it convention!
• Digitization stuff has been found! (rip digitization 2017-2023)
• The elections meeting is a potluck; please sign up to bring food! (it will be kind of a sad potluck as it is right now)
• Kappa final 2: eclectic bungalow open 5/2-4; open everything (notes, internet, AI, etc.) and highest score gets a prize!
  • Good luck! (you will need it)

Ritual

• Met Fridays before chapter at 5pm w/ membership
• Second and third degree were both baller and we welcomed our full, wonderful MC class as actives!
  • Not biased btw but my little is the coolest
• Check that your hours are up-to-date

Miscellaneous

• Start of Semester Vibe Check
• Elections Info
• Position and Election Information
• Nominations
  • (we nominated 132 people and 69 (nice) of them accepted… we surely will not regret this (real) (true))
• Plus so many open floor times!

Wow, that was surprisingly short, and so I’m sure all of you made it to the end! The semester is almost over, but that (sadly) doesn’t mean that we get to relax quite yet. Study hard for your finals, come vote in elections this Sunday, and I will see you all on the other side of finals.

AEA, MLITB,
Isaac

(p.s. can you believe that all of those gifs came pre-made on giphy? it’s umazing what you can find with the right keywords!)

Mini Minutes January 18th

Happy New Year, brothers! I hope you all have had a restful break, and are ready to dive into the spring semester alongside our wonderful cohort of 10-100 MCs! First degree was spectabulous, and I can’t wait to watch these MCs become full-fledged brothers! We also had a meeting this past Sunday, so here are those mini minutes:

• Jason shouts out all of the MCs who are here
• Willa shouts out the Broncos for giving us a heart attack
• Murph shouts out the little girl on instagram who picks the winning and losing teams
• Jak shouts out his dad who is going to drive up from Lakewood to bring him an extension cord
• Ava shouts out Jak for giving her free ice cream
• Raleigh shouts out everyone who stepped up for membership stuff
• Caroline shouts out anyone who comes and gets a bagel from her or Jack McHale
• Katie shouts out everyone who took the Kappa final
• Jak shouts out Locke and Katie for helping organize the kappa closet
• Jamie shouts out everyone who had their first Costco hot dog today

• Welcome Back!
• First degree
• 18! MCs

Exec

• Goals
  • Be transparent and authentic
  • Maintain clear lines of communication
  • Set an example as the leaders of the fraternity
• Make sure to check the chapter website for dates and times of events, as well as the membership requirements
• Bigs will get half-hours for attending MEPs, and other actives (without littles) will get full hours
  • If you are a big and cannot make it to an MEP (we will work around basketball games by running the MEPs multiple times), please let Raleigh know ASAP, but they should be a priority for you
• If you’re in one or both of the basketball games the Saturday of CU Honor Band or otherwise cannot make it, you can do a reception to make up the requirement!

Membership

• Thanks to everyone’s hard work while Raleigh was away!
• Fill out the when2meet for membership meetings
• Keep being kind and awesome to the MCs!

Service

• Band library reorganization (followed by service meetings?) every Thursday in the band library
• CU Honor Band sign-ups (only sign up for one slot!)
• Reception sign-ups (please sign up!)
• Macky / reception policy updates:
  • No more drinks or home-baked goods; everything must be store-bought
  • Must either watch the concert until intermission and then set up, or do homework or something else outside of the building until setup time

Treasurer

• We passed the budget!

• Goals:
  • Utilize fundraising to maintain chapter funds at an effective net neutral
  • Prepare to reinstate our Commissioning Fund in Fall of 2026
  • Increase Financial Connection with our Local Alumni Association

Fundraising

• Game Night will be January 30th if we have a room
  • Sign up to bring supplies!!!
• Goal is to do (at least) 1 fundraiser per month, so please join the fundraising committee!
• We also discussed becoming an RSO and the benefits and drawbacks to that

Historian

• Boh is the guiding spirit
• We collectively failed the Kappa final

• The guiding spirit, is Boh
• Scrapbook committee when2meet (will also handle updating the bulletin board)
• William Scroggs was an important founding member, but not the guiding spirit
• No awards packet yet
• This is because that role was already taken by Boh
• Digitization hard drive was MIA (now FIA)
• Don’t forget (please!)

Ritual

• Ritual committee needs more people, given that it’s now the time of year where the ritual happens!
• Will figure out a time to meet soon:tm:
• You get hours for setting up for and taking down degrees!

• Please put the degree dates on your calendar if they aren’t already: 1/18, 2/1, and 3/1

Chapter Goals

1. Crown Pearl goals!
2. Higher (but realistic) musicianship expectations through singing together and Re-psi-tal
3. Deepen our brotherhood – speak well of each other, and know your brothers

Open Floor Time

• KKYazz??
• Play the fraternity march???
• 30 minutes of music practice in shorter meetings????
• ‘Bro-to-Bro’ chat at the beginnings of meetings?????

As you can see, big things are coming for Alpha Iota this semester, and I’m really excited to see where the semester takes us. Stay warm and in school,

AEA, MLITB
Isaac

Mini Minutes November 30th

Hello everybrother! Can you believe it’s already the last chapter meeting, and thus the last mini minutes, of the fall semester? I know you’ll all be sad about no longer getting 4 back-to-back-to-back-to-back mini-minutes in your inbox (oops…), but I for one can’t wait for the fun to continue next season… after I take a nap for about 4 weeks. Make sure not to get too stressed going into finals, and perhaps even take a break and chill with this week’s mini minutes!

• Jamie shouts out Katie for making the slides!
• Caroline shouts out Bodie and Kellin for turning older
• Jason shouts out Stephen West
• Jamie shouts out the last meeting of the semester
• Isaac shouts out everyone who brought food

• Sko buffs!
• See Jamie after the meeting if the hours sheet doesn’t have you at 15
• Good job

Exec

The fall activity report will be sent out by December 1st; thank you for your work!

Membership

The current plan is to divvy MEPs up amongst interested members, which will hopefully make them more fun (less monotonous) for the PMCs (I am endlessly grateful for the MEPs, and Ella did a great job, but there was… a lot of stuff to go over, to say the least). Bids will be sent out sometime after the end of the semester, and the membership committee will also be meeting over break. Make sure to fill out the big interest form (in #announcements) regardless of if you want a little or not!

Service

Upcoming service events:
– Holiday Fest 12/6, 1:30pm – 4:00pm (get pizza and move it to Macky, then clean up; not for hours)
– Library Reorganization (weekly or biweekly next semester; might start during finals or over break)
– Practice Room Cleaning 12/3 – same time as uniform return
– Uniform Return 12/3 – same time as practice room cleaning

Fundraising

Game night will be delayed to next semester because of how busy this time of the semester is, but that gives us time to think of more things for game night and other potential fundraisers! There is one more meeting this Wednesday, and then the budget will be ready by week 1 of next semester.

Historian

Katie made a Kappa “final” to gauge how much we know about the chapter (closed note). Today, we’re looking over the constitution and hoping that everyone practiced the song (spoiler alert: uhh… jk it went great!). The bulletin board will be the first or second week of next semester.

Ritual

Ritual workday will likely be either the first or the last day of break! During this, we’ll walk through all 3 degrees, look at what supplies we have / need, assign and practice speaking parts, etc.

We also voted to accept roughly 20 new PMCs, and managed to accept all of the changes to our chapter constitution as a full slate (thank Boh…). Finally, we did an extremely beautiful rendition of the fraternity song. Thank you all for a great first semester, and let’s strive ever higher next semester!

Always Eating Apples, Mostly Laying In The Bed,
Isaac

Mini Minutes November 16th

Hello brothers! I hope you’re all doing well, and I don’t know about the rest of you, but I cannot wait for Thanksgiving break. Here are the mini minutes from this Sunday’s minutes.

• Jason shouts out the Buffs for beating Portland St. (not a real state btw)
• Jak shoauts out Jaylyn Sherrod for signing Jamie’s jersey
• Jamie shouts out all of us for being here!

• If you’re under 15 hours, here are upcoming hours opportunities:
  • Concert band reception
  • PMC interviews
• Keep uploading photos!

Exec

The expectation is to be in-person for all meetings (unless there’s an emergency or health issue), and this will be stricter next semester, so please put all of the events next semester into your calendar now to plan around!

Membership

Sign up for PMC Interviews! Make sure to have at least one person actively listening to the PMC during the interview so they aren’t just staring at a wall of laptops – we want them to feel welcome – but also take good notes!

Service

Upcoming events:
– Library organization (date / time TBD)
– Practice room cleaning (TBD)
– Uniform return 12/3 during marching band
– Kappa Closet Cleaning during winter break (so not for hours)

Fundraising

Good job with the bake sale! The Chipotle fundraiser fell through on their end, sadly, but there is still the game night on 12/5 with a Mario Kart tournament and board / card games!

Jurisdiction

Constitution changes are almost finalized! We will record the fraternity song (different from the hymn) next meeting, so try to practice a bit. Next meeting is also a potluck, so sign up to bring stuff! Digitization and the bulletin board will sadly be pushed back to next semester.

Ritual

Degree workday in the works before next semester (whenever people are available) to ensure that everyone knows what’s going on and to make degree run more smoothly. If you’ve ever wanted to work on a movie with a dog, talk to Jak; even if you haven’t, join (and please be active in) the ritual channel so things can get planned!

We finished up the meeting by doing the Mid-Semester Check-In and going over an overview of the changes to the constitution (to be voted on next time). Thank you for reading this, and have a fantastic Thanksgiving Break!

AEA, MLITB,
Isaac

Mini Minutes October 26th

Hello brothers! We’re into the thick of the fall semester, so try not to stress out too much about midterms, but make sure to keep up with all of your classes (like I’ve kept up with these mini minutes… sorry). Without further ado, here are the mini minutes from this week’s minutes.

• Shout out the Buffs for being the best football team in the universe or something
• Shout out Adie for decorating Kate’s slide (it was truly something)
• Shout out the Buffs for not getting shut out
• Shout out Katie for bringing fun snacks
• Shout out to the brothers who went to CBA
• Shout out Half-Fast for being open after far too long
• Shout out Nic Rorrer and Anthony Walker for coming to this meeting
• Shout out Jamie for taking chapter photos

• Chapter photos went well!
• Mid-semester check-in soon

Exec

• No meeting 😦
• Discord updates
  • Make sure your notifications are on!
  • Make sure to fill out sign-ups for homecoming and banquet, and to show up to the things you’re signed up for!
  • Use @Active instead of @everyone (@everyone also pings alumni)
    • This is nitpicky (that’s why I’m the secretary) but technically you should use @everyone instead of @Active when you’re in a thread (the little subchannels), as @Active will cause everyone with the role to be added to the thread (and receive notifications from it) every time you use it, while @everyone has its scope contained to the current thread and its current members
    • If you’re unsure, just use @Active
  • Please react to messages to help let people know you’ve seen them!

Membership

• Meetings Thursdays before chapter at 7pm
• When2Meet for interviews
  • Make sure you’re being super welcoming during the interviews, as they’re a really scary time for new people!

Service

• Meetings 3pm right before chapter
• Helping with band banquet is a membership requirement! (scary…)
  • Opportunities are available here, or will be sent out this week
• Homecoming sign up to be sent out soon

Fundraising

• Meetings 2:30pm Monday before chapter
• Message Locke about reimbursements for things you’ve bought for band banquet / the chapter!
• Band banquet raffle is live; go buy tickets! (prize is slightly secret but very cool)
• Bake sale November 14th fr fr
• Game night also November 14th!
  • Give out bake sale stuff before and after rehearsal, then game night after rehearsal
• Chipotle fundraiser at the one on the hill Monday, November 10th, from 5-9pm

Jurisdiction

• Meetings 3:30pm Thursday after chapter
• Finished reading through all of the articles of the constitution; last meeting November 6th at 3:30pm
• Amendments will be proposed next meeting, so please start reading over the constitution ahead of time to be prepared!
  • Document with summary of the changes pinned in #jurisdiction (may need to get the role from #role-select to see it)
• We will sing the fraternity song during one of the 2 November meetings (as that’s a crown pearl goal), so make sure that you know your part!
• Bulletin board still needs more supplies, but will happen over the next two weeks with chapter photos
• Digitization TBD

Ritual

• Meetings Wednesday before chapter at 3:30pm
• Come to ritual meetings!!
• Budget for honorary brothers has been settled; need to talk to Dr. Sorey to get his availability
• Ritual prep day planned for the end of the semester so everyone can be prepared before we do the actual thing
  • Rehearsals for both music and speaking parts
• Degrees will hopefully be in the music theater again, but still need an answer to the room request
  • Let Jak know if you have concerns about anything related to the room for degree!
• Jak’s friend is performing at the Dairy Arts Center on November 7th and 8th; tickets are $15

Open Floor Time

• Slideshow is being worked on! Join the thread to help and / or add more pictures please!
• Fill out the google form if you have membership hours that haven’t been counted
• If you want to be involved and have a say in committee activities, please attend the meetings!
• Nic Rorrer (national president) and Anthony Walker (MWD governor) gave a really cool presentation about their perspective on KKY / how to improve our chapter / continue to stay involved! I don’t want to butcher their words any more than I did while taking the full minutes, so you can check out their section of the minutes here!

Really great and informational meeting today, everyone, so make sure to also go home and get some rest! The semester’s not over just yet…

AEA, MLITB,
Isaac

Mini Minutes October 12th

Hello brothers! It’s been a busy past couple of days, but in between the 2 marching band performances and symphonic band performance, we also managed to squeeze in a pretty productive chapter meeting… that I sadly couldn’t attend in-person (oops). Thankfully, Tyler graciously agreed to take minutes for me, so I can now bring you this week‘s mini minutes!

• Shoutout to all the brothers in MB that helped stuff with evergreen go smoothly
• Shoutout to Tyler for organizing brotherhood event last Sunday
• Shoutout to everyone who performed and marched in Saturday’s game day
• Shoutout Kappa (I missed the context for this one but I agree)
• Shoutout to the Buffs for beating Iowa
• Shoutout to Katie for awesome snacks
• Shoutout to Caroline for making it through whole game day with a concussion
• Shoutout to Evergreen High School for bringing energy
• Shoutout to Dr. Sorey for being here today to help us sign the hymn
• Shoutout to Silver Buffs for “I Ralphie GBMB” stickers

• Chapter photos are October 26th (day of the next chapter meeting!) at 12pm
  • Wear concert black and your active pin!
• After that, we only have 2 more chapter meetings in the semester! (November 16th and November 30th)
• Xi chapter is having its second degree on October 24th at 6:30pm, and the third degree on November 21st at 5pm
  • Talk to Jamie for details, and wear concert black if you’re going!
• We’re having our National President, Dr. Nic Rorrer, at our next meeting, along with his husband, Anthony Walker, the District Governor!

Exec

• We met at 11am the day of the chapter meeting! (this is not the official meeting time 🤞)
• We discussed general accountability (be on time to committee / chapter meetings, reach out for help when you need it, and either show up to or communicate well about things you signed up for)!
• We also talked about making the mid-semester check-in less stressful to fill out!
  • This will be discussed at our next two meetings, so hopefully it’ll be released soon
• Finally, we talked about things we want to learn from the National President and District Governor

Membership

• Meeting time: Thursdays before chapter, at 7pm
• Recruitment is finished for the year, but we’re always recruiting through our actions
• If you’d like a little, start thinking about who or what sort of person you might want as a little
• Make sure to take genuine interest in the MCs as people and create positive experiences for them!

Service

• Meeting time: Sundays of chapter, at 3pm
• Decorations @ Jamie’s apartment on October 18th from 2pm until they’re done; trading cards on October 14th from 5-7pm
• Everyone is encouraged to attend these, even outside of the service committee; people will tell you what to do, or you can look at the decorations document
• Hours should be up to date
• Sko buffs

Fundraising

• Meeting time: Mondays before chapter, at 2:30pm
• Upcoming fundraisers:
  • Game night November 7th (likely Mario Kart)
  • Chipotle fundraiser on the hill either November 10th or 17th (after marching band)
  • Bake sale November 14th
  • Banquet raffle!

Jurisdiction

• Meeting time: Thursdays after chapter, at 5pm
• Went over article 4 of the constitution
• Bulletin boards will be updated with chapter photos once they’re taken
• Fill out the Member Info form!

Ritual

• Meeting time: Wednesdays after chapter, at 3:30pm
• Will be using miscellaneous funds for the honorary brother(s)
• Honorary Degrees dates and times TBD, but please attend them if you can!
• We’ll rehearse for spring degrees after

Open Floor

• Tomorrow is CBA – huge recruiter for the GBMB (remember the mission statement!)
• Interviewing candidates for the next Asst. Band Director over the next 3 weeks! Will be at symphonic and marching band rehearsals
• Hours opportunities:
  • Bake sale
  • Receptions
  • Sorting photos for slideshow
  • Baking for bake sales and receptions
  • Stand fixing soon ???
• Interviews are coming up; please fill out the When2Meet!
  • Try to avoid signing up with people you already know
  • Be professional at the interviews

Closing Announcements

• Next meeting Sunday, October 26th; UTP
• Chapter photos same day outside Macky at 12pm
  • Wear concert black and Kappa pin

Remember to stay healthy! Flu season has started already (ask me how I know) and it looks like it’s shaping up to be a pretty brutal one this year. If you’ve made it far, thank you for reading, goodnight, and sko buffs!

AEA, MLITB,
Isaac

Mini Minutes September 28th

Hello brothers! I may be a month late with these (ha), but I suspect that some of what we talked about during this last chapter meeting is still somewhat relevant, so without further ado, here are the mini minutes from the chapter meeting this past Sunday.

• Jack shouts out guard for being very helpful at stampede and helping unload the truck
• Raleigh shouts out everyone involved in gameday for the week; very interesting context (“now there’s drones and people from Utah watching you”)
• Caroline shouts out Tyler for pulling the water cart and Billy for being old
• Kellin shouts out BYU fans for being respectful
• Jak shouts out Craig for making KKPie go smoothly
• Raleigh shouts out people who show up to pizza Thursday
• Jamie shouts out Tyler for making a brotherhood event happen outside of campus
• Raleigh shouts out Sydney for making the recruitment flyer

• Chapter photos are October 26th at noon (until ~1pm)
  • Wear concert black with your active pin!
• Roughly a month until band banquet!
• Active pins are either half an inch above the silver flatiron (marching band uniform) or on the left side of your shirt / left collar (in concert black); don’t wear them out of uniform
• Symphonic band concerts soon™

Exec

• No meeting time planned just yet
• Hours check-in – you should be at about 7.5 hours by now (at 4 / 7 meetings)
• Making good progress on the crown pearl goals!
• If you have any questions about nationals / MWD, ask Jamie!
• Reminder to ping @active instead of @everyone in discord!
• It could be fun to make goodie bags for Evergreen HS!

Membership

• Meeting Thursdays before chapter at 7pm!
• Talked about recruitment and band banquet stuff
• VPM is responsible for awards and slideshow logistics for band banquet – these have been delegated
• We’d like to go to a Mines recruitment event at some point!
• Be your best self at recruiting events; make people feel like they want to join

Service

• Meetings Sundays right before chapter at 3pm!
• Wednesday, October 8th has a reception and a practice room cleaning / recruitment event at roughly the same time – please please please go to one of those!
• Band banquet prep is going well
• No updates on organizing the library

Treasurer

• New form for reimbursements!

Fundraising

• Meetings Mondays before chapter at 2:30pm!
• KKPie was successful! (feedback)
  • Please tell Craig if you’re missing hours
• Future fundraisers:
  • Bake sale Friday, October 24th (sign up)
  • Merch ?!!
  • Game night ??!?!
  • Banquet raffle !??!!?

Secretary

• If you’re reading this, you have already done everything I could ask from you
• If you’re not reading this, there is nothing I could ask from you, as you would not see it

Historian

• Meetings Thursdays before chapter at 5pm! (plan)
• Talk to Katie about working on the bulletin board!
• Digitization soon™
• Fill out the member info form! (oh speaking of which)

Ritual

• Meetings Wednesdays before chapter at 3:3pm!
• We will induct one honorary brother this semester! (probably after band banquet)

Open Floor Time (except we all sit in desks idk)

• Cool stuff coming soon:
  • Anderson Farms this Sunday, October 5th (entering 11-11:30)
  • Hymn part sectionals next chapter meeting!
  • Movie night + pizookies on Tuesdays ???
  • Exec or full chapter member introductions on the ‘gram soon?
  • Lots of recruitment this week and next!
  • Check the calendar on the website!
• Don’t be a stranger!
  • Talk to exec members who you’d like to overthrow – I mean run against next year
  • Don’t ghost your brothers!
  • React / respond to things in #brotherhood-events
  • Take lots of pictures!

This time, I had the really crazy idea of actually making the mini minutes, y’know, minuture, so they’d hopefully be more digestible! Keeping that reduction in reading labor in mind, if you’ve made it this far, I would appreciate a 5 paragraph essay about the pros and cons of just copy+pasting from my normal minutes vs. actually retyping things to be shorter. You can email it to me (double-spaced, 12 pt Times New Roman, with no AI usage please!) by next chapter meeting – thank you, I love you all, and sko buffs!

MLITB,

Isaac

Mini Minutes September 14th

Hello brothers! How ’bout them Buffs, huh?… yeah. Midterm season is starting for some of us, so make sure to keep on smiling through the tears, or if you can’t bring yourself to do that, at least try to cry away from your textbooks so you don’t ruin the pages. Here are the mini minutes from the chapter meeting this past Sunday.

• Kate shouts out many people for buying decorations from the wishlists
• Jak shouts out Bo Nicks for being nice to the buffs now
• Jamie shouts out Chieri & Adam and Ella & Austin engagements
• Jason shouts out Gavin 2025
• Katie shouts out David for visiting
• Jak shouts out Kate for doing fun announcements after rehearsal

• Dues are paid and the paperwork is done!
• Make sure to sign up for committees (you must be active in at least one)
• Chapter photos 10/26 at some point (check #general for the poll for times)
  • We’ll come up with a backup plan if it isn’t nice outside the day of chapter photos
• Reception this Thursday!!

Exec

• We met this Friday to discuss expectations for this semester:
  • Getting hours in before chapter
  • Consistent meeting time
  • A better system for checking in / out the keys
  • Getting slides done before the meeting 😅
• All exec meetings are open to the whole chapter, and are led in the General Voice Channel, so please attend if you have anything you wish to talk with exec about
• Please text Jamie if you have anything

Membership

• Meeting time: Thursdays before chapter, 7pm in person / on discord
• Recruitment calendar is done (link)
  • All events are 7pm to 8pm
  • 9/17 (wear letters)
  • 9/30 (games on Farrand or kahoot in e160 as a backup)
  • 10/2 (info night + crafts [bracelet making] + ice cream + kahoot / jeopardy style event in s246)
  • 10/3 (10/2 rerun)
  • 10/6 (dinner and name that tune in c4c in colorado or treehouse room and then s246)
  • 10/8 (practice room cleaning + grusin guitar hero)
  • Please put these in your calendar and show up to everything you can!
  • Possible altos on ice / kappa collab at some point?
    • They keep changing up the rec skate, so it may be tough to plan
  • Halloween movie night as a post-recruitment event?
• Wear your letters and make sure to have good conduct in them
  • You’re representing kappa and its traditions while you’re in them
• Come to the meetings with membership committee ideas please!
• Reach out to your brothers (and Raleigh) when you’re not feeling great or are overwhelmed or anything
• Think about what traits make a good brother and how to spot them
• Kappa Kappa Jam Sesh at some point ???

Service

• Meetings are 3pm before chapter
• Practice room cleaning this Wednesday (the 17th) after marching band
  • This is also wear your letters day !
• Band library clean-up (will have more info soon)
  • Preferably on a Sunday before chapter
• Tell your sections to register for band banquet!
  • Preparations are going well
• First reception this thursday, meet at the kappa closet (in the east basement, in the little loop near the practice rooms) at 7pm

Treasurer

• No meeting yet (but pull up to fundraising)
• Dues went off without a hitch!
• Be good

Fundraising

• Meeting time 2:30pm Mondays before chapter
• KKPie on Wednesday, September 24th (outside?)
  • Please sign up to get pie’d!
  • You need to sign up again (new form)
  • You don’t need to be in marching band leadership to get pie’d
  • Form to buy pies being sent out tomorrow so they have plenty of time to sign up
  • There will be a way to buy pies to be thrown at someone
• Bake sale being pushed back a bit to when we’re less busy with games
• Merch ideas during open floor time

Secretary

• Meeting time still tbd (if I should even have a committee…)
• If you received this email, great! If not, I don’t think I can really ask you for anything because you won’t get the email asking you to do it! Yay paradoxes!
• Need to get on that speed typing grindset…

Historian

• Jurisdiction meetings 3:30pm (or maybe 5pm?) Thursdays following chapter
  • Anonymous suggestion form sent out for if you have things you want to add / change in the constitution
• We are up to 1.5  bulletin boards; let Katie know if you want to work on it
• Form for making family trees and chapter history

Ritual

• Meetings Wednesdays at 3:30pm the week following chapter meetings
• Please come to the meetings if you want to help out with ritual
• Working on making Dr. Sorey, Dr. H, and Eli into honorary brothers
  • We will need to do fundraising for this; look into ways to do that
    • ‘Pie Dr. Sorey to help make him an honorary brother’
• Please reach out if you need anything

Meet Dr. Sorey and Dr. H!

• Dr. Sorey
  • Chapter sponsor
  • Brother of Phi Mu Alpha; honorary KKY, TBS, Pi Kappa Lambda brother
  • Goals for the chapter:
    • Be seen more: wear letters more often
    • Increase enrollment / participation through open conversation and being good people to others to make them want to be involved
    • Be involved and be a resource
• Dr. H
  • Concert band director
  • Assistant director for GBMB
  • Runs the basketball / volleyball band
• There was a lot more but I’d feel really awkward writing down and publishing their entire life stories so instead you should come say hi to them in person and have a conversation to find out the lore™

Open Floor Time

• Things to look for in Potential Membership candidates:
  • Passion for music
  • Friendly
  • Kind
  • Yacht ?
  • Dependability / reliability
  • Integrity
  • Communication / putting yourself out there
  • Approachability (so people are interested in joining Kappa too)
  • Creative, have different perspectives on things
  • People you want to be around
  • People outside of the Golden Buffalo Marching Band ?
• Red flags / things we’d prefer not to have in the chapter:
  • People that actively talk about hating Kappa
    • Encourage people to form their own opinions on Kappa
• Ways to (constructively) deal with people who have formed bad opinions about Kappa:
  • Acknowledge their perspective / lived experience
  • Share the things you enjoy about Kappa
• Idea: reach out to people who would be interested in joining kappa, but not this year
• Poll ideas for a merch order
  • Not just black sweatshirts
  • Bucket hats
  • Black socks with the logo
  • Letter jackets
  • Zippy collared jackets / fleece-lined jackets
  • Say we’re selling merch to fund towards a goal
  • Colorado band merch ??
  • Retro GBMB hat (est. 1908)
• Pace of the last hymn was much better
  • Agree upon a tempo (situationally faster or slower; never too fast)
  • We should rehearse the hymn
• Moving some committee meetings to other days than Wednesday might be nice
• Equipment crew help needed aside from hoes? Probably not (Craig does not need hoes)
• Please do music collaboratively with your brothers, reach out for instruction, etc.

Closing Announcements

The next meeting is Sunday, September 28th, at 4pm in S246. There is no meeting on the 21st night, September, which could be taken to mean that we don’t remember. Sorry.

If you’ve made it this far, thanks for reading, and I apologize for the delay in getting this out. If you haven’t made it this far, you’re dead to me. Hmmph. (just kidding! i know we’re all busy people that probably don’t have 2 to 3 minutes to skim through the mini minutes every 2 weeks!)

We have a practice room cleaning this Wednesday (the 17th) and Kappa Kappa Pie the week after (the 24th), so make sure to come out and support!

AEA,

Isaac

Mini’s August 31st

Hello brothers! I hope you’ve enjoyed your first week of school, even with our tragic loss to Georgia Tech on Friday! The last couple of weeks have been pretty crazy, so please just make sure you’re taking care of yourself, resting, hydrating, and doing something fun! Here are the mini’s from today’s minutes:

• Kate shouts out Raleigh for bringing goldfish and Jamie for bringing cookies and chips
• Raleigh shouts out everybody for helping with an awesome first game and the buffs for doing their best (band was super loud and awesome + committed through the rain even though it was brutal)
• Caroline shouts out Raleigh and Tyler for coming to the stampede and lugging around a really heavy cart of water that nobody drank
• Raleigh shouts out Ray Cramer for helping with the Symphonic band
• Caroline shouts out Jak for turning 21 yesterday
• Murph shouts out 2 people for helping set up band rehearsals

(^ this but it says Jak)

• Please put meeting dates in your calendar! (8/31, 9/14, 9/28, 10/12, 10/26, 11/16, 11/30)
• Vote on chapter photo dates please! (in the discord)
• Fill out your paperwork in OPUS so we can get the chapter’s paperwork filled out on time!

“I’m not friends with Robert” – Jamie

Exec

• No meeting this time
• You must be an active member in a committee (participate, don’t just sit there)
• Please be on-time to chapter meetings so we can start at 4
• For online attendance, please call off of work and be in person if at all possible; otherwise let Jamie know asap
• Can’t be as lenient with online attendance going forward; there is a chance an absence won’t be excused unless you communicate ahead of time so we can get things done

Membership

• Meetings: TBD
• Recruitment event dates: 9/30, 10/2, 10/3, 10/6, 10/8
• Ideas: guitar hero night, open mic night, movie night (go over to the one on 29th st?), please suggest more: Suggestion form
• Please represent Kappa well! We do important work in here, and their words say more about them than they do about us, plus it costs nothing to be kind; don’t need to be a goody two-shoes at all times but just be cognizant of how you’re representing the chapter and fraternity

Service

• Meetings: 3pm on Sundays before chapter
• Dr. Sorey would like us to reorganize band scores (possibly alphabetically but possibly Eli’s new system ??!); will do this a Saturday or Sunday or something
• Need a music chair to be in charge of receptions
• Band banquet plans going well; decorations and trading cards have been started
• Please help set up wind symphony and symphonic band on tuesdays and thursdays: Link
• Help Raleigh move Kappa documents from his car into his apartment sometime soon; please help him!!!
• Sko buffs!

Fundraising

• Get your dues in by 9/7!!!
  • Can give cash to Locke, write check to Kappa Kappa Psi Alpha Iota with memo “Chapter Dues 2025”, or Zelle them to kkpsi@colorado.edu)
• Fundraising meeting 2:30pm every other Monday
• Kappa Kappa Pie 9/12 outside after rehearsal around 7pm, ending hopefully around 9-ish
  • Please sign up; can’t make form to buy pies without knowing who can get pied!
  • Could look at some small shelter in case of rain
• Bake sale 9/20; please sign up to bake something
• Read Craig’s message from yesterday

Communications

• Jurisdiction meetings 3:30pm every other Thursday

Ritual

• Meeting time 3:30pm Wednesdays before chapter meetings
• No big updates
• Will be looking at the process and requirements of initiating honorary members; please join for that

Special Elections!

We elected Isaac as secretary and Katie as historian!

National Convention 2025

• Scrapbook has been updated with district convention photos!
• Made a super cool paddle with signatures from various kky + tbs chapters
• KKY Sessions
• Keynote speakers
  • Mickey Smith Jr walked in shredding on saxophone for 7 straight minutes
  • Had special guest of Jason Weaver, who is an honorary brother now
  • Made one of the people from the movie Drumline an honorary brother of the national chapter
• Committees
  • Jamie got to interview chapters for national awards
• District Caucus
  • Trying to get the national leadership to come out West and help with the smaller, less established chapters out here
• Founders’ Circle
  • We could try to get some founders’ circle speakers in here
• We could totally get into the running for one of the awards
• Next national convention is near Washington DC
  • Has a cost associated with it (+ travel)
• Next district convention is in Minneapolis MN

Closing Announcements

If you’re reading this from your email, be sure to check either back here or on the chapter website in a couple days once I have all of the committee meeting times updated. The next chapter meeting is September 14th, at 4:00pm in S246; in the meantime, please get your dues in to Locke by September 7th and come out and support at Kappa Kappa Pie on September 12th, 7pm on Farrand Field.

AEA,
Isaac