Bhatt Class

Bhatt Class

Namesake Ashish Bhatt Term Spring 2017 Initiated 44

ExComm

President	Max Peng
Service VPs	Sarah Chang
Membership VPs	Justine Pham and Austin Phan
Fellowship VPs	Cathy Quach and Ethan Bell
Finance VPs	Evelyn Yu and Vincent Mak
Pledge Parents	Jenna Huynh and David Dinh
Recording Secretaries	Henderson Lu and Sabrina Chu
Corresponding Secretaries	Kristal Kim and Elton Wu
Outreach Secretaries	Julius Vo and Wilson Chu
Historians	Beatrice Zhu and Allison Ko
Sergeants-At-Arms	Jacob Cisneros, Eric Truong, and Megan Phan
Chair to the Advisory Committee	Ireneo Calip

PlexComm

Spokesperson	Allison Hsieh
Pledge Service Coordinators	Stephanie Wong and Trisha Te
Pledge Fellowship Coordinators	Jennifer Duong and Andre Nguyen
Pledge Finance Coordinators	Takumi Sakai and Binh Phan
Pledge Historians	Aeon Pablo and Tammy Yu
Pledge Sergeants-At-Arms	Jilliane De Leon, Carson Ho, and Louie Shi
Pledge Mascot	Optimus Prime

Chairs

• Ritual Chairs: Melissa Johnson and Delaney Ridenour
• Sneak Chair: Karen Wu and Sasha Montero
• Pledge Retreat Chairs: Diana Dominguez, Carlo Maskarino, and Tony Talan
• BB/LB Chairs: Kevin Higashihara, Cammy Luong, Anna Chan, Ubaldo De La Torre, and Risako Shima
• Banquet Chairs: Christie Le and Odalys Portela
• Xpressions Chairs: Quynh Le and Evan Do
• CLW Chairs: Ashley Tran and Danica Chong
• Webmasters: Beatrice Zhu and Robert Tucker
• Assassins Chairs: Carlo Maskarino, Beatrice Zhu, and Robert Tucker
• Executive Vice Chair: Robert Tucker
• Athletics Chair: Mark (Tony) Talan
• Coho Tracking Chair: Alex Martinez
• Study Hours Tracking Chair: Shelly Do
• Memberboat Chairs: Charles Wei and Chloe Ng
• Wiki Chair: Justin Cruz
• Service Vice Coordinator Chair: Chloe Ng

Dates

• Initiation: Friday, Feburary 24th, 2017
• Pledge Retreat: April 7th to 9th, 2017
• Special Event

Program Changes

Pledge Program Related Changes

• Decreased number of leadership credit from 5 to 4.
• Removed "Big Fellowship" and replaced it with "Big LFS Events".
• Included the definition of IC and OIC.
• Changed the trainer portion requirement to "Must attend a service OR LEADERSHIP EVENT with Trainer 1 and a fellowship OR LEADERSHIP EVENT with Trainer."
• Changed SNEAK to Class Challenge
• Included wild card for attending Sectionals Roll Call.
• Decreased Number of Interviews with the idea of quality over quantity. As a result, to exchange with the decreased amount, Alumni, Advisor, Active, Pledge, and IC interviews have increased in length from 1/3 to 1/2 of a page.
  • 3 IC to 2
  • 30 Active to 20 Active
  • 20 Pledge to 20 Pledge
  • 2 Alumni to 1 Alumni
• Include a limit of BB/LB Chairs Interview Per Pledge
• Amendment C-16 was voted in, allowing pledges a to cross on bad academic standing as inactive status, so as long as they fulfill the other requirements needed to cross. This eliminates the need for a special meeting during Grilling.
• Due to terrible weather conditions, Pledge Retreat has been postponed to start on Saturday Morning 10:00 am rather than during Friday Night. Despite this setback, Pledge Retreat ran it's usual order or events without any confounds.
• Pledge quizzes were reformatted to include new information, change the questions from exclusively word-for-word to other ways of answering the question (i.e. draw-the-line to match, multiple choice).
• Brought back trainer group activities.
• Restructured the BBLB system so that BBLB forms are due before interviews with BBLB chairs began.
• Attending study sessions was made a requirement.
  • One before and after midpoint.
• Not meeting midpoint requirements resulted in a DP as stated by the strikes contract.
  • To prevent this from occuring, trainer pre-check ups were made so that there is a hypothetical "midpoint" before midpoint. This happens a week before the actual midpoint week in order to allow the pledge to focus on missing requirements.
• Amendment C-17 Passed: Amendment C-16 may only take effect should the chapter be in good standing with OSFL which constitutes at least a 2.5 chapter-wide quarterly GPA.
• Amendment C-18 Passed: A slight correction to the bylaws, initially it was not written that those who have Provisional status had to pay dues, but it was for other statuses. a correction to this minor error was brought up.

Random Facts

• During Actives vs Pledges, the actives started off 2-0, but pledges caught up to 2-2 with the actives ultimately winning at the tiebreaker (dodgeball). It was through this that the actives almost ended up blowing a 2-0 lead in the Actives vs Pledges tiebreaker.

Awards

• Sectionals Man-Mile Award, and the award for most attendees (70)