TO: All Rho Alpha BCA Officers and Advisors FROM: Jon "Crash" Parker, Rho Alpha BCA President SUBJECT: BCA News DATE: May 9, 1988 This letter is to bring you up to date on what is going on with the BCA as of NPD 1988. To begin with, Ward Follette was elected BCA Secretary. He will serve a one year term until an all new BCA is elected at the next NPD. Secondly, this year was not great for the Rho Alpha BCA. For whatever the reason, the BCA was not as effective as it should be. The main problem still seems to be a lack of communication. On the whole, BCA advisors hardly ever talk to their undergraduate committee head. The BCA officers, the undergraduate officers, and the House Corp. president held a meeting at NPD to try and decide once and for all what to do to achieve a good level of communication. We think we came up with some good ideas. The chapter is now going to mail the minutes of their chapter meeting to the BCA officers every week. The officers will in turn mail out a copy to each BCA advisor. This way, each advisor will be kept up to date on what the chapter is doing. In addition, we would like to implement a contact form. This form will let me know that contact is ,.being made and what was discussed. After each conversation, you are requested to fill out a contact form and mail it to me, the BCA President. This is the what needs to be done. It is time for all of us (myself included) to get off of our duffs and starting communicating with the chapter and each other. I know its not easy. Once you start to talk to your committee head and become friends, it will be a lot easier. I want each advisor to call his advisee and talk to him before the end of the year (exams end on May 20th). The enclosed set of questions are a guide to follow when talking to your advisee. They are geared toward end of the year close down, transition into summer, and looking toward next year. Many of them will be holding the same positions next fall. After you talk to your advisee, please fill out the contact form and return it to me. If I don't hear from you, you'll hear from me. So let's get this thing rolling. Once we do, I think it will be easier. The BCA officers and myself want to hold a BCA meeting with just the BCA officers and advisors within the next month. We want to decide upon a definite plan of action for the BCA next year that is agreeable to all. We would like to discuss the contact forms, questions to ask the undergraduates, desired number of contacts, method of contact, etc. We need your help in making these decisions since you will be the ones implementing them. So come to the meeting and put in your two cents. \r\nI have enclosed another form with the choices for meeting dates. Please indicate a first and second preference and mail the form back to me along with your contact form after you* talk to your undergraduate committee head. The meeting will be held somewhere in northern 'Virginia. Let's make the BCA an effective body and something that both we and the chapter can be proud of!!! Fraternally, Jorf^han Parker President, Rho Alpha BCA Perge! ^ ^(^1/ 6(^1/1/^^'!' c^Ji^u^c /S -f- 7^ ^ H" C^!^, (r>^ Y