From the By-Laws

1. The Vice President shall take roll and keep minutes of all House Meetings and archive them appropriately.
2. The Vice President shall meet with the Secretary, Community Service Chairman, and Scholarship Chairman, either together or individually, to ensure the proper discharge of their duties.
3. The Vice President shall be responsible for overseeing all standing and ad-hoc committees of the Chapter, setting the budgets for those Committees, ensuring that they are on track for completing their goals and responsibilities, planning and ideation for alumni, community service, and scholarship chair events, and forming a long-term vision of the Chapter’s alumni outreach, community service, and scholarship efforts.
4. The Vice President shall serve as Acting President in the President’s absence.

Vice-President's Wisdom

In nuce: Run meetings and ritual without wasting people's time

Running House Meetings

Your job in running meetings is to make sure people’s time isn’t wasted.

Attendance

• Generally, absences for unavoidable conflicts are excused (it’s in the by-laws, but those rules are a little strict — be reasonable but not too reasonable).
• Figure out a policy for lateness — if it’s egregious and unexcused then it is probably bad.

Start meetings on time

• Some brothers will show up late, but if you wait for everyone to show up, meetings drag on far longer than they need to
• If you start meetings late, then brothers will show up even later because they know it will be a waste of time to show up on time, which exacerbates the problem

Start with roses and thorns

• When else are we going to hear about all the brothers’ relationship updates?
• It’s really the only time we get to hear how everyone is doing. It’s also great to have an opportunity to share exciting announcements

During officer reports, try to limit announcements to stuff that directly affects the entire house