Definitions
Motions
Sigma Iota
Technicalities
Order of Business
100

The order of business for a specific meeting

What is an agenda?

100

Phrase required to make a motion

What is "I move..."?

100

Event held at end of year

What is the induction ceremony?

100

Month when our elections usually take place.

What is May?

100

The first order of Business

What is Call to Order

200

The number of people who need to vote for a motion to pass

What is an absolute majority (50%)?

200

Used to modify a motion

What is an amendment?

200

Five executive officer positions in Sigma Iota

What is President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Historian?

200

Number of demerits that constitute removal from ESA Sigma Iota Chapter roll

What is three?

200

The second order of business

What is opening in prayer?

300

A set of rules that governs an organization

What are bylaws?

300

Motion needed to hold off voting for the next meeting

What is tabling?

300

Three tenets of Sigma Iota (100 points per tenet)

What is faith, education, and service?

300

The motion that delays action on an item of business for a committee to do more research

What is referring to a committee?

300
The third order of Business
What is Officer Reports
400

A code of ethics to be followed by individuals in a group to conduct business

What is parliamentary procedure?

400

The only motion you do NOT debate

What is adjourning a meeting?

400

Number of hours that must be spent in individual service per year

What is six?

400

The four types of meetings that Sigma Iota can hold (100 points per type)

What are: general, executive council, committee, and special.

400

The fourth order of Business

What is Old Business

500
the minimum number of members of an assembly or society that must be present at any of its meetings to make the proceedings of that meeting valid. (300 points for official name, 200 points for what that number is)


What is quorum? (50%)

500

The president must remain impartial and therefore cannot...

Who is the only member who cannot make the motion?

500

Sigma Iota's first year

What is 2007?

500

Only kind of demerit(s) that will roll over each year

What are service violations?

500
The fifth order of Business
What is New Business
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