Wesleyan Student Assembly — Wesleyan University

Minutes: October 23, 2005, No. 3

WSA Officers
President: Jesse Watson
Vice President: Monica Arduini
Coordinator: Emily Malkin
Treasurer: Matt Ball

Meeting Agenda and Business

1. Approval of Minutes
2. Presentation and Discussion with Dean Maria Cruz-Saco
3. Presentation and Discussion on Socially Responsible Investing with Rob Weinstock ’06
4. Committee Reports
5. New Business and Announcements

Attached Documents

• WSA Resolution on Socially Responsible Investing (original draft)
• WSA Resolution on Socially Responsible Investing (amended)

Opening of Meeting
Meeting opened 7:04 PM.

Approval of Minutes
Minutes approved unanimously.

Presentation and Discussion with Dean Maria Cruz-Saco

• Multicultural dean position and goals for the year:
• Multicultural dean:
• Report by task force: new dean must provide leadership in three areas: academic support, support for underrepresented students, additional programming in intercultural stuff.
• Cruz-Saco and staff met, formulated a proposal: integrating task force’s goals, support for all students, particularly underrepresented students. The dean will be a critical advisor to the rest of the office and community, infuse other offices within the dean structure with raising awareness and interculturalness. The dean will have a very qualified staff: associate and assistant dean, director, etc… Cruz-Saco feels that the position moves beyond multicultural programming to academic and other areas. Wants to rename the position. Will create an advisory board, which will work more strategically in identifying problem areas, etc… The dean will also work with faculty development, to create programs for faculty.
• New initiatives this year: Campus conversations—series of invited guest lectures, debate panels, etc… during lunch (free food, noon-1pm). Will discuss different types of topics, including multicultural affairs.
• Some other events with ResLife (events followed by conversations lead by reslife staff): The Color Orange, Michael Dyson, instillations (Love Makes a Family)
• Dean Culliton: Didn’t want to wait until dean to come to have these events. Grant: Web application for anyone interested in bringing guest speakers, programs, etc. to Wesleyan for multicultural awareness. Will be receiving email tomorrow.
• Resource online: description of resources, programs, support for students.
• Other goals: Usdan university center (would like input from students), changes in office of behavior health services (reduce wait time, begin to develop programs and outreach).

Stack

• Matt Ball says that there seems to be an emphasis on programming for the new dean, but the position was originally conceived for resources. Cruz-Saco says the programs will be for developing multicultural skills and various constituencies on campus to aquire awareness. There will also be many support resources,
• Mall Ball also says that multicultural doesn’t necessarily exclude sexual orientation, Diversity is a simple word, and not like the original idea. Cruz-Saco says the position will be dean of diversity or learning.
• Jesse Watson says that there was a component of the job dealing with first year matters. Cruz-Saco says that there will be conversations and programs during orientation week. Will create VISION for first year experience, about learning.
• Sean Conlon says that orientation is only for Freshmen and supporting students and staff. How do you engage students once orientation week is over, when there are other stuff going on? Cruz-Saco says that two years ago, there was a very good first-year-matters program, well-attended, etc. Dean Rick says that food and interesting topics (and other creative ideas) to increase participation.
• Benedict Bernstein asks if there has been any thought about having students themselves identifying the most important issues for these programs. Cruz-Saco says yes. Conversations and workshops will be held.
• Jesse Watson says that there seems to be 2 changes from the task force report to the proposal.
  1. Originally, the position had a narrow job description. Now it’s more broad, and a higher position. Cruz-Saco says the taskforce identified this person needed to be respected, important, etc…
  2. The person was originally conceived to have a dotted-line relationship with the provost, but now there isn’t. Cruz-Saco says that it would be better to work through Career development, because they would like to have impact on faculty, etc… excelling learning process from both sides. Office in learning and academic affairs have to match.
• Annie Fox asks about difference between programming and services. Doesn’t understand “multi-cultural skills” programming. Feels like we don’t need admin-administered programs, we already have student programs. Students are just looking for services that will make these programs better integrated into reslife, faculty training, etc… Doesn’t understand how these new initiatives are doing more than just creating new programs. Cruz-Saco says outcome is to raise level of awareness, to make everyone literate in multicultural affairs. Partnering with center for career development, and having active dialogues, it will make faculty more aware.
• Sean Corlett asks about how they will be ensuring that the student voice will be prominent.
• Cruz-Saco says that the advisory board and student life committee, and other stuff.
• Matt Ball says that there seems to be both specific and broad objectives of the dean, what are the quotidian activities for being a resource? Cruz-Saco says the dean will be available to students, monitor progress on satisfaction with campus climate, achievement and success of students, and problem areas, in contact with faculty members, etc… What is more important than the daily activities of the dean is the goals and objectives of the position (awareness, support for underrepresented students, etc).
• Benedict Bernstein asks to what extent would this dean become only symbolic, or the “dean of political correctness?” Cruz-Saco says that political correctness is an empty approach. There is a lack of true understanding for interaction across identities. The position will create TRUE understanding for where people come from. Will ensure that students and faculty will have skills to build a cohesive community.
• Dean Rick says that until the dean is here, some of these questions won’t really apply. The position seems to be responding to the
• Zach Blau asks Cruz-Saco to elaborate monitoring student satisfaction. Cruz-Saco says that there is a survey for seniors, ratings are low for multicultural/diversity climate, etc… Zach says that only pertains to seniors, are there other ways of dealing with this issue while working with other students? Cruz-Saco says yes, there will be conversations.

Presentation and Discussion on Socially Responsible Investing with Rob Weinstock ’06

• Issue Salience
• Growing trend: students affecting financial decisions of the university. Wesleyan’s first experience with this is during Apartheid (divesting). STARC (students transforming and resisting corporations) Campaign. Previous obstacles: issue-oriented groups/ no institutional memory/lack of accountability (no consensual student voice). Previous approach: www.wesleyan.edu/treasurer/proxy. Students can vote on issues. Very clumsy tool.
• Other schools’ advisory committees:
• Vote on shareholder resolutions
• Often have submitted proxy voting guidelines
• Vote on recommendations that are submitted to the board of trustees
• Committees also allot time to the consideration of generating their own shareholder resolutions.
• Wesleyan has subscriptions to ISS, ICCR, IRRC.
• Information disclosure:
• Investment transparency differs from school to school.
• Composition of the advisory panel is usually 4 members for these tasks:
• Proxy voting, shareholder resolution, creation of proxy voting guidelines, divestment recommendation.
• Administrative support: info packets, etc…
• Solution: creating an advisory committee, having an endowment intern (work-study position in the office of endowment manager)
• Benefits: increased transparency, increased student input and oversight, guarantee of socially conscious management, screen to ensure the good practices of firms in which Wesleyan is invested, educational value to students.
• Jesse says that this proposal will create an ad-hoc committee, not a constitutional change.

Committee Reports

• Sean Conlon asks about the consensual student voice: why can’t the WSA member be a senior (Gabe Tabak says for institutional memory), and how will the selection process create the consensual voice? Weinstock: WSA will appoint members to represent students, instead of having
• Nathan Ratner asks about what the endowment is. Saving’s account of the school (try not to draw from it). Ratner also asks about the endowment manager, whether or not he likes this idea. Important people like this idea.
• Emily Malkin says that this idea is already in motion, WSA backing.
• Benedict asks about lack of a clause defining socially responsible investing. Controversial issue; needs that definition. Weinstock says that the committee will deal with these issues, will not drop a dead definition, but will create cooperative process. “definition” will change over time.
• Sam Ruth asks about whether or not 4 members will handle conflicts (even vs. odd number). Weinstock and Tabak says that there will be also faculty members and endowment manager will be tie-breaker. Sam Ruth asks about the relationship of WSA and this committee. Tabak says that the WSA will not have direct control over this committee. Sam Ruth asks about recruitment for position: Endowment Intern and FiFac chair will be responsible for this.
• Anda Greeny asks about administrative support. There is some. Greeny is worried about FiFac chair having too many responsibilities. Tabak says that FiFac chair already sits at all Trustees meetings, very simple.
• Gabe Tabak reads the resolution.

• Friendly amendments:
• Annie Fox suggests: The EAC shall work to increase community awareness of and access to information on university investments. Weinstock (investment activity).
• Eric Rosenblum suggests: Two WSA members, one being FiFAC, with no more than one senior.
• Anda Greeny: omit the part about two additional students not allowed to be WSA members. Weinstock: (not NECESSARILY WSA members) Greeny (chosen from the student body at large)

• Benedict motions to have it read as amended. 1 opposed.
• Gabe Tabak reads it again, as amended.
• Sam Ruth motions to pass the resolution. 1 abstention.

Committee Reports
All personal pronouns refer to the particular committee or the chair.

EC

• The EC met twice since the last assembly meeting and discussed: The Multicultural Dean position; the Argus editorial.
• The Hi/Lo fence- perhaps a consensus building forum if the URLC decides to seriously consider.
• The new VP for Finance and Facilities position job description which will become public in the next weeks. WSA members of the Search Committee (Gabe and Jesse) advocated the addition of qualification clauses in the job description including: collaborative decision making process, energy conservation, renewable energy, and responsible labor relations. As of next week nominations will be accepted and the committee will convene in January to assess the pool. Any student may of course make a nomination. Advising possibilities were discussed.
• Some discussion of adopting a position with regard to fraternities was had. Unofficial WSA party next Sat evening at Gabe's house with cameo by "Gomolin" We will be meeting with the Dean of the College staff next Thurs and Pres. Bennet next Fri.

EPC

• I’ve (Sam) met with Judith Brown about EPC related activities, Anna Van den burg about Pre-registration system and Billy Weitzer about Advising and other topics. I gave a suggestion to Anna that would increase the flexibility of the new system. It’s currently being looked into. We’re putting together a way to get student input on advising, will develop some possible solutions from that. I’m also working with Billy to possibly institute a peer-advising system. There should be a “advising forum” occurring sometime in the next few weeks. Dave, myself, and Barry Chernoff (the faculty EPC chair) will be heading this up. I was interviewed by the Argus about the new Government Dept. changes.

CC

• Emily is now an administrator of the WSA website, and we’re going to start really revamping it within the next couple of weeks. If anyone has anything they would like added/changed on the website, email Emily.
• Ashley is still working on a permanent filing system for WSA archiving. In the meantime, we’re starting to organize stuff into manila folders in the WSA office.
• WSA PARTY!! OCTOBER 29!!!!
• Member(s) of the weeks, since we didn’t have them for the last two meetings…. Xiaoxi Tu, Nathan Ratner, and Sean Conlon.

SBC

• During the last two weeks, the Student Budget Committee met twice. We met last Monday and then set up a special meeting this Wednesday because fall break interfered with our regular Monday meeting. The meetings were pretty unspectacular, although we did decide the budget of WESU after a few weeks of waiting on their request. A meeting was set up with Justin Harmon, Nate Peters, Matt Ball, Jesse Watson, and the two members of WESU (including the treasurer, Josh Nathan-Kazis). We reviewed the changes in the allocation of money to WESU. In short, the money is currently being transferred to an outside account, where it is merged with both the money that the University contributes, as well as the profit made by the station. The SBC's main concern was that we wanted to make sure that the money was being spent on what we allocated it for - the same standard to which we hold all other student groups. Nate Peters has promised to provide a monthly report of WESU's expenditures, and Josh, WESU's treasurer, has promised to set up regular (probably once a semester) meetings to review expenditures, including bringing in receipts.
• We have also started to enter our budget allocations into our new online lockbox system. We are making improvements to the system as we speak and working backwards to enter in previous budget allocations from initials. Once the information is entered, we will be able to present a budget summary to the WSA that includes the percentage of funds allocated versus the percentage requested, the percentage spent versus the percentage allocated, and other great features that you all will come to love and appreciate. Lastly, our members are making progress on their individual projects. Leilani Kupo and Pia Dubinsky, a student (the head of Terspichore), have taken it upon themselves to work with SBC member Mike Cho on looking into working with Physical Plant to making stage rental cheaper (and possibly purchasing a stage). Emily is still investigating WB Mason and Staples (see last weeks report), Rashida is still looking into the Red and Black wireless situation, and both should have something to report next week.

FiFaC

• Dining committee met. Will meet again on Wednesday. Most of the discussion seems to be centering on the new University Center; we will try to improve dining during the next 2 years as well.
• URLC met on Friday. Some of the big issues include program house sales (far side of Washington), HM compensation, fence behind the Nics (not controversial), fence between Lorise and Traverse Square (controversial), improvements to the Foss dorms over the summer, and major maintenance requests. If anyone has suggestions on important improvements to the Foss Hill dorms or items they want added to the MM plans, email gtabak. URLC meets again on Thursday.
• University Center meeting was Friday. The main concern for the rest of the year in this committee will be defining programming usage of the spaces in the new UC. There will also be a chance for input on furniture types and color schemes in the building. Dean Rick wants to solicit input from the WSA on programming in the University Center, either at a meeting or via a survey.
• CAFSAC, Financial Aid, and Library Committee meetings are all coming up.

COCo

• COCo met and recognized Earthquake relief, Wes Entrepreneur, Cardinal Sinners, Desperate Measures, The Sirens, WesPeace, Sign House.
• We also started putting together the COCo yellow pages, the student leadership guide, and scheduled psafe meetings and the lighting tour (Nov. 9th). We are also planning a student forum on the issue of the new dean position and a community service fair that would connect student leaders with local leaders. Will be meeting with Lisa Henricks and Jose to coordinate COCo/WSA office stuff. Plus, we sent out all our e-mails to groups asking them to update their splash pages and to use the events calendar more, which I think so far has been very effective.

SAC

• The wonderful SAC committee met on Wednesday night, for its weekly committee meeting, and came to the realization that we, the members of SAC, are just purely the best. Ya’ll better read the entirety of the report. Unfortunately I, the King of the world and SAC chair, will not be able to attend our wonderful assembly meeting this Sunday. Garth and Whitney, will present the URLC report. Nate and Rennee will present the SLC report. Holla back at rmedrano@wesleyan.edu with any questions  
• 1)URLC Meeting Minutes for October 20, 2005 Present: Rafael Medrano, Whitney Matthews, Gabe Tabak, Garth Mitchell, Kim Lam, Gian Ishino, Matt Johnson, Robin Hershkowitz, Mike Whaley, Jeff Miller, Fran Koerting The initial draft of topics was reviewed, with brief explanations of each item (not listed in any particular order): Proposed fence behind Foss Hill Residences Alternatives for student storage Foss renovations Conversion of student storage spaces to lounges and kitchens Railing at Low Rise and Traverse Square Program housing: relocations, connection with diversity efforts, minimum membership, house manager compensation Proposal to furnish the senior woodframes Feedback on recent new construction Consistent cable service Consider expectations and biannual reporting for community based living (Westco, Substance free, 200 Church, single sex) Gender neutral housing Major Maintenance and Capital Improvement requests Proposal regarding Quiet Hours during reading period   The following topics were added: Review class (graduation year) distribution within residence halls Student satisfaction with Residential Life and Physical Plant Additional laundry facilities Review of Housing lottery procedures   Dean Whaley suggested that due to the number of topics related to program housing, that a separate ad hoc committee should be established to address those topics. Rafael, Gian and Whitney volunteered to serve as the URLC liaisons. Dawn Brown, the Area Coordinator for Program Housing, has already established a committee composed of House Managers as well as residents of program houses, which seems like a logical group to tap into. Rafael (the WSA) will extend an invitation to other students outside of program housing who might be interested in participating as well. A time sensitive issue for this committee is to resolve the relocation of various program houses by the end of the semester.   Responsibility for taking minutes will be rotated throughout the committee. Rafael volunteered to post the minutes on the WSA website so that they would be accessible to all students.   Thursdays at 9:00 a.m. was determined to be a good meeting time for all committee members. The committee will meet on a weekly basis until it feels the number of topics to be addressed, listed above, has been sufficiently reduced to warrant less frequent meetings. All meetings will be held in the Registrar’s conference room, 104 North College, unless otherwise notified. The committee will solicit additional student input through ad hoc committees, “town meetings”, and focus groups.   The first topic discussed was the proposed fence behind Nicolson, which would be a six foot chain link fence, installed halfway between Foss and Vine Street in the wooded hillside. The fence would increase safety and security and be a deterrent to thefts. The committee did not express any concerns regarding the fence, and thought it was a good idea. An email will be sent to the residents of Nicolson and Fauver Residence Halls to solicit their feedback.   The proposed railing at Low Rise and Traverse Square was the next topic that was discussed. Dean Whaley clarified that the fence was only a 4 foot high wrought iron railing, similar to the one already used at Traverse Square. The issue will be discussed more in-depth at our meeting next week, including what prompted the proposal, the specifics of the proposal and student concerns related to the proposal. An invitation is being extended to residents of Traverse Square to send a few representatives to join us, as well as the RAs at Low Rise and High Rise, Public Safety, and Michael Benn. The next step would be for this information to be shared with the residents of High and Low Rise, and for student feedback to be brought back to the URLC.   Agenda items for the next meeting (as time allows): Proposed railing at Low Rise and Traverse Square Members are asked to bring suggestions for Major Maintenance requests, which need to be submitted within the next week. Establish deadlines for each of the topics on the list, to assist us in prioritizing the order in which they should be addressed. Proposed house sale plan for the university As soon as the agenda can accommodate it, Dean Whaley will report on gender-neutral housing for the class of 2009.  
• 2) SLC meeting Minutes for October 21, 2005 Present: Dean Whaley, Dean Culliton, Dean Cruz-Saco, Fran Koerting, Marina Melendez, Whitney Matthews, Garth Mitchell, Renee Verdier, Nathan Ratner, Siying Chen, Rafael Medrano We began the meeting by discussing the Office of Behavioral Health for Students (OBHS) External Review submitted on Spring 2003. Overall the review highlights the professionalism of the staff but also mentions how the office is perceived to be “cloistered and standoffish.” During the meeting It was mentioned that OBHS should have a greater visibility, not only by getting the word out to students about changes and recommendations in OBHS but to also inform students about the areas of specialization of the staff members for example alcohol and drug abuse, sexual assault, etc. The OBHS advisory board is looking to finalize a strategic plan by the end of this academic year. Some of the issues they are addressing are the implementation of group therapy sessions as a supplement to the one on one therapy sessions, the effectiveness of the changes implemented such the as the 5 cut and the referral system.   One problem is that Students are mainly focusing on the cut of the sessions and not the looking at the entirety of changes. Information needs to get out there about the strategic decision to reduce the number of sessions:   -Most of the office’s time is spent dealing with students who need about five sessions, but this does not mean that if a crisis can be solved, for example, in seven sessions the student can only visit OBHS 5 times. The student will use the seven recommended sessions, basically there is flexibility. If the significant majority of students who utilize OBHS need about five sessions then it make sense to reduce the number.  
• For those students who are deemed to need a fair amount of sessions, they will be referred to local practitioners.   Both the cut and the referrals, theoretically, will reduce the waiting time and increase the ability of OBHS’s outreach efforts to the Wesleyan community for example OBHS participation in orientation, residential life training, etc.   Things to know about OBHS:
• Currently OBHS has 4 PhD practitioners, which is atypical. It seems that the norm is 1 or 2 PhD practitioners and 3-5 PhD candidates or interns.
• One of the changes that took place was the implementation of a centralized computerized scheduling service. In the previous system information was stored both in computers and handwritten reports.
• OBHS created an FAQ page in their website.
• staff does not reflect the demographic of the student body. It was suggested that once there is a vacancy in the office the university should apply the affirmative action policy when hiring a new person. This is in response to the concern presented by students of color and LGBTQQ.  
• 2) We also discussed the position of the dean of Multicultural affairs. But since Dean Maria Cruz-Saco is presenting on this issue to the Assembly on Sunday I will not go into details about the position.  
• Title of the position might be changed
• The dean will have a staff of associate deans and directors and will report to the Dean of the College
• advising on multicultural programming resources for students and staff on agendas dealing with Diversity
• Diversity to include national and international students
• Orientation to become a full year initiative (first year matters). -ensure academic resources needed to succeed  
• SARN-network of offices that provide academic support   THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT!!!!!! An advisory council on diversity will be created- this group will advice the new dean on policies to strengthen existing and new programs.  
• 3) Dean Mike Whaley and Dean Culliton presented some diversity initiatives.  
• There is a fund for students who want to carry out programs and activities to create multicultural awareness. Students will be awarded $500 to bring about something new and innovative, not previously funded by an organization on campus.  
• IPC’s Campus conversations program  
• Deans Colloqs, Class deans will have colloquium/lunch discussions  
• Deans office along with Iris Jacob’s group will sponsor 3 large “diversity initiatives” events in the spring semester. One will be a performance piece, the second will be a lecture and the third an installation. There are many suggestions up the air, but if anyone has any recommendations email them to me.

IPC

1. Who wants to be on the WSA Office Beautification Committee?
2. CRC Advisory Committee will meet on Wed. afternoon... if you would like to be on the committee, email me and tell me why.
3. ITS Advisory Committee will meet at some point this week, yet to be determined.
4. Emergency Loan Fund Committee will meet on Monday afternoon.
5. Faculty Talks: We have a panel of professors planned to speak on Diversity and Affirmative Action on December 6th. We are working on planning at least one more talk for this semester. We have also joined with two other lecture series (one by the Deans' Office, one by ResLife and WesDEF) to coordinate our scheduling.

Freshman Committee

• The unofficial freshmen committee met this week and: Made some plans for 09 outreach: getting a Freshman lyris listserv, gathering/party with frosh reps and frosh (for meet n' greet, questions, concerns, etc...)
• Updated each other on general WSA activity: The issues that were met with the most discussion: dinning (improving dinning options between 1:30 and 5pm, weekend food), foss hill renovations, library hours, improving RIDE board system (post online?), more publicity for SARN, establishing a good relationship with the Admin early.
• Discussed the possibility of playing WESU on campus locations (Mocon, Summerfields, etc)

Stack

• Jerry Ai asks about the registration system. Did we look into other schools’ systems? Sam Ruth replies that the people who were responsible for these changes are very experienced, there was a lot of research involved. Continued battle between flexibility and fairness. New program will be more fair.
• Jesse Watson wants the Nicholson fence’s aesthetic properties to be examined.
• Ashley Martin asks if student groups can co-sponsor the dean’s talks/programs in diversity. Dean Rick says to talk to dean Mike.
• Sean Conlon asks about plans to publicize plans for OBHS. Nathan wants to talk to the guy who wrote the petition about the lower number of visits, publicize the other changes.
• Anda Greeny asks about the frats. Garth replies that he brought reps from the frats. Anda also reports that he’s working with Ruckus for promotional ideas. Asks for other ideas.
• Matt Ball asks since most people aren’t using the full ten, it’s not a burden, why shorten the number of minutes? Monica Arduini says that 50% were using 1-5 visits. Reducing it to 5 would reduce wait time.
• Ashley Martin asks about outsourcing to Middletown psychiatrists. Would insurance cover that? Dean Rick replies that it would cover up to $5000.
• Sean Conlon asks about SARN. Sam Ruth says it’s where students can get academic resources, peer advising, tutoring, writing workshop, etc. It will fall under the Dean of Multicultural affairs eventually.
• Sean Cortlett asks if there have been surveys for students using OBHS. Nathan replies that they have surveyed: high satisfaction for service, low satisfaction for waiting time.

New Business and Announcements
Annie Fox gives context for frat issue: COCo used to be able to recognize frats, SBC could not find them. This year, Wesleyan is to have no relationships to Beta. COCo could not recognize them.

Stack

• President of Beta: since they are part of a national organization, they cannot change the mission statement.
• Sam Ruth says that there is a lot of pressure from alumni. Will loose a lot of money and support.
• Tyler Franklin, VP of Beta: every brother is buying the house. Wants to be recognized.
• Matt Ball says that the admin seems more focused on the discrimination issue, frats should focus more on the fact that excluding
• Mike, president of DKE: to exclude different groups based on composition differences is unfair (evokes Cruz-Saco’s political correctness statement).
• Emily Malkin says she talked to female Trustees about frats (they don’t like them).
• Benedict asks whether other frats in the same organization is having similar problems. Pres. Of Beta says that other universities are very supportive, because they generate a lot of money.
• Jason Harris asks about plans. Tyler replies that the admin’s decision seems to be set.
• Sam Ruth says that the change should start in the WSA. Frats don’t really have any leverage.
• Zelda Ferguson says that the diversity issue is more of a smoke screen for frat activities, such as parties and alcohol. Needs more discussion about frat-related activities.
• Annie Fox says that if you let frats discriminate, then X-house, womanist house, etc… gets to discriminate. No male has ever lived in womanist house, because they don’t want to. Was there ever thought on accepting the policy and just let it work out itself? Pres. Of DKE says that there was emphasis on actively recruiting women.
• Garth Brooks says that the frats are in a really tight position. Faces loss of legacy, existence.
• Nathan Ratner asks if they’ve talked to national offices, etc… Their opinions? Pres. of DKE says that the woman living in the house is only a boarder, not part of the frat.
• Nya Roy says that she sympathizes. Are there options in programming (i.e compromises)? If sororities had housing status, would there be a difference? Pres. of Beta replies that sororities probably wouldn’t. Compromises would compromise recruitment and money.
• Sean Conlon asks if the Admin has an official rationale. Annie Fox replies that program houses cannot discriminate. WSA can.
• Matt Ball asks if we could come up with some sort of official statement, and says that having frats as program houses means that housing spots are taking up spaces for people not living there will be open.
• Jesse Watson replies that we will come up with official statement/type thing next week.
• Zelda says that Leilani Kupo is too busy to deal with the Greek situation, many sororities and frats are less visible because they don’t have a house, could we set up an administrative position?
• Anda Greeny says that admin should be here to represent themselves.
• Brent (pres. of Beta) says that Psafe cannot come to the house if they’re off-campus. Annie Fox replies that Beta never came to be recognized. For the admin to specify who COCo and SBC can recognize and fund is representative of admin’s control over WSA operations.
• Emily Malkin asks how many people are in Beta: 56, DKE: 75, Psi U: 50/60
• Benedict Bernstein says that admissions was proud of small greek activity on campus. Is there a “conspiracy” on the part of admin to disassociate greek life from campus in General? some agreement with that theory.
• Matt Ball says that admissions is probably more concerned with the frat stereotypes. Annie Fox says that frats are probably good for admissions, because wes seems too hippie.
• Janine says that even Eclectic has been targeted by the administration
• Brent says that there are many campuses have constructive regulatory policies that we could work on.
• Pres. of DKE says that the house isn’t going anywhere. Admin can’t have it.
• Jason Harris says the lighting tour will be Wed, Nov. 9 7:30pm. Dean Maria will be there.
• Annie Fox is really concerned with the new position of dean of Multicultural affairs, proposes more talk in the future. Planning a forum, another meeting with Dean Maria?

Adjournment
The meeting is adjourned at 9:37 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
Xiaoxi Tu, WSA Secretary