Wesleyan Student Assembly — Wesleyan University
Minutes: October 21, 2007
WSA Officers
President: Matt Ball
Vice President: Emily Malkin
Coordinator: Izaak Orlansky
Treasurer: Gianna Palmer
Meeting Agenda and Business
1. Roll Call
2. Fight Song
3. Approval of Last Week's Minutes
4. Open Forum
5. Presentation and Discussion with Director of Public Safety, Dave Meyer
6. Sustainability Resolution
7. EC Summer Reports and Approval
8. Committee Reports
9. New Business and Announcements
Opening of Meeting: 7:05 pm
Attached Documents: Committee Reports
Roll Call
Approval of Minutes From Last Week
Minutes Approved Unanimously
Open Forum
Hearing no one open forum was closed
Presentation and Discussion with Director of Public Safety, Dave Meyer
- Matt introduced Dave Meyer he wanted to keep it to 5 min of talking and 20 Q and A’s and mentioned SLC is doing a party policy and wanted to try to not focus so much on that
- P safe just got website running so now university compliant
- online ticket appeal form
- anonymous tip form
- has been a busy fall
Stack
- Mike: thanked Dave and asked about liability specifically program houses having people over
- Dave: the party policy is to help students have safe events. WE have to talk about liability especially relating to alcohol. In Connecticut you need:
o 1. Over 21
o 2. don’t allow intoxicated people in
o 3. if they are intoxicated they are deal with medically
o people would be liable and parents would too cause of taxes
- Sam Pop: asked about if there is a lockdown
- Dave: no lockdown alarm would be impossible to lock it down (too many buildings). There is connect ED system. Police often set up parameters (gave an example of past premature use)
- Saul : asked about shooting incident at Low Rise
- Dave: lower part of campus is most vulnerable. Might set up cameras, interviewing vendors. High rise low rise, science center lot (cause its open 24/7) would be camera targets. Did walkthrough of Low Rise to give officers sense of soundings.
- Saul: asked for elaboration of camera system and reservations Dave had
- Dave: we have no reservations its mostly students, we won’t have someone monitoring it 24/7, more for investigative purposes
- Matt: if shooting happens or something like it, is alert system a finished product
- Dave: off campus incident occurred, within 15 min no further threat said police, so we didn’t use alert system. That’s why they didn’t use it. It is in its infancy and they only want to use it in case of energy. P Safe follows the set guidelines to notify community. If there was immediate threat to the community they would have used it.
- Izakk: even though there was a not threat student would have liked to be notified. Whose decision is it?
- Dave: its my decision right now. We will have to review how we make these decision. Its important we get out correct information cause we have been criticized in the past. Similar shooting two years ago. 299 guns in some guys house.
- Oscar: discuss the definition of intoxication
- Dave: BAC .08%
- Oscar: so do you have to provide medical care at that point?
- Dave: no but there is a different type of liability, you need to think about what happens when they walk out (maybe get hit by a car)
- Brett : is there an issue of P Safe turning over things to Middletown Police?
- Dave: no. we haven’t turned over anything to Middletown Police department. We usually take are of on campus stuff. P Safe calls police if complainer wants them too. Police and P Safe called then Police decide arrests will be made.
- Brett: when do you call the police?
- Dave: when we think we can’t handle it. i.e. disorderly crowd etc
- Emily: what is the status of paintings that were stolen at Olin?
- Dave: unsure when they were taken and how. Building has alarm in it.
- Saul: asked about tickets in wood frame driveways. Appeals etc
- Dave: set priorities for ticketing. Start with faculty lots get students out, do wood frames last so they have reasonable times to register cars. 1 ticket for unregistered vehicle sometimes it is voided when ticket is registered
- Saul: parking unregistered car in driveway doesn’t do any harm and especially if they are guests. Because they don’t’ block sidewalk
- Dave: we had lots of problems with thinks blocking driveways
- Natasha: Beta has lots of security action. What are policies?
- Dave: private property. They asked P Safe not go on property. Police take action on Beta and last night was in the street so P Safe came. Emphasized P Safe can’t go there.
- Natasha: noted P Safe officers might even know some of the non-students who are involved in incidents
- Dave: hard to control who comes and goes in some places
- Bradley: asked for clarification that P Safe hasn’t called police. Asked about incident when student was arrested after the fire drill.
- Dave: P Safe can’t dispose of drugs. “I could get arrested for having the pot.” Its at police desecration (the officer, the amount) etc. We can’t stand in between private citizens and law enforcement. Would get charged with interfering with an officer.
- Darien: talk more about if there is a policy about non-students on campus.
- Dave: anyone can have guests and there are a lot in the residences. No one is prohibited. Party policy can have 2 guest per student; they just have to leave ID at the door. If there is a assault or issue it is usually non-student (not just Middletown residents) students from other colleges who think they won’t get caught at Wesleyan. When having party should hold IDS of non-students cause it is small enough to identify the person who caused a problem
- Micah: asked about fire safety calling others when they find alcohol in a Freshman dorm
- Dave: only calls we get involve narcotics or weapons
- Micah: P Safe won’t write students up for having alcohol in freshman dorm?
- Dave: We will. But there is a difference between fire inspections and P Safe. We don’t run undercover operations we get enough from just walking around seeing people.
- Brett: are you legally obligated to report to the police?
- Dave: I’m not sure. But were going to. We can’t legally hold narcotics so we will call police and student has already made a decision that will harm there wellbeing.
- Charlie: asked if P Safe seeks out drug dealing criminals in order to stop distribution?
- Dave: we have in the past but Middletown Police has. Distribution on college campus is by people who know other people etc. But if we find out who they are we will pursue it.
- Brett: what is the obligation to tell the police based on? Do you have to follow code of non-academic conduct?
- Dave: we have to turn drugs over to the police and report will be written to board based on non-academic conduct. Arrests made by police officers.
- Izaak: thanked Dave
6. Sustainability Resolution
Stack
- Allison motioned to consider resolution
- Lots of paper copies of the resolution were distributed (ironic)
- There is discussion on the issue
- Jullian: thinks this is important move for WSA to take to support substantiality
- Allison: climate commitment is important document and its surprising we haven’t already signed it. WSA has a way of influencing community. This is good because it includes individuals, Roth and the WSA
- Izaak: its not just asking people to sign it but that’s important too. But its also we the students. We have large budget and ways to improve as the WSA. OEAC is the best places to think about sustainability. SBC could consider and ask about materials being purchased are environmentally conscious.
- Sam: reports don’t happen so lets change the last part to the to a certain committee i.e. OEAC to get the report cause sometimes we forget who we delegated the reasonability too. Proposed friendly amendment
- Amendment passed
- Emily: spoke about resolutions in general. Likes this resolution cause there is a clear next step in this resolution. It is ok if resolution takes more than one meeting. Yielded to Izaak
- Izaak: resolution is also being brought from the community. This is a time sensitive resolution cause of meeting on Tuesday.
- Matt: wants to make sure Roth knows about us passing a resolution relating to him. Asked what he thinks commitment itself will do. Is this going to generate report or is going to lead to a difference in how we build things and how we do stuff in the future?
- Jullian: EON talked to members of the board and message we got is sustainability is a good thing but not a board priority as of right now. That way we have a report to say sustainability is not working.
- JZ: we are asking Roth to sign soothing specific. Lets make sure we’ve read the thing before we vote cause its important.
- Izaak: agrees. This has a concrete plan and hopefully the people in the future will hold Roth to his commitment. It would be ok to pass another resolution that says to Roth he isn’t doing what he said he was going to do.
- Matt: asked for elaboration about the Tuesday meeting.
- Antwane: if we can accomplish commitment without new institutions then we will. But if not new institutions are ok.
- Nate: hopefully Wesleyan wont have to go to outside consultants to do stuff and we can use our own resources.
- Emily: wonders if there are specific ideas about what the WSA should change. Mentioned paying for carbon offsets credits when brining in new speakers
- Allison: says it should be done by all committees and all things discussed take this into account
- Izaak: all committees need to think about new ways to fulfill this
- Mike: noted a grammatical correction friendly amendment
- Amendments passed
- Jullian: talked about the meeting
- Matt: are there going to be EON members there
- Mike P: What would it cost to make WSA usage carbon neutral?
- Izaak: buying offsets credits is an option. It would cost a lot
- Nate: there are so many things to consider. Better to make Wesleyan carbon neutral rather than WSA
- JZ: it is hard to ascertain if our funding causes non-carbon neutrality. Less certain about the first clause than the last two.
- Gianna: if EON could provide SBC with certain brands etc to purchase over others that would be great
- Allison: EON is at every meeting so it is a great resource and would be willing to do stuff
- Emily: Motion to vote on the draft resolution
- Jullian: motion to make it a role call vote
- Vote by voice lost 8-10-12 (For-Against-Abstain)
- Resolution passed unanimously!
7. EC Summer Reports and Approval
- Emily gave some background on the report. EC elections were in the spring. Drawback is the elections were not from complete pool of members. This is the formal approval of EC chairs. Statements of each EC chair. These were response to three members. Chairs will have the opportunity to talk for a minute. Trust your chairs and don’t’ cross-examine people for everything. Should have done this earlier but we had a lot of faith in people
- Matt: this is only about things people do over the summer.
- Sam: mine is straightforward cause EPC doesn’t do stuff over the summer cause lot of if is during the school year. They would deal with suspensions cause there were no student suspensions with appealed decisions at the time
Gianna Palmer: SBC Chair
My goals for the SBC at the end of last spring were to initiate communication with Barbara Spadaccini about creating an online allocation system for the SBC, take care of any necessary summer business with groups and to clean out the attic in 190 High. Over the summer, before arriving at Wes, I e-mailed a bit with Lisa Hendrix and Mickie Dame regarding the status of the SBC's budget. I also answered e-mails from groups looking to secure funding for events taking place at the very beginning of the school year. Once I came back to Wesleyan (on August 12) I spent my days in the attic of 190 High, sorting through decades of student group belonging and putting them into a sensible order. I also met regularly with Barbarbara Spadaccini to discuss how the online system should function. The system debuted September 18th. At this point, the attic is much improved and the online system is running fairly smoothly. Therefore, I'd say i met my goals.
Becky Weiss: FiFac Chair
My goals at the end of last spring were to become very familiar with FiFaC as quickly as possible, since I had never sat on the committee before. More specifically, I wanted to see a successful transition to the Usdan center and to our new dining service with Bon Appetit. Over the summer I familiarized myself with FiFaC by speaking to former members and contacting administrators for each of FiFaC's subcommittees. I was in continuous contact with Bon Appetit's Marketing Director Sarah McGowan and District Manager Delmar Crim. By the end of the summer, I accomplished my goal of getting to know the FiFaC basics, and since then I have become fully informed. Maintaining constant contact with Bon Appetit helped to establish a good working relationship between the management and myself, allowing us to make many dining improvements in the first weeks of the semester.
Sam Ruth: EPC Chair
My goal over the summer was surviving a summer of Beijing heat. The EPC is typically not active over the summer, because most of our work is week-to-week stuff with the faculty committee, which also doesn't meet during the summer. One task that the EPC chair is normally involved in during the beginning of the school year is serving on the Academic Appeals Review Committee, which hears appeals from students who have been suspended for academic reasons. However this committee was not forced to meet, as no suspended students registered appeals. Luckily, I survived the summer, and also didn't have to be involved in the troubling business of reviewing academic suspensions.
Inslee Coddington: COCo Chair
At the end of the spring, my goals for COCo were to update the student resource guide and include the faculty resource guide we worked on last year, to lay the groundwork for the TV station, and to make the group recognition process go more smoothly.
Over the summer, I worked on the resource guide while in contact with Nicole Chabot and Mickie about it, and e-mailed Heric about my vision for WesTV. With Gianna and Mickie, I planned the mandatory meeting for group leaders that was held in September. I also began to plan out the usage of 190 High: what groups were already there, what kind of process we'd use to allocate the space, etc. I came back to campus at the end of August, met with Heric, Nicole, and Dave Meyer about our various projects, and showed the space at 190 High to different student groups.
Overall, I'd say I met my goals, but I still want to do more with them. I finished the resource guide, which now includes information about Usdan, using the CFS, how to bring a performer to campus, and the faculty resource guide. WesTV still needs work before the station is up and running, but we have a soon to be active student group and class for the spring. The mandatory meeting helped with some aspects of recognitions, as did our system of meeting with new groups for approval, but more than anything, both served as learning experiences for how to better run the process in the future.
Izaak Orlansky: Coordinator My goals at the end of last semester were to get trained in FrontPage so I could update the website. Also, to meet with ITS and start collaborating earlier. And to gear up for elections.
I set up a meeting right before I left for the summer with Ravi of ITS. We talked about ITS-WSA projects. I also got trained in FrontPage and updated part of the website (Emily updated the other part). During orientation week I helped do some outreach for the WSA and figured out the logistics of the elections. I accomplished my goals of getting trained and updating the website. I am a bit disappointed that some parts of the website are still not completely updated. I believe elections week went very smoothly. While competitiveness did not increase significantly, there were several more positions available this fall, and I think we did a good job transitioning from one constitution to a substantially revised one.
Stack
- Emily: talk about the debt
- Gianna: most debts were $50 or so. Has done a good job keeping people accountable.
- Melgily (question for Mike) how many people use card access
- Mike P: last report about 400
Chairs left meeting was closed no minutes recorded
Chairs came back in minutes will be recorded
7. Committee Reports
- Matt talked about the difference between new business and announcements vs. committee reports. Unless its directly related to the topic talked about the committee report then it should be saved for new business and announcements or emailed
WSA Committee Reports for the weeks of
Oct 8 – Oct 21 2007
Highlights
- Community Outreach Committee (COCo) had a very successful Lighting Tour as part of the Public Safety Advisory Committee.
- Educational Policy Committee (EPC) is gearing up for next week.
- Finance and Facilities Committee (FiFaC) helped get breakfast hours at Usdan extended until 10:45, so stop by after your first class.
- Organization and External Affairs (OEAC) is looking forward to a working partnership with IMS to develop the WSA website and create web applications useful to students.
- Student Affairs Committee (SAC) reports that the 50 person party policy will not be reduced to a lower number.
- Student Budget Committee (SBC) crunched the necessary numbers and determined that the SBC should be spending roughly $13,000 weekly until the end of the year..
Community Outreach Committee (COCo)
- Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC)
Participating in the Lighting Tour were: * Becky, Cesar, Alec, Inslee (WSA)
* Melissa Powers (Residential Life) * Dave Meyer (Public Safety)
* Roseann Sillasen (Construction)
In addition to fixing broken lights, Roseann will look into turning off the lights in Usdan at night.
- 190 High
a. 190 High and the University Organizing Center (UOC)
Inslee and Cesar met with Dean of Diversity and Academic Advancement Danny Teraguchi, Tim Shiner and Nicole Chabot (Student Leadership & Development), and Alexis Horan (University Organizing Center intern). Since this meeting, Joyce Topshe has found a document detailing her agreement with Zach Kolodin about 190 High use by student groups and the UOC. Apparently, the UOC may not have to move into 190 High, leaving their allotted space open to student groups. We’re meeting with them on Wednesday to further discuss this.
b. 190 High and contracts
Inslee is writing the contract for student group use of 190 High, and will have it ready ASAP so groups can get their keys.
- Student group listservs
ITS is backed up with creating listservs, so we’re waiting for our group category contacts to be ready. Once they are, we’ve figured out a new, more efficient group recognition process that we’ll be able to implement.
Educational Policy Committee (EPC)
- The EPC didn't meet this Monday, due to the shortened week. We won't have much to report on until after we meet again this Monday
Finances and Facilities Committee (FiFaC)
- Major Maintenance
The last two weeks at Major Maintenance Becky strongly advocated improvements to student residences. Specifically, she supported the proposals of the URLC, which include:
* Renovation of the Butterfield B lounge with the addition of a kitchen to it.
* A proposal to move the Butt B laundry room out of the tunnels and to add laundry rooms to Butts A & C, with the addition of at least one of these laundry rooms this summer.
* Installation of card access for residents of 200 Church, 156 High, Malcolm X House, the Bayit, and Eclectic.
* Conversion of the second floor partial kitchen of 156 High to a full kitchen by adding a stove, etc.
Also, it looks like Major Maintenance will be putting new windows in the Butterfields in the near future, probably starting with Butt B (whose windows are in the worst condition) for the MM 08/09 year.
- Dining
· Environmental/waste reduction initiatives
- Bon Appetit and EON agreed to work together on a month-long awareness drive during which they will advertise the 10 cent discount for using your own bags at Weshop and your own mugs at Pi Café. If at the end of the month of advertising there are still as many bags being used in Weshop, the Dining Committee will discuss possible alternatives, including charging ten cents for bags, with the possibility of still getting a ten cent discount if you bring your own.
- As a result of combined efforts between the Sustainability Committee and the Dining Committee, Weshop now only offers CFL bulbs and has eliminated the use of plastic bags (there are still paper).
- Trayless Tuesdays are still going to happen, starting Tuesday October 30. They will result in some energy and water savings, but the real savings will be in people wasting less food.
- There are no plans to make to-go containers more readily available in the Marketplace. To do this would be counter-intuitive to the sustainability efforts of Bon Appetit. If you need one, ask a worker to get one for you from behind the stations.
· Food/prices/hours
- Breakfast hours at Usdan have been extended until 10:45, so stop by after your first class.
- Hard ice cream has been introduced in Summerfields. It will eventually come to Usdan, but probably not this academic year because it requires some expensive equipment.
- Long Lane is holding a local foods fair in front of Davenport on Wednesday October 24 from 11-3.
- $5 specials rotate around the Marketplace stations every day at lunch – hopefully these will be better advertised in the near future.
- It has been determined that all combos are cheaper than purchasing the items individually. Generally the discount is the equivalent of getting a free drink.
- Bon Appetit Marketing Director Sarah McGowan and Dietician Missy Davis are working on the creation of a dining brochure with nutritional information for general items. If anyone has specific questions, Missy said she’d be happy to meet one-on-one with them. E-mail Missy.Davis@cafebonappetit.com.
· Workers/infrastructure
- After Fall Break the amount of workers working for the Vegan Station and the Kosher Kitchen was increased in order to make those stations more efficient.
- Additional coolers for the Café are scheduled to arrive at the end of November. They will allow for the expansion of to-go items offered.
- We discussed the possibility of providing alternative packaging of sushi for those who are not taking it to-go. When the new coolers for the Café arrive there will be a station where it will be possible to make sushi to order so it can be put on a plate.
* A self-serve deli station is going to be available at dinner very soon.
· Fun fact: During the peak lunch hours (between about 12:10 and 12:30) the wait is usually about 8 minutes at one register and 10-12 minutes at the other.
- New Haven Shuttle
The New Haven Shuttle Committee met for the first time. They are in the process of coming up with a plan of action and a formal proposal for Marcello Curridori, the Director of Transportation.
- Work Study Advisory Board
Melgily met with Jennifer Lawton to discuss the Work Study Advisory Board. Jennifer expressed interest in coming to speak at a future WSA meeting about Wesleyan’s work-study program.
- Endowment Advisory Committee
Two representatives for the Endowment Advisory Committee have been selected from the student body – Casey Otto ’08 and Charlie Alderman ’11. Becky has contacted Mufaro Dube, the student intern of Tom Kannam, the Director of Investment, to set up the first meeting.
Organization and External Affairs Committee (OEAC)
- New York Times Update
Emily met with Dean of the College
Mike Whaley, Dean of Campus Programs Rick Culliton, and David Booth (from the NY
Times) last Friday to discuss the current status of the Readership program. The
price per paper of the Times is going to increase by $.10 starting on January 1,
which puts us in even more of a difficult financial position than we had been in
before. Sami and Robert are both working on this project and are preparing a
presentation to give to the WSA sometime within the next two weeks. We have a
number of different options, none of which are ideal, but the WSA will need to
have a serious discussion about the future of this program.
- Committee Meetings
· Freeman Athletic Advisory Committee is meeting this week.
· Social Committee is meeting with Emily, Gianna and AJ this Friday.
· CRC Advisory Committee should be meeting sometime within the next few weeks (Emily’s waiting to hear back from Mike Sciola).
- ITS Focus Group
Izaak and David attended the first student focus group that is geared at improving ITS and the way Wesleyan uses technology. Among a variety of issues discussed, (e.g. did you know you can get reimbursed for accidentally printing an extra copy of something at a computer lab?), the most pressing issue was the eportfolio and its general user-friendly format. After the meeting David and Izaak discussed with the focus group leader ways of improving the eportfolio and trying to incorporate the WSA page as a “tab” in your eportfolio.
- Future WSA-IMS technology projects
After the focus group meeting, Izaak sat down on Friday with Vernon Thommeret ’10 (designer of the WSA website) and Harik Flores, Manager of Instructional Media Services. They talked about future collaborations between IMS and the WSA, specifically the possibility of having a new and improved Ride Board. Izaak will set up a meeting with IMS student manager Dan Macalino ’08 to get the ball rolling.
- Director of Academic Computing Job Search
ITS is currently in the search process for a director of academic computing, who is primarily the faculty liason with ITS but whose decisions also affect students (e.g. computing labs, etc.). David and Morgan will be sitting on the search committee for this position.
Student Affairs Committee (SAC)
- Student Life Committee: Political Speakers at Wes
SLC met with Wesleyan’s lead attorney Dave Winakor to discuss potential ways to minimize the impact of the policy that bars students from inviting political candidates to speak on campus without extending that invitation to all of the candidate’s opponents. Opposition towards liberalizing the policy is firm, but other options include the establishment of an outside fund, open web-based invitations, and/or setting aside a room specifically for political speakers. SAC members stressed the benefits high-profile political speakers can bring to Wesleyan, contributing both to discourse and publicity. Mike will be meeting with Dave Winakor and Tim Shiner (Student Life & Development) on Wednesday to discuss this issue.
- Student Life Committee: Party Policy
The SLC also discussed potential changes to the Social Events Policy. SAC members proposed several ideas for enhancing education and awareness about liability issues. With regards to party registration, Dave Meyer said students have been SJB’d this year for hosting unregistered parties with over 50 attendees. He proposed returning to an earlier interpretation of the existing policy, in which students who registered their parties would not be sent to the SJB for having too many guests in attendance. The 50 person policy will not be reduced to a lower number.
- Undergraduate Residential Life Committee
· Priorities for Major Maintenance
URLC met before break to finalize priorities for Major Maintenance ‘08/’09, which will be allocating its budget soon. A formal letter was drafted and distributed to Major Maintenance outlining URLC’s suggested improvements including:
* new kitchens and laundry facilities in the Butterfields
* a new kitchen in 156 High
* front door card access in 200 Church, Bayit, 156 High, etc
* picnic tables for the patio outside Summerfield’s
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URLC also began a discussion of common area damage fines
and came up with several ideas to improve GRS.
- Housing Fines Appeals Board
The Board met for the first time. There are currently 5 appeals, all damage related, which will be decided on in the next meeting.
- Grills
The grills have arrived and will be installed soon!
Student Budget Committee (SBC)
- SBC Week
The SBC did not meet due to fall break.
- Allocation numbers
Gianna, with the help of Matt, Emily and WSA Office Coordinator Mickie Dame, crunched the necessary numbers and determined that the SBC should be spending roughly 13,000 dollars weekly until the end of the year. This takes into account all allocations made so far as well as spending on Identity months, Spring Fling, Senior Class Officers and the NY Times Readership program.
- Senior Class Officers
On Thursday, Gianna and Matt Ball met with Tim Shiner (Student Leadership & Development) to discuss ways of saving money in allocating to Senior Class Officers. It was a productive meeting and the SBC hopes to spend considerably less than last year on Senior Cocktails without sacrificing the number of events held.
- Identity Month Budgets
On Friday, Gianna met with Nicole Chabot and the leaders of groups responsible for planning Identity Months (ex: Latino Awareness month in November). At this meeting Gianna and Nicole proposed an idea which they had discussed before Fall Break: that each Identity/Affinity month should plan on working within a $5,000 budget. Group leaders seemed enthusiastic about this idea, because past years there have been issues raised about difficulty in planning programming for these months and certain months receiving more funding than others. All parties involved feel this new system will alleviate these concerns.
- Mickie Dame, office extraordinaire (part II)
Mickie announced that she will bring in freshly-baked cookies every
Monday until Lisa Hendrix returns from maternity leave in November. Come
by Usdan 104 to sample the goodness.
EPC Didn’t meet
FiFaC
- Mike: can you ask for a tray on Trayless Tuesdays (TT)
- Becky: I’ll ask endowment
- JZ: noted public relations about TT for WSA. Will be cooking less food? Where will the food go?
- Becky: being run by marking director and EON although we are supporting it by being on the committee. I’m not sure.
- Yelided to Allision it will be a trial run and we will see
- Sam Pop noted a you can’t put plates down on Pepsi side
- Jayvan: noted that you have to leave WesCard with register to get it
- Becky: was surprised and said she will ask about it
- Yielded to Allision Delmar says you’re not supposed to take food to go.
- Yielded to Candice: I don’t like they are policing our food consumption
- Bradley Yielded to Jayvan: it is also always wasteful to continue this practice
- Bradley Yielded to Saul: the less waste the more money Bon Appitent can do with money we give them at the beginning of the year
- Bradley Yielded to Allison: lets talk bout it in new business.
- Liana: people who have physical disabilities or broken arms need trays. Will this effect the way the staffers are paid for washing trays
- Becky: no it won’t and they need more people
- Yielded to Jayven: noted the WSA said it was not a good idea
- Becky: its ultimately up to the dinning committee. It wasn’t a formal thing
- Sam: we would need to install something to put trays on to be cleared. How much food is it worth to make the inconvenience?
- Yielded to Becky: dinning committee’s decision
- Yielded to Jen: it can be done
- Yielded to JZ: its about mandating people do it not the concept
Organization and External Affairs
- Emily: mentioned we might not continue yearbook
- Saul: asked question about the CAA agent and Windows Vista
- Becky: asked about finances for ride board
- Izaak: said it would be WSA sponsored and would be better, cost money cause were paying students.
- point of information Emily noted we have hired web techs in the past
Student Affairs Committee
- Izaak: talk more about the party policy
- Mike: we don’t have a proposed party policy. Recommendations are welcome and there is no change. Separate from the event registration party
- Bradley: how many students are host trained?
- Mike P: unsure
Student Budget Committee
- David: What is a senior class officer?
- Gianna: in change of planning stuff for that grade
- Emily point of information Senior class officers are elected by the Jrs and are elected for life and plan reunions etc. we simply oversee them.
- Izaak: asked for SBC report
- Bradley: asked about savings from NYT
- Emily point of information will discussed in OEAC
- Melgily: asked about the $5000
- Gianna: the idea is that when groups are planning it they should think about working within a $5000 budget. They still have to propose it to SBC
- Jessie: how do you use $13,000 a week?
- Gianna: its not as much as it sounds
- Matt: noted cuts took place with a $15000 budget!
- Gianna: we use it to pay for speakers etc
- Izaak point of order the report will address that
- Matt point of information money allocation also on the website
- Alec: how are we saving money for Senior class officers? The events are going to stay the same but is the quality?
- Gianna: we are choosing different venues.
- Yielded too Emily: thinks have spiraled out of control cause amount we are giving to them is unreasonable for what they are doing. We are asking them to make a concerted effort to save money.
- Matt: each drink ticket cost $18,000
Community Outreach Committee
- Jen: asked a questions about the lights
- Jessi: asked about why WesShop has lights on
- We listed places where lights are on. Some places have security problems.
NEW BUSINESS
Emily- Didn’t show prices very well. Have them give us clear list of prices.
Mike- If prices are unfair WSA needs to make an initiative and it will help with WSA’s image.
Natasha- It is important for people know about the prices so there is no speculation.
Candice- Prices shouldn’t be secretive.
Allison- We can’t tell them to change the prices because we don’t know the base price.
Alec- It is a battle to get changing prices.
Matt- We should know how much it cost for what we are eating.
Bradley- Who is apposed to telling us prices?
Strawpoll to get a list of prices of what they were and what they are now.
Strawpoll shows that the majority of WSA want Becky to get information about prices.
8. New Business and Announcements
- Emily: asked about. Spoke about inauguration committee and asked for three students to be part of the procession.
- Mike: URLC if you have questions for GRS. Common area damages will be discussed.
- Matt:
o 1. Constitutional changes
§ process of approving people
§ each spring constitutional review
§ ideas floating around for constitutional amendments to have up
o 2. Spoke about tardiness – come on time
o 3. Working on the image of WSA cause things we do don’t get communicated to student body.
o 4. WSA get together
- Jayvan: was concerned about the force of individual committees
- Yielded to Becky: its just an experiment
- Yielded to Jen: it is representative of the community yet we vote on this that not all students agree with
- Yielded to Allision: most committees are non-WSA people
- Yielded to Emily: we could pass a resolution if we area really against it we could pass resolution
- David: made the point that this functions more like a republic than a democracy
- Yielded to Jayven: emphasized the need to discuss decisions that influence the entire student body
- Matt: we should be brining up problems in new business
- Bradley: what is student compilation of the dinning committee?
- JZ: doesn’t see the structure as a problem
- Alec: committees are specialized bodies of knowledge. Consensus of WSA should influence committees.
- Julien: thinks we should say Nays in stead of Yays first.
- Mike P: do you want unanimous consent
- Julien: no. just want to know if others want to continue the discussion
- Mike P: suggested an alternative method
- Saul: supports what Mike says
- Motioned to Straw Poll: Becky: motioned to straw poll TT although it might still happen.
- Motioned passed unanimously straw poll conducted
- 15 in favor 10 opposed 5 abstain Becky: will mention we need to know how its done cause there is some WSA objection
- Mike P: there is only support for initial trial run
Motion for Adjournment 9:45 PM
Respectfully Submitted,
David Markowitz