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Minutes from April 16, 2007

Associated Students of Occidental College

Senate Meeting

April 16, 2007

Minutes by Sadia Afolabi

 

Attendance:

 

Matt Kuzio, ASOC President                 Alison Dempsey, Campus Wide Senator      Rozell Hodges, Campus Wide Senator  Amy Laslett, Campus Wide Senator
Teddy Zou, Campus Wide Senator       Konstantin Chaykovskiy, 1st year
Andrew DeBlock, 1st year                     Patrick McCredie, sophomore
Mike Myers, Sophomore                      Jimmy Gillian, Junior
Max Thoman-Tedford, Junior               John Wilson, Senior
Caroline Kim, Senior

* Excused absence 

                       

Ex Oficio: Kenna Cottrill, Advisor;  Katie Orme, GA Co-Chair, Spencer Jemelka; GA Co-Chair

 

Guests:

I.  Matt Kuzio called the meeting to order at  12:33 pm.

 

II. Old Business

 

A. Capital Improvement Funding

 

Mike Meyers sent out a Capital Improvement Funding proposal for Club sports. The proposal is to allow Club sports to request funding if they meet certain requirements such as on going club sports or be recognized as a club sport (these are just basic requirements but the proposal has more details). He spoke to Spencer regarding their machine for possible loans for the Rugby team and they can pay back or ASOC can decide not fund them at all.

 

Caroline said that she met with Dean Avery regarding the club sports issue because she is coordinating this and will be working on this issue to address them in the long term. She said that they are trying to link it to athletics department.

 

Jimmy is concerned about how the administration will go about this if they will be creating a coordinating position to address the issue. If so then will the students be paying for this position. Caroline said that she will be meeting with the Dean again and will address this concern. Jimmy added that there should be a student from a club sports on the actual search committee for this proposal.

 

Matt said that he thinks Mike’s proposal is great and that this opens a great discussion among senators to resolve the Capital Improvement funding issue. Amy added that this is  a great proposal that everyone(Club sports, senate and administration), however she knows that this will not be a long term solution to resolve the issue. She also said that they should add a time limit such as the “next academic year” in the proposal. Caroline said that there should definitely have the requirement really clear in the proposal. Patrick asked how are the club sports defined. Kenna Cottrill said that there is a list that define them and she can get the exact list for senate. Jimmy suggested to cut down some numbers on the proposal.

 

Amy suggested to approve the funding proposal with the suggested changes and clearly define club sports requirements.

i.    Caroline moved to approve with changes.

ii.   Seconded by Patrick

iii.  Vote: 11-0-1 Teddy

 

III. New Business 

 

A. Funding Request

 

a. Earth Day : $ 241.11

Vote: 9-2-1 Andrew

 

b. Fraternity Psi: 124.04

Caroline said that she doesn’t understand the funding. Mike asked if it wasn’t the same as AMSA. Teddy said no because AMSA was going to a conference they are requesting money to charter a bus. Konstantin said that this is benefiting only a few students thus doesn’t support it. Jimmy said that this will set precedents and they should seek funding from their departments.

 

Vote: 0-9-2 Teddy and Jimmy

Funding Failed

 

c. Compadres: Dave n’Busters: $25.00

 

 Jimmy suggested to fund them at $25 because it is the minimum funding that they will have received according to the funding guidelines

i.    Patrick moved to approve the proposal at $25

ii.   Seconded by Konstantin

iii. Vote: 10-0-1 Jimmy

 

 

d. Oxy Global Action: Invisible children $ 205.70

Vote: 10-0-1 Jimmy

 

 

e. Steez Magazine: $ 603.88

Amy said that senate should ask Steez to review their process of publication so everyone will be happy.

Caroline said there need to be a clear funding guidelines for publications. Patrick said that there should be a way to better know the readership because senate can’t be going along what they say. Jimmy suggested that the way Ceiling magazine proposal was submitted should be a good way to quantify because they clearly define how they will distribute all their magazines. Patrick and Mike said that they will work on this.

Teddy said that according to the algorithm the funding will be 603.88

 

Caroline moved to approve at the algorithm system

Vote: 8-0-1 Jimmy

 

f. Oxy Democrats: San Diego workshop for leadership training. $656.61

Teddy said that they will be coming back and organizing events on campus.

Caroline moved to fund them.

Vote: 8-0-1 Jimmy

 

Amy moved to reallocate the money

She wants $ 184.86 to be transferred in Hillel to 21 Choices/Food and from the Delta proposal, $175 from DJ to $15 for food and $150 for scrubs. 

 

Vote: 7-0-2 Jimmy and Amy

 

B. Campus Culture Update

 

Rozell said that the safe campaign was very successful.

 

Amy said that they are waiting for Earic Peters to give them feed back on the rest of the cooler project. 

Matt asked if the website went to the GA. Andrew said no not yet.

Matt asked if Amy and Alison will be willing to write a quick summary about the cooler project for the next senators. Jimmy will write about the algorithm and Patrick will write a summary for his position as well.

 

C. GA Update

 

Katie said that the meeting was great and they will be having a resolution regarding dialogue among the lack of discussion among students and administration. This week’s meeting will be very busy but the attendance is lacking so senators should promote more GA meetings. She also added that there will be a discussion regarding whether the name “Sex on the Beach” should be changed or not.

 

III. Adjournment @ 1:08 pm

 

i.    Moved by Patrick

ii.   Seconded by Konstantin

iii. Vote : 9-0-0