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Minutes from May 1, 2007

Associated Students of Occidental College

Senate Meeting

May 1, 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                     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 7:19 pm.

 

II. Passage of Previous Minutes

 

Minutes of 04/10/07,  04/16/07 and 04/24/07

 

i.     Moved by Teddy

ii.    Moved by Rozell

iii.   Vote 10-0-0

 

III. New Business

 

A. GA Update

 

Katie apologized for Spencer who is absent. Katie said that this week there is a new policy on room entry so they need students feedback at the GA meeting. Last week they voted on the RHA resolution.

 

B. Funding Request

 

Teddy said that the event Not so Happy Hour  is cancelled due to financial restrictions however the student in charge asked if he can get reimbursed for last semester’ s event where he had to pay out of their own account and wasn’t reimbursed. Kenna Cottrill explained that they didn’t turn in their receipts for last semester and thought that they had enough money to cover this semester’s event. Amy said that senate should help students on this type of issue. Alison said that she fully agrees with Amy and supports a reimbursement.

 

i.   John moved to fund SES for their reimbursement

ii.  Seconded by Patrick

iii.  Vote: 10-0-0

 

C. Campus Culture Committee

 

Konstantin and Patrick presented the guidelines for the campus culture committee and received feedbacks from other senators.

 

John suggested to add concrete projects that were accomplished this year such as student space, community service etc.. Patrick said that should any senator have more feedbacks they can email him.

 

Konstantin presented the Funding guidelines for publications such as the Occidental Agency, Steez etc… Mike Meyers asked about the 40% of printed materials to be distributed in the residence halls because this will be hard to enforce and regulate. He suggested to let the students decide how many copies they want or just set a number for them to distribute in the Halls.

 

Patrick said that he understands but if anyone has an idea of a way to enforce this he will appreciate the suggestion. Amy said that it doesn’t really need to be enforced. She said it is best to use the percentage and they will figure it out themselves.

 

Rozell presented the budget to senate

i.   Patrick moved to approve

ii.  Seconded by Mike

iii. Vote: 10-0-0

 

D. Campus Culture Update

 

Alison said that the machines are now installed in the cooler and the only issue is that they don’t read the current meal plans because the machine can’t differentiate between the meal plan and flex account. They have their own account that students need to create. Amy met with Susan Prager regarding the allocation for the Projectors and was very excited about it..

 

John met with the registrar’s office regarding Reggie which they agreed is outdated. They are planning to hire a contractor to redesign the system for students and professors. He also said that if any new or returning senator is interested in scholastic committee to talk to him after the meeting.

 

Matt asked senators’ opinion on the extra money in Senate discretionary account.

 

Mike said that because senate has spent so much money in Capital improvement, it is best to put the rest of the money into savings.

 

The senate agrees to put the money into the savings.

 

Matt suggested that all senators present their positions to the newly elected senators.

 

Rozell campus wide senator, worked on the safe campaign this year.

 

Teddy campus wide senator, was in charge of the funding and was funding co-chair. He said his job required at least 6 hours a week and senators have to be very patient with students because of the level of frustration. He also talked about his EMT project and that he will be requesting funds from senate next year.

 

Konstantin 1st year senator, campus culture

 

Katie GA co-chair, she works with senate to give update and vice versa

 

Caroline senior class senator, worked on securing money for cultural grads.

 

Patrick sophomore class,  worked on public relations issues

 

John senior senator,  worked on scholastic committee with Max. They dealt mostly with the administration. Established the off campus committee, extended library hours to 24/5…next year’s projects are certainly  registrar’s issue and reading days, the lack of transparency etc…

 

Mike Meyers sophomore senator,  campus culture committee worked on the community service day.

 

Andrew 1st year senator worked on the website issue and this will be up next year.

 

Alison sophomore senator, campus culture update worked with Amy on the cooler renovation this year.

 

Amy campus wide senator, worked with Alison on the cooler project…

 

Santiago Menez was concerned about the structure of the senate and their committee.

 

Amy said that the first meeting was a bit disorganized but after a while everyone was figuring out things and there was a lot of work outside of senate meeting that made everything much easier.

Amy said that at the beginning of the year, they listed all the projects that they wanted to accomplish and every senator chose what they were interested in. Rozell added that committees  shouldn’t stop people to take initiatives.

 

Menez is confused about the budget. Matt said that different parts of the budget are overseen by different senators depending on their area of work. What senators need to do is first to get the budget and discuss any issues with people such as Earic Peters, Gabriella etc….

 

Amy said that senators shouldn’t worry too much about whether they understand the functions of the budget right now because they will go over it again during training.

 

Matt asked if there are any suggestion to the new senators.

 

Rozell said that senators should work a lot more with Honor Board especially on campus climate issues.

 

IV. Senate/GA Forum

 

General comments

 

ASOC will be meeting for brunch on Friday the 04th of May.

 

V. Meeting adjourned at 8: 14 pm

Vote: GC