Agenda

Meeting Agenda November 27th 2006

Meeting Chair: Matthew Kuzio

I. Call to order 8:00pm

II. Passage of previous meetings minutes (2 minutes)

III. Old Business

IV. New Business

A. GA Update (10 minutes)

B. Finance and Public Relations Committee Update (10 minutes)

C. Campus Culture Update Committee (12 minutes)
D. Scholastic Committee (10 minutes)

E. Kuz’s Corner (2 minutes)

V. Senate/GA Forum (5 minutes)

A. General Comments

VII. Close Meeting

Target time: 8:30pm

Download WORD document minutes: 11-27-06

Minutes from November 27th, 2006

Associated Students of Occidental College

Senate Meeting

November 20th, 2006

Minutes by Sadia Afolabi

Passed: 12.04.06

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, 1^st year; Andrew DeBlock, 1^st year; Patrick McCredie, sophomore; Mike Myers, Sophomore; Jimmy Gillan, Junior; Max Thoman-Tedford, Junior; John Wilson, Senior; Ayesha Khan, Senior

Ex Oficio: Kenna Cottrill, advisor; Patrice Hall, GA Co-Chair; Katie Orme, GA Co-Chair

Guests:

I. Matt Kuzio called this meeting to order at 8:00 pm

i. Moved by Patrick McCredie

ii. Seconded by Rozell Hodges

iii. Vote: GC

II. Passage of the previous meetings minutes.

a. Minutes of November 13^th

i. Moved by Patrick

ii. Seconded by Rozell

Discussion:

Kenna Cottrill said that Ken Smutny does not have an ‘e’ before the ‘y’ also to add amount requested to the funding request section.

iii. Vote: GC

b. Minutes of November 20^th

i. Moved by Patrick

ii. Seconded by Konstantin

Discussion

Konstantin suggested to change the “this is” on the second page to “he is” because the sentence is referring to Patrick. Matt added the absentees from the meeting : Mike, John and Rozell.

iii. Vote: 10-0-1 (Ayesha)

III. New Business

GA update

Katie mentioned that this Thursday is the last GA meeting and hope that Jimmy will join them for the algorithm explanation. Jimmy said that he will be able to make it only for Q&A regarding the algorithmic system but not for the explanation due to his schedule. Keisha Baker will be the guest for this Thursday’s meeting.

Also Ken’s resolution will be on the agenda for vote. Matt asked if the GA has sent it out to senators. Katie said no. He also asked if senators are comfortable on voting on this resolution. Andrew said that if the senate has a hard copy of the resolution that will be better for everyone to look at it at this meeting. John said that they shouldn’t approve this resolution because there shouldn’t be any measure in the student handbook. Patrick said that this document should be passed just to accept the guilt from the senate’s conduct towards the students who were subjects to rude manners from the senate meeting.

i. Ayesha moved to approve the resolution

ii. Seconded by Teddy

iii. Vote: 10-1-1 (John against Jimmy abstained)

B. Finance and Public Relations Committee.

Patrick said that he met with John Beck a student who has helped to program the algorithm system and he did a great Job. He is has limited knowledge of computer programs and software but was able to run this algorithm system. He thinks this will make things much easier for the next board of senators in terms of funding.

C. Campus culture Update:

Amy said that she and Alison will still be working on the cooler project. She also mentioned the De-stress event that needs more publicity and asked senators to send the event’s flyer to their clubs. She asked if clubs have emails. Kenna answered yes and that it is on the ASOC website.

D. Scholastic Committee.

Max said that this semester he is very into the Dean Advisory committee and their first meeting is on Wednesday. Matt said that the DWA Student Advisory Committee (DWA-SAC) is meeting tomorrow and Max should go and get information. Max said that he is aware of it and is already planning to attend.

John passed out some information about library hours and reading days. Extending library hours will cost approximately $750. He also said that regarding reading days, it is about the same with other colleges such as Macalester and Oberlin and asked the senate for feedbacks. Matt asked if John has spoken to Jim Whitney because he is working on reading days so they can incorporate all these great ideas. Patrick asked how the automatic lock will work. John said that it is a little component that will be posted on the door.

E. Kuz’s Corner.

On December 11^th, Matt will be attending the board of trustees meeting and has a 35 minutes presentation and needs Alison’s survey for talking points. He said that it is very important thus he will need input from board members. He also has a board of Governors meeting on December 9^th. On January 30^th the senate and GA will have a dinner with president Prager in her house.

He also said that at the beginning of next semester, the senate will have to appoint students on the presidential committee.

IV. Senate/GA Forum

Rozell said that ASOC shirts will be ready for purchase next semester. There will be two colors navy and orange and each senator will pay $10.

Teddy said that the EMT program is moving really fast and a few students have already been trained. Students are going to Pasadena or Glendale City Colleges to take classes that will transfer into the Kinesiology departments. Tuition will not be covered for students however books will be and it is only applicable to California Residents.

V. Adjournment

i. Rozell moved to adjourn @ 8: 26 pm

ii. Teddy Seconded

iii. Vote: GC