Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
No SAC meetiung Today... HAPPY ELECTION DAY!!
Hey Lev,
No SAC meeting today but Tamara the SAC Chair will still be meeting with committee members who choose to come. In typical guy-with-no-life-who-thinks-he-can-change-stuff fashion, I will be going to discuss a few things with her.
Charles
No SAC meeting today but Tamara the SAC Chair will still be meeting with committee members who choose to come. In typical guy-with-no-life-who-thinks-he-can-change-stuff fashion, I will be going to discuss a few things with her.
Charles
Monday, November 3, 2008
UC General Minutes 11/02/08
Sunday, November 2, 2008, 7:00pm Harvard Hall 104
Harvard University – Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Minutes
I. Officer Updates
a. President
i. Information Updates
1. Student Faculty updates will be posted on the blog
2. This week will be a massive information update campaign
b. Vice President
i. Mather special elections going on soon
ii. Rules will meet this week
c. Treasurer
i.
d. Secretary
i. we re-registered as a student organization
ii. hazing policy later
II. Committee updates
i. legislation from SAC
ii. event calendar: some movement in that direction
b. amnesty policy, ATM in the quad—we have people working on those issues
c. No SAC meeting in honor of election day
d. first CUE meeting on Wed.
e. mental health planning meeting
f. SAC had a fun happy hour on Thursday
g. Ficom
i. smaller grants pack
III. For the Good of the Council
a. Cable Proposal (Matt Sundquist)
i. a round of negotiations about cable proposals
ii. many proposals fell, new ones involving sling boxes from Buffalo, NY run through Harvard ethernet
iii. 55-60 dollars per month plus front end costs of the installation
iv. FAS IT, bastions of forward lookingness (sarcastic), decided that they would block it from coming in because they could block wherever they thought the cable would come in from
1. cite: undue traffic over the ethernet would clog access to the internet
2. FAS IT doesn’t want to be seen as not providing a service that has been available to most colleges since 1970s
v. Randall and Matt are only helping Nick Castein, this is not a UC-sponsored initiative
vi. had it gone forward, we might have gotten an interesting discussion
vii. up until this point we were just lending him support, but it’s always been nebulous and slow (SAC has been working on it for years)
1. Tamar has a question
a. very detailed, but who wrote it?
i. Matt: ongoing process many individuals involved. at this point, it’s dead in the water.
2. Papa: is there any way we can address their concerns (FAS IT)?
a. Randall: UIS and FAS IT are still discussing and we’re still waiting on responses. the reason people don’t want to hardwire all the hoses for cable are because of the coming house renovations.
b. Matt: a big part of the problem is that we have 1994 networks and they’re outdated.
3. Jack: what are we discussing?
a. Matt: we just wanted to bring people up to date on it because this is a hot-button issue
4. Tamar: FAS IT said no to the most recent proposal and the previous one?
a. Randall: they didn’t explicitly say that they would block it, but they implicitly suggested it.
5. Eric M: Is there anyway to update the wiring system?
a. Matt: renovations in 40 years, so no.
6. Zags: the yard won’t be covered by house renewal
a. Matt: the houses were never renovated, whereas the Yard has been renovated recently
b. Hazing policy
i. long discussion quoted from the agenda
c. Randall
i. attendance warning for George Hayward
ii. motion to vote to appoint Tamar and Michael Regalie to sit on the election commission
1. requires a 2/3 vote
2. unanimous consent
iii. rules for presidential election will out this week, and there will be a campuswide house posting
iv. Matt is a jerk to Papa for a moment
IV. Question Period
a. Papa: are minutes public?
i. yes
b. Lisa: What’s the order of the construction of the houses?
i. Matt: Neo-Gerogian houses, Dunster first. Then the modern ones.
ii. houses will be renovated by the earliest constructed house on to the most recent
V. Comment Period
a. Eric M: 2 days until the election
i. Matt makes snarky comment
VI. Legislation
a. House Renewal Subcommittee Appointments Act
i. self-explanatory
ii. speaker opposed? none
iii. call to question
iv. unanimous consent
b. FiCom Grants pack
i. Sundeep: any questions?
ii. Jack Pararas: Baptist Asian Student eventà why so much money?
1. Randall: open to all students
2. Jack Pararas: Committee on College Life should advocate for the “eradication” of the Asian Baptist Students association, (a crude, unfortunate and unfunny joke—to say the least about it)
iii. Tamar: what is training day?
1. Jack: Can the UC pay for Bibles?
2. Sundeep: yes, because it’s materials necessary for the event, open to all undergraduates
iv. Papa: the Voice? is that one issue being covered?
1. we’re giving them $1000 because we decided to fund two issues since they are a weekly publication. it’s a new precedent
v. Jack: are we encouraging to get other kind of funding?
1. FiCom members: of course
vi. Tamar: how are we doing money-wise?
1. Sundeep: many events are worthy of funding
2. Tony: money wise, we’ve spent 23% of our Grants Fund, which is right on par with what we spent last year at the same time. we’re seeing a lot of increase in upfront funding, so we see more funding. we shouldn’t be too concerned.
vii. Alyssa: can someone explain what the criteria for being a publication is?
1. Sundeep: student group can be its own publication, and can start its own publication. as long as they are a publication.
2. the Voice is different because they publish ten issues
viii. Jack: what was the exact amount allocated for dummies for training day?
1. cited from grants pack extended
ix. Tamar: what’s the process for larger grants?
1. Lisa: some groups (eleganza and project east sometimes get far less than they request and have specific policies) but most groups are interviewed twice
x. Speaker Opposed? No
xi. Call to Question
xii. Jack objects to unanimous question
xiii. Vote: 25-0-2 (Jack Pararas and Doug Lloyd abstain)
c. Closing
i. House Renewal Survey—DO IT!!!! It’s the most important survey ever
ii. Adjournment
Harvard University – Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Minutes
I. Officer Updates
a. President
i. Information Updates
1. Student Faculty updates will be posted on the blog
2. This week will be a massive information update campaign
b. Vice President
i. Mather special elections going on soon
ii. Rules will meet this week
c. Treasurer
i.
d. Secretary
i. we re-registered as a student organization
ii. hazing policy later
II. Committee updates
i. legislation from SAC
ii. event calendar: some movement in that direction
b. amnesty policy, ATM in the quad—we have people working on those issues
c. No SAC meeting in honor of election day
d. first CUE meeting on Wed.
e. mental health planning meeting
f. SAC had a fun happy hour on Thursday
g. Ficom
i. smaller grants pack
III. For the Good of the Council
a. Cable Proposal (Matt Sundquist)
i. a round of negotiations about cable proposals
ii. many proposals fell, new ones involving sling boxes from Buffalo, NY run through Harvard ethernet
iii. 55-60 dollars per month plus front end costs of the installation
iv. FAS IT, bastions of forward lookingness (sarcastic), decided that they would block it from coming in because they could block wherever they thought the cable would come in from
1. cite: undue traffic over the ethernet would clog access to the internet
2. FAS IT doesn’t want to be seen as not providing a service that has been available to most colleges since 1970s
v. Randall and Matt are only helping Nick Castein, this is not a UC-sponsored initiative
vi. had it gone forward, we might have gotten an interesting discussion
vii. up until this point we were just lending him support, but it’s always been nebulous and slow (SAC has been working on it for years)
1. Tamar has a question
a. very detailed, but who wrote it?
i. Matt: ongoing process many individuals involved. at this point, it’s dead in the water.
2. Papa: is there any way we can address their concerns (FAS IT)?
a. Randall: UIS and FAS IT are still discussing and we’re still waiting on responses. the reason people don’t want to hardwire all the hoses for cable are because of the coming house renovations.
b. Matt: a big part of the problem is that we have 1994 networks and they’re outdated.
3. Jack: what are we discussing?
a. Matt: we just wanted to bring people up to date on it because this is a hot-button issue
4. Tamar: FAS IT said no to the most recent proposal and the previous one?
a. Randall: they didn’t explicitly say that they would block it, but they implicitly suggested it.
5. Eric M: Is there anyway to update the wiring system?
a. Matt: renovations in 40 years, so no.
6. Zags: the yard won’t be covered by house renewal
a. Matt: the houses were never renovated, whereas the Yard has been renovated recently
b. Hazing policy
i. long discussion quoted from the agenda
c. Randall
i. attendance warning for George Hayward
ii. motion to vote to appoint Tamar and Michael Regalie to sit on the election commission
1. requires a 2/3 vote
2. unanimous consent
iii. rules for presidential election will out this week, and there will be a campuswide house posting
iv. Matt is a jerk to Papa for a moment
IV. Question Period
a. Papa: are minutes public?
i. yes
b. Lisa: What’s the order of the construction of the houses?
i. Matt: Neo-Gerogian houses, Dunster first. Then the modern ones.
ii. houses will be renovated by the earliest constructed house on to the most recent
V. Comment Period
a. Eric M: 2 days until the election
i. Matt makes snarky comment
VI. Legislation
a. House Renewal Subcommittee Appointments Act
i. self-explanatory
ii. speaker opposed? none
iii. call to question
iv. unanimous consent
b. FiCom Grants pack
i. Sundeep: any questions?
ii. Jack Pararas: Baptist Asian Student eventà why so much money?
1. Randall: open to all students
2. Jack Pararas: Committee on College Life should advocate for the “eradication” of the Asian Baptist Students association, (a crude, unfortunate and unfunny joke—to say the least about it)
iii. Tamar: what is training day?
1. Jack: Can the UC pay for Bibles?
2. Sundeep: yes, because it’s materials necessary for the event, open to all undergraduates
iv. Papa: the Voice? is that one issue being covered?
1. we’re giving them $1000 because we decided to fund two issues since they are a weekly publication. it’s a new precedent
v. Jack: are we encouraging to get other kind of funding?
1. FiCom members: of course
vi. Tamar: how are we doing money-wise?
1. Sundeep: many events are worthy of funding
2. Tony: money wise, we’ve spent 23% of our Grants Fund, which is right on par with what we spent last year at the same time. we’re seeing a lot of increase in upfront funding, so we see more funding. we shouldn’t be too concerned.
vii. Alyssa: can someone explain what the criteria for being a publication is?
1. Sundeep: student group can be its own publication, and can start its own publication. as long as they are a publication.
2. the Voice is different because they publish ten issues
viii. Jack: what was the exact amount allocated for dummies for training day?
1. cited from grants pack extended
ix. Tamar: what’s the process for larger grants?
1. Lisa: some groups (eleganza and project east sometimes get far less than they request and have specific policies) but most groups are interviewed twice
x. Speaker Opposed? No
xi. Call to Question
xii. Jack objects to unanimous question
xiii. Vote: 25-0-2 (Jack Pararas and Doug Lloyd abstain)
c. Closing
i. House Renewal Survey—DO IT!!!! It’s the most important survey ever
ii. Adjournment
Student Affairs Committee Minutes 10/28/08
Twenty-Seventh Council October 28, 2008
Student Affairs Committee 7:00 PM
Loker Commons 028
Meeting Minutes
Meeting called to order at 7:07PM by Tamar Holoshitz
I. Business
a. Check-in
i. Jack and Dan: ATM in the quad, discussed with Bank of America manager
ii. Eric Hysen: party advertising issue
iii. Eric Michel: housing groups – linking groups – work in progress, equipment in common rooms
iv. Senan: sent out survey, working on water fountains – UC can chip in
v. Bill: Newspapers – work in progress
vi. Mallika: to meet with Dean Kidd on Queen’s Head Pub joint student-faculty visits
vii. Sarah: language requirement, new major approved
viii. Matt Sundquist: visit to Princeton and Yale, many ideas for housing suggestions
ix. Doug: trying to improve UC-HoCo relations
x. Ben: working with athletics representative Julia Lam to , gender-neutral housing work in progress, house renewal meeting
xi. Papa: printing costs/refunds project, plagiarism information for freshmen – contacted Dean Ellison
xii. Nadia: Sent out survey email to all
xiii. Matt Garcia: Worked on HUCEP escort, to contact new sergeant Gillis
xiv. Alyssa and Matt: Allston volunteering
b. Discussion on candidates for Housing Renewal subcommittee
i. Chair of Neo-Georgian House committee and Chair of Modern House committee both present
1. Talk about what they look for in candidates
ii. Vote on number of representatives for Neo-Georgian
1. 11 for 6
2. 4 for 7
3. 2 abstentions
iii. Vote on whom to include on Neo-Georgian committee
1. Result: 6 representatives – Tian, Laura, Josh, Rebecca, Mohindra, Lauren
iv. Modern committee: Seema, Siri, Colin, Marcella, Dan, Jacky
c. Discussion on:
i. SAC Outreach
1. Papa: more information and outreach to freshmen on specifics of amnesty policy
2. Jack: freshmen will not understand the email sent out
3. Matt: do not ruin rapport with DAPAs, work with them maybe
4. Charles: ambulance issue – who will pay for the ambulance, who should pay?
ii. Party Publicity Guidelines
1. Eric: wants to know if it is enforced in the houses
2. Matt: be careful about alerting administration to make them more strict
3. Eric: just wants to discuss it with reps from each house
4. Nadia: the administration probably does not care too much about advertising of parties
5. Doug: gray area of what is an invitation and what is public – Facebook?
6. Eric: shouldn’t we have a uniform policy on it?
7. Discussion to be continued
d. Docket: House Renewal Subcomittees Appointments Act
i. Speaker against: Eric Hysen – should have put more work into the selection of candidates than simply emailing, maybe coordinate with HoCos
ii. Speaker for: Jack Pararas – we should approve it
iii. Speaker against: Charles James – one person from each house might be better
iv. Legislation amended by unanimous consent to include names of appointees
v. Legislation docketed: 17-0-0
vi. Legislation recommended: 17-0-0
e. Break Out
i. Happy birthday to Mallika and Daniel
II. Closing Business
a. Logistic announcements made
i. Planning of SAC Happy Hour this Thursday
1. Time TBD
b. Attendance: George Hayward absent, Mallika and Nadia late, no one left meeting early
c. Meeting adjourned by Tamar Holoshitz at 8:35PM
Respectfully Submitted,
Senan Ebrahim
Secretary, Student Affairs Committee, Fall 2008
Student Affairs Committee 7:00 PM
Loker Commons 028
Meeting Minutes
Meeting called to order at 7:07PM by Tamar Holoshitz
I. Business
a. Check-in
i. Jack and Dan: ATM in the quad, discussed with Bank of America manager
ii. Eric Hysen: party advertising issue
iii. Eric Michel: housing groups – linking groups – work in progress, equipment in common rooms
iv. Senan: sent out survey, working on water fountains – UC can chip in
v. Bill: Newspapers – work in progress
vi. Mallika: to meet with Dean Kidd on Queen’s Head Pub joint student-faculty visits
vii. Sarah: language requirement, new major approved
viii. Matt Sundquist: visit to Princeton and Yale, many ideas for housing suggestions
ix. Doug: trying to improve UC-HoCo relations
x. Ben: working with athletics representative Julia Lam to , gender-neutral housing work in progress, house renewal meeting
xi. Papa: printing costs/refunds project, plagiarism information for freshmen – contacted Dean Ellison
xii. Nadia: Sent out survey email to all
xiii. Matt Garcia: Worked on HUCEP escort, to contact new sergeant Gillis
xiv. Alyssa and Matt: Allston volunteering
b. Discussion on candidates for Housing Renewal subcommittee
i. Chair of Neo-Georgian House committee and Chair of Modern House committee both present
1. Talk about what they look for in candidates
ii. Vote on number of representatives for Neo-Georgian
1. 11 for 6
2. 4 for 7
3. 2 abstentions
iii. Vote on whom to include on Neo-Georgian committee
1. Result: 6 representatives – Tian, Laura, Josh, Rebecca, Mohindra, Lauren
iv. Modern committee: Seema, Siri, Colin, Marcella, Dan, Jacky
c. Discussion on:
i. SAC Outreach
1. Papa: more information and outreach to freshmen on specifics of amnesty policy
2. Jack: freshmen will not understand the email sent out
3. Matt: do not ruin rapport with DAPAs, work with them maybe
4. Charles: ambulance issue – who will pay for the ambulance, who should pay?
ii. Party Publicity Guidelines
1. Eric: wants to know if it is enforced in the houses
2. Matt: be careful about alerting administration to make them more strict
3. Eric: just wants to discuss it with reps from each house
4. Nadia: the administration probably does not care too much about advertising of parties
5. Doug: gray area of what is an invitation and what is public – Facebook?
6. Eric: shouldn’t we have a uniform policy on it?
7. Discussion to be continued
d. Docket: House Renewal Subcomittees Appointments Act
i. Speaker against: Eric Hysen – should have put more work into the selection of candidates than simply emailing, maybe coordinate with HoCos
ii. Speaker for: Jack Pararas – we should approve it
iii. Speaker against: Charles James – one person from each house might be better
iv. Legislation amended by unanimous consent to include names of appointees
v. Legislation docketed: 17-0-0
vi. Legislation recommended: 17-0-0
e. Break Out
i. Happy birthday to Mallika and Daniel
II. Closing Business
a. Logistic announcements made
i. Planning of SAC Happy Hour this Thursday
1. Time TBD
b. Attendance: George Hayward absent, Mallika and Nadia late, no one left meeting early
c. Meeting adjourned by Tamar Holoshitz at 8:35PM
Respectfully Submitted,
Senan Ebrahim
Secretary, Student Affairs Committee, Fall 2008
UC General Minutes 10/26/08
Sunday, October 26, 2008, 7:00pm Harvard Hall 104
Harvard University – Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Minutes
UC Minutes Gen Meeting 10-26-08
I. Officer Updates
a. Matt Sundquist
i. Princeton and Yale have awesome housing, and it would be cool if we could replicate
b. Randall Sarafa
i. nominating positions for President/Vice President, need 150 signatures from undergraduates
ii. if you’d like to serve on the Election Commission, which enforces election rules. Steve Cupps is looking for 2 people.
c. Tony Britt
i. review of the last week’s budget’s contentious footnote
d. Mohindra Rupram
i. starling, special election to replace him in Mather
II. Committee Updates
a. Tamar Holoshitz
i. tutorial this week was great
ii. SAC will be considering legislation to appoint students to two new house renewal subcommittees
b. Andrea Flores
i. Student Life meeting on Monday went well
ii. Tony and Andrea will be meeting with HoCos to talk about the Student Life Fund
iii. Questions for Grants Pack will be accepted when the legislation is discussed
iv. new policy in the FiCom policy subcommittee will be discussed this week
III. For the Good of the Coucil
a. Matt Sundquist
i. On December 1 (tentative), Ted Kennedy will be having a ceremony for an honorary degree
ii. Pass around Mallika’s bag and draw names for the Kennedy ceremony to see who will attend
IV. Question Period
a. None
V. Comments Period
a. Meeting on Tuesday in Quincy Dining Hall for the Student Life Fund
VI. Legislative Docket
a. Fall Grants Pack 2.0
i. Question on grant 145, 147, 150 because zeroed out
ii. Why is grant 163 so high? huge number of undergrads
iii. Speakers for and against? none
iv. 26-0-1, passes
b. Fall 2008 HoCo allocation
i. Tony explains the general particulars of the legislation ($5400 per house, a little less for Dudley)
ii. Matt interrupts gives brief history: we used to fund them much less and only for events
1. but Matt’s freshmen year it changed so that we funded them upfront
2. Tony adds that last year we funded them $4,550
a. Questions
i. Alyssa Aguilera: What does Dudley usually get?
ii. 1/6 of a normal house, plus $1000, proportional to # of students in the house
iii. Matt Sundquist: we went with this formula because it would account for the shifts in House population, guarantees more continuity in terms of how much they can count on.
3. Doug Lloyd
a. amendment proposed: move to strike the fifth be it further resolved clause
i. all those in favor of considering the amendment: fails
4. No speakers against
5. Unanimous Consent
c. Tony Britt motions to reconsider the budget from last week
i. requires half of the Council to consider
1. 21-1-4
ii. Tony: better ways to go about fostering cooperation than in the contentious footnote from the first budget vote
1. easier to strike the footnote, since it doesn’t really do anything anyway
2. Question: Are you striking the $8,000 Special Initiative Fund and putting it back to the Grants Fund?
a. Tony: yes, because we can still allocate money from the Grants fund without making SIF?
iii. Vote on the question (after all previous procedures)
1. 22-1-3
d. Draw names for the Kennedy event
i. Crimson dude pulls the names out of the bag
1. Names
a. Doug Lloyd
b. Lisa Schechner
c. Nadia Gaber
d. Bill Rose
e. Catherine Ntube
f. Eric Michel
VII. Closing Remarks/Adjournment
Harvard University – Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Minutes
UC Minutes Gen Meeting 10-26-08
I. Officer Updates
a. Matt Sundquist
i. Princeton and Yale have awesome housing, and it would be cool if we could replicate
b. Randall Sarafa
i. nominating positions for President/Vice President, need 150 signatures from undergraduates
ii. if you’d like to serve on the Election Commission, which enforces election rules. Steve Cupps is looking for 2 people.
c. Tony Britt
i. review of the last week’s budget’s contentious footnote
d. Mohindra Rupram
i. starling, special election to replace him in Mather
II. Committee Updates
a. Tamar Holoshitz
i. tutorial this week was great
ii. SAC will be considering legislation to appoint students to two new house renewal subcommittees
b. Andrea Flores
i. Student Life meeting on Monday went well
ii. Tony and Andrea will be meeting with HoCos to talk about the Student Life Fund
iii. Questions for Grants Pack will be accepted when the legislation is discussed
iv. new policy in the FiCom policy subcommittee will be discussed this week
III. For the Good of the Coucil
a. Matt Sundquist
i. On December 1 (tentative), Ted Kennedy will be having a ceremony for an honorary degree
ii. Pass around Mallika’s bag and draw names for the Kennedy ceremony to see who will attend
IV. Question Period
a. None
V. Comments Period
a. Meeting on Tuesday in Quincy Dining Hall for the Student Life Fund
VI. Legislative Docket
a. Fall Grants Pack 2.0
i. Question on grant 145, 147, 150 because zeroed out
ii. Why is grant 163 so high? huge number of undergrads
iii. Speakers for and against? none
iv. 26-0-1, passes
b. Fall 2008 HoCo allocation
i. Tony explains the general particulars of the legislation ($5400 per house, a little less for Dudley)
ii. Matt interrupts gives brief history: we used to fund them much less and only for events
1. but Matt’s freshmen year it changed so that we funded them upfront
2. Tony adds that last year we funded them $4,550
a. Questions
i. Alyssa Aguilera: What does Dudley usually get?
ii. 1/6 of a normal house, plus $1000, proportional to # of students in the house
iii. Matt Sundquist: we went with this formula because it would account for the shifts in House population, guarantees more continuity in terms of how much they can count on.
3. Doug Lloyd
a. amendment proposed: move to strike the fifth be it further resolved clause
i. all those in favor of considering the amendment: fails
4. No speakers against
5. Unanimous Consent
c. Tony Britt motions to reconsider the budget from last week
i. requires half of the Council to consider
1. 21-1-4
ii. Tony: better ways to go about fostering cooperation than in the contentious footnote from the first budget vote
1. easier to strike the footnote, since it doesn’t really do anything anyway
2. Question: Are you striking the $8,000 Special Initiative Fund and putting it back to the Grants Fund?
a. Tony: yes, because we can still allocate money from the Grants fund without making SIF?
iii. Vote on the question (after all previous procedures)
1. 22-1-3
d. Draw names for the Kennedy event
i. Crimson dude pulls the names out of the bag
1. Names
a. Doug Lloyd
b. Lisa Schechner
c. Nadia Gaber
d. Bill Rose
e. Catherine Ntube
f. Eric Michel
VII. Closing Remarks/Adjournment
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