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