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ASCIT Minutes 12/5/07
Present
Chris Gonzales, Mike Grinolds, Andrea Dubin, Mike Woods, Ekta Bhojwani, Daryl Coleman, Patrick Herring, Zack Higbee, Dan Lo
Absent
Mike Forte
Guests
Joel Nikolaus, Craig Montuori
Student Center Planning
-Mike brings the idea up again of getting a student committee for helping to plan the student center. Mike suggests having this committee going before the next BoD takes over. There is a time-limited donation by Gordan Moore so it’s better to get student input sooner. Mike argues that it would be good to figure out what students want to see in the student center before the administration asks us. The committee would figure out what sort of things are planned to be in there (which is rather nebulous right now) and they would figure out what students really want to see in it. Winnet was originally designed to be a student center but it failed, so it might be a good idea to figure out why it failed. Mike suggests that the committee should also make sure there won’t be construction problems like there were in the south houses. Patrick suggested that the committee should also look into what other schools have in their student centers. The committee will be asked to make a presentation to the administration at the end.
-The BoD agrees that we need somebody very proactive to head this.
-Mike suggests that they could get it done by the end of the year
-Sign ups will probably go up at the beginning of second term, interviews will happen shortly after
-After we select them we’ll give them a direction with specific goals and time line and final deadline.
-Mike will send John Hall an email and let him know that we intend to form this committee. He will also tell President Chameau.
Elections Chair
-Zack is currently the elections chair, but he thinks that he wants to run for something again this new elections, so we will need a new elections chair.
-Signups will go up at the start of next term.
Club list
-Jed, Andrea, and Craig are working on cleaning up the club list on donut. It should be done before the end of winter break.
SAC
-Mike Forte will move the ASCIT TV to the SAC.
DVDs
-Daryl reports that the DVDs are in good shape!
-A couple have been damaged, but we’ve also had 6 donations to the library.
-We are using it at about the same rate as the grad students. We’ve been funding it at about $2000 each year, so we will probably ask the GSC to do the same.
Legal
-Gonzo met with Tom yesterday to discuss some legal stuff. If ASCIT funds a club to go on a field trip, if something happens we might be liable. They discussed the possibility of having to sign waivers. Tom is currently trying to work out what exactly needs to be done. Gonzo assures us that Tom doesn’t want to make this a burden to us.
Interhouse
-Tom can only reimburse alcohol to matching the food receipts. If alcohol doesn’t match the food receipts, social team should go out and buy food so we can match it.
Retreat
-Everyone should tell Gonzo what weekend is good and what kind of activity they would like to do. We could do anything from dinner at Tom’s house to getting the retreat funding and going somewhere
Honor Keys
-Craig reports that the list is still changing. Craig will talk to Tom about the budget and will come to us about it. We need to settle on a final point system and send off an order shortly after winter break. We will have a separate meeting to discuss the point system.
Other stuff
-The CUE is meeting on Friday to talk about outcomes and objectives relating to the WASC accreditation. Carol Carmichael and President Chameau will be there.
-Finance seminars will start second term.
Respectfully,
Andrea Dubin
ASCIT Secretary