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ASCIT Minutes 10/31/07
Present
Chris Gonzales, Mike Grinolds, Andrea Dubin, Mike Forte, Mike Woods, Ekta Bhojwani, Partick Herring, Daryl Coleman
Absent
Dan Lo, Zack Higbee, Caleb Ng, Angela Zah
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Tech
-Mike Woods brought up the possibility of letting the Tech be autonomous. He suggested that we could publish our stuff (like candidate statements) through ug-list. Gonzo argued that we would be removing them from ASCIT and putting them under Caltech control. He brought up the concern about censorship. Having a publications board would take control away from the students and instead the Tech would be under direct control of faculty and administration. The alumni association sold off 2 publications to Caltech and they are having a lot of trouble since they don’t have their own publication. The bylaws say that we have to fund them 10% of our budget anyway. Gonzo says that the Tech is independent. Our goal should be giving students more control, and giving the Tech to administration would not be accomplishing this. In terms of elections, we think that people should be informed enough to select the best editor. Mike Grinolds brought up that this is also the way BoC chair is decided, and people tend to make good decisions about that position.
SAC
-Gonzo reports that the renovations will be complete fairly soon. The screening room looks nice.
-There is one room that hasn’t been assigned. It used to be the silkscreen room. It’s not being renovated right now and is just designated as multipurpose room. The Alumni fund wants it for the student phone program, since IST building is being built behind Steele. The BoD feels that it would be a waste to put it there since not that many undergrads would use it. We feel that it is not directly beneficial to a large number of students and we could find a better use for the room.
Interhouse
-Ekta requests that we give the houses checks for them to start building with. She suggests giving the houses $1k per party to help them start building. Housing will reimburse houses for costs, but they need money so that people don’t have to front it out of their own pockets. We will give the houses the money set aside for interhouse from ASCIT’s budget.
Budget items
-Currently we are out of budgeted club funding. Other funding for clubs has to come out of “special reserves”.
-Weird things happened with the tech since they hadn’t actually gotten their money until this year. It shouldn’t actually affect this year’s budget
Respectfully,
Andrea Dubin
ASCIT Secretary