ASCIT Board of Directors Meeting - VPSA
Minutes for 17 April 2019. Taken by Rachel Sun.
Officers Present: Sakthi Vetrivel, Erika Salzman, Sarah Crucilla, Varun Shanker, Alice Zhai, Dana He, Rachel Sun
Guests: Kevin Gilmartin, Joe Shepherd, Tom Mannion
Call to Order: 12:10 PM
President’s Report (Sakthi):
Have been talking to Dean Nye about changes to FCC selection to allow for better representation of all the groups on campus and other frosh camp changes.
Have had to cut back on social events in order to fund alternate interhouses and movie nights due to lack of funding from usual funding sources.
ASCIT Elections are happening on Monday.
Officer’s Reports:
V.P. of Academic Affairs (Erika):
Have more course capture this term than ever before with 4 courses offered. May need more funding for equipment as this program grows.
SFC happened in March. All SFC presentations are on the ARC website. Moving forward with honor code and option advising proposals and looking into issues with student attendance.
Pushing for the computation in core proposal.
Set up meetings with the Math option representative regarding improving math core lecture attendance and usefulness.
V.P. of Non-Academic Affairs (Sarah):
Prefrosh Experience occurring on a weekday was hard for a lot of students to balance schoolwork and interacting with prefrosh. Additionally, house events were pushed together with a lot of overlap due to earlier quiet hours.
The IHC is reaching out to freshmen in Bechtel to get an idea of their experience this year.
The IHC had serious concerns about the roompicks process such as last minute changes and lack of communication from housing and student affairs.
IHC came up with a plan for future interhouses to discuss safety regarding alcohol, increasing Orange Watch numbers, meetings before and after each interhouse to ensure everything goes well and work on improvements for future interhouses.
Director of Operations (Varun):
ASCIT Screening Room in the SAC has been renovated.
Working on moving the recording studio to Hameetman.
Working on improving the Tech.
Treasurer (Dana):
The Tech is requesting more funding.
Social Director (Alice):
Had ASCIT Formal on a yacht and initially received a lot of complaints as tickets ran out quickly. MHF impact report has submitted.
Movie Night is scheduled for Monday April 29.
Complaints from house social directors regarding round table meetings and event selection committee.
Secretary (Rachel):
Nothing to report.
If anyone has any questions or concerns about a section of the minutes please email the appropriate officer. We are happy to answer any questions.
Meeting Adjourned: 1:05 PM