21 January 2019

ASCIT Board of Directors Meeting

Minutes for 21 January 2018. Taken by Rachel Sun.

Officers Present: Sakthi Vetrivel, Erika Salzman, Sarah Crucilla, Varun Shanker, Irene Chang, David Berger Maneiro, Rachel Sun

Guests: Alejandro Lopez

Call to Order: 8:11 PM

President’s Report (Sakthi):

• We had a VPSA meeting. Minutes from the VPSA meeting can be viewed on Donut.

Officer’s Reports:

V.P. of Academic Affairs (Erika):

• Add Day is Friday 1/24.

• We will be having a software seminar on Mathematica. Details TBA.

• Professor Kiewiet wants to review and possibly update Math 0.

• SFC special committees have been chosen. We are still accepting people to join these committees. If you are interested, please contact the ARC Chair.

o Honor Code:

 Chair: Kavya Sreedhar

 Members: Chris Johnstone, Karen Pham, Akshay Srivastava, Surya Mathialagan, Megan Durney

o Option Advising:

 Chair: Erika Salzman

 Members: Alejandro Lopez, Arushi Gupta, Tanvi Gupta

V.P. of Non-Academic Affairs (Sarah):

• A new Blacker president will be announced tomorrow evening.

• This coming week, there will be a bit of turnover (4-5 new president).

• New construction guidelines coming out this week.

• Tomorrow IHC chair will meet with the new Title IX community educator.

• There will be Orange Watch trainings before each of the coming interhouses. Trainings will be in the houses (there will be food).

• IHC is continuing their review of rotation.

Director of Operations (Varun):

• Looking for furniture for the ASCIT Screening Room renovation. We are aiming to do a lot of the renovations over spring break.

Treasurer (Irene):

• Still working on reimbursements. Some delays may be due to staff changes in the reimbursement office.

Social Director (David):

• There will be an ice skating event at the Pasadena Ice Skating Center this Friday from 8-10 pm. This is free and everyone can go. (Have an ice day and I hope to ski you there! :))

• A calendar with school-wide social events has been sent out (orange and white editions).

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: 8:40 PM