3 March 2019

ASCIT Board of Directors Meeting

Minutes for 3 March 2019. 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: 8:07 PM

President’s Report (Sakthi):

• Sakthi and Varun met with Joe Shepherd (see Varun’s section for details).

• Meeting with Joe Shepherd to talk about student representatives for the ACRL.

• Met with Erika and Harel (ARC and CrC chairs). Changes to the bylaws will be proposed to include Becthel representatives.

• Midnight Donuts happened this Friday.

Officer’s Reports:

V.P. of Academic Affairs (Erika):

• Student Faculty lunch happened on Thursday 2/28.

• SFC is happening on Friday. The morning session is about the honor code and option advising, and the afternoon is option-specific sessions.

• The honor code survey got a lot of responses from both students and faculty.

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

• Met with Felicia on Tuesday and gave feedback on the past Orange Watch training. There is an Orange Watch training tomorrow 3/4. Also talked about the alcohol policy.

• Will continue to discuss security’s role in the houses.

• Planning on talking about room picks with Joe Shepherd and Joe Bennethum.

• Will meet with Felicia on Tuesday to talk about Rotation Rubric, Rotation Rules, 4 Year Residency, and the pet policy.

Director of Operations (Varun):

• Sakthi and Varun met with Joe Shepherd and Kipling (current Tech advisor).

o Kipling came up with a journalism class for 3rd term (with an opportunity for students to earn humanities credit) and a 1st term boot camp. The proposed plan increases advisor engagement with the Tech editors.

o Would like to make a mission statement for the Tech and more guidelines to protect the editors and provide more structure to help the editors.

Treasurer (Irene):

• Nothing to report.

Social Director (David):

• Movie Night was moved to Wednesday 3/13.

• Went to the social chairs roundtable meeting with Felicia and discussed basic how-to stuff regarding event registration and event planning/safety.

• Will start up a regular bi-weekly meeting time with the ESC.

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: 9:01 PM