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