Executive 4-27-2009

Attendance: Bedard, Coates, Sinapi, Aronoff, Petit, Shah, Harrington, Holland

Call to Order: 7:15 p.m.

I. Academic

  • Fielding complaints, talking to deans
  • Putting poster up in Hope through reading days, posters already up in all the dorms
  • Mass email campaign
  • Going to sit down with deans, Provost, ombud before the end of the year
  • Budget set aside for college readership, going to fix kiosks over the summer
  • Maybe set up longer contract so that price of newspapers does not increase exponentially
  • Going to talk to Paul Whitney in bookstore for next year

II. Finance

  • Going to have a committee meeting after or during finals to discuss next year
  • Problem with groups trying to rush things last minute
  • Summer budget done (8 groups)
  • We have NO money

III. Secretary

  • Kudos: Giana has done basically everything for Rammies
  • Bedard for script?

IV. Campus

  • 2 bills
  • Survey results steady across race (560 people)
  • Going to change resolves in arming police bill to make them more specific
  • Bill supporting research site 7-0-0
  • Most people on exec do not support
  • Carothers even said we do not need to build it
  • Do the ends justify the means?
  • Will building facility destabilize land?
  • Bill should say that we want to protect forest for all time but we support research facility being built on another location
  • This option has a consensus from exec and bill on floor will be amended to reflect this new bill

V. Cultural

  • Rammy’s are tomorrow- senate should be there at 6 p.m. Everything is set
  • Multi-cultural roundtable October 18th to address diversity and such.
  • No updates on dance crew
  • First Night looking good
  • Budget Brigade
  • Senate might be having pens for elections/First Night

VI. SOARC

  • Lisa Chen sent link to Kim to get student organization website up and running
  • If you have any thoughts on level changes talk to Katherine or Dave

VII. Vice President

  • BBQ location up in the air
  • Retreat Sunday, September 27th
  • Committee minutes/attendance must go to Vidhi’s email
  • These are due Friday at noon

VIII. President

  • Dr. Dooley here tomorrow 1:40 p.m., Open Forum 2:40
  • Celebration Thursday April 30th at 2 p.m. Ryan Center, Dave is MCing
  • May 1st library dedication meet at 11:30 at the Multi-Cultural Center
  • Talked about Rammies announced winners, decided on organization of the year (Uhuru Sasa), president of year (Joel)
  • Dave and Sinapi are going to redo Research Park bill tomorrow