Date: 9.18.17<\/p>\n
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Chair: St. Amand<\/p>\n
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Committee Members Present: Creese, McWeeney, My Vu, Howard, Alquirtas<\/p>\n
Committee Members Absent: N\/A<\/p>\n
Non-Committee Members: N\/A<\/p>\n
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Meeting Start Time: 5:00PM<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n *discussing Columbus Day bill<\/p>\n -last general meeting it was discussed that the bill may be too emotionally charged<\/p>\n -looking to reword 6th<\/sup> and 7th<\/sup> \u201cwhereas\u201d and add \u201cmembers of the URI community have expressed a belief that\u201d as opposed to stating that the emotion is a fact<\/p>\n -maybe delete 7th<\/sup> \u201cwhereas\u201d as it is seen as just a rewording<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -bill as a whole\u2014if it gets passed, could do another poll – \u201chow do you feel about it?\u201d and add a scale 1-5, physical proof for faculty senate<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -proposed: tabling bill to put out poll before<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -ideally: educational programming informing people why Columbus Day is \u201cbad\u201d<\/p>\n -Nicolette will speak to Riley<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *director of MSC<\/p>\n -no more Diversity Week\u2014so no longer cultural planning<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *dean of College of Business<\/p>\n -already doing Ted Talk, sent email to Nicolette explaining how cultural should not do their own and join his<\/p>\n -Nicolette responded, detailing that our Ted Talk is about mental health awareness (whereas theirs is about business)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -Ted Talk speaker ideas<\/p>\n -Sheldon Whitehouse<\/p>\n -separate professors<\/p>\n -depression author<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meeting Adjourned: 5:25pm<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Date: 9.18.17 Chair: St. Amand Committee Members Present: Creese, McWeeney, My Vu, Howard, Alquirtas Committee Members Absent: N\/A Non-Committee Members: N\/A Meeting Start Time: 5:00PM *discussing Columbus Day bill -last general meeting it was discussed that the bill may be too emotionally charged -looking to reword 6th and 7th \u201cwhereas\u201d and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[34,39,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-affairs","category-cultural-affairs-minutes-2017","category-minutes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}