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SGA Minutes April 19 April 26, 2009

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SGA Potpourri: A Little Bit of Everything

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Emma Wisniewski-Barker ’11 called the meeting to order at 7:10 PM.

Roll Call

Unexcused Absences: Kendalyn Brown ’09, Sofia Nitchie ’09, Sarah Capazzo ’11, Anne Bugnaski ’10, Nga Nguyen ’12, Rodline Louigeune ’11, Christina Wagner ’11, Noelle Fair ’10, Rachel Awkward ’09.

Excused Absences: Tanya Kaur ’10, Chelsea Dukel ‘11

Community Members Present: Reggie Kukola ’10, Ashton Shaffer ’11, Nelly Khaselev ’11, Lindsey Turr ’11, Stephanie Migliori ’09, Jill Walker ’09, Sarah Blatchly ’11, Sarah Sherman ’11, Kayla McDaniel ’12, Liz Frantino ’12, Katie Scire ’12, Jasmine Arnold ’12.

Announcements:

Katherine Redford ’10: I’m taking minutes tonight since Tanya is away for the religious holiday. If you want your announcements in the minutes email them to me at sga@brynmawr.edu by midnight tonight.

Tali Cox ’10: COPS is hosting an Alcohol Awareness Tea this Wednesday at 8 in Dalton 119! We’re discussing safe drinking in preparation for May Day. It’s a really important issue, and we’re hoping that you will all come and join us! There will be food and root beer, and we can’t wait to see you all! Thanks!

Judy Barr ’09: Student Curriculum Committee would like to announce a reprieve from the dreary end of the year: COFFEE HOUR is back, at 9:30 to 11:00 in the campus Center on Friday, April 24th. Coffee + bagels + coffee cake + a chance to meet professors and talk about C/NC, minors/concentrations, how lotteries work, scheduling, and, especially, BUDGET ISSUES regarding anything academic at Bryn Mawr College. Come. Eat. Talk. Thanks.

Your Two Cents:

Steph Hilton ’09: I wanted to talk about the recent safety issues happening not on our campus, but at Haverford and Swarthmore. I was pretty upset that we didn’t hear about the Haverford incident sooner, but I spoke with Mike Hill and asked him why this was. They’re going to try to revamp the E2Campus system, maybe making it a more mandatory thing. Perhaps this will help people feel safe. A lot of bad things happen, but we can learn from it. Don’t worry we are safe. If you have any concerns about this email COPS or Mike Hill. Stay safe!

Laurel Lemon ’11: I’m just curious to see what the reactions are to the changes made to the Halloween Party, including moving Rhodes to TGH, hiring professional bouncers, and servers, inviting only Haverford students and allowing only Bryn Mawr students to bring guests, which are limited to one per student and must be registered in advance.

Marisa Franz ’10: Will Radnor’s budget be adjusted to account for the cost of professional servers?

Taline Cox ‘10: Public safety will be funding this.

Laurel Lemon ‘11: Mary Beth Horvath told me SGA would be partially responsible for funding them.

Sarah Gelfand ’11: What defines a professional bouncer.

Steph Hilton ‘09: They’re not a Bryn Mawr student.

Reggie Kukola ‘10: Why has Swarthmore been excluded?

Emma Wisniewski-Barker ‘11: I spoke with Dean Tidmarsh and she said this was mainly due to overcrowding.

Sadie Marlow ’11: I am a fan of these changes. I think this is the best way to the number of incidents on a lower level. Lots of things can be prevented when responsibilities are met. I like the idea that there won’t be any random non-Bi-Co students wandering around.

Amanda Ciccone ’09: I’m happy to hear about these changes, as someone who ran Radnor this year. It’s amazing to see that we need professional bouncers now, Radnor has evolved in such an interesting way since I first came to Bryn Mawr.

Katie Dahl ‘11: I am irritated that we are excluding Swarthmore because we are allowed into every event on their campus, but we aren’t letting them in. I worry that we’re moving away from the Tri-Co.

Sarah Kelly ’11: I was a bouncer in Rhodes, I worked three hours, and I think this is a great idea, because people respond to badges, not Bryn Mawr students with buttons.

Cara Sogliuzzo ‘09: I’m worried about the fact that since there will be professional servers, there will be off the wall underage pre-drinking. I know it takes a lot to run these parties, but they become so overcrowded because we only have one huge party every year. If we developed a more social scene, maybe this wouldn’t happen.

Appointments Update:

Sophie Papovizas ’11: Appointments is still in their round of appointments, but we’ve appointed some positions whose interviews were heard only in the first week. So I’m going to have them introduce themselves.

Lily Mengesha’ 10, Plenary Committee: I love resolutions and plenary. I’m really excited to be a part of the plenary process.

Christina Munoz and Kayla McDaniel, Recycling Committee Co-Heads: We’re interested in working on recycling Comitteee and spreading enthusiasm for the environment on campus.

Jasmine Arnold ’12 and Katie Scire ’12, Financial Aid Committee: We want everyone more involved in the Financial Aid process, especially in applying for aid. Our academic responsibility should carry over to the dollars and cents of our education.

Sophie Papovizas ’11: We’re running emergency appointments for Plenary Committee this week so encourage your friends to run for this position! It’s fabulous! The remaining two positions on the Financial Aid Advisory Board will be open to applications in the first round of appointments following the summer vacation. The two Plenary Committee positions will be filled in an emergency round of appointments. Applications are due Friday at 5 pm via Blackboard. Applicants should sign up for an interview when they submit their application. All questions should be sent to appointments@brynmawr.edu.

Environmental Awareness:

Bryn Mawr College Greens

Emily Rueman ’11: I’m pres of BMC Greens, I’m here to tell you about what we’re up to. I want to know what you’re interested as a I move through my presentation. Everyone is invited to our celebration for Earth Day on Wednesday.

We re-evaluated our Mission Statement this year. We want to focus on task forces this year, and next year the educational aspect of awareness.

We’ve completed a lot of projects, especially in the fall. The windmill was installed on Cambrian row, it doesn’t provide a lot of power but is a really good example of what’s out there in alternative energy. We want to have a demonstration with facilities to explain how it works. It’s small because of zoning and because Bryn Mawr is such a challenging landscape

CFL’s are compact fluorescent light bulbs, we started handing them out everywhere we can. They really pay for themselves in how energy efficient they are. BMC uses CFL everywhere possible.

We’re trying to ease recycling of CFLs and techno trash. Hopefully this will be set up in CC, so students will be able to use it easily.

Food Wasting happens a lot. We’re hoping once by weighing in once a semester we will remind students how much we waste.

Stalled Projects:

Biodegradable cutlery was cut due to budgeting. We also incinerate our trash, so it isn’t really worth the extra cost.

Bike share is something that used to be on campus, it may have been a BiCo project, but the person who took care of the bicycles graduated, and so the program fell apart. We need a system to fund this and operate this, it is a lot of responsibility.

Low flow shower heads requires a 15 year payback, so it’s not feasible with the current budget.

Compost isn’t feasible because you have to watch it year round, which means a practically a full time job for students and facilities, especially in the summer when students are away from campus. We thought about outsourcing, but it is not financially feasible.

Ongoing Projects:

As the former recycling committee co-head I found that recycling was maintained by housekeeping, but we should use the dorm reps for educational purposes and maybe they could collect more complicated recycling.

Katherine Bakke ’11: Where can we recycle our batteries?

Emily Rueman ‘11: Keep an eye out for a box in the Campus Center soon.

We’re planting flowers this Sunday on Cambrian Row, and keeping up with our vegetable garden behind English House. Everyone is welcome to get involved.

The Green Planning Committee sort of fell apart more recently. I spoke with President McAuliffe, and we’re working on putting together a new committee. We signed on to the President’s Climate Commitment and we need to reduce carbon emissions, and we are failing, so we’re working on that.

Don’t forget that you can’t recycle anything soiled with food waste or bottle caps.

Haverford Environmental Representatives:

Liz , HC, ’12: We’re part of the Council of Twelve and a subcommittee called the Greens Committee. At Haverford we have three environmental committees. The first is called College Enviormental Responsibility. They work with the deans and President Emerson to formulate policy for the campus. The Committee meets weekly, goes over initiatives, and submit two letters a semester to President Emerson with new ideas.

Earth Quakers is a student-run group that coordinate trips and programs, they hold meetings and work with the community.

Environmental Subcommittee work with important people on campus such as the Dining Center and get them to work with Students’ Council on coordination of environmental initiatives.

HC, ’09: So here’s what we’ve managed to accomplish so far. We have an email series with things students can do to help the environment. For example, you can put your computer on sleep mode when you’re not using it, it only uses 1 Watt of power that way. You can turn off lights, save power anywhere and everywhere.

In 2007 there was a plenary resolution that tried to make Haverford a sustainable campus. To that end we’re replacing lighting with CFLs and they are available to students for free via facilities. We’ve also switch Dorm Bathrooms to low flow shower heads. Lastly we bought wind power from PeeCo. All the power produced goes into the same power grid, but we’re buying from wind power now, with only a slight one year increase in tuition. Recycle Mania is a 10 week competition to see which campus could recycle the most per captita. We placed 17th of 293, which means 34.99 lbs per person.

Liz, HC, ’12: Energy Czars who are students who are paid to go around and check temperatures, computers and lights in public spaces on campus. This was developed this year, and it has been going well. We’ll be moving into common areas of dorms soon too. Dorms are where most energy is used because people forget to turn off lights. We’re working with Claudia Kent to change energy use all over campus, dorms included.

HC, ’09: For next semester we’re dealing with the issue of heating in the winter. Some dorms are extremly hot or cold. We’re working on finding out where the thermostats are located. If students don’t know we can waste a lot of energy. We want to inform residents where their thermostats are, and tell them not to open the window. We want to encourage students to communicate with facilities where it is too hot to keep dorms at a comfortable temperature.

Dining Services are working on reducing the use of trays, because they are automatically picked up where they’re currently located. We’re planning on moving them to a place where they will be used only when necessary.

Liz HC, ’12: Our recycling is single stream, which is saving lots of money. We’re going to do an inter-dorm competition on who saves the most energy, but we want to trace where energy is used. We’re working on separating meters to make this happen. Keeping people energized to recycle is one of our main goals.

SGA Web Presence:

Sophie Papovizas ’11: Everyone should know where our blog is, you can visit it via the current student homepage.

SGA now has a Twitter page. The idea is to get out info quickly to people. We’ve been updating it. Twitter is a lot like facebook status updates, and you can update from wherever you are. At a leadership conference I learned how to use these tools to organize. Anyone can see this page. Twitter is free and fast, great for reminders.

Our Facebook fan page is used for updates also, and they’ll show up on your homepage. You’re welcome to send updates to us, and we’ll use Facebook and Twitter to spread the SGA word.

SGA House:

Emma Wisniewski-Barker ’11: Here’s a youtube video on the SGA House and all the different rooms in it.

There was a discussion a year ago about the kitchen but we would like to see the building used for more things beyond the kitchen. We want some feedback on how this space can be better used.

The upstairs space was meant to be exec board office space, but we really don’t need it for that. There are two functioning computers and many empty cabinets. There are so many clubs that need space, do you think they could use them?

Maybe there’s a way to rent out the upstairs for rehearsal space, or club meetings.

Sarah Kelly ’11: Do you still have to call Conferences and Events to rent the space?

Emma Wisniewski-Barker ’11: Yes, but currently you can only reserve the first floor.

Sadie Marlow ‘11: I had never seen the upstairs. The rooms look really big, it would be great if we could put stuff up there.

Sarah Kelly ’11: How does onecard access work?

Emma Wisniewski-Barker ’11: One card will open the building until midnight. You need a key for the kitchen.

Steph Migliori ’09: Are the upstairs locked? Are people still stealing from the kitchen?

Emma Wisniewski-Barker ’11: The upstairs rooms can be locked, and the exec board have keys, so do facilities. The kitchen has some supplies, and I don’t think the stealing has gotten any worse than the last time we discussed it. Would you be willing for us to let groups use these cabinets?

Straw Poll showed almost everyone in favor of this.

Emma Wisniewski-Barker ’11: If you come up with ideas about how to use this space, email us! sga@brynmawr.edu

Old Business

Sophie Papovizas ’11: An Arts Association Interest meeting was held this past week.

Steph Migliori ’09: At an SGA meeting a few weeks ago the idea came up to create an arts association, there was a lot of interest, lots of members from arts groups on campus came to last week’s interest meeting. We will be meeting this Wednesday at 11 in Taylor C to elect an executive board. The Association will be open to all groups on campus, we may be suggesting a donation, since SFC doesn’t have money to give us, and we don’t know yet what we’ll need to budget for.

Taline Cox ‘10: People have had a lot of questions about ticketing. They expressed that ticketing has been sporadic and that it has been increasing with warm weather. It’s important to know that ticketing was a job assigned to a specific Public Safety officer, but this is not the case anymore. We won’t be hiring someone to refill this position. Do any you have suggestions or worries regarding parking and ticketing?

Simran Singh ’10: I have a huge problem with parking. Can we open the ward lot to students?

Taline Cox ’10: There are spaces in that lot reserved for students with permits.

Simran Singh ’10: I have an expired permit. I have been on the waitlist since August, so can it be opened to visitor parking?

Taline Cox ’10: We will talk with Mike Hill about it.

New Business

Emma Wisniewski-Barker ’11: The exec board was discussing the approval of minutes at our last meeting. As community members, we don’t think that the current process makes sense. The secretary take minutes, then the Mawrk Notes are written, printed, and distributed by Thursday. This is all before minutes are scheduled to be approved the following Sunday. But we want a way for people to say that they’ve been misquoted. Should we continue with the way we do it now? Or should we come up with a new plan? Any ideas?

Steph Migliori ’09: I feel like we have to do them this way, because we would need to read them during the meetings per Roberts Rules of order, if we did it any other way. Also, they should be emailed weekly. I am only getting Mawrk Notes.

Emma Wisniewski-Barker ’11: Tanya has been sending the minutes as attachments, but we can have her put them in the body of the email.

Hannah Curry-McDougald ‘10: Can we check spelling, please, before things are printed

Emma Wisniewski-Barker ’11: We want to get them out quickly, and that’s why some things like this are being overlooked.

Antonia Kerle ‘11: Aren’t we supposed to not be printing Mawrk notes to be green?

Emma Wisniewski-Barker ’11: We discussed the benefits of printing the Mawrk Notes at a previous SGA meeting, and because they are so effective in the bathrooms, we’ve decided to keep printing them, despite the amount of paper used. People might not open the email containing the Mawrk Notes, but they’ll look at them when they are in the bathroom stall. Are there any other comments or ideas regarding minutes or Mawrk Notes?

Meeting Adjourned at 8:25 PM.

Emergency Round of Appointments for Plenary Committee! April 20, 2009

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The SGA Appointments Committee is opening an emergency round of appointments for two open positions on the Plenary Committee. Plenary Committee positions must be filled before summer break. Please apply and encourage your friends to apply. To prior SGA experience is necessary and it is a great position for anyone that is looking to get more involved in SGA. All those that wish to apply should fill out an application, submit it via the SGA Blackboard page and sign up for an interview. Applications are due Friday at 5 pm.

Send your questions to appointments@brynmawr.edu

SGA Minutes April 12 April 14, 2009

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Emma W-B ’11 called the meeting to order at 7:10 PM

Roll Call

Excused Absences:

Amanda Ciegliewski ’09, Rodline Louijenue ’11, Patricia Lebron ’09, Weezie Lauher ’10, Gaby Vollum ’11, Chelsea Dunkel ’11, Jasmine Howell ’11, Judy Barr ’09, Susie Kim ’11, Katherine Redford ’10, Steph Hilton ’09, Christina Wagner ’11, Ean Oesterle, Rachel Awkward ’09, Cara Sogliuzzo ’09, Amanda King’10, Liz Hood’10, Nina Jankowicz ’09, Kendalyn Brown ’09

Unexcused Absences:

Sofia Nitchie ’09, MJ Crookes’10, Liana Donahue ’12, Sadie Marlow ’11, Caitlin McCarthy ‘11

Community Members:

Jill Walker ’09, Ashton Shaffer ’11, Lindsey Turr ’11, Becky Findlay ’10, Evan Schneider ’10, Katie Kellom ’09, Erica Seaborne ’09, Ashley Madden ’09, Julia Fahl ’12, Katie Robins ’09, Sarah Sherman ’11, Kate Gould ’11, Julia Aranda ’11, Emma Sheedy ’12, Elizabeth Held ’12, Rebecca Sanders ’12, Leah Bonnell ‘11

Announcements:

Emma W-B ’11: I have three announcements today.

1) In the spirit of the Honor Code, the Exec Board would like to remind elected members of SGA to stay through the entire meeting.

2) We would also like to remind everyone, both voting members and community members to sign in on the sign-in sheet that is passed around so that we can get an accurate count of who is here.

3) I would like to let everyone know that I have been in contact with Haverford’s Student Council Co-Presidents and have invited them to come see what our SGA meetings are like. They will be in attendance next week.

Health Care Advisory Board:

Leah Bonnell ’11: Health center advisory board will be holding a Question and Answer Forum with the board and the Health Center Staff on Thursday April 23, 7-8 pm. A lot of people have concerns and complaints so we hope all of you come to the forum and have a conversation about it. After the forum we will be publishing the results.

125th Anniversary of Bryn Mawr College

Elliott Shore: Thank you for this time tonight. In a year and a half we will be celebrating the 125^th anniversary of the college. As you guys think about that let me give you some history. I have some members of the class with me here. So first, September 23, 2010 we will be commemorating the opening of the college. The college opened on September 23 1885. In September 23, 2010, we are going to have a conference on the past, present, and future of education and celebrating that. We are very grateful to our alumna, Joanna Rose, 1952, who has made it possible for us to think positively about the future in the wake of current budget cuts. This is the beginning of the year. At the end of the year we will be having a conference with other Quaker colleges and discuss the role of women within a Quaker education. We are also thinking of publishing a fancy coffee table, scrapbook-like book, with contributions from some of the students at this table. We are also going to have an exhibit of artwork, and books. We are also going to be inviting the students from the Seven Sisters as well as the Quaker colleges, and students from a girl’s high school in Philadelphia region, including students from Bryn Mawr High School

Deep Singh 09: Some of the stuff that we’ve learned this semester has been really cool. It’s been the history of the college that is hidden and that isn’t necessarily always seen. Something I’ve been really interested in are issues of diversity, and exposing them, and celebrating them and seeing how far we’ve come in 125 years. I think we should talk to alums and also older professors who have been here upwards of 20 years. I think that would be a really cool thing, and something that we could all relate to.

Elliott Shore: Speaking of old professors, tomorrow in the Eli Room an alumna graduating in 1949 created a film about professors–who didn’t necessarily know they were being filmed or interviewed—and those professors and that alumni is returning tomorrow for the premiere of this film.

Taline Cox ’10: I think bringing out the similarities and differences between the older graduated classes and the current classes would be a really interesting and that’s what I want to focus on.

Hannah Curry McDougald ‘10: One of the things that we are going to talk about in class is that Bryn Mawr was an anti-feminist college at the cusp of the feminist movement. One of the papers I wrote about was about Susan Walker who was the first SGA president of the college. She wrote one letter and sent it out and got 35 replies in two months discussing how this should be formed.

Erica Seaborne 09: What I think would be really interesting would be how traditions has changed over the years. What I’m going to show you is video footage from Grand May Day 1928. They had Grand May Day every 4 years and May Day was recognized every other year. People came from around the world, and there were diplomats and governmental officials including the First lady and the niece of a President. So in 1928, they charged $3 for entry into May Day, they had grandstands set up on Merion and one would have to pay to reserve grandstand. The budget for Grand May Day was $9640…

Elliott Shore: To put the money in perspective it cost about $300 to go to Bryn Mawr, and $300 to live on campus so they were spending what in today’s terms would be half a million dollars on May Day. Also, in reference to what Erica was saying before, Taft’s daughter was the dean of the college. And Calvin Coolidge’s wife visited Bryn Mawr on Grand May Day.

Erica Seaborne ‘09: …Also you would get PE credit for participating in May Day in the past, and there used to be plays and theater that was put on May Day. Practices for some of these plays used to being in January and were conducted by the Director of the Green.

Elliot Shore: We would love to open this up to the floor to talk about what you guys think and what you think we should do.

Noelle Fair ’10: I think you already had this idea, but it would be great if sometime through the year there could be something set up during the year in the campus center so as people pass by they can see all these great images and read some of these accounts

Rebecca Finley ’10: I went through the Alumni forum and I really loved to be able to ask questions, and I think it would be great if we could figure out a way to have a one-on-one with alumni. It would be great if it could be recorded.

Elliott: Yeah, the one’s that did occur were recorded and we were hoping it could be available to the public

Shannon Ryan ’10: Instead of looking at the famous alumni which we always focus on, it would be really cool if we could look at the women through the ages and see how they have been progressed.

Elliot Shore: Yeah, that’s a great idea. Just so you know I also went to Bryn Mawr. I also went to Bryn Mawr College. My PhD is from Bryn Mawr from 1984.

Laurel Lemon ’11: So are we going to combine Grand May Day with the 125^th celebration of the college and combine the two efforts for next year?

Elliot Shore: I’ve been set by the committee to find out what you guys think—so what do you think? Should we combine the two?

Audience: YES!

Emma W-B ‘11: I found out recently that the founder of my school was a Bryn Mawr Alumna and so I grew up with May Day and celebrating May Day and learning the dance and it would be great if we could either teach the dance or have a May Pole where people could just perform the dance like they did in 1928

Sarah Theobald ‘12: Someone said that you used to get PE credit for participating in May Day and so it would be really great if there could be dance class that would teach you the may pole dances and then get PE credit that way.

Anne George Halgren ‘11: Scottish Country Dancing Club knows many of these dances and would love to teach anyone that would like to learn. We also have a huge alumnae presence and I’m sure they would be interested as well.

Rebecca Finley 10: Maybe I’m just being selfish but I really think that Grand May Day should be over two days and should be combined with the 125^thAnniversary of the college as opposed to any other tradition like Lantern Night

Shannon Ryan ’10: Also Lantern night is very personal and there’s a sense here that you are part of the community once you go through all the traditions so May Day would be the most appropriate place to have this celebration.

Elliot: Okay thank you for all these suggestions. We have a staff member, Anne Bruder, who can start talking to staff members and faculty about May Day. One of the cool things we’re talking about in class is how the past connects to the current. Any other ideas, thoughts, questions?

Shannon Ryan 10: One of the things we were talking about that could be cool is if this Bryn Mawr History class could be a C-Sem class.

Taline Cox 10: Yeah, I would really like that except we would have to be really careful in discussing Hell Week and things like that…

Erica Seaborne ’09: I really like that idea and I think it would be so great if it could be a C-Sem and if we could get alumni and students to talk in the class too that would be great

Ashton Schaeffer 11: About the C-Sem thing we did discuss the history of the college and it was really interesting. And it would be awesome if there could be a C-Sem about the history but would it be available to all classes, or only to certain students?

Shannon Ryan ‘10: I’m not sure how that would really work because I do think that it would be unfair for only 14 students to have access to all of this but at the same time I think it would be a great opportunity for people to have

Sophie Papavizas 11: Is it possible to have a discussion or forum with current students in SGA?

Katherine Bakke 11: It would be great to have some sort of leadership seminar over a weekend to talk about how to advance women’s education in America and abroad. And a lot of students could participate in it along with these really illustrious alumni

Elliot: Would this be a strand as the conference?

Katherine Bakke 11: It could go hand and hand in the conference and just have this opportunity for alumni to stay and talk with students or perhaps come back throughout the year through the Hepburn Center.

Elliot: Wow these have been really great comments and suggestions. Thanks for having us here. We would love to come back again.

Old Business:

Laurel Lemon 11: The Newspapers again. A contract for USA Today is in the works, and so what I’m suggesting is that we revise the numbers that we want next fall.

Emma W-B 11: So I wanted to talk about what Liana brought up last week at the Posse retreat. So the exec board met with her as well as some other students and we want to send out a survey that is going to talk about issues of representation.

New Business:

Sophie Papavizasas 11: Next week there is going to be a lot of prospective students on campus and the admissions office is asking us to have an SGA tea next Sunday at 3 PM. Any volunteers? Sarah Kelly, Liz Ritchie. Great, thanks.

SGA Meeting ended at 8:14 PM.

SGA Minutes April 5 April 8, 2009

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Emma W-B ‘11 called the meeting to order at 7:10 PM.

Roll Call:

Excused Absences: Deep Singh ’09, Sumedha Niranjan ’11, Weezie Lauher ‘10

Unexcused Absences: Grace Kung ’10, Sofia Nitchie ’09, Christina Wagner ’11, Simran Singh ’10, Noelle Fair ’10, Amanda King ’09, Rachel Brody ’11, Rachel Awkward ‘11

Announcements:

Kendalyn Brown ‘09: I have two announcements, the first one concerns Room Draw and the second, Dorm Olympics.

Room Draw: Multiple Occupancy and Hall Group cards are due to the Student Activities Office tomorrow (Monday, April 6th) by 5pm. Hall Group and Multiple Occupancy draw will be on Wednesday, April 8th at 7pm and 8pm respectively. On Thursday, in the Rhoads Quiet Study room we will be holding another “Crappy Room Draw Number Mixer” at 8pm for rising sophomores who do not yet have a roommate and have poor numbers. The mixer will provide both structured activities to help participants meet potential roommates and then socializing time to speak with people that may be good matches. Please contact Kendalyn Brown (kgbrown) or Sofia Nitchie (snitchie) with questions. We hope to see rising sophomores there!

Dorm Olympics: Dorm Olympics will be taking place on Friday, April 17th on Merion Green, in the Campus Center and surrounding areas. We have many exciting events including Tug O’ War, Capture the Flag, Pie your HA, Soduku/Boogle, and more! Ask your dorm presidents more for more details and look to start signing up for events in your dorms soon! The winning dorm will have $100 added to their dorm budget!

Katherine Redford ‘10: In the month of March the Academic and Social Honor Board heard no cases. Also, I’m not going to be here on Sunday, April 12th because I will be celebrating Easter at home.

Your Two Cents:

Steph Hilton ‘09: This past week me, Jess Coulter, and Taline Cox went to Princeton for a conference on their alcohol policy. There were a lot of large universities like Duke, Princeton, and Rutgers. What I took away from it is that we are doing a lot of things right, and we have some things to work on like say cutting down on hospital visits but otherwise we’re on the right path.

Kendalyn Brown ‘09: I have an announcement from Dining Services saying please return diningware that does not belong to you. We started off with tons of glass mugs and we are down to about 20. As you all know dining services’ budget has been cut and spending the money to replace those stolen goods isn’t how we want to spent.

Liana Donahue ‘11: My heart is racing now that I’m up here and I don’t really want to say this but I was told I had to. I’m back from the Posse retreat, which happened this past weekend, and they asked 60 members to stand up if they felt they were being represented and only 2 people stood up. As a member who holds a position within the Assembly that bothered me and I didn’t know how to deal with that so I thought I should mention it to the entire assembly.

Hidden Gems Presentation and Discussion

Alison Cook Schaefer—I am the coordinator of the Teaching and Learning Initiative. I made this powerpoint not to be formal but so that people could see certain images. We have existed since 2006 and we are supported by a number of organizations including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Provosts’ Office at Bryn Mawr College and Haverfrod College, The Office of Intercultural Affairs, The Chief Information and Chief Administrative Officers at Bryn Mawr College. The core commitment of the teaching and learning initiative is to bring staff and students together. There are three arenas of interaction:

- Classroom based interaction
  - Faculty/staff partnerships 88
  - 68 faculty members
  - 39 student consultants
  - Include all sorts of subcategories (partnerships to date are 123)
  - Helps broaden perspectives when you participate in this.
- Co-curricular-community partnerships
- Workplace based partnerships—staff working with one another
- Contact: Acooksat@brynmawr.edu if you want to get involved

Wendy Greenfield—Head of Alumni Association. We are here so we can talk about the student programming and alumni opportunities that are available. There are approximately 23,000 alumni worldwide and they can help you–they are an incredible resource. I’m going to turn it over to Kate Witcomb.

Kate Witcomb 05: I’m in charge of student programming on campus. We program for students; to effectively serve you as alumni we need to start building that relationship from when you arrive on campus. So the first night of customs week we do the Alumni ‘Mugging’ and it just gives us an introduction to you as well as gives you something that hopefully gets you through long nights. We are also thinking about doing something next year that will be ‘Lusty Cup on Us’ during finals week, so that during a stressful time you are able to get some caffeine. So that’s in the fall. In the spring, we focus on Seniors and we host Senior cocktails. Senior Cocktails is very important from our perspective because that’s where we take class officer nominations. We have class officers from 1936 and up. So they are nominated in April and announced at graduation rehearsal. Class officers are very important they keep your class connected to the class and to the college. The last thing we do is the tassel tea where we give you your flutes and tassels and we get your contact information so that we can help you in the future. So ways to get involved now if you’re a student is to come to our events—they’re fun! You can also be on our committee—there are only 3 spots but that’s another venue. And the final thing is to get a job with the Alumni Association in the last week of May so if you want to come see me at the end I would really encourage that.

Wendy Greenfield-We have an event that we hold twice a year that we coordinate with the CDO where we get alumni together and have them speak about their careers. So we have round table networking receptions with desert and coffee and each table hosts a particular career path, like law, or finance, or medicine, and students have the opportunity to sit at a table and learn about career paths. We also host discussions on getting an apartment, finding a roommate, making it in a man’s world, etc. In early April there is an alum who has experience in finance to talk about managing your personal finance. The last thing we do is get/give you business cards. Finally, I just want to mention that there are 36 Bryn Mawr college clubs around the world and we have a faculty exchange program where we send faculty to go speak at these clubs. We also have events called ‘welcome to the city’ and the alumni get together with you and help you find an apartment give you Zagat guides. We also have short-term medical insurance. Once you graduate from Byrn Mawr you aren’t covered under your parents insurance but we can help you get insurance till you get a job. We also publish a magazine. The last thing I want to mention is that we have a travel program where we travel with 25 people and try to connect with the Bryn Mawr alumni in that country and it’s a great experience.

Eliza Bernard—Director of Career Development Office. Michelle Rainey is the associate directory here and is here 99% of the time. The Bryn Mawr CDO is located in the Campus Center. In Haverford the Campus Center is convenient as well, you get off the bus and go to the third floor of Stokes. Also once you come into Bryn Mawr we enter you into the career database named Ocean. Ocean is easily accessible from our website and if you update your interest or create your profile it shapes the types of emails you get from us, so that if you’re interested in the arts you won’t be getting emails about investment banking. We tap our alumni network and we set up externships, career panels and career exploration days where you shadow and meet alumni in your preferred career. We also have updated lists of alumni on our computers in the office so we encourage you to take advantage of that. The online resources page on our website has all kinds of career libraries, general information about different industries, as well as gap year programs. We also house the pre-law in our office. Jane Finkel is our pre-law advisor if you are interested in pre-law. In terms of job searching we do resume review, we look at essays and cover letters, and do mock interviews. We do individual counseling and the tools that we have for workshops are very helpful. Individual counseling customizes this experience. Twice a week we keep the office upon from 7-9 pm. We also have a couple of events coming up: getting a job in this market, making the most of your job/internship when you get there, etc, so keep an eye out for emails that pertain to that.

Stephanie Bell—I coordinate Access Services on campus for faculty, staff, students, or guests of students. So for example, I’m currently coordinating getting a sign language interpreter so that the student’s grandparents can participate in her graduation. So the point is that the college under the Americans for Disability Act has an obligation to accommodate Disabled individuals who wish to participate in different aspects of college life. Access Services is used most by students and within students by those students who have hidden disabilities. And that’s not just a Bryn Mawr thing, that’s across the board. Access Services is completely voluntary—you are not required to participate in it, but you are welcome to and it’s a completely confidential process. Even if you want to find out if you qualify for certain aspects of access services that’s also a completely confidential process. And I think that this confidentially is really important. I have been here 8 years and what’s most impressive to me is that in the last 3-5 years there has been a remarkable increase in student awareness about these concerns and students reaching out to me to find out how to reach out to students in a respectful and meaningful way. That’s impressive and in terms of my role it is to coordinate the access services that the college provides and so that’s a shared responsibility to try to provide that access and I really appreciate the student awareness and acceptance of this shared responsibility.

Ellie Esmond and Julie Zaebst—We are from the Civic Engagement Office and we are located on Cambrian row. We are next to the MCC and the Religious house. We offer co-curricular programs and the academic praxis programs. We also wanted to emphasize that our office operates on a partnership basis and is based on trust and fostering long lasting relationships and we really believe in building these long term relationships. We strive to provide a wide variety of programs. We are also able to do everything that we do because we have student coordinators who really help us execute these programs. We offer work in tutoring/mentoring which matches Bryn Mawr students with students that need tutoring in the near by neighborhoods in Wayne, Ardmore, Narberth, Norristown, among others. We also offer what we call Saturdays of Service, which is basically a voluntary service program that is for four hours every Saturday. We also offer training and skill building programs—effective grant program, and LEAP. We offer a grant class over fall break—non credit, but you can write it on your resume and you get to learn how to write a grant by being matched with a Philly organization that needs to write a grant. LEAP program is in it’s 3^rd year and is a cohort program that pulls 15 students each year to go through a series of workshops that builds and strengthens leadership skills on campus. We also offer asset programs such as the income tax program where Bryn Mawr students are certified through the IRS to prepare income tax returns and then Bryn Mawr students uses these skills in the Norristown area volunteering to help residents with their own income taxes. The Praxis course is where the bulk of your coursework in a class is-it’s in an internship that you have during the semester. If you’re interested in this we have drop in hours from 4-7 pm tomorrow—and you can make that a Praxis III course. We also have funded summer internship programs. For the programs that we have mentioned we help arrange transportation to sites and help arrange 100% transportation reimbursement. If you are planning some sort of service events we have a lot of supplies in our office that we want to be able to support you with.

Sadie Marlow ‘11: Motion to extend time for 15 minutes

Emma W-B ‘11: Yes? 17 No? 0 Abstentions? 3 We have lost quorum but since there seems to be an overwhelming majority who wants to stay we’ll stay.

Marianne Hansen—I represent Special Collections in the Library and we have a lot of different types of collections within art, rare books, manuscripts, women’s literature, alumni literature that has shaped the fiction in the US (for example, Katherine White—married to E.B. White and referred to in his quote about Bryn Mawr Women and hummingbirds). We have these resources for classrooms, students, as well as for individual personal use. Three fun facts: we employ students, we run book-collecting competition, and we are responsible for the exhibitions in the book room.

Question and Answer Session

Sadie Marlow ’11: I have a question for you at the end (Marianne Hansen) Do you keep All Friends to Athena?

Marianne Hansen: No

Emma W-B ‘11: No other questions but I think we had some games that we wanted to be played

Ellie: How many students participated in praxis program from 2007-2008? Guesses? Answer: 488. How many students participated in service opportunities in 2007-2008? Guesses? Answer: 385. How many volunteer hours did we put in during 2007-2008? Guesses? Answer: 72,246.

Old Business:

Laurel Lemon ‘11: Unfortunately I have no old business. I haven’t heard back from USA Today. Just hold on another week.

New Business:

No New Business.

Meeting adjourned at 8:34 PM.

SGA Minutes March 29 April 2, 2009

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Emma W-B called the meeting to order at 7:10 PM

Roll Call

Excused Absences: Liz Hood ’10, Katherine Dahl ‘11

Unexcused Absences: Marisa Franz ’10, Patricia Lebron ’09, Sarah Gelfand ’11, Brittney Thornbury ‘11

Community Members present: Madeline Velltuia, Adelyn Rishbuagh, Ashta Shaffer ’11, Jill Walker ’09, Nelly Khaselev ’11, Lindsey Turr ’11, Steph Migliori ’09, Elizabeth Held ’12, Evan Schneider ’10, Celia Turner ’10, Ashley Madden ’09, Megan Roberts ’10, Katie Kellom ’09, Sarah Sherman ’11, Colleen Purcell ’11, Lydia Bello ’12, Sharan K. Mehta ’12, Annafi Wahed ’12, Julia Aranda ’11, Kate Gould ’11, Sarah Theobald ’12,, Dakota Garrity ’12,

Announcements:

Hannah Curry MacDouglad ’10: Elections are being run for Traditions Mistresses, Song-mistresses 2010, 2011, 2012, Residential Council Head(s), Curriculum Committee Head(s), Class Presidents 2011, 2012, Faculty Rep, Haverford Rep, Board of Trustees Rep, Honor Board Positions: One position for class of 2012, Two 2 year positions for class of 2012, Two 2 year positions for class of 2011, Two 1 year positions for class of 2010. All nominations open at 9 am on Monday March 30. Please send nominations to elections@brynmawr.edu

Your 2-Cents

None.

SGA Skits:

Members at Large

Reviewed different meeting procedures that allows community members to get involved in SGA meetings.

Appointments

Anyone can fill out an application on the Blackboard website to apply for an appointed position.
There is then an interview with the entire Appointments Committee-which includes the Vice President of SGA and three elected appointments members—who ultimately decide who to choose to fill the position.

Athletic Association

A forum for all the athletic groups on campus to discuss relevant matters such as coordinating lab/TA sessions to not be during athletic practices, renovating the gym, making the fitness center more accessible, choosing scholar athletes, among others.

Student Finance Committee

First time clubs can only get $250 dollars for their first semester and they are not guaranteed that amount.
For every semester after that clubs are eligible to get more than $250 dollars however a certain percentage of everyone’s budget is cut.
For clubs that feel that they have been cut unfairly or that want to ask for more money they can go to grievances.

Elections Committee

Nominations Period
Information Sessions-mandatory sessions, hold about two a nomination period. Go over election-by-laws.
Candidates Forum
Elections-Carolyn Lyod makes the ballot, gets the results and emails them to the Elections head. The Elections head emails the candidates and you have 24 hours to accept the nomination

SGA Jeopardy

Participants: Jill Walker ’09. Sadie Marlow ’11, Rodline Louijeune ’11, Taline Cox ’10, Steph Hilton ’09, Christina Wagner ’11, Leyana ?, Weezie Lauher’10, Liz Ritche ’11, Grace Kung ’10

Honor Code and Constitution

The proportion of the student body needed for quorum at Plenary
a. What is 1/3
Added at Spring Plenary 2007, this is another part of life at Bryn Mawr where the Honor Code applies
a. What is the internet.
Four of these are randomly selected to sit on hearings of the Social Honor Code Infractions
a. What is community member
Those elected who vote on matters at SGA and whose attendance is counted in quorum
a. What is the representative council
At request of two current members of SGA and approval of the Assembly what can be conferred upon someone who has rendered notable service to BMC.
a. What is honorary life membership to SGA

Lingo

A request to continue the discussion for a set amount of time.
1. What is a motion to extend time
A statement that can be made at any time during the meeting, when the speaker has pertinent information.
1. What is a point of information
A time during the meeting when anyone can ask for a discussion of a topic they think is important, ask a question, or make a comment.
1. What is your 2 cents
A statement to call someone out of line that will strike the previous comment from the minutes
a. What is out of order
A method of obtaining the opinion of everyone in the room on any topic
a. What is a straw vote

Positions

This position is responsible for communicating between the Assembly and non-resident members of the Association.
1. Who is the Off-Campus Representative
These elected members of the Representative Council serve as the liaison between classes and the Assembly.
1. Who are the Class Presidents
This elected member of the Representative Council organizes and facilitates campus-wide programming.
1. Who is the Social Committee
This elected member or members, shall at their discretion serve as a liaison between the Assembly and the Department of Transportation.
1. Who is Head of the Committee of Public Safety (COPS)
These positions can be held for a two-year term.
1. What is the Representative to the Board of Trustees and Honor Board member

Elections and Appointments

At this event, candidates for election are given the chance to answer questions from the community.
1. What is the Candidate’s Forum
Member of this committee are ineligible to hold voting positions in the SGA Assembly.
1. What is the Appointments Committee
All candidates for elections must follow what policy during campaigning.
1. What is Posting Policy
After Spring Plenary 2009, the Plenary Committee now consists of this number of Association members in addition to the Executive Board.
1. What is three
If the Appointments Committee cannot come to a decision the appointment is decided by this type of vote.
1. What is Assembly vote (simple majority)

Potpourri

Housing a kitchen, a living room, storage, a computer lab area, a dining room and meeting spaces, this building was created in 2004, for the use of SGA.
1. What is SGA house
The Assembly shall compose/revise/reaffirm this at the beginning of each academic year, which must be approved by a 2/3 vote.
1. What is the SGA Constitution
A bi-annual event set to amend the Constitution and foster discussion around proposed new changes.
1. What is plenary
The number of Assembly Members, which comprise each Sunday’s meeting.
1. What is 40 (the number of SGA positions) or 60 (the number of members)
Founded in this year, the Bryn Mawr Self Government Association was the first of its kind.
1. What is 1892

Old business:

Laurel Lemon ’11: Last meeting we discussed newspapers on campus and had a vote as to how to break up the newspapers—should we have just the New York Times or a combinations of the New York Times, USA Today, and Philadelphia Inquirer. So now we’re going to do a straw vote as to the numbers of each newspaper. Currently we are getting 50 New York Times, 42 USA Today, and 40 Philadelphia Inquirer.

Straw Vote

Stay the same: 10

Increase the numbers of NYTimes: more than 10.

Laurel Lemon ’11: We can change it anyway we want as long as we stay in our budget of about $7500

Kendalyn Brown ’09: Can we change it to have more Philadelphia Inquirer?

Laurel Lemon ’11: Yes we can; I want to make sure that we choose the most cost-effective strategy—so I’ll be comparing the packages from USA Today and NYTimes.

New Business:

Sophie Papavizas ’11: We have a new round of Appointments coming up. I choose to bring this up during new business and not announcements so you guys can ask question. We have a couple of appointment positions coming up.

Alternative Concert Series Head(s)
Film Series Head and two committee members
Plenary Committee (3 positions)

Something new that we are trying for this round is to have information sessions so that people can come and ask questions and I can meet them. We are having these Tuesday March 31 8-9, Monday April 6 7-8, Wednesday April 8 9-10. Keep track of Hall Group/Multiple Occupancy/Room Draw and make sure that you don’t come to a session that conflicts with room draw. All sessions will be held in Taylor E. Email questions to appointments@brynmawr.edu

Nelly Khaselev ’11: What is Student Curriculum Committee?

Sophie Papavizas ’11: It works basically as a liaison between the faculty curriculum committee and the student body.

Emma W-B: Thanks so much for coming, just a reminder that next week is the Hidden Gems meeting—so we’re looking forward to that.

SGA Meeting Adjourned at 8:22 PM

Meetings submitted by Tanya Kaur, SGA Secretary

Questions or Comments, KKaur@brynmawr.edu

SGA Minutes March 22 April 2, 2009

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Sunday March 22, 2009

Emma Wisienski-Barker called the meeting to order at 7:10 PM

Roll Call:

Excused Absences: Nina Jankowicz ‘11, Patricia LeBron ‘09

Unexcused Absences: Amanda Cieglewski ‘09, Jasmine Howell ‘11, Rodline Louijeune ‘11

Community Members Present: Reggie Kukole ‘10, Becky Findlay ‘10, Katie Kellom ‘09, Erica Seaborne ‘09, Evan Schneider ‘10, Madeline Veeltino ‘11, Nelly Khaselev ‘11, Ashton Shaffer ‘11, Julia Aranda ‘11, Kate Gould ‘11, Alexandra Funk ‘11, Melanie Bowman ‘12, Rose Heithoff ‘12, April Stewa ‘11, Carolyn Soto ‘11, Samanta Salazar ‘11, Sarah Moser ‘12, Anne George-Hullyz ‘11, Sarah Theobald ‘12, Steph Migliori ‘09, Lindsey Turr ‘11, Jill Wlaker ‘09, Naomi Hamermesh ‘10, Shira Cohen ‘10, Katharine Woolls ‘12, Mari Stein ‘10, Amanda Darby ‘10, Ana Milazzo ‘10, Deborah Farrington ‘09.

Exec Board Introductions:

Laurel Lemon ‘11: Hi I’m Laurel, class of 2011. I’m from West Virginia, majoring in Anthropology, and your new treasurer.

Tanya Kaur ‘10: Hi I’m Tanya, class of 2010. I’m from Jersey, and majoring in Political Science and minoring in Econ, and your new secretary.

Announcements:

Alex Funk ‘11: We’re throwing a concert on April 11th in TGH. It will feature local bands and local artists selling their work. If YOU would like to have a table at the event to display or sell your work (visual art, cds, etc) let us know! our contact info is: Marina Fradera- mfradera@brynmawr.edu Alex Funk- afunk@brynmawr.edu

Sophie Papavizas ‘11: Hey guys! Next weekend is a meeting we’re holding for all of you called SGA 101–everyone should come. We’re going to be going over all the different roles and responsibilties of SGA. There will be popcorn!

Tanya Kaur ‘10: Hey Guys! I have two announcements. First, the SGA Blogs link is now on the Current Students homepage underneath the Dean’s Office x5375 link. Second, SGA has a campus mailbox that we want all of you to use if you have any comments/suggestions/questions that you want us to address. We will check the mail daily and address any concerns at Sunday’s SGA meeting. It’s C-1735.

Your 2 Cents:

Anne 10: Buzzing for change is happening April 23. Please join the facebook group/check your email.

Arts Groups Introductions:

Jessica Engleman ‘09: I’m the President/founder of Mural Club: we paint murals around campus. We have a lot of enthusiastic staff who let us paint directly on their walls. 3^RD floor of cartref is covered in mural club art/letters, so go check it ou! We have a ton of projects; this semester we hope to work with the MCC, Erdman, the new Art Studio, and possibly the gym.

Marie Stein 10: I’m here for Shakespeare Performance Troupe, it is an all student run acted/directed/produced theater group on campus. This semester it’s the Noble Kingsmen showing on April 23-25. You should all come. SPT is really awesome becuase women get to act in Shakespeare. Also, we have shirts.

Marie Stein ‘10: I’m also here for Lavender’s Blue which is the campus’ only Oldies’ Accapella Group. We have 3-4 concerts a semester and we’re going to have one on Thursday 9 pm. We have a different vibe than other campus accapella groups.The membership is about 10-14, and we just got back from 3^rd tour, and we are planning on releasing a CD.

Julie Brady ‘10, Anna Mueser ‘10: We represent Art Club on campus. It is a student organization whose mission it is to provide art to everyone. We want to have free art material for you so you can produce beautiful artwork that is in your soul. We have a brand new art studio across from Dalton called Arncliff. It opens this Friday in 7-10pm. We also can provide a lot of workshops; just had a bookbinding workshop; if anyone has artwork that you want displayed we would be happy to put it up. The more artwork the better.

Sam Salazar ‘11: Hi I’m representing Nimbus, which is the campus Literary Art Magazine. We recently just switched the name from just literary to literary and art because it has a lot of art work and 3 color photograps as opposed to 2. Please keep submitting stuff; we might be adding a musical component for next year. Woo Nimbus. Also, we might be having a party.

Lily Mengesha ‘10: I represent People In Color on campus which is a creative ensemble that puts on skits about issues on campus. Last Spring we put on “Our Story Their Story” Last semester we put on “Goddamn Bell” We meet on Thursdays at 10 pm in Denbeigh. Please come! No experience is necessary at all.

Weezie Lauher ‘10: Hi, I’m here for the Extreme Keys—the oldest bi-co accapella group.We have had a tough semester. We just lost four people for various academic and personal issues and our tour got cancelled. However! We have an upcoming concert at Penn with the UPenn Pensions if you want to come out and support us off-campus. We will be sending out emails! We will also be performing in April which is our Senior Concert, and obviously at May Day. Tryouts are next semester, we have four openings, so try out! Any other questions please email Janna Weaver, Weezie Lauher, or Nina Jancoweiz.

Cara Sogulizzo 09: Hey guys, the Acabellas are the newest female accapella group on campus. We are doing a lot this semester. We have a big final concert on Thursday April 16 in the Campus Center. We are also in the midst of working on our first ever CD–you should be able to get them by next spring–so we’re really excited about that. We have 12 girls in the group—please audition, we are losing a lot of seniors!

Nga Nguyen 12: Hi! We are a Bi-Co group which raised a lot of money for Sunflowers–a charity that supports women with HIV in Vietnam. We are looking for actors/producers/directors. Please contact me if you’re interested.

Sophie Papavizas ‘11: On behalf of Nina Jankowicz ‘11: Greasepaint’s had a very exciting semester so far. Next Saturday at 8pm at the campus center we’re having a Broadway Caberet Night. Featuring songs from all your favorite musicals! Additionally, this semester’s Greasepaint show is Hair. The production will be taking place outside in the cloisters from April 23rd to 25th. Yes, we are doing the nude scene.

Emma W-B ‘11: We are now opening up the discussion for what everyone is currently feeling regarding arts on campus. Feel free to discuss budgets, or anything else you want.

Amanda Darby 2010: This semester Lavender’s Blue was upset with budgeting. Seems like there is a bit of discrepancy within budgeting for similar-type art groups.

Mari Stein 2010: Yeah, exactly what she just said.

Anna Mueser ‘10: I’m the head of art club, and we did really well with the budget this semester. What we do in Art Club is to work with the different art clubs on campus and helping them in any way we can. We are very committed to helping support as many arts groups as we can. We might have to go to grievances but we are very commited to supporting art clubs on campus.

Sam Salazar 2011: Nimbus has a lot of problems with the budgeting process. We are going to grievances. It’s really hard because I’m not allowed to pay my printer till I get the stuff back, which time wise just doesn’t work, becuase you find out about your budget after you’ve agreed to print or something. I told him that I’m on a strict budget this semester and so this year he cut his prices for me but it makes it really hard to make budgeting decision.

Nga Nguyen ‘11: We are really happy with our funding but we didn’t get it from SGA; we got funding from the Women’s Center. So go ask other groups if you have difficulty getting funding.

Cara Sogliuzzo ‘09: Same with what Sam said. Budgeting doesn’t work practically. It’s sort of lose it or use it; I can’t get an invoice till I pay it, and I can’t pay it till I invoice it. And if you go to get an advance you basically need to sell your soul to the SFC–like they’re threatening not to let me graudate–to get it. So it’s a bad system.

Naomi Hamermash ‘10: We have the same issue when it comes to recording; you need to schedule your recording hours months in advance, and then you have a set price recording price. So while I understand some groups pad their budgets so that if they get cuts they can still do their events, but when it’s a musical group and it’s for recording that doesn’t work. These prices are set prices and so cutting those prices doesn’t work.

Steph Miglori 09: I produce Vagina Monologues and it was really frustrating because you need to plan so far in advance but then you don’t know what you’re actually going to get. And groups that decided to sponsor the vagina monologues got it cut out of their budget and that was problematic.

Emma W-B ‘11: Okay let’s change the topic to things that could be going better.

Anna Mueser ‘10: We want to provide a good opportunity to everyone on campus but we have a lot of logisitical problems. We are looking for ways to get the entire community involved.

Jessica Engleman ‘09: A lot of people are supportive of mural club, but there have been a few problems. I was talking to Bernie chung in dining services and she said that I’ve wanted to get walls painted and murals done for 14 years and it has been really hard. There has been a disconnect between staff and students. And so I’m personally scared of facilities because they have the power to say no but not to say yes. So I’m scared that they’re going to paint over our artwork. We are going through the backdoor—we don’t know what to do so we are going through this underhanded way.

Weezie Lauher ‘10: A lot of accappella groups struggle with trying to get large numbers to come to their concerts. But the only time we can have these concerts are at night or at weekends, and the faculty and staff can’t come as easily and they want to come. We would love to hear if we can coordinate a jam that is more avialbale to faculty and staff other than May Day, because most faculty and staff are encourage to leave before 1 pm because…well…beacuse you know.

Lily Mengesha ‘10: I would encourage everyone to work with facitiles and let them know that this is also our campus, and that we pay a lot of money to be part of this campus and that our artwork shouldn’t be discouraged.

Emma W-B ‘11: Okay great. Let’s talk about coordinating space issues and dealing with that

Amanda Darby ‘10: When we were sining in Godheart we had a lot of problems with faculty that was there because they wouldn’t let us use that space even when it was technically free, and they would override our reservations. So now we rehearse in dorm common rooms, and that stinks for those dorm residents who want to be using that space/sleeping.

Weezie Lauher ‘10: One of my jobs, actually my job as the business manager is to liase between other groups and accappella groups. A really interesting thing that happens on this campus is that we can get a lot of outside accapella groups on campus to perform but we can’t manage to get all the internal campus groupsto perform at one time. We have run into a lot of issues with the lack of Goodhart. We currently practice in Haffner in one of the common rooms that has a closing door. We are lucky to have a haffner resident. And thing for the community to know: it’s really hard to coordinate 10-14 people’s schedule to find an available time and then find available space. However that being said, if we are interupting you, your life, making it hard for you to study or sleep, please don’t hestitate to walk in and let accapella groups know that it’s interrupting your life.

Adrienne: Art club has this cool new space but we don’t know who is allowed to designate this space and so they can take it away at any point. Nevertheless we are very grateful that we have this space.

Liz Hood ‘10: I’m one of the Erdman Co-Dorm Presidents—we have a lot of space so a lot of people try to practice in Erdman, and that has resulted in some problems between dorm residents and performance groups on campus. It takes a lot of coordination and it’s highly appreciated when groups sign up on the sign up sheets.

Chelsea Dunkel ‘11: Hi I’m part of Chaverim which is a tri-co Accapella group and it takes a lot to get 14 people to be coordinated but we are open to hearing your concerns.

Lily Mengesha ‘10: I feel like these are all really connected, so I wonder if we could coordinate a better relationship between the theater department and the performance groups. Also in terms of storage—what are other groups doing?

Sam Salazar ‘11: As an active artist on campus, I find it’s really difficult to show work on a continuos basis on campus, and not just on small basis (like v-day, etc) I’m working on an indiviual piece for myself, and I wish I could show it on campus. I was lucky to be able to use the studio space at Haverford but that’s not even open to all of campus–you need to have special key card access.

Deborah ‘09: I am the coordinator of STP—and we fought and fought to get this closet space to use as storage for our materials. But now it’s being used by the Women’s Center and other groups simply because they were also promised this little bit of space. So space is a definite issue.

Noelle Fair ‘10: I don’t know if you guys have looked into this, but what about spaces in TGH?

Marisa Franz ‘10: Also, Lunt basement at Haverford is a great space. Haverford is really lucky because they have this space, but we don’t have a space for small concerts to happen, you have either campus center or TGH and neither really do the job for small groups.

Taline Cox ‘10: In terms of exhibiting art and such, a friend of mine, Ashley Madden ‘09 used a floor in canaday to showcase her art. So you guys can do that.

Anna Mueser ‘10: We have a giant wall that can be used to put up artwork and we are really open to use this space and have as much as possible going on in this space. We have a second office, which can serve as storage for you. You would need to clean the space and you can come contact us or come to Open Art Night? On Thursday.

Emma W-B ‘11: What are everyone’s thoughts on a SGA Arts Rep?

Weezie Lauher ‘10: Something that would be important would be making the distinction if the arts representative liase between different accappela group–would they be organizing concerts between say the extreme keys, and lavender’s blue, or would they be working the representatives of those groups to do something like that.

Katie Kellom ‘09: So-Co head has lost a lot of authority/jobs on campus. So you could ask her to coordinate those efforts. If they’re okay with that.

Marisa Franz ‘10: A lot of people here talk about why the arts aren’t represented as much. I think the logical step would be to have an arts representative. There’s an athletics representative; why isn’t there one for arts? What does that say about our priorities on this campus?

Emma W-B ‘11: Another thing that has been brought up is do we have a Arts Rep and a Music Rep or combine the position?

Steph Migliori ‘09: Just going off what Marisa said, yes we need an arts rep but the athletic rep also represents the athletic association. So we would need an Arts/Music association.

Sarah Capaosso 2011: I’m the so-co head, and no one really knows about it. I don’t have a committee, I don’t have any funds. So I’ve been trying to get stuff going with that. I would love to be involved with arts/music. I think social cultural events covers a lot of that ground. I’m down to help anyone that needs it to make a better coheseive social environment on campus.

Judy Barr ‘09: As the Faculty Commmittee Head, I work as a liason between faculty, students, and staff, and it give you an authority and you are able to make stances that you wouldn’t be able to make otherwise. So I think this is a great idea—to have an arts rep.

Weezie Lauher ‘10: I totes second Steph’s suggestion for having an arts association so we can foster dialogue and bang out our issues in a forum more appropriate than SGA and then maybe bring those issues to SGA. I’m totally in.

Old Business:

No Old Business.

New Business:

Laurel Lemon ‘11: So this week I met with the person who coordinates the newspapers on campus. What do people want from the newspapers on campus? Do we want them? Do we want them renewed? Do we want the NYtimes USA Today, and the Philly Inquirer or just the NYtimes. So everyday we have Nytimes, USA Today, and Philly Inquirer to Erdman, Rhoads, and Jaffner. Per semester we spend 5,475 on newspapers. SGA covers all of this.

Marisa Franz ‘10: Can we get the Philly Inquirer and NY Times because Philly is local news while USA Today is a competing newspaper with the NY Times.

Laurel Lemon ‘11: No, because it’s a package deal and so it’s either all of them or just the NYTimes.

Judy Barr ‘09: 85 papers isn’t a lot but is there a way to recycle the papers so that everyone can use them?

Melanie Boehman ‘12: What about an online subscription? That can be given to the student population.

Hanna Curry-McDougald ‘10: I asked the library to get an online subscription and it’s $20,000 and it’s just not a viable option.

Laurel: Four Options Total (look at attached powerpoint slides)

Option 1: $7,462/year (50 copies NY Times, 42 copies USA Today, 40 Copies Philadelphia Inquirer)

Option 2: $9,975/year (75 copies NY Times, 50 copies USA Today, 50 copies Philadelphia Inquirer)

Option 3: $7,560/year (120 copies of NYTimes)

Option 4: $10,080 (160 copies of NYTimes)

Sarah Kelley ‘11: Are these numbers set?

Laurel Lemon ‘11: Yes.

Liz Hood ‘10: Can we keep the status quo?

Laurel Lemon ‘11: Yes

Liz Hood ‘10: A point of information: you as an individual can sign up for the nytimes.com by yourself and get access to all their articles and their entire archives.

Marisa Franz ‘10: Can we change the ratios?

Laurel Lemon ‘11: Yeah I can talk to her and lower the ratios–is that what you want?

Marisa Franz ‘10: Yeah lower the USA Today by a lot.

STRAW VOTE

NYTIMES ONLY: 13

ALL THREE NEWSPAPERS STATUS QUO: 30

Laurel Lemon ‘11: Should we be keeping the ratio low between USA Today/Philly Inquirer

STRAW VOTE

YES: 25

NO: 10

SGA Meeting Adjourned at 8:23 PM.

Minutes submitted by Tanya Kaur, SGA Secretary

Questions and Corrections, Kkaur@brynmawr.edu

SGA Meeting 03/01/09 Minutes March 3, 2009

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Emma Wisniewski-Barker called the meeting to order at 7:11PM

Roll Call:

Excused Absences: Sarah Capazzo ’11, Anne Bugnaski ’10, Trina Banerji ’09, Shannon Ryan ’10, Liz Hood ’10, Grace Kung ’10, Rachel Awkward ‘09

Unexcused Absences: Weezie Lauher ’10, Anagha Kumar ’11, Elise Nelson ’09

Community Members Present: Celia Turner ’10, Ashley Madden ’09, Erica Seaborne ’09, Katie Kellom ’09, Evan Schneider ’10, Aheli Purkayastha ’09, Katherine Bakke ’11, Sarah Theobald ’12, Anne Kauth ’11, Jill Walker ’09, Julia Fahl ’12, Lindsay Turr ’11, Steph Migliori ’09, Sharan Mehta ’12, Sarah Kelley ’11, Rebecca Sanders ’12, Elizabeth Held ’12, Laurel Lemon ’11, Kathryn Gould ’11, Julia Aranda ’11, Reggie Kukola ’10.

Exec Board Introductions:

Emma Wisniewski-Barker (President)- Class of 2011. Physics and Psychology double major from Delaware.

Sophie Papavizas (Vice-President)- Class of 2011. Math and Economics double major from Arlington, VA.

Katherine Redford (Honor Board Head)- Class of 2010. Chemistry major from Boston.

Announcements:

Katherine Redford ’10: Since SGA is currently without a secretary, I will be taking minutes until one is elected. Emails regarding attendance can be emailed to SGA@brynmawr.edu. Announcements should also be sent to this address by midnight on Sunday if you want them included in the minutes.

Katherine Redford ’10: The Honor Board heard one case during the month of February. A student was found to have lied to a professor on multiple occasions and was separated from the school for one semester.

Approval of Meeting Procedure:

Emma Wisniewski-Barker gave a presentation on the meeting procedures that will be used by the new executive board. (See Powerpoint sent to the class listserves.)

Motion to Approve Meeting Minutes:

In favor: 28

Against: 0

Abstentions: 0

Meeting Procedure Approved

Your Two Cents:

Katie Kellom ’09: I found out about a new website, www.betterhumanrace.com, it uses the Google search engine and donates money with every search, 100% of the proceeds go to 5 different charities.

Plenary Recap:

Megan Roberts, ‘10: Thanks for coming to plenary! We obtained quorum within two hours and held it for two hours and 40 minutes and we passed 7 resolutions.

Momentum in SGA:

Emma Wisniewski-Barker, 2011: We want to have a “Momentum In SGA” Discussion. So we’re going to talk about where SGA is going and where do you want it to go. First, Office hours were held by old exec board during week in the campus center or SGA House. Did you use them, do these work?

Straw poll: Who used office hours? 1 person.

Emma Wisniewski-Barker, 2011: We would be happy to keep doing these if you think it would work or be helpful.

Katie Kellom 2009: I only had one person come to my office hours but I think they are still helpful. I spoke with a McBride who had a suggestion for me and I answered a question for her. I think having them in the campus center is good because of foot traffic, giving people the opportunity to stop by when they might not email the exec board or walk to the SGA house.

Aheli Purkayastha, 2009: Ditto!

Cara Sogliuzzo 2009: People who use office hours tend not to be the people at SGA meetings. Maybe the executive board should hold biweekly office hours and also by appointment.

Emma Wisniewski-Barker ‘11: What do you think about the SGA website?

How many people look at it on a weekly basis? Staw poll: 15 people.

Amanda Cegielski, 2009: As the current SGA webmistress, I want to remind everyone that the URL is sga.blogs.brynmawr.edu.

Jill Walter, 2009: People who don’t come to meeting aren’t going to go to the blog website. We need to get some information on the main page.

Julia Fahl, 2012: I find the SGA website to be inaccessible, not aesthetically pleasing, and not easy to navigate.

Amanda Cegielski, 2009: We’ve tried with many different administrators to get SGA on the main page. Also, I would love to have more specific criticisms for improvement. You can email me.

Hannah Curry McDougald ‘10: I love the webpage, especially having the whole constitution online.

Liana Donahue, 2012: Minutes are very accessible when they’re put in the bathroom.

Aheli Purkayastha, 2009: I love the mawrk notes. But I would like to see them emailed to the community members for juniors abroad, McBrides and off-campus students.

Marisa Franz, 2010: Can we have a separate listserv for SGA meeting minutes?

Brittany Thornberry 11: Point of Information- Kendra Hayde ’09 SGA Secretary Emeritus put the members at large in charge of making the Mawrk Notes.

Zandra Martinez, ‘11: The new exec board should continue to pass it on to members at large, we enjoy doing it.

Jill Walker, ‘09: Who are the members at large?

Emma Wisniewski-Barker ‘11: There is a list who’s who on the SGA website.

Elisa Hernandez Landeverde: The McBride reps aren’t on that list.

Katie Kellom ‘09: Who’s who needs to be updated but the members at large are on there. There is also a list on SGA board.

Emma Wisniewski-Barker ’11: We also want to start brainstorm ways to make yourselves more representative of your constituency. Does anyone want to speak to their experience as a rep, what’s worked for you? What doesn’t?

Liana Donahue ‘12: At the end of my emails to the freshman class I say the date and time of the next SGA meeting. We should send an email about a new exec board.

Hannah Curry-McDougald ‘10: The new calendar on the website allows you to invite everyone too an event, facebook style.

Liz Ritchie ‘11: I’m dorm president in Rhoads and I just make myself known in the dorm, making myself more approachable.

Katherine Bakke ‘11: As someone who’s not directly involved in SGA, as an observer, I agree with Liz. My HA puts up signs for contact info of facilities, public safety, etc on the hall. Signs with dorm president information and that SGA meets every Sunday would work well.

Deep Singh ‘09: Plenary happens twice a year, and that’s when we need a lot of people. I think many people feel like that’s the only time we need more more people, which isn’t true. If I were a community member, I feel like nothing on this agenda applies to what I care about. More specific emails, explaining why should people care would be great. Make things more interesting.

Emma Wisniewski-Barker, 2011: We want to work on that. We want to have an Earth Day themed SGA meeting, bringing in more people that affect everyone.

Christina Wagner, 2011: This has been discussed before this semester, but I think themed SGA meetings are a good idea. We could start inviting clubs on campus, have an acapella themed meeting, and a day when we specifically invite the freshman.

Katie Kellom, 2009: I would like to see the SGA boards used more, maybe we could call on the Members at Large to post signs about SGA.

Emma Wisniewski-Barker 2011: What do we think about the set-up of the seating at meetings. We switched from rows to circles and now we’ve sort of evolved to the stadium style seating.

Liz Ritchie 2011: I like the new set up, people can be seen. I also liked the emails from the exec board, I felt like I was on the same level with them.

Deep Singh ‘09. I never get here early so I never get a front row seat, I don’t like these seats in the back.

Marisa Franz, 2010: I feel like I’m in the nosebleeds over here, I can’t see the Exec Board.

Sadie Marlow 2011: Maybe we can combine the two types of seating we have had. Return the table to the front.

Noelle Fair 2010: We could create a U-shaped with an aisle for the mic.

Emma Wisniewski-Barker ‘11: What else do you love about SGA, what should we continue?

Christina Wagner 2011: I appreciated the level of connection we’ve had with the faculty, staff, and administration. The ACB update Aheli gave after she spoke with Campus Council, and the ACB administration was great. Let’s keep this type of connection up!

Emma Wisniewski-Barker 2011: What would you like to see happen that is completely new?

Laurel Lemon 2011: I think we should be getting the community involved. Dorms are overly represented. The arts, frosh, OIA, they need more voices. We need to address diversity.

Brittany Thornberry 2011: Lets have another game night.

Marisa Franz 2010: Maybe we should have uncommon grounds open early, the foot traffic might get more people to join in on the meeting.

Erica Seaborne 2009: Katie and I worked hard on the SGA board at the beginning of the year, but it fell off the radar. Its in a great location, Let’s showcase what’s happening, lets vamp it up.

Sadie Marlow 2011: I think Uncommon would make the CC too loud. There are goods and bads to opening it early.

Aheli Purkayastha 2009: I’d love some more info on who my reps are. Maybe some bios, what class they’re in, maybe a photo board, and let’s put it online.

Kendalyn Brown 2009: We should have a take a friend to SGA day. It would double the number of people here.

Cara Sogliuzzo, ‘09: Athletics Association has two bring-a-buddy meetings a semester, we pick really important meetings, and it gives us a big of variety of people, it works well for us

Elizabeth Held 2012: Technology is great. But we are really underestimating the power of a personal connection. My customs person encouraged us to go to SGA, she said, “I go to SGA and that’s why I’m here.” And now she’s the president.

Emma Wisniewski-Barker 2011: What new things would you like to see discussed at SGA?

Katherine Bakke 2011: I like the environmental/Earth Day theme. I would love to see a better recycling effort, let’s make people more environmentally aware. I also like Big Cheese forums.

Laurel Lemon, ’11: I want to see arts discussed. I didn’t know about the new art studio, and that’s a big deal. Art is really underrepresented.

Erica Seaborne 2009: The Big Cheese is cool, but lets have some “little cheeses” come to SGA. All the people that work here love us, let’s celebrate them, they’re the hidden jems.

Nina Jankowitz, 2011: There isn’t enough arts love at BMC. We could bring in independent artists and musicians. Get some new people in here that don’t necessarily participate in a group but would love to get some publicity for their craft.

Emma Wisniewski-Barker, ‘11: These are great. Email us any more ideas at sga@bmc.

Old Business:

Judy Barr 2009: I’m the Curriculum Committee Head. The Curriculum Committee had an open campus forum meeting a week ago. We got lots of emails and many people dropped by. We heard a lot of the concerns the community had. We brought the concerns to the faculty curriculum committee. I also spoke with Kathy Tierney regarding PE credit issues. If you have any more ideas or concerns email me at jebarr@brynmawr.edu. We also want to have a coffee hour, and would love info on how to do that.

Also, the Faculty Curriculum Committee wrote a one page response to plenary resolution regarding the Credit/No Credit option at Bryn Mawr. They want to keep working on it and kept discussing it. So if any student wants to continue this discussion into next year, please let me know.

New Business:

No new business.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:01 PM.

Minutes respectfully submitted by Katherine Redford, Honor Board Head

Questions and Corrections, kredford@brynmawr.edu

Plenary Resolutions! February 19, 2009

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Here, for your leisurely perusal, are all of the plenary resolutions for this Sunday’s Spring Plenary! Don’t forget — quorum is 413, so we need everyone in the Gym, ready to vote! Doors open at 10am, so come on down, grab some brunch, and exercise your right to vote!

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Minutes from 2.01.09 February 1, 2009

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Download the minutes (pdf format) from 2.01.09 here.

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Agenda for Sunday’s Meeting at 1pm! January 30, 2009

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This week, because of the Super Bowl, the meeting will be at 1pm in the CCML. Our agenda includes:

Roll Call
Announcements
Minutes Approval from 1.25.09
Your Two Cents!
Financial Crisis Discussion, with special guests:
- Jenny Rickard, from Admissions/Financial Aid
- John Griffiths, CFO of the College
- Bernie Chung, from Dining Services
Representative Presentations
- Sarah Capasso, So-Co Head
- Liana Donahue, Freshman Class President
Old Business
New Business

And, if you would like to see what happened at last week’s SGA meeting, check out the minutes below, and look for the return of the Mawrk Notes, coming to a bathroom near you very soon :)

Hope to see you all there!

Kendra Hayde

SGA Secretary ‘08-’09

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