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SGA Meeting Minutes October 25 October 25, 2009

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

Roll Call

Present: Elle Works ’10, Meghan Mahoney ’10, Kali Graham ’10, Julie O’ Neil ’10, Taline Cox ’10, Shannon Ryan ’10, Simran Singh ’10, Madeline Velturo ’11, Ashton Shaffer ’11, Adelyn Kishbough ’12, Elise Hernandez Landaverde ’10, Sarah Theobold ’12, Claire Smith ’12, Maddy Court ’13, Hope Wayman ’13, Sara Jane Rodgers ’13, Caroline Heffernan ’10, Augusta Irele ’10, Jennifer Savage ’12, Blair Smith ’12, Jenny Nam ’12, Sophia Abboud ’12, Antara Tulsyan ’12, Adrienne Webb ’11, Hildi Greenberg ’10, Jill Settlemyer ’10, Mae Carlson ’12, Nga Nguyen ’12, Shanna Fricklas ’10, Caitlin Evans ’10, Eileen Downs ’10, Saba Qadir ’13, Hannah Curry Mc-Dougald ’10, Brittney Thornbury ’11, Liana Donaue ’12, Reggie Kukola ’10, Marisa Franz ’10, Alice Fischer ‘13

Excused Absences: Julia Fahl ‘12, Isabel Donolon ‘13

Unexcused Absences: Emily Tafyaro ’12, Pragaya Krishna ’13, Samanatha Newman O’Gara ’12, Katherin Lewis ’12, Malina Toza ‘12

Announcements

Taline Cox ’10: Cops is having an alcohol awareness tea this Tuesday at 8 in campus center 200. There will be pizza and root beer! See you there!!

Jill Setllemyer ’10: Annual Dorm Trick or Treat will be happening this Wednesday 10/28 from 4 to 6pm with a party following in TGH from 6 to 7 pm. Dorm presidents can be contacted for orange pumpkin signs and if you are interested in volunteering at the party. Also, don’t feed the raccoon in Pem Arch, or anywhere/thing else.

Katherine Redford ’10: The Honor Board heard one case in the month of September.  A student was found to have submitted work that was written by someone else and she failed the course. No social cases were heard.

Your Two Cents

Taline Cox ’10: We have talked a lot in HA area groups that we be responsible at Halloween so that we can preserve our parties, and this Halloween party in general.

Emma W-B ’11: Over Fall Break, we lost a member of our community, Ray and we’d like to observe a moment of silence for him.

Lantern Night

Emma W-B ’11: We have to move our meeting next week because of Lantern Night, and we are going to vote to move the meeting to 1 PM.

For: 25

Against: 0

Abstain: 1

Special Events

Emma W-B ’11: So when Special Events Funding Forms were turned in, one of the forms was lost on Mary Beth’s desk and so we didn’t want to penalize the student for turning in the forms on time and not having an opportunity to present her event to the assembly.

Anagha Roy ’12, Jenny Nam ’12, Adrienne Web ’11: We are from the Art Club and our proposed event is a gallery opening, that would display student and faculty artwork. It will have artwork, live music, and a display of deserts. The purpose of this event is to show what kind of artwork can be created at Art Club, and to showcase that. Our total amount requested is $1961.07.

Ashton Shaffer ’11: How much money did we have left over in Special Events?

Emma W-B ’11: We had $80K budgeted, and gave about $13K, and so we have $60K-$67K left to give.

Jacqueline Levin ’11: Didn’t the previous Arnecliff event budget for twinkle lights?

Anagha Roy ’12: Yes, but we ended up borrowing those lights, and so now we want to buy the lights.

Colleen Hayley ’11: My event is Liana Carrera, comedian extraordinaire. She asked to come the night before because flights are often delayed out of South Africa, and she didn’t want to miss the gig. So I need an extra $100 to cover her hotel the night before.

Emma W-B ’11: For the Gallery opening…

For: 26

Against: 0

Abstain: 2

Emma W-B ’11: For the $100 extra to Colleen’s budget…

For: 28

Against: 0

Abstain: 0

Zip Car

Laurel Lemon ’11:So we are going to go over the information for Zipcar one last time so we can have a vote on the issues. You can get zip car if:

· You are 18: have a valid driver’s license, have had no incidents, and no major violations, and no alcohol related incidents.

· You are 21: have a valid driver’s license, allowed two incidents, no major violations, and no alcohol related incidents.

For the first 30 days they will give you a credit of $35 (the membership fee) in driving expenses. The minimum agreement is for 2 years—if after a year, we are not doing so well (not meeting the revenue guarantee) they can let us go, we cannot choose to cancel. We could have 2 cars—this is dependent on the fact that this is not going to be Bi-Co. The costs are as follows:

· Type of car: $1500-$1600 per car per month, depending upon the type of car. So $3000-$3200 total per month for both cars, not including summer months. If we meant the monthly guarantee for 6 months, the guarantee would go away.

· If no one ever uses the cars, it would be $19200 for the 6 months.

· Weekdays $8/hr, $66/day

· Weekends $9/hr, $72/day

· $35 annual member ship fee

· $25 application fee waived

Taline Cox ’10: Where is this money coming from?

Laurel Lemon ’11: Well it would initially come out of club budgets for next semester

Rachel Brody ’11: How many people are using Zip Car?

Emma W-B ’11: We don’t have those exact numbers

Liana Donahue ’12: Lets do a survey monkey to see how many people use Zipcar or would be interested in using Zipcar.

Shanna Fricklas ’10: I used Philly CarShare a lot—I don’t think that we would have to shell out the money because a lot of people would use it.

Colleen Hayley ’11: If we could pay for a car, why don’t we do that?

Emma W-B ’11: Dean Tidmarsh and I had this conversation, she said that it would be incredibly difficult and hard to do because of the costs of maintenance of a car and the logistics of insurance.

Tanya Kaur ’10: Point of information: if we were to get a car, Bryn Mawr College would have to cover the insurance information and be liable for that car, and students would have to go through the same process as van-certification.

Ashton Shaffer ’11: I want to second what Liana said—why we don’t do a survey?

Emma W-B ’11: We can definitely do that, but keep in mind that people don’t necessarily take or will understand all the information that we’ve laid out above in a survey

Augusta Irele ’10: Can we use special events funding for Zip Car rather than use club budgets?

Laurel Lemon ’11: Yes

Mae Carlson ’12: If we decide not to go into ZipCar, then what?

Emma W-B ’11: This is the only option we know of right now; it’s either Zip Car or nothing?

Rachel Brody ’11: If we go for this, then can we advertise it, and send out emails about it?

Emma W-B ’11: Sure, we could definitely advertise it and let people know about

Sarah Sherman ’11: Has there been any discussion if we could get just one car, and not just two?

Colleen Hayley ’11: Is Zipcar cheaper or more expensive than other similar programs?

Tanya Kaur ’10: Point of Information: Zipcar is cheaper than Philly Carshare; Philly Car Share is $16/month, and Zipcar is $35/year, and the per hour rates are cheaper as well.

Alex Ashley ’11: If we vote against this now, can we vote for it in the future? Like next year?

Emma W-B ’11: Yes

Emma W-B ’11: Okay now we’re going to vote on whether we want to decide this tonight, or whether we want to send out a survey?

Tonight: 15

Survey: 11

Abstain: 2

Emma W-B ’11: Okay we are deciding this tonight. Who wants Zip Car?

For: 7

Against: 11

Abstain: 9

Emma W-B ’11: We voted not to have Zipcar, but does anyone want to still send out a survey?

Elle Works ’10: Let’s send out a survey to find out if people want ZipCar.

Yearbook

Emma W-B ’11: We have to produce a 2008 and 2009 yearbook. We need to produce these yearbooks. So here’s the decision that needs to be made:

· Should we keep the yearbook as a student club? Or should we create a paid student position that would be paid through Mary Beth’s office?

Brittney Thornbury ’11: What does Haverford do?

Emma W-B ’11: It created a paid position fairly recently because they were having similar problems

Hannah Curry-McDougald ‘10: What department will pay for this position? And is it one or multiple positions?

Laurel Lemon ’11: The position will be coming out of Mary Beth’s department. And we can have multiple positions.

Elle Works ’10: Has anything been done that someone who is being paid could work off of?

Laurel Lemon ’11: The 2008 yearbook is almost done and would require very little additional work, but the 2009 yearbook needs to be done from scratch.

Adelyn Kishbaugh ’12: Why are we making these again?

Emma W-B ’11: When we talked to Mary Beth she told us that people had pre-ordered these yearbooks…So let’s vote on whether we want a paid position.

For: 24

Against: 2

Abstain: 4

Emma W-B ’11: We also need to decide tonight if we want to order the 2010 yearbook as well. It is a $24k contract for the 2010 yearbook.

Annalee Garrity ’12: How many people order yearbooks?

Laurel Lemon ’11: Point of information: There are several hundred yearbooks in storage so not that many people buy yearbooks.

Jill Settlemyer ’10: It would be $24k to make a yearbook, but that cost would be offset by the number of people who buy the yearbook right?

Emma W-B ’11: Yes.

Shanna Fricklas ’10: Is it possible to get yearbooks done by graduation so that people could get them and sign them?

Emma W-B ’11: No.

Elle Works ’10: So we voted to have a student in a paid position for 2009-2010, would it be possible to look for a 2010 yearbook committee?

Emma W-B ’11: Sure

Simran Singh ’10: I don’t necessarily want a yearbook, but I think it’s important to have yearbooks in a college in order to maintain institutional memory and such.

Jacqueline Levin ’10: Would it be possible for a scrapbook to be made that would sit in admissions and that would be nice.

Emma W-B ’11: We are going to vote whether we want a 2010 Yearbook.

For: 7

Against: 17

Abstain: 4

Old Business

Caroline Heffernan ’10: We are going to have a meeting about the Gym on November 8 rather than tonight.

Emma W-B ’11: I’m going to not be at the November 8^th meeting because I am going to a competition in Tennessee that weekend.

New Business

Shannon Ryan ’10: I met with some members of the class of 1960 to talk about collaboration between their class and our class in some sort of cocktail-esque hour. So keep an eye out for any sort of announcements/emails to that end.

Meeting adjourned at 8:25 PM.

SGA Meeting Minutes October 5 October 5, 2009

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

Roll Call

Present: Emma W-B ’11, Sophie Papavizas ’11, Tanya Kaur ’10, Laurel Lemon ’11, Katherin Redford ’10, Jill Settlemyer ’10, Reggie Kukola ’10, Marisa Franz ’10, Sara Jane Rodgers ’13, Colleen Hayley ’11, Sarah Sherman ’11, Hannah Curry Mc-Dougald ’10, Caroline Heffernan ’10, Jacqueline Levin ’10, Madeline Velturo ’11, Nga Nguyen ’11, Julia Fahl ’12, Malina Toza ’13, Elisa Hernandez Landeverde ’10, Taline Cox ’10, Simran Singh ’10, Shannon Ryan ’10, Ashton Shaffer ’11, Liana Donahue ’12, Mae Carlson ’12, Isabel Donlon ’12, Pragya Krishna ’13, Saba Qadir ’12, Maddy Court ’13, Hope Waymen ’13, Adelyn Kishabugh ’12, Clair Smith ’12, Jennifer Savage ’12, Blair Smith ’12, Katherin Lewis ’12, Samantha Newman O’Gara ’12, Jenny Nam ’12, Sophia Abboud ’12, Antara Tulsyan ’12, Emily Tafaro ’12, Elle Works ’10, Meghan Mahoney ’10, Hildi Greenberg ’10, Rachel Brody ’11, Shanna Fricklas ’10, Sarah Capasso ’11, Caitlin Evan ’11, Eileen Downs ’11, Alexandra Ashley ’11, Analee Garrity, Julie O’Neil ’10, Augusta Irele ‘10

Excused Absences: Miranda Hansen Hunt ‘11, Alice Fischer ‘13, Ellen Butler ‘13

Unexcused Absences: Kali Graham ‘10

Community Members Present: Mia Chin ’12, Sue Yee Chen ’12, Sarah Moser ’12, Sam Salazar ’11, Caroline Kelly ’12, Catherine Miller ’12, Brittney Thornbury ’11, Allyson Schmieder ’11, Zayna Schaffer ’13, Chelsea Dunkel ’11, Celia Turner ’10, Cristina Smith ’12, Angana Roy ’12, Adrienne Webb ’11, Laurel Russess ’11, Becky Findlay ’10, Gaia Brusasco ’13, Yong Jung Cho ’12, Brittney Sampson ’12

Announcements

Sophie Papavizas ’11: Appointment rounds are coming up for a lot of things, so look out for an email from me.

Tanya Kaur ’10: Two things: first, my hard drive crashed so I lost all the minutes from September 20, and so they will never be published. If you want to see them, you can either fix my hard-drive yourself, or raise $800 so I can get it fixed by a professional. Second, there seemed to be a lot of positive feedback on the Plenary t-shirts, and we are thinking about ordering more, so if you want some, please let me know by the end of the meeting or by email sga@brynmawr.edu

Emma W-B ’11: We just wanted the assembly to know what the upcoming meetings are going to be about. The future meetings are as follows:

October 25^th: Gym Renovation, Yearbook, Zipcar

November 1^st: Student Recruitment and SGA and Religious Holidays

November 8^th: Methods of Budget Approval, more to come!

As always if you want something added to the agenda, please let us know and we’ll add it.

YTC

Laurel Lemon ’11: I work at the CDO and I’m just here to talk about what a CDA does. We review resumes, and cover letters, and go over job applications. We are a great resource—there are 8 of us, and we have a lot of hours, and we can help anyone out about issues post-graduation, so come check us out!

Plenary Recap

Catharine Miller ’12: I presented a resolution that the Counseling Center change its policy to have written consent. I have sent these recommendations to Reggie and I’m waiting to hear back. I also know that there were a lot of questions about the actual implementation of these changes so I’ve also recommended that these changes be implemented with student input and so if there’s a forum for that I really hope that people attend.

Pragaya Krishna ’13: I spoke to Reggie, and the Counseling Center is seriously considering the policy and are making the policy is now the default policy.

Adelyn Kishbaugh ’12: I proposed the second resolution at Plenary about Haverford leadership at Bryn Mawr, and it failed, but I’m really glad that we had this discussion as a community. Even though it didn’t pass, there are a lot of other ways of improving Bi-Co relations and I hope we continue to look into ways of doing so.

Radnor Budget Approval

Emma W-B ’11: We are now going to vote on approving the Radnor Budget. They asked for $2221, and they got $1095.

For: 27

Against: 1

Abstain: 1

Special Events Funding

Emma W-B ’11: We are now going to go over Special Events, keep in mind we are going to hear all proposals and then vote. Each person has 5 mintues to talk and then we can ask questions. We also have a total of $15000 requested out of a pool of $80,000

Malti ’12, Debbie ’10, Ntshadi ’12 Mea ‘12: We represent BACASO and we want to bring the Blk Jks to campus. We are fascinated that they are an African rock band, and we want to diversify the events we have at Bryn Mawr and this would be a great way of seeing a different musical genre. This is planned for Wendesday October 21, at Thomas Great Hall.

Hannah-Curry McDouglad ’10: Are any of these costs going to change because the event is in 3 weeks

Ntshadi ’12: The amount for the booking agent will probably go down, so that money can go towards higher priced airplane tickets.

Maddy Court ’13: How many people are going to come to this?

Ntshadi ’12: We are hoping to have the event open to Tri-Co

Sarah Capasso ’11: I think this is really cool, but it’s on a Wednesday, so what about turn out?

Ntshadi ’12: That Saturday is the ASA culture show, so TGH is just booked for anytime that they would be able to come.

Simran Singh ’10: What if you change the venue to Rhoads?

Shanna Fricklas ’10: Would this event be better for a future Saturday?

Debbie ’10: This is a really big band, and so their American tour is ending and so we need to get them relatively soon.

Emma W-B ’11: Next event, Abby…

Abby Olson ’10: I want to have two speakers, Lily Ledbetter and Jocelyn Samuels, come to campus to talk about unequal labor practices in the workplace. Lily Ledbetter was someone who worked in the Alabama Goodyear Tire Plant for 20 years, and found out that she was paid 40% less than her male counterparts, and so she sued, was awarded money, but then it went to the Supreme Court and they said she sued too late. However, President Obama passed the Lily Ledbetter Bill in January that says that you can sue once you find out discrimination has occurred. Jocelyn Samuels is a woman who is an advocate for women in the workplace, and I would want both of them to come to talk about their experiences. This event is planned for next March. Lily Ledbetter isn’t confirmed yet, so if she doesn’t come then I’ll return this money except for the $75 which I need for food and publicity.

Emma W-B ’11: Next event, Colleen…

Colleen Hayley ’11: I want to bring a comedian to the Bi-Co community who I think is absolutely fabulous. Her name is Liana Carreras and she is just a great comedian, she’s being called the next Ellen DeGeneres. She herself identifies as Gay, her father is a Southern Baptist Preacher, and her mom was deaf, so she was raised in the deaf community so she can relate to a lot of different communities out there.

Brittney Thornbury ’11: When would this be?

Colleen Hayley ’10: This would be November 14 in Thomas Great Hall

Ashton Shaffer ’11: What is the $18 for Haverford?

Collen Hayley ’10: It’s for the Publicity at Haverford. Posters are $1 a piece, and so I’m putting up 18 posters at Haverford.

Emma W-B ’11: Next Event…

Adrienne Web ’11, Catherine Zeger ’10: We want to invite Nicole Reynolds and her band at Batten House, on Friday October 30.

Caroline Heffernan ’10: What time is this event?

Adrienne Web ’11: At 8 PM

Adelyn Kishbaugh ’12: How many people were you expecting?

Adrienne Web ’11: Batten can hold around 60-80.

Marisa Franz ’10: You had her last year, how many people came?

Adrienne Web ’11: We had a good turn out, about 50 people came.

Emma W-B ’11: Next Event

Mia Chin ’12, and Sue-Yee Chen ’12: This is a Art Fiesta, it is for tri-co students, and the ACLAMO kids and their families. It is on November 21. All the food is coming from Norristown restaurant, the face painter and balloon painter will be from Norristown.

Adrienne Web ’11: How are you going to transport people? R100? Bus?

Mia Chin ’12: No, they’re going to transport themselves; we have a bus for kids and their parents.

Sarah Moser ‘12 and Sam Salazar’11: Andrea Gibson is a spoken word artist and we want to get her October 23 at 8 PM at Rhoads Dining Hall. She is really awesome and she really wants to come here, and she’s really into the Women’s College thing. We want $2000 for her.

Shanna Fricklas ’10: If she’s so excited to come, can’t we lower the price?

Sam Salazar ’11: Yeah, we budgeted the top amount, however her booking agent is very flexible. Andy Suzuki is another performer we want to bring who went to Brown, however is brother is a post-bac here so we hope that a lot of people will be coming out. We want $300 for him.

Julie O’ Neil ‘10: When is this?

Sam Salazar ’11: November 14^th

Julie O’Neil ’10: Isn’t there another event proposed that night?

Sam Salazar ’11: Yes

Emma W-B ’11: We are now going to vote for the Blk Jks.

Approve: 28

Against: 2

Abstain: 0

Approved

Emma W-B ’11: We are now going to vote for Lily Ledbetter and Jocelyn Samuels.

Approve: 28

Against: 0

Abstain: 3

Approved

Emma W-B’11: Next Event, Father, Son, and Holy Gay.

Approve: 28

Against: 0

Abstain: 0

Approved

Emma W-B’11: Nicole Reynolds Concert, Fall Festival

Approve: 28

Against: 0

Abstain: 3

Approved

Emma W-B ’11: Mexican Art Fiesta.

Approve: 25

Against: 0

Abstain: 5

Approved

Emma W-B ’11: So now we are voting for Andrea Gibson

Approve: 24

Against: 1

Abstain: 5

Approved

Emma W-B ’11: So now we are voting for Andy Suzuki

Approve: 24

Against: 2

Abstain: 1

Approved

Emma W-B ’11: All events pass, congratulations!

Old Business

New Business

Meeting adjourned at 8:02 PM

SGA Meeting Minutes September 20 September 28, 2009

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Unfortunately there will be no meeting minutes posted from September 20. My hard-drive crashed the day after the meeting and I lost all my files. This meeting was a review of the Plenary Resolutions. However, Plenary Minutes will be posted which contains a longer discussion on the resolutions. Sorry for the inconvenience.

-Tanya Kaur, SGA Secretary

SGA Meeting Minutes September 13 September 28, 2009

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SGA brought to order at 7:10 PM by Emma W-B

Roll Call

Present: Emma Wisniewski-Barker ’11, Sophie Papavizas ’11, Tanya Kaur ’10, Laurel Lemon ’11, Katherine Redford ’10, Reggie Kukola ’10, Marisa Franz ’10, Sarah Sherman ’11, Hannah Curry-McDougald ’10, Caroline Heffernan ’10, Jacqueline Levin ’10, Nga Nguyen ’11, Julia Fahl ’12, Elisa Hernandez Landeverde ’10, Taline Cox ’10, MJ Crookes ’10, Simran Singh ’10, Shannon Ryan ’10, Ashton Shaffer ’11, Liana Donahue ’12, Sumedha Niranjan ’11, Brittney Thornbury ’11, Susie Kim ’11, Adelyn Kishbaugh ’12, Clair Smith ’12, Jenniver Savage ’12, Blair Smith ’12, Katherine Lewis ’12, Jenny Nam ’12, Sophia Abboud ’12, Emily Tafaro ’12, Elle Works ’10, Meghan Mahoney ’10, Hildi Greenberg ’10, Caitlin Evans ’11, Eileen Downs ’11, Annalee Garrity ’11, Kali Graham ’10, Julie O’Neil ’10, Augusta Irele ‘10

Excused: Colleen Hayley ’11, Samantha Newman O’Gara ’12, Rachel Brody ’11, Sarah Capasso ’11,

Unexcused: Anagha Kumar ’11, Ean Oesterle ’11, Sadie Marlow ’11, Antara Tulsyan ’12, Shanna Fricklas ’11, Alexandra Ashley ’11,

Announcements:

Simran Singh ’10 and Shannon Ryan ’10: First Senior Cocktail of the year is on Thursday September 24, 2009 in Rhoads Dining Hall. It’s from 8:30 PM to 12:30 AM and the theme is A Black and White Affair!

YTC

Julia Fahl ’12: I’d like to bring a discussion to keep Plenary in the gym rather than in Goodhart…

Someone: Why?

Emma W-B ’11: Let’s have a 5 minute limit on this discussion.

Julia Fahl ‘12: Because I think it fosters more of a community feel as you can see everyone and walk around.

Caitlin Evans: ‘10 I know that there has been accessibility issues with the Gym in the past and they have not been able to attend

Taline Cox ’10: Will there be enough seats in Goodhart?

Emma W-B ’11: As a point of information, Goodhart can hold 574 seats

Sarah Theobold ’12: The acoustics in the gym are relatively painful, and I know that was something that was an issue last year.

Sophie Papavizas ’11: I know last year in terms of Dining Services logistics it was problematic having them in the Gym.

Emma W-B ‘11: Let’s get a straw vote on this issue.

In favor of Goodhart: 41

In favor of the gym: 1

Emma W-B ’11: Okay. Moving on to the next part of today’s agenda—Dean Tidmarsh is here to talk about the changes in her role as well as address any academic changes.

Dean Tidmarsh

Dean Tidmarsh: I’m not sure all that you mean about changes in academics, but I’ll talk about changes in my own role and then you can throw out questions. In terms of my own role, I decided that it would be my last year as Dean of Undergraduate College, and that I would take my semester of sabbatical that I’ve been due for 15 years. So I will return to teaching one course a semester as well as create a better support system for students who come in not really knowing certain things ie: Quantitative Skills. I also think that Peer Mentors do exceptional work but I think that a drop-in study forum would be helpful. The current system requires you to plan ahead and it doesn’t let you go get help at the last minute which is when a lot of students realize they need help. So I want to talk to students, alumni and faculty and figure out what we need but don’t have. So those are my plans. But you might have other questions, and I’m happy to try to answer them.

Julia Fahl ’12: How do you plan on implementing some of these changes?

Dean Tidmarsh: I’m not really sure but I do think that talking to groups of students would be helpful, and talking to PMS would be a natural place to start. On my semester of sabbatical I will also continue to trying to figure that out, as well visit colleges that have instituted some of these changes and see how well they work.

Sarah Theobold ’12: Are you thinking of a Quantative Skills Center that would be comparative of the Writing Center? As the office manager, we have about 22% of our hourly slots filled a year, which is a really small number.

Dean Tidmarsh: I think if we institute a system which is more accessible and that can be used on a last minute basis rather than a scheduled basis, those numbers might rise. And yes, I think that the writing center is under utilized and does a wonderful job when we do connect people.

Someone: What course will you be teaching Spring 2011?

Dean Tidmarsh: Good question; I need to have a conversation with Peter Briggs about this who is the head of the English Department and then I’ll get to decide what I want based upon what they need. I’m very open and flexible because I haven’t taught in 10 years so I’m really excited.

Mike Hill, Tom King and Nora Nelly

Mike Hill: Thank you for letting us impinge on your night. Tom, Nora and I thought it was a good idea to come to see you especially with all the collaboration going on. I say collaboration because it’s not a merger but a collaboration of ideas. I wanted you to all have the opportunity to put names and faces together and let you ask questions.

Tom King: Thank you again for letting us speak. Like Mike said, it’s not necessarily a merger but more of a taking the best of both communities and implementing it across the board. Nora is a regional expert with an emphasis on sexual crimes against women, and she’s with the Women’s Center.

Nora Nelly: We are very excited about the collaboration and we do a number of things at the Women’s center.

Emma W-B ‘11: I feel like I’ve heard the idea of collaboration before but what does that mean, especially for the students?

Mike Hill: I feel like it means that the services for students will get better. We want to make sure whatever experience you have with Public Safety is effective, efficient and supportive.

Tom King: I think Mike hit on all the important points and I think consistency is what’s going to be most apparent, sooner rather than later. I think it’s important that being are getting a professional and prompt response EVERY TIME. Especially with our campuses which are very unique, and I think it’s vital that students feel comfortable with a 24/7 presence and that when they pick up the phone they are getting a professional response. It’s a job requirement to embrace professional response

Tanya Kaur ‘10: How many jobs were lost in this collaboration effort?

Mike Hill: We lost some part time jobs, but we didn’t lose any people and in fact we have a couple of openings, which we want to fill with the right kind of people.

Tom King: Yeah absolutely and I’m really impressed with the Senior Staff (both Presidents and Boards who were very eager to get the right people in Public Safety) and we had no cuts and are in fact hiring people and are very excited to do so. We are available anytime, anywhere.

Jessica Coulter ‘10: So does this mean that there are going to be Bi-Co Public Safety vans or are they going to be Bryn Mawr or Haverford.

Tom King: Like I said we aren’t doing mergers, but in fact remaining special and unique and sharing the best practices. If anything like this does happen it’ll be way after we leave.

Jessica Coulter ‘10: Do we have enough night staff? I hear that we don’t.

Mike Hill: We will certainly look into that. We certainly have adequate staff, but it’s always nice to have more, and I’m sure Tom and Nora will agree that we’ll want more.

Tom King: One tangible difference that will happen is increasing night staff, rather than just having so many on-call night staff. And that’s sort of what we’re talking about when we say we’re looking to hire the right people.

Blair Smith ‘12: What are some of the Haverford practices that you’re implementing here?

Tom King: A lot of it is something that I’ve mentioned already which is having every interaction be prompt and professional.

Mike Hill: We are using the word collaboration as if it’s new, but it’s not. We’ve been in collaboration for years, for example our sirens, and our language has been very similar sometimes tangentially but now it will be directly similar.

Tom King: Nora is a great example. Nora is a regional expert on sexual assault issues. One immediate example is having her present on both campuses.

Nora: I think Mike’s right, we’ve always helped each other out and we would love to hear from Students.

Marisa Franz ‘10: I was just curious about the recent events at Haverford, about the prompt notifications for Bryn Mawr students. So is the emergency response system going to be combined as well?

Tom King: I think that’s a great question, and yes, that’s something that you’re going to see implemented relatively right away. That’s definitely an area that needs to be improved. And we were obviously taken surprise with the State Police coming on campus.

Mike Hill: Is there anything in particular that you wanted to be notified about?

Marisa Franz ‘10: Well I live at Haverford and it took a while for Bryn Mawr students to learn about the car fire.

Mike Hill: Well with that in particular I didn’t use the e2campus security because it wasn’t an immediate threat to students, which is why we sent out emails, and in fact you should have gotten multiple emails.

Tom King: Yeah, and one of the things we believe in at Haverford is that ‘When in doubt, let it out’ I like to err on the side of over notification so that everyone knows what’s going on and we’ll defiantly be collaborating on that side. If you have any other questions, please email us:

Mike Hill: mhill01@brynmawr.edu

Tom King: tking@haverford.edu

Nora Nelly: nnelly@haverford.edu

Elliott Shore

Elliott: Like Dean TIdmarsh, I’m not sure what would be the most helpful to talk about but I would assume that printing, Guild, and the Tech bar would be the best place to start. So the Tech Bar is the biggest innovation, from my point of view. So working with 6 students, three of which are here, we wanted to create a one-stop shop for everyone where they can go to one place and get all their questions answered. I sent out a lot of emails this summer that also addressed this. Another aspect of this is the economic situation. We had $600K to reduce in Information Services . So we eliminated three positions that weren’t filled, and then seven people left for retirement, or better job offers, or the like. We are now down 50% of our staff. A little under 20% of printing jobs weren’t printed because people didn’t want to print or they forgot to. A lot of people have asked if we are going to charge this year, and we are not going to be charging anything but rather monitoring.

Annalee Garrity ‘11: What’s going on with duplex printing in Canaday? You can’t duplex print anymore.

Hannah Curry McDougald ‘10: I’m the lead help desk specialist which is now in Canaday, and so we have two full time staff who are working on bringing back duplex printing.

Shannon Ryan ‘10: How many computers are available after Midnight?

Elliott Shore: In Guild I believe there were 29-30 computers, and now there are about 20-21 available post midnight. Guild also is a laptop lab—so you can bring your laptop.

Shannon Ryan 2010: And so what students were consulted about reducing the number of computers and creating more laptop space?

Elliott Shore: 97% of students on campus have laptops and we also wanted to reduce our carbon footprint. I realize it may not be as convenient as before, but I value Staff jobs over convenience.

Shannon Ryan ‘10: I also have a question on behalf of Colleen Hayley who wants to know if printers can be made available in dorms.

Hannah Curry McDougald ‘10: That would be hard because who would take responsibility of the printer, make sure there’s enough paper and toner, etc. Right now, the Help desk is 2 feet away from the printers and we can take care of everything.

Elliott Shore: Hopefully this year the Faculty committee is going to look into the issue of course reading, and books, and course packs. Do we want everyone to have a kindle for example—this is an intellectual community and people should be able to say things as hypothetical situations—do we want to reduce the number of readings on blackboard, what do we want to do?

Julia Fahl ‘12: What is the next step in making Guild a more study free zone?

Elliott Shore: We are always looking for student input and ideas—if you could email us with ideas that would be great. My email is eshore@brynmawr.edu.

Laurel Lemon ‘11: I know the idea of Guild was to have people there but no one is ever there.

Elliott Shore: What Guild may have lost, Canaday has gained. Any kinds of suggestions would be great.

Augusta Irele ‘10: What are the plans for getting printing and computers in Perry House?

Elliott Shore: We can look into that.

Julie O’ Neil ‘10: Just in terms of furniture in Guild, I think it would be nice to make it a most comfortable place. We have a lot of lounge-y space.

Elliott Shore: We actually moved around a lot of furniture this summer in trying to create spaces but we didn’t buy anything. A number of universities have closed all their computer labs for example University of Virginia closed all of them down.

Mary ‘12: Just in terms of printing, if it could say please print to One Note.

Hannah Curry McDougald: Please email us.

Tanya Kaur ‘10: Can the kiosks ever print after putting in the login information?

Reggie Kukola ‘10: No.

Elliott: Please get in touch with me.

Plenary

Emma W-B ‘11: Who do we want to invite to Plenary?

Jacqueline Levin ‘10: What was our decision last Spring?

Emma W-B ‘11: Last spring, the Deans came, and they didn’t speak

Ellen ‘12: What would they speak about?

Emma W-B ‘11: They would speak in a professional capacity. Let’s take a straw vote. Should they come? Yes: 42. No: 0. Abstain: 0.

Should they speak? Yes: 36. No: 16. Abstain: 0.

Old Business:

Laurel Lemon ‘11: Is Sadie here? We have an update with newspapers. So there was a miscommunication with ordering the newspapers and now we only get NY Times, I’m going to wait a couple of weeks to see how many papers get used and then we can establish how many newspapers to order.

Ashton Shaffer ‘11: What’s the update on the carshare thing?

Laurel Lemon ‘11: I’m curious to hear what you guys heard about this. Again it would cost about $1500 a car which we would share with Haverford. We can’t get out of the agreement but they can let us out. The minimum agreement is two years.

Taline Cox ’10: What does Haverford think about this?

Laurel Lemon ‘11: Currently Haverford doesn’t have a Treasurer, so I haven’t been able to communicate with them about this. I believe they have elections going on right now to elect their treasurer.

Marisa Franz ‘10: Point of information: results should be in tomorrow for the Haverford Treasurer.

Alex Ashley ‘11: What are the rules for student usage?

Caroline Heffernan ‘10: You need a license and you don’t need insurance.

Caitilin Evans ‘11: About 6 people out of 30 in Rhoads North said they would be interested.

Emma W-B ’11: According to the website, you need to be 21 and have a liscense. Let’s take a Straw Vote.

For Zipcar: 0

Against: All

New Business:

Laurel Lemon ‘11: We were talking to Mary Beth about the Yearbook. So we have already been paid for a Yearbook but we don’t have a product to show off for it, and so we’re two years behind. The contract cost $13,000-$15,000 a semester so about $30,000 a year which is a lot. So do you guys want to create a paid student position to make this yearbook because we have already paid to get it made?

Adelyn Kishbaugh ‘12: How many students would be involved?

Laurel Lemon ’11: It depends on what we decide.

Marisa Franz ‘10: Isn’t it like throwing money at a sinking ship?

Julia Fahl ‘12: Do we even have pictures to fill this yearbook?

Hannah Curry McDougald ‘10: I think if we are paying someone then it’ll get done.

Simran Singh ‘10: Who’s going to buy this? Can we use it instead to print other stuff? The class of 2008 and 2009 have graduated.

Jill Settlemeyer ‘10: Are we talking about getting it done for the next two years?

Sarah Theobold ‘12: Is it specifically 2008 and 2009, or can we publish it for 2010 and 2011?

Emma W-B: We can look into it and let you know. We’ll get back to you.

Meeting adjourned at 8:29 PM.

Meeting minutes submitted by Tanya Kaur.

SGA Minutes September 6 September 28, 2009

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Emma W-B called the meeting to order at 7:09 Pm.

Roll Call:

Present: Emma W-B ’11, Sophie Papavizas ’11, Tanya Kaur ’10, Laurel Lemon ’11, Katherine Redford ’10, Colleen Haley ’11, Sarah Sherman ’11, Hannah Curry-McDougald ’10, Jacqueline Levin ’10, Nga Nguyen ‘11, Julia Fahl ‘12, Elisa Hernandez Landeverde ‘10, MJ Crookes ‘10, Simran Singh ‘10, Shannon Ryan ‘10, Ashton Shaffer ‘11, Sadie Marlow ‘11, Sumedha Niranjan ‘11, Brittney Thornbury ‘11, Susie Kim ‘11, Clair Smith ‘12, Jennifer Savage ‘12, Blair Smith ‘12, Katherine Lewis ‘12, Samantha Newman-O-Gara ‘12, Jenny Nam ‘12, Sophia Abboud ‘12, Antara Tulsyan ‘12, Emily Tafaro ‘12, Elle Works ‘10, Caitlin Evans ‘11, Annalee Garrity ‘11, Kali Graham ‘10.

Excused: Caroline Heffernan ‘10, Taline Cox ‘10, Adelyn Kishbaugh ‘12, Hildi Greenberg ‘11, Rachel Brody ‘11, Sarah Capasso ‘11.

Unexcused: Reggie Kukola ‘10, Marisa Franz ‘10, Anagha Kumar ‘11, Ean Oesterle ‘10, Liana Donahue ‘12, Meghan Mahoney ‘10, Shanna Fricklas ‘11, Alexandra Ashley ‘12, Julie O’Neil ‘10, Augusta Irele ‘10.

Introductions:

Emma W-B: Hi, I’m Emma Wiesenski-Barker and I’m a Physics and Psych major, and I live in Merion.

Sophie Papavizas: Hi, I’m Sophie Papavizas and I’m an Economics major and I live in Pem East.

Katherine Redford: Hi, I’m Katherine Redford, and I’m a Chemistry major, and I’m an HA on Rock 2^nd 2^nd.

Tanya Kaur: Hi I’m Tanya Kaur and I’m a Political Science major and I live in Pem West.

Laurel Lemon: Hi, I’m Laurel Lemon and I’m an Anthropology major and I live in Pem East.

Announcements

Your Two Cents

SGA Family Tree:

(in reference to the SGA family tree on the Powerpoint)

Emma W-B ‘11: Top of the flow chart is the exec board—the five of us that are sitting in front of you. The next group you see are the 5 members in large who don’t represent a particular group, but represent all of you and you can go to them for any questions. The next group is the dorm presidents who you can approach in your dorm if you have any questions about SGA. We also have individuals that represent different aspects of campus—like athletic association, OIA representative, etc.

SGA Slang—There is a lot of specific language used at SGA meetings. Here’s an overview. In addition, we will be putting all this information up on the website so you can access it there.

SGA Goals in a Group Discussion:

Emma W-B ‘11: If everyone can break up in smaller groups we will be talking about the following questions in the groups:

1. What are your goals for your position within SGA? What are your expectations from SGA this semester?

2. What are your goals for SGA as a whole?

3. What do you see as the top three most important areas for SGA to address?

Emma W-B ‘11: If we could have someone report back from each of the groups.

Group 1:

Colleen Haley ’11: Goals for SGA Position were position specific, but there was a lot of wanting to create an inclusive and connected community. Goals for SGA as a whole: we want to make Quorum at Plenary, have more campus awareness and more accountability with budgets. In terms of three areas: we had a lot of opinions on the changes, we think SGA should liaise between students and administration, and also get feedback and input to administration about student experience, for example on health center hours, and budgeting.

Group 2:

Hannah Curry Mc-Dougald ’10: Goals for SGA Position were position specific as well. In terms of the three areas, goals for SGA: having one T-shirt for both plenaries, having quorum at plenary. The 125^th anniversary of the college is coming up, so planning and getting involved with that. Also, accessibility to student meeting spaces, for example Taylor, is still an issue.

Group 3:

Celia Turner ’10: Goals for SGA Position were position specific. Goals for SGA: having Goals that are set and met, having more direction, and also the creation of umbrella organizations. For areas for SGA to address: Keeping the budget coherent and relevant and having SGA be a forum for current events such as the party policy, what’s happening at Haverford, etc.

Group 4:

Samantha Newman ’12: Goals for SGA Position were position specific. Our goals for SGA are getting frosh involved in SGA, as well as figuring out the general school budget—where is my tuition going, etc.

Group 5:

Sadie Marlow ’11: We had a lot of Frosh in our group which was really great and we talked about what SGA has done in the past. Goals for SGA positions were also position specific.

Kali Graham ’10: In terms of SGA goals as a whole: we want SGA to be more accessible for the community, it seems like it’s very exclusive, let’s make it more inclusive. Also talk to the Dorm Leadership Team about getting the word about what’s going on in SGA.

Sadie Marlow ’11: In terms of 3 specific areas: Maintaining administration and student communication; Budgeting is very important; Making new people feel welcome; Having dorms compete to see how many people can come to SGA as community members and can get some sort of prize.

Emma W-B ‘11: Just so you know we as SGA exec board members recognize that a lot of time we talk about just SGA and ourselves, so we want that to change and have more community members involved.

Old Business:

Sadie Marlow ’11: What did we decide about the newspapers?

Laurel Lemon ’11: Starting next week there will be more newspapers in Erdman because there seem to be not enough. Are there any other concerns or questions?

Sophie Papavizas ’11: So last Plenary we decided to make Student Committee Curriculum an appointed position. I realize that some people ran for it in their dorm—I’m sorry but that’s a mistake. I’ll let you all know when that round of appointments begins in case you’re still interested.

New Business:

Sophie Papavizas ’11: PLENARY SEPTEMBER 27. MARK YOUR CALENDARS SUNDAY SEPT 27 AT GOODHART. Are there any plenary related questions?

Simran Singh ’10: When is there going to be a plenary information session as to how to write a plenary resolution?

Sophia Papavizas ’11: We will let you know via email in the following week.

Elle Works ’10: What are we going to do to make Goodhart more comfortable for Plenary?

Shannon Ryan ’10: I think that Goodhart only has space for Quorum, and that could get very uncomfortable.

Sarah Sherman ’11: Does that include the balcony?

Emma W-B ’11: I’m going to get exact numbers from the Registrar, but there is enough space for students over Quorum.

Simran Singh ’10: What about the gym?

Emma W-B ’11: The gym has a variety of accessibility and logistical issues.

Sophie Papavizas ’11: Any other questions/comments?

Hannah Curry-McDougald ’10: I just want to reiterate my t-shirt idea.

Laurel Lemon ’11: A few of you may have noticed that Philly Car Share is not here anymore; they have removed all their locations from Suburban locations and now it’s only in center city. So we have a new company—Zip Car—that is also a car share company and it wants to gauge interest at Bryn Mawr. The numbers for this are as follows: $8/hr (weekday) $9/hr (weekend) or $66 (per weekday), $72/day (weekend), as well as $35 annual membership fee.

Blair Smith ‘12: Who used Philly Car Share?

Colleen Haley ‘11: I think $35 Annual Membership Fee is a lot and will detract students.

Sadie Marlow ‘11: I used to be a member of Philly Car Share, and that used to be $16 a month so the zipcar sounds really good.

Ashton Shaffer ’11: This is something that we should talk to other students about before we talk about it here—so if representatives can send out emails and find out what the student population feels, that might be a more productive conversation.

Laurel Lemon ’11: There is also a $1500 guarantor fee that Bryn Mawr needs to commit to per car for the first 6 months, meaning if students don’t use this service, we need to pay $1500/month per car.

Katherine Redford ’10: Can we get this and then cancel?

Colleen Hayley ’11: Get a tally at the front door?

Laurel Lemon ’11: No, it’s a two-year contract. Any other questions?

Simran Singh ’10: Can you send me an email with this information so I can send it to my constituents?

Laurel Lemon ’11: Sure.

Emma W-B adjourned the meeting at 8:24 PM.

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SGA Minutes April 26 April 26, 2009

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Roll Call:
Excused Absences: Amanda King ‘10, Taline Cox ‘10, Fabiola Decius ‘10

Unexcused Absences: Nina Jankowicz ‘11, Antonia Kerle ‘11, Jasmine Howell ‘11, Katie Dahl ‘11, Rachel Brody ‘11, Arielle Paris-Hoshour ‘11, Rachel Awkward ‘10, Marisa Franz ‘10, Reggie Kulkola ‘11

Community Members: Elizabeth Held ‘12, Katherine Bakke ‘11, Samantha Salazar ‘11, Sarah Moser ‘12, Julia Aranda ‘11, Kate Gould ‘11, Evan Schneider ‘10, Katie Kellom ‘09, Erica Seaborne ‘09, Ashley Madden ‘09, Madeleine Lowenthal ‘12, Emily Reuman ‘11, Ruilin Xu ‘11, Kate Grant ‘12, Rebecca Sanders ‘12, Sue Yee Chen ‘12, Amanda Loo ‘12, Sharan K. Mehta ‘12, Lydia Bello ‘12, Moira Nadal ‘10, Caroline Kelly ‘12, Nadia Khalid ‘12, Praise Agu ‘12, Young Jung Cho ‘12
Announcements:

Your Two Cents:
Steph Hilton ‘09: Our tea last week was great, off the heezy fo’ sheezy. We talked about alcohol awareness. Even if you didn’t go I hope you are aware of the alcohol use that will be occurring in the upcoming festivities. Thanks. Okay Bye.

Emily Reuman ‘11: I wanted to know what everyone thought about the idea of having a Greens representative within SGA.

Katherin Battan ‘11: Since there are already Recycling Committee Co-heads could their position encompass responsibilities for Greens?

Emily Reuman ‘11: Sure but the Recycling Co-head position aren’t voting positions they are appointed positions.

Amanda Cieglewski ‘09: I think this sets an awkward precedent for other clubs to get representation in SGA and it’s a slippery slope.

Julia Fahl ‘11: What would the Greens representative do that the Recycling Committee Co-head doesn’t do?

Emily Reuman ‘11: They would act as a liason and could be representative of campus views about Green issues. Currently Greens Presidents can only represent the views of club members not the entire campus.

Jackie Levin ‘10: Could we possibly talk to the Haverford Council Greens People-I think they have a representative, can we find out if it is feasible or possible?
Emily Reuman ‘11: Absolutely
Moira Nadal ‘10: Lydia Bello ‘12, and I were just appointed to the Landscape committee and this past weekend we met with the Board of Trustees as part of our role. And we deal with issues of compost, and green buildings on campus so we could potentially help with this.

Katie Kellom ‘09: I think it’s an interesting idea, and I don’t have a pro/con opinion on it but I think having a vote is possible either through this period (Your Two Cents) or through requesting time to talk to the entire student body through SGA by emailing sga@brynmawr.edu.

Emily Reuman ‘11: Right, okay, thank you.

Sadie Marlow ‘11, Sarah Moser ‘12: This Saturday is the last rugby game of the semester. We will all be wearing prom dresses and playing rugby-it’s still a real game but it’ll be fun to watch. It’s going to be at the Graduate School of Social Work. So come see us play!

Sam Salazaar ‘11: This week is a big arts week for us, and so it would be awesome if we could get support for the arts students. Key Card access will be given to all students from Thursday 6-8, and 7:30-10.
Rodline Louijeune ‘11, Julia Fahl ‘11: This past weekend we had a Board of Trustees meeting and they did a couple of things. The gym’s structure will be changing. Goodhart is on schedule and under-budget. So we have an extra $5,000. Goodhart will be done by August 15. In the next five years, they will be revamping Pem Arch in some way-we don’t really have details yet.
Rodline Louijeune ‘11: What problems do you guys have on campus in relation to Information Services?
Someone in Audience: Wireless on campus green spots.

Appointments Announcements:
Sophie Papavizas ‘11: This week I’m announcing all the new appointed positions from this round. On the Elections Board we have Laurel Lemon, Allyson Schmieder, and Sue Yee Chen. On the Student Curriculum Committee we have Sarah Theobald, Nadia Khalid, and Cea Weaver. On the Student Finance Committee we have Anagha Kumar, Madeleine Lowenthal, Ruilin Xu, Praise Agu, Laura Costanzo and Grace Kung. The Alternative Concert Series Co-Heads are Sarah Moser and Samantha Salazar. On the Alternative Concerts Series Committee we have Sharon Kaziunas, Farah Rishi, Sara Chang, Caroline Kelly, Kate Grant, and Sarah Cooper. The Film Series Head is Sarah Sheplock. On the Film Series Committee we have Amanda Loo, Lena Barnard, Sarah Elias, Rachel Wilson and Jaselle Yrizarry-Pabon. The Student Landscaping Reps are Moira Nadal and Lydia Bello. Also, the Plenary Committee is being run in an emergency round. Applications are due Monday at 5 pm.

Year Summary:
Emma W-B ‘11: So we have a year summary of what we’ve done this year. This year, SGA managed to get a lot done. We found and elected two presidents, along with passing several plenary resolutions that affect the whole campus, like the resolution that released priority numbers for room draw a week early. SGA continued to encourage community involvement between the Representative Council and the student body. Another important achievement for SGA this year was increasing SGA dues by $50, which means that come next semester many clubs will have increased budgets and, hopefully, fewer complaints about the Student Finance Committee. The passing of Special Events like the Elections Party and Jessica Valenti allowed students who do not normally participate in SGA to get involved and inspire others about Bryn Mawr’s Self Governance. This year SGA has really taken a self-reflective look, making a conscious choice to include its constituency in all of its decision-making processes. We, the Exec Board, have created the agendas for weekly meetings through a combination of suggestions and comments from previous meetings and at the request of community members. Comments and questions raised at meetings have resulted in direct action, through the initial steps being taken to create an Arts Association and through the distribution of Representation in SGA survey. Transparency has been another issue for SGA in the past, and this year SGA has made its inner-workings as transparent as possible, hosting the SGA 101 meeting that covered the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of SGA. Additionally, access and awareness of SGA has been an issue that SGA has combated through weekly physical and electronic dissemination of minutes and Mawrk Notes. Finally, the website has been added to the current students’ page for easier accessibility and to facilitate understanding and awareness of SGA’s activities. In the 2008-2009 School Year, the Appointments Committee appointed over 50 people to 19 committees. After a resolution at Spring Plenary 2008, the Sustainable Food Committee was appointed for the first time to work with dining services to find ways to make dining on this campus more sustainable. In the fall of 2008, another position was added, the Film Series Committee to aid the Film Series Head in choosing and screening films as part of the film series. Also, an Alumnae Student Committee was appointed to help with alumnae events surrounding the inauguration of President McAuliffe. In conjunction with the Elections Co-Heads, two students were selected to serve the new Dean of Student Affairs Search Committee. The selection followed the same format as for the student rep on the Presidential Search Committee. Student were interviewed and then chosen to move on to an election. As of Spring Plenary 2009, the Appointments Committee added four positions to its April Round. Student Curriculum Committee, previously a dorm election, Plenary Committee, previously appointed in the late fall, Alternative Concert Series Committee, created to add woman power to the Alternative Concert Series, and Student Landscaping Rep, which had previously been appointed but not for a year or two. In consultation with the outgoing Student Curriculum Committee, three positions on SCC will be appointed in the April round and three in the September round in order to have a committee that can both start working over the summer but is representative of all four classes. Plenary Committee now has a more substantial role and will focus on keeping our Constitution up to date. In response to overwhelming interest and the desire for a better Alternative Concert Series, the Appointments Committee also appointed an Alternative Concert Series Committee of six people to aid the ACS Co-Heads. Two student representatives for Landscaping were appointed and attended a meeting yesterday with the Landscaping Advisory Group, a subcommittee of the Board of Trustees. The pair will continue to serve throughout the year and give a voice to students in the development of our campus landscape. Other positions appointed in the April Round included Recycling Committee Co-Heads, Financial Aid Advisory Board, Student Finance Committee, Elections Board, Film Series Head and Film Series Committee. SGA Webmistress was open but had no applicants. It will be run again in the fall. The Honor Board started thinking about abstracts, and whether or not the community found them satisfactory. They also looked at them in comparison to Haverford’s abstracts. Haverford releases their abstract about two weeks after a case is heard, and they are quite lengthy. This can become complicated when a Bryn Mawr student has violated the code at Haverford. Therefore, the Honor Board plans to work with Haverford more closely in the coming academic year to see what we can do together in regards to abstracts. They’re currently beginning plans for an Honor Code appreciation day sometime next semester. Also, we’ve had a full honor board almost the entire semester, which is really exciting, and was difficult to do last year, so people are definitely getting more involved with the honor code, and we’re really excited about that. Now that the Honor Board has the new blog website, they’re going to keep working with it and using it as a way to make the board more visible.

Recognition:
Emma W-B ‘11: We just want to take this opportunity to thank all of you that make it out to these meetings, and to the assembly for contributing to SGA. In addition, we want to thank and recognize all the seniors who have contributed to SGA and the community over the past four years.

Old Business:
Laurel Lemon ‘11: Newspapers! With the possibility of Rhoads closing would you like the newspaper in any other locations? Campus Center? Along with Erdman and Haffner?
Jackie Levine ‘10: I think having them in the campus center would mean that a lot of community members and students wouldn’t get them and others might.
Laurel Lemon ‘11: What I’m pushing for is based upon the feedback I’ve gotten back from all of you which is, more NYTimes, fewer Philly Inquirer, even fewer USA Today.
Julia Fahl ‘11: What about the library?

Liz Ritchie 11: If we are keeping them in the dining halls we don’t need as many
Straw Vote

Gym : 1

Campus Center: 27

Canaday/Lusty: 2

Erdman/Haffner: 23
Run-Off

Campus Center: 23

Erdman/Haffner: 30
Emma W-B ‘11: And this can continue to evolve if we decide this isn’t what we want in the fall.
Anne Bugnaski ‘10: Buzzing for Change-we had 29 people shave their head and 22 people cut their hair and give it to Locks of Love. We also raised $4,622 and we had over 50 volunteers and we had Bravo Pizza donate pizzas so it was a great event. Maybe we can make this an annual thing so thank you guys so much.

New Business:
Emma W-B ‘11: Monday Night there is going to be an additional budget meeting, 7 PM Campus Center Monday 4/27. We hope to see many of you there.

Meeting ended at 7:49 PM.

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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:

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  • 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

 

1. The proportion of the student body needed for quorum at Plenary 
   a. What is 1/3
2. Added at Spring Plenary 2007, this is another part of life at Bryn Mawr where the Honor Code applies
   a.  What is the internet.
3. Four of these are randomly selected to sit on hearings of the Social Honor Code Infractions 
   a. What is community member 
4. Those elected who vote on matters at SGA and whose attendance is counted in quorum
   a.  What is the representative council
5.  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

1. A request to continue the discussion for a set amount of time.
   1. What is a motion to extend time
2. 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
3. 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
4. A statement to call someone out of line that will strike the previous comment from the minutes
        a.   What is out of order
5. A method of obtaining the opinion of everyone in the room on any topic
        a.  What is a straw vote 

Positions

1. This position is responsible for communicating between the Assembly and non-resident members of the Association.
   1. Who is the Off-Campus Representative
2. These elected members of the Representative Council serve as the liaison between classes and the Assembly.
   1. Who are the Class Presidents
3. This elected member of the Representative Council organizes and facilitates campus-wide programming.
   1. Who is the Social Committee
4. 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)
5. 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

1. At this event, candidates for election are given the chance to answer questions from the community.
   1. What is the Candidate’s Forum
2. Member of this committee are ineligible to hold voting positions in the SGA Assembly.
   1. What is the Appointments Committee
3. All candidates for elections must follow what policy during campaigning.
   1. What is Posting Policy
4. 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
5. 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

1. 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
2. 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
3. A bi-annual event set to amend the Constitution and foster discussion around proposed new changes.
   1. What is plenary
4. 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)
5. 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

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