SGA Meeting 1/22
Absent: Blair Smith, Devanshi Vaid, Julia Stuart, Carmen Lai, Nora Chong, Saba Qadir, Eva Sharma, Lily Scott, Emma Rosenblum, Izzie Armentrout, Jessie Abreu, Kiki Anizoka
If you could be a 90s pop star, who would you be?
Britney, Lance from Backstreet Boys.. or was it N*Sync, Beyonce in the 90s or Britney… but mostly Beyonce, AARON CARTER <3 <3, Nick Carter, Spice Girl, none of them, Justin Timberlake, Kelly Kapowski <3 Zac Morris, any member of A*teens.
Announcements
Nora Chong ’12: We had a good response to the call for dues. We need everyone to contribute so we can have more than one cocktail. The next cocktails is on February 11th. It’s a Saturday. It’s a carnivale/mardi gras theme. It will be really tasteful. Shirts will be here next week.
Elizabeth Held ’12: Nominations open tomorrow for: the executive board, elections head, the elections committee, and 2013 class president through May. Nominate someone and tell them why because it helps. Candidates forum will be on Wednesday the 1st at 8. We’re going to sign up people to table. We’re raffling off a prize to people who volunteer to table.
Caroline Kenward ‘12: SJPP is hosting a who weekend. It will be Saturday feb 4th in Dalton it will be a lot of fun. 11-2:30pm.
Aksheyta Suryanarayan ’13: SAW is hosting its annual culture show this weekend. It will be on Satuday in Goodheart.
Priya Saxena ’12: Seniors submit your photos to you at Bryn Mawr to me or Lily Scott for a project that will raise awareness about senior gift. Seniors donate to the senior gift! If you give $20.12 cents you get a mug. Remember that the honor code still applies to Planga. Don’t advertise wet parties.
YJ ’12: There’s a statistic that says women have to be asked three times in order to run for a position. Stop that. Just run. If you nominate someone, make sure you know why you think they’d be a good candidate. The exec board will having a time for people to come talk to us about our positions.
Approval of Meeting Procedures
YJ ’12: We’re going to vote on a revised version of the meeting procedures. See the word document on the blog: sga.blogs.brynmawr.edu
Approve: Everyone.
Planga Review
YJ ’12: The founder of Planga came and did a Planga demo on Friday. If you guys have your computer now you can sign up and then request to be a member of SGA so we can send notices and special messages to you through Planga. We put in all the events until Plenary in Planga. All of the SGA meetings will be on there. The agenda items will also be on there.
Budget Workshop
Tina Hu ‘12: We had the budget workshop this weekend. What did people think?
Sarah Theobald ‘12: How did the rule that if you don’t spend x amount you can only spend x amount come about and who made it?
Tina Hu ‘12: I brought it to the exec board and the SFC committee. There are clubs who ask for money and consistently don’t spend it. So this is my way of making sure the clubs spend their money.
Sarah Theobald ’12: How does this work for new clubs?
Tina Hu ’12: We said three semesters because a treasurer of a club can be a treasurer for a year, so that accounts for new leadership. If anyone doesn’t agree with the amount of funding their club gets, they can always appeal.
Nora Chong ’12: I appreciated that it was concise. I thought it was appropriate to have a longer one the first semester and a shorter one the second semester.
Irene Shin ’13: When clubs didn’t spend the money what did they do with it?
Tina Hu ‘12: The money goes back into SGA budget. Almost everyone pays SGA dues, which go into the SGA account. At the beginning of the semester I say where the money goes. This new policy is a matter of allocation. If a club doesn’t spend the money, it takes it away form another club.
YJ ’12: SGA budget is a result of SGA dues, which are like taxes. It’s important for students to get involved in SGA, because if they’re not involved people can make decisions about their money.
Summary of the Communications Campaign
YJ ’12: There’s a new communications committee that gets out information about SGA. We have an SGA banner that’s going to hang in Pem arch for a few weeks leading up to Plenary. We have posters that we’re going to put up on campus. Lead up to Plenary. We have buttons to signify that people are in SGA. We’re going to measure the success of the campaign by sending out surveys multiple times. We will send out a few in the upcoming weeks and after plenary. It’s important to see what students are thinking about SGA.
Plenary Review
YJ ’12: There are several changes to Plenary. Erdman will be open from 9am to 1pm. Estimated time to end is 2:30. There will be a campaign to get pledges to attend Plenary the week before.
Present and brainstorm ideas for future agenda items
YJ ’12: Next week we’ll have an elections discussion. Any ideas of what we want to talk about in the future?
Irene Shin ’13: I was curious if we could possibly bring the faculty rep of the faculty to the big cheese?
YJ ’12: That would have to happen under the next administration. But that’s a good idea. If you have any ideas feel free to email sga@brynmawr.edu.