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April 24, 2011 Minutes

SGA meeting 4/24

Absent: Giang Tran, Julia Fahl, Courtney Pinkerton, Heather Taddonio, Hope Wayman, Sarah Schnellbacher, Emily Tafaro, Tiffany Olszuk.

7:10 YJ calls the meeting to order

Gabby Marangell ’12: Thank you to everyone who donate shoes to Souls4Souls. The box will stay there until Tuesday the 28th, so please donate more.

Sarah Theobald ’12: I’m one of the student curriculum committee co-heads. You should sign up to proctor exams for finals week!

Lindsey Turr and Sam Salazar ’11: Thank to all the seniors. The list of senior week events are going out this week, along with the list of the faculty who are going on the booze cruise.

Tina Hu ’12: All reimbursements are due April 29th. If you can’t get it in by the 29th, contact your SFC rep as soon as possible. If you’re interested in putting money back into the pot let me know by Wednesday atsgatreasur@brynmawr.edu

Priya Saxena ’12: The first Honor Board Open Community Meeting will be on Wednesday at 5 in Merion Common Room.There will be pizza. Dean Rasmussen and Carolyn Lloyd will be there.You’ll also be able to meet the new honor board members.

Rebecca Sanders ’12: The April round of appointments has come to a close.We had 63 applicants for 40 positions and over 17 hours of interviews over the past two weeks.The people who were appointed were:

BMCS co-heads:

  • Kate Grant
  • Lauren Bochicchio

BMCS Officers:

  • Gabrielle Logaglio
  • Vanessa Ide
  • Julia Sakamoto

Plenary Committee:

  • Irene Shin
  • Natalie Kato
  • Natalie Zamora
  • Rachel Shen

SGA Webmistress:

  • Natalie Kato

Student Finance Committee:

  • Sowmya Srinivasan
  • Samantha Rim
  • Gabby Marangell
  • Praise Agu
  • Amy Chen
  • Yolanda Shao

Landscaping Reps:

  • Lydia Bello
  • Stephanie Kim

Elections Board:

  • Sarah Theobald
  • Hannah Roos
  • Jean Yu

Student Curriculum Committee:

  • Sue Yee Chen
  • Tara chatterjee
  • Ning Pei

Health Center Advisory Board:

  • Kristina Sandquist
  • Saba Qadir
  • Hannah Ryles
  • Tsion Adefres
  • Rebecca Sheplock

Financial Aid Advisory Board:

  • Kate Ciarlante
  • Erika Nunez
  • Lise Wagnac

Recycling Committee Co-head:

  • Stephanie Tse
  • There will be another appointments round for the second co-head position in the fall, so tell all your friends

Film Series Head:

  • Kimberly DeRosa

Film Series Committee:

  • Mine Serizawa
  • Meghna Singh
  • Mercedes Munn
  • Kelsey Grimes
  • Samone Rowe
  • Nina Zipkin

YJ ’12: On May 4th the Exec Board will be meeting with Dean Rasmussen and I’ll bring up the results of the transportation survey. Last monthly report is due May 3rd.I’m started a contest where the first five people to email me all the locations for the weekly address were promised prizes.The prizes go to Sarah Kelley, Sophie Papavizas, Linet Saurez, and Krista Imre.They get chocolate and this week we’ll send out a JibJib with their faces in it.

Your Two Cents

Linet Saurez ’13: I wanted to bring up the painting of the vibrancy chairs. How does that work in terms of the honor code?

Priya Saxena ’12: I’m not sure how I’m going to react yet. I’m willing to get feedback and more information.

Sam Salazar ’11: There was an administrator there who laughed and took pictures of it because he was glad that students were interacting with the chairs and using the furniture.

Priya Saxena ’12: I’m going to email the club that sponsored the event to see if they did get administator approval.

Sam Salazar ’11: It’s hard to get that paint off.

Priya Saxena ’12: Some of it is coming off already.

Emma Rosenblum ’14: I think it’s cool to an extent, but If so much money was put into these chairs, it would be nice if fewer of them were painted.It’s semi-water proof.

Sophie Papavizas ‘11: President MacAuliffe said at the Big Cheese that a minimal amount of money was allocated for the chairs because they’re an experiment.

Liz Ritchie ’11: I think the entire budget for new furniture was 10,000 dollars.

Honor Board Bi-Co Liaison

Priya Saxena ’12: The purpose of the Honor Board Bi-Co liaison is to keep both honor boards at Bryn Mawr and Haverford informed.The bi-co liaison would be someone who would come to the hearing to provide information about procedures at the respective schools.At Haverford, the Bryn Mawr liaison won’t be able to ask questions during fact finding, and at Bryn Mawr if the Haverford liaison asks a question that I or Dean Rasmussen feels is inappropriate I can advise the student not to answer.They would be in charge of transporting files.They will not be present at a Dean’s panel because those are for cases of extreme confidentiality.

Jordan Cottrell ’13: Will the liaisons be a member of the honor board? How will it be chosen?

Priya Saxena ’12: I’ll let the honor board know when there’s a case at Haverford involving a Bryn Mawr student and they’ll act as the bi-co liaison.They would have to be present for every part of the hearing.It could be anyone on the honor board, but it has to be the same person at every part of the trial.

Liz Ritchie ’11: Is the phrasing of the bylaws is gender neutral?

Priya Saxena ’12: I’ll change it so it’s gender neutral. Haverford passed this 20 minutes ago.It won’t take affect until both schools pass it at plenary.This is just to gauge your reaction to it and see if it’s necessary.It needs to pass at plenary so that it is actually in the constitution.

Bi-laws pass.

Community Service Panel

Adrienne Webb ’11: We’re going to have a discussion about community partnerships at Bryn Mawr. We have two partner communities. One is Philadelphia. The other is Norristown.A few partnerships that we have are LIM, Language in Motion, VITA, which the tax program, Parkway West, ACPPA, which is in Norristown. These are organizations that Bryn Mawr has been partnered with since the 90s and the 80s, so they’ve been around for a long time. The CEO is committed to being reciprocal. The community is getting something from us and we’re getting something from the community. It’s not charity work.They’re partnerships not programs.We get free transit and have paid coordinators.The reciprocity and partnerships is what ties all these programs together.

Ellie Rhymer ’12: I coordinate the ACPPA program, which is based in Norristown.I work with the campus outreach coordinators.Some of the things that are available to students are travel reimbursement – you can get half reimbursement from CEO if you work for an organization that is not sponsored by the CEO.There’s a grant fund where you can get seed money if you want to start a partnership with an organization.There’s a fund for if you want to get money to go to a rally or a walk somewhere. You can get up to $25 for transportation.I want to talk about ACPPA, which stands for Artist Cooperative for Personal and Professional Advancement.It’s a coalition of artists who got together to make arts happen in Norristown and work out of an arts center that runs after school programs and low cost art class for children and the community of the Norristown.It’s run by Amy Grebe. We bring about 30 different students a semester to help out with different events and evening arts programming.This weekend is the ACPPA spring benefit dinner. We’re going to bring 1-15 Bryn Mawr students over to help with that.

Amanda Beardall ‘14: I work with Overbrook Elementary school to have art projects for students.They don’t have an art program due to funding issues.There are praxis programs that work with Overbrook.

Nora Chong: I’m one of the student coordinators with Adrienne for VITA.We work with CADCOM. We go every week during tax season and people can come in and get their taxes done for free.Low income people often don’t do their taxes because it’s intimidating and bureaucratic, but it helps decrease poverty.

Taylor Stacey ’11: I’ve worked with the CEO in multiple capacities.I work with Energy Efficient which is a non-profit. I’ve worked with the president to talk about getting new garbage trucks for the township.I’m involved with an afterschool tutoring program.We work on basic math and English skills and do homework together.A lot of students are involved with this program and it’s been a

Charlene Desanges ‘11: I work with GASP, which Gotwals Elementary after school program.It just started this past semester.We work with a group of second graders.We have five volunteers who go weekly to enhance the reading levels of 1rst and 2nd graders.They are not doing the PSSAs so they don’t get additional funding to work on the skills that we work on with them.

Sarah Jenness ’13: Student Success walk at Parkway.College prep, art, self-portraits.A lot of my role there is very fluid.Sometimes I’m a teacher, sometimes I’m a learner, sometimes I’m a friend, sometimes I’m a mentor.Five days a week instruction is coming from Bryn Mawr.It’s all taught by Bryn Mawr Students.

Adrienne Webb ’11: I have a question for you guys.Then you can ask questions of the panel.Then we can talk about if you have a dream for Bryn Mawr’s involvement in community service.My first question is do you think that Bryn Mawr could play a bigger role in community involvement.My second question is if you had 1 million dollars how would you use it to benefit your community partnership?

Nora Chong ’12: I think BMC could play a bigger role.It’s important for us to be aware that we’re not cut off from the world, because that’s part of the point of a liberal arts college.I definitely think that everyone should make time to be involved in a partnership because like Adrienne said, it’s a partnership. It’s been an invaluable part of my education.I would use my 1 million dollars to help improve VITA and for them to improve their final goal of empowering people to make decisions.

Taylor Stacey ’11: If I had 1 million dollars to improve ACT, I would try to solve the problem that ACT is facing of having to turn away students because there are so many students who need free tutoring.As students who are blessed in our education at Bryn Mawr, I think we have a responsibility to help students who don’t have that opportunity, and it’s disheartening when we can’t.

Ellie Rhymer ’12: I wanted to ask you if you think there is anything the Civic Engagment Office any questions comments. You can always email us if you have any questions.We’re really available.

Liz Ritchie ’11: This information gets out a lot through education classes.It would be a good idea to have professors get out information about events and programs that are related to their classes (i.e econ professors and VITA).Are the students at GASP there 5 days a week?

Charlene Desanges ’11: The kids are there 5 days, Bryn Mawr students rae not. The program would not exist with out Bryn Mawr volunteers.Norristown is a working class community with a large Spanish speaking population.When we go to Gautwald, it helps them do better in reading and writing because their parents are also adjusting to speaking English.

Ellie Rhymer ’12: We have a newsletter that goes out through email and a facebook page that we use to get out information about events and programs that are going on if you want to get involved.

Emma Rosenblum ’14: oO you get the parents involved in the after school tutoring program? How do you get the students who might not stay after school to stay after school?

Taylor Stacey: There’s a partnership between Bryn Mawr and Zion Baptist Church.The Zion BC does a lot of the recruiting.I know that some student’s parents are engaged in the tutoring and we periodically check in with the parents.

Irene Shin ’13: Maybe it would be good to some of your students on campus.

Adrienne Webb ’11:The Parkway West students love being on campus. They love the dining hall and use the computer lab to work on essays.There are definitely a lot of students who come to campus.

Sarah Jenness ’13: This week was Parkways spring break, so a lot of students were on campus.There was one student Dominique who was excited to go to Erdman and who was in classes and working on her college essay in the media lab.They’re a great presence to have on campus because they’re lively.Maybe we should advertise that they’re here better.

Irene Shin ’13: I think it would be cool to emphasize an environmental thing too.

Sophie Papavizas ’11: I didn’t know the newsletter existed, so maybe you should advertise that better.

Ellie Rhymer ’12: We’re working on it. The opt-in to the newsletter is offered to people who volunteer.I think that this information could be spread in an easier way.We’re really going to be targeting the freshman classes.The CEO has gotten in on customs week in a way they haven’t before.I’m also preparing a campus survey to get more information about how the civic engagement office can apply to your interests more, so please feel that out when you see it.

Adrienne Webb ’11: We’re going to be concluding with a service project that you can all be involved in right now! We’re going to create frames for poems that were created by students at Gotwals Elementary School for poetry week.You can write your name on it.It’s all about partnership.

Old Business

Sarah Theobald ’12: There will be the same number of courses next fall that there have been for the past couple of years.There aren’t a lot of changes.

Sophie Papavizas ‘11: Were there any departments that shifted what they were offering?

Sarah Theobald ’12: They’re offering the same classes that they’ve always been offering.

8:11 LAST MEETING OF THE YEAR ADJOURNED YAY.