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 8th 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.