Senate Meeting 5
Tuesday, October 02, 2013
Meeting Start: 7:02
ASG FOOD SWAG
Approval of the Minutes
Passes
Finance Report
GFC, Concert Nov. 3
(The Lighthouse and the Wailer)
Approved
Unión Latina
$1,000, concert
Noel Quintana and the Latin Crew
SEA
$400, Speaker Fund
Beehive(?)
Approved
Jess Gruber, Phi Alpha Theta
Holocaust Professor from Indiana
Approved
The Campus
$1800, General Fund, conference in LA
Tabled (some questions, funding from ACCEL?)
Old Business
AC Table Tennis Club
Replace Stolen table tennis
Approved $644.50
Approval of Finance
Discussion: Miguel
→ Can we talk about getting something to chain it down?
Skyler
→ They already purchased a chain
Approval of New Senator
→ Haley Riley
Cabinet Reports
Diversity Initiatives (Katie Beck)
→ Video (that Kylan shot!)
→ On Thursday, open discussion about the Allegheny College Confessions FB page in GFC
→ Committee members will be NEUTRAL facilitators
→ Food will be provided
Marlys
→ What time?
Katie
→ Thursday, 9PM, GFC
Secretary (Jake Ballinger)
→ By laws say that you need at least 5 hours of community service per semester.
→ Can be taken from wherever
Tim
→ In hometown?
Lee
→ Spreadsheet?
Miguel
→ When is Service Saturday?
Jen
→ Only five?
Jake
→ If you want to send me more, send me more!
Lee
→ There's no reason not to send in all of the hours
Katie Beck
→ There's a national 'honor roll' that Allegheny applies for
Rules – Aurora Arop
2 Announcements
1. Clinical Careers Club
Tim → Move to approve the Clinical Careers Club for their second week at ASG
Leslie
→ Approved
2. Lax
→ Game October 20th
Andrew → Move to approve Men's Lax
Marlys
→ Approved
Student Affairs w/ Sarah and Kushtrim
Lance is giving the report!
→ Talked about Pizza in McKins, now they're selling three times more flatbread
→ Wroking on the variety between Brooks and McKins
→ Deli at Brooks, which people don't like so much
→ They actually roast in house
→ Deli at McKins is produced uniformly
→ Working on this
→ Need to advertise the Deli more at Brooks
→ Stirfry, wash the skillet after they put meat in (for vegetarians)
→ Some issues with mismarking Gluten-Free in Brooks
→ No Gluten Free on the go at McKins
→ Token System for To Go Boxes at Brooks
→ representative at Robert Morris says that, there, they have a 65% return rate because of the token
box
→ Increase efficiency at McKins
→ Want multiple lines at Brooks at Mac and Cheese Fridays
→ Pricing of sides/toppings at Cantina
→ Committee will be sort of interviewing possible candidates for Parkhurst
→ Compostable take out boxes are 98% compostable
→ Cannot have bags for donuts or muffins because of flies
→ Overall, Parkhurst was really right
Moves to have a 5-minute discussion about to go containers
Passes
(Aurora keeps time)
→ The token system, would work, but it's been shown at Robert Morris that it doesn't really work
→ Carrying around giant boxes is cumbersome
Alexis
→ There was a machine that you can get where you insert your to go box and you get a token
→ I don't know where Parkhurst was going with this, or where it go dropped
→ You can always charge people for more to go boxes
Quinn
→ Did they give a reason as to why the token system didn't work?
Sarah
→ Robert Morris works on a system that's like McKins
→ We're mostly instituting our to go boxes at Brooks
→ It just so happens that the RM employee said that because you didn't have to return your boxes to
get a new box, they would find boxes in places they shouldn't be
→ It's definitely something that we can try to implement
→ Distinction between McKins and Brooks styles is important
Lee
→ Doesn't understand how the token system would work
Sarah
→ It could just be the atmosphere at RM
Lee
→ Discrepancy?
Kush
→ Think people just keep losing things
Sarah
→ This was just an example
Tim (to Alexis)
→ Do you remember how much this machine would cost?
Alexis
→ Just over $1000, but don't exactly remember
→ Kelly Bolton might know more
Tim
→ This is something that we could bring to Parkhurst
Alexis
→ This also means that you could return your box whenever
Jake
→ Drop them off at McKins?
Sarah
→ We're going to talk about this
Lee
→ Can I motion for a straw poll? Yes: Tokens, No: Other Options
Second: Alexis
Straw Poll passes
Results:
34 – Y
9 – N
Garrett
→ Energy Month!
→ What we save goes towards
→ Meeting In The Dark on Oct. 22
→
Sloane (PR)
→ Each month there will be a senator of the Month
→ This month's is Shep!
(Fun fact: Kevin and Sam like to make faces at each other)
→ Shep has been doing a FANTASTIC JOB with the Junior Class
President's Report
→ Congrats to Shep!
→ There were a ton of other people in the running and you should all try to be like Shep
→ Eric Chang is going to be our Team Leader on MADD
→ Sign up by Friday!
→ Eric's Office Hours are 2-4 on Friday
→ Relay for Life Team! (Sign up now, don't worry about it later!)
→ Kevin's Mom made ASG M&Ms
Vice President's Report
College Committees
→ These candidates will tell you a little about themselves
→ These people are all extremely qualified
Dominique , Study Away and Internationalization Committee
→ Have studied and worked abroad
→ Research assistant with Professor Benzel, knowledgeable about what other colleges are doing
→ Passionate about spreading internationalism and opportunities to go abroad with other
Yemi
→ Where?
Dominique?
→ Argentina and Mexico
Tim → Move to approve
Marlys
APPROVED!
Matt Z.
→ First year student, work on Campus Life and Community Standards Committee
→ Taken initiative to get involved on Campus
→ Would like to improve the Honor Code and life on campus for both students and professors
Tim → Motion to approve
Miguel
APPROVED
Kevin Orr, Campus Life and Community Standards Committee
→ Freshman
→ Wants to be involved, saw this opportunity and took it
Sam Q → Motion to approve
Seconded
Kylan
→ How many people applied?
Larry
→ About ten people applied
→ We ended up with three people
Passes
Sara Schindler (not here)
John Nelson, Curriculum Committee
→ Senior
→ Studied away in Washington DC and in Ukraine
→ Taken a wide array of classes
→ Active in the CPP
→ Trying to bring professors to campus for three-week classes
→ Taken very interdisciplinary classes in DC
→ Want to bring some courses like that to the college
Tim → Motion to Approve
Grant → Second
Approved
Schratt(?)
→ Involved with the Diversity Initiatives Committee
→ Senior
→ Want to get the conversations out to students, increase transparency about what is happening on the
administrator side
Lee → Motion to Approve
Lance → Second
Passes
→ If you have any agenda requests or announcements, please have them to Larry in the time that is set
forth
→ We want to process all of the information ahead of time
Class Report of 2015
→ Program to help juniors and seniors in Meadville with the college application process
→ Sharing experiences to help them
→ Met with the Assistant Principle of the HS
→ He is completely in support
→ Sent him a tentative program and a flyer, those are already up in the school
→ Fallfest! Class of 2015 always hosts this
→ October 23
→ Showcasing local baked goods from lots of local restaurants
→ Anticipating ~300 people
→ Raising money for a local charity
→ Hopefully teaming with the I <3 Meadville to help with the philanthropy
Constituent Comments
Unfinished Business
New Business
Announcements
1. Bob Goff
2. SET's Production of Perfect (Lee Scandinaro)
8:00 in Arter Little Theatre
Leanne is the director, that's why she's not here!
3. Aurora (from CPP and Bicentennial)
→ Rick Romeyer, talk about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and when he graduated
→ Looking to give us some perspective
→ October 8th
4. Grace Flowers (Panhell)
→ Women's Week!
→ Wednesday: ADPi, Zumba Class in the Wise Center, 7:30
→ Thursday AXO Candlelight Vigil
→ Friday Theta, Boob Cupcake event in CC
5. Sarah Fiore (GAP)
2 Events
→ Comedians, one's gay, one's straight, talk about their friendship, going to be hilarious
→ 8PM, CC Lobby
First Friday!
→ Free movies at the Movies at Meadville
Motion to close?
Marlys
Second → Leslie-Paul
Approved
Meeting End: 7:51
, 7PM, Ford Chapel
