ASG General Meeting IV
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Meeting Start: 7:01
Attendance
(See spreadsheet)
Approval of Minutes
→ Tim
→ Alexis
→ Passes
Finance (Skyler Ray)
→ GFC → Surplus
→ Were warned with health code violations about how they were preparing drinks
→ Approved
→ GFC → Cloth Napkins
→ $34.58
→ Neuroscience Club
→ $352, General Fund
→ Buffalo Museum of Natural Science
→ Approved
Phi Alpha Theta
→ $1500
→ General Budget Increase
→ Denied; don't approve blanket funds
Lizzie Donaldson of WARC
→ 50th Jubilee
DeHart
→ $210
→ Local Band come in for their local event next week (Wednesday!)
Approval of Finance
→ Miguel
→ Eric
→ Approved
Cabinet Reports
1. MEC – Austin Cosgrove
→ HOMECOMING!!!!
→ Everyone on ASG is required to volunteer for at least one hour each week
→ If you already volunteered, good job!
→ Wednesday, give away cracker jack boxes
→ Thursday: Circus cups→ Friday: Balloon Artist making balloon animals
→ Working with the Students Athletes Advisory Council, pep rally on Friday
→ Friday Night, CC 9:30, stuff your own circus animal
→ Gourmet Popcorn Bar
→ Carnival Games, win a raffle ticket if you win a game; then you're entered to win!
→ Saturday, Tailgator Homecoming! Come to Robertson around noon
→ Face painting, cameras running around (polariod camera), more carnival games
→ 12:30, passing out the free tshirts, limited amount!
→ Cornerstone, 12:50, Gretchen will honor the seniors' accomplishments
→ 1:00 Nationally-televised game against Wabash
Marlys
→ Was there an email with dates?
Austin
→ There are posters
→ It will be on chompergram
Sam
→ Also a Facebook Event
Rose
→ If we signed up for a shift, where do we get our tshirts?
Austin
→ Will keep you updated
Nancy
→ Tomorrow night, will send out an email for the volunteers meeting, will get your shirt then
2. Rules – Aurora Arop
→ Second Week of Active Minds
→ Is there anyone here from Active Minds?
(No.)
A. Discussion of Questions, Concerns, and a second look over the Constitution
→ Alexis: Motion to Approve
→ Second: Shep
→ Approved
B. Men's Lacrosse Team, representative Edward
→ Will take a vote on them, first round of voting
→ Edward is the president of the man's lacrosse team
→ Matt, Joey, Kevin, 3 officers
→ Started organizing in the Fall 2012 semester
→ Transferred in during the Spring of 2013
→ Fulfilled the conditional requirement last year
→ Current roster: 27 people, 9 freshmen
→ Around 40 people on the emial list→ Here seeking approval
→ Edinborough, Penn State, Ohio State, have lacrosse teams
→ In process of joining the NCLL (National College Lacrosse League)
→ Hoping to have a scrimage next month
Aurora
→ Before Q&A, note that the constitution with the senators is not the updated version
→ Totally my fault
Questions?
Alexis Nielson
→ No price requirements? If I wanted to join, would I have to have equipment?
Ed
→ We have enough equipment to go around right now, but we won't
→ Encouraging people to buy their own gear
→ If you want to play Men's Lacrosse, you should invest money in the gear
Joey
→ Seeking donations from his old school
Ed
→ Asked President of the Stanford National Lacrosse Team if he has any extra gear
Lee
→ Men's lacrosse team, but will let in anyone?
Ed
→ Woman can play, but they play under Men's Rules
→ We also have Woman's Varsity
→ Men's and Women's Lacrosse are different
Motion to Approve
→ Kylan
→ Lance
Questions?
→ None!
All in Favor?
→ Approved
Yemi
→ Are you guys good?
Ed
→ We have a lot of work, but everyone has played for a while
→ Planning on having a game next month→ Planning on some home games next month
C. Clinical Careers Club
→ Will present their club, first round of voting
→ Clinical Psychology as an Applied Field
→ Resource under two professors (Huchert, Paulson)
→ General Educational Tool for Allegheny
→ Gator Day Event last year
→ Filled room with student, panel
→ Resource for student who want to know more about it as a potential career option
→ Go beyond Psych department, need funding
Questions?
Marlys
→ Think this is a great club; this is something that doesn't fall under the Pre-Health Club, more clinical
work, great outlet for these students
Grace
→ Have you looked into the Psychology Club and the Psychology Honors Societies?
CCC
→ We have a different direction; those are more academic, our resources are different enough (more
focused) that combining them would be spreading them out pretty thin
Tim
→ Psychology Club is more of a discussion on certain topics
→ The Constitution Specifies that this club is for people who are looking for Clinical Work as a career;
Psychology Club is more of an academic discussion
Approval?
→ Sam
→ Doranny
→ Approved
Guest Speaker → Timothy Cooper, Bicentennial Committee Presentation
(Here, Kushtrim starts to take pictures)
→ (He has a flashdrive)
→ Chairperson for the Bicentennial Committee
→ Will start launching in a year from today
→ A lot of really great representation on the student side; would like to encourage more of that!
→ How can you get involved?
→ (Will send this presentation out)
→ Subcommittees are where the work gets done!
→ Taken to FFC, AEC, and other governing bodies on campus for their approval
Speaker Committee
→ This year: Civil Rights
→ Next year: Voting Rights & Celebration of the Democratic ProcessCelebration Committee
→ Kickoff with Homecoming in Fall 2014
→ Tasked with scoping, sizing, and figuring out how to fund
History Committee
→ Lots of data mining and archiving
→ Fact checking
Legacy Committee
→ Focused on things that we'll leave behind
→ Intent is to create some legacy attributes on campus
Communications Committee
→ Responsible to communicate what we're doing and why we're doing in
→ How can we work closely with the programming that you guys are doing to wrap this into the
Bicentennial?
Website: www.allegheny/edu/200
→ Bicentennial Plaza
→ Will be where the commencement stage usually is
→ Is there a space on campus that we can use for other things?
→ Yes! → The lawn in front of Schultz
→ Looking at recasting the space in front of Schultz
→ Will be able to put a tent over it
→ These pictures are ideas of what it could POTENTIALLY look like
→ Plan on getting Bronze Markers with historical facts from the past 200 years
→ As classes graduate, they literally walk by the college
→ The next 200 years will worry about getting this back up the hill
→ Bronze is pretty immune to the weather and sets easily; will be low-maintenance
→ The ASG Team on the committees has been invaluable!
Larry
→ If you have questions, raise your hand, keep it up, and we'll keep a running list
→ If you have questions after the session, ask Larry, Kevin, Sarah, or Austin
Lee
→ Murals in buildings; planning on getting students to do those?
Timothy
→ Right now, they're being designed by our resident artist
→ The history committee has been involved in digging up facts
Lee
→ Bringing it to ASG will help us recruit people
Timothy→ For Homecoming 2014, the Friday night piece is going to be very student- and campus-centric
Lee
→ You mentioned the guided tours
→ Were a few research students on campus doing guided tours
→ You working with them?
→ Amelia Carr is doing them
Timothy
→ Not related
→ She is working on some of these pieces
Alexis
→ Theme of the Year and Legacies: Where do those two tie in? What is the connection between the
themes of the year and building a legacy here?
Timothy
→ The theme is certainly tied to the 50-year mark of these historical events, but there are also a number
of stories that will come out that are Allegheny-centric that are tied to the contributions that former
students made to the world
→ We will take the opportunity to celebrate something that is significant and apply it to the college, the
people that have come through, and the students now
Sarah
→ I researched it all summer
→ Lots of people who are involved
→ Students participated in civil rights movements
→ A lot of individualized stories
Leanne Siwicki
→ Will be constructing the Bicentennial Plaza during the school year?
Timothy
→ During the summer
Leanne
→ Will student organizations be able to reserve that space on Scheduler?
Timothy
→ The intent is yes.
→ Will cut the ribbon on the 4th
→ Encourage as much use as possible
Larry
→ If there are any other questions that you have, we will try out best to answer them
→ There are people here who can do that
→ Will be meeting with the Bicentennial Committee on Thursday
→ These are a lot of cool things coming to campus!
→ Thanks Timothy!3. Diversity Affairs – Katie Beck
→ Chief Diversity Officer
→ Last year, launched a search for a new chief diversity officer; offered it to one candidate, was turned
down
→ Also considering using a search consultant
→ Katie Beck and a member of her committee are on that committee
→ Right now, they are launching that!
→ Provost Linda DeMerrit is the Acting Chief Diversity Officer
Leanne Siwicki
→ Where is the money coming from?
Katie Beck
→ I will find out
→ It's important to have funding to find these positions
Lee
→ It is something that's really great, and it is a lot of money, but can we find out more? How helpful
will this company be?
Katie
→ The man who presented said that he has a huge network of higher education around the world
→ He will be on campus for a few days to figure out how to best market our school to others
Lee
→ Does somebody have this job already?
Larry
→ When we have a big position like this, they try to use a big committee to find these people
Leanne
→ While Provost DeMerrit is convering this position, will her salary increase?
Katie
→ I don't know
Lee
→ Can we find out?
→ About the committee to hire the position, did that happen last year?
→ It's that “We don't need to deal with it; we'll hire someone else to do it”
Katie
→ So we're getting somebody else to do it
Aurora
→ If you want to be involved, just go talk to Provost DeMerrit!
→ If she says no, share it with the student body and we can do something about itAlexis
→ Seconding what Lee was saying; would like to know more
President's Report (Kevin Crooks)
→ Everyone take a deep breath
→ This is supposed to be a fun environment
→ Thanks for being here!
→ If you have questions, talk to Kevin!
→ Marlys → Question about email concerning Homecoming Events, send this to your direct
representors!
→ Since attendance was really good at the beginning of the meeting, we will be doing class pictures at
the end of this! (2017, 2015)
Sam
→ Where do we get the list of what's going on with Homecoming Events?
Kevin
→ Will be on chompergram and in the minutes!
Vice President's Report
1. College Committee Application Approvals
→ Still looking for people!
→ Have 3 for today
Campus Life and Community Standards
Matt Zabrowski(?)
→ Wants to make this campus better
→ Back in HS, was the only student on the Code of Conduct committee
Questions?
→ None!
Matt Steps Out
If you have any questions for Larry, feel free to ask! If not, will entertain a motion
→ Motion to approve Matt to be on the Campus Life and Community Standards Committee (Grant)
→ Second: Lance
Questions
Lee
→ Was he the only one?
Larry
→ Other people applied, but it was a call that Larry made
Lee
→ Since no one knows what we're talking about, could we not approve him now, talk to him afterwards, and come back next week?
Marlys
→ Since we couldn't even form the name of the committee, we should know what we're talking about
Aurora
→ Let's
Larry
→ If you choose to vote Matt into this committee, feel free to vote now
→ You can also choose to strike this down
All in favor?
→
Opposed?
→
Abstentions?
→
Does not pass.
→ Larry will send out a description of these committees
→ Will suspend this for later, will keep everyone informed
Class Reports
→ None!
Constituent Comments
→ None
Unfinished Business
→ None
New Business
1. Sarah Naughton
→ Will be having a meeting tomorrow with Parkhurst
→ If anybody would like to come, please come talk to us afterwards
Announcements
Brogan McGowan
→ First meeting for the Halloween float will be Thursday from 6-7
→ If you're interested in helping, even if you're not on ASG, come on over!
Katie Beck
→ If you work with community members, will be having auditions for comp
→ Looking for community members to audition for the play
→ Tomorrow from 5-8→ Thursday from 4-7
→ Comp has been mentioned in the Bicentennial Programs
→ About the underground railroad in Meadville
Lizzie Donaldson
→ WARC will be celebrating it's 50th anniversary this weekend!
→ Kick off Thursday
→ Pop-punk band from Erie called The Masquerade
→ Saturday, 8PM, Voodoo, like the Black Keys
→ Saturday, 10PM, The Grimace Federation, CC Lobby
→ Sunday, 5PM, Gator Quad/CC, Apple Suklecta(?)
Lee Scandinaro
→ Will keep it short; want to gauge how people felt
→ Want to get a schedule of faculty meetings, what they're going to talk about that day, more
transparency, etc.
→ Maybe a couple minutes of discussion? Who should take that responsibility of getting that
information to us?
Jake
→ Since I manage the inter-ASG communications, if we decide to do it, I would volunteer for this
Aurora
→ What about?
Lee
→ Professors have big meetings, would like to know what they're talking about
Quinn
→ What committees are involved?
Lee
→ Want ASG to know more information
Larry
→ Still looking over applications, one of those left is the Curriculum Committee
→ Those people will be our liaisons, definitely support
Alexis
→ This is really important; big decisions about often made at faculty meetings and students aren't often
there
→ This is why we have Gator Days, because a bunch of students went to a faculty meeting and they
changed the minds of the faculty
Yemi
→ As of now, how frequenty do these meetings take place, and are we allowed to just go in?
Larry
→ We can figure this out for youSarah
→ The faculty council meetings (think faculty equilvavant of ASG) meet once a month of bimonthly,
has attended previous faculty council meetings; they're pretty open
Motion to Close
→ Matt
→ Sam
→ Appoved
Meeting End: 8:19
