Senate Meeting Minutes for September 20th
Opening Prayer (1805)
No funding proposals on the docket (1808)
New Business (1809)
●Katie Skiff idea for off campus take a professor to lunch
○Noah: good idea
○Jordan: difficult to abuse the system
○Angela: people who have meal plans might be concerned with the fact that off campus students are getting a free meal and they're having to use their meal plan
○Ben: it probably wouldn’t be used that often
○Savannah: potential problem with the DC already being very clogged around lunchtime
○Angela: limit it to two meals a semester
○Noah: and they can appeal for more
○Bethany: realistically, we wouldn't be spending a lot of money
○Jordan: it's unlikely anyone would never come to the DC unless they were doing take a professor to lunch
○Jordan: maybe a starbucks gift card
○All: probably too complicated
○Jordan: one of those policies we should be intentional about
●How to encourage students to do their civic duty
○Leandra: theme of next few office hours “hey have you registered to vote yet?”
●Presidential Debate on Monday, 9/26:
○Gonna put a slide up in the DC
○Catered by super cucas
●Office Hours
○If anyone needs to change office hours just do so on the goodgle doc
●Committee Reports
○Garden Club funding proposal needs to go to WAC
●Pocket Points
○Active at Westmont
○Bethany will focus on advertising
Stu Cleek Presentation (1835)
●Looking for ways to improve the experience for westmont students
●Recognizes that some students have had issues with coming changes
●First year students will not live in VK or the GLC
●Four options
○1. First Year & Sophomore on Upper Campus
○2. Emerson as all first year hall
○3. First years included in Armington
○4. No first years in Emerson
●Special circumstances for living off campus (married, downtown, commuter, special needs)
●New less restrictive rules for OV
●WCSA Town hall october 6th
Discussion:
●Not big fans of option 2 (first years with closed doors)
●Freshmen might find it hard to connect
●We like option 1
Meeting Adjourned (1919)
Executive Council Meeting Minutes for September 20th
Opening Prayer (1923)
Committee Updates (1925)
●Everybody wants Noah to change something in the DC
●Caleb: important academic senate meeting with Gayle coming up
Leandra Met with Gayle (1926)
●Talked about visions for year
●All about transparency
Voter Registration Drive (1930)
●Required by law to encourage people to register to vote
●Use office hours to do this
Presidential debate update (1934)
●They may or may not need our help setting up
●Super cucas is catering
●Ben will get voter registration forms from the courthouse to bring
Crisis on election day in regards to conflict with WAC (1936)
●We want to have world series type event on the day of the election in the DC
●Apparently WAC is planning on having some event with Knecht on the day of
Idea for spreading info about housing stuff (1937)
●Email out the info given to us to all students after the forum
●Go crazy with the media for the forum
●Advertise snacks
●Possibly contract with coffee club for the event
Katie Skiff and the idea for off campus students being able to take professors to lunch
●Caleb: seems unfair to pay for 100% of it because it would come out of student fee dollars for people who don’t pay for meal plans
●Ben: seems like a good idea as long as we limit the number of times it can be used
●Leandra: see’s how at a base level this could be viewed as unfair
●Ben: we’re just trying it out for a semester
●Caleb: seems unfair that the student fee dollars would benefit such a small group of students
Meeting Adjourned (1958)