I.  Call to Order

A.  President: Mariah Watson

B.  Vice President: Gareth Smythe

C.  Senate President Pro Tempore: Miguel Guerrero

D.  Senator: Mikaela Tenner

E.  Senator: Tiffany Lung

F.  Senator: Parteek Singh

G.  Senator: Sevan Nahabedian

H.  Senator: Joshua Davali

I.  Senator: Danielle Santiago

J.  Senator: Kamaal Thomas

K.  Senator: Georgia Savage

L.  Senator: Puneet Dhindsa

M.  Senator: Adilla Jamaludin

N.  Senator: Anas Tresh

O.  ECAC Chair Sean Guerra

P.  EPPC Chair Brent Rosenwald

Q.  IAC Chair Abhay Sandhu

R.  EAC Chair Joe Nazzal

S.  AAC Chair Ritesh Mishra

T.  GASC Chair Ivon Garcia

U.  B&F Joe DeAngelo

V.  Outreach Assembly Jade Wolanski

W.  Controller: Francisco Lara

II.  Quorum Roll Call

III.  Appointments and Confirmations

A.  SHAWC Chair

  1. Sam Bhatragar
  2. Tresh: Anything special planned for the future?
  3. Sam: Mental Health Monologues. It’s catching fire, got support of Chancellor, in-school organizations. The goal is to start a dialogue about issues we don’t talk about. We get high-quality pictures like Humans of New York coupled with a quote about facets of mental health. The point is to get you thinking about that. 2 public health initiatives out there right now. These are similar projects that encourage conversations about mental health. If you ask someone random, what does mental health mean to you, it’s a difficult question. Wellness and health gets screamed at people, we need to make it a conversation. Wellness Week we started last year. Specifically improve the lives of Davis students, entails college stressor that students face, community struggles. We’ve gotten candidates ready to be added to the community.
  4. Garcia: Regarding the projects you mentioned, none of them are community-specific. How are you going to advocate for communities you’re not personally a part of, and what have you done to prepare?
  5. Sam: Community-specific health is not something our committee can effectively accomplish. We need to figure who’s embedded in a community to carry it out. We hope to target new communities we haven’t before. What we can do going forward is seeing what communities’ problems we haven’t addressed. In terms of specifically going into communities, we don’t have the capabilities of that. If this committee were to expand, we would have a shot at doing that, but for now we need to learn and incorporate.
  6. Garcia: There are ally-ship trainings, reaching out to other committees and commissions. There are community centers. A lot of the things I mentioned could be easily applied if there was a space for that. If you consider maybe reaching out to different organizations and advocating for your committee to attend trainings, is there anything particular that you want to learn to prepare for this committee?
  7. Sam: In terms of reaching out to communities, we try to reach out but we don’t go into something if we don’t know what we’re dealing with. I’ve done research to acquaint myself with a community, but I wouldn’t be comfortable with going into a community I don’t know how to help. We do reach out and try to get trainings, learn more, and it’s a matter of gathering enough information to act and help. One thing we could do is add training to our resumes. I completely understand where you’re coming from, and we should work to add that.
  8. Garcia: Anything in particular you want to learn?
  9. Sam: One thing that escapes us is whether we actually make a change. I want to know, how do we know that the things we’re doing affect the students in a positive way? I want to know how to bridge that, so we can see what change is happening.
  10. Confirmed

B.  ECAC

  1. Helia Aryan
  2. Tresh: Can you inform the table of some of your qualifications?
  3. Aryan: Started as an alternate, moved up to commissioner, then to vice chair. I’m committed, attend all the meetings. Want to have more events bonding with other committees. As chair, I can help my commissions build a bridge of understanding between communities.
  4. Garcia: What steps have you taken so far or are planning to do to make sure you’re an ally for other communities?
  5. Aryan: I’ve been collaborating with Shawn. With EPPC, we were trying to have an event to inform community of drought issues. I would, in the future, collaborate with other committees and reach out more, see their needs and how my commission can help.
  6. Sandhu: Who were you interviewed by?
  7. Aryan: I wasn’t interviewed as a chair.
  8. Sandhu: That’s… not legal. We should probably put this on hold until you are properly interviewed.
  9. Smythe: As the vice-chair, you’re the interim chair anyway. I imagine that the procedures for the next-in-line weren’t clear. Either you or the co-vice chair can serve as interim chair.

IV.  Unit Director Reports

A.  KDVS

  1. Director: We had our first-ever fall quarter fundraiser. Got close to goal of $35,000. Bringing down our deficit to $55,000, which is $15,000 less than we get every year during spring quarter. Tuesday we picked our theme, “People Not Robots.” Open to the public, help us plan our fundraiser. New volunteers are starting up. 10 people signed up to become DJs, 17 at a different meeting. 27 people signing up for winter is a good amount. Have about 30 people attending staff development meetings every time. Besides fundraising, we’re changing our underwriting platform. 5 underwriting intern positions, based on commission. They will be in charge of their own contracts and everything, trained and will learn audio production. We just closed a contract with Mondavi for $35,000. Hot Italian, will be signing a contract with them. KDViations, cut down production to 3500, bi-annual.
  2. Dalavi: Senate Bill #7?
  3. Director: Asked GM about this, a past senator took it upon himself to write this bill. If you see this come to senate, it needs to be rewritten. It wasn’t written correctly, and not supervised well by last GM. Would like a chance for this to not be the official LRP.
  4. Smythe: You said you posted for this underwriting positions on Aggie Job Link, thought about posting on Vacancy?
  5. Director: Can double up on that.
  6. Sandhu: If you want to come rewrite the LRP, we can do that. Also, what was the fall fundraiser like that?
  7. Director: Just a regular phone drive. I was in Australia when the fundraiser happened, but I know how much we brought in, finishing up the pledges.
  8. Savage: I heard there’s a fundraiser this Friday?
  9. Director: We have a show. The money will go to the band who’s playing. $5 door donations, anything left over will go to events. The one on Friday is in 3rd Space.
  10. Nahabedian: One of my adopted units, the Bike Barn, last winter and spring they were doing showcases of their employees. It created a lot of engagement. Was wondering if you have anything like that?
  11. Director: The changeover is really quick. To pick specific volunteers out of 100-200 is really difficult. But can see what staff feels about that.
  12. Nazzal: I’m sure long-term DJs would be down for that. I feel like KDVS would really benefit from more social media.
  13. Thomas: Last quarter, we passed Senate Bill #10 to allocate $4,000 for internet services. Update on that?
  14. Director: We just received a statement from the UCs about each radio station, it stated we switched over carriers. Everything is up and fine.
  15. Thomas: Would you be able to pay for the service in upcoming years?
  16. Director: We would probably need to switch carriers, but if this one’s rates is reasonable, we can consider it.

V.  Committee Reports

VI.  Presentations

A.  Spread the Love – 6:14

  1. Presentation
  2. Questions
  3. Tresh: First off, thank you for coming and for the really nice presentation. Is there anything else we can do besides share the event?
  4. Nicole: We want it to be on a more individual level. It’s running along itself, we’d appreciate your support throughout the week.

B.  Institute for the Future – 6:22

  1. Presentation
  2. Milton: Thanks for the introduction, thanks for the invitation to come. You are all going to hear a presentation from Sarah, who works with a nonprofit research organization. Her presentation will give you all insight and an opportunity to participate in something that is pretty special. Think about our future as an institution and make sure we’re on the cutting edge of education. You all have an opportunity to represent the student body and be thinking partners in how we move this institution forward. This will allow you all to not only be thinking partners, but to help engage the rest of the student body.
  3. Sarah: This game “Envisioning UC Davis” is all about putting aside all the rules. Our organization does research in the future of learning, work, medicine, government, we cover all sorts of things. Engaging with public audiences in thinking about the future. In the world of education, there’s a lot of flux, a lot of changes. What information you need to stay relevant is changing so rapidly. One of the things we developed as a tool to engage larger populations is the Foresight Engine. Online gaming platform that engages hundreds or thousands of people in thinking about the future together. Designed by Jane McGonigal.
  4. Questions
  5. Singh: Methods to prevent toxicity?
  6. Sarah: Have game masters behind the scenes. We have ways to encourage conversations to focus on the future.
  7. Guerrero: Available in multiple languages?
  8. Sarah: Actually can’t. Right now, we have 2 or 3 people to be blogging the game live. We have several people to blog in Spanish, would love if you have people you can recommend who knows other languages.
  9. Guerrero: Chat filters to prevent negative behavior?
  10. Sarah: If it gets too profane, we do have the ability to block a player. But at the same time, we’d like to push it into good directions.
  11. Guerrero: Sign up as UCD students, or open to anyone?
  12. Sarah: Open to anyone. Person who ended up winning USF game had nothing to do with USF. You can sign up with FB or whatever. The way we know your affiliation is just self-reporting.
  13. Singh: Records later?
  14. Sarah: Findings will be made public later. If you go to ucsf2025.org, you can see the stuff there.
  15. Dhindsa: What exactly is the end goal?
  16. Sarah: Integrate forward thinking. Student voices aren’t heard a lot, want a representation of popular aspirations.
  17. Dhindsa: Future generations can see everything?
  18. Sarah: It’s for the public domain, committed to make it always available.
  19. Jamaludin: UCSF took place when?
  20. Sarah: 2013.
  21. Jamaludin: Any tangible results?
  22. Sarah: They created a sort of map of the future. Each organization will handle this data differently. UCSF did 10 operational changes, definitely changed strategic direction.
  23. Jamaludin: Do you see UCSF bringing more students into the fold? Does student involvement expand?
  24. Sarah: UCSF was a slightly different focus, was for the input of faculty and staff. It’s all about finding the issues and opinions where you can leverage student opinion. UCD is really excited to have these things to work on.

C.  Athletic Director Search Committee – 7:32

  1. Scott: I am an economics professor, also faculty athletics representative. Liaison between athletics and academics. Chancellor has appointed me as chair of the committee to recommend 3 individuals for Athletic Director. We’re doing a series of listening sessions about the attributes our next director will have, the challenges of athletics, and get information about what you think are the selling points of UC Davis. Here to get feedback from you. We’ve had 4 Athletic Directors in the past 5 years. Going to take information we get from you and other organizations to compile a profile. Committee will make a short list to do off-campus interviews, bring 3 finalists back on campus.
  2. Questions
  3. Dalavi: Wanted to talk about the phenomenon you were discussing about how many AD’s we’ve had in the past 5 years.
  4. Scott: 4 AD’s sounds worse than it was, 2 of them were interims. Greg Orzeca was here for 17 years before this. Tumi was here for only 3 years, ultimately it wasn’t the right fit. I was on the initial committee, it was a unanimous vote to recommend him, but at the end of the day, we need to find someone who really embraces UCD and who we are.
  5. Matt: Baseball coach, ’92 grad of UCD. The process was a little flawed the last time we did it. It was a very public process. When you make it public, those who are in other jobs won’t apply. Our candidate pool will be a lot better this time around.
  6. Scott: The public process made it a little unfair. Candidates got to hear what all the questions were, some were more prepared than others.
  7. Nahabedian: Joe, Miguel, and I have been working with the athletics department in terms of student engagement. We got to see an angle I hadn’t seen before. Academics of student athletes is something I’m proud of. Berkeley goals for incoming student athletes is where our student athletes are. The academics of the student portion of “student athlete” is something a director should prioritize.
  8. Guerrero: I’d like to address the first portion of the question. What made Theresa such a great placeholder was her willingness to be transparent and being able to connect to the students. Another quality is the cultivation of an athletics culture. In comparison to the Golden State Warriors, what they succeed at is the culture, getting their fans excited.