Minutes for BC Meeting 2/24/15

In Attendance:

Paul Gramieri (treasurer)

Pierre-Alexander Lowe

Manny Morales

George Ward

Aditi Krishnamurthy

Keshav Pant

Mohamed Ramy

Jacob Silverman

Silvia Sotolongo

Vivian Yee (minutetaker)

1. Remnant

  • Honorarium fee of 500 for joint multichristian event (Christina Cleveland)
  • Also doing this w resurrect and another group (total of 1500 honorarium)
  • Coming march 3-5 – 2 talks
  • Have to ½ the amount since it’s over 1k
  • Open to the public, will be at Amherst College
  • Event will be held in paino
  • Discussion on fri open to public about her book, thurs talk more geared towards Christians but open to public
  • Motion to fund ½ - 6,0,0

2. Women’s Frisbee

  • Going to at least 3-4 away tournaments (more than in the past)
  • Paul – fund 500 if go at least 4x a week
  • Funded men 500 in their club budget
  • Motion to fund – 6,0,0

3. Women and Gender Center

  • Green dean wants to bring in dark matter in open to the public
  • Brought them in last year and have a good relationship w Amherst college
  • A popular group and important to their work
  • Would be March 26
  • Total cost would be 7k
  • Resource centers not contributing at this time
  • Don’t usually fund events not associated w a student association
  • Would be done through wgc
  • Want to host event in the powerhouse
  • Was in octagon last year
  • Silvia – see if other colleges (5college area) could partially fund also
  • Aditi – many 5college students there before too
  • Motion to fund ½ - 6,0,0

4. Outing Club

  • Reallocated money for ice climbing trip in Plymouth NH, but also need money for hotels
  • Going march 5/6 for 7 people
  • Will be ice climbing for 1 day – a full day event
  • Advertised on email and at meetings
  • Motion to fund – 6,0,0

5. Hillel

  • Cant have Shabbat dinner if don’t have money for food – provide safe space for these students
  • Number of students attending increasing so unable to feed through cooking
  • A reformed hillel – less strict, don’t have to have kosher food
  • Costly to get kosher food every time and don’t have any in the area
  • Only use val catering for high holiday events
  • Not using the cadigan center now, using friedmann room
  • Paul – does hillel have a budget through religious life?
  • To some extent – rabbi bruce has been given an amount from school, but used mostly to bring speakers, high level events, keep themselves part of hillel organization
  • Paul & Aditi – this could be considered a hallmark event
  • Passover cedar and other event are the only events for this club, so would want to hopefully be able to get the amount for this as well as max possible for Shabbat dinner
  • Manny – has this been funded for through religious life or other source in the past?
  • George – if not keeping kosher for Shabbat, why order food?
  • Food implicit in any Shabbat service, regardless if its kosher or not
  • George – could go to val for food
  • Supposed to be a special event
  • Manny – need to consider if another cultural or religious group comes for this also
  • Aditi – this has been well attended and there’s a precedent for this
  • Pierre – would be making a precedent for other groups?
  • Silvia – is not serving a specific food, then wouldn’t make sense to cater this specially
  • Jacob – not really any other groups who have this type of tradition
  • Would like to request hallmark food for Shabbat dinner and cultural food for other events
  • Silvia – have precedent, but want to set new more effect precedents now, especially considering other groups not getting funding for food
  • Would be pointless to have the other events if don’t get money for shabbat
  • Motion to fund – 6,0,0

6. Debate Society

  • Sending 6 people to kings college in NY for a tournament and need hotel rooms
  • 2 rooms for 2 nights
  • Don’t have accommodations
  • Motion to fund – 6,0,0

7. BSU

  • March 22nd and 23rddoing fund raising for flint Michigan
  • Getting tshirts and pens to incentivize people to donate
  • Aditi – would be giveaways
  • March 25th – womens appreciation dinner – 200 for food
  • Will be in the octagon probably
  • Also have val equipment and facilities fee
  • Need publicity and decorations also
  • Should get table cloth and other equipment from another source instead
  • Men of the group making a dinner for the women
  • Soul/Seoul Food – cultural event w KSA on Apr 1st
  • Want 750 for food
  • Cap is at 500
  • Also have a student DJ
  • At the powerhouse
  • CaribFest
  • 500 for Boston Spraypaint – come in and spray paint tshirts
  • Need publicity and decorations
  • Also have a tikibar for 1.25k
  • Helps to bring people in
  • Aditi – could also use the bar area in the powerhouse instead
  • Jacob – doesn’t make sense to fund this and decorations
  • Paul – could get cosponsorship from other places
  • Bringing in steel pan musicians
  • Motion to fund all except zero tikibar and fund 30 for equipment – 6,0,0

8. WAMH

  • Have 900 for licensing fee in club budget, and received invoices from 3 licensing companies and total amount goes over
  • Need the make up for the rest of it
  • This would be for maintaining membership
  • Believe this would be for the entire year
  • Paul – didn’t spend the amount from last sem allocated in club budget
  • Motion to fund – 6,0,0

9. Yoga Club

  • Coming back for funding for yoga retreat
  • Would be willing to have less people go and randomize the people who go
  • Manny – in past situations, have funded 3k for off campus event/retreats and then have a random raffle for however many people can go within that amount
  • Pierre – concern about the purpose of this event in terms of the club mission and being on campus, etc
  • Yoga more than about this practice in the powerhouse, etc
  • Manny – want to minimize number of events funding that are away from campus and focus more on events on campus
  • Have workshops, but going away is part of the wellness experience and would build community in the club
  • Valuable to legitimize wellbeing
  • Paul - cost per person is still above guidelines
  • Manny – possible to get cosponsorship?
  • Talked w another source and they didn’t have budget
  • Could also do a 1 day retreat possible at 100 per person
  • Motion to table – 6,0,0

10. Juggling Club

  • Need equipment for this semester
  • Currently have 6-7 members in the club
  • Don’t know the shipping amount right now (shipped from Britain)
  • Motion to table – 6,0,0

11. Cold Club

  • Are an RSO
  • Need money for intro meeting
  • Motion to fund – 6,0,0