Minutes for BC Meeting 4/20/16

In Attendance:

Aditi Krishnamurthy (treasurer)

Pierre-Alexander Low

Manny Morales

George Ward

Aditi Krishnamurthy

Keshav Pant

Mohamed Ramy

Jacob Silverman

Vivian Yee (minutetaker)

1. Amherst United Left

  • Disorientation guide – essays taking about life at Amherst, dialogues about race, etc
  • Want to make new essays and such for the new class’s guide
  • Aditi – some push back from the last funding of the last guide since not necessarily want new students to get this as their first thing on campus. Also don’t necessarily want AAS name on some articles
  • Printer the same as last year, planning on printing 750-800
  • Manny – how get to this number
  • Last year did 800, shoot for 750
  • 700 is the point where it starts getting cheaper
  • Aditi – Indicator does approx. same number of copies but for sig less price, so might want to table before funding to talk w them
  • Manny – could be that this is longer, needs more pages, etc
  • Aditi – why is layout and formatting separate?
  • Last year had a student helping w layout and formatting and took many hours, so want to give her some money for her services
  • Jacob – can fund equipment they need to use, but can’t pay her
  • Motion to zero layout and table disorientation guide – 5,0,0

2. Arting Club

  • Want to do event next fri – apr 29
  • Want to have arts and crafts night w 3 different themes
  • Postcards you color in
  • Instagram printing on canvases
  • Duct tape crafting
  • Manny – how much of each supply do you plan on getting?
  • Have a total of 120 postcards and enough stamps of those
  • 24 rolls of duct tape
  • Jacob – how many people would you expect at the event?
  • Going based off of card writing sessions each people have held
  • Pierre – canvases similar to the design club since they designed caps and asked them to hold on to the hats
  • Aditi – have funded canvases in the past
  • Aditi – what’s mod podge
  • Like a glue sealent or a finish
  • Jacob – if we fund in full, would be able to store and keep as an equipment in the club
  • Have equipment stored in morrow student storage
  • Motion to fund – 5,0,0

3. Amherst Men’s Rugby Club

  • Need medical trainer for home game this weekend
  • Motion to emergency fund – 5,0,0

4. Black Student Union

  • Women’s appreciation dinner tomorrow and needed 200 for food and 30 for val equipment
  • Numbers have gone up for costs and more people than expected have shown interest in the event
  • Have enough food for around 40 people right now
  • More than 50 have shown interest in the event as of right now
  • Cheapest for val equipment could get was 42.50
  • Already got in contact for people in facilities
  • Will be in the alumni house – similar to pindar dinner set up
  • Want 300 for food, 42.50 for val equipment
  • Keshav – 200 integral food is for cooking nights and etc
  • Aditi – don’t fund senior dinners, usually have funded just discussion foods
  • Aditi – can instead reallocate from the budget
  • Also have dinner from WGC and MRC
  • Have 450 for food right now
  • Manny – funding anything besides food from other sources?
  • All for food, but could talk to Paul to get the rest funded
  • Will reallocate from decorations

5. BSU

  • Another request for facilities, val fees, decorations, publicity for senior ceremony
  • Probably will have about 50 people there
  • Can reallocate publicity
  • Are doing a joint party w ACSU and La Causa on 29th
  • Have already had a party
  • Already spent Dj money, but for cosponsorship might need security from club budget
  • Motion to fund – 6,0,0

6. Pride Alliance

  • Were no other options to get a speaker for lavender graduation
  • Pierre – already signed a contract w the person they want to get as for speaker
  • Manny – very high cost, and think that there should probably be a professor who would be willing to talk at the graduation
  • George – did we fund this last year?
  • Funded food, decorations, publicity
  • Speaker would be Tiq Milan
  • Manny – who can participate in lavender graduation
  • Anyone interested in the people who would be honored in the event
  • Jacob – would it be publicized to be open to everyone?
  • Aditi – historically how many people have attended this event?
  • George – initial response would be to table or half this to seek cosponsorship
  • Ramy – would zero since this seems like this is exclusive and has already had time to seek cosponsorship
  • Motion to table – 6,0,0

7. Adventist Christians Together to Serve

  • Have another group from NY this sat and joining them for Sabbath
  • Planning on doing a hike or movie after this
  • Planning on also inviting other groups from the 5colleges
  • Motion to fund – 6,0,0

8. Club Soccer

  • Fall registration fees early since they want this money before the beginning of next sem
  • Can approve during club budgets

9. Cold Club

  • Meeting to plan for next year
  • Discussion food for the meeting
  • Motion to fund – 6,0,0