Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity

Student Advisory Board

March 26th, 2012

Ethnic Cultural Center- Condon Hall

Meeting Start: 4:10pm

Members Absent: First Nations, MiXed, Unite for Sight, MIC

Advisers Absent: n/a

Guests Present: Bill Dow – ASUW Director of Policy and Procedures, Cara Luck, Jaydee Dodd

Check in Question: Name, RSO/Org affiliation & what did you do over Spring Break? (5mins)

Community Concerns/ Issue Exploration: (30mins)

- ECC Room Naming Discussion Recap

o Forum on April 4th at 4pm in 711E

o Wanted to move with 5 rooms

§ Will split Asian and Pacific Islander

§ Dr. Sheila will now be overseeing the process

§ Forum is open to everyone

- SAB Structure Discussion

o Some individuals are confused on how SAB works

o SAB officers will be conducting mini meeting discussion to talk about SAB

§ Date and time: TBD

o Will be publishing out a letter to ECC Community about SAB

- The Daily Training

o Issue with using Gender Neutral Pronouns

§ The Daily says that it’s not proper to use certain pronouns

§ Need to come up with a proper resolution to solve this without telling them how to do their jobs

Vice President’s Corner: Updates? (25mins)

- New Building Site for UWPD

o Was asked to go back and look at the other options since some students were concerned that they were looking into moving UWPD across the ECC

o Will reexamine the original 16? Sites

o Will form a committee including different communities (Greek, RHSA, SAB, Legacy Groups, ASUW, etc)

- ECC Naming Issue

o Had a number of meetings about the ECC Room Naming, including one with PI Community

§ Came up with options for the 5th meeting space via using some of the student offices

o Will be impossible to start over because of the building

§ Delay = more money

o There will be a meeting to decide as a community to talk about the placement of rooms

§ This Friday at 4pm

o Need to realize that the whole building is for everyone at the ECC

- ECC is hiring

o New jobs have opened up due to some staff is moving on

§ Maggie will take care, and so she will not do advising

§ There are other advisors available – see Marissa or Jessica

Discussion Points (15mins)

- Student Conduct Code Presentation (handout will be emailed)

o ASUW Director of Policy and Procedures – Bill Dow

§ A document in Washington State Law that governs student conduct/behavior on/off campus

· From fighting to harassment to stalking

§ Revised since Nov 2010

· Now address issues that covers allegations between UW community members and cyber stalking

§ Still gathering information and will make this campus wide in the near future

§ Contact Bill Dow at

Announcements/Upcoming Events: ASUW, RSOs, etc. (7mins)

- You need to relay the information to your organization

- 1st General Meeting: April 9th Mixer in 711E

o There will be more events in April/May

§ A visit from the Provost

§ Officer Nominations for Chair and Vice Chair

§ New SAB Member Applications

§ ASUW Elections Forum on April 30th

- Social Justice Event, This Friday (12-1pm) with Lunch at 711E

- ASUW is now hiring – www.jobs.asuw.org

- Self Defense Class for female identified individuals (look for doodle link)

- April 6th – Quincenero by La Raza Commission at 7pm at the ECT

- Poly Day on April 27th

- FASA Spring Quarter Meeting on Thursday

- FASA is also looking for volunteers for NWFASA Conference

- MAPS Talent Show on April 27th

- Student Regent Application on SAB email

- Recruitment for ECC Staff

- WAC is holding a forum on abortions this Friday

- Spring Career Fair on April 10 at Hec-Ed

- Spring Powwow on April 20-20 – looking for volunteers

- MIC Night at SU on April 21

- Luau on April 20th in kane

Meeting End: 5:29pm

Minutes taken by: Kristine Maramot – OMA/D Student Advisory Board, Secretary