VASSAR STUDENT ASSOCIATION

Senate Agenda for October 1 , 2017

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Rocky 200

  1. Call to Order
  2. Attendance ...Vice President
  3. Consensus Agenda
  4. Budget allocations:
  5. VJU: 55.24/155.25 (Capital)
  6. Quidditch: 75/75 (Capital)
  7. Quidditch: 0/430 (Collaboration)
  8. VSMU: 3600/3600 (Capital)
  9. SSDP: 990/4537 (Conference)
  10. Vassar Ultimate: 890/890 (Discretionary)
  11. VCLU: 1500/1500 (Speakers)
  12. WVKR: 493.50/493.50 (Speakers)
  13. Women’s Studies Major Committee: 8000/10000 (Discretionary)*
    *This decision is contingent on receiving the president’s fund and other pending funds they have applied to.
  14. BSU: 849/849 (Capital)
  15. Outing Club: 1800/2000 (Discretionary)
  16. Hunger Action: 60 (Capital)
  17. unFramed: 300/12525 (Discretionary)
  18. Main House: 0/2800 (Community)
  19. Comedy Normative: 40/40 (Discretionary)
  20. Students for Sensible Drug Policy: 990/990 (Conference)
  21. Forum with Chris Roelke …(30 minutes)
  22. CCL/joint committees
  23. Dining
  24. DACA
  25. Bias Incidents
  26. ResLife and Transitions
  27. ResLife/Jud Board
  28. Affinity Spaces
  29. AEO
  30. Student Support Network
  31. Dean of Studies
  32. Forum on the reaccreditation process with Prof. Garrett ….(15 minutes)
  33. Prof. Dorothy Kim Letter …(15 minutes)
  34. Pre-Org Freeze …(5 minutes)
  35. Executive Board Updates …Executive Board (15 min)
  36. Committee Chair Updates ...Committee Chairs (15 min)
  37. Constituent Concerns (5 min)
  38. Open Discussion

Committee Updates

Ops + Planning

●Timeline for Student Discourse updated

○oct 11 Decide what platform we’re using AND set up meeting with 2 weeks of being back with ADMIN

○15-21 Present to House Teams

○21-28 Present to Identity orgs

○29-Nov PUBLICITY

○November 12th SENATE Launch

●Kevin Acre is working on the First year programming committee and coming up with a meeting time/ideas for programming

●Survey about plenary has gone out and will evaluated to see what orgs desire October 20th, 2:30PM, after which action and event planning will be taken

Health and Wellness

●Updates from previous week:

○NO response yet for discounts for Project Period supplies

○Received feedback from Metcalf for our Mental Health Fair activity ideas

○Received generally positive feedback from House Teams regarding collabing with us for Mental Health Day Fair

○Tanyx met with Jeremy from Metcalf concerning mental health off-campus resource database

○Emails sent (by Tanyx) regarding mental health fund and potential to start a physical health fund for low-income students

●Rest of Meeting spent breaking into small groups to discuss each of following specific goals/tasks:

○Project Period (new expanded budget, need for ordering new supplies and bins, leaders of Project Period want to stay affiliated with VSA for now)

○Database (waiting on approval for access to database from higher-ups like DiBartolo, thinking of actions that can be taken in the meantime, walk-able off-campus offices posted to Health and Wellness Website)

○Master Planning (ways to push for more concrete action, summary of MPC committee’s first meeting, proposal to ask to add another rep to committee until a new CPS is named)

○Health Services Revamp (working on short-term projects while getting started on more long-term structural changes, TLC is back online, discussion of Mental/ Physical health fund)

○Mixers (fleshing out of what these look like, potential collabing with health-focused/ programming orgs on campus)

○Publicity (Publicizing temporary website until VSA site is live, developing specific events before they are publicized, request for class senators to advertise the suggestion box on H&W website so people know it exists, potential creation of a H&W list serve)

○Emergency Supply Kits in Dorms (ordering new ones, thinking of ways to prevent theft of supplies, what should be included in kits)

Orgs Committee:

●Will start compiling a list of possible orgs to audit (≈10% of the orgs on campus). Will begin by looking at orgs that have been “dead” & have no budgets or contact info, and the that have not been complying with expectations (SAVP training, treasurer training, etc.)

●Possible rewards system for orgs to promote collaboration between orgs and increased programming

CEI:

●Vandalism in the Women’s Center was discussed. There is concern that the issue was not addressed as a bias incident. We talked about how we want students to be made aware of what happened in a way that avoids making a spectacle of it. Hope to approve a draft by the CEI to send out in light of this event.

●Dorm beautification with VassArt: we’ll be sending out a google form to ask people for suggestions on what they want to see.

Programming:

●Concert committee interest meeting happened last week. Will likely be held every Wednesday. Talked about possible artists to bring. Divided the group into: Music, Logistics, and Publicity. Hope to have a lot of outreach to surrounding colleges and community.

●Possible events and parties for the semester were discussed (MeCHA workers appreciation, Apple cider at the retreat, pumpkin patch field trip).

●New party policy and the security report were talked about.

BoRA:

●Talked about programming ideas like Picnic on Noyes Circle, Noise on Noyes (suggested by Tamar), and Spring Fest.

●Discussed the safety and security meeting Arlene Sabo requested. Will bring up making protest guidelines available to students, as well as SLD and Deece protest and how that went down.

●Supporting upperclassmen who live in dorms.