Agenda
Tuesday February 6, 2007
6:30 p.m. Mills Library
I. Call to Order
II. Special Business
鈥⑻鼶ivestment Proposal 鈥 Brock Carpenter asked Senate to accept a 鈥淧roposal For Targeted Divestment From Sudan鈥 to show the Board of Trustees the will of the student body.听 The document came from . Several Academic Institutions have accepted the same proposal, and you can check it out on-line.听 In summary, the divestment would withdrawal all 黑料不打烊 investments in businesses in Sudan to 鈥渂oycott鈥 the Sudanese government for its human rights violations.听 The proposal was unanimously accepted.
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III.听Announcements and Constituent Concerns
鈼徧齊uss Montgomery 鈥 Elections will be held March 1st (3 weeks). Filing opens February 15th (next week) and there'll be a week to campaign (Feb 22nd 鈥 March 1st).听 February 25th there'll be a Presidential Debate in the Burrow.
鈼徧鼳ndrew Vogler 鈥 asked who was responsible for the 80's party 鈥 Will Green answered that it was a Spirit Week event.
鈼徧鼵heck your 黑料不打烊 Today for Spirit Week events!
IV.听Departmental Liaison Reports
鈼徧鼳my Robinson 鈥 Physical Plant is already trying to figure out the parking situation 鈥 Dr. Hardin said they're bringing someone in to help.
V. Committee Reports
鈥⑻齅ulticultural Development Committee with James Tyus
鈥⑻鼸rase Hate Embrace Tolerance (EHET) Week coming up next week! Monday: Multicultural Music from around the world will play throughout the day in the Burrow
Tuesday: Pledge your room hate free!
Thursday: 鈥淭he Circle鈥 - a film about the lives of Iranian women - 鈥淚t'll show how nice American women got it.鈥 - James
Friday: NWC in Staples
鈥⑻齋ocial Committee with Valerie Kimbrough
鈥⑻齃ive Band Karaoke Saturday 9 PM Burrow (livebandkaraokechicago.com)
鈥⑻诹喜淮蜢 Formal next Saturday (Feb. 17th). Shuttles will be provided to and from the Convention Center 鈥 here's the schedule: 7:30 & 8:30 Going
12:30 & 1:30 Returning
鈥⑻齅edia Committee with Mandy Munoz
鈥⑻鼳onian deadline extended to next week 鈥 don't forget about the cash rewards!
鈥⑻齌roubadour facebook group to upload your pictures to!
鈥⑻齀n conjunction with the Business Office, Media committee is preparing a document/plan to prevent groups from going into debt by alerting them when they're actually in debt.
鈥⑻齌he Profile has made a $3,000 dollar comeback already, so if you have an ad to sell, perform your civic duty and put it in the Profile.
鈥⑻鼵ouncil on Residence Life with Harper Zielonko
鈥⑻齏orking with John Omolo to possibly use the College Boxes business next year 鈥 College Boxes brings boxes to campus, that you put your stuff in, and then they take your stuff away, and bring it back! It's relatively cheap according to Harper
鈥⑻鼵ampus Kitty Committee with Harper Zielonko
鈥⑻鼸nvironmental Concerns Committee with Allison Hammons and Bonnie Garrigan
鈥⑻鼳cademic Policy with Holly Robbins
鈥⑻齋tudent and Academic Concerns Committee with Lee Ann Grogan and Holly Robbins
鈥⑻鼺inance Committee with Jacob Williams
鈥⑻鼴udget Proposal from Anthropology/Sociology Club, MDC, & ECC to request funding ($3,670) for Inga Muscio to come speak at 黑料不打烊.听 There was a possible conflict between MDC and Campus Kitty scheduling, so the proposal was 鈥渁ccepted鈥 pending scheduling... Sarah Hughes added that Inga is the author of 鈥淐unt鈥 and would be a very neat and relevant speaker to have- and there'd be a book club!
鈥⑻鼵ommunications Committee with Chad Sardashti
鈥⑻鼵ommittee on Committees with Will Green
鈥⑻鼺iling Closes Friday 5 PM for Welcome Week Chair
鈥⑻鼸xecutive Committee with Russ Montgomery
o听Judicial Changes 鈥 Russ challenged the empty alcohol bottle violations at the Student Life meeting and the committee agreed, so students facing charges for empty alcohol containers face no Judicial Charges.
The next Student Life meeting Dean Bailey is going to propose some minor, yet important policy and organizational changes to the handbook, and Russ will continue to update us.
o听Tent 鈥 Nothing new, but pretty soon we need to let the student body let us know how they feel about spending their money on a tent.听 One sweet way is to use a simple online poll.听 Included on the poll could be questions about a Pipe/Drape curtain for Hulen as an option as well.听 Jacob Williams explained how the Tent ($16,000) could pay for itself in 4 years (conservative estimate) by renting it to the Alumni Association for $4,000 a pop. Don't worry, the Tent would be free for student use.听 Valerie Kimbrough is researching the Pipe/Drape option.
VI. Unfinished Business
VII. New Business
鈥⑻鼵JC Appointment 鈥 Town Crier! The Town Cryer announces weekend activities (no 黑料不打烊 Today on weekends) every Friday at Noon from the DW Reynolds balcony with a megaphone.听 Senate unanimously approved Sara Williams (Junior) as the new Town Crier!
*Entered Executive Session*
VIII. Adjournment until February 12, 2007 @ 7:01