Monday, December 03, 2007
Meeting in order: 5.33 pm
Heather not present everybody else, Heather enters at 5:34pm
Week-end review:
Commons Advisory Board-
Make improvements in game room
Extending hours for commons
First Year Experience Meeting:
Academic community for commuters
Summer bridge program
First year seminars for first year students (requirements)
Library policy committee
Books donated by a professor and then sold, caused problems
Funding for library being discussed
Pre-game event
Food quality and service was bad
Game won against Morgan State B-ball
One day bus trip coming up in January
Supreme justice appointment
Evelyn
Applied for supreme court
Supreme court takes matters involving possible foul play concerning the SGA
No ties with student judicial services
In honors college
Involved in several student organizations on campus
Time management: cutting down on some involvement in other organizations; justice dept.
very flexible with time schedule
Clearly interested in the position and on top of what is to be expected of that position.
ATM machines:
No feed-back from e-mails sent out
Possibly speaking to other people from different services for further actions
Town Hall meetings:
Senators paired up for attending CAB meetings at different halls
RSA meetings was successful
Not enough feedback on pairing up senators for attending meetings
Mike and Steve:
Possible improvements to be made to the master plan
File sharing:
Scheduled meeting with congressman
Dec 13th.
Progress
Prove it
Discussions at meetings and open opinions
Letter drive
Good popularity
Improvement of first year ambassadors
Guest speakers
Campus spirit has increased
Building relationships with other on-campus organizations and cooperate
Disappointments:
Hesitations in discussions
No persistence into getting things done
Outside involvement
Reasons as to why not many students attend the student events
For the next meeting come up with issues or ideas that should be mentioned
Spring retreat
The next meeting will be the last for the semester
First Year Council
Meeting together discussing what would be worked on next semester
Improving freshmen’s experience on campus
Sense of direction and connection
Facilitating and running their own meeting
Executive reports:
Tailgate at Flat Tuesdays
Food proposals
RSA Town Hall Meeting
Athletics fee
Leadership
Enrollment process
Retention and what improvements are made on F.A building
Getting election board share filled up
Open space on the USM Student Council
Cell-phone kiosk
Charge your phone and disinfects your phone
Advertisements placed on the window of the kiosk
Free no charge
No data pulled off of it
GPS
Breach contract
Nextel
Testing phones
updating their soft-wares for GPS
Prove it
Maryland charities campaign
Money raised by UMBC would be donated
Opportunity for students to donate to charity
SGA participate in this
Small amounts are also welcome
Information in the office
Charities in this program in the catalog
Names of donators will be written and will receive incentives
Feb 2nd Retreat
Jake Steel
Recreational services on campus
Academic buildings put on top of recreational facilities
Raised recreational auxiliary fees (unfair)
Preventing students to pay this fee this high
Promoting school spirit
Black & Gold Commission
Signs needed and information
Athletics fee
How it is spend at other organizations
Study other schools on this issue
Athletics committee
Contact SAC rep.
Budget could be used more effectively
Announcements:
Stress-free zone
Sign-ups
Three-penny opera
$5 for students
Meeting adjourned at 6.53pm