I. Call to Order 5:33PM
II. Roll Call
A. Present:
1. Speaker Gabe Rettaliata
2. Assistant Speaker Jen Kent
3. Natasha Ebhomielen
4. Neketa Kakar
5. Sunaina Khandelwal
6. Amber Spry
7. Aditi Srivastav
8. Rahilla Tarfa
9. Whitney Torchia
B. Absent:
1. Brian Frazee [excused]
2. Chidi Ukonne
III. Approval of Minutes
A. Minutes approved by general consent
IV. Open Discussion
A. Review of Past Week
1. Tascha Ebhomielen: DVD committee: they said they’re understaffed. They’re talking about getting African movies to add to the collection.
2. Dave Hoffman: let’s introduce ourselves first. Maybe it makes sense to give a background of the other stuff.
3. Gabe Rettaliata: Went over it with them (the First Year Ambassadors) already. Let’s introduce ourselves anyways.
a) Everyone introduces themselves
4. Rahilla Tarfa: Commons Advisory Board. They want to have art for the third floor. Commonvision: they would have a running competition. Students will bring ideas, photographs of Baltimore. We didn’t reach a decision yet. Division between relevant work, UMBC work, and Baltimore-and other people want old photograph for historical perspective. Social justice area: TV was removed. No more theatre. Someone wanted more of a passive feel to it. They wanted brochures instead. Poster to talk about social justice. As it is now, people go there to eat instead of thinking it’s a social justice area.
a) Amber Spry: TV’s gone?
b) Rahilla Tarfa: Yes. They want more information about it from interfaith, women center, mosaic center, etc. Centralized information about social justice.
c) Aditi Srivastav: I definitely think the idea of a central thing is necessary. It’s not the perfect venue to do that though. People that are eating are not going to go out of their way to look at things. The TV was really effective because there were people there all the time. People watching elections and games. While the idea is really cool, it could be implemented somewhere else.
d) Rahilla Tarfa: TV kind of defeated purpose of social justice. People just have it on MTV, etc.
e) Tascha Ebhomielen: They could control the channels though.
f) Amber: My first concern is: what about putting brochures there, what makes it more centered towards social justice? They already have a place upstairs for that. I think that there’s not really that many places on campus that’s just a place for students. Getting rid of that, you can put brochures in several places.
g) Rahilla Tarfa: the area will still be there.
h) Amber Spry: they want it to be more of a conscious place.
i) Rahilla Tarfa: they want it to be a more passive place.
j) Amber Spry: what makes brochures so much more desirable?
k) Rahilla Tarfa: when you have brochures there and you sit with your friend, you’re going to pick one up.
l) Jen Kent: why don’t they leave TV and add brochures. I guess I don’t get the point of the space to begin with. Is it a place that people can go? I don’t get it.
m) Rahilla Tarfa: They want to start by having brochures and posters there. When they see a lot of people sit there, they can set something up.
n) Jen: they should leave the TV. You can watch news programs. I think they can benefit for that.
o) Rahilla Tarfa: I didn’t get who removed the TV. Person that spoke about social justice, I can talk to them about that.
p) Jen Kent: if they removed it with the intention to promote social justice, or if there’s another reason.
q) Toby Le: where is the social justice place?
r) Rahilla Tarfa: it’s by the end of the the sub shop
s) Sunaina Khandelwal: where are they putting the TV?
t) Rahilla Tarfa: I’m not sure
u) Steve Gilmore: is that space is going to be bigger in the spring since they’re moving the sub place on the second floor?
v) Rahilla Tarfa: they’re going to implement this plan later on. They’re going to talk about that later. I’ll get back to you on that.
w) Steve Gilmore: Originally, they decided one day to name it social justice theatre. Instead of saying, why have it? They said, why not? I’ll just say if there’s a plan to do something about it, then it’s fine. If it’s the same thing a couple of years ago to name it to make something of it… why not just have a TV over there?
x) Whitney Torchia: I guess we’ll just wait to hear back. If they propose that they put it in certain channels… I think we’ll just have to wait and see.
y) Amber Spry: I’m definitely on the same page. I’d be interested in what their long term goal is. If they have a plan to make something out of the social justice idea. If they don’t, compromising something else, making it a social capital initiative would be a good idea. We have to have a place like that on campus where there’s not an agenda. I think that’s an important part of campus life. It’s important to have social justice but people just need a place to be people.
z) Aditi Srivastav: I feel like eating is when you get a break from everything. Why take valuable place where to make something that’s not an attractive place to sit around?
aa) Rahilla Tarfa: You can still go there and sit down. We just don’t have a TV there. They think TV defeats the purpose of it.
bb) Amber Spry: What’s the place supposed to be?
cc) Rahilla Tarfa: social justice.
dd) Amber Spry: I don’t know on the top of my head what the sign says. I appreciate social consciousness but let’s make sure that if we’re altering student space to make it valuable.
ee) Rahilla Tarfa: they want it to be the same space as it is now. They just want a show with brochures from different departments.
ff) Aditi Srivastav: But we have a front desk for that.
gg) Sunaina Khandelwal: and they have their own offices.
hh) Dave Hoffman: maybe we can invite someone from the commons to talk about it as well.
ii) Sunaina Khandelwal: who is this person?
jj) Rahilla Tarfa: SEB’s Adam Kurtz.
kk) Gabe Rettaliata: Anybody else have anything to say about this? When’s the next meeting for that?
ll) Rahilla Tarfa: Friday at noon. If you want to attend it, it’s going to be in this room.
mm) Aditi Srivastav: Is it open?
nn) Rahilla Tarfa: Any students can come in.
oo) Jen Kent: most of the committees are open. Just ask me first.
5. Gabe Rettaliata: are we ready to move on? We already did DVD committee. You want to talk more about that Chidi?
6. Chidi Ukonne: well we kind talked to Joe Clark, he hasn’t presented me the movies yet. I think there’s a big decision… a lot of movies people keep requesting it but then they stop requesting it at a certain time. Do we want to get those kind of movies, or do we want to get new movies… since we have limited funds. We’re also understaffed. Not a lot of people know they can get movies in the library. Youtube ads of the DVD section of the library. Mini ads in the commons. They get random consensus from students. When students ask for movies, they make a note of them. We’re trying to get more movies that would cover a more diverse population. He wants to get a list of movies. When we meet, we’ll talk about that.
a) Whitney Torchia: do you have that list of DVDs that maybe we can look at?
b) Chidi Ukonne: he said that he’ll email it to me and I’ll email back.
7. Sunaina Khandelwal: RSA. Meet Tuesdays. Block party was coming up. What each community was going to do and backup plans. Nominations next week. Rep for commons advisory board. UMBCtv came to get his proposal supported and they passed it as well.
8. Jen Kent: Writing board. They are there to promote writing in general. For the past 3 years, they’ve been looking for a writing director to work with faculty members to make a syllabus to make a writing intensive course. They’re creating a faculty development center instead of hiring a writing director. Minor thing but… writing board is done through undergrad education, since they deal with grad requirements, general committee that deals with it. Huge proposal in the works. Important part: there’s also an ongoing debate about what to do with transfer students that transfer in the school. If they’ve already done a writing intensive class in another school, should they do it there as well? They’re trying to figure it out. What do you guys think about that? Do you guys understand what I’m asking?
a) Sunaina: do we know if other universities have writing intensive courses?
b) Jen Kent: I’m not really sure.
c) Sunaina Khandelwal: How can we judge? Some people can be really qualified and we’re going to make them take the course again.
d) Jen Kent: It’s hard to figure that out. It’s harder to evaluate whether or not the course is writing intensive. There’s a certain amount of writing involved in it. Feedback, transfer review, etc. To judge whether or not they’re doing it, it’s pretty intensive. You have to talk to that specific professor about it. It was definitely brought up about who’s responsibility it was to figure it out.
e) Neketa Kakar: They can’t just accept it because we don’t know their knowledge about it. It should be some kind of application or some kind of test thing. Give them opportunity to prove themselves. It might be good enough.
f) Aditi Srivastav: I agree that you have to take a writing intensive class. A lot of people come in thinking they know how to write. I was looking at taking a class at another university and applied as a transfer student, one of my English classes didn’t transfer. I had to show them a syllabus. I had to send them a writing sample from that class. There are other schools that have it. It’s not called writing intensive but it’s something like that.
g) Jen Kent: My biggest concern: It could probably affect people graduating. As of now, some departments don’t have that many writing intensive courses. Some departments may even only have one. It’s something that should be taken with your major that won’t throw you off track. My concern is that there would be students transferring have already taken the class, they have to retake the same class or they have prerequisite to it which will add more classes.
h) Amber Spry: How long has UMBC have had writing intensive requirement?
i) Jen Kent: your year (Class of 2011)
j) Matthew McNey: Is it a standard university thing?
k) Jen Kent: Writing board approves it. They present a syllabus. Course outline. We look at the amount of writing that’s going to happen in the class. If you write 2 papers, it’s not going to count. We’ve denied classes that have had a lot of writing without feedback. Point is to be a better writer. There’s no specific criteria but the board decided basically.
9. Whitney: Transcript fee. Raised 8 dollars. We’re trying to change that. We’re trying to figure out why. There’s an article in the Retriever that’s not to our benefit. Talk to registrar about what’s going on. Previously did not have transcript fee. New company that registrar is working with. This company charges them certain amount of money and they charge us in return. Estimated $8 per transcript. Lot of graduates, etc. need transcripts and it adds up to a lot of money. A lot of research around schools.. and there’s only a few that charges $8 or more. They’re usually less or free.
a) Gabe Rettaliata: Biased article. 3 of them have a higher fee than us. 3 of them are free. Others are less. They only mentioned the more expensive than us. They talked to registrar.
b) Aditi Srivastav: our school is making no profit.
c) Whitney Torchia: According to them. They totally forgot people that are applying to grad school. Next question is, where is the extra money going to?
d) Aditi Srivastav: What do they do all day? Chill out? I don’t understand
e) Whitney Torchia: That’s our question. They said the office was so crowded before. But now, I’ll ask them what they do now.
f) Chidi Ukonne: As regards to retriever weekly, I was just wondering if there’s a kind of criteria for checking the kind of info they put out.
g) Aditi Srivastav: no it’s the student voice.
h) Steve Gilmore: I wouldn’t bash them. They only reported what was told. They went on this without prior knowledge. Even if it was biased, they reported what they were told.
i) Whitney Torchia: it’s just one person’s opinion. We’re not going to give up.
10. Gabe Rettaliata: Anything else this week? University Steering Committee met Friday. Nothing great. Dr. Hrabowski was pushing MD charities group. They put a thermometer out there last year. They want us to be the biggest givers in the state. I think we won it last year. Dr. Hrabowski also came to talk about the budget. Same as what Josh was saying, cuts are forthcoming. Dr. Hrabowski wants to protect academic core as well as the people. Engaging in conservative budgeting. Smoking policy. Three years old now. They are still saying it’s a pilot program. Someone is smoking; they give them a card telling to go smoke somewhere else. Smoking policy updated online. What can happen to you if you’re caught? Students get written up in judicial affairs. Staff reported to their supervisors. There are now places where you can deposit cigarettes. Increased areas. 46 from 22. Someday they’ll enforce it for real.
a) Neketa Kakar: You can now smoke in the balcony of Chesapeake now. Who enforced that?
b) Steve: RSA can do their own plan is what it’s supposed to be. Universal, pick out spots and have them grow. There’s no 20 feet rule anymore. This is where you can smoke. Nowhere else. People get confused on where 20 feet is. Whole idea is that there are convenient places to go to so there’s no confusion. It’s still in the process where it’s a pilot program, but at least it’s more clear now.
c) Chidi Ukonne: are you allowed to walk and smoke?
d) Steve Gilmore: No. It used to be from the library to the RAC, you can smoke anywhere.
e) Amber Spry: A minute ago, you mentioned considered consecutive budgeting. Can you elaborate?
f) Steve Gilmore: We know we’re going to cut about 5% of our budget. His point was, the last time they had to do this, they didn’t have to lay people off. Whatever happens, we’re not letting people go. He has to make sure we have enough people teaching classes. He was very vague about it.
g) Tascha Ebhomielen: They will let us know before they do anything or process anything?
h) Steve Gilmore: We’ll know when they know. A lot of the decision is going to be coming after elections come around.
11. Gabe Rettaliata: SGA steering committee. It was an intense meeting. We got our issues out. Couple of things: use Corp time as much as possible. Any meetings you’re doing, just make sure it’s on there so we know when you’re free. Feel free to use it to schedule meetings. If anyone doesn’t know how to use it, just let me know. I can show you. We also brought up an issue how we present ourselves in body meetings. Particularly finance board meetings. Student organizationss trying to get money. Make sure we’re careful on how we present ourselves.
12. Chidi Ukonne: I met with Cindy Paige of residential life. I proposed of having bulletin boards in residential dorms. Or stuff that will give info about SGA. Also having SGA members going to staff meetings and talk about election night extravaganza. They’re up for it. They want us to make a template of what info we’re going to be relaying to students. Pass around times of when they’re going to have meetings. I’ll pass it around of when you can come in. Information you’re going to relay to them. It should be about two weeks from now.
a) Steve Gilmore: Can I get a copy of that? So I can get people that are a little bit more knowledgeable of it.
V. Project Updates
A. Increased Library Hours
1. Neketa Kakar: We talked about we wanted... Not necessarily 24hrs yet. We’re still trying to set up meeting. Friday library policy meeting we’ll go. Questions we’re going to ask them. What’s ultimate goal. To get longer hours. Atrium. More problems with that. It’s not quiet enough to study. Not enough tables and outlets.
2. Sunaina Khandelwal: Also, we could negotiate. One floor open instead of the entire thing for like 2 hrs longer. Specific things like that.
3. Tascha Ukonne: Power outlets, ask why they closed the ones on the floor.
B. Stress Free Zone
1. Jen Kent: Informal brainstorming meeting last week. We want to move it. We want to do less chips and food. We want to do more doughnuts and stuff. We want to do something on academic row. More beneficial that way. We’re not going to have shirts with the dog anymore. We’re going to get rid of the dog. We’re going to get shirts that are eye grabbing. We just want to do bigger events. We want a scream wall. Basically idea of canvas where people can vent. It’ll be awesome. We’ll leave it up all week. You can paint over people’s stuff. We want to do that. We want a nap zone. Instead of student orgs as hub, we can have air mattresses instead. We want to do car smashing. Tough but get it done anyways. We can do make your own stress balls. Move stuff we want to do out of student org and put it in academic row. I want to get a bunch of fake money and throw it into the commons. Then they can come to SGA office and give prizes. Alternative to doing it, hide it around campus. During finals week, people find them. Much safer but a little bit boring. Any questions?
a) Tascha Ukonne: About the money part, it will be more fun… how many times are you going to do it?
b) Jen Kent: it’s just an idea. Have a meeting on Wednesday. On the1st. SGA office. Noon to one.
C. Reaching out to International Students
1. Amber Spry: We had a brainstorming kind of meeting last week. Discuss main goals and reaching out to international students. Working on developing on working on a defined mission. 2 main focuses. One is to create a permanent organization designed for student outreach. Increasing awareness. Another thing we want to start working, hertage day. Heritage week. different student orgs African student association, etc. can have a spot… food from different countries. Traditional clothes. Traditional food. Informal way to see what’s going on. International students can see things that can remind them of something other than America.
2. Chidi Ukonne: that’s definitely it. I spoke to Damola yesterday for his diversity outreach for the executive branch of SGA. We hoped we’d be working together. We also spoke about joining other organizations to partner with us. International festival week in November, we will be having a table there. Meet students and talk about SGA. Brainstorming thing: memoirs of an international student. We would have clips of alumni/professors that have gone outside of the university that have done research. Studied abroad or are international students about challenges and how they’ve overcome it. Forum. Nancy Young or someone from residential life. Make an open forum to bring ideas and talk. Next step would be to contact Mike to do clips on UMBCtv.
D. Digital Campus Sign
1. Whitney Tochia: Black and Gold campus signage. Aditi and I met last week. Brainstormed. One of the things I did was to email Myriam, responsible to do 40th anniversary banner. She hasn’t gotten back to me yet. Asked about company she worked with to make signs. It’ll hopefully be a big jumpstart. Design, etc. we’re definitely thinking academic row.
2. Aditi Srivastav: Donna from landscaping. I told her this was our idea. I told her I was new to the process of collaborating. SGA asked to do a lot for us… would love for her feedback. Suggestions on who I can go to and how we can implement it. I also did an informal research online. Pricing for these banners are reasonable. I also emailed Jill and thinks that it’s a good idea.
VI. New Business
A. SL09-0809- Confirmation of Toby Le as First Year Ambassador
1. Gabe Rettaliata: So tell us about yourself.
2. Toby Le: bio chemistry. I’m a commuter.
3. Aditi Srivastav: why did you apply to be a FYA?
a) Toby Le: I was the president of my high school. I was involved in a lot of activities. I want to continue with that. I think it’s a good start.
4. Neketa Kakar: What do you hope to gain from this experience?
a) Toby Le: Hopefully the end of this year, to learn a lot more about UMBC.
5. Whitney Torchia: what other activities are you involved with?
a) Toby Le: VSA. I don’t really want to overwhelm myself.
6. Steve: what’s the thing you like more about UMBC so far? What should we improve in?
a) Toby Le: One thing I like is the service that UMBC provides for commuters. Shuttle bus. One thing I don’t like is that the lack of trees.
7. Gabe Rettaliata: Three words describe you best
a) Toby Le: Enthuiastic. Outgoing. Corporative.
8. Motion by Neketa Kakar to approve SL09-0809.
a) Seconded by Sunaina Khandelwhal
b) VOTE: 10 for, 0 opposed, 0 abstaining, 1 absent (Brian)
B. SL10-0809- Confirmation of Matthew McNey as First Year Ambassador
1. Matthew McNey: Political science. I’m in the Newman club. Students life. I live on campus. I live in Patapsco.
2. Whitney Torchia: What past experience have you had in high school?
a) Matthew McNey: I was in the class board.
3. Amber Spry: what made you decide to come to UMBC
a) Matthew McNey: in-state tuition.
4. Aditi Srivastav: What plans do you have if you’re confirmed as first year ambassador? What do you want to get done here?
a) Matthew McNey: Sidewalks because they don’t make sense at all.
5. Tascha Ebhomielen: Would you describe yourself as ambitious… did you really just come in as in state tuition?
a) Matthew McNey: Yes. I thought UMBC was totally wi-fi. It was a letdown.
b) Tascha Ebhomielen: is there anything that will stop you fro leaving UMBC? If you had to go to another school, is there anything else?
c) Matthew McNey: no.
6. Rahilla Tarfa: how do you like the transition so far?
a) Matthew McNey: I like it a lot.
7. Motion to approve SL10-0809 by Aditi Srivastav
a) Whitney Torchia: I object. I want to talk a little bit more. I want you to ask the three things…
b) Gabe Rettaliata: alright. three words to describe yourself.
(1) Matthew McNey: Charismatic. Hard working. Industrious
c) Aditi Srivastav: Out of place, but why did you select Matthew? Why did you feel like he was qualified?
(1) Gabe Rettaliata: For all 3 of them... Process was, we interviewed for 15 minutes. We had them describe why they applied for position. What they were involved with. one thing they liked about UMBC. One thing they didn’t like. If they could do one thing under the sun regardless of rules, what it would be. Three words described them best. Asked them questions that related to their application. We’d describe finance board and senate. All 3 had excellent interviews. Interesting plans for their position. All of them had good backgrounds. Involved in other stuff on campus. I didn’t pay too much attention to 3 words. All of them had different answers. I didn’t put a lot of weight but it definitely helped. So these 3 had excellent interviews compared to everyone that applied. I feel confident.
d) Sunaina Khandelwal: This might be repetitive but: one thing you like about UMBC so far? If it isn’t, what are some things that you don’t like and how can they be carried differently? Welcome week, classes, Patapsco, dining hall food, etc.
(1) Matthew McNey: Dining hall food. One of the best things here is student outreach. Lunch room. There’s a change of guard. My friends that had different suggestions was heard there. Next week, his suggestion was implemented. Interesting for me to see the level of commitment.
e) Rahilla Tarfa: how many applications where there
(1) Gabe Rettaliata: 20 applied, 17 went to interviews
f) Tascha Ebhomielen: can we talk to all of three of them because we’re asking them all the questions?
(1) Gabe Rettaliata: They are separate pieces of legislation, so we cannot.
g) Gabe Rettaliata: any more questions for Matthew? Do we want to discuss this?
h) Objection removed by Whitney Torchia.
(1) Motion seconded by Amber Spry
(2) VOTE: 9 for, 0 opposed, 0 abstaining, 2 absent (Rahilla and Brian)
C. SL11-0809- Confirmation of Simmi Singh as First Year Ambassador
1. Simmi Sing: Bio major. Red Cross. Best buddies. Pre med society.
2. Neketa Kakar: why did you apply for this position?
a) Simmi Singh: I wanted to get involved with SGA. My high school wasn’t open to it. I wanted to try something new. I looked online and saw your initiatives, and wanted to be a part of it. I was interested in attending these meetings to see how it goes. I wanted to be a part of sga next year.
3. Aditi Srivastav: what are your plans as FYA?
a) Simmi Singh: Taking what we do in the senate meetings, and talking to other people. I was interested in spreading what the SGA has done. SEB has free access pass for $10. Other things that you guys worked hard to give to students that hasn’t spread.
4. Tascha Ebhomielen: Do you have any idea what you want to be when you leave UMBC? What motivates you when you wake up in the morning?
a) Simmi Singh: I want to be a doctor. I really like helping people, as cheesy as that sounds. I did a lot of charity work.
b) Tascha Ebhomielen: to make money?
c) Simmi Singh: any way possible. I did a lot of charity work on my own. I really like science. That’s basically my driving force.
d) Tascha Ebhomielen: do you work well in a setting that’s charity than politically or financially lead?
e) Simmi Singh: I’m branching out. Testing the waters.
5. Amber Spry: What are the most exciting things that you found out about UMBC since you came here?
a) Simmi Singh: top 5 upcoming schools. That’s exciting. Just how tight knit communities are. My dorm, everyone knows each other. I haven’t missed home at all. That’s pretty surprising in a good way. A lot of students are enthusiastic. I thought a lot of people came here with a negative attitude. They’re actually happy to be here.
6. Gabe Rettaliata: 3 words that describe you
a) Simmi Singh: Passionate. Dedicated. Friendly.
7. Motion by Sunaina Khandelwhal to approve SL11-0809.
a) Seconded by Tascha Ebhomielen
b) VOTE: 10 for, 0 opposed, 0 abstaining, 1 absent (Brian)
D. Oath of office administered by Gabe Rettaliata.
VII. Executive/ Ex-officio Reports
1. David: This Thursday night, first debate watch in the sports zone between vice president candidates. Debate starts at 9. Ice cream starts at 8:30. Next Tuesday and following Wednesday, theyre doing it as well. Staff meeting this morning, reports that we get from students about their office. These things impact affect students. We’re talking abt how we can learn more. Posted something on my blog. So how have you experienced campus services? Hopefully people will start to talk there about their experiences.
2. Steve Gilmore: There’s been a petition going around for use of the UMBC shuttle to BWI train station stop. Apparently the marc train has been running late. For students using that for the morning, often times have missed their morning classes. Apparently there’s been more transportation through halethorpe. Satellite parking. There was a petition to lower that route and increase BWI train. I met with Ramona today to get more data. Wednesday at free hour, there’s going to be an interest open forum UC 310. People that use marc train station can voice their concern so we can get a better feel. A lot of names on the petition but it doesn’t mean that they use the station. They’re talking about… both routes, riders are up 25%. It can be UMBC students or staff and faculty. Ramona said to up the route for the marc train. It’ll cost $4500. Cutting “Jest for fun” for commuters to fund that pilot program if needed. She also was hinting about sponsorship with SGA. We won’t worry about that. I’ll be going to that forum. If anyone is interested, it’s at UC 310. Positive thing… there was a few students talking about the posting policies… student advertising. Getting bulletin board paper and giving that out to student orgs to advertise in Main Street. I ran the idea with Lee and she’s supportive. I’ll be taking to other orgs for approval. Next Wednesday at 5, SGA dinner for the whole SGA. It’ll be a good chance to meet others. That’ll be a good chance to see what’s going on in other branches.
VIII. Announcements
1. Sunaina Khandelwal: Frank Warren is coming. 8pm.
a) Jen Kent: Guy from post secret. He has books and a website. If you notice by mesquite bbque, there’s postcards on that wall from UMBC students.
2. Chidi Ukonne: I was eating in the commons today, the meal is getting changed from 1 pizza to 2 pizza for a meal.
a) Whitney Torchia: I’m on the food service committee. We’re not meeting for 2 more weeks. Anything you want to tell them, let me know and I’ll take a big list. It’s not every week like they used to be.
b) Amber Spry: I was just going to say, really cool meal deal more visible. Brighter or bigger. Especially at the grill. Maybe more diverse options for the meal plan. I don’t eat beef and chicken sandwich cost more.
3. Chidi Ukonne: Increasing student pride. We see a lot of fliers about passive information but they don’t have anyone to talk to. Do you guys think it’s possible that maybe people that put up fliers have students to talk to. Informing students by talking to them.
a) Toks Elegbe: I saw the post secret but I had no clue what it was until you said something. I don’t think it’s physically possible. Maybe like a video blog or something.
b) Chidi Ukonne: campus wide not the student org stuff. The events that everyone is encouraged to go to.
c) Jen Kent; I’m with Toks. I don’t think it’s a good idea but it’s not possible. We could encourage student orgs to do it but it’s not required to. Fliers really aren’t most effective but it’s easiest.
d) Tascha Ebhomielen: We have all these websites, but we’re still having problems to get information out to people. Why do we have problems when we have all these means?
e) Gabe Rettaliata: let’s continue this discussion outside of the meeting. Anyone who wants to talk about it, talk to Chidi.
IX. Roll Call
A. Present:
1. Speaker Gabe Rettaliata
2. Assistant Speaker Jen Kent
3. Natasha Ebhomielen
4. Neketa Kakar
5. Sunaina Khandelwal
6. Amber Spry
7. Aditi Srivastav
8. Rahilla Tarfa
9. Whitney Torchia
10. Chidinma Ukonne
11. FYA Toby Le
12. FYA Matthew McNey
13. FYA Simmi Singh
X. Adjournment 7:09PM
XI. Pass the Gavel