MCSG Legislative Body meeting Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Absent: Wes Alcenat
Excused Absence: Laura Bartolomei-Hill, Andrew Mirzayi
Quorum? Yes
Proceedings:
Macalester College Student Government Legislative Body information distributed.
7:10 – Meeting called to order
FAC:
- Macalester Protestants’ request for $300 dollars taken off the table.
- The Mac Protestants focus on discussion, dialogue, and community building.
- The three hundred dollar request by Mac protestants passes
- Proposal to appoint five new members appointed to FAC heard
- Arguments that more then five people to FAC burdens commission, makes meetings unfeasible
- Proposal defended: more people allows for more connections with Mac programs, eight people not burdensome
- Soham questions why the FAC gets more people than the SSC
- The criteria from which these people are appointed was to diversify the FAC
- Suggestion that the FAC limit the body to five people with diverse views
- Food policy: will approve $80 dollars in snacks, encourages cooking within event to create bonding, disapproves of funding organizations
- FAC member (Rudy) argues that the meeting allows for more discussion, consensus is still possible
- Movement to table bill on the in order to provide a written out description of meetings with the eight-person body.
- A request that the appointments attend the next LB meeting
- Vote to table to appointment proposal passes
SSC:
- Provided an outline of committee, no proposals
AAC:
- Explanation of committee: Focuses to deal with faculty and community
- In association with department, ACC members are trying to create a new humanities major focusing on humanitarianism as well as a new Math/Comp Sci major
- Working to respond to a Mac weekly article focusing on potential elitism in the global citizenship program
- Trying to create a new text book program (information distributed)
ERC:
- Working on ways to publicize board of trustees meeting, ERC encourages attendance
- Attempting to create a plastic slip bathroom stall information distribution program
- Idea of placing suggestion boxes in the dorms has been received positively
- Correction of contact information for Tom
Program Board:
- Program Board has an upcoming dance
- PB is subsidizing ticket purchases for a play in the cities
Presidential Task Force:
- Drafting and sending out a survey to students to gather information to aid with budget proceedings
Student Conduct Hearing Board:
- Picking students for a panel to hear conduct board cases in front of a board
- Motion to approve the appointments to the Conduct Hearing Board pases unanimously
- A request is made to have the new appointees attend the meeting
Announcements:
- Franz attended a conference at Augsberg
- Franz will attend the Board of Trustees meeting
- A request to have Franz talk about the Lily Grant to the Trustees is made
- The rooming situation at Mac is good, 16 open beds
- Suggest that we ask ITS to present potential new email systems to the body
Programs Board:
Meeting Adjourns at 7:52
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