Minutes 9/09/08

Absent: Tempestt Gilmore

7:05 - Meeting called to order

• Roll Call and Approval of Minutes

Student Liaison to Board of Trustees (Franz Meyer)

• Board of Trustees comprises almost all Macalester alumni
• Serve on a Trustee Committee in order to become a student liaison
• Capital Campaign - current framework of the college's fundraising efforts; goal to raise 150 mil: approximately half of which has been raised so far; money goes towards campus infrastructure, scholarships and programs.

FAC

• Come to the Student Org Summit on Thursday, 6:30-8:30 in Old Main: more info on how to spend your org's budget; info on how to complete Additional Allocations

SSC

• Charters for 2 new Student Orgs: will be voted on next week
• Some criteria for establishing new student orgs: Membership (min 10 people); reasons for request to be chartered (eg. reservations, financial backing)
• We perform checks on the currently chartered student orgs: if they do not meet requirements at any point, they are brought in and questioned

AAC

• First Educational Policy and Governance (EPAG) meeting will be held tomorrow. The two 2008-2009 EPAG Student Representatives are Terence Steinberg and Stephanie Ewbank.

ERC

• People should encourage seniors to run for the current open position in the LB
• Working on MCSG T-Shirts: need to develop new design
• MCSG Lollipops will be SPO'd to the student body

PB

• Subsidized tickets for Twins game: 44 already sold
• Halloween Week: approved a trip to the Trailer of Terror; movies; dance (collaboration with Bodacious)
• Approved Battle of the Bands: October 25th in the gym; First place prize - Chance to play at First Ave and contract to perform at Macalester's Spring Fest

Presidential Commission

• All-campus survey on campus issues: Each commission must formulate 5 - 10 questions; prize is an Ipod Shuffle
• MPIRG coming to talk about voter rules and regulations next week
• Committee Applications distributed: Due Friday, September 12th; New Campus Committee - Sustainability
  
• Interest in MCSG endorsing MPIRG's Youth Power Summit (mobilizing the youth for the upcoming election and beyond)

Update from Dean of Students, Jim Hoppe

• MCSG Judicial Council nominees - Anna Minn, Henrik Hakonsen, Owen Truesdell (voting will be at next LB meeting)
• Campus Climate committee deals with inter-group relations on campus. The meeting is every third Thursday, 11-1pm in Weyerhaeuser Boardroom.
  

Meeting Adjourned at 8:20