Minutes 10/07/08

Excused Absence: Adam-Maliq Muro, Sarah Dicks

7:08 - Meeting called to order

• Roll Call and Approval of minutes
  

Open Forum

• MacCARES Sustainability plan for the school - mid October (direct participatory facilitation exercises): how to be a sustainability Scot
• They are opposing the administration's $7 1/2 million decision to expand campus cooling facilities via 3 new chillers:
  
• environmental issue - run off fossil fuels constitutes 50% or more of the carbon emissions on campus
  
• issue with the long-term cost (up front cost + continuous energy costs)
• possible alternative: geo-thermal
  
• welcoming MCSG support: decision to introduce a resolution for this cause at next week's LB meeting
  

FAC

• MPJC-SDS (Halloween No Fear Dance) $335 - motion to approve passed
• MASECA (Diwali Dance) $650 - motion to approve passed
• Queer Union (Gay Student Athlete Summit) $1450 - motion to approve passed
• BODACIOUS (Bodacious Showcase and Week) $2210 - motion to approve passed
• Afrika (Fall dance) $463 -motion to table passed
• Mac Media Collective (Zine Publication) $180 - motion to table passed
• Art History Club (Walker Museum Trip) $50 - motion to reject passed
• MACYarn (trip to sheep farm) - motion to re-allocate budget passed
• MacVeggies (honorarium) - motion to re-allocate budget passed
  

SSC

• Students for a Free Tibet - motion to table charter for one month passed

AAC

• EPAG Update:
• culminating course (INTD 411) in the Community and Global Health concentration was approved
• ways to increase the number of courses that satisfy the Gen Ed requirements (particularly Multiculturalism) were discussed
  
• EPAG strongly advises against the Russian Studies Department's request to create two tracks (Language and Area Studies) within the major at this time
  
• IGC Update:
  
• 100 projects for peace - $1 mil in donations for student projects (10,000 per project)
• Civic Forum happening next year March 24th-25th: Religion and Public Life in America
• the IGC building will be finished next semester (formal opening will be in the Fall)
  

ERC

• publicity for VP elections

PB

• the planning of Surround Sound is coming along successfully
  

Presidential Commission

• can work on the sustainability initiative
• Brian Rosenberg will be coming in to the next LB meeting
  

Meeting Adjourned at 8:55