Minutes 10/28/08

Absent: Jill Ackerman
Excused Absence: Aaron Brown, Rudy Herrera-Marmol, Jeff Yamashita, Henry Coshnear, Molly Griffard

7:10 - Meeting called to order

• Roll Call and Approval of Minutes
  

Q&A with Provost Kathleen Murray

• priority to get to know the Mac community - going around individually, getting feedback on hopes and dreams for Mac
• design development for Janet Wallace:
  
• 70 mil project (most expensive)
• each department will end up with more functional space
• improving the art building, as of Jan 1st; hope to start Spring 2010;
  
• fundraising at least 2/3 of the 55 mil (total 39 mil - 26 will be raised, take rest out in debt- Capital Campaign)
• student involvement in the process (from the Theater department)
  

• sabbatical policy proposal issues
• difference in cost
• difference in national economic context
• contact Resource and Planning student reps to find out more about the progress

• role of the Provost
• collaborate with the faculty: work with them on curricular hiring
• member of the President's senior staff
• Senior administrator on campus
• would like to get to know a wider range of students: students are encouraged to stop by
  
• long-term vision for the college: reducing the tension between internationalism and multiculturalism at Macalester
  

Open Forum: MPIRG

• Volunteer activities on Election Day

FAC

• Art Alliance Drawing Co-op $295 motion to approve - passed
• Mac Dems Campus-Wide Election Night Party $125 motion to approve - passed
• MPJC-SDS Halloween No-Fear Dance $125 motion to approve - passed
• BODACIOUS Break Battle and Halloween Dance $750 motion to approve - passed
• Mac Christin Fellowship Christians and Pancakes $40 motion to approve - passed
• Mac Catholics Advent Dinner $552.25 motion to approve - passed
• Motion to approve bylaw changes - motion passed
• budget processing will be from nov 17th - 26th
  

SSC

• Macalester Australia New Zealand Adoration Club (Mac ANZAC) motion to approve - passed
• Black History Month Committee charter request distributed
  

AAC

• EPAG Update:
• Discussion on whether to approve a course addressing material that would allow students taking it to choose whether to use it to satisfy the internationalism or the multiculturalism requirement (potential interconnectedness of the two realms in academia)
• Amending the Faculty Addendum: to provide additional incentive for professors to register their courses towards the fulfillment of Gen. Ed. requirements
  
• IGC:
  
• furniture for the IGC
• creating a word press blog on global views (Blogal)
  

PB

• PB's Halloween movie: The Exorcist remastered (Oct 29)
• Bodacious Halloween Bash (Oct 31)
• Shelter Speak: Showing of the movie "Land of 10,000 homeless" at Simpson Housing Services Men's Shelter (Nov 1st)
• Planet B-Boy: in conjunction with Bodacious week (Nov 6)
• Vikings vs. Packers game (Nov 9th): tickets will be given away via raffle
  
• Showing of the movies "Under the Same Moon" and the "Lost Boys of Sudan" in JBD (Nov 13): part of Immigrant & Refugees Awareness Week
• A Christmas Carol at the Guthrie (Nov 19)
  

ERC

• Birthday celebration: Birthday Babka to celebrate October birthdays (Owen, Stephanie, Karen)
• Senior election
• Win a lunch date with an exec: every exec member has a lunch date
  

Pres Commission

• Busy with collecting and analyzing the campus survey results
  
• Faculty letter sent out encouraging classes to be canceled on election day
  

Meeting adjourned at 8:30