Minutes 11/25/08

Absent: Joe Schubert, Terence Steinberg
Excused Absence: Jeff Yamashita, Dimitri Da Gama Rose

Meeting called to order - 7:10

• Roll Call and Approval of Minutes
  

SSC

• Will pass out charter next week
  

FAC

• motion to approve Mac DJ Club Cables $325 - motion passed
• motion to approve MacPics Fall Photography Show $170 - motion passed
• motion to approve the purchase of two TVs and a couch in the student lounge (CC) - cap $15,000 - motion passed
  

AAC

• IGC Update:
• IGC planning on coming strong next semester
• initiatives to strengthen membership
• blogal views - new articles out, trying to incorporate people who are studying abroad
  

ERC

• SPO'd half of the newsletters
• working on the retreat: still in the process of deciding what will be done on the retreat (feel free to share ideas)
  

PB

• interviewing and deciding on new additions to the Board
• planning for Welcome Back Week
  

Pres Commission

• Working on textbook scholarship initiative
  
• met with Campus Committee reps
• will be distributing the campus survey results
• met with Chloe - established tangible goals for MCSG to collaborate with her
• motion to adopt amended bylaw changes that were distributed last week - motion failed
  

Meeting Adjourned at 8:05

Minutes 11/18/08

Absent:Tempestt Gilmore

Excused Absence: Adam-Maliq Muro, Sarah Dicks

7:10 - Meeting called to order

• Roll Call and Approval of Minutes
  

Jerry Sanders and Barron Koralesky from ITS

• They have been working on getting the platform working at Mac. Now we have Google, Banner, and Moodle which are working quite well now.
• This year, ITS is working on classroom technology (specifically projectors) and on building security infrastructure
• Jerry expects there to be a gradual improvement in services as we move along, including wireless capabilities, etc.
• Very small staff and they rely on students to work with ITS and maintain the labs, etc.
• ITS is working with students to see where wireless needs to be improved. They gave a background on the way wireless access points are allocated now and explained the process of doing a site survey (they did one of Wallace) and how they will use that to explore the wireless needs of students of campus.
• They are anxiously awaiting the Dupre Hall petition.
• They are currently in the process of installing class specific software on more computers campus wide.
• Computers are replaced every 4 years, and the old computers are donated to mainly schools and non-profits.
  
• Licensing for students is highly dependent on cost. There is more open source software than there was previously, so there is less need to have campus wide programs available. Jerry and Barron are both in favor of open source and hope that the campus continues to move toward open source.
• They would like to make it a possibility for students to keep their Mac email after graduation, but it just hasn’t been worked out by the DOS office and Alumni relations. The technical aspects have not been figured out as yet.
  

SSC

• Motion to approve APA Month Committee (Team Asia) charter - motion passed
• Motion to approve Students for a Free Tibet - motion passed
  

FAC

• Motion to approve $100 Ua Ke New Year’s Banquet - motion passed
• Motion to approve $1200 for WMCN concert - motion passed

AAC

• EPAG Update:
• Gen Ed requirements, more classes have applied, but they still need more.
• Committee on restructuring EPAG is in process
• Textbook meeting with MPRIG and MPJC- SDS and hopefully expanding reserve library

• IGC Update:
• Blogalviews (IGC blogs): encouraging people to keep checking it
  
• IGC received survey feedback
• planning IGC email
• funding student initiatives and working with AAC: students funding student projects
• IGC strategic planning committee gave the IGC student council their long term strategic plan- Ideas involved integrating multiculturalism, internationalism, and civic engagement. Funding transparency discussed.

ERC

• Hot chocolate event was a success
• Newsletter will be SPO’d
• Captive audience updates and Turck board will be updated

Pres Commission

• Student involvement meeting with committee chairs was last week. Alison will be meeting with the student reps this week.
• Textbook proposal discussed with Development and Fin. Aid
• Dec. 4^th Sustainability and MCSG with Justin Lee
• IGC panel is being worked on
• Worked on analyzing the survey, and sending them to the appropriate person. Looking for a forum to have a conversation about the open ended questions and a way for administrators to respond to them.
• Resolution to appoint Orna Karlin, Henrik Hakonsen, Anna Min to the MCSG Judicial Council