Meeting of the General Assembly 26 March 2014

Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall

I. Call to Order: 20:32

II. Roll Call: Meija-Cruz,Caplan are absent.III. Approval of Minutes: Will be approved next week

IV. Public Comment Time: No public comments.

V. Introduction of Guests – No guests present.

VI. Old Business

VII. Reports of Committees

1. Facilities & Sustainability – David Levine ’16

1. Facilities Survey-This week beginning of next week.

2. CMP Case: People have been signing the petition.

3. CMP Case: Public comment time next week.

4. Next Friday(4th-5th of April) campus blackout.

2. Academic Affairs–Jordan Goldberg’14

1. Mark Hanson will be talking about Dwayne “The

Rock” Johnson at Food for Thought.

2. Faculty member with the first name of Meredith will

also be speaking.

3. Massa: Makes a joke.

4. Goldberg: There will be a faculty survey on Friday to

ask why students use Credit/D Fail.

5. Nelson: Encourages everyone to take the survey as

there has been a lot of “back and forth” on the issue.

6. White: Brings up the issue of students becoming

anonymous to the professor if they are taking the

course Credit/D/Fail.

7. Many students feel that professors do not care as

much about the student if they know the student is not

taking the course for a grade.

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8. Rujiraorchai: Book center project is being worked on,

waiting to hear back from Mitch Davis about this.

9. Goldberg: No life raft as there is no open space for it.

3. Student Affairs – Roberto Tavel ’16

1. Wellness Day: Thursday May 8th

2. Nelson: Someone applied for a good idea tonight.

3. Tavel: It’s ok if it’s mediocre.

4. Student Activities Funding Committee – Megan Massa ’14

1. Massa: Forms are due Monday

2. Massa: E Board, did you get it?

3. Vasquez: Not sure.

4. Massa: Meeting next week.

5. Nelson: Check in with Matt.

5. Student Organizations Oversight Committee – Daniel Mejia-Cruz ’16

ABSENT6. Executive Committee – Sarah K. Nelson ’14 / Allen Wong Yu ’14

1. Wong: One more info session in Hubbard West

Conference Room.

2. Nelson: Thank you day coming.

3. Colbert:Coordinated with Heather Hightiller.

4. Colbert: People write thank you notes to donors.

5. Colbert: Students not on financial aid can write post

cards.

6. Nelson: Faculty/Staff appreciation day is coming up.

Thoughts from Campus Quad Presentation.1. Massa: Not was campus needs, but she likes free

things.

2. Goldberg: Will not do much good, but cool.

3. Nelson: Would people look at things like instagram.

4. Levine: He would potentially do it.

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5. Tavel: Bowdoin has things like the Orbit and Digest

which do the job of the app.

6. Nakamura: Could this replace the Orbit?

7. Nelson: We are leaps and bounds ahead of peer

schools.

8. Nelson: Trinity students get 50 e-mails per day.

9. Massa: More spread out as there are two systems.

10.Duan: Campus quad is more social as it is easier to

filter and is less informative.

11.Tavel: Not informative and not necessary to

implement

12.Rujirorachai: Would rather go to Twitter or the Orbit.

13.Tavel: Designed for schools like Stanford.

14.Wong: New company if they can link to another

service, then I think it “changes the game”.

15.Nelson: Show the app around, see what people think.

CMP Meetings1. Two in Augusta and Portland

2. Sign up sheet online.

3. Nelson: It’s a BSG fieldtrip.

VIII. Report of Members

1. Class Councils

I. 2014

a. There was a Pub night Thursday before Spring Break.

b. Working on planning senior week.

II. 2015

a. Ordering stuff for Ivies, 2 people favorited tweek from

class council.

IV. 2016

1. Sweatshirts and a wealth of complaints.

2. Should be more adds for community events.

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3. Mad about lack of cheese cubes.

4. People want bonfire at Ivies

5. Nelson: LAUGHS

6. Nelson: Will never have bonfire.

7. Possibility to have skiball machine.

IV. 2017

a. Game of Thrones screening in auditorium.

2. Inter-House Council

a. House trivia night.

b. Housing decisions out:4th of April.

3. Entertainment Board

a. Information on Ivies will be released soon.

4. Athletic Council

ABSENT.

5. The McKeen Center

ABSENT

6. Director of Programming(Serwer):

a. Spring Gala is being organized.

b. Decorator came.

c. Working with Allen on this.

7. At-Large

NIL

IX. Report of the President – Sarah K. Nelson ’14

1. Debates for BSG on April 8th.

X. Announcements:

XI. Adjournment: 21:02

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