_ASHMC Meeting 2/3/08_*

 

_Taking Minutes_: Dmitri Skjorshammer

 

_Start of Meeting_: 2:08PM

 

_Meeting Place – _Conference Room A and B

 

_Agenda : _

 

2:00PM Convene

 

2:01PM Status Report

 

2:10PM Yearbook update

 

2:15PM Proposal Reviews

 

2:40PM Executive Session

 

2:45PM Adjourn

 

*_ (2:08) Proposal Review_*

 

- List of proposals handed out

 

- give a grade from 1 to 10 on how to improve, not how you like it. Include explanation.

 

*_(2:10) Status Report_*

 

(2:10)East

 

- has problems with shower temperature. Had dorm meeting last Wednesday.

 

(2:11)Linde

 

- had dorm meeting Thursday.

 

- Planned fundraising events for damages. Proceeds going to charitable cause. Talons auction.

 

(2:12)Atwood

 

- Pushing the game on.

 

- Plan to have Dorm Relay because a lot of complaints about no dorm unity.

 

(2:13)CAP

 

- Tristi un di sol and DDD. Goal: Go outside Claremont Area (hot Cali spot). This week: Geisha House

 

(2:13)South

 

- Dorm meeting on Tuesday. Problems with heater/coldness (talk to FM).

 

(2:13)Yearbook

 

- Have a cover for yearbook.

 

- Endpage still working on.

 

- Color scheme is exciting.

 

- Senior shots are held in March 14^th .

 

- Parent Ads: decent amount, have not completed lottery yet.

 

- All dorm pages will be in color except for 1. Need reps from Linde.

 

- LINDSAY WRAY – no way to get all dorms in color?

 

- LIZ – cost more money. Have to buy another 16 pages ($1,800). May order additional 16 pages if not penalized.

 

- Suggestion: took a picture of everyone in the dorm and have dorm activities on other pages.

 

- LINDSAY WRAY – Let’s get all the dorms in color.

 

- LIZ – Redistribute extra color pages in senior ads

 

(2:22) Gary wants to make the OID office more available. Make a Student Committee to attend ASHMC. ASHMC might help with the events. LINDSAY WRAY – Appointed position.

 

(2:27) 7 members arrive late because they thought it was in the LAC

 

(2:27) North Status Report

 

- dorm money-broke. Super Bowl party today. Meeting Thursday.

 

(2:28) Sontag

 

- Barbeque tonight. Dorm meeting this week.

 

(2:28) LINDSAY WRAY – do proposals, not if you like it or not but how you can improve it. Consider the project on its own. Comments will be compiled and given back to students.

 

*_(2:29) Proposal Review Started _*

 

(2:39) Washing Machines

 

- Rachel suggests stack washer machines.

 

- LINDSAY WRAY – how to buy more machines?

 

- Dean Noda – one thing to bring up for East renovation is to stack washer machines.

 

_(2:47) Discussion of Proposal Reviews started_

 

- Yearbook: Linde may not be in color for yearbook unless we buy additional 16 pages. May cost additional $16

 

- LINDSAY WRAY: I want to hear your proposals about the projects. Better sense of what is going on.

 

- Accept the budget request as it is coming in. Ex) we give you $3000, but you may get more.

 

- Leslie Mallinger.: Dorms should propose budget spending. Not at the end.

 

- Rachel: Let them propose rather than set a maximum

 

- Leslie: Guideline it

 

- Ginna Kim: keep in mind that money is evenly distributed

 

- Anu Kohli: probably won’t have 10K

 

(2:54) Clean Clothes Program – free laundry

 

- Lacking in that it needs to regulate high cost

 

- Rachel: wash 1 piece every day

 

- Donna: buy detergent in bulk

 

- Ginna Kim: how is the money added?

 

- Boy 1: subsidize

 

- Patrick: clothesline/clothes hanging rack

 

(2:56) HMC Teaching Program

 

- Hard for ASHMC to organize

 

- CGU and Yong’s class take care of that.

 

- Leslie: want to see a clear diff. on how this is diff. from Science Bus, Claremont Tutors etc.

 

- Ginna Kim: bring in speakers/teachers to teach.

 

(2:58) ASHMC ART Installation

 

- Anu Kohli: Inappropriate art

 

- Rachel: FM is doing it already

 

- Ginna Kim: have an art room

 

- LESLIE MALLINGER: Funding art work in general

 

- LINDSAY WRAY: how is it diff. from MuCC

 

- LINDSAY WRAY: D. Noda are there any rooms for art room?

 

- Rachel: have easels in LAC

 

- Anu Kohli: MuCC funds art projects

 

- LINDSAY WRAY: how is it diff. from MuCC?

 

(3:01) ASHMC Concert Series at Harvey Mudd College

 

- Anu Kohli: Do 5C’s have money?

 

- LESLIE MALLINGER: who will decide who comes?

 

- Donna:

 

- Anu Kohli: like idea of supporting local music

 

- PATRICK FOLEY: improved by having concert planners

 

- LINDSAY WRAY: a concert program…accept proposals from students

 

- Ginna Kim: combined with something else

 

(3:04) New Yor Times Sunday Newspaper

 

- Leslie Mallinger.: trial period?

 

(3:05) ASHMC Executive Office Scholarship

 

- Ginna Kim: concerned

 

- Anu Kohli: incentive is to have more people to apply

 

- Gena Urowsky: by not having incentive, you get people who really like it.

 

- LINDSAY WRAY: positions chosen on same idea that yearbook editors are paid

 

- Gena Urowsky: holding money over your head?

 

- Anu Kohli: I have more incentive to work

 

- Donna: If we can change the way ASHMC president is elected.

 

- Anu Kohli: I did not propose it for this year but for next year.

 

- Rachel: an hourly wage for positions?

 

- LINDSAY WRAY: (referring to Donna) so the way they are elected?

 

- PATRICK FOLEY: opposed to positions or money amount?

 

- LESLIE MALLINGER: we want to be careful (referring to financial need)

 

- LINDSAY WRAY: anyone have ideas for less?

 

- Donna: address why other positions don’t get paid.

 

(3:11) Inner Dorm Garden

 

- Rachel: good, but does that include paying student workers? Should be coordinated with Groves

 

- PATRICK FOLEY: should appoint an ASHMC Agricultural Director.

 

(3:11) Fund Student Conferences

 

- Rachel: Should be through clubs rather than ASHMC

 

- Ginna Kim: departments don’t cover really well

 

- LINDSAY WRAY: we should cover part

 

- Gena Urowsky: we shouldn’t be funding academic stuff, we are funding social lives

 

- Ginna Kim: they can be scientific conferences, but the idea is that you go to see scientific boards etc. Just to go is great.

 

- Leslie Mallinger.: we don’t want to be funding people’s vacations

 

- Ginna Kim: let’s pay for they registration

 

- Gena Urowsky: ASHMC approved events

 

- Donna: I remember Strategic Vision Initiative that funded student conferences

 

(3:14) New MudderBikes

 

- Rachel: would a boy ride this one?

 

- Leslie Mallinger: bike racks at LAC should be available to students not to MuddBikes

 

- Gena Urowsky: they are annoying…get different types of bikes

 

- (3:16) student comes in

 

- LINDSAY WRAY: concerned about the quality of the bike?

 

- Leslie Mallinger: how many are used?

 

- Donna: better advertise to student body

 

(3:17) New HDTV in Jay’s Place

 

- Leslie: where will it go?

 

(3:18) Massage Chairs in Beverly Chen’s Office

 

- Ginna Kim: how will they be cleaned?

 

- Leslie: anyone think they are useful?

 

- Anu Kohli, Ginna Kim: comfortable!

 

- PATRICK FOLEY: too expensive

 

- LINDSAY WRAY: trial period on massage chairs. Dean Noda, doesn’t Chen have money for this

 

- D. Noda: only $20,000

 

(3:19) Musical Instrument Rental

 

- Leslie: Why doesn’t Jam Society ask for more money for this?

 

- PATRICK FOLEY: I thought about it just now

 

- LINDSAY WRAY: we have created clubs for certain purposes. I don’t think it necessary come from Jam Society. We are focusing on spending our money.

 

- Ginna Kim: Can we provide sheet music and beginning – to – learn videos

 

(3:21) Strauss Freshman Internship

 

- Leslie Mallinger: benefit more than one person?

 

- PATRICK FOLEY: pull in more freshmen. After they do their internship, they can do a presentation

 

- Ginna Kim: what if frosh decides not to come?

 

- PATRICK FOLEY: I have to talk to admissions. If this is to happen we must send mailings in February

 

- Ginna Kim: maybe we can do one over winter break?

 

- Anu Kohli, Rachel: like that idea

 

- PATRICK FOLEY: not limited to freshmen?

 

- Ginna Kim: yes limited to freshmen

 

(3:24) Public Core Textbooks in Platt

 

- Rachel: bad idea because editions change.

 

- Ginna Kim: professors provide textbooks if you need them.

 

- LINDSAY WRAY: I like to work in a public area. It involved me lugging around 3 text books. This proposal can be helPatrick Foleyul.

 

- PATRICK FOLEY: Ginna Kim is that systematic thing?

 

- Ginna Kim: you can aLindsay Wrayays talk to your professors if you have problems

 

- Leslie Mallinger: upperclassmen selling to students

 

- Ginna Kim: I am concerned that students might take books out of Platt

 

- Gena Urowsky: why not let Sprague Library have it?

 

(3:28) Yearbook Color Pages

 

- More color pages for yearbook?

 

- Rachel: sounds good

 

(3:28) Gena Urowsky

 

- Storage space

 

(3:29) Donna

 

- Have carnival at the end of the year

 

- Gena Urowsky: all HMC students subsidized trip to Disneyland

 

(3:30) ASHMC Meeting Proposal

 

- Snacks for next meeting

 

- Gena Urowsky: $20 for cookies

 

- Healthy stuff

 

- Hamas, pita bread

 

- Salsa and chips

 

- Patty’s (not open on Sundays)