Graciously done by Ruanda McFerren
Agenda
Tuesday November 30,
2010
6:30 p.m. Campbell
Dining Room
Student Life and
Technology Center
I. Call to Order
II. Special Business
I.
Dee Dee Allen, bookstore manager/ the Fabulous
Bookstore Lady!
a.
Textbook Rental will be available next semester since our
bookstore is ran through Barnes and Noble. About 150 out of the 550 to 600 titles will be available.
i. Rents
will be about half of what it costs to buy a book. Rental quantity is limited. You can order rental books online from the bookstore
website. If you rent a text book
from the Barnes and Noble website, you can return it to the bookstore. You
return the book at the end of the semester, you will get email reminders. If you do not return the book, your
credit card account will be charged.
If the book is returned damaged, you are charged full price for
them.
ii. You
can access your required texts lists from Campus Web
b.
See Dee Dee for further questions.
II. Sam
Nichols- Hendrix Information Technology
a.
Paper Usage--- The amount of waste paper and toner
usage seems to be increased this year, so IT wanted to calculate how much these
resources are utilized. According
to the PaperCut software,151,000 pages were printed in about 22 days, that is
lot and is really not environmentally friendly. Sam wants to work with ECC to reduce the amount of
printing. This research was not
done to prompt a switch to paying to print.
·
Suggestion to switch to having all printers
automatically set to duplex and you have to opt out to print single sided. This has not worked in the past because
several faculty members did not want to accept double-sided papers.
b.
Bandwidth--- Upgraded from about 10 meg, last year went
to 70 meg, which is what we currently have. We have the capability to “burst” to 100 meg during high
usage times. High usage starts at
about 6 pm and goes until about 2 am.
We usually never fall below about 20 meg usage. IT has investigated a number of options
to fix the problem . This is
difficult because regardless of how much we increase, it will undoubtedly be
used. Also, 100 meg is the limit
that most of our current hardware can handle, so this would cause additional
problems with further upgrades. Compared to the 12 schools in the ACS, we are
about 4th or 5th, so the Hendrix internet is ok compared
to the other schools.
·
When you use an Ethernet cord, you have up to
100 meg. When you are on wireless
you have 54 meg, but that is shared among all of the people on the wireless
network. So wireless should not be
your primary internet source, buy an Ethernet cord.
·
Problem of “bandwidth hogs.” There are ways to run programs that
allow you to take more bandwidth than one computer necessarily needs. IT hasn’t looked into this/ doesn’t
track the internet usage of individual IP addresses, but it is a violation of
the college’s computer use policy.
This means that if you are caught, you would be blocked from the Hendrix
Network.
c.
Email IThelp@hendrix.edu
if you have a question. Do not
assume that they know about the problem.
III. Announcements and Constituent Concerns
a.
Huntington recycling cans still haven’t been brought
back
b.
Lights in the 24 hour library carrels- Andrew is
putting in a work order
c.
Extending Murphy House hours during finals
d.
Staplers are still needed in computer labs
IV. Departmental Liaison Reports
V. Committee Reports
- Financial
Committee with Alexander Jones
- No report.
- Committee on Everything Awesome:
- Dean
Jim Wiltgen and Karla Carney-Hall
- Elf
Roast is Friday in Worsham, no cups will be permitted. Dean is sending an email tomorrow
- The
“Subterranean Rainbow” will not be the name of our underpass to the
WAC. Start thinking of
suggestions for the name. A
committee will decide on the final name. It will be late December or early January, at the earliest,
before the tunnel is finally finished and the artwork is installed.
- Environmental
Concerns Committee with Emily and Katherine
- 7pm
DW 13. April Amborse talking about sustainable building.
- This
Saturday at 11 am, meet at the bell to go to shopping at Heifer and Ten
Thousand Villages. This is a
chance to do some environmentally Christmas shopping!
- Apartments,
turn in a copy of your November bill by Dec 6th for energy
comp. Send to cannonea@hendrix.edu, or box 3199
- Media
Committee with Hannah Sintek
- The Profle
comes out Thursday the 9th. It is 40 pages!
This is the 4th one for the semester, they are doing 3
next semester.
- Aonian
submission deadline is tomorrow
- Hannah
is talking to KHDX to find out results of survey
- Multicultural
Development Committee with Molly Miller
- Going
to the civil rights museum on December 4, 20 spots available, leaving at
9am. Email Baoua@hendrix.edu if interested
- Campus
Kitty with Sabrina Bowles
- Holiday
Bazzar is 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on December 7th. ZaZas and lots of other vendors
will be there. A percentage
of the profits go to CK. You should do some Christmas shopping there and
help out local charities
- That
night will be the faculty /staff holiday variety show. It will be $2 to get in.
- Social
Committee with Will Phillips
- Next
Monday, the 6th, is free movie night. Negotiations on time and showings
are still taking place. No
limit on the number of students that can go.
- Dean
congrats SoCo on SoCo54. Job
well done!
- Volunteer
Action Committee with Michaela
Fraser
- Turkey
project for Thanksgiving was a success.
- Lots
going on this week. Friday
going to Ida Burns to help the counselor organize, leaving the bell at
2. Sat and Sun, helping
salvation army ring bell.
- On
the 6th, baby sitting faculty /staff children during the faculty
holiday party
- Cooking
dinner at Bethlehem house on December 8th
- Academic
Policy with Ruanda McFerren
- Evaluating
minors, some do not explicitly require that upper level courses be taken.
- New
minors that have been approved are neuroscience and business.
- The
business department is working on expanding/ improving. They want to offer certificates
in specific areas, such as Non-profit management.
- Student
and Academic Concerns Committee with Taylor and Ruanda
- Met
to discuss possible ideas for the $20,000. We talked about using part of the funds for something
“fun,” such as a game for the game room.
- Send
ideas for how to spend the money to either Ruanda or Taylor
- Communications
Committee with Emily Jones
- Our
tech cluster is decorated!
Thanks to Dr. Carney-Hall for spear-heading the idea to decorate
the SLTC.
- Committee
on Committees with Torey Hayward
- People
should start thinking about filing for Shirttails Chair and Welcome Week
chair. These positions will
open early second semester.
- Executive
Committee with Lydia Nash
- Smoking
survey closed. 53% of the student
body took the survery, thanks everyone who participated!!!!
- Our
terms are almost over, we only have about a month left in second
semester. Start thinking
about running for next year!
VII. New Business
·
Try to send your notes out sooner, especially
since organizations use senate as a way to publicize events
·
Julie Wagner going abroad next semester. Adelia Sciffraw will be the proxy for
the remainder of the term
·
ACS is starting a battery recycling project for
next semester, so don’t throw them out
·
Idea for the $20,000 from the Dean. A zip car, rent a car by the hour.
VIII. Adjournment