Agenda
Tuesday April 26, 2011
6:30 p.m. Campbell Dinning Room
Student Life and Technology
Center
I. Call to Order
II. Special Business
III. Announcements and
Constituent Concerns
- Hunter- Hendrix Today has been coming out late,
people who have 9am classes are having trouble scheduling their day…
- A student worker is in charge of Hendrix
Today, we will Contact Rob O’Connor…
- Hunter-
Front St. security issues: constituents are wondering if cameras can
be put up, there has been recent theft…
- We will contact Public Safety
IV. Departmental Liaison
Reports
V. Committee Reports
- Financial Committee with Clay Christian
- RLC
- requests $400 to screen Chocolat at Chocolate Extravaganza
(FinCom recommends to fund in
full)
- Motion
to fund in full passes, no objections or abstentions
- Spring Allocation Revisits
- Westphalian
Society
- Came back to FinCom this
weekend with a reduced funding proposal of $2400 (FinCom recommends to fund in full with extreme reservations)
- Caveats: Students going
to the conference must audit the class; they can’t take it for credit.
8 students will be funded, if less than 8 go, Westphalian Society will
have to pay back the money that would have been used.
- We revisited the following
questions-Is this the right use of student activities funding? Is it
right to fund $300 of the student activity fund, would these students
be getting more out of the student activities fee than they put in?
- Other discussion: will
Westphalian society be able to raise the money that we do not fund
them?
- Motion
to fund for $2400
- 4
votes to pass, 6 objections, 4 abstentions
- Motion
fails to pass
- Habitat
and Humanity
- FinCom asked Habitat to
come back with a more detailed proposal
- FinCom
recommends to fund for $350 for gas for their builds for first semester
next year$310
for gas for next year for first semester
- FinCom emphasized that
Habitat, and all other clubs need to be careful about their
discretionary proposals for next year, we will not be retroactively funding.
- Motion
to fund for $310 passes no objections or abstentions
- Sword
Club
- Sword Club requested
FinCom to fund the material fees for to maintain their weapons. These
materials will be used to make weaponry that will be held by Sword club,
and will not be ‘walk away’ items.
- FinCom treated Sword
Club like other club sports (Frisbee, Quidditch, Warrior Wranglers);
Senate will pay for some of the materials, but the club is also
responsible for providing some of their own materials. FinCom Recommends to fund for ¾ of
their request: $387.83
- Motion
to fund for $387.83 passes, no objection or abstentions
- Salaries
- Profile:
FinCom recommends to fund in full as submitted
- Troubador:
FinCom recommends to fund in full as submitted
- Hendrix
Bike Revolution: FinCom recommends to fund for $1000 per mechanic per
year (their own amended submission)
- KHDX:
FinCom recommends to fund $800.00 per year to their Web Master, funding
for the other two non-Constitutional salaries were denied
- There seems to be
overlap in the non-constitutional salaries.
- Campus Kitty: FinCom Recommends
to decline funding for 2nd Vice Chair and Treasurer
- FinCom was concerned that
funding more internal costs would take away from their non-profit
status.
- ECC: FinCom recommends to
decline funding salaries for the new vice chair positions
- Emily (ECC chair):
Worries that some of the programming won’t be as successful without more
paid positions (A LOT of work!) and that her job could become more
difficult because others have less of an incentive to work. Bottom line,
these are tough jobs, ECC provides great events, and they need creative
leadership.
- FinCom believes these
positions need to run through a trial year before salaries can be
decided upon
- FinCom was hesitant to
salary a position which has needed to be re-opened for filing.
- General FinCom
discussion about salaries:
- FinCom
spent A LOT of time discussing both spring allocations, as well as
salaried positions and after much debate came up with the above
recommendations. Many campus leadership positions require a lot of
work, but not all of them can be paid, it would be fiscally
irresponsible to devote so much of our student activity fees toward
salaries) All paid positions (constitutional and other) need to be
reviewed (some are overpaid some underpaid) and will be in the fall.
- Committee on Everything Awesome with Dean Jim Wiltgen and Dr. Karla Carney-Hall
- TOGA!
- Last large event of the
year
- Goal of ‘open cup’
events are to reduce binge drinking, if we abuse the open cup policy it
may have to be reviewed.
- Bottom line the College
wants students to have fun, but, PLEASE be responsible, healthy and safe…
make good decisions!
- Environmental Concerns Committee with Emily Canon
- Earth day was a huge
success, at least 250-300 people attended!
- Trash to treasure,
looking for 8 people, Wednesday May 11-15, to stay to be a part of the
Trash to Treasure green team. Anyone who wants to volunteer should
contact Emily.
- Sustainability
- Yesterday we stopped
providing the small black condiment cups in the cafeteria
- ECC found that nearly
1000 of these cups are thrown away. The cups are recyclable but not
when they are dirty, so we will no longer be using them.
- Media Committee with Courtney Johnson
- Still
needs a student at large member
- Appointments
- Aonian: Hannah
Al-Jibouri-Editor in Chief, Johnny English-Associate Editor
Profile: Emily Smith-Editor in Chief, Kimberly Lane-Managing
Editor, Connor Thompson-Associate Editor
Troubadour: Neelam Vyas-Editor in Chief
- Motion to appoint these
positions passed no objections or abstentions
- Multicultural Development Committee with Calvin Pun
- Mystical Arts of Tibet at
Hendrix (THE MONKS!)
- Here
is a list of events, you can find more details at
http://www.hendrix.edu/religion/religion.aspx?id=52153
- Saturday,
April 30th, 10:00 a.m., Mills Library
Practicum: “Meditation: A Tool for Conscious Living”
- Saturday,
April 30th, 7:00 p.m., Mills A
Presentation: “Tibet Today: The History of a Diaspora”
- Sunday,
May 1st, 5:00-7:00 p.m., Worsham 172/173
Ritual Performance: Lama Chöpa Ceremony (Invocation of Blessings from the
Lineage)
- Monday,
May 2nd, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Worsham 173
Presentation: “Opening the Heart: Arousing the Mind of Universal
Kindness”
- Monday,
May 2nd, 7:00 p.m., Worsham 173
Ritual Performance: Dug-Sher-Seng Sum Ceremony (Prayers for the Removal
of Obstacles)
- Campus Kitty with Malena Outhay
- No report
- Social Committee with Will Phillips
- Free Movie Night Monday
May 2nd (Time TBA)
- Event is pending, there
are some scheduling issues, but they should be settled in time!
-
- Volunteer Action Committee with Rachel Robbins
- Little Rock Service
Saturday, meet at the bell at 12:30, contact Rachel with questions.
- Academic Policy with LaRonda Mitchell
- Student and Academic Concerns Committee with Daniel Williams and LaRonda
Mitchell
- LaRonda and Daniel will
be putting together request forms for funding which should be available
by the end of the week. These proposals will begin to be considered at
the beginning of the fall semester.
- Communications Committee with Adelia Shiffraw
- No report
- Committee on Committees with Gabe Breshears
- Campus
committees will be appointed at the next meeting
- Interviewing
ECC potential co-chairs this
weekend
- Executive Committee with Desh Deepak
- Meeting
next Tuesday (READING DAY, ONLY 15 MINS)
- 6:30-:6:45
(ECC first vice/committee appointments)
- Desh
appoints Jessica LIn as Senior Committee Chair
- Motion
passed to appoint Jessica no objections or abstentions
VII. New Business
VIII. Adjournment