LAFAYETTE COLLEGE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

 

 

Arpil 18^th, 2012

The meeting was called to order at 6:00 pm

 

Motion to approve the Minutes from April 11^th, 2012

Motion: Caroline

Second: Connor

Motion Carries

 

13 members were present.

 

Caroline Lang                                    President                                                            Present

Sarah Roberts                                    Vice President                                                            Present

Mahmoud Djindjev                        Treasurer                                                            Present

Cody Zaccagnino                        Secretary                                                            Excused

Michael Prisco                        Academic Affairs Chair                                    Present

James Kugel                                    Campus Student Services Chair                        Present

Georgia Papagianis                        Multicultural Affairs Chair                                    Present

Kiefer Cortez-Mecham            Representation Chair                                                Present

Connor Heinlein                        Student Life Chair                                                Present

Warren Szewczyk                        Student Organizations Chair                                    Present

Adam Chernicoff                        Representative                                                            Present

David Kafafian                        Representative                                                            Tardy

Kelly Sposato                                    Representative                                                            Present

Kathryn Tanenbaum                        Representative                                                            Present

 

 

 

 

Rebecca from the Red Cross came in to discuss Club Red with us.  Club Red’s are located everywhere but has just been started in the Lehigh Valley.  Their mission is to help the Red Cross with all projects but mostly helps with fundraising.  Helps get younger kids involved and keep them in the program.  There is a large networking and social component as well.  Have a monthly dine to donate program which allows for money to be spent on dining and then goes back to the red cross.  Offers a variety of different classes, including CPR.  Currently reaching out to local colleges to start Club Red college chapters.  They have some general ideas for club creation but are open to suggestion.  Would run a blood drive once to twice a year.  Perhaps running a mini-golf tournament.  Various different fundraising events such as annual winter coat drives.  There are local club red meetings that would be open to the Presidents of local chapters.  Hoping to get the clubs started for next September.  Came seeking feedback but would love to start a group here on campus.  There are questions surrounding how this club would compete with others.  Questions were also raised about how this club would be founded.  The Red Cross does not do paid advertising so no advertising will be present in the school paper.  Landis referred them to Student Government.  The suggestion was made to make an appearance at the Lafayette Activities fair.  Contact information was then passed on to the Student Organizations Chair.

 

IFC and Pan-Hel have been doing open recruitment days for Fraternities and Sororities.  IFC held an event in the Marlo room to educate the campus on Greek life.  However, only 15 people attended.  The suggestion was made to “Dorm Storm” to raise awareness as well as to hold the events at the actual houses.  Representatives from each house were in attendance.  The event was from 6 PM to 8 PM.  It will now be on Tuesday the 4^th from 3 PM to 5 PM so to attract students and work around meal plan restrictions.

 

Felix Hutchinson would like to resurrect the Lafayette Baking Club.  The Student Organizations Chair will be assisting him in this process.

 

Caroline Lang – President

-       Experience Lafayette day is this Sunday

• Need Stu Gov members to attend from 11:45 to 1
• Answer questions about Stu Gov

-       Softball is scheduled for this Sunday at two but may be postponed

-       Trustee applications are out and are also available in student life office

-       Library Ambassadors meeting needs fewer people

-       Budget Committee must reach out to Administrators that are running Midnight Breakfast, Fall Fest, NY Times, Presidents Ball, Block Party and Rivalry Week

-       Meeting next week will start in the Limburg theater for a presentation about the “Quad Project”

-       Motion to approve ISA as a club

• Second: Warren
• Motion carries

 

Sarah Roberts – Vice President

-       Please apply for Student Representative positions

 

Mahmoud Djindjev – Treasurer           

-       Motion to allocate money for the medals for graduating stugov seniors

• Second: Michael
• Motion carries

-       Motion to vote to approve all student government expenditures (including small purchases like office supplies)

• Second: Cody
• Motion does not carry

 

Cody Zaccagnino – Secretary

-       Made the suggestion to be more careful with the Laf Stu Gov Facebook page

• Mahmoud was responsible for previous issue

 

Michael Prisco – Academic Affairs

-       Emailed John O’Keefe about scanning documents

-       Emailed Dean McElroy about scanning documents

-       Emailed Eric Lurns about scanning documents

-       Emailed Joe Binnotto

• Discussed worms present in lettuce in lower
• Discussed the epic burger
  • No longer happening
• Suggestions
  • More appealing advertising position
  • Should not be happening during practices and seemed targeted to men
  • Hard to find all of the signup information
  • The concept is very strange – The idea of eating a lot of food (wasting) to raise awareness about food.  Seen as a bad idea.
  • Burger is too big; wings could be a good idea.  Hot dog eating contest.

-       “Lifeboat Lafayette”

• Getting volunteers to help monitor tables

-       Helped with Custodian Appreciation week

-       Please vote for the Superior Teaching Award

 

James Kugel – Campus Student Services

-       Campus lighting tour occurred with Public Safety

-       Engineering formal is next week

 

Georgia Papagianis – Multicultural Affairs

-       Linc meeting on Friday but didn’t not attend due to posse meeting

-       Emailed Tom about minutes but has yet to receive them

-       T-Shirts

• Design has been placed on the side but is too expensive
• $15.37 per person for T-Shirts

 

Kiefer Cortez-Mecham – Representation

-       Helped dorm storm with other Stu Gov members

-       Will be moving on to elections now that Relay for Life has ended

 

Connor Heinlein – Student Life

-       Cards have been done for custodian appreciation week

• Distributing the thank you cards

-       Motion to vote to approve student government expenditures over $200 (with the decision to notify the treasurer for all purchases smaller than $200)

• Second: Caroline
• Motion carries

 

Warren Szewczyk – Student Organizations

-       Budget week is in session

 

Adam Chernicoff – Regular Representative

-       Helped out with concert preparation

• Good concert but wished more people were there
• Addressed the general school fear of there being no concert next year

 

David Kafafian – Regular Representative

-       Nothing to report

 

Kelly Sposato – Regular Representative

-       Nothing to report

 

Kathryn Tanenbaum – Regular Representative

-       Nothing to report

 

 

Motion to adjourn meeting

Motion: Caroline

Second: Adam

Motion Carries

The meeting was adjourned at 7:02 pm

Faithfully Submitted,

Michael Prisco & Cody Daniel Zaccagnino

LAFAYETTE COLLEGE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

 

 

Arpil 11^th, 2012

The meeting was called to order at 6:02 pm

 

Motion to approve the Minutes from April 4^th, 2012

Motion: Caroline

Second: Warren

Motion Carries

 

13 members were present.

 

Caroline Lang                                    President                                                            Present

Sarah Roberts                                    Vice President                                                            Present

Mahmoud Djindjev                        Treasurer                                                            Present

Cody Zaccagnino                        Secretary                                                            Present

Michael Prisco                        Academic Affairs Chair                                    Present

James Kugel                                    Campus Student Services Chair                        Present

Georgia Papagianis                        Multicultural Affairs Chair                                    Present

Kiefer Cortez-Mecham            Representation Chair                                                Present

Connor Heinlein                        Student Life Chair                                                Present

Warren Szewczyk                        Student Organizations Chair                                    Present

Adam Chernicoff                        Representative                                                            Present

David Kafafian                        Representative                                                            Present

Kelly Sposato                                    Representative                                                            Excused

Kathryn Tanenbaum                        Representative                                                            Present

 

 

 

 

Bob Massa came in to talk about the weekly digest emails. Some mass campus-wide emails are still required (e.g. registration, emergencies, etc.). The new college calendar is more effective than the previous calendar, and is being relied on more than ever, which reduces the amount of emails that students (and faculty) get. Arts & Entertainment, Presentations & Lectures, and Athletics contributed to the bulk (~80%) of the mass emails. Now they are being emailed weekly on a subscription basis. These three and Career Services emails are automatic subscriptions for students, though they can still be unsubscribed at any time (and subscribed again at any time). There are three buckets for emails: single important all-campus emails (registration, emergencies, etc.), weekly digests, and a new Information and Promotions list. Communications is deciding to make this Information & Promotions email list (sent by faculty and staff) available on a subscription basis. They are also considering creating a new list for students to post student-only events (similar to the faculty list), to be monitored by Student Activities. Also note that the “On the Hill” emails can be unsubscribed from. If you go to m.lafayette.edu, you can add the Lafayette mobile site as an app using an iPhone, Droid, & Blackberry.

 

Hemendra came in to talk about the medals for graduating student government members. There are 13 graduating seniors who were involved with student government. The cost of the medals has not been determined yet. There is a search committee for Director of Student Development; the search is now down to three candidates. Hemendra has invited student government members to meet with the candidates, dates and times to be determined.

 

Sabbir came to represent ISA. He came to drop off a list of members and provide a constitution, and he requested that student government recognize ISA and allow ISA to request a budget.

 

Caroline Lang – President

-       Met with Jodie Frey about the living unit patrol policy and protocol, can answer questions for those wondering about the policy

-       Stugov has been in contact with the library about extending hours, library ambassadors requested stugov members to come to their meetings

-       Candidates for Associate Dean of Intercultural Development & Director of Gender and Sexuality will be holding open meetings with students in the following weeks

 

Sarah Roberts – Vice President

-       Nothing to report

 

Mahmoud Djindjev – Treasurer           

-       Motion to allocate money for the medals for graduating stugov seniors

• Second: Michael
• Motion carries

-       Motion to allocate Physics Club $500 for transportation to laser tag and to another trip to a planetarium

• Second: Sarah
• Motion to amend the motion to $250 just for transportation to the planetarium (and not laser tag)
  • David
  • Second: Michael
  • Motion carries

-       Motion to allocate Amnesty International $270 for food for three brown bags during human rights week leading up to Jamnesty

• Second: Georgia
• Motion carries

-       Motion to allocate Fashion Club $1000 for the production of their fashion show (stage, chairs, curtains, custodian, lighting & sound, and advertising)

• Second: Sarah
• Motion carries

-       Motion to allocate ISA $1000 for their spring formal on Friday, April 13^th (for venue reservation and costs)

• Second: Connor
• Motion does not carry ($0 was allocated to ISA)

 

Cody Zaccagnino – Secretary

-       Nothing to report

 

Michael Prisco – Academic Affairs

-       Emailed John O’Keefe about scanning documents

-       Met with Dean McElroy about scanning documents, will be using new efficient technology

-       Representative from Red Cross will be coming in next week

-       Superior Teaching Award email featuring opinio survey went out this week, closes Sunday

 

James Kugel – Campus Student Services

-       Nothing to report

 

Georgia Papagianis – Multicultural Affairs

-       Made a t-shirt on custom ink, will be around $15 a shirt

 

Kiefer Cortez-Mecham – Representation

-       Met with Ellen Hughes (of LAF) to go around door-to-door to sell spring concert tickets

-       Trying to go around the Lehigh Valley to publicize the spring concert

-       Election to replace Sean Grim will commence by the end of the week

 

Connor Heinlein – Student Life

-       Co-sponsoring custodian appreciation week with residence hall council, stugov will be tabling this week

 

Warren Szewczyk – Student Organizations

-       Budget information sessions took place this week, were well attended. Budget meetings are open for sign-ups outside the stugov office

 

Adam Chernicoff – Regular Representative

-       LAF is having trouble advertising the concert, working on very dense advertising in the week until the concert

 

David Kafafian – Regular Representative

-       Nothing to report

 

Kelly Sposato – Regular Representative

 

 

Kathryn Tanenbaum – Regular Representative

-       Sending out email to RAs for them to promote the spring concert

 

 

Motion to adjourn meeting

Motion: Caroline

Second: Georgia

Motion Carries

The meeting was adjourned at 7:40 pm

Faithfully Submitted,

Cody Daniel Zaccagnino

LAFAYETTE COLLEGE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

 

 

4/4/12

The meeting was called to order at 6:03pm

 

Motion to approve the Minutes from 3/28/12

Motion: Caroline

Second: Sarah

Motion Carries

 

12 members were present.

 

Caroline Lang                                    President                                                            Present

Sarah Roberts                                    Vice President                                                            Present

Mahmoud Djindjev                        Treasurer                                                            Excused

Cody Zaccagnino                        Secretary                                                            Present

Michael Prisco                        Academic Affairs Chair                                    Present

James Kugel                                    Campus Student Services Chair                        Excused

Georgia Papagianis                        Multicultural Affairs Chair                                    Present

Kiefer Cortez-Mecham            Representation Chair                                                Present

Connor Heinlein                        Student Life Chair                                                Present

Warren Szewczyk                        Student Organizations Chair                                    Present

Adam Chernicoff                        Representative                                                            Present

David Kafafian                        Representative                                                            Present

Kelly Sposato                                    Representative                                                            Present

Kathryn Tanenbaum                        Representative                                                            Present

 

 

 

 

 

Ben Brown, the web manager of The Lafayette came in to invite stugov to a softball game against The Lafayette on Saturday, April 21^st at 2pm.

Caroline Lang – President

-       At dinner with Trustees, discussion included reasons for increases in tuition, school rankings, feelings about Greek Life, and the campus master plan

-       Greek Life town hall meeting is tomorrow at 8:45pm in Colton Chapel

-       At meeting with alumni association, discussion included increasing pride and school spirit on campus, distributing superfan shirts to alumni and to students at orientation; civility, acts of intimidation, vandalism of memorials on campus (including the Adirondack chairs); better means of distribution of list of alumni which career services currently holds

-       Went over next year’s budget and plans for Williams Arts Campus at Board of Trustees meeting

-       Met with Annette Diorio about correction to public safety policy stated in last week’s minutes: there was no written policy until recently about public safety being able to search common rooms if the door to the common room is open (as in a Fraternity house)

-       The One More Leopard Bob Bean challenge is being initiated, where if 1000 young alumni (2002-2011) donate $5 or more, a full student’s tuition will be donated

-       Will suggest to Dan Weiss putting an expiration date on Lafayette student IDs, so that students can vote in Easton. New Pennsylvania legislation was passed which will not allow people to vote without a photo ID with an expiration date. If Lafayette IDs have expiration dates, students without drivers licenses can vote in Pennsylvania.

-       Received email from library ambassadors. They want some stugov representatives to go to library ambassador meetings Wednesday April 11^th or May 2^nd.

-       Motion to ask President Weiss to add an expiration date to the Lafayette student ID

• Second: David
• Motion carries

-       Motion to beat The Lafayette in softball

• Second: Warren
• Motion carries

 

Sarah Roberts – Vice President

-       Sent out student faculty committee applications

-       Public safety wants to send out a survey before they send out applications for the student advisory board

 

Mahmoud Djindjev – Treasurer           

-       Excused

 

Cody Zaccagnino – Secretary

-       Nothing to report

 

Michael Prisco – Academic Affairs

-       Contacted David Reefe, president of Alumni Association, will be helping with peer mentoring and Lifeboat Lafayette

-       Holding orientation for peer mentoring April 25^th at 5pm in Scott Hall

-       Emailed woman from Red Cross, she will be coming in soon to talk about starting a Red Cross club at Lafayette

-       Contacted Dean McElroy about digitizing documents

-       Superior teaching awards survey will be emailed to campus Friday

-       The Faculty Tea was successful, had a discussion about Greek Life, acts of ethnic intimidation, class scheduling, and pride on campus

-       Contacted Joe Binotto, dining services is re-working promotional material for the epic burger challenge, still accepting teams for the challenge

-       Met with Dean D’Agostino, pictures to be taken for peer mentoring next weekend

-       The service for Professor McCartney was well attended

 

James Kugel – Campus Student Services

-       Met with Public Safety representative to discuss action to improve public safety and student relations. They look forward to working with Sarah in developing the application for the student advisory board

-       Public Safety representatives support the idea of working with IFC to develop a fraternity liaison

 

Georgia Papagianis – Multicultural Affairs

-       In contact with t-shirt salesperson, he is hesitant to produce an order as little as 15 shirts

 

Kiefer Cortez-Mecham – Representation

-       Stugov representatives poster is up

-       Representation committee will meet tomorrow to discuss publicizing the spring concert and helping LAF

-       Meeting with Bob Massa

-       Starting election on Monday to fill in Sean Grim’s position

 

Connor Heinlein – Student Life

-       “Kiss Me, I’m a First Year” had around a total of around 100 attendees, all t-shirts were distributed. Student Government is working tables selling concert tickets in Farinon atrium.

 

Warren Szewczyk – Student Organizations

-       Student organizations is having a meeting next week, will be helping digitize documents

-       Motion to allocate Men’s Club Volleyball $150 to pay for ref fees

• Second: Caroline
• Motion carries

-       Motion to table ISA’s request for $1000

• Second: David
• Motion carries

-       Motion to table Amnesty International’s request for $500

• Second: David
• Motion carries

-       Motion to allocate Student Government $204 for pizza for 3 information session that budget committee is holding (8 pies for each day)

• Second: Cody
  • Motion to amend the motion on the table to $127.50 for 5 pies each day
  • Second: Warren
  • Motion carries

 

Adam Chernicoff – Regular Representative

-       Attended LAF meeting, working with LAF to sell concert tickets

 

David Kafafian – Regular Representative

-       Nothing to report

 

Kelly Sposato – Regular Representative

-       Nothing to report

 

Kathryn Tanenbaum – Regular Representative

-       Nothing to report

 

Motion to adjourn meeting

Motion: Caroline

Second: Michael

Motion Carries

The meeting was adjourned at 6:58 pm

Faithfully Submitted,

Cody Daniel Zaccagnino

LAFAYETTE COLLEGE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

 

 

3/28/12

The meeting was called to order at 6:03 pm

 

Motion to approve the Minutes from 3/21/12

Motion: Caroline

Second: Connor

Motion Carries

 

13 members were present.

 

Caroline Lang                                    President                                                            Present

Sarah Roberts                                    Vice President                                                            Present

Mahmoud Djindjev                        Treasurer                                                            Excused

Cody Zaccagnino                        Secretary                                                            Present

Michael Prisco                        Academic Affairs Chair                                    Present

James Kugel                                    Campus Student Services Chair                        Present

Georgia Papagianis                        Multicultural Affairs Chair                                    Present

Kiefer Cortez-Mecham            Representation Chair                                                Present

Connor Heinlein                        Student Life Chair                                                Present

Warren Szewczyk                        Student Organizations Chair                                    Present

Adam Chernicoff                        Representative                                                            Present

David Kafafian                        Representative                                                            Present

Kelly Sposato                                    Representative                                                            Present

Kathryn Tanenbaum                        Representative                                                            Present

 

 

 

 

 

Rebecca came to talk about a potential advertising club. There has been talk with athletics, public safety, and admissions regarding advertising for things on campus (e.g. sports games, binge drinking info for public safety, admissions info). Professor Schulman of the A&S department has agreed to be an advisor. Advertising club would hopefully work with some of the marketing clubs (sports marketing and the econ department’s marketing club) when the advertising/marketing ideas could overlap. Advertising club could also help other clubs with advertising and publicity on campus. Public safety will be funding projects specifically regarding safety on campus.

 

Celestino Limas came in to talk about a proposed amendment to the college’s equal employment opportunity policy: enhancing and recognizing gender identity and expression. The EEO policy wouldn’t be changed except for the addition of four words: “gender identity and expression” included with a statement that “Lafayette College assures equal employment opportunity in all its personnel policies which will be administered without further regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, age or disability; and further that no employee shall be subjected to harassment by any other employee because of these factors.” This addition will help Lafayette recruit faculty and staff and promote Lafayette’s continuing effort to become a welcoming campus for everyone.

 

Celestino Limas also talked about the relationship between public safety and students. He discussed creating a public safety student advisory board, meeting 2-3 times a semester, where students and public safety would be actively updating each other based on developments and concerns of one group or the other. The committee would report to student government about developments. The committee would potentially be an all student committee with 2 members from each class.

 

Joe Binnotto came to talk about the Epic Burger event. He presented a video promoting the event, in the style of Youtube’s famous “EpicMealTime” group. The event, mentioned in the minutes from March 7^th is a charity event to raise money for the “Backpacks for Buddies” program, which provides meals to underprivileged children in the Easton area. The event includes a stage, lighting, and a commentator. Dining services is hoping for at least four teams (of ~six people each) to compete. The event will take place in Marquis dining room on April 19^th from 6:15-6:45pm. Teams are expected to arrive at 5:45pm and the announcement of the winner will be around 7pm.

 

Hemendra came to talk about the medals going to graduating seniors who were involved in student government. The medals are to be worn at graduation ceremonies.

 

Ben and Max came to present for Amnesty International. The club is requesting $4000 for the community-wide Jamnesty: Community for a Cause event. The event is a large free community “block party” event on the quad. There will be a stage with multiple campus groups and bands performing. WJRH will be providing music on the side. The event is to rally community support for civility and raise support and money for issues involved in Uganda. There are multiple co-sponsorships, including Wishmakers, LINC, and ALF. Amnesty hopes to replicate the success of last year’s event. The cost breakdown is $3000 for food and $1000 for sound/entertainment production costs. The total cost is about $15,000 for food, with much of the money coming from other sources. The event is scheduled for April 20^th.

Caroline Lang – President

-       Admissions office contacted about It Takes a Campus presentation on Wednesday, April 4^th about the admissions process

-       There will be a student government table up at accepted students day

-       Regarding the civility situation, 13 flags were stolen around the quad, 10 were recovered. Celestino is thinking about buying more flags and selling them in the bookstore. The flags will soon be put up year-round, as discussed by John McKnight, and the set-up will be re-done to better represent the nationalities at Lafayette.

-       The election of a replacement for Sean Grim will be started soon

-       Motion to approve the addition of four words onto the EEO statement to include gender expression

• Second: David
• Motion carries (Unanimous)

-       Motion to start a public safety advisory board

• Second: Warren
• Motion carries

 

Sarah Roberts – Vice President

-       Sending out student-faculty committee representative applications

 

Mahmoud Djindjev – Treasurer           

-       Reserved rooms and ordered pizza for budget week

 

Cody Zaccagnino – Secretary

-       Nothing to report

 

Michael Prisco – Academic Affairs

-       Working on scanning documents

-       Received message from a representative of the Red Cross who wants to set up some sort of Red Cross club or involvement at Lafayette.

-       Ben Brown will be coming in next week to discuss The Lafayette

-       The ten-tree project will be completed late in April, the trees will be planted at the Metzger complex

-       Met with Dean Stewart-Gambino working on Lifeboat Lafayette. Working on getting students to nominate faculty, selection of faculty, and publicizing the event.

-       Gained an opinio ID, working on a survey for the superior teaching award

 

James Kugel – Campus Student Services

-       Will be doing campus lighting tour, where public safety and other members of students and faculty will be walking around at night addressing safety issues.

 

Georgia Papagianis – Multicultural Affairs

-       Attended LINC meeting, discussed Jamnesty, Extravaganza, and formal in Bethlehem

 

Kiefer Cortez-Mecham – Representation

-       Completed poster with representative pictures

-       Created mock-ups for re-organization of bulletin boards

-       Working on web page

-       Will be distributing information about Pepper Prize

-       Will be working on election to replace Sean Grim

 

Connor Heinlein – Student Life

-       Custodian appreciation week is the week of April 16^th. Tables in Farinon will be manned on Monday and Tuesday to encourage students to write letters thanking their custodians.

-       Next week student government is helping LAF sell concert tickets. There will be tables every day next week in Farinon selling tickets. Student government will also be helping with publicity.

-       FCC’s “Kiss Me, I’m a First Year” event is this Friday at Lower Farinon

 

Warren Szewczyk – Student Organizations

-       Student organizations committee will be scanning documents

-       Motion to approve Advertising Club’s constitution and approve them as a club pending signing and dating of the constitution

• Second: Cody
• Motion carries

-       Motion to allocate French Club $86 for food for a French cooking event.

• Second: Michael
• Motion carries

-       Motion to allocate Amnesty International $1000 for sound/entertainment productions cost for the Jamnesty event

• Second: Adam
• Motion carries

 

Adam Chernicoff – Regular Representative

-       Went to LAF and Pan-Hel meetings

 

David Kafafian – Regular Representative

-       Alumni Association dinner Friday 4:30-6pm at Marquis

 

Kelly Sposato – Regular Representative

-       Nothing to report

 

Kathryn Tanenbaum – Regular Representative

-       Helped with scanning effort

 

 

Motion to adjourn meeting

Motion: Caroline

Second: Adam

Motion Carries

The meeting was adjourned at 8:28pm

Faithfully Submitted,

Cody Daniel Zaccagnino

LAFAYETTE COLLEGE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

 

 

3/21/12

The meeting was called to order at 6:00 pm

 

Motion to approve the Minutes from 3/7/12

Motion: Caroline

Second: Mahmoud

Motion Carries

 

10 members were present.

 

Caroline Lang                                    President                                                            Present

Sarah Roberts                                    Vice President                                                            Present

Mahmoud Djindjev                        Treasurer                                                            Present

Cody Zaccagnino                        Secretary                                                            Present

Michael Prisco                        Academic Affairs Chair                                    Present

James Kugel                                    Campus Student Services Chair                        Present

Georgia Papagianis                        Multicultural Affairs Chair                                    Present

Kiefer Cortez-Mecham            Representation Chair                                                Excused

Connor Heinlein                        Student Life Chair                                                Present

Warren Szewczyk                        Student Organizations Chair                                    Present

Adam Chernicoff                        Representative                                                            Excused

David Kafafian                        Representative                                                            Present

Kelly Sposato                                    Representative                                                            Excused

Kathryn Tanenbaum                        Representative                                                            Excused

 

 

 

 

 

Joel came to talk about Lafayette Film Society to answer questions about the club and its constitution.

 

Emily Ryan from the New York Times came to present about Lafayette’s subscription. NYT works with over 200 other student governments around the country. New for next year with the continued support of the 150 print copies are 150 digital seats to NYTimes.com. On any day, 150 people from Lafayette can be using NYT’s online resources. Access to the digital resources will be granted for 24 hours, at which point the digital seat will be offered to other users. Digital resources include NYTimes.com, the main website; NYTimes.com/edu, a free educational portion of the website; NYTimes.com/firstyear, a daily article program for educators geared at specific interests, includes monthly webinars; NYTimes.com/collegeDS, the digital access only section of the site. The NYT can also offer campus resources like speakers, co-sponsorship of campus activities, faculty training and workshops, etc. when involved in a larger subscription. NYT is also hoping to host a crossword contest in April. The current readership program is 150 copies per day, at an average consumption of 91%.

 

Hemendra came to present about medals to be presented to graduating seniors who served in student government.

 

Matt came to present about civility on campus. Two flags set in place around the quad for ISA’s Extraveganza event were forcibly removed. Matt asked to think about response in dealing with civility issues.

 

Caroline Lang – President

-       Trustee dinner is 6pm, Thursday, March 29^th

-       Dine 3/9 concerns:

• No chairs was an issue
• Lack of food (dinner) was also a concern

-       Celestino Limas will be coming in next week to discuss concerns with the campus conduct system

-       Looking to gather list of topics for trustee dinner:

• New dean of students and separate position for campus conduct, growing administration
• Decreasing student apathy and increase learning outside the classroom, lack of school spirit
• Greek life issues
• Tuition and total cost

-       Two possibilities for Sean’s position: hold another election at the end of this semester for next semester. Or amending the by-laws to post someone who originally ran. We will be following

-       Motion to approve constitution of Lafayette Association of Film Students and accept them as a club

• Second: James
• Motion Carries

-       Motion to approve Philosophy Club’s constitution

• Second: Cody
• Motion Carries

 

Sarah Roberts – Vice President

-       Nothing to report

 

Mahmoud Djindjev – Treasurer           

-       Motion to allocate $131.60 to fund the student-faculty tea

• Second: Michael
• Motion Carries

-       Budget committee will be holding budget week information sessions Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday April 9^th-11^th.

-       Budget Committee will be applying to get an email separate from Student Government

 

Cody Zaccagnino – Secretary

-       Nothing to report

 

Michael Prisco – Academic Affairs

-       Setting up scanning schedule for the print documents in the stugov office

-       Lifeboat Lafayette meeting next Tuesday 3:00 pm Scott Hall 2^nd Floor with Dean Stewart-Gambino

-       Will meet with Dean D’Agostino this Friday about peer mentoring

-       Will meet with Wendy Hill about academic cosponsorships

-       Mitch Wein will be coming in next week to talk about campus climate

-       Joe Binnotto was having difficulty planning the “Epic Burger” event

 

James Kugel – Campus Student Services

-       Nothing to report

 

Georgia Papagianis – Multicultural Affairs

-       Meeting with a student regarding international student representation in student government

 

Kiefer Cortez-Mecham – Representation

-       Nothing to report

 

Connor Heinlein – Student Life

-       Fundraiser for FCC with StuGov, Pan-Hel, and IFC selling baked goods to fundraise. Kathryn provided the baked goods

-       Custodian appreciation week is April 16^th-20^th, Residence Hall council is looking for support

 

Warren Szewczyk – Student Organizations

-       Received concerns from former SMAC members about Colleges Against Cancer

 

Adam Chernicoff – Regular Representative

-       Nothing to report

 

David Kafafian – Regular Representative

-       Pam Holrind has confirmed next Friday, March 30^th from 4:30pm to 6 for alumni dinner

-       Tomorrow’s and Thursday’s office hours will be replaced with Michael and Caroline.

 

Kelly Sposato – Regular Representative

-       Nothing to report

 

 

Kathryn Tanenbaum – Regular Representative

-       Nothing to report

 

 

 

Motion to adjourn meeting

Motion: Caroline

Second: Connor

Motion Carries

The meeting was adjourned at 8:00 pm

Faithfully Submitted,

Cody Daniel Zaccagnino

LAFAYETTE COLLEGE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

 

 

3/7

The meeting was called to order at 6:05 pm

 

Motion to approve the Minutes from 3/1/12

Motion: Caroline

Second: James

Motion Carries

 

12 members were present.

 

Caroline Lang                                    President                                                            Present

Sarah Roberts                                    Vice President                                                            Present

Mahmoud Djindjev                        Treasurer                                                            Present

Cody Zaccagnino                        Secretary                                                            Tardy

Michael Prisco                        Academic Affairs Chair                                    Present

James Kugel                                    Campus Student Services Chair                        Present

Georgia Papagianis                        Multicultural Affairs Chair                                    Present

Kiefer Cortez-Mecham            Representation Chair                                                Present

Connor Heinlein                        Student Life Chair                                                Present

Warren Szewczyk                        Student Organizations Chair                                    Present

Adam Chernicoff                        Representative                                                            Present

Sean Grim                                    Representative                                                            Absent

David Kafafian                        Representative                                                            Excused

Kelly Sposato                                    Representative                                                            Present

Kathryn Tanenbaum                        Representative                                                            Present

 

 

 

 

Joe Binnotto from Sodexo Dining and Catering Services presented about how to cater an event. He spoke about how to plan and event, who to get in contact with and what information is needed. Joe spoke about how to design a menu and work within a realistic budget with catering services. Sodexo is able to provide countless services including authentic ethnic or foreign cuisines. Joe presented an idea about the Backpack for Buddies program that provides meals to needy students and their families in the Easton area. To raise money for the charity he suggested an “Epic Burger” challenge. The challenge will have an entrance fee of $25 per person. In the challenge different groups on campus will have four or five members participate and try to finish their massive “Epic Burger” before the other teams.

 

Caroline Lang – President

-       Student government/trustee dinner on March 29^th at 6pm.

-       Looking for 2 juniors to serve on the Hof Committee (James and Cody)

-       Dine 3/9 is tomorrow (3/8) from 6-7:30pm

-       Media outreach program will be soon (date TBA), workshop on PR

-       Sean Grim has resigned as a member of student government

-       Motion to table Philosophy Club’s request to be a club until next week

• Second: Sarah
• Motion Carries

 

Sarah Roberts – Vice President

-       Picked Jiselle Peralta for the diversity committee

 

Mahmoud Djindjev – Treasurer           

-       Worked on editable budget form

-       Budget Committee is working on guidelines for ranking size and relative importance of clubs

-       Motion to approve the guidelines as part of the budget packet

• Second: James
• Motion Carries

-       Motion to allocate Math Club $100 for cryptography competition

• Second: Connor
• Motion Carries

 

Cody Zaccagnino – Secretary

-       Nothing to report

 

Michael Prisco – Academic Affairs

-       Met with Provost Wendy Hill, discussed issue with Robotics Club not being allowed to use MechE department materials. Clubs are allowed to use department equipment if they talk to Wendy Hill and gain approval.

-       Met with Dean Stewart-Gambino about Lifeboat Lafayette

-       Met with Dean D’Agostino about peer mentoring program

-       Met with Dean Diorio about Accessibility Committee, looking for members to serve on the committee

-       Met with John Colatch, working on brown bag for accessibility

-       Finished creating invites to faculty tea, ~57 faculty invited (not in faculty dining room, not Pfenning)

-       Continuing with scanning documents in the stugov office

-       Re-organized folders in Lafstugov email account

-       Met with Mitch Wein, he will be coming in to the stugov meeting the week after break with Mary Wilford Hunt

 

James Kugel – Campus Student Services

 

Georgia Papagianis – Multicultural Affairs

-       Attended LINC meeting on Friday, discussed upcoming events: house of privilege, changed the event to LINC members participating and inviting other clubs which LINC members are part of, as a trial run

-       Had multicultural affairs committee meeting

-       Called in about the t-shirts, suggested ordering t-shirts later

 

Kiefer Cortez-Mecham – Representation

-       Set up budget committee signs

-       Will be working on stugov website

 

Connor Heinlein – Student Life

-       Sat in on IFC and Pan-Hel meetings, meeting with their presidents to discuss fundraising for FCC for “Kiss Me, I’m a First-Year”

 

Warren Szewczyk – Student Organizations

-       Motion to recognize Face AIDS as a student organization

• Second: Mahmoud
• Motion Carries

-       Motion to recognize Lafayette Association of Film Students as a student organization

• Second: James
• Motion to amend the motion to tabling Lafayette Association of Film Students
  • Second: James
  • Motion carries (Lafayette Association of Film Students’ potential president/members will be asked about legal concerns of film screenings, and asked where the films are being obtained from)

 

Adam Chernicoff – Regular Representative

-       Attended LAF meeting, they are trying very hard to get people to buy tickets. Tickets are open to the public now, will be advertised on radio stations soon.

-       LAF is working on a march madness program

-       LAF wants to work with New York Times with crossword competition

 

Sean Grim – Regular Representative

 

 

David Kafafian – Regular Representative

-       Nothing to report

 

 

Kelly Sposato – Regular Representative

-       Nothing to report

 

Kathryn Tanenbaum – Regular Representative

-       Nothing to report

 

 

Motion to adjourn meeting

Motion: Caroline

Second: Adam

Motion Carries

The meeting was adjourned at 7:22pm

Faithfully Submitted,

Cody Daniel Zaccagnino

 

LAFAYETTE COLLEGE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

 

 

3-1-12

The meeting was called to order at 7:02 pm

 

Motion to approve the Minutes from 2-23-12

Motion: Caroline

Second: James

Motion Carries

 

12 members were present.

 

Caroline Lang                                    President                                                            Present

Sarah Roberts                                    Vice President                                                            Present

Mahmoud Djindjev                        Treasurer                                                            Present

Cody Zaccagnino                        Secretary                                                            Present

Michael Prisco                        Academic Affairs Chair                                    Present

James Kugel                                    Campus Student Services Chair                        Present

Georgia Papagianis                        Multicultural Affairs Chair                                    Present

Kiefer Cortez-Mecham            Representation Chair                                                Present

Connor Heinlein                        Student Life Chair                                                Present

Warren Szewczyk                        Student Organizations Chair                                    Present

Adam Chernicoff                        Representative                                                            Present

Sean Grim                                    Representative                                                            Excused

David Kafafian                        Representative                                                            Excused

Kelly Sposato                                    Representative                                                            Excused

Kathryn Tanenbaum                        Representative                                                            Present

 

 

 

 

Andrew came to present a potential new club: Face Aids, which is based under the national organization, but would run independently at Lafayette. They have some fundraisers set up already, including selling pins and collection of used cell phones. The national charter supplies fundraising supplies (e.g. pins).

 

Megan came to represent Crew Club and asked for a supplementary allocation. There are 90 members (up from ~60 last year), so the cost of transportation and training trip are much higher.

 

Maggie and Rachel came to represent Women’s Rugby. They received information from Kelly Deemer about specific budget concerns.

 

Tom came to represent ISA’s Extravaganza event: a weeklong cultural celebration, which has been around for about 30 years. Events include multiple lectures, a food tasting, fashion show, and performances at WAC. ISA is not budgeted out of a stugov account, they are asking for financial support for Extravaganza. LINC is assisting financially, and many other clubs are helping with labor and co-organizing and running specific events.

 

Warren presented about a potential philosophy club. The club would include regular discussions about philosophy. The club would not need a budget initially. There is some faculty support.

 

Evan talked about the Best Buddies program, “End the ‘R’ Word Day”, this Wednesday 6:30-8pm

Caroline Lang – President

-       Letters against acts of ethnic intimidation are to be printed tomorrow and distributed ASAP

-       Received more information about Trepic Ride-share program, would cost $1500 for trial semester, but similar free programs are being considered

-       Activity Fee increase was approved, an increase of $96000 total, stugov will get about ¾ of that.

-       Dine 3/9 final meeting today, over 200 students registered. Mayor Panto and President Weiss will both be there. We are having students sign a poster of Lafayette’s charter to present to Mayor Panto.

-       Met with Emily, a representative from New York Times readership program. The number of papers ordered will be reduced to 150 papers per day. Starting next semester, for every physical subscription, an electronic subscription will be provided. Each day, the first 150 students who sign into the NYT website will have access to the NYT archives just for that day. Emily suggested having crossword contests and other prize contests hosted by stugov on campus with prizes for students. Discussed bringing in reporters or other speakers, particularly to talk about the election next semester.

-       Precision Step Team requested help wit the Black History Month finale showcase

-       Organizing dinner with alumni representatives

-       Pepper Prize selection process will be started soon. Committee members for this prize have been selected.

-       New stugov meetings will be Wednesdays at 6 pm, starting next week.

 

Sarah Roberts – Vice President

-       Meeting with applicants for diversity committee

 

Mahmoud Djindjev – Treasurer           

-       Budget committee started working on qualifications for clubs

-       Motion to allocate Ski and Snowboard Racing Club $2460 for registration fees for national tournament in Maine. There are 8 people going on the trip. The women’s team and select other individuals qualified.

• Second: James
• Motion Carries

-       Motion to allocate ISA $1500 for the Extravaganza event

• Second: James
• Motion to amend the allocation to $500: Cody
  • Second: Michael
  • Motion does not carry
• Motion to allocate ISA $1000 for the Extravaganza event (Mahmoud)
  • Second: Sarah
  • Motion Carries

-       Motion to allocate First-Year Class Council $300 for “Kiss Me I’m a First Year” event, March 30^th night at Lower Farinon.

• Second: Kelly
• Motion Carries

-       Motion to allocate $1500 to Crew Club for additional transport of rowers to spring regattas.

• Second: Kelly
• Motion Carries

-       Motion to allocate Women’s Rugby $1245 for spring tournament in Rhode Island

• Second: James
• Motion Carries

 

Cody Zaccagnino – Secretary

-       Finished scanning and compiling signatures for letter against acts of ethnic intimidation

 

Michael Prisco – Academic Affairs

-       Met with Mitch Wein regarding tree initiative. ASB Ten Tree initiative will be planted at Metzger. ASB will fundraise money for this. Class trees will be funded half and half by the administration and stugov. This year’s graduation class’ tree will be funded fully by the administration.

-       First Dean’s List Tea will be next semester, want co-sponsoring with stugov. Expect about 750 people at the event (faculty and Dean’s List students), so it will be held in Kamine Gym.

-       Working to get a team together for “Lifeboat Lafayette,” looking for volunteers to help with the project

-       Faculty Tea is set for March 28^th at 4:30 to 5:30 pm at Pfenning Alumni Center. Still looking for invitations for faculty

-       Attended Student Board of Directors for Dining with James

-       Started digitalizing old documents

-       Meeting with Provost Wendy Hill tomorrow

-       Asking for representatives to be on the Accessibility Committee: committee regarding physical accessibility around campus

-       Meet with Dean D’Agostino about the peer mentoring program: program to assist incoming students with academic and admissions issues and questions

 

James Kugel – Campus Student Services

-       Had meeting with Sodexo board meeting, talked to Joe about spirit card, Joe will talk to Mitch Wein about potential contract issues

 

Georgia Papagianis – Multicultural Affairs

-       Called in for t-shirt ordering, awaiting response. Stugov will be ordering polo shirts (to be paid out of pocket by members).

-       Meeting with Multicultural Affairs committee Monday

 

Kiefer Cortez-Mecham – Representation

-       In the works of redoing the stugov bulletin boards

-       Talked to Jiselle Peralta, on the Advisory Committee for Assessment about making survey results available to students

-       Working on MyEaston project

-       Colleges Against Cancer interested in having a team for Relay for Life

 

Connor Heinlein – Student Life

-       FCC is planning “Kiss me, I’m a First-Year” St. Patrick’s Day event

-       Attended IFC/Pan-Hel joint meeting and requested co-sponsorship of this event

 

Warren Szewczyk – Student Organizations

-       Met with Joel regarding Lafayette film society’s constitution

-       Met with Andrew about Face Aids constitution

-       Met with Pam Brewer about procedural changes and easing transition between administrations

 

Adam Chernicoff – Regular Representative

-       Concert tickets are on sale now, $12 for a student, $25 non-students

 

Sean Grim – Regular Representative

-       Nothing to report

 

David Kafafian – Regular Representative

-       Reminded about Ski-a-thon this weekend

-       Attended final Dine 3/9 meeting

 

Kelly Sposato – Regular Representative

-       Nothing to report

 

Kathryn Tanenbaum – Regular Representative

-       Met with Kiefer to reorganize stugov bulletin boards

 

 

Motion to adjourn meeting

Motion: Cody

Second: Warren

Motion Carries

The meeting was adjourned at 9:24 pm

Faithfully Submitted,

Cody Daniel Zaccagnino