ASPC President Brian Andrews ’01 announced a change in plans for Ski and Beach Day; participants will be going to Big Bear instead of Mountain High for the skiing portion of the day. The location was changed because Mountain High couldn’t guarantee all of the rentals needed. Andrews noted that although Big Bear has fewer slopes, they are, for the most part, better quality. Sign-ups are not going as well as expected; Andrews encouraged senators to encourage people to go.

Student Affairs Committee (SAC) has decided to do a trial run of having a student serve as its chair. The rationale behind this is that because the SAC is defined as a student-faculty organization, it makes sense to at least try this out. North Campus Senator Grayson Schaffer ’01 will serve as SAC chair for the next meeting.

The ad hoc Committee on Social Responsibility still has three spots open for student members. Riley Lipschitz ’03 and Jacob Sloane ’02 have both expressed interest in serving on it. Andrews expressed an interest in approving those two students without a vote. Schaffer noted that he had been told that he couldn’t be on the committee before he even applied. Andrews responded that he didn’t think Schaffer would be the best person, but advised him to go ahead and fill out an application form. There were no objections to approving Lipschitz and Sloane.

The Faculty Service Auction is still scheduled for Wednesday, February 28. Assistant Dean of Campus Life Frank Bedoya will be among those auctioned off.

Commissioner of Campus Events Julie Kern ’01 announced that the Booty! party will be on Friday. The deadline to register on the Booty website was Tuesday at midnight. Another senator asked why the deadline was so soon and Kern replied that she didn’t know.

Smiley 80s will be next weekend. There will be a live band.

Spring Formal plans are underway, but a location has not yet been selected.

Asked how CCLA is doing with its budget, Kern said that they are not doing so well for this semester. They are fine for right now, but she said that they need to start cutting back. Asked to evaluate last semester’s programming efforts, Kern said that there had been 91 nights of programming. CCLA lost quite a bit of money on films due to unfortunate circumstances. She is happy with the way that Harwood Halloween turned out.

Senior Class President Lauren Shawn ’01 announced that their budget is in good shape. Speakers have been selected for both Commencement and Class Day. The Commencement speaker will be Garrick Utley. Shawn said that he is supposed to be an amazing speaker; his recently published book is on The New York Times bestseller list. Senior Salute will be on March 1. It is a party for seniors and that is where they will get their caps and gowns.

The new TSL constitution was passed out to the senators. TSL Editor-in-Chief Nora Lawrence ’01 said that they had followed the ASPC constitution guidelines to the book in composing it, and that TSL wants people to understand that they are a student organization.

South Campus Senator Adam Rick ’02 said that the Senate doesn’t normally pay such close attention to constitutions in the budgetary process. He wanted to limit Senate’s involvement with the paper by formally changing the nature of the relationship between the Senate and TSL. He said that the Senate should no longer appoint the Editor-in-Chief and should not directly review TSL’s constitution.

Off-Campus Senator Omayra Ortega ’01 wanted to clarify that money used for the joke issue, even if it came out of TSL ad revenue, was still Senate money, since it resides in the same account and is earned using Senate resources. She said that she wanted the constitution to guarantee that the joke issue would not be the last issue of the semester.

North Campus Senator Grayson Schaffer ’01 reiterated that ad money cannot be separated from Senate money. He said that there are problems with allowing anonymous articles that should be addressed in the constitution.

TSL News Editor Dan Check ’01 said that the newspaper needs the discretion to allow anonymous articles in important cases where a source might face retribution.

Andrews ’01 said that in order to have real discourse, there needs to be a person to respond to.

Check replied that the ideas in an anonymous article live on and can be attacked in letters to the editor, whereas the author of the article could not be physically attacked for his or her ideas.

TSL News Editor Scott LaBoda ’01 argued that the reason TSL has an Editorial Board is to have decisions about anonymity made on a case-by-case basis by journalists. He contended that the Senate should not be micromanaging the newspaper, as it is by the current attempts to alter and amend policy-specific items in TSL’s constitution.

Sports Commissioner Nick Grudin ’01 said he wants the Editorial Board to take responsibility for anonymous articles.

Schaffer said he wanted the constitution to set out what type of situation deserved anonymity. He suggested creating bylaws for the newspaper.

Commissioner of Environmental Affairs Pamela Grewal ’03 said that would be micro-management and the Senate should not try to play Editor-in-Chief. She said the Editorial Board is accountable.

Shawn said that the constitution should stipulate who is responsible if something goes wrong within the paper.

Junior Class Representative Jake Oken-Berg ’02 insisted that it was inappropriate to have this level of discussion about TSL. He called it mixing of media and government and said, "it’s none of our business."

Dean of the Campus Center Neil Gerard said that the Senate should determine how they want to define who the paper’s publisher is. He suggested that the discussion should focus on what the relationship between the Senate and TSL should be.

Andrews asked to hold off on the discussion of the constitution in order to pursue a discussion of TSL’s relationship to the Senate. There was a general agreement to move the conversation in that direction.

Lawrence asked that the Senate treat TSL like any other organization.

Oken-Berg asked whether or not the Senate by-laws sufficiently defined the relationship between the Senate and TSL.

Lawrence said yes, but indicated that the current rules are not being observed.

Managing Editor Connor Friedersdorf ’02 said that the Senate should respect TSL’s good faith effort to put forth a reasonable constitution.

Schaffer asked for a subcommittee to work on creating TSL by-laws, but Rick said that would put the Senate in the position of writing the constitution for TSL.

ASPC Vice President Ellen Lin ’01 wanted to see a constitution that would prevent future abuse. Some senators said that TSL has a special function and therefore could not be treated like a regular organization.

Oken-Berg said that the Senate, officially through the Print Media Committee (PMC), has too much involvement with TSL. Gerard suggested that the Senate investigate how other schools structure their relationships to campus publications.

Lawrence said that the PMC needs to meet more often, given that it is almost non-existent this semester.

Andrews closed the meeting, noting that he would be out of town during the next session.