Senate Briefs

Senate Briefs

IMPORTANT STUFF
The Senate meeting opened with instructions from ASPC President Ari Greenberg ‘04 to pressure President David Oxtoby to share the cheesecake that University of Chicago gave to Pomona after our football victory. Senators then discussed the purpose and dates of their upcoming retreat.

COMMITTEES
Senior Class President Jacqueline Wong-Hernandez presented nominations for the Young Alumnus Committee, while Greenberg postponed the announcement of Speaker Committee nominations. Senators were then assigned to the Coop Committee and the Budget/Executive Committees for CCLA.

BUDGET ISSUES
ASPC Vice President Julia Stiglitz ‘04 announced that the CCLA decided to fund 60 percent of their requests for alcohol funds, as last year’s full support resulted in monopolization the budget. Members of the Rowing Club were present at the meeting to answer questions about their request for $10,000. The budget committee recommended $1,000, but Sports Commissioner Ashley Hovey ‘06 suggested that Senate raise the request to $1,500. Before the amended request could be passed, South Campus Representative Galen Benshoof ’06 suggested that the meeting be closed to non-Senate members for the voting. The Rowing Team, TSL writer, and Senate/Presidential Aids were asked to leave, but later it was determined that such a closure was not in accordance to the bylaws, and the meeting was re-opened. The amended motion was passed.

RLAC AGAIN
Residence Halls and Food Commissioner Karanda Bowman ’05 presented the final changes to the bylaws, which will be approved by a vote from the Student Body. Stiglitz made an impassioned plea for the resurrection of the title of Dorm President, and it was decided that the issue would be revisited at the end of the year.

TICKET PRICES
Senators then discussed the price of Jurassic 5 tickets for the upcoming concert. Greenberg wondered if students would be willing to pay $20 for the concert, and Sophomore Class President Chris Thompson insisted that the fifteen or so friends he had surveyed would indeed still buy tickets to the show. Others suggested that the price of tickets for the general public be raised.

THE END
The Claremont Colleges are still looking for a student to serve on the Claremont City Council, the 5C Presidential Council is holding meetings every other week, and Harwood Halloween tickets are now on sale. Communications Commissioner Tunji Balogun ’04 announced that ITS had developed a plan for helping study abroad students to regain access to their email accounts.