Senate Briefs

ROUND ROBIN
ASPC President Ari Greenberg opened Tuesday’s meeting by asking Senators to summarize their recent committee work.

Subjects included CCLA’s upcoming parties, changes in library hours, laundry bins, academic honesty, volunteerism, freshmen dinner, patio furniture, senior class t-shirt designs, location for the Junior-Senior Social, study abroad return parties, club sports, various Senate pillars, TSL and KSPC application due dates, environmental issues, senate forums, and an incredibly bizarre scripted conversation with North Campus Representative Adam Gardner serving as a proxy for Academic Affairs Commissioner Kyle Warneck.

MIXING IT UP
ASPC Vice President Julia Stiglitz then presented a request to the Budget Committee from Cameron Berg ’05 for turn tables. Stiglitz and Berg explained that the current situation placed the burden on CCLA to borrow turn tables from individual students for events like Table Manners. Usually, CCLA borrows turntables from Berg, which would be impossible next semester when Berg was abroad.

Berg requested $2000, $500 of which would be paid for by CCLA and $500 by Office of Student Affairs, leaving a $1000 request for Senate. A motion to fund the entire $1000 with Senate’s Reserves was unanimously passed.

SPEAKERS
Communications Commissioner Tunji Balogun ’04 then presented a schedule for the rest of the year’s speakers.

The current plan, including Eric Cassell, a Presidental Proxy Debate, Bob Reich, Margaret Cho, Dana Priest, and a Queer Marriage Debate, would leave approximately $5500 in the fund for the rest of the year, leaving the possibility for one more speaker.

TO SNOW OR NOT TO SNOW?
“Who wants snow day?” asked ASPC President Ari Greenberg.
After an initially unenthusiastic response, Senators eventually agreed that Pomona College’s $3000 tradition (of which ASPC funds cover $900) of bringing 15 or perhaps 150 tons of slushy ice to Marston Quad as a study break during Reading Days was indeed a valuable investment.

Sophomore President Chris Thompson, admitting that he spent most of his days with freshmen, said that he thought that the event was important to underclassmen.

After persuasion from South Campus Representative Galen Benshoof, Greenberg asked for a vote. Six were in favor of the snow, zero were opposed, and six abstained. Greenberg, clearly frustrated with these responses, conceded that the tradition would continue.