“Dirty Tower” played at 4:48PM
Meeting called to order: 4:49PM
Donita Pace- Housing Update
• Toilets are still not working.
• Room draw. You’re all 3 months too early to worry about room draw. Waiting to see construction updates.
• New dorms should cost about as much as dortstein.
• Construction Update
o Electric is funky. Outages are scheduled for 4-6 hours, mid-day. Pei, dortstein, and Hamilton center at different days. Should be warned 48 hours in advance.
o Pouring concrete on V & W. Should begin at about 4AM late exam week.
• Residence Life Committee
o Made recommendation for new furniture. “Its really exciting.”
• AnneMarie asks if we should defrost our refrigerators in preparation for power outage.
Alum Mike LeChay (’85)- Bicycle Pedestrian Advocates
• Get bike lanes on 41.
• 4-foot bike lane would have been horribly expense because you’d need to move pipes.
• 10 foot lanes, not 12 foot lanes, this would
• take 3 lanes and turn it into 2 lanes and a bike lane.
• Asks the NCSA to formally support it, and advocate to get the whole of New College administration to approve it as an institution.
• www.Walkable.org cited as source of information.
• Sara Grimme asks about semi-truck traffic and how this would effect deliveries to New College.
• David Banks asks about the University & 41 intersection. Roundabout is proposed, but regardless: it’ll still be safer than it is now.
Rev. D Campus minister
• Universal Unitarian Church. Local congregation needs some people to sing Jingle Bells. Meet 9:30 Sunday morning in front of Ham for a ride.
*Acappellego Sings “Don’t want no short people around here”*
• They are fantastic.
• They are performing in fish bowl this Friday in the fishbowl at 8.
Collin Roughton- Wall start time
• Last time he proposed that we start walls earlier so they would end earlier.
• Sent out a survey on SurveyMonkey.com.
• Majority wanted it to start earlier.
• Plurality (37%) wanted it to start at 11.
Sarah Grimme and Laura Mohai- EPC committee update
• Lately, have been discussing an “academic master plan.” Plan on how
• Faculty think the first years are not prepared for the amount of freedom they have. They also don’t have good writing, research and grammar skills.
• Dinner Discussion about admissions in the GDC coming up.
• Keep a look out for surveys.
PCP- Sponsors
• Calder has a crazy plan to flood palm court for PCP.
o Ron asks for lifeguards.
• Laura Wienkle proposes Nightmare Before Christmas PCP.
• Melanie Melfayete proposes free love PCP. Age of Aquarius.
• Marissa Krumm sponsors “no PCP”
• David Banks motions to move to vote. AnneMarie seconds. Discussion: Calder Yates says that if the “water thing” doesn’t work out he might try packing peanuts.
• Final vote: All figures approximate
o 36 (Marissa)
o 16 (Laura)
o 72 (Calder)
o 0 (Melanie)
Anthony & Isaac’s new cabinet update:
• Almost finalized. Have one more talk to have.
• There will be new positions and new rules
Calder’s announcement
• Calder makes joke: He was kidding, he won’t throw PCP. Will honestly make a good-faith effort.
• Calder will send out an email in 2 weeks, with a status update.
Geneivive Lukhart- Recycling TA
• A lot of people don’t know where to start when it comes to recycling.
• There is no “go-to” person. The job is usually given to other people.
• The money will come from
• Marissa Krumm makes motion to move to vote. Seconded by Calder Yates. Motion to create Recycling and Compost TA position. Motion passes with strong majority.
Carly Grimm- CAA allocations
• Allocated $6000 for 28 students
• Hosting a dinner in the GDC tomorrow with free pizza at 5PM. Admissions material legitimacy.
Lauren Cardella- Not happy about the banners
• Sad about the “express yourself” banners. Got a great opportunity, and we decided to write defamatory statements.
Calder Yates- Over $500 SAC allocations
• Coalition of Imokolee infoshop
• Field day
• Green energy extravaganza.
• Madison rose requested a pick-up truck.
“It’s me again.” Japanese club/Chinese language.
• No one on the faculty could sponsor something about Japan.
• Wants to get a group together to practice annunciation and tone of Chinese language.
Max ferretii election systems
• Wants to rewrite the election codes to include approval voting.
o Approval voting is superior to plurality voting in game theory scenarios. But it does have a problem with majority voting problems.
o Absentee voting: overly complicated. Computer validation system, and several other overly complicated things.
o According to the election codes, revisions must be brought to towne meeting
o Someone asks if instant run-off voting would be better. Max says it would be better in some ways, but it would also be overly complicated.
Donita: flash toilet update:
• It is now safe to flush toilets.
Marissa Krumm
• Last required towne meeting.
• Its been a crazy year. (Listed a shit-ton of problems.) But also a lot of good times.
• Reminds everyone: there have been a lot of ups and downs, but a lot of small steps to legitimize student voice and secure our status as arbiters of discussion.
• This year has been a very different year than any other year I’ve been president. Everyone has a different idea of New College: you learn not to listen to it. What makes New College great is the fight for our voice.
• Don’t think the NCSA is your only voice. If you want to paint your dorm rooms, let’s talk about it. Make appointments with administrators to talk about your issues.
Motion to adjourn by Christa. Seconded. Motion passes. At 6:17PM.
