7:03 p.m. | Council begins with a presentation by Director of Institutional Research David Davis Van Atta. Presentation is call “Is Vassar Really Co-Educational?”
7:12 p.m. | Van Atta shows Vassar profile of “Reasons for Going to College.” Top reasons are as follows: “Learn More About Things of Interest,” “Gain a General Education & APpreciation of Ideas,” “Become a More Cultured Person” and “Prepare for Graduate School.”
7:57 p.m. | Van Atta ends his presentation.
7:59 p.m. | Operations announces that filing for Freshmen Elections will begin on Sept. 15.
8:04 p.m. | Finance: “The VSA is in good financial health.”
8:10 p.m. | Student Life moves to endorse a Room Entry policy, which the VSA has been working on for “over two years.”
8:14 p.m. | Davison Moves to strike section 21, part 01c, which states “that the room entry procedure requires the security officer to make efforts to have a house officer and/or the house fellow/administrator present when the room is entered.” Many say that student fellows or house team members would not comfotable being present.
Town Houses: House members don’t want to be associated with that—that’s why we have Student Fellows and not RA figures.
Finance: When I was on the Student Life Committee last year, we saw this as a way for house team members to act on the student’s behalf, not as siding with security. This can add a measure of comfort for the student in question.
Noyes: “Would there have to be a house team member ‘on duty.’ I just don’t see how this would work.”
Student Life: “I did not mean for this to be an obligation.”
8:27 p.m. | By a vote of 23 to 1 this motion passes. The proposal has been adopted.
8:35 p.m. | Finance moves to allocate $2,000 from Council Discretionary to ActOut!
8:37 p.m. | ActOut! President Casey Katims ’10 moves to ammend the amount to $4,000, given an unexpected volume of interested participants, causing them to have to order a second bus for the trip to Washington D.C.
8:40 p.m. | Town Houses: “I hesitate to allocate nearly one-third of Council Discretionary Fund after only our second Council Meeting.” Last Sunday, the Council members allocated $5,000 to the Campus Shuttle.
8:44 p.m. | 2012: “I think $4,000 is a lot to ask for.”
8:48 p.m. | Katims moves to withdraw the original amendment and moves to amend the allocation amount to $3,000.
