7:00 p.m. | Attendance
7:02 | President introduces special guest Vice President for Computing and Information Services Bret Ingerman, who announces that “starting in the fall of 2010, you will not be able to plug in a phone in your room,” says Ingerman. “For life safety issues, we’re going to be installing hall phones in every residence halls.”
7:07 | Ingerman explains that this year was the first that the College didn’t offer long distance telephone service in residence halls. This saved the College approximately five to 10 thousand dollars, says Ingerman, who adds that removing phones completely from each individual room will eventually save the College up to one quarter to one half a million dollars.
7:13 | “We’re about to engage in a study about cell phone service in specific residence halls,” explains Ingerman, saying that the College hopes to locate the weakest service points on campus.
7:24 | Council representatives report various problems with VPrint to Ingerman.
7:31 | Students ask Ingerman if there is a fax machine on campus available for student use. While Ingerman did not know of one and felt that the demand for a public fax machine would be relatively low, Alyssa Pabalan ’10—Student Assistant to the President and Career Development Office (CDO) intern—explains that there is in fact a fax machine for students in the CDO.
7:52 | Finance moves to allocate $1000 from the Council Discretionary Fund to Pro-Health for their annual Relay for Life event this spring. Motion passes unanimously.
7:54 | Finance moves to allocate $1000 from the Hosting Fund to the Vassar Prison Initiative for the 2010 Green Haven Reunion. Motion passes unanimously.
8:00 | Finance moves to allocate $1000 from the Council Discretionary Fund to 2010 to aid the Daisy Chain in purchasing dresses for this spring’s commencement ceremony. Motion passes.
