Archive for March, 2010

Live blogging from the March 28 VSA Council Meeting

March 28th, 2010 by

7:00 p.m. | Attendance

7:02 | Committee Report from Board of House Presidents: Raymond: “We worked on the House Officer Expectation document, which we drafted based on what we think should be the expectations of the house officers. It was approved by [the Office of] Residential Life. In terms of fall training, we’re working with Residential Life to revamp fall training and also to figure out the best way to do training and transitioning this spring.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Live blogging from the March 21 VSA Council Meeting

March 21st, 2010 by

7:01 p.m. | Attendance

7:02 | Operations announces that filing for VSA spring elections will begin on April 14.

7:04 | Operations moves to amend Section 5 of the VSA Bylaws, which outlines the rules for student campaigning. “We’re simplifying it a lot,” says Operations, “and we’re making it a lot shorter than it used to be. Basically, we reorganized the passages, and various things that are repetitive have been taken out. The major differences are that we’re allowing the use of the internet—we thought it was realistically ridiculous that we didn’t allow the use of the internet. And because we’re giving candidates the power of the Web, we’re taking away fliering—we felt that it was a waste of paper, and it’s not worth doing. Instead, we are just going to give people posters that they can put up in main spaces on campus.”

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