7:01 | Attendance.
7:04 | Report from Director of ViCE Peter Denny ’10 about the Flaming Lips concert. According to Denny, several restaurants reported excellent business on the night of the concert April 17.
ViCE “more than broke even” in ticket sales, Denny say.ViCE earned about $3000 from the concert, though they are still calculating the final amount, and ViCE still has upcoming events, which some of the money will go towards.
7:14 | Report from Vice President for Operations Brian Farkas ’10: The 2010 Endowed Scholarship Fund has reached its goal and is on route to exceed it, he says. The senior class will be hosting a panel discussion called “Why Do We Need Financial Aid” on Thursday, April 29.
The VSA elections results party will be in the Retreat tomorrow, April 26, at 8 p.m.
7:17 | Report from VSA President Caitlin Ly ’10: “The College is close to an agreement with the county bus line.” The College will no longer run the campus shuttle during the week, but the VSA will continue to fund a weekend shuttle possibly on a more limited schedule. The county bus would not run students directly to the mall or to Stop&Shop, which the weekend shuttle will do.
The Old Laundry Building will be empty next year after development moves. As of right now, the space will be swing space–mostly office space–but the President is arguing for security to move into the building to have a presence in the center of campus or for the Computer Science Department to move onto the first floor.
7:24 | Decertification of Catalyst: “More of a merger than a decertification,” says Vice President for Activities Aaron Grober ’11. The magazine Catalyst will become the publication of the Student Activist Union.
7:25 | Decertification of the Investment Club: The Investment Club will be joining with the Entrepreneurs Club.
7:26 | Decertification of Red Panda: The Red Panda humor magazine has not published this year, and they have not indicated any plans to publish, says Grober.
7:28 | Vice President for Academics Stephanie Damon-Moore ’11 is introducing a referenda. The referenda will ask students whether they would prefer to call ‘correlate sequences’ ‘minors.’
The argument is that many employers do not recognize correlates on students’ resumes and the when students come to Vassar they don’t understand what a correlate is and how it differs from a minor at other colleges. According to Damon-Moore, minors already differ amongst colleges and universities.
The Council is debating whether to include an explanation of what a correlate is. Damon-Moore says that she wants to understand how students already understand the distinction between correlate and minor.
7:48 | Allocation of $1250 from the Conference Fund to Christian Fellowship is unanimously approved.
7:50 | Allocation of $1500 from Collaboration to Town Houses for their music event “In Da Circle.”
7:53 | Open discussion.
