4:34
pm
Absent: J. Alfonzo, M. Meshesha, J. Pereira,
M. Skorker, O.
Jimenez, C. Garvey, D. Mazza, R. Cahill, K.
Seipp
Arrived Late: None
Left Early: None
Guests: William Sherman, Jonathan Ring (Student
Trustee),
Daniel Rooney.
President Dalton announced the minutes for
March 30, 2004,
were accepted.
· President Dalton gave everyone a few
minutes to finish up their
Donna Tosches nominations. She also explained that a lot of
people were not here because they were
helping out at the
Women’s Dinner, which is at 7:00.
· President Dalton announced that Lee had
sent out information
to the people selected to go to the Board of
Higher Education
Institute Day.
· President Dalton had the scholarship
committee present the
criteria for the student government
scholarship. (1) Student who
has a G.P.A of 2.7, (2) Student must be
involved in any group or
club, (3) student must demonstrate financial
need, and (4)
Student must be involved in community
service. They want this
scholarship to be for students who really
need it; someone who is
working hard with an average G.P.A. and is
involved in any way.
They wanted it to be as less exclusive as
possible.
MOTION:
Vice President Batastini made a motion to except this
basic criteria for the
scholarship.
Higgins
(Unanimous)
Discussion: There were several concerns about making
these
criteria more defined. Things that we consider obvious may not be
so obvious to future
administrations. Dr. Brossoit suggested
putting
this motion through and
changing it next week to include specific
categories.
· President Dalton brought up Jonathan Ring’s
Part time student
proposal and we heard
from a part time student that Jonathan
had brought in. William, the Part time student, has been a
student here off and on
for 10 years. Several years ago he
could
not join the science fiction
club because of his part time status.
He feels that it would be beneficial for future students like him to be
involved. Chair King asked him if he
knew that part time students could be members of groups or clubs, just not
executive board members. William
welcomes that idea. Another student
asked if he would have the time to be an executive board member and William
answered that for some groups yes, but for others no. He would like to gain life experience, but on the other hand he
said that he does not have the time.
Jonathan Ring is going before the student life committee tomorrow and
asking them to postpone the discussion on this issue to offer more time for the
members to look over the information.
Dr. Brossoit asked if any students would still be here at the next
meeting and Jonathan said no because it is on May 26.
· Vice President Batastini announced that the
next group and
club meeting is on Thursday, April 8 and it
is Meet the
Candidates.
She will hold a short, regular meeting at 4:00 so meet
the candidates will probably begin at 4:15.
· Vice President Batastini also announced the
blood drive on
April 21 from 9-3. This is a required event so she sent around a
sheet for everyone to tell her when they
would be there.
Donating blood is also considered
volunteering. Help spread the
word.
· Vice President Batastini called on 4
volunteers to help post
flyers.
Since Secretary Spano asked last week if people could
come by and help and no one showed, she
figured she would
make people do it today.
· No report
· No Report
· Secretary Spano announced that she had sent
out an E-mail and
put a letter in everyone’s mailbox reminding
them that President
Harrington and all of her Vice Presidents
will be coming into our
meeting next week so it is important that
everyone show up.
· Secretary Spano also told everyone that she
knows people have
not been doing their office hours and it
hasn’t really been
enforced, but the end of the year is coming
up so we really need
everyone to start doing them, especially
since we are putting on
big events.
We need everyone’s help.
·
SENIOR SENATE
· No Report
·
JUNIOR SENATE
· Junior senate had a list of concerns that students approached
them with. One was the housing
lottery. Students with low numbers can
go sign up for a whole apartment, which is not fair for students with high
numbers who don’t already know 6 people that they want to live with. Another concern was that honors students can
just talk to Rod and he arranges housing, no matter what their lottery number
is. Vice President Batastini commented
that there is a building set-aside for honor students so they are not even in
the normal housing lottery. A third
concern was that they should have a separate lottery for students who wish to
live in the 21+ buildings. Dr. Brossoit
replied that they looked at what people signed up for in their building
preference form and there are enough rooms for 21+ students in those buildings
because that is what they already said they preferred. A fourth concern was that out of state
students should be guaranteed housing because they pay more tuition. Dr.
Brossoit explained that the dorm trust fund is separate so the tuition does not
go into the dorms. There is also
pressure from the legislature because they are concerned that it is not
appropriate to house out of state students because the money for the dorms
comes from Massachusetts bonds. Another
concern was the increase in the Spring Fling tickets. RHA had money and received money from finance. Senator Alexis explained that at the finance
meeting they explained that the prices for the room and food went up so the
tickets cost more. The last concern on
the list was why there is no change machine in the Bates Laundry room. Dr. Brossoit explained that the company will
only put machines in where they are secured 24 hours a day. So they reached a happy medium and put an
alternative in. There is a machine that
you put in money and get a card that is used for laundry.
· SOPHOMORE SENATE
·No Report
· FRESHMAN SENATE
· Freshman senators were concerned with the
lack of equipment
in the weight room. There isn’t much equipment and what they do
have is old and in bad shape. President Dalton will look into what
they can do about it.
· No Report
·
RULES
COMMITTEE
MOTION: Chair King entertained a motion to appoint
President
Dalton to the Rules
Committee.
Milan / Batastini (Unanimous)
· Chair King sent around the Alliance’s
constitution and commented on the small changes that were made to the election
part and to who can be involved.
· Chair King announced that everyone who
turned in their nomination packets was notified and they can start
campaigning. For those who were not
eligible, you can run as a write-in.
· Chair king reminded everyone that Thursday,
April 8 is Meet the Candidates, April 12 is no vote no voice, and April 14th
and 15th are the elections.
If you are not running see Chair King to sign up to work the polls or
help count the votes.
· STUDENT LIFE COMMITTEE
· Chair Boucher announced that she was will
be having a
meeting on Tuesday, April 13 at 4:00 and
they will be
coming up with a survey to find out
student’s favorite meals
so we can give some input to Chartwells.
· Chair Boucher also urged everyone to help
psych up the
birthday party.
· Chair Boucher had a student approach her
pretty upset
because she was not aware of the fee
increases. We
discussed several ways to make the students
aware of these
things.
Chair Boucher suggested making the Chair of
Student Life’s job include making the
students aware.
President Dalton explained that that is the
Chair of Public
relation responsibility and unfortunately we
do not have
one.
People suggested hanging flyers that say, “Have you
checked your minutes lately” or something
like that with the
web site and the office number on them. The minutes are
available on the S.G.A website and are
located in a binder in
the office.
It was also suggested that she hang up the
information on the fee increases and put
contact information
on it.
If enough people contact us then we can consider
holding an open forum.
·
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
· Academic Affairs will be meeting Tuesday,
April 13 at 7:00 in the presidential conference room. If this room is not available they will meet in the downstairs
lounge.
· GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
· No Report
·
JUDICIAL
AFFAIRS
· No Report
·
PUBLIC
RELATIONS
· No Report
· None
· Chair king brought up the Alliance
constitution now that everyone had a chance to look it over.
MOTION:
Chair king entertained a motion to accept the changes to
the Alliance constitution.
Alexis/ Williamson (Unanimous)
· Chair Lappas reminded everyone to register
to vote.
· Daniel Rooney commented on the fee
increases stating that it’s
never to late to let the people know. Students need to know; “If
they do not know, they can’t grow”(Daniel
Rooney).
· Jonathan Ring announced the Student Life
committee meeting
April 7th at 1:15 in the Alumni
House. They will be talking about
the part time student proposal, arming of
the campus police, and
the food service policy requiring meal
plans. There is also an
academic affairs committee meeting at 11:45
on the 7th at the
Alumni House also.
MOTION: Vice
President Batastini made a motion to adjourn.
Alexis (Unanimous)
SUBMITTED BY MICHELLE L. SPANO