Student Life Committe MINUTES

Minutes: This meeting covered a variety of different topics. After a brief welcome and the approval of the minutes, Kevin Schaffer and Hassen Al-Shawaf were unanimously voted in to be full members of the Student Life Committee.

The first order of business, the Gotta Gripe Survey, was briefly talked about and Joe announced that it must be completed by next week.
The second order of old business was the various subcommittee reports:
Campus lighting and safety is dealing with the problem of poorly lit signs on campus. Another idea was suggested of having "Blue light safe houses" around campus. This is where various, background checked places will volunteer to act as a safe house to pedestrians in need at night. A blue light would be on the outside of each safe house for easy recognition.
The second committee presented was the Condom Crawl committee. Most items of business have already been dealt with, but one main object left is a quote for the shirts. Rafid suggested, "We drink to we bust".
An idea of an environmental subcommittee was suggested that would deal with energy conservation issues, but the idea was not discussed fully.
Another idea of a 24 hour McKinley committee was suggested. This would deal with either keeping McKinley open on Sundays, or finding a way to keep Plan B pills available on those days. It was mentioned that whoever headed the committee would have to deal with Adam Bolonic (sp?) so it was then decided that it should be an total committee topic. There is a possibility that Joe will bring in a representative from McKinley next meeting for discussion.

The MTVU subcommittee was mentioned briefly. Apparently it is not marketing very well in other schools, so not a lot of outside information has been found. The debate around plasma TV's came up again. It would be a T.V for the office and it could display power points. Downsides: It can only play MTVU channel and might bring in unwanted people.
The discussion then turned back towards the Condom Crawl. Linnea stated that she is excited that she is on the Condom Crawl subcommittee. Two times for the crawl were mentioned: sometime after thanksgiving or sometime in February. Also the possibility of holding the crawl on Valentines day. Subcommittee Chair Lisa will get in contact with the bars to discuss the details of the crawl, including the issue of people under 21 getting into one\r\nparticular bar. Ruzic is currently holding onto the 5000 +/- 1 condoms. Someone mentioned that he'll use all of them and Blake responded, "Yeah right"; and Rafid said, "What, he'll masturbate in them?"; An email needs to be sent to everyone to see if they want to attend the condom crawl. A vote was taken and 9 out of the 9 people present at the committee wanted to attend the Condom Crawl. It was suggested that some would feel uncomfortable getting condoms from strangers, but it was also said that a uniform T-shirt would solve this.\r\nPossible t-shirt colors suggested were white, blue, light green, and "flamingo pink" by none other than Blake;. Other crazy ideas of having designer bags and passing out diaphragms were also brought up. A preliminary list of the bar route was formed. It was suggested as White Horse, Stations, Gullies, Legends, Murphy's, Brothers, Firehaus, Clyborne's,C.O's, and Kams. Advertisement for this event was suggested to be printed inthe Booze News. Someone must contact Laura Engle to do so.
The committee tabled the issue of resident halls interest\r\nsurvey to next week due to the unavailability of the survey.
The next order of business was parking ticket appeals. No\r\none currently seems to appeal any parking tickets. Seems to be people are not aware that they can appeal. It was suggested to print the phone number to\r\nappeal at the bottom of each parking ticket to increase awareness. Also, students do not seem to be aware of the campus AAA style service. The committee agreed\r\nthat this should also be publicized.",1] ); //-->T.V for the office and it could display power points. Downsides: It can only play MTVU channel and might bring in unwanted people.

The discussion then turned back towards the Condom Crawl. Linnea stated that she is excited that she is on the Condom Crawl subcommittee. Two times for the crawl were mentioned: sometime after thanksgiving or sometime in February. Also the possibility of holding the crawl on Valentines day. Subcommittee Chair Lisa will get in contact with the bars to discuss the details of the crawl, including the issue of people under 21 getting into one particular bar. Ruzic is currently holding onto the 5000 +/- 1 condoms. Someone mentioned that he'll use all of them and Blake responded, "Yeah right" and Rafid said, "What, he'll masturbate in them?" An email needs to be sent to everyone to see if they want to attend the condom crawl. A vote was taken and 9 out of the 9 people present at the committee wanted to attend the Condom Crawl. It was suggested that some would feel uncomfortable getting condoms from strangers, but it was also said that a uniform T-shirt would solve this. Possible t-shirt colors suggested were white, blue, light green, and "flamingo pink". Other crazy ideas of having designer bags and passing out diaphragms were also brought up. A preliminary list of the bar route was formed. It was suggested as White Horse, Stations, Gullies, Legends, Murphy's, Brothers, Firehaus, Clyborn's, C.O's, and Kams. Advertisement for this event was suggested to be printed in the Booze News. Someone must contact Laura Engle to do so.
The committee tabled the issue of resident halls interest survey to next week due to the unavailability of the survey.
The next order of business was parking ticket appeals. No one currently seems to appeal any parking tickets. Seems to be people are not aware that they can appeal. It was suggested to print the phone number to appeal at the bottom of each parking ticket to increase awareness. Also, students do not seem to be aware of the campus AAA style service. The committee agreed that this should also be publicized.
As an ending note, Joe stated that he will be making a speech at the main meeting next week about the role of the student senate. Joe wants to pass an amendment stating that in the event of a controversial issue within the student body, a winning vote, on any level, should not be open to discussion and further voting by the student senate. Last meeting it was voted that if there is less than a 10% spread between votes, the senate is allowed to\r\ndiscuss the topic.
Last, the issue of splitting the ballet for referendum questions\r\nand voting in senators was brought up. Currently, the senate wants to split the ballet worried that the referendum questions can be used to bias votes. It was agreed that having both issues on the same ballet is fair because this is how voting is done in the U.S.

The meeting was then adjourned.