Agenda
1. 5:45 pm – FOOD (thanks Ray!)
2. 6:00 pm – Welcome with Introductions
3. 6:05 pm – Announcements (Jess)
i. Minutes from 1/19/2011
4. 6:10 pm – Live Earth (Theo)
5. 6:20 pm – Funding (Krystal)
i. Pakistanis at Stanford
ii. The Science Bus
iii. Students Confronting Apartheid in Israel
6. 6:35 pm – Programming Update (Addy/Joanna)
7. 6:40 pm – GSPB Funding Approval (George/Krystal)
8. 6:45 pm – ASSU/SSE Update (Angelina/Kelsei/Raj)
9. 6:50 pm – Special Fees Bill (Stephen/Jon)
10. 7:00 pm – New Business
Attendance
Voting members present:
Business – Ping Li (proxy Xi Cheng present)
Education – Imeh Williams
Engineering – Joanna Lankester
H&S – Humanities – Praveen Shanbhag
H&S – Natural Sciences – Erik Lehnert
Law – Thomas Spahn
Medicine – Jessica Tsai
At-large representative – Tao Chu
At-large representative – Crystal Yin
At-large representative – Krystal St. Julien
At-large representative – Fanuel Muindi
Voting Members Absent:
Earth Sciences – Justin Brown
Engineering Rep – Yichuan Ding
At-large representative – Addy Satija
H&S – Social Sciences – Salvador Zepeda
Non-voting members present:
Anna Schuessler – Stanford Daily
Firas Abuzaid – SCAI
John Haskell – For fun
Angelina Cardona – Exec
Raj Bhandari – SSE Rep
Minutes
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1. 5:45 pm – FOOD (thanks Ray!)
2. 6:00 pm – Welcome with Introductions
3. 6:05 pm – Announcements (Jess)
i. Minutes from 1/19/2011
ii. Proxy Xi for Ping
4. 6:10 pm – Live Earth (Theo) – tabled
5. 6:15 pm – Funding (Krystal) – tabled
i. Pakistanis at Stanford
ii. The Science Bus
iii. Students Confronting Apartheid in Israel
6. 6:15 pm – Programming Update (Addy/Joanna) -
Imeh – We arranged for a DJ and have taken food and wine planned. Security is booked. Addy has a flyer. It’s in the Havana room. It will be Feb. 18th.
7. 6:40 pm – GSPB Funding Approval (George/Krystal) – tabled
8. 6:16 pm – ASSU/SSE Update (Angelina/Kelsei/Raj)
Angelina – At the faculty senate meeting, Justin talked about stipends, especially for international students with families. I spoke about mental health. The campus-wide newsletter came out yesterday. I want to highlight Executive Action grants, the info is on the e-mail, but it’s basically ways for groups to get funding for issue area solutions.
Raj – We’re having a sale before we open the new store. Tell people.
Angelina – People have been involved in ROTC. We’re going to present an advisory question to be on the election ballot in April as a good way of gauging student opinion. We’ll be presenting a bill in two weeks.
4. Funding – untabled
i. Pakistanis at Stanford – Hosting a traditional Pakistani brunch this Sunday. We requested money primarily for food.
Krystal – This group requested $500. We recommended $300 because they are 60% grad, 40% undergrad.
Funding for $300 passes by consensus.
ii. The Science Bus – Community service group does outreach lessons at Palo Alto schools. We did a field-trip to the San Jose Tech Museum, and the school couldn’t provide lunches for the students we were teaching, so we bought the kids’ lunches. We’d like to transfer $125.04 from programming to food for that event to cover it.
Transfer passes by consensus.
iii. Students Confronting Apartheid in Israel – SCA is requesting $300 for honoraria for a Palestinian author. We can’t book a venue until we get a venue, but everything else is set up.
Krystal – They are likely to get matching funds, so we recommended $300.
Tom – What’s the speech title?
SCA rep – What occurred during the war in Gaza in 2009, her personal experiences.
Jess – How many people do you expect?
SCA rep – 80-100
Imeh – I have concerns. Your group is making a very strong statement – it seems very political to me. I can imagine people being offended by this.
Tom – I think it’s less the talk itself, it’s more the group name. Would this be a welcoming environment for Israeli students?
Krystal – So when we were discussing this during funding meeting, this was described to us as a mother writing about her war-time experience, which we didn’t really see as a political event.
Rep – I invite you to come to the event to see if it’s offensive. We don’t think it is.
Two objections to funding by consensus.
7-2-2, funding for $300 passes.
iv. Stanford India Association – We’re having India Republic Day Celebration. We’d like to transfer leftover funds from Divali to this.
Krystal – We recommended $250 for food and $50 for programming.
Jess – Where is it?
Rep – The Havana room.
Funding for $300 passes by consensus.
7. 6:30 pm – GSPB Funding Approval (George/Krystal) – untabled – Lottery dinner Feb. 2nd, we’re requesting $375 from lottery dinner by-line.
Funding passes by consensus.
9. 6:32 pm – Special Fees Bill (Stephen/Jon) – N/A
10. 6:32 pm – New Business
Fanuel – We’re working on Diversity Week in Spring. We’re trying to collaborate with other diversity teams on campus to increase communication on campus. I’ll keep you guys updated.
Joanna – This weekend is the karaoke party in Friday – Hacienda lounge.
11. Future Fest is a fair about sustainable issues that we want to have on campus, including the art and design community. We want to bring in a much larger body besides the green community to solve these problems. We intend to have a 3-day festival in collaboration with SOCA, SCN, the Green Community, a lot of key green groups at the design school. It would be nice for us to present to the GSC to get input about what role grad students could play in VisionEarth. It’s going to be a larger festival with more opportunities this year.
We’re doing a retreat this Sunday, so if people want to be involved, please e-mail me ASAP.
Imeh – Can you send out a blurb that we can forward to our lists.
Jess- E-mail it to me and I’ll send it out.
Fanuel – How do you see grad students participating?
Rep – We’d like to bring more to the event and get them involved. We’d like to advertise to them and have a stronger collaboration with them in the future, getting the grads and undergrads to engage.
Jess – What is the festival?
Rep – FutureFest was a four-hour festival, and the point of the festival was to have people take a first step to solving green issues. Seeing demonstrations, hearing speakers and musicians. We also had a lot of content from faculty.
This year, the festival is taking sustainability problems and looking at them from a design and engineering stand-point.
Tom – You have access to so many people at Stanford – are you giving them an opportunity to solve problems and have a tangible output?
Rep – We were considering have a design bubble where people solve a problem in a given amount of time – a few hours – while people observe to see the process.
Krystal – That’s a really cool idea. A good way to ensure participation is to have people RSVP to do such an event so that they can plan around it.
Jess – NomCom sent out an application, please forward that. As a heads up, the offices under Boardman’s purview are up for review, so you’ll be hearing about that.
Angelina – We’re going to do another joint-legislative meeting at the end of the quarter during week eight. I’ve heard interest from Hennessy, Elam, and Boardman about coming. I also have to give a state of the association address at the same time, and hopefully they’ll give a state of the university address as well.
Meeting adjourned 6:43 pm.
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