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Housecomm (11-29-06)

Attendance: all here

• Grunging: Halls will be charged if grunge crews have to come. Don't leave shit in hallways and stairwells. Talk to joe g if you're going to put furniture in the lounge. Put stuff to be grunged in wood and goodale basements, near the wall.

• Bad Ideas: Sunday meeting 10pm

• Ec retreat: 3rd weekend of iap. snaggs is in charge

• Fuseball tables: nobody cares about fuseball, will donate to halls

• Pool table: people play pool so we don't want to get rid of the pool table.

• Soccomm: will get kitchen and grill supplies, tell Mandie what you want.

Meet the Candidates:

• VP Candidates--
  • Mandie Holmes: Soccomm. Has worked on a billion projects with a billion student groups, like Dormcon.
  • Jenn D'Ascoli: Current EC treasurer. Organized. Also worked with a bunch of student groups. Vagina Monologues for example.
  • Laura Martini: Current VP. Really likes the job. 1 year of experience. Also VP of Dormcon.

• Pres Candidates--
  • Sarah Hopp: Junior from 5th East. Really likes EC. REX chair last summer. Knows lots of admins.
  • Sean Morton: Junior from 2nd East. Used to be a frat boy, but changed his ways. Rush Chair last year. Wants dorm-wide unity.

Grilling the candidates:

Q=question M=Mandie J=Jenn L=Laura Sa=Sarah Se=Sean

• Q:How hosed are you guys?
  • M: sub director for lsc, president of APO, 64 units
  • J: 56 units, producing vagina monologues, class council
  • L: usually 48-54 units, dormcon
  • Sa: VP of APO, some classes, will be here in the summer
  • Se: classes, UROP

• Q: will you be here this summer?
  • all will be here this summer, except Martini. She doesn't know yet.

• Q: Balancing # of freshmen, policies on assigning freshmen?
  • M: she said lots of stuff
  • J: balance is important
  • L: Sometimes you can't avoid imbalance.
  • J: Important to leave rooms open on a variety of halls. Maybe it's okay to give freshmen their 3rd choice sometimes instead of their 1st choice.
  • L: Disagrees because she wants freshmen to have their highest choice. Also, transfers know what rooms are available when they accept the transfer.

• Q: What will you do when shit hits the fan?
  • Sa: when any conflict arises i would want the community to get together and discuss it then the house team then the COD and housing.
  • Se: Important to keep things internal if possible.

• Q: Specific plans?
  • Sa: work more with the arc/uap to see if we can reduce orientation and rush event conflicts. Another thing, we need a better pet policy. Need a list, a way to deal with cats that are unhealthy and sad. Encourage more ec events outside of drinking at parties.
  • Se: Promote interhall communication. Try to alleviate grunging problems and fire inspection problems w/ Joe G.

• Q: plans for a mediation panel?
  • Se: wants to "take the initial measures to help mediate any conflict"
  • Sa: thinks it's the pres' responsibility to either mediate or figure out who can mediate. Mediation workshops.

• Q: How to organize students w/o alerting house team?
  • Sa: town meeting. talk to hall chairs.

Done!