Student Congress General Meeting
14 October 2014
9:00pm-10:00pm
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Old Business
a. Can anyone take the Curriculum Committee Spot, Thursday’s at 11am,
as well as the Academic Computing Committee? If so, email Andrew or
Rochelle.
New Business
a. Clothesline Project- Week of October 30th, but the t-shirts are due
Thursday.
i. It’s on Us to STEP Up?
ii. If anyone wants to help, please email Rochelle.
b. Dining Services will be here next week, and we would like to focus on
a few things and as a congress vote on those things now.
i. The scramble system- why was it taken out of Phelps?
ii. Food options and quality over breaks, as well as how/why
meal plan is not an option during breaks.
iii. Dining hall hours in general
c. Parking Structures
i. Jean Luc and others are writing a proposal to bring more
parking options to the table, and they will keep up updated on
how that proposal is going. If you have and
questions/comments/concerns please feel free to email them
about it.
d. Parking Overnight in Holland
i. Can we contact the City of Holland to try to park in the streets
overnight again? If we did contact the city, would that help
with the on campus parking problem?
Board and Committee Updates
a. Academic Affairs Board- Shiku attended the Ad Hoc committee to
define what a credit hour was. They are discussing the occurrence of
student being unaware of how much time they should be spending on
homework outside of class.
b. Assessment Committee- Approved the HEAD survey which is looking
to overtake the SALT surveys in the future.
c. Curricular Committee- there is a new course in the Kinesiology
department  medical terminology. The Leadership department has
changed names of courses, and eliminated the minor.
d. Cultural Affairs- The committee went through budgets, and had to cut
some budgets to keep their overall budget sound. Go to their events!
Task Force Updates
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a. Internal Strengthening-The committee has picked out apparel options.
i. They have decided on a Hockey sweatshirt, which would be
around $33 (if 20 people decided to get them), and we are
voting on a t-shirt option as well. The t-shirt will be white, with
Hope College Student Congress in Orange with a big blue
anchor behind it.
b. Campus Relations- This Friday after Chapel around 10:55am the
committee will be passing out Cranes donuts for all students.
c. Community Relations: Relay for Life is fast approaching!! We are
really close to our goal of $2250, and we are at $2100. We are in 3rd
place over all.
i. Our big group fundraiser will be a Late Night Pizza sale
tentatively on November 6th around 9pm. The task force will
send out a sign up sheet when the date comes closer, look for
updates from them! Prices will depend on how much the pizza
costs.
ii. Next week there will a sign up sheet for the time that people
will be walking on the track.
iii. Keep Fundraising!!
iv. Dance Marathon will be starting up very soon, and we have the
same family Chloe!!
d. Sustainability- Green Team met, and on November 17th there will be a
sustainability 101 event to inform students on how to be greener. The
green team would like to endorse Smith Cottage, so student are aware
of this new cottage that is totally green. Hope is also pairing up with
Black River Schools to create a community garden. Hope and Megan
met with CIT to go over the computer and printer issues.
i. There is a lot of debate and things to talk about so we will try
to plan a meeting for CIT to come in and talk to us.
Appropriations Committee
a. Anything that is approved through the appropriations committee that
is over $1,000 needs to be approved through general congress as well.
i. The first Ad Hoc is Dutch Budget of $1,800 was requested by
Dean Frost and the Administration. Passed by congress.
ii. The second was for Dance Marathon Requested a stipend of
$1250 for a fourth director of their dream team. It came from
their advisor in Student Development. Passed by congress.