IOWA STATE
UNIVERSITY
2014-2 Session
September 30, 2014
Government of the Student Body
University Affairs Committee
Meeting Minutes
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Chair: Neil Vezeau (Interim)
Vice Chair: --Committee members:
Megan Sweere (Business)
Aaron Brown
Bethany Ernsick
Abbie Lang (UROC)
(Campustown)
(At-Large)
Neil Vezeau (IRHA)
Peter Myers (IRHA)
Cody West (At-Large)
Paul Kaufmann (UROC)
Parijat Shukla (GPSS)
Reagan Huber (At-Large)
Kathryn Leidahl
Carlton Stripe (Dir. of UA)
Katy Roat (At- Large)
(Panhellenic)
Nick Terhall (Dir. of SA)
Committee members in attendance: Sweere, Vezeau, Kaufman, Leidhal, Brown, Shulka,
West, Roat
Committee members tardy:
Committee members absent: Myers (Excused), Ernsick (Excused), Terhall (Excused), Stripe
(Excused), Lang (Excused)
Gallery: Robert Dunn, Evan Abamsky, Michael Plantenberg
Location: MU 2210
Meeting called to order: 7:30
Meeting adjourned: 8:28
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Reagan: Nothing new for projects
Leidhal: Feed my starving children: President Kletscher likes it. GSB can be involved in it. We should
spearhead it. Talked with Financial Representative Behnke about CyServe wanting to do it as well.
Dunn: Disability resources won’t cover for testing on-campus for disabilities. Hard for people without
insurance to find out if they’re eligible for disability services. Every single big 10 schools have testing for
this that they cover. Doesn’t know about big 12. Is this something that we can look into? We need to
provide this resource as a basic necessity.
Shulka: Mental disorders can be very tricky to take care of.
Vezeau: We basically need to get Thielen some money.
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Kaufman: Free speech zone expansion bill will go to first read of senate this week. Will try to get free
speech for club. Going to talk to NORML about this.
Sweere: Want to get more tables in the library want to ask people where they want more tables, what
rooms.
Plantenberg: Should talk to student advisory council about it.
West: Talked about art fair w/ Allison.
Leidhal: Youth and shelter services might be a good charity for art fair proceeds.
Roat: Want to talk to student activity center for smiles committee. Get system just in university to rate a
professor. Will be a fair system.
Brown: Can foresee problems with students messing with professor’s ratings.
Abramsky: System will get mostly extreme responses.
Roat: People do it so they can get better professors next time: not just extremes.
Shulka: Wrote letter to Susan Rhoades about general tutor project.
Vezeau: Working on study buddy system and solving tutor problem. Want to get bike racks for bus
stops.
Brown: Study buddy system, join a mailing list of people: ad-hoc mailing list.
Roat: Look into blackboard getting this.
Vezeau: Planning campus safety walk as well.
Sweere: Look into getting more lighting in certain areas.
Vezeau: Let’s have a day and night campus safety walk.
Shulka: in India, people can take pics of problem areas in public infrastructure and upload it. Could add
this to MyState app which would enable get GPS location of area
7:54 Split up to work on projects individually. Re-adjourn at 8:21.
Motion to Adjourn: n/a (informal Adjournment)
Seconded: n/a
UC Called
Adjourned at 8:28
Respectfully Submitted to Interim-Chair Vezeau by Neil Vezeau on October 1, 2014
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