SVA Student Life Meeting Notes
November 14th, 2012
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Welcome and Introductions
President- Sarah Brousseau sbrousseau@mica.edu
Secretary & Marketing Coordinator- McCallum Dickens mdickens@mica.edu
Advisor of SVA Student Life- Hayley Haywood hhaywood@mica.edu
• Short Introduction- Sarah
o Brief description of what SVA is and what we do. Encourage students to voice their opinions at any
point in the meeting.
o We have a packed but very interesting schedule for the meeting today, so we’re going to get started.
• Health and Nutrition Announcements & Updates- Sarah
o Guest Speaker- Dr. Bryant Ford, Associate Dean of Health & Wellness
• Approval to hire a Nutritionist to work for MICA- trying to find the best option now
• SHAC has meeting every Friday, where they talk about Health and Wellness all over
campus. Update from last week (half hour devoted to food).
-SHAC meets every other Friday in Bunting 207
-working with Parkhurst to bring in nutritionist, about December 29th. A student can
meet with the nutritionist for 15 to 20 minutes a day. Nutritionist will meet with
other student leaders and possibly have presentation on how to eat well and cook
healthy.
-SHAC has met with Justin (head of Parkhurst)- their meeting went well, and Justin feels
good about the nutritionist.
-SHAC is in process of creating a fb page.
-Also, the Fitness Center doing a survey about biking on campus, which they will use for
publication.
-Survey is also a raffle, so an entry might win a free bike.
-Students Of Sustainability announcement: trying to get Meatless Mondays to happen
Question related to Ergonomics in gym or classroom?
Answer by original ergonomics questioner: Classroom. How not to slouch.
Hayley Haywood: Aaron (wellness center) really wants to make a program out of it.
Sarah: Meet after meeting and we’ll figure something out.
• Student Accounts & Financial Literacy- Sarah
o Guest Speaker: David Zeit, Associate Director of Student Account Services & Jacob Joseph, Student
Accounts System Coordinator
§ Intro to Student Accounts
§ Introduction of Financial Workshop Student Accounts will be giving & getting student feedback
-David: should we go with paper or email for billing? We’ve been thinking about this for a year.
-emailed and contacted 160 undergrads with registration to help them out financially- MICA withdraws
2-3 students per/semester because they cannot afford it.
-Jacob: wants to do a workshop on how to pay for student loans.
-please contact BEFORE bill, not after.
-Career center working to get business literacy
-suggestion from student: it would be awesome if there were business classes offered at MICA.
-Suggestion from another student: students interested in using the MICArd as a credit payment system
for both meal plan and MICA store.
-David: will bring up in meeting.
Sarah suggestion: Thanks, how about if you tell the students where their money is going to.
Question from student: how would you envision the workshops being done?
Jacob: No idea. But that’s why I wanna meet with you guys, to see what you need. Feel free to send me
an email with input.
• Founder’s Green- Sarah
o Guest Speaker: Mike Patterson, Associate Dean of Student Life and Judicial Affairs
§ Presentation on our new way of addressing “The Commons”
-Leake hall=new commons
-Latrobe house= gatehouse
Spear hall= C2
-Carter hall=C3
-Glace hall=C1
Over all name: Founder’s Green
-First floor of C1 will have some studios, dining facilities, and do have such things the first floor of C1 will
be blown out.
-NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR FRESHMEN! Other students can use its facilities.
-GUARANTEED HOUSING for SOPHMORES
-Also mention web advisory committee! with some grads, teachers, but need undergrads.
-meeting once a month 3pm Wednesday
• Meyerhoff Basement- Sarah
o Guest Speaker: Hayley Haywood, Assistant Director of Student Activities
§ Presentation/ talk on the expansion of using the Meyerhoff basement as an active place on campus
§ Vote for a name of the space
-can be used for bands! MICApella! play the piano! can be signed out or walk in space!
-it’s all in the works.
-WE WANT YOUR OPINION! WHAT SHOULD WE NAME IT?
-(Fred has final say)
You got questions/suggestions email Student activities.
• Heating/AC- Sarah
• Guest Speaker: Tim Milner
• Presentation/talk on how the heating and AC systems work.
• Possible time to get feedback from students: possible ways of improving the system
-Tim: all buildings have a variation of the following:
-boilers in basement, hot water in basement goes throughout the entire building.
->turn off, have to drain entire building.
->can’t have both hot and cold water at same time because it messes up the systems.
->process takes several days to do.
->have to take out chiller and store it, then bring out boiler and unpack it.
-some buildings can take it- like Brown. But others buildings can’t.
-Commons are electrical.
Question from student: why are brown and bunting are messed up?
Answer from Time: *explained above again.
Question from student: Main 140 always blowing cold air. Why?
Answer from Tim: We’ll take a look at that. Maybe something is disconnected from the boiler.
Question from student: some of the outlets can’t handle two outlets, and my teacher doesn’t
have the authority to reset it.
Answer from Tim: if people keep reseting could start a fire. but he can train with us if he wants
to. We’d be willing.
Question from student: studio center, vents are always blowing cold air on the third floor?
Answer from Tim: we’ll look at that too!
• Announcements- Sarah
• MICA T-shirt Design Contest: due this Friday, November 16
• Guidelines:
-Must include "MICA" somewhere in the design
-Think in terms of what represents MICA as a whole
-Design should be no larger than 8x10
(and can only be on one side-front or back)
-Design should use no more than 3 ink colors
-Design should work functionally as a screen print
-You can select the color for your t-shirt at
http://www.americanapparel.net/wholesaleresources/colors.asp
• MICA is participating in a Hurricane Relief Drive with the Baltimore Collegetown Network to
provide support to people in the Northeast who were affected by Hurricane Sandy. Please work
with your organization’s members to collect items such as batteries, work gloves, cleaning
supplies, garbage bages and storage containers. Items should be dropped off to Student Activities
by Friday, November 30th. We really need your help to be able to help as many people as
possible!
• The MICA Food Truck – The Artist’s Palate is here!! If you haven’t seen it around, the Food Truck is
now circulating! Follow it on Facebook and Twitter to track where it is on a daily basis!
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/ArtistsPalate
• Twitter: @MICA_foodtruck
Animation Club shout out: MICA Animation is hosting a Reckit Ralph Meeting at around 2:30 for
the Inner Harbor showing.