Minutes -- 02/06/01 General Meeting

General Minutes, 02/06/01

I. Attendance
II. Community Forum
	A. Org. Farm nature walk - Paloma
	B. Josh Marcuse has a ticket to Awadagin Pratt
	C. Students for a Sensible Drug Policy
		1. Looking to present a resolution for us to pass re: federal funding for 				higher education and the US drug policy.
		2. Prez is Aaron Craelius.
	D. BTBIV is coming Feb. 23-5. Space is limited; 30 other colleges coming.We 			need hosts, too, for the college kids coming. Blitz Deimosa. 					www.dartmouth.edu/~b4
	E. T-shirts coming tomorrow.
III. President's Remarks 
IV. Vice-President's Remarks
	A. Job descriptions - Erica Berman will write up descriptions of the jobs people 			have in SA.
	B. New Committees: 
		1. Off-Campus committee. We need 2 students.
		2. Res. Life Designs.
	C. For the next two or so meetings, we will be bringing amendments that may 			change the Constitution of the SA. So show up; quorum is needed!
V. Treasurer's Report - see agenda.
VI. Committee Reports 
	A. Academic Affairs - Mike Perry. It's all there.
	B.Admin Fac - see agenda.
	C.Communications - see agenda.
	D.Student Life - Molly Stutzman.
		1. Elliptical machines - in this week.
		2. Nothing else.
	E. Student Orgs - Meg Hitchner.
	F. Student Services - Jared Thorne.
		1. Still waiting for DA$H.
		2. DBA in Byrne - not looking good.
VII. Academic Direction of the College: an Update
	A. Mike Perry raps with us. Getting the survey out to the campus. Also, we are 			already dealing with the faculty.
	B. Varied responses from the profs - some love the research focus, some think that 			attention should not be taken away from teaching. But, they have suggested 		that research seems to make a bigger difference as far as tenure is concerned 		than does teaching. Profs would like to see more feedback with students.
	C. Hoping to get the final project out after the next few meetings.
VIII. Course Guide Unveiling
	A. 'Pdog' is Mike Perry's blitz nickname.
	B. We still have no way to make sure that those who evaluate courses are actually 			in the course; however, we can make sure that those who evaluate courses 			are Dartmouth students and are on that term.
	C. We will have a site administrator who censors entries, which will be 				anonymous. Also, since it requires Kerberos, profs can't access the site.
	D. We will begin with winter 2001 courses.
	E. http://cobweb.dartmouth.edu/~assembly/pcguide
IX. Discussion on the WCI
A. No chance to have more focused discussions; so, they're here today (the student members, anyway).
B. Splitting up into 6 groups for about 15 mins.....
X. Conclusion