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BY JACQUELINE SMALL

In print | Published September 30, 2010

Meeting with Dean Braun

Student Council representatives met with Dean of Students Liz Braun this week and discussed upcoming events between the dean’s office and the student body.

President of the college Rebecca Chopp and Braun will hold a fireside chat about goals for strategic planning at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 25 in Kohlberg lounge.

Simon Zhu ’11, StuCo president, said that this was the earliest date that both officials would be available.

There is also a fall study break scheduled to take place at Dean Braun’s house on Oct 29. Various a cappella groups will perform. Therre will also be crafts and pumpkin carving so that students will have an opportunity to relax and take a break from studying. Student Council will help the Dean’s office advertise this event.

E-mails to student body

Student Council recommended to Braun that The Phoenix not be allowed to send weekly e-mails to the student body.

The decision was reacheddespite a recent campus-wide poll that revealed only 22.8% of students believe the Daily Gazette should be the only news source with that privilege.

An additional 41.3% of students said they would like both the Daily Gazette and the Phoenix to auttomatically subscribe students to their daily digest.

Braun suggested that there should be a pilot program which would allow The Phoenix to e-mail the entire school for a semester or a year, and then decide which course of action should be taken.

“It’s certainly something we could look into … It does seem on the face of it that there is some sort of imbalance,” Zhu said.

Campus Life Representative Elizabeth Bryant ’13 expressed concern that it would be hard to measure the success of such a program, and other StuCo members were unsure about how to stop The Phoenix from sending out e-mails once the privilege had been granted, if the pilot were unsuccessful.

Vice President Deivid Rojas ’11 said a clear policy should be set up about authorization to automatically subscribe e-mails of the entire student body.

“Simon and I’s [sic] point was … We need some kind of policy or guidelines about who and when can send out e-mails to the student body,” said Rojas.

Student Council ultimately voted to stand behind their decision to oppose giving a mailing list to The Phoenix, but decided to encourage “comprehensive dialogue” about the issue.

Parrish Board space update

Student Groups Advisor Anna Stitt ’13 sent out an e-mail to the student body last week asking that representatives of student groups request board space in Parrish Hall. She gave the groups a deadline of this Friday.

StuCo said they would discuss the details of updating the boards at their next meeting.

Dash for Cash

Dennis Fan ’11, the captain of the men’s rugby team, attended the meeting to ask StuCo for advice on how to reinstate the Dash for Cash. The Dash was a bi-annual tradition of streaking through Parrish Hall that was prohibited last year after complaints about other instances of streaking by the rugby team.

Though the captain admitted that “lots of things went bad, lots of things went awry,” he said the Dash for Cash is “a part of campus tradition, and a safe form of campus nudity.”StuCo suggested the rugby team gauge students’ opinions about the event, but tabled the discussion until next week.

Short-term Goals

Student Council voted to put forth a television repair initiative, a laptop sharing program, and a student resource for those planning events on a list of short-term goals.

StuCo also intends to meet with Linda McDougall, the director of dining services, to discuss possible initiatives involving food. Some of these initiatives include using meal points in the Ville and providing organic food in Sharples.

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