ASA Minutes 12/2/08
Attendance: Keone, Rachel, Rishi, Nan, Shan, Dylon, Leonid, Zhou, Paul
2.5 hours

Fire Alarm
Vote to ignore fire alarm falls to floor, meeting moved to 5-233

Welcome Dylon and Leonid!
Vote to put what we said we'd do at GBM into effect (officially): yes

[Note: Last year we recognized a bunch of groups, but entered them
into the database as provisional (due to database defaults).]
Move all groups recognized before '08-'09 school year (except living
groups) that signed the hazing form this year to funded status. This
includes ~100 groups that are currently considered provisional, but
that essentially have been operating as full groups: pass 8-0-1
(8?! wow.)

Clean up website, make application easier for groups that just want
unfunded status: Zhou
ugh, need to update old database, even though it's barely worth the
diskspace on its  ~worthless server: Rachel

New Groups:
Students for Bhopal, MIT: unfunded 7-0-2
Platypus, MIT: unfunded 9-0-0
Sojourn Collegiate Ministry: unfunded 9-0-0
MITRAAS: funded 7-0-2
UAV Team: sponsored [by Course 16/Edgerton], funded 9-0-0 contingent
on getting sponsorship letters
OpenLabWare: funded 8-0-1
Libertarian Assoc, MIT: funded 8-0-0
Chinese Ensemble, MIT: funded 8-0-0
Networks Initiative, MIT: sponsored by MIT System Design and
Management Program (SDM), funded whiteballot
Dorm Electricity Competition: unfunded 9-0-1

What to do about all the religious groups? Currently there are 30, 10
of which are Christian. Hillel has O(10) subgroups for each of its
'denominations'. Ideally the Christians would do the same (we get a
new one applying every term ..). Chaplain doesn't want to deal with
it. We could get a group of students to do it .. that's harder than
for sports/charity stuff, though, since the group would have to be
balanced in terms of diversity.

Greek IV: Leonid will send mail
MIT Student Research Assoc: Leonid will send mail

Zhou: postering violations .. we could fine them. In any case, we
should update our own board.
Recruitment rules: do we want to keep them or not? We can deal with this later.

-Rishi