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DormCon Meeting Minutes - May 17, 2006
Welcome & Welfare (6:00)
- Present: Baker, Burton-Conner, EC, MacGregor, McCormick, Random, Senior House, Simmons
- Absent: Bexley, New, Next
UPDATES (6:05)
Housing
- Robin gave out Guide to Residences and i3 video
- freshmen should have gotten them or within the week
- anticipate contact from freshmen with questions
- meeting tomorrow with MIT cable people - Dennis Collins:
- want to know what students what ex. pay for channels and which channels etc.
- we are MIT we should have sci-fi and sports (ESPN, NESN)
- would we pay by dorm?
- low cost would be the best/most promising
- looking to expand because students want more channels
- Harvey thinks maybe we could scale back the channels we get now in our rooms and then get more in the common spaces
- send furthur thoughts to Jamie <jamier>
Dining
- met with Rich, Marietta, dining halls will be open during orientation
- SLOPE: pay for dining for upperclasmen and parents
- shutting down smoothies in Alpine and setting up a Dunkin Donuts while Thai place is going in Lobdell
JudComm
- revised procedures got approved last week
- next step is Ian's job
Risk Management
Student Groups
- Senate last meeting on Monday
- bill passed where doubles in Simmons would cost the same as a double in EC for the differing socio-economic classes
- Robin doesn't know anything - UA planning to go to higher people
- Jeff says do people actually pick dorms because they are cheaper?
- people have heard this has happened
- Problem where EC and Random are the hardest to get into and they are the cheapest
- Shauna thinks valiant effort - doesn't know how successful it will be
Laundry
- College Bellhop - Baker, Random, Simmons - no ; BC, MacG, McCormick, EC, Senior House, New - yes ; Next, Bexley - ?
- Washboard - advertisements in the laundry rooms for $4 per machine
- Presidents' consensus: bad idea
ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION
- 1. DormCon tax increase of $1-$2 (6:20)
- Dorm Con's account balance $36,000 - $14,000 for Rush
- Shauna thinks we shouldn't increase it until we spend the rest of the money - try the same thing we did last fall next fall
- Last semester - we overbudgeted for events in fall and in the spring we didn't go over but we had to cut funding
- For the year we broke even
- Meeting incentive program
- Jeff thinks get rid of it - only had because people weren't showing up but this hasn't really helped one way or the other
- Last time tax was increased was in 2001-2 from $1 to $5
- Random does not want to increase house tax at all - thinks that we gave money to everyone who needed it
- Close discussion - no increase - will revisit this issue next St
ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION
- 1. MIT Cable Service (6:35)
- 2. REX Planning & Updates (6:40)
- Working through calendar of Orientation events
- Dinner in the Dorms
- Sunday night/Monday night events
- Sunday afternoon tours
- Tuesday night party in Stata - UA will probably head
- Friday night - international food festival and cruise - SaveTFP will possibly commit
- Cross Campus event on Sunday afternoon - water war - do we want again?
- Kresge Oval not open to us - instead back end of Mem Drive
- No
- should we come up with another event?
- Early Returns
- Interested residents email their dorm's REX chair by Tuesday May 29th
- REX Chairs compile dorm lists and send them to <dormcon-returns> by May 30th
- Alcohol Planning Committee Meeting with Danny, housemasters, SLP people - to talk about houseteam response to alcohol related incidents
- better get the word out that Orientation is a dry event
- 3. MIT Visiting Scholars Program (6:50)
- program based in Simmons where visting faculty live there to increase faculty-student interaction
- New Associate House Master of Simmons - Jesus del Alamo - wants to get other dorms involved in the program
- Do people want to read applications for new visiting scholars? - right after finals
- Darragh and Elvie are interested
Goodbyes & Summer Information (6:55)
- New officers are sworn in *very* enthusiastically by Harvey - yaaaay!
Officer Transition Time (7:00)
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