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Student Government Association Minutes February 21, 2017

I. ROLL CALL: Nick Gott, Corey Parkinson and Courtney Smith were absent Sharleen Varghese, Bryan Pimentel, Shayna Arnott, Suwayne Rowe, Joanne Kaprielian and Brianna Pelloso were excused. Caitlin Hurley and Gabrielle Knight sent alternates.

II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM February 14, 2016: Minutes were approved.

III. PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Brendan McKee We have two speakers today here to talk about the Westfield State Experience as well as happenings in Academic Affairs. Please welcome Marsha Marotta, Interim Vice President of Academic Affairs. 1.Marsha Marotta: Good afternoon everyone, it’s nice to see you. It’s always nice to be here. You all have heard of the Westfield State Experience yes? Ok so I’m just going to give you a brief overview of it, Michael Filas is going to talk in more detail. President Torrecilha when he came over a year ago to Westfield State, he came with a challenge and he said I’ve got this idea for Westfield State. I want to do this four year program, get people in and out, a road map for how you’re going to get from the September of your first year and graduate in four years and along the way have all these high impact experiences. He said the challenge was, put the flesh of the bones on this and the reason why this is so interesting for Westfield is because we had lots and lots of high impact practices and lots of student success programs. We have the first year only program, internships, undergraduate research, international study, and civic engagement and experiential learning. We had all of those things, but what we didn’t have was a unifying theme for all of these practices and what we didn’t have was these practices at scale. President Torrecilha came in and we have a unifying theme and now our challenge is to bring these to scale. 2.This is how the president envisions the four years of the Westfield State Experience. The first year we have our first year only courses, first year read, and lots of other first year success programming that takes place in the residence halls and other places. The second year reflection. The third year high impact practices. I was talking about fourth year the last mile, meaning really getting you ready for jobs or graduate school. 3.We have pretty good retention rates at Westfield and we have excellent graduation rates, way ahead of other 2

state universities in Massachusetts. In fact, usually we talk about graduation rates, four year rates, six year rates, and so on. You have to look at the number a little bit differently, of Westfield students who graduate 80% do it in four years. We already do a great job on this, but we want to do better and we want to reduce achievement gaps, which is the gap between the retention and graduation rate of white students and students of color. 4.These are our challenges and putting flesh on these bones and it’s really exciting to be part of that. We want to be at a 0% gap for the retention of white students and students of color. So we are in 2014, we reached 0% for the first term. After the first year, retention always fluctuates, and you see it’s just under 2% after three years it’s about 4¾% and so on. 5.This is one of the things we want to address and we think all of our programming will help that. We’re trying to get a lot of input from faculty, students, and staff to give us ideas on how we can do this better. That’s one of the reasons why we’re here. 1) Is to let you know what’s going on and 2) is to get feedback from you, whether it be today or as you think about it and talk to your friends you can be in touch with Michael Filas. The great news about this is that in September we hired Michael Filas and brought him into Academic Affairs and he’s the Associate Dean of the Westfield State Experience, I’m going to turn this over to Michael Filas now and both of us will answer questions at the end if you have any. Please welcome Michael Filas the Dean of the Westfield Experience. 1. Michael Filas: One of the things about the four year plan the President brought to us is that’s really based on a sequence of years. The first year is discovery and the experience. The second year is reflection. The third year is high impact practices and the fourth year is the last mile. The second year reflection is not something we have in place yet, but the other years are just leveraging programs we already have in place. 2. Our first year program is one that you all have participated in even if you didn’t realize it. You all had to take your first two composition courses in your fall and spring semester of your first year, but on top of that we have first year sections in fall where you’re put in, when you get here into a section where you’re in a core class with people who are other first years. Typically those core classes as you know have sophomores, juniors, sometimes seniors in them, but when you’re in with just other first years it provides an opportunity. An opportunity for us in administration to get information out to you about resources on campus 3

to help you academically, resources on campus to help you socially and emotionally with your well-being, and other things that you may not know about. Ways to help you examine your major and make sure that you’ve made the right choice. There’s also the first year read, which probably all of you were exposed to, even if you’re not first years, to read The Good Food Revolution. Everyone that’s a first year, that book got taught across the board in every single composition course that first semester and many of the core classes also used it. We’re expanding the program. Instead of just having all of you in a core class with other first years in your fall section, all first years in spring 2018 for the first time will be in a first year only core class as well. 3. Undergraduate research, we already have a lot of honors students and our top students come in and they get involved with undergraduate research and creative activities, but there’s a huge middle swamp of students who would love to do that kind of work. Who we are trying to broaden the ability for them to do that. The president is very fond of this initiative, it’s very well-funded at the moment and some of you may have been to or participated in, last May the Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Study. This year it’s May 3 and it’s a poster presentations. Even if you didn’t, many of you have done poster presentations, maybe in high school or here at Westfield State. So every May, and starting in fall, it’ll be every semester, we’re going to have a celebration here in Ely upstairs where there is going to be posters and you stand by your poster and you present. There are lots of initiatives to help you accomplish things as undergrads doing research. There’s grants if you want to travel to a conference, if you want to travel to a destination that will help you in your creative work and research, there are grants that can give you up to $750.00 each to go do that. We’re also promoting the addition of poster projects in lower division classes by offering a grant faculty to add those projects to their courses. Depending on where you’re at you should expect to encounter more undergraduate research and creative activities in your classes. These are milestone type projects, they give you something to put on your resume, and they give you something to talk about in job interviews. Research shows that when undergraduates do this work they stay in school and they have a higher graduation rate and they do better at going out and getting into grad school or getting jobs. 4. Next there is Civic Engagement. We have about 30 to 40 new classes developed over the last five years that 4

have added a civic engagement component. Where the class goes out or students in the class go out, and work with the community and develop either fundraising or add something to a non-profit and really contribute. We have these course designations, we have grants to encourage faculty to add more civic engagement to their classes, and I bet some people in here are RAs so you guys know because you are requires to do civic engagement as RAs, we have a lot of really good activity going on in Student Affairs from SGA clubs who contribute. Some clubs like Circle K club and the EMS club, their whole purpose is to contribute to our society, to help and so everybody in that club is doing civic engagement. Other clubs, maybe it’s just the leaders doing civic engagement. There are ways in which different SGA clubs contribute and we’re looking for ways to record those contributions and student engagement so that a student maybe gets a co-curricular transcript that shows what they’ve done, shows how they have participated, and also so our institution can take credit so we have hard numbers. When Student Affairs does there annual report, every single department has a blurb in there about civic engagement. It’s really well inculcated into the culture and we still need numbers and metrics as you know any institution like ours, it really helps to show in concrete numbers what we’re doing. 5. Internships is another key area. I hope every single person in here will take an internship. It’s another one of those high impact practices, as Dr. Marotta was saying that we don’t have the ability yet to offer internships to everybody, but we’re really working on it. We’re looking at solutions so that you can get them. Maybe through the Career Center as a front office for it, but we still have to work together and figure out the right structure so Academic Affairs and Student Affairs, which is right where the Career Center is housed, can collaborate, can provide you with internship opportunities and ideally to get those internships on your transcripts. So many of you might already have gone to the Career Center, have been directed to a place where you went and got an internship, but for whatever reason it’s not for credit and yet you still can put it on your resume. We would like to get more of those for credit so that you can put that on your transcripts, so institutionally we can show that as part of your official Westfield State experience. Regardless, internships are a huge way of sometimes finding out what you don’t want to do. Our big challenge with internships is expanding our 5

capacity and we’re looking at ways of doing that. It’s going to take some doing, but we’re looking at it. 6. Study abroad is the last section of the Westfield State Experience. This is an established program. A lot of short term classes are available to you. These things cost money. Some of them are $4,000. So going back to that second year of reflection, we want to build into the Westfield State Experience a different kind of advising session where you aren’t just talking about what you need to do to get all your credits, but how you can get these high impact practices like internships, civic engagement, and undergrad research and creative activity. How you can get that into your master plan and make it happen because you guys work, your families aren’t sitting on piles of money. If you want to go on a short term class abroad it’s going to cost $3,000, you probably have to plan for that, you have to save up for it, you have to start wearing your parents down to help you start paying for that early instead of just showing up for Thanksgiving dinner and say “by the way I need $3,000 because over the winter I want to go to fill in the blank”. But these are really important programs and they are life changing. If any of you have been or have classmates that have been, you know the way they talk about it when they come back, it changes their perspective and many of these programs also combine civic engagement, so you get a lot out of these. 7. This is for the middle swath of students, this is for everybody and that’s a big bid, a big issue with all these high impact practices. If you’re looking out there for the top students and some of you may know that. Some of you may be in that middle swath and kind of look at it and say that’ not for me, but the Westfield State Experience really is for you. Our institution is putting a lot of buck behind the bang and really trying to deliver for you opportunities to get these high impact experiences and not just opportunities. Our vision, the president’s vision, is that some of these will be required, so a few years from now first years will arrive and think it’s not that I have the choice of doing these things, I’ve got to pick a couple of these and do them if I want to get out of here. So in the meantime if you are not part of the have to class I encourage you to look at these things through your departments, through your advisors and take advantage of them because really I wish I could say if you get a Bachelor’s degree you’re set, but it really is important to come away with some of these high impact practices to draw on for your own selves, your own careers, for getting into grad school, 6

for getting those competitive jobs. This program the president brings is hugely helpful and I think it is dead on timing wise to help our graduates do their very best. That’s it, if there are any questions now I would be happy to answer them. a. Cam Swan: I was just curious as to how this would impact transfer students because if that’s a graduation requirement and somebody transfers they might not have the time to complete that. So how will that work? b. Michael Filas: We aren’t there yet. So right now this isn’t, we don’t have a map on how this is going to be required, but what I expect is that transfer students will be held to some degree of the Westfield State Experience. If you leave with a Westfield State degree I don’t think there’s going to be a loophole where you can get around it when we finally initiate it as a requirement. c. Jacob Lotter: I was wondering if you could tell everybody about what it would look like if we implemented the co-curricular transcript. d. Michael Filas: Well I can just say what I’ve heard. There’s various approaches to it. You know now if you go to a campus event, there’s a speaker and your professor says that they’ll give you extra credit so you sign in. One of the ways the co- curricular transcripts are modeled is that you take your phone and you zap in and you zap it when you leave and you get a transcript at the end of your time here that shows all the things you went to, which could be really great. To me, I’m still getting used to it, it seems a bit too big brotherly, but on the other hand it creates a real and valid and detailed record, but above and beyond that. If you are in a SGA club or contributing all you people in student government, that’s on a transcript somewhere. If you participate in civic engagement class, that’s on a transcript somewhere as an engagement class, but there could be more detail on it about what you do. It’s a way of recording civic engagement activities and your contributions to the university culture that are beyond you getting three credits for completing this class for this grade. We haven’t finished shopping yet, it’s probably going to be expensive and cumbersome and it’s going to be a decision that’s made at the campus level so we’ll have to work between Academic Affairs and Student Affairs to find the right solution. e. Marcus DiBacco: I was looking at the high impact practices and you said there could be multiple. How many do you think people are going to have to do for their time here? 7

f. Marsha Marotta: I think it’s likely that it will be two and it might be that transfer students have to do one depending on how many credits they come in with, but for native students, students who start here as first year students, I think it likely will be two g. Brandon Trafford: You just talked about how high impact practices increase retention rates, juniors tend to stay in school as is, we lose the majority of our students between freshman and sophomore year. So would it be a consideration to implement one of those high impact practices for the second semester of sophomore year? So that we could retain some of those students that would potentially leave? h. Marsha Marotta: We do have a lot of data about when students leave and students leave the first year about 10%, 10% the second year, 10% the third year, so through those gaps between the years. We will have in the Westfield State Experience a roadmap and so as first year students you will start to do undergraduate research and hopefully get excited about the research projects that you’ll do, that we’ll fund, when you’re a junior. That should help with retention because students can see where they’re going and why they’re going there. For the year of reflection, which is year two, that’s when you make all the rest of your plans for getting through. You might do an internship between your second and third year in the summer. We are working on a proposal so that students can do summer internships without paying for them or paying a drastically reduced rate. There will be little pieces of it sooner than that, but I think if students know where they’re going, they know they have this opportunity to do this internship, or study abroad, or civic engagement, or undergraduate research, that they will be looking forward to that and stay. i. Andrew Manchino: I have a question about cost. Do you think this might increase any amount of cost for Westfield State University students? j. Marsha Marotta: That’s a really good question. Not directly, we don’t expect this to bring a direct cost to students, we are sort of reorganizing the way we think about doing things. So far we have not spent much money on this and we are putting together a program that we think is going to work really well. It’s a good question, but we don’t think students are going to be paying anymore for this. k. Geoffery Gichuhi: I was wondering as it pertains to retention rate, you talked about how minorities are not coming back. Do you know the reasoning behind that? Why they are more likely not to come back? 8

l. Marsha Marotta: There’s a variety of reasons, it’s not usually around whether students are flunking out, it’s usually around if you have your finances in order, do you have enough money to continue, do you have family pressures at home that you have to deal with so maybe you step up for a little bit so it takes longer to graduate. Or you take fewer classes and it takes longer to graduate, but we have a brand new dashboard of student data and we are starting to mine the data that we have so we are learning more and more about this. We will get a lot more information about that in the coming months because what we have now is some basic information, but we will get a lot more. I’m sure that most of you have heard the news about Professor Emerita Catherine Dower. For those who haven’t, Dr. Dower passed away peacefully last Friday, February 17. She leaves behind a legacy at Westfield that includes over 60 years of work pertaining to social justice, gender equality, and music history and literature, as well as her name gracing the Westfield State Center for Performing and Fine Arts. Dr. Dower was a fantastic member of the Westfield State community, and she will be missed dearly. Westfield State Athletics are starting to reach their playoff season, with the Men’s Basketball team and Men’s Ice Hockey team both hosting games tonight. The basketball game is a MASCAC Quarterfinal against Worcester State at 7:00pm in the Woodward Center, and the hockey game is the Pack the Park game against Plymouth State at 7:35pm at Amelia Park. Shuttles will be leaving from in front of Scanlon starting at 7:00pm, and there will be giveaways and performances. Furthermore, the Woman’s basketball team is playing Thursday night February 23 at 7:00pm in the MASCAC Semifinal against the winner of the Bridgewater/Salem Quarterfinal. Try to get out there and support your campus athletics as they pursue championships in their respective sports, it’s a unit for each game you attend. Bouncing off of my past report about scholarships being available for students on campus, the Reading and Writing Center is hosting an event from 5:00pm-6:00pm on Tuesday, February 28th in Parenzo 208 to help students learn how to write an effective scholarship essay. If you’re able to stop by for a little while before SGA next week, check it out and get as much information as you can. The next Higher Ed/Higher Ground event will be held tomorrow, February 22 at 10:30am in the Loughman Living Room in Scanlon Hall. Sami Aziz will be returning to host an interactive discussion about the global refugee crisis. This is also a unit opportunity, so if you have the availability, please go check it out. Other than that, I hope you all have a great rest of the week! Items not listed on the agenda.

IV. BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ REPORT: Brandon Trafford A. The Board pf Trustees had their full board meeting last Thursday. Here we granted Emeriti status to four 9

professors, Dr. Kamal Ali, Ms. Judith Carlson, Dr. Trudy Knowles and Dr. L. Sandidge. These were four worth candidates that have done a lot for this campus, so if you have them as a professor or you know them, pleases feel free to congratulate them on their accomplishments. B. In regards to the Dining and Food on campus, according to the survey that was sent out in December 2016, students are currently ranking our food services as a 6.51 on a scale of 1-10. Our university is trying to hit the bench mark of 8/10 so if you have any ideas or input for the DC, please feel free to let Rehana Yusif and the Food services committee know what you think would make the DC better. I am pleased to announce that there has been a surge of student hiring with the self op dining services. Our target for student employment was 50 students, and we are happy to say we have 60 students employed by our dining services program. C. The Board of Trustees will be forming a new committee very soon to address the issue of our deferred maintenance budget. Currently Westfield State is sitting on a 56 million dollar deferred maintenance asset reinvestment need. The purpose of the committee is to figure out an economically feasible way to pay down our current deferred maintenance need as well as future needs so that we can start making this $56 million dollar need go down instead of up over time. D. Thank you to everyone who has registered for State House Day. Just a reminder this will be taking place on March 1, and the bus will be leaving Scanlon at 8:00am and returning at 3:30pm. I will be keeping in touch with everyone over who has registered through texts and we may be having a meeting toward the end of the week to talk about the event. I will keep you guys updated. 1. Abdullah Shafique: Is there any way we canget excused from classes for going to State House Day? 2. Brandon Trafford: You’re going to have to talk to yur professors about that. E. All University Committee: F. Neighborhood Advisory Board: No Report

V. VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT-STUDENT LIFE: Arielyss Santiago A. Student Affairs Committee: No Report B. Diversity/Inclusion Committee: No Report C. Food Services Committee: Rehana Yusif 1. Just a few things from the Food Committee. a. On the retail side, the mac and chees bar in Bistro is now opening at 5:00pm. Ely Harvest will be adding ciabatta bread as an additional charge of $.50 if students would like that as an option. 10

b. On the DC side: they are having an upcoming Mardi Gras special on February 29 from 5:00pm until 8:00pm where students will be able to try classic Cajun and creole inspired dishes and per student request, spaghetti, meatballs and garlic bread has started today at the pasta station. D. Health Committee: No Report E. Parking Control Board: No Report F. Student Athletic Advisory Board: No Report G. Substance Advisory Committee: No Report H. Community Relations/Fundraising Report: Marissa Cremin 1. I wanted to say thank you so much to all of you for helping to run our Blood Drive two weeks ago. Our goal was to collect 79 units of blood and in total we collected 96. This is awesome. a. We had 86 appointments scheduled with 117 presenting donors. There were 12 deferrals. We had 24 first time donors. 79 units of whole blood and 17 units of double red cells were collected. b. Donors were very happy about the Dunkin Donuts gift cards and t-shirts as well. Our next Blood Drive will be Wednesday, April 12. 2. The Neighborhood Advisory Board is having a meeting this week. We will meet tomorrow at 5:30pm on the first flood of the Science Center. Curt Robie will be giving a tour of the Science Center and the neighbors are excited about this.

VI. VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT-ACADEMIC LIFE: Jacob Lotter A. Academic Policies Committee: No Report B. Curriculum Committee: No Report C. Enrollment Management Committee: No Report D. Academic Technology and Information Services Committee: No Report E. International Programs Committee: No Report F. Writing Liaison: No Report

VII. VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT-PROGRAMMING: Madeline Dexter A. Programming update: Daniel Chamberlain 1. At this point Maddie Dexter and the Cabbies will be traveling back from Baltimore. Here are the programing updates for the week. a. Wednesday night, February 22 there will be a Black His/Her Story event in the Loughman Living Room from 5:30pm - 6:30pm called "I Can't Identify". This open forum is to share experiences of many identities of black on how the title of African-American is not a synonym for being black. This event is about personal 11

identification and educating others on present identities. b. Tomorrow night, February 22 is also CAB Trivia! It is Disney themed and as always there will be free pizza. It starts at 8:00pm! Have your Disney loving friends join you in order to win 60 Owl Bucks! c. On Thursday night, February 23 there is another BHM event hosted by The Black Student Union, Multicultural Association, and the Latino Association for Empowerment. The collaborative event is a student led discussion on the State of Black and Brown Men in the United States, and how media has destroyed the image of black and brown men. This event is titled MAD and will be hosted in the Ely Club room from 7:00pm-8:30pm. d. On Thursday Night, February 23 Student Activities is hosting a Mardi Gras Extravaganza event in the Dunkin’s Lobby from 5:00pm – 8:00pm. There will be arts and crafts and gourmet pancakes for the taking. Matt Dellea recently added an intern named Kristen to his department and this is her first event on campus. Please welcome her with open arms by attending this event. Also, if you bring a canned good for the food pantry to this event, you will receive an extra raffle card which could possibly win you 100 Owl Bucks! e. Next Monday, February 27 is another BHM event titled "Cranes in the Sky" from 7:00pm - 8:30pm in the Owl’s Nest. This is an open mic/poetry night. These are always very encouraging events for students so please attend to show support for your fellow students as well as Diversity and Inclusion. f. This weekend Heathers: The Musical will be presented by the Musical Theater Guild. This show is dark and amazing. I know so many of the performers/technical staff are incredibly proud of this show. The show is running Thursday February 23 through Saturday, February 25, all days at 7:30pm and an additional show at 2:00pm show on Saturday. Tickets are $2.00 for students and $5.00 for general admission. Disclaimer that there is a trigger warning on this show. Go support the amazingly talented students not only in the Westfield community but also the ones sitting in your senate! g. Next Thursday, March 2nd, CAB will be hosting their preliminary rounds for "Westfield’s Got Talent" which will be on March 9th. This talent competition is open to all Westfield State students. You can come and do some juggling, singing, or any sort of talent you please. CAB is super excited for this event so they have a request from you. Once you all are invited to 12

the Facebook event, please invite as many other Westfield State students as possible. We hope to see as many students there as possible. Thank you very much in advance! i. Andrew Morin: In addition to MTGs production of Heathers, STA is also putting up the play At Home at the Zoo all at the same times as the MTG show and all proceeds from both shows go back to SGA except for Friday night’s proceeds of Heathers. Those proceeds will go to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. 2. Campus Activities Board's general meeting is cancelled tomorrow but Maddie hopes to see you next week on Wednesday, March 1 at 5:00pm in SGA room E017! Thank you!

VIII. VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT-FINANCE: Marcus DiBacco A. Finance Report: Marcus DiBacco B. Foundation Report: Marcus DiBacco

IX. SERETARY’S REPORT: Karina Sallaway/Rebecca Kennedy A. Executive Secretary Report: Karina Sallaway 1. If you have seen any of these posters hung up around campus they are donations for local women in need for the YWCA. They are looking for toiletries, laundry items, and coats etc. With that the person running this donation is our Lifesaver of the Week, Brianna Pelloso! She isn’t here right now, but congratulations all the same. B. Legislative Secretary Report: Rebecca Kennedy 1. I just wanted to remind you all again that Cotillion is March 31, don’t forget it. Tickets for senators go on sale starting this coming Monday, February 27 until Friday, March 3 at $17. After the March 3 you will have you to pay the full $34. Just go see Kim Hosmer with your money and she will give you a receipt. Starting March 6 come back to SGA and there will be a table set up to get your ticket and make your table selection. Cotillion Committee see me real quick after the meeting. Thank you!

X. PARLIAMENTARIAN REPORT: Andrew Manchino 1.i.1.a.1.A. Rules and Regulations Committee: No Report

XI. COMMUTER COUNCIL, CLASS AND HALL REPORTS: A. Commuter Council: No Report B. Senior Class: Andrew Morin 1. The Senior Class Brewery trip will be on Thursday, March 30. The event will be from 7:00pm until 9:00pm 13

and buses will leave here at 6:45pm. There will be more information about how to sign up and pay for this event hopefully by next week. 2. I put out flyers with the upcoming Senior Events by the mailboxes. Feel free to take a look. 3. The 100 Days to Commencement Celebration was a success. Thanks to everyone who came out and congrats tour raffle winners and the Winning Senior Sweatshirt Design contest. There will be more information on how to buy a senior sweatshirt in the coming weeks. We are working on turning the senior slideshow into a shareable YouTube video. 4. Mr. Westfield is really coming together. Our contestants are extremely motivated, and we have been having a great time. Please help us fundraise by making a donation to your favorite contestant, and by sharing their fundraising pages on social media. 5. On next meeting is Monday, February 27, at 6:00pm in the SGA Club Room E021. C. Junior Class: No Report D. Sophomore Class: Abdullah Shafique 1. The Class of 2019 would just like remind you that Brown Bag Bingo Mr. Westfield edition is this Friday, February 24 at 10:00pm in the Scanlon Banquet Hall. It will be hosted by the Mr. Westfield contestants and you will be able to buy extra bingo cards for $1.00 apiece or you may also donate to a specific contestant to help them reach their donation goal. However, all proceeds will go to the Make-A-Wish foundation. Please invite your friends and help us make this a successful and fun night. E. First Year Class: No Report F. Apartment Complex: Will Sondrini 1. I accept the resignation of Alina Bracken as President of the Apartment Complex. 2. Our next scheduled meeting will be Friday, February 24 at 2:40pm in the Dickinson Common Room. G. Courtney Hall: No Report H. Davis Hall: No Report I. Dickinson Hall: No Report J. Lansdowne Hall: No Report K. New Hall: No Report L. Scanlon Hall: No Report M. University Hall: No Report

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XIV. ANNOUNCEMENTS: A. Jacob Lotter: Can I see Tori Lind after the meeting? B. Andrew Manchino: Rules and Regs after the meeting? C. Marcus DiBacco: Can I see Finance committee at the couches after the meeting? D. Rebecca Kennedy: Nominate your friends for Blue Key. E. Karina Sallaway: Cotillion committee real quick after the meeting please. F. Jasmine Bobbitt: 88 Days until Commencement.

XV. ROLL CALL: Nick Gott, Corey Parkinson and Courtney Smith were absent Sharleen Varghese, Bryan Pimentel, Shayna Arnott, Suwayne Rowe, Joanne Kaprielian and Brianna Pelloso were excused. Caitlin Hurley and Gabrielle Knight sent alternates.

XVI. ADJOURNMENT: Meeting adjourned at 6:28pm.