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I. Council Roll Call A. 17 Councils in Attendance II. Special Guests A GENERAL ASSEMBLY MINUTES FOR MEETING OF NOVEMBER 21, 2019 I. Council Roll Call A. 17 Councils in Attendance II. Special Guests A. Kate Lower, SHIFT Director i. Interested in joining the SHIFT Student Advisory Board? Email [email protected] to learn more. ​ III. Special Reports IV. Organizational Announcements A. Habitat for Humanity UT Campus Chapter: Adhrit Srivastav ([email protected]) ​ ​ i. Act! Speak! Build! Week ● Events on the Horizon: a. Holiday Craft Night | December 5 i. PCL Learning Lab #1 - 6-8 PM ii. Destress by drinking hot chocolate and making some crafts for Habitat homeowners in our community b. Advocacy Open Forum | December 6 i. WCH 1.120 - 7-8 PM ii. Learn and ask about current campaigns against gentrification in ATX from guest speakers c. 2019 Blitz Build | December 7 i. 7025 Zachary Drive - 8 AM - 4 PM ii. Volunteer to help build houses at a construction site. Must be an active UT Habitat Member to sign-up. ii. Contact Information: ● Email: [email protected] ​ ● Instagram: @utexashabitat ● Facebook: UT Habitat for Humanity V. Regular Guests A. The Office of the Dean of Students: Marcus Mayes ([email protected]) ​ ​ ​ B. Student Government: Camron Goodman ([email protected]) ​ ​ ​ i. Michael Pontikes ([email protected]) ​ ​ ​ ● A.R. 6 In support of the creation of a non-traditional student center on campus ● A.B. 6 In Support of defining focus of Student Government ● J.R. 19-01 Passed through SG ● J.R. 19-04 Passed through SG ● J.R. 19-03, really redo the bill C. Graduate Student Assembly: Christina Baze ([email protected]) ​ ​ ​ i. Passed J.R. 19-04 (menstrual products) and J.R. 19-05 (UT podcast) ii. Passed G.R. (F) 6 - A Statement in Support of the Student Safety Working Group Addressing University Sexual Misconduct Policies D. Campus E+E: Mario Aparicio ([email protected]) ​ ​ ​ VI. Spotlights VII. Internal Implementation Updates VIII. Unfinished Business A. S.R. 1906: A Resolution in Support of Increasing Online Accessibility of Gender-Inclusive Restroom Locations i. No changes ii. Discussion & Debate iii. S.R. 1906 PASSES BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT B. J.R. 19-03: A Joint Resolution in Support of Instituting a Fall Break or Week-long Thanksgiving Break i. The authors need more time to make edits, so they’re requesting to table. ii. Discussion & Debate ● What changes are you all looking to make? a. We heard about some technicalities around that fact that UT is required by law to start on a Wednesday, so want to make sure that if we were to pass something, it would work around that. iii. Motion to Table ● PASSES UNANIMOUSLY C. J.R. 19-04: A Joint Resolution in Support of Putting Menstrual Products in Women’s and Gender Neutral Restrooms i. Title has changed, and we made the change from all relevant restrooms to women’s and gender-neutral restrooms because after speaking with all three LSOs[Legislative Student Organization], there was inconsistency throughout the J.R. in our wording wherever we used “all relevant restrooms” and wherever we specified it, and after speaking with faculty and administration, the authors and supporters of J.R. 19-04 decided that it’d be best if we stuck to women’s and gender-neutral restrooms for now, and then hopefully expand it to men’s restrooms. And the rest of the changes in J.R. 19-04 follow just to make the Joint Resolution more consistent, and furthermore, we deleted the Whereas clause where it said that it cost $5-7 to account for each menstruator on campus just because after we number-crunched with the number of women on campus, none of the numbers really aligned with the numbers that we had from the Unions Board, so we decided to go with the Unions Board numbers just because will be using the same wholesale distributor to push this initiative into the rest of the buildings on campus. ii. Discussion & Debate ● Are there going to be different sizes of pads, and what’s the company going to be? a. As for now, the Unions Board doesn’t use multiple sizes of pads or tampons, which is something that we realized is an issue, so that is something that will come up in the discussions with the CFO after this passes through. And I think having that kind of feedback from the College Councils [is beneficial] so that we can it to the CFO and see the possibility of getting different sizes of tampons. ● With how HealthyHorns does currently with condom delivery, do you know why that wasn’t looked into? a. I’m not exactly sure, because with the Unions Board, half of the cost was being covered by the Student Services Budget Committee, and so, as a result, I don’t know the exact correlation as to why they haven’t funded this project, but hopefully that will be brought up with the CFO, and after speaking with administrators, I can definitely bring that up with your Council. ● So this is only going to be in buildings with classrooms? a. Yes, so not dorms. i. So is there a goal later on to expand this to dorms and also to male bathrooms? 1. Yes. ● Is there administrative support for those initiatives? a. So as of right now, we’ve just been speaking about buildings that have classrooms in them and for women’s and gender-neutral restrooms, so I’m not exactly sure about administrative support, but after this gets implemented, Women’s Resource Agency in Student Government is hoping to continue pushing this initiative. iii. Motion to end Discussion & Debate ● Passed iv. J.R. 19-04 PASSES - 17-0-0 D. J.R. 19-05: A Joint Resolution in Support of Establishing the Official UT Podcast By and For the Student Community i. Reintroducing the Podcast Legislation, some majorish changes to the language, not just the voice of the student body, but also a way to help communicate between the administration and students. Just having an avenue where we can sit down in a studio with an administrative behind a microphone and have students get answers, just to increase our transparency, since it’s a really big issue. Cheap, affordable, and simple but effective way to dispel the division between students and administrators. Administrators are on board (ex: Dean of Students), they think that it’s a great idea, and to talk about whatever is bothering us. ii. Discussion & Debate ● How does this differ from existing podcasts on campus put on my student organizations like KUT or the Daily Texan? a. The ones that you’re mentioned are not student-focused at all, and the Daily Texan kind of focuses more on student activities. I can think of several other podcasts, but most of them are done by faculty and such, but this one will specifically serve the Academic community (the student body), get administrators to come on and talk with students, to create this open dialog, so that’s primarily what we’re looking to do ● Will this podcast be built under the banner of the official UT podcast? a. Yes, that’s what the resolution states i. Why should GSA be the ones specifically the ones who are spearheading the podcast of UT. 1. Not that it’s GSA spearheading it, it’s just that we’re the ones who came up with it, not that it’s just graduate students. We’re not opposed to having undergraduates working on it ● How does we make sure that this doesn’t become a few students representing all 50,000-70,000 people on this campus? a. Because we have been recruiting from all over campus. We literally have people from various different colleges who are interested and going to be on this platform. So that’s basically the idea, just to make sure that it’s distributed evenly. ● Who’s going to be deciding the topics that are covered, administration, students? a. It should be a group effort, administration definitely not i. So administration is not going to get the chance to decide? 1. No ii. Just to clarify, I have another podcast that I’ve done on campus already, and it is completely a student production, but funded by the University, but they don’t have any say at all what we do, and we are not censored in any way, shape, or form. ● So part of the purpose of the legislation is for students to talk to administrators, but when it comes to quoting administrators and such, there’s a lot of barriers, so how are we going to ensure that doesn’t happen? a. Administrators are very hesitant to go on record in a print format, but podcasting is a lot more relaxed environment. When you’re sitting down relaxed, you say a lot more that you wouldn’t say [in a formal interview]. ● So if you’re saying that administrators are more hesitant to go out on a print medium, what’s stopping students from just completely transcribing the podcast, and then having that be a report in the Daily Texan? Will administrators be willing to go through that? Because that’s always a possibility with students. a. You’re right, there’s nothing stopping students from doing that. [However,] there is no negative side to it, if administrators are willing to do that, then we should allow them to. ● I think we’re getting a bit too far into the weaves and talking broadly about whether this happens or not. I think that people are rightly skeptical, but we also don’t want to feel like anybody doesn’t have a voice or a platform.
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