Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room

TCU Senate

215 Mayer Campus Center

Senate Meeting Minutes

7:00pm, Sunday, November 15th, 2015

Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room

1.  Call to Order/ Call of the Roll

2.  President(Brian Tesser)'s Report:

a.  Statement regarding recent events at the University of Missouri and Yale University.

b.  Updates

i.  Ad-hoc housing committee meeting

1.  Committee will be meeting again on Monday, (11/16/2015), at 5pm.

2.  The goal will be to create a set of priorities in regards to housing.

ii.  Outreach Survey Responses- Campus Shuttle

1.  Brian, Louis, and Adam will be meeting with the campus shuttle system this Friday.

2.  Senators should feel free to reach out to others to get some more perspectives.

3.  Vice President(Gauri Seth)'s Report:

a.  Updates

i.  Importance of keeping up with senate work.

b.  Trustee Rep Updates:

i.  Educational programing is considered to be doing very well.

ii.  Misconduct during homecoming is down.

iii.  Medford/Somerville relations are being discussed

1.  Land lord relations are being brought to the attention of the trustees.

c.  Committee Updates:

i.  Services:

1.  Cause Dinner funds have been awarded to Freethought society who will be

2.  Turkey Shuttle Sales are down. Please help advertise!!!!!!!!!!

d.  Project Approval

i.  Project: Making pads and tampons available on campus for free from health services.

ii.  Proposed by: Walae Hayek and Ariel Barbieri-Aghib

iii.  Vote: Passes 30-0

4.  Treasurer(Shai Slotky)'s Report:

a.  No supplementary funding requests this week.

5.  Parliamentarian(Sam Berzok)'s Report:

a.  Resolution and parliamentary procedure workshops will be offered again in the future.

6.  Historian(Max Hirsch)'s Report: Updates

a.  Community Outreach Liaisons:

b.  Boston Intercollege Assembly (BIA) Representatives:

i.  Next Saturday the 21st there will be and advocacy summit at Northeastern University.

c.  NESCAC:

i.  Conference December 5th-6th.

ii.  Tufts is very different from the other schools in the conference. Brian and three other senators will be going to the conference.

7.  DCA Officer(Anna Del Castillio)'s Report:

a.  Please remain mindful

b.  Indigenous Peoples Day resolution work shop/community forum will be from 12pm-1pm at the LGBT center.

c.  Tuesday 7:30-9pm there will be a LGBT Community Forum at the LGBT center.

d.  Parker and Fatima are going to be continuing to work on the survey with that the group of six can send out to properly reach these communities.

e.  Work is ongoing to get a black counselor in the CMHS center.

f.  Intergroup dialogues are being worked on.

g.  Work to get more student-run workshops on race, gender, and sexual identity.

8.  Open Forum

9.  Meet the Press:

10.  Meet the J:

a.  Design thinking has been recognized.

11.  Closed Session

12.  Adjournment