Eastern Mennonite University

Student Government Association

October 14, 2015

• Call to Order
  • Hanna calls meeting to order at 8:06pm.
• Roll Call
• Approval of Minutes (September 30th and October 7th)
  • Minutes approved
• Announcements
  • Election process
    • An email asking for affirmation of Sam was sent out today.
  • Photographs for Marketing
    • Photographs will be next Wednesday after the meeting.
• Old Business
  • Check in with Focus Groups
    • Spirit Committee: On the first basketball game, November 14, have a white out and cookout between the girls and boys game.
    • Inclusion and Diversity Council: Photo project will start next week with the SGA head-shots.
    • Community Involvement Committee: Trying to think of possibilities instead of therapy dogs. Adopt a grandparent or a competition between dorms to do donation boxes.
    • Ministry of Money Management: Talk to Jim Lehman about investing some of the role over.
• New Business
  • Funding Request: Psych Club
    • Snacks for a fear presentation on October 28th. Requesting $16.43.
    • Ken: Wondering if the activities are open to all students or only to psychology club members.
    • Brooke: Anyone is welcome to an event and is advertised to all.
    • Kat motions to give Psychology Club $16.43. Mario seconds.
      • In Favor: 12
      • Abstaining: 1
      • Opposed: 0
      • Motion Passed
  • Funding Request: Peace Fellowship
    • Anna is here representing Peace Fellowship. Asking for $1,455 to send students to MCC UN conference in NYC. Covering registration cost, transportation, and food cost for students. Will host a Common Grounds event or Peace Fellowship meeting to share about the experience.
    • Bethany: It’s a lot of money but it’s also a once in a lifetime opportunity experience. It also is important because this year is on Palestine conflict, which relates to the students who go on cross-cultural.
    • Ken: last year they sent 12 students and asked for the same about of money.
    • Kat: It’s a lot of money to send 6 students and pay fully for the trip.
    • Tyler: I think the students going should also put some of their own money into it. Total amount of money for this semester is $7,600. We’ve only spent around $300 so far. If we were on track for spending the whole semester we would have spent $3,000 at this point.
    • Elizabeth: 2 more students could go if we didn’t pay for cost of food.
    • Bethany: Last year she believes there were 6 undergraduate students and 6 CJP students.
    • Robert moves to amend the motion to have them reevaluate their cost for this year.
    • Bethany: they paid $60 per person last year. Would like students to pay for food.
    • Hanna: Doesn’t feel comfortable to ask students to pay a portion of this.
    • Ken: Ask yourself “What is a reasonable amount to ask for the average student to put in while still being able to go?”
    • Bethany moves to have them reevaluate their food cost, ask students to pay a $50 fee and provide lodging cost. Mario seconds.
      • In Favor: 12
      • Abstaining: 2
      • Opposed: 0
      • Motion passed.
• Open Floor
  • Taylor: I meet with Intellectual Life Committee this week. We discussed the proposal for EMU ACE (Academic & Creative Excellence) Festival. It would be a collaboration of all the department events at the end of the year. It will begin in spring 2017.
  • Brenda and Sara went to the cross-cultural committee. The main point was Jim Lehman speaking on the creative care counsel. Wants cross culturals to account and consider the emission of each trip.
  • The lead lunch dates are incorrect on the note card. There is a lead lunch tomorrow.
• Adjournment
  • Robert motions to adjourn the meeting. Mario seconds. Meeting adjourned.