ATTENDANCE

Members present: Donald O Gribbons, Faurest Nelson Wicks, Hesham Badissy, Stefan Bach, Tyler Langenbrunner, Lawrence Novak, Drew Hawley, Ryan Bersentes, Jonathan Gottlieb, Ryan Morikawa, Courtney Kindell, Brendan Hale, Alani Ahans-Smith

Members absent: Douglas Ridley, Oshen Davidson-Hall, Paige Jones, Sebastiano Trinh, Andreas Txai Villacorta, Robert Guicheteau

Chair: Faurest

Mural Policy

• Art Castantino clarifies the mural policy: The art would belong to the artist.

New Representatives

• Freshman
  • None were in attendance due to no contact from the election commissioner
• Alani, representative from the reservation, was present
• Oshen’s replacement
  • Brendan will contact Melissa to make sure she gets in contact with those who are next in line.

Motion to set up a committee to hire a WSA representative

• Committee would make the appointment, not come back to the whole committee as a whole
• Committee will meet after this meeting, interview, and appoint the representative
  • Contact Talia before Wednesday
• Make decision before 2 of 3 of the members leave Evergreen
  • Appointment members: Donald, Lawrence, and Hesham (Vote to approve: 10 FOR, 0 AGAINST)

Discuss Friday’s meeting with the S&A

• Ideas that were brought up about communication and S&A partnering with the GSU

Taco Truck

• Should be driven by GO

Meeting times next quarter

• 1:30pm-3:30pm, Sem II E1105 (Approved: 10 FOR, 0 AGAINST)

Committee Updates

• Firearms/Deadly force
• Suggestion for RFP: Catering for cultural events (outside of Thurston)
• Campus land use committeeà Should Stefan push for gender-neutral bathrooms (which RCW is Paul Smith referring to?)

Website bios

• Elani needs one
• Melissa Thowson needs to move GSU website to the front page of the Evergreen website (10 FOR, 0 AGAINST)

Intermurals

• Almost finalized, starting 2^nd week of Winter Quarter

Attendance

• Bylaws state: 2 excused and up to 4 unexcused absences are permitted
• Melissa Thowson and Paige Jones have been absent often lately
  • Committee to reach out to these two individuals, warn them
    • Committee: Tyler, Hesham, Stefan, Brenden

Meeting Minutes 11-14-12

ATTENDANCE

Members present: Donald O Gribbons, Faurest Nelson Wicks, Hesham Badissy, Paige Jones, Sebastiano Trinh, Stefan Bach, Tyler Langenbrunner, Lawrence Novak, Drew Hawley, Robert Guicheteau, Andreas Txai Villacorta, Ryan Bersentes, Jonathan Gottlieb, Ryan Morikawa, Courtney Kindell, Brendan Hale

Members absent: Douglas Ridley, Oshen Davidson-Hall,

Jonathan left early for ropes course

Public Comments

• WASH-Pirg canned food drive
• Tobacco at Evergreen
• Requests for information from Cooper Point Journal

Amanda Frank-CPJ

• Wants contact info to possibly do a feature on student representatives, wants to know what GSU is up to
• frankam12@evergreen.edu

Tribal representative

• They are meeting 12:30-1:30pm on December 1^st

Tobacco at Evergreen– JJ

• A plug for food services committee forum happening at 4pm

WASH-Pirg

• Need co-sponsor for food drive for collecting cans for food bank
• Shared emotional letter from students
• Forest Hunt- Wants to create a student group called “students for WASH-Pirg” (starting Winter quarter) that acts as a surrogate for WASH-Pirg
• GSU uncomfortable supporting WASH-Pirg given that the students did not approve their presence in the most recent election
• GSU has no power to allow WASH-Pirg to do a food drive
• WASH-Pirg can more easily obtain sponsorship from another student group
• Vote on GSU co-sponsorship of WASH-Pirg food drive = Voted down (FOR-2, AGAINST-11, ABSTAIN-2)

Voting to Approve Clean Energy Committee Nominees

• Kyle came in and spoke about the Clean Energy Committee and introduced nominees
• Chelsea-Secretary/Treasurer (FOR: 14 AGAINST: 0 ABSTAIN: 0)
  • Transferred this quarter
  • Working with farm program and PSA
  • Works for admissions office, loves representing Evergreen
• Jessica Honiker– Project Director (FOR: 14 AGAINST: 0 ABSTAIN: 0)
• Colby Fisher– Outreach Coordinator (FOR: 14 AGAINST: 0 ABSTAIN: 0)
  • Transferred this quarter
  • Environmental Geology, greenhouse gas inventory
  • Good research skills and experience
• Kyle Conyers-Coordinator (FOR: 14 AGAINST: 0 ABSTAIN: 0)
  • Returning member
• Emily Monohan-Outreach Coordinator (FOR: 14 AGAINST: 0 ABSTAIN: 0)

Greener Organization- Kevin Cortez

• Chose 5 people to go to San Jose to represent Evergreen at a conference with other schools
• National Conference in May (University of Pittsburg), anyone who lives on campus is permitted to come
• Fundraising: “students pay for us so that we can pay for them”
• GO putting on Can-Can dance, food drive and social event (this evening, 11/14/12 in the CAB, at 8pm)
• 2 paid positions available, GO wants recommendations
  • National Communications Coordinator (high stress job, representing Evergreen at the highest level)
  • Communications coordinator (working with the Free Store and the Corner Store)

Tobacco

• Txai talked about Health & Safety Committee meeting
  • Didn’t get far on enforcement issueà Worried about grievance system being flooded
  • Worried that moving the smoking areas outside of smoking areas
  • Health & Safety Committee stance: Wants a tobacco-free campus
• JJ Wampach
  • Evergreen graduate, public health advocate
  • Shared statistics on smoking and opinion that sale of cigarettes should be banned on campus
    • àAramark sells tobacco through the corner store
  • Asking GSU to be more proactive in making Evergreen campus quit-friendly
  • Are smoking shelters a suitable compromise for our school?
  • Our smoking policy is regressive; perhaps our drop in enrollment is due in part to the smoking policy
• GSU concern: Might banning smoking on campus would increase smoking in the woods (which would increase trash and forest-fire risk)?

WSA

• Move to renew WSA membership and look for intern to represent Evergreen in WSA (FOR: 14, AGAINST: 0 ABSTAIN: 0)
  • Tom will post legislative intern position advertisement on CODA

Tacoma Business

• Courtney calculated her driving expenses, Donald to work it into the budget for the next two quarters
• Conference call materials to connected Tacoma to GSU meetings in Olympia
• Courtney will graduate before Spring Quarter, we need to look into getting a new representative

Pizza Party update

• The evening (6pm or 7pm) of November 30^th
• Tom needs dietary needs for pizza

Bob Woods update

• Said he’s not interested and that we cannot use the metal shop

Meeting Mintues 11-7-12

ATTENDANCE

Members present: Donald O Gribbons, Brendan Hale, Faurest Nelson Wicks, Hesham Badissy, Paige Jones, , Sebastiano Trinh, Stefan Bach, Tyler Langenbrunner, Courtney Kindell, Lawrence Novak, Drew Hawley, Robert Guicheteau

Members absent: Douglas Ridley, Oshen Davidson-Hall, Andreas Txai Villacorta, Ryan Bersentes, Jonathan Gottlieb, Ryan Morikawa

Website progress

• Bios
  • Names
  • Picture
  • Class standing
  • Program/academic interests
  • Committee roles
  • Other areas of interest and goals
• Contact info

Tacoma Concerns

• GSU in Tacoma?
  • Tom: S&A is mandated, but GSU and student government is up to the students to create. If Tacoma wants a government it has to come from being a grass-roots effort from the Tacoma students; the Olympia GSU has no bearing on Tacoma student government
• Feeling that Tacoma campus is not treated equally compared to Olympia campus; feeling underrepresented
  • Tacoma is a 2-year campus, which makes things different. Student from Tacoma said that a Tacoma GSU would not be feasible or particularly useful
• Hesham suggested setting up a forum in Tacoma for students
• Courtney will look more into Tacoma roles and services
• Donald suggests conference call or similar way to get Tacoma students in touchàlisten in on the meetings, etc.
• Tacoma wants to have some academic advising presence
  • Need help with transcripts and applying to grad school
  • Talk to the Dean of Students, Phyllis Lane before the Board of Trustees

Clean energy committee

• Will bring candidates to GSU for approval on November 14^th

Sustainability Counsel

• Would like to meet with the GSU to give us an overview of their activities
• Schedule them for week 9 or 10

Vote to hear the sustainability and clean energy committee next week: APPROVED (FOR-all, ABSTAIN- none)

Lee Holman

• Would like to come talk to the GSU

Clubs

• Get clubs to come in and talk to GSU
• Special initiatives is coming up, which will be relevant for clubs
• GSU members should go to the clubs in Student Activities and talk to them

For RFP for Tacoma

• Current contract does not include the Tacoma campus
• Tacoma S&A uses local catering company
• Just make sure that the new provider is considerate of the Tacoma campus
• The Apple idea: Tacoma students want snack late-night
  • Students request late-night food options: Apples
• Courtney will talk to the S&A board about whether they want to be under an Aramark contract or just go through other companies and caterers

WASH-Pirg

• They have been contacting Brenden, seems to want to work with us
• Should speak to WASH-Pirg, they might be interested in doing some other projects jointly with the GSU
• Overall, Tacoma students not in favor of WASH-Pirg

Official GSU position on smoking issues

The GSU opposes a campus-wide smoking ban, but does endorse relocating the current smoking areas away from high-traffic areas. The GSU is also concerned with issues surrounding enforcement of smoking areas and recognizes that current policy is not being adequately enforced. The GSU feels that RAD should be doing a better job of enforcement on lower-campus. Regarding upper campus, the faculty and the GSU have agreed to form a joint committee to address enforcement on upper-campus.

Cooper Point Journal

• *Get a representative to come to meetings and report on what we’re doing

Gender-Neutral Bathrooms

• Talking to T-Rex and the Q-Center
• Troy (student from previous meeting) will be looking for the building codes that they used to put the gender-neutral bathrooms in the HCC
• We should be educating ourselves about building codesà How did UW do it?
• Try to find a lawyer to help us pro-bono

WSA

• WSA is in motion, and we need to be more active with them in advocating for Evergreen
• We should renew our membership and help lobby for student interest
• Move to renew and move forward on this avenue: (FOR-all, ABSTAIN-none)

Pizza Party

• S&A and GO will be talking to their members
• 6pm or 7pm on a Monday or Wednesday
• Do it after Thanksgiving Breakà Week 9
• Plan for Friday Evening, Week 9

Intermurals

• Finalizing rules
• Hesham asked for greater promotion by word of mouth