meeting called to order 7:08
jazz: the time is 7:08 pm we are currently in session. i am going to call up nora for attendancenora: *takes roll* hi ! ok
more about attendance soon
jazz:
going into convening business, presentation by exec, can i have sumi and shreemann come up
su: shreemann I and jazz worked all weekend to amake this; showing what our vision is after thist ransition; showing concrete plans for the coming year the vision presentation
shreemann: the vision of the 2026-20027 exec board is to increas ethe effective and influence of every senator and every committee by (this is in the presentation)
ok so this is broken up into 3; up down and across;
sumi: the pillar statement; position sga as a trusted instituttional partner that.. [in presentation]
who here knows of student advisory boards on campuss
provost student advisory boards: sacps, cisac, slc, diac,svac,dlc,hscac,hvac,pab,sseistudent advisory committee
have been trying to reach out to them, since no one from sga is on the board; would love to recruit someone from teh senator to be appointed to student advisory board research chair who reaches out to see ifif a seat is open, and see if they have an open seat; if ou're interested let me know
publicizing exec x admin; am reaching out to brown to have more meetings so that meetings outside of gbm will be less them talking to us and us listening to presentation; any senators related to those meetings by their initiatives are welcome
there are many initiatives involving different departments, so i want focus groups on specific topics instead of departments; also want advocating for sga inclusion and transparency in major decision making; we didn't know about cardi b for hoptoberfest; for tbtn this was moved because of cardi b; want to emphasize to the dicisionmaking for these stakeholders that we should be involved
shreemann: a lot of making senator efforts more eglegitimate; i am sure some of you have reached out to admin and they say to leed a senator has come off the leash; am alsothinking of mechanisms to keep them in check; if we bring them to a gbm and nothing happens we will continue to make sure that students are heard
the next pillar is down; responsiveness to students; [deliver visible…] overall goal here is to accessible, responsive, and data driven; one of the biggest thing is executive and committee chair office hours; finance obviously has a big interaction with rso, but we don't want this to be the only one; even if people don't always show up we just want to have them so they have option to come see us; this morning, jazz, sumi and i met with the newsletter met, and we want to have a better comnnection with them; want to have archives, also letter to the student body, retreat, to the body want we want to do as exec, this would also be a research chair i terms of wseeing what the student body thinks; we sometimes reach out to admin and they ask how to know people want this; used to have a director ofr esearch, but was not being used, so abolished; instead want a senator to be assigned and therefore they do this; another thing is having cso have leadership over student organizations, have already reached out to kevin about this; authority over registration; attending other board gbms, like csac,
sumi: to add on the reach, me , [], and royce are going to saac at 8 am tomorrow morning; i hope other people go to these, you can't be passive and expect to get feedback, you must go and have your face/needs known
for across, there is internal efficiency; building a culture of accountability, transparency [...]
goals are to know what everyone does within SGA;
shreeman: the first bullet, internal management system, is a tracked centralized tracking ofinitiatives; instead of current spreadsheet which (no one uses) so instead of going and adding something now you can see that someone else is working already on this; love to see the senate all working on something, but does mean we overlap a lot; if we do get the same email and it doesn't seem they're talking to each otheras admin, not great
want to remove the isolated silos so people can work to gethet
sumi; am also launching the liaison framework; what student services committee is doing similarly, appointing one person for snf agora for example, anyone who has an idea for civic engagement could go to jackson; that way any person couould be ready and know an email is coming; every seantor would be able to contribute to sga in their own unique way
shreemann: we know ss already does this but many other committees could benefit from the the exact same thing; are also going to start a committee health report; what initaitieves are being worked on; helps understand how to be one unified sga
here is a cutesy picture of that first meeting on sunday
shreemann: talking about immediate actions, at retreat, this weekend, you guys will get to test and see the internal system, assuming our develop has it done by then (should be done by tonight), will be able to see what else we want, also incentiveize us to meet
sumi: by nov 8th i will send all these emails with approvals, so if i get confirmation, i will be publicizing all these emails; by the end of thissemester, want to have all fo these positions confirmed along with research cair, and another end of sem is report; cllect and send reports on resolution as well as collaboration with newsletter
shreemann: important to know that these are actions we are going to take next though; though last week we have just gotten into new position, have already met with jhec and [] and 2 people on ksas advisory
sumi: any motion
rebecca: asked not to share with anybody by leed
if you aren't getting updates, likely, we were asked not to share updates
nora: poi: u ran on platform about connecting with baltimore community, which is why i voted for you, was wopndering if up in out also to reach this; getting outside the hopkins bubble
shreemann: we didn't put it in the presentation, but might as well tell about it; there's a baltimore colege summit that is not top tier, idea is we want to meet with them and see what the challenge/sopportunity to meet with them, come up with a council of student governments of baltimore and have a closer relationship a little over a 100K, there are 500K total in baltimore, so students are 20%; also looking at civic engagement took a lot of what i did and ran with it.
jazz: even within this relatinoship they will not be writing bias piece about whether "this is for them" or " we are against them" they ahve an opinions piece; in which they will have us contribute where we can contribute as student or president of the senate for me for example, maybe there's something we want to see from the student body; they were straightforward about saying they want to have that relationship; also in their framework of edits this can be on what we do, but not writing with us outside of the objective truth; outside of endorsements for sga they don't say "that
shreemann: about using nl as a democratic tool ;if i want to say something, as an undergraduate, i can have an opinion and send it
jazz: also ethey said to reach out for surveys or things to ask about, if you want to knowhethere students think the same way as others; for example the rave alerts, we were having internal discussion asbout tthis; good example
nora: newsletter has a whole section about sharing voices or your opinions, so it doesn't have to be something about your own factuality or claims about
jazz: ay other motions, if not , then that is this
the momvnt you all have been waiting for… ok no just kidding
for internal affairs chair voting; i know it is stated that way, but it will go in the opposite order (thanks sreehmann)
for vpots we have cole, isaac, kevin, and
they will each be given a 1 minute run of speaking time, if wondering why this is because shreemann and i were given this amount of time, so this way it's fair
same thing we did for vice president
unless there is a supermajority on the first vote that person will become the vie president of the senate
cole: hey guys i thought eleciton would happen the other way; first line is you already heard with my involvement of ia; i will start by saying ithink that all the popoe who are runnign tonight are phenomenal canddiates; i make sga my top priority; as many aof you know i am on the varsity football team, i don't have a single absence, i forego some of my sleep, there are good reasons to miss comittee or senate meetings, but i have made it a priority of mine to fully comit and never miss this; i have great relationships with manh peopl of sga, including jazz, feel free to disagree, the way i build relationship in and out of sga is by *timer goes off* ok; thanks
isaac: hi everyone my name is isaac, am current sophomore senator; our constitution gives vpots jobs; fostering communication and []; and my ai equity resolution has brought aspects of the academic life; as vpots i would make this kind of colaboration easy; if you have an idea i will find who to meet with; i would like to meet with sumi and shreemann for the mentor system; many of you have seen how i run academic afafirs, and i would be honored to serve as vpots of the senate
peter: i'm peter, chair of finance, running to support all of you; what sets me apart; i haev sga as my top priotity; other than my chair as finance, i am also 5/7 committees before ; i think a lot of the most effective senators are those who build out and talk, but they graduate; a protege system would have a better system where we have senators bring another to their meetings; this has more continuity with all of our meetings, am excited to work with all of you, and hope to get your vote
kevin: hello everyone, my name is kevin, junior class president, just like cole and peter, not a single absence, am runing to be your vpots to streamline initiatives; in all my tim ein sga have been 3 committes, was chair of academic affairs, now ; ffc; fa; pso (1000+); academic affairs ; 1000 responses; kai isaac, veda deans ; summer fa course offerings; want to make our senate more impactful and accountable as vpots; that means—
jazz: ok it seems you've beat me to the memo, ok expect about 10 minutes
we will now go into a time of deliberation, if that's fine with everyone. ok is there a motion
paul: motion for a 10 minute moderated caucussecond: boyiayenay:abstain:
paul: am good freinds with both peter and kevin; is relatively new but jumped in and is great; kevin has been here since freshman, and is very into the senate, knkows how much of stuff goes around here
luke: hello i would like to speak in support of peter and kevin; everyone who is runnign for the positioion is fantastic doing tons of stuff, would be great in leadership. but fpots, communication is ost important; peter, i've heard of him workin on so many things, reaching out to adminsitrators, i think it makes most sense to vote for peter
grace wang: he's relatively new but is immediately streaminling initiatives, has done good noacadmeic affairs, esurvey on exam relief policy, saved tabling event with sophia for ncta, as well as other things; he would be a very good liaison for the senate, since hee's a very good at reachih gout
kevin tse: would like to endorse peter; peter and i met through zenith, chinese zeo clip year; both on board; has always been on time ot meeting and veyry punctual; for the prospective org of zenith, many of our question s have been helped by ter; has always been supported and fostered comunity
kevin [tse]: vouching for peter and isaac; also worked iwth peter, is very well-rounded in knowledge, though he 's specifically finance chair; isaac also on academic affairs has lots of knowledge and is very helpful
abraham: playing devil's, pushing for epter: working with different people from different places, has already lots of exposure in different ocmmiuttees; the role involves lots of inowledge for the constittuion
mahima; i think everyone has already talked abou tpeter, and i wslo will, concrete eample: coming to our meeting, was there the entirety of the PSO fair, ran out of tables; peter helped me carry 3 chairs across the entire beach, and he's not even part of CSE
andrei: wasn't sure if this was just my experience, but peter has contributed to all of the initiatives i have done in CSO also unifying civic engagement and CSO committe; lots of efficiency through streamlining but also callbacks; accountability in fiannce, very effective
jazz: ok, there are 3 minutes left, any other ideas, any motion to end
abraham: motion to end moderated caucuskai: secondaye:nay:
jazz: this is not a secret vote; last week this was writing on an index card; we here go by hand raise; if anybody is opposed speak now; does everybody remember; if there is asupermajority then we will only go once, otherwise
all in favor of cole?
all in favor of isaac? 3
alli in favor of peter? 22
all in favor of kevin? 2
supermajority wins it is peter
shreemann: now the chair of ia, there is only one canddiate, must still go through the procedure
jazz: next we are voting for the chair of ia; cole is the only one running; he will give speech and then he will up and vote
cole: am currently vice chair of internal affair; currently working on multiple initiatives, there are multiple things working on, closed session clarification act, there is an initaitives within ia to make sure people are doing their action items, i am leadin gthis; i feel that throughout my tenure thus far; have come up with the knowledge of the information and tenets of the bylaws/constitution; feel i have made good relationships with those in ia, and hope to expand my role in mth ecommitte and hope to do good work, so thank you
jazz: for this, we could ask cole to leave the room, don't think necessary
cole: could
jazz: yes or no, if vote yes
shreemann: nora
nora: yeah agreee should leave
jazz:
shremann: i support cole
demarri: he's the most qualified
jazz: is there a motion to vote
yes
jazz: in favor of making ia chair cole
ok with that, supermajority, cole is the chair of ia
shall now be inviting felix to swear in sbvp patel and transfer caucus senator carr
felix: *script*
jazz: an amendment made to the agenda is that we are going to clarify attendance tonight instead of having impeachment trial. no cohort also
cole: motion to approve the agendapaul<demarri: second
jazz: any public like to speak? ok
moving into cabinet reports
sumi: all in presentation
shreemann: as i briefly mentioned have already been in ksasa national sciences,; if interested please dm me with your majors; fostering communication with other divisions of the university, this person is me; as you can see our wonderful chief justice is here; meeting about guiding documents and possibly acitons of the cse, how to prevent these issues going forward
nora: hello; my favorite thing attendance; handful of you got emails with a little warning about attendance policies, just to keep you updated; not admonishment; however, for clarity, reading from bylaws: main thing to clarify is 3 absence rules: that once you had 3 absences, the 4th will trigger an automatic impeachment trial
shremann: way it can be interpreted is that if you reach 4 then the impeachment
nora: but it should be the way that it is 2 and then when you reach 3
taking the time to clarify this now; once you have 2 excused absences then the 3rd triggers impeachment, where you will testify and clarify why you could not go; then ⅔ of entire senate
cole: poi: bill for this coming
nora: if you think something is wrong, in the meantime, please reach out as soon as possible; i.e., come to gbm it's what you agreed to when you ran
amy: my updates are just about whwat i did this week as treasurer; yesterday met with tiara pitt, the student philanthropy, met with her about additional avenues for rsos to fundraise; in my tenure as finance committee member we kind of push rsos to fundraise, though we do not give a lot of opportunities to do this; hope to estalbish this connection to department of [] and philanthropy; helping making workshops, also cool projects that might help rso funding; also were in agreement about an issue i found last semester; rsos are not as connected to their advisors as would be more helpful to them; it's not exactly inknown why this is; whether general lack of communication, or other factors; if there are any interested senators in perhaps drafting survey or initiative seeing what the status of advisors is, that would be lit hmu; am going to csos meetings tomorrow from 7-9 104 to atlk about this more
jazz: thanks amy
grace guan: hi guys grace here sure you guys received emails from me about retreats, will be this weekend 7th, 10-12, some emailed me about conflicts, if you can't make those 2 hours, then this will be an absence from sga, moving forward, this may be something you consider for future, historically may have been optional, but now more informational, so we all get something out of it; not only being able to grow professionally, but also sharing resources that youw atn so things can get done; hoep to see you all 10am saturdya
jazz: how many of you shall we see
with that, sienna
sienna: 3 things, first is who got the black jays email who got it set it this morning
ok so halfish
those who didn't recieve, caption on instgram, as well as on the 6th
2) if i'm busy, and you can't reach me, you can contact sumi, she has access also, though she is busy
3) global education office is doing event on their instagram for education week; theme is what do you do to make home local; some ideas are issues they are passionate about, or things picked up studying abroad; hence if interested please contact me
jazz: different things from me, first is we have been cleared, checked with CSE, we shall start the senator appointments; positions which are vacant can be filled (we will send this out); we will send email to entire student body so it is fair, as well as information through social media
there will be a link they can go to to submit why interested;qualifications; those who submit would come in next gbm and present, and we would vote similar today; typically has been can be filled once empty
cse said they were completey good with it, judiciary may be able to give an advisory opinion, though this is on the horizon, coming in next days; thaat is an update on that; in terms of liaison program, we met with all committee chairs on Sunday about liaison program; like what sumi was saying, instead of individual at first being liaison, one student getting an email about 20 people from, assigning committees to be liaison first, then student, so that way if a committee is working on something, then; one thing that has come up very often is about admin coming; most of that time is taken up by them answering when we could find this information
specific number of question
e.g. dining comes in, instead of 10 minutes, we will keep on motioning until, this way they know they have to answer, instead of you all submitting all these questions to have thoughtful discussions and they don't get used; so we will be workshopping this in the coming days
nl had great things to say about stuff this year, so that was nice
peterson: good evening, first senate social last tuesday, tomorrow also, 12-1, likely will be last one this semester, if you would like more sweets come next time; and of course sending out email to solicit schedules better for you
jazz: senators may have seen a post-gbm update, which came out on thursday, and now looking forward we will continue this, you should look at minutes if you weren't here, but also helpful; last one was very fruitful, instead about future, also post-gbm; sorry for cutting back into time
royce sent a video about all his announcements
royce [video]: very sorry couldn't be there today, amr ii from, hopefully some of you remember; first udpate is talking about hopkinsgroups unmanageable system, 100s and 100s of events, FLI students have a weekly calendar; DR brown was wrokign on that at next exec meeting, send feedback on that, campaigned lots fo people said they neede
atheletes food programs what they need food; me kayla adnd sumi sudent atela leader meeting at 8 am tomorrow; transportation liaison, veda and i just sent bluesy shuttle a message about comign to the gbm, and response was ot that encourageing, obvioulsy takes time and there are limits, but mighthave free tim in the summer; am thinking that if there was an event planned, if not hopkins sanctioned, where shuttles going straight back and forth, sregardless of event itself
just few more ideas, less action items: construction speaking with sds more; freshmen more upperclassmen interaction; like trips to baltimore for seafood, funded by hopkins as long as they have students with them; hope these ideas all make somewhat sense; i care just as much as you do, thank you very much, peace!
jazz: that was exceptional
i'll let him know he got a standing ovation
aarshi: short and sweet; some of the initaitvs in finance, how greek life events, seeing if they are going to get funding with them, so then speaking with [] and phchair f philanthropy of greek life and stuff like that; also thinking of a legacy student caucus
amy: poi: could you describe more about who you've been talking to for greek life
aarshi: rave (chair for pi beta theta )
amy: and what did you learn
arshi: about the budget; would be really hard to give money back to charity; more of like a newer fraternity on ccampus; the alumni aren't as strong as the other ones
amy: ok!
nora: what would a legacy student caucus do
aaarshi: i know legacy stopped at jhu, but another way to get like another way to get students
aishani: what problem are you trying to solve? like i'm one but i don't
aarshi: i mean everyone; i mean among the groups like one person in general doesn't
nifemi: like what's the motivation for this? like what's the personal connection; what's the personal… motivation beyond going into starting the legacy, yeah
aarshi: i mean it's honestly still in the workshop, i appreciate all the feedback, but, i mean, i guess i can, like nexxt, gbm, i'll have a list
nora: so you'll have a list
jazz: ok let's let boyi present and you all can motion for caucus
boyi: last meeting, then we had procedural clarification reforms, most of my work has been through internal affairs about fa's ther ewas a comittee last year about ; have meeting with young, head of the committee, this week, here are some of the conclusions they havd; fas are he to stay, and we will have to remain in the system, in the original system, people were dissatisfied with the fact they had to tak eclasses that we're unlreated, and fas are more free in that major requirements are less, but hen they implemented the fas system, this was hoped to allow people to have more fun majors; but now people's fun classes don't give them the fas; big problem with stem majors, were most is fa2 scienc edata; current system requires lots of preofessors to change teaching style, need to have classes with multiple tags, but need to ahve departments have more
fys classes don't have incentives for professors currently; need to figure out how to incentivize; committee has since been disbanded, will keep you updated on what i get; feel free to come to aa meetings; biweekly on
wse kasas major changes; design and capstone to major requirement; also been talk within admin tot stop students from transfering between schools for fa things; there is a committee in admin working on more sustainable grading, stomping grade inflation
we have academic affairs tablinbg event, survey with questions we want to ask students, cinnabon, need someone to help me with academic affairs initaitves (in academic affairs)
aarshi: second part about student caucus, more of an idea i wanted to contribute for suggestions, main initiative is speaking to philanthropy chairs and presidents to have a better understanding of the budget to see if it's beneficial to sga to fund these events
jazz: with that, moving into non-legislative
kevin: as promised last week going to give clarification on the prospective organization review process; if you're applying as a ; we have steps review, confirmation, done by leed, jessica, carles, and tekeya, current plan (met with charles today) is to have these steps done in a week; so for example checking that all your materials (member list, sustainability plan) has been submitted, all members have confirmed membership; your advisor has confirmed membership; this is where determination of organization duplicate between prospective or existing orgs will be decided; after this, conduct review and risk management will be done, i believe they are called conduct code, and risk management by ril noel, timeline is to have these done by next friday; take these as rouhg guidance instead of fixec times; you can tell prospective orgs about these dates, but they are not necessarily something that we are bound by but we hope to do instead to fast forward things, but we also get to SGA funding and sga-approval run, where we evaluate clubs based on their alignment with our mission; i don' think we have too many problemw with orgs, but also financial availability; depending on what the org is; we are going to always reach out finance chair, peter, to discuss financial viability of approving tese organizaiton in the conext of existing; also reaching out to existing to see what hte best fitting ones are if there are duplicates; e.g., some of dialogue ones should reach out to civic engagement committee to see what best option is
those are the updates for prospective org approval process
demarri: poi: a document or summ
kevin: can send
jazz: senator of the month! wow!
in the past we have recognized sophia, have recognize peter, doing the same, 5 senators to highlight
senator of the month you get to nominate yourself or someone else, they decide to accept or not, give a little blurb on why, the person with most votes is the senator of the month, and we shall write up on the board as they are mentioned
aishani: i nominate kayla, though nominated last month, her event was november, so i think she should be nominated this month; best food in ffc in a while; even worked in kitchen, i think this deserves
paul: nominate boyi, has been doing a lot of stuff in ia, but also other places
boyi: i accept
shreemann: i would like to nominate chair of academic affairs isaac, 30 different initiatives in like 3 minutes, i'd like to
isaac: i accept
aarshi: if nobody else will nominate, i nominate myself
jazz: no
julia: nominate mahima for working hard on prospective orgs
jazz: ok go to iclicker
take time to vote
1 min
we just want to highlight your rmoment; we here to make a difference
into 1st reading
andrei: the institutional question for thisyear is what is art? releaed question what is artist culture?
through this , part of the motivation is to start building a culture and community for artists at this campus, we will explain why e think this wand why it's lacking; those who nkow me know i am on cso and civic engagement comittee, and i seek ways to bring these together
have a lot of acapella clubs, we have a community of graphic designers, 12 communities of singers of different kind; communities do not engage across mediums/disciplines, we feel that part of this is a gap that should be filled by the student center; the student center should be a place for social cohesion and bringing students together across all sorts of differences; not about ceramics, about having a first space where artists can work together; investing in structure; even taht space is not open across many students do not use it; secondly iw oudl like to provide moe opportunity to artists on campus to provide social impact; art can be an important sociocultural political tool, though our campus does not have a way to do this; i think this is a thing we need; this woul dhelp solve through the volunteering i will discuss later;
alex: what does tha tlook like? we're trying to build a studio. we are representatives from a new rso, we're not just a club that has permitted interest for particular students, want you all to be part of a shared psace, a space right here somehwere int eh student center, but are actively working with facility to permanently host this, to have a place which is a cermaics; we are not sendning students to local studios, some students are doing this tehmselves out of pockets; very sad that a college doesn't, this is a very great opportunity to make this; is just the start, as well, a space that all of you could walk into, help us build, will talk about what already doing next and plans for the semester
[]: for civic engagement, this means, well in cermaic you can make lots of pots and bowls, so we want to tie this to food insecurity, especially food pantries in baltimore, food insecurity, outside of the hopkins bubble also, i am in contact to the bentley food pantry, closest nonh=hopkins foodpantry, in barclay, and other ones in baltimore; much of our fundraising, for example this empty bowsl that we're proposing, for food insecurity.
andrei: so yes we want to offer space, don't want a monopoly over it, but to starta first space, here's what we think we need would do that
alex: these costs are first to get us off the ground, this is sort of a national movement, our first thing, everyone can make their own bowl, we will teach workshop on how to make bowl; and you will bring these bowls and fill them with food to donate to food pantry or local organization; this is the kickoff event, and what we need to get off the ground; are takeoff item is very important; the potter wheel on campus, the main barrier to having a ceramic studio on campus; that's our request
so far we already have dozens of people whoa re excited to join the group, groupme already has 30 students, and have already begun to build relationship with opkins community, meche proefessor very excited to support us; our next job is finding a route to fund it
had 2 workshops this month funded by bsc, capped at 20 attendees each; gave us lots of tools like clay and mops
thse are small objects, insufficient; made ocarinas for first workshop, 2nd was leaf plates, 3rd is this sunday, you must register but come talk to us
will be homemade clocks which actually work
we know the engagement is already there, not just a club, but also to offer artistic space; anyone can attend tese workshops, no one must be a member but may join, and there are people who have done 5 years of ceramics but didn't know a way to get involved with hopkins; hopefully you all can give us
[]: want to emphasize we 100% do have the human capital, our theoritical advisor has worked at largest clay organization in balitmore im pretty sure, have the manpower just need the resources
andrei: assumed questions, will run through a few of these
have seen other hihg-cost bills, but ours is tangible, infrastructure, and hence a material investment, long here after all gone; not food to be used up; not asking for the monye for maintenance of wheels, for examples, merely the equipment itself
the wheels are the big ticket item, why can't we use used wheels, they don't sell them lol
the organization we are buying most from is clayworks supply division, they usually buy used; we're asking for 2 wheels, they have 46 according to their facilities page
alternativefunding options, we are comign to sga we tried all other avenues, sesquecentenial, hopkins did a bunch of 15k but only 1 to student and the rest to faculty, has been a priority this year, but has been very difficult for studnets tobe a part of this \
in terms of external classes, the cost of this would be made up in half a semester once understood that classes for 10 students would be 3000; cermaics is an expensive, that's why we are doing here
as alex said, student affairs is doing what they can]
alex spoke on what this empty bolws, for 20 years saint pauls bolwls has been run as an initiative, they will make a void this year when they switch to a different initiative; alongside being in contact with; instead of one specific food bank
lastly, cermaics has nob een approved yet by sga, being very careful, if you've noticed cochairs of finance are the sponsors of the bill; want to do 1st reading now and then 2nd reading only if we get approved and tdo the second only if this happens
aarshi: motion to refer to financedemarri, [kai?]: second
cole: hi i know spoke a little about this, will keep brief, talked about excused absences and attendance earlier, it was somewhat ambiguous and confusing, what was written in the bylaws, could have been interpreted as you get 3 and then the 4th triggers impeachment procedures, that it should be going forward, is if you receive a 3d EXCUSED absence specifically excused this will enter impeachment procedure; you get 2.5 excused absences for each community, if you're in 2, you get 5 total for the committees together; this is so people know the policies
we would like to, discharge and approve
shreemann: only reason for exigency is for internal appointments; if there are people who want the
demarri: motion for 3 min q&a with 1 min speaking timesecond: [ppl]
demarri: motion to amend to not apply retroactivelysecond: [ppl]
demarri: motion to discharge to second readingsecond: [ppl]
isaac: ok second reading of this bill, i believe this went through student services committee; allows the recording of fine arts, music groups,recoridg in the centralized location the digital stage, the revisions, ther ewere concerns regarding who would be doing the filming; where it would be; would there be extra work; have amended the act so there is a clear fact there is no hiring of extra videographer, this would just bedemarri: poi: what was recommendation from
demarri: motion to passpaul: second
isaac: this bill, only change from academic
nora:
nora: if you..
demarri:
andrei: is there any discussion of instance where we ought to restrict access to certain tools
isaac: the only restrictions are financial; students who can't access it have
andrei: i think we should be cautious absorbing the rhetoric instead of assuming that some…
andrei; this bill has a lot of positive, s
dmearri: motion to extend by 3 minutes
aarshi: what would happen to hopgpt would you ask them to; also would you give students infinite tokens
isaac: if passes 2nd reading it's just a resolution, saying there's a need/gap, talking to administration they're saying we can provide this but hard to say there is a solution when there is no issue; for 2nd question; there would be an update for upgrade, you ask about upgraded plan
paul: new
aishani: i don't like ai as much as the next person, but much use, like in research, or papers, students might need it for, it's a new technology, and like the internet, not everyone having access to it can put people at different levels puts things at different levels of things they can use; equality erhe useful
rain: would like to see the language on this bill saying how to use ai well; i teach hs students and they don't use it well; many students lack the synthesis skills
isaac: agree but can be outside
demarri: motion to extend by 2 minutes
amy: had similar concern; access is not equivalent to equal utilization by all users; potentially having AI resources might be separate to the main point of this rsolution, but i feel it owuld be helpful to include how access is related to literacy, literacy resources; am also curious about privacy on hopgpt, everyone having their own ai account; there seems liek an obvious answer as an institution, ahve you spoken to anyone about why that's not hte case and how that model and ysstem might change thw confidential information/work is handled
isaac: that was actually the main concern in the reading, they wanted to tamke it abundantlyclear that they don't log anything, track or stop their students; a lot of students don't use hopgpt
demarri: motion to amend section 4 resolution to the effect of "and use ai responsibly"
boyi: pased with positive recommendation; codifies senator of the month processes; you jsut sw this today; this is how will go in the future;
paul/cole: motion to passsecond: [ppl]
demarri/shreemann: motion to amend "accountability mechanisms" date from 11/3
shreemann: all caucus senators must have accountability mechanisms
demarri: motion to passabstain: andrei
boyi: motion to passsecond: demarri
aishani: stony run, positive recommendation, funding the bagels for these, only 50% of total cost
cole: poi: what time ; 10-12PM only time grounds team and jhoc could be there
cole: motion to passsecond: demarriaye: [many]nay:abstain:
cole: ok so we added this clause at the bottom, rules won't be applied retroactively, adjournment of this gbmk you are not subject to impeachment, and any excused absences will trigger
paul: motion to passsecond: demarri, []:
jazz: does anyone have announcements, if so send them to me by email
cole: motion to adjournsecond: []aye: [ppl]nay:abstain: