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Student Services Committee Meeting — Minutes (113th Session)

Minutes / Committee · 113th session · dated August 27, 2025 · updated April 8, 2026

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Student Services Committee

Meeting #1 - 8/27/25 Absences: Excused: Avi Liu, Andrew Gao Unexcused:

  • Introductions
  • Expectations & Meeting Time
    • Tentatively: 7 - 8 PM every Monday night in the Bloomberg Student Center
  • Campus Townhall (Student Grievance Hall)
    • Hit the spot on marketing
  • Instagram and promotion
    • Transparency and DIML (awareness and
    • Takeovers and Q&As
    • Ensure all clubs and organizations repost and get involved
  • Blue Jay Opening Day Spirit Week (Opening Day - 9/13)
    • Monday - Anything But a Backpack Day
    • Tuesday - Blue Jay Tuesday (Wear Hopkins Merch and/or Blue)
    • Wednesday - Dress Up Like Your Future Career Day
      • Blue jays soar high and aim high
    • Thursday - Country vs. Country Club
      • Second option: Pajama Day
    • Friday - Twin Day
      • Birds of a Feather Dress Together
    • Incentives: first 25 people everyday who post on their story wearing __, we’ll repost on our JHUSGA IG story and other accounts will repost you
    • Dress Up Like Ronny D Day - lookalike contest at 3 PM on Keyser Quad
    • Construction Day
    • Blue Jays Flock From Everywhere - Hometown Merch
  • Tabling Event
    • Free Snowcones
    • Map of the World - Blue Jays Flock From Everywhere
  • Dress Like Your Future Day
  • Hometown Merch
  • Jersey Day

Meeting #2 - 9/3/25 Excused: Jingyan

  • Alternative Spirit Week Ideas:
    • Monochrome day
    • Dress Like Your Future Day
    • Jersey day
    • Denim Day
    • Character Day
    • Mismatch Day
  • Other event ideas
    • Video Game Night (Friday Nite)
    • Art Design Competition (prize…displaying art somewhere??)
    • Bagel Day (Give Bagel in the Morning)
    • Dress as a Holiday 💔💔
    • Breakfast at Night Day (part of pajama day & we can serve breakfast at night)
    • Blue Jay Family Day (dress up as jay the mascot????)

Monday - Twin Day Birds of a feather dress together Tuesday - Blue Jay Tuesday Wednesday - Character Day Blue Jays can be anyone they want Thursday - Monochrome Day Hopkins Spirit shines through every shade Friday - Pajamas Day Blue Jays always chase their dreams Alternates:

  • Denim
  • Jersey
  • Mismatch

SGA PHOTOSHOOT & CANVA INFOGRAPHIC

Official Meeting #3 - 9/19/25 Attendance: Ava, Avi, Alan, Zaynab, Andrew

  • Student Engagement & Tabling
    • Jubilee-style Videos (recreation with student body and one person from SGA)
    • Singles speed date on campus
    • Sit-Down Interviews
      • Start small
      • Alumni involvement
      • Bloomberg and student conversation
      • Rose, Bud, Thorn
    • Map with the pin
  • Townhalls/Q&A Discussion Panels
    • Suggestion box
    • Good intentions, shift reality
  • Smaller Initiatives
    • Ex: Music in Nolan’s & Hopkins Cafe
    • Ice machine in the Rec
    • Lock up, Lock in Phone Charger
    • Communal puzzle in Student Center (JH150 Puzzle with Student Center, Gilman, etc. in background)
    • Vending machine for Laundry pods, drying sheets, and housing items
    • Hodson WiFi
  • Future ideas, “bucket list”, dreams
    • Inflatable pool & floaties
    • Underclassman
    • Slip and Slide on Beach
    • Blue Jays Flock From Everywhere (Big Map)

Official Meeting #4 - 9/26/25 Attendance: Avi, Mercedes, Caraline, Zaynab, Jingyan, Andrew

  • Continued bucket list items
    • Expanding feminine hygiene products in Sophomore housing
    • Working and full tampon dispensers
      • Finding people to supply and fund and upkeep
    • (Flavored) condoms and safe sex products
    • Free medical masks and collaboration with Health, Safety, and Sustainability
    • Media collaboration with Civic Engagement
  • Checking in on everyone’s first few weeks of the semester in SGA
    • GBMs
      • Redundancy and circling back to the same ideas and points over and over again; some conversations are a little longer
      • Feels like there is a hierarchy
      • Feels like micromanaging and might not be as productive as we’d like
      • Potential shifts in administration
      • More transparency
  • Suggestion boxes and Blue Jay Map
    • More clarification on line between programming and events
    • Make funding bill and have it complete by next Friday
    • Continue to pursue Suggestion Boxes idea
      • Where: Bloomberg Student Center, Brody Learning Commons, Recreation Center
      • Who: Student Services Committee
      • Grab the three suggestion boxes right before every meeting
      • Option to be heard and provide feedback
      • Three boxes, fancier attached pens, and post its
      • Option for follow up and anonymous or email if wanted

Official Meeting #5 - 10/3/25 Attendance: Avi, Mercedes, Alan, Caraline, Ava, Zaynab Agenda: Funding Bills broad template - Bill Template 2025-2026 - Google Docs Examples: Copy of Earth Fest Funding Bill - Google Docs; JHUMA Funding Bill Fall 2025 - Google Docs; RSO Committee Spotlight Fridays Funding Bill - Google Docs; National Health Education Week Funding Bill - Google Docs

  • 1st Funding Bill - Suggestion Boxes
  • 2nd Funding Bill - Blue Jays Flock From Everywhere Map/Mural & potential tabling event
  • Additional Social Media ideas and potential videos; potential collaborations?

Meeting Notes: Jason: Goal today is to refine and finish the funding bill & to search specific links for the bill. Committee members assigned the following objects.

  • Avi: boxes
  • Ava: pens
  • Zaynab: Post its

The Committee as a whole completed adding the remaining items to the 1st Funding Bill of Suggestion Boxes & before we look further to the 2nd Funding Bill. We will send an email to Jessica Snell to ensure we have proper permission../

Official Meeting #6 - 10/10/25 Attendance: Gao, Ava, Caraline, Mercedes, Alan, Jingyan, Avi Agenda:

  • Categories:
    • Housing
      • Laundry pods in laundry room - AF
      • Menstrual products in residential halls (currently working on it) CS
      • Condoms - AG
      • Open access to music practice rooms in SBC - AL
      • Permanent Hopkins Photobooth - AP
    • Dining
      • Increased transparency regarding allergens in desserts (dining hall) CS
        • Publish official allergy lists
      • Are complaints to the sandwich ladies a genuine issue? - AP
      • FROYO PLEASE PLEASE (CS, AF, AG)
      • Better cooked chicken (It’s kinda pink sometimes) -MR
      • Soft pretzels in the rec (to go w/ smoothies) - AF
      • Expanded fountain drinks in Nolans -MR
      • More vegetables (green beans)
      • Official study/test on portion sizes
    • Transportation/Accessibility
      • Expand the Juttle to camden yards (Orioles stadium) - AF
      • Increased transportation for injured/disabled students on campus (golf carts?) CS
      • Publish official accessibility map
    • Health & Wellbeing
      • ICE IN REC CENTER - AF
      • Athletic trainers/physical therapists available for club games - CS
      • More advertising for empower hour - jyz
      • Increased security communication and transparency
    • Student Engagement/Experiences
      • Street interviews - AF
      • Charging and outlet
  • Tabling for November (potential collaborations)
    • Potential cramp simulator
    • Guess What’s in the Box or what ___
  • Collaborations with other committees
    • Day in the Life Vlogs
  • Additional Initiatives/Categories:
    • TV with sports or other things in the Student Center

Official Meeting #7 - 10/24/25 Attendance: Avi, Caraline, Steve, Gao

  • Tabling Ideas for November
    • World Map Pins (Blue Jays Flock From Everywhere)
    • What’s in the Box Idea
  • Send me at least 1 initiative that you want to pursue by the next time we meet
  • QR Code Suggestion Form
    • We’ll do that next time we meet with more members

Meeting #8 - 11/7/25 Attendance: Zaynab, Caraline, Gao, Ava, Steve, Avi, Alan

  1. World Map Pins
    1. Waiting on Jessica
  2. LOTQ Tabling
    1. Sunglasses photos?
  3. 15 minutes - Fill out the Initiative Form (2x)
    1. Initiative Tracker (2)
  4. Thank You Cards
    1. Funding Bill?
  5. QR Code Suggestion Form
    1. Google Form
  6. Fundraiser and charity
    1. Hopkins Food Pantry

Meeting #9 - 11/14/25 Attendance: Ava, Avi, Zaynab, Gao

  • Administrator Form:
  • Thank You Cards
    • Still waiting on LEED (not sure Finance Committee’s progress)
  • QR Code Suggestion Form
  • Fundraiser & Charity with Hopkins Food Pantry
    • Will reach out after this meeting and see if we could set something up
    • What kind of fundraiser though? How will it be managed/run? What are we looking for in terms of items?
  • Committee Funds → more productive and more committed; creates a bond and helps foster a sense of connection; attendance incentive? ($150 per committee)
  • Potential Ideas
    • Dorm Decor Contest

Meeting #10 - 12/5/25

  • Card-making
  • Thank you cards

2/7/26

  • Vision for new semester
  • How can we incorporate more groups
  • Balloon Pop, Jubilee, Nectar
  • Health & Wellbeing, Hopkins Food Pantry

2/20/26

  • Discussed different ideas for semester
  • Collaboration ideas
  • More student engagement (videos, interviews, tabling)
  • Period products
  • Mental health and sleep
  • Umbrellas and spring

3/6/36 Caraline and Ali

  • Discussed results of Period Products bill
    • Aiming for around 3000 pads
    • Tabled to next week?
    • Petition for all public and private higher education institutions to restock period products within all facilities → quick sign and demand
    • Requirement for all public institutions to restock period products
    • Reframe; isolation
    • Important and nice thing for us to do and good use of our resources
    • Doesn’t matter timing, just we want to make meaningful change and fulfill an immediate need right now (Hopkins Food Pantry)
    • 200 responses from Caraline’s survey
  • Petition, Product, Survey
  • March Tabling
    • Asian snacks and culture
    • Determine location
    • When are materials arriving
  • Umbrella WiFi Tabling
    • Respond to Graham
    • Wireless and feedback surveys and questionnaire
    • Determine location
    • When are materials arriving
  • Sleep Initiative
    • Nap Classes and promoting healthy sleep habits → primary goal
    • Date & time → after spring break
      • PEEPs & Health Promotion and Wellbeing

3/11/26

  • Tabling Events
    • Umbrella Tabling
      • 3/23 - 1:30 to 2:30
      • WiFi and wireless
    • Asian Snacks Tabling
      • 3/25 - 1:30 to 2:30
      • Potential flyer or poster with Asian holidays
    • Sleep Class (Nap Class)
      • Jibola - flyer

4/8/26 Ali, Jibola, Alan

  • Giving out period products and giving the rest to the Hopkins Food Pantry
  • Coordinating with APTT for when we are packaging the wellness kits and distributing them
  • Finalizing details with PEEPs and Health & Wellbeing for Nap Class
    • Double-checking with Crystal to see if the blankets are coming in.
  • Ali - will help with the tabling and giving things out
  • Potential video recording by end of the semester
  • Jibola - got through all the events we’ve planned so far in regards to tabling
    • Attendance