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JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #1 13 SEPTEMBER 2024 / Minutes By: Srigouri Oruganty / Location: Brody BLC 2006

ATTENDANCE Srigouri Oruganty, Anisha Rasamsetty, Karen luna, Sun Moon, Tanisha Taneja, Ethan Edelstein, Tyler Turner, Adithyan Neelamana

ABSENT Excused: Unexcused:

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Introductions
  • HSS Past Initiatives
  • Goals for the semester
    • RSOs/Departments to reach out to
  • Logistical Updates

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Well-being Day
  • SGA x Wellbeing: Mindfulness Event
  • Alternative Protein Project x Sustainable Hopkins Innovative Projects: Meat The Future Movie Night
  • SGA x Wings x Alpha Kappa Alpha x Beta Mu Delta: Menstrual Hygiene Gap: Multiracial and Global Perspectives
  • Earth Fest
  • Sex Week
  • Goals for the semester
    • Thrift Shop
    • Make hammocks rentable
      • JHOC hammocks collaboration
      • Hammocks during reading weeks
    • Smore event, gingerbread house making, cookie decorating, making ornaments
    • HSS x ice rink
      • Pay for the drinks with SGA money
      • Winter wear collection drive
      • Holiday music
      • Book it as an organization and buy all the hot chocolate
      • pvalentine@ice-america.com
    • Tabling event with office of climate and sustainability
      • Work with Homewood recycling on a tabling thing
  • Logistical Questions

ACTION ITEMS

  • Prepare a 1-2 minute speech if you want to be Vice-Chair
  • Think of potential collaboration ideas
  • All the emails sent out by 9/27

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #2 20 SEPTEMBER 2024 / Minutes By: Srigouri Oruganty / Location: Brody BLC 2006

ATTENDANCE Srigouri Oruganty, Anisha Rasamsetty, Sun Moon, Tanisha Taneja ABSENT Excused: Karen luna, Ethan Edelstein Unexcused: Adithyan Neelamana

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Ideas
  • Updates from clubs
  • Vice-Chair Election
  • Ice rink

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Ideas
    • National Period Day: collaboration Student Services and WINGS (October 19th)
    • Ice rink: ask Karen about contacts
    • Third week of October: National Health Education
      • One day, send out when2meet
    • Free safety items, somewhere on campus, if people need stuff (who to contact)
  • Updates from clubs
  • Vice-Chair Election

ACTION ITEMS

  • All the emails sent out by 9/27

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #3 27 SEPTEMBER 2024 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: Brody BLC 4053

ATTENDANCE Srigouri Oruganty, Anisha Rasamsetty, Tanisha Taneja, Adithyan Neelamana, Ethan Edelstein, Karen Vasquez

ABSENT Excused: Sun Moon Unexcused:

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up

  • Updates from clubs
  • New vice chair: Tanisha Taneja!

New Business

  • Brainstorming for national health week event
  • Create funding bill for national health week event
  • Ice rink discussion

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

  • Updates from clubs
    • JHOC: interested, no specific ideas
    • Real Food at Hopkins: email did not go through
    • Farmers Alliance: automatic response and will respond in a week
    • SARU: Karen has a close friend - can just talk in person
    • Innovation Fund for Community Safety - only had feedback form
    • All emails sent

New Business

ACTION ITEMS

  • Srigouri: Send email to Health Promotion & Well-Being on Monday (9/30)

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #4 04 October 2024 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: ZOOM

ATTENDANCE Srigouri Oruganty, Anisha Rasamsetty, Sun Moon, Tanisha Taneja, Jacquelyn Slade

ABSENT Excused: Adithyan Neelamana, Karen Vasquez Unexcused: Ethan Edelstein

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up New Business

  • Admin from Health Promotion and Well-Being (Caress R.)
  • Updates from clubs
  • Tabling event finalization

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Admin from Health Promotion and Well-Being (Caress R.)

Srigouri: October 23rd is the day of the tabling for Health Education Week. Hoping the Health Promotion and Well Being office can give informational flyers. In the process of ordering items. We want to have a trivia activity and students are put into a raffle for an air purifier if they get the question right. We are interested in getting health information packers, specifically sexual health. Tanisha: Interested in collaborating with APTT and Wings. Waiting to hear back from Wings and APTT is interested in helping. Caress: Confirmed that this is only one time thing. What are some other topics of health education that should be promoted? Sun: Washing hands, using hand sanitizer. Caress: Important to have information around the items that are being given out. Jacquelyn: For the senior class, maybe we can include something related to burn out as they are applying to grad school and maintaining health. Caress: Reach out to the Career Office. Could offer information about our office and raise awareness about health education. Will trivia be the main activity? Srigouri: Trivia will be the main event as we only have one table reserved. Students can pass by and pick up items and answer trivia questions. Caress: Incentives are different from giveaways? Are you expected to give anything else? Srigouri: Those are the main things. Maybe we can get other items from Health and Wellness. They will hopefully provide hand sanitizer and they said they can potentially have a doctor at the tabling event to answer questions, especially related to respiratory illness. Caress: I like this idea. For trivia questions, we can focus on the resources on campus. An example would be “who would you contact for sexual health?” Come up with topics that you want to focus on. How are you going to conduct trivia? Srigouri: We were planning to do a spin-the-wheel activity. The item that stops the wheel is broken. Does your office have a wheel that we can borrow? Caress: We might have a wheel at the office. Anisha: If we can’t find the wheel, we could also use a fish bowl and put questions in there. Caress: I like the idea of real trivia. We can maybe have different categories with questions in each. We can wait until there are 3 people at the table and the students can buzz in to answer. If there are specific incentives that you want people to win, we can help cover that. Srigouri: I think we are good on incentives. We will have the two air purifiers. We ordered hand sanitizer, tissue packs, EmergenC. But we did not order as many as we would like (30–40 of each). If there are items in the office to give away, that would be helpful. Caress: We can offer some sleep kits. We have safer sex supplies that are available (condoms with lube). We can have a code to request more specialty sex supplies. We also have vintage shirts. Srigouri: We will not need the vintage shirts. Caress: I will give the sleep kits and safer sex supplies. Can give 50 total. Can check if we have the wheel for trivia. We have health packs for condoms, pleasure information, how to use safer sex supplies. Srigouri: We are expecting around 120 people to show up. It’s on the breezeway and there is a lot of traffic. If people don’t take an item, they might want the information flyer around it. For the trivia questions, it would be cool to make it as Hopkins-focused as we can. Jacquelyn: Maybe we can include a question about where health centers are located. Caress: I like that idea. I can send you data (specifically alcohol data) and you guys can make the questions. I can also send NCHA data. You can also ask questions about the differences between resources. When will the trivia questions be done? Srigouri: We can work on that during our next meeting (10/11) and our next meeting will be during fall break. Caress: You can work on that 10/11 and before you leave for fall break, you (Srigouri) and I can meet during fall break. We can determine a time when we can meet to drop off the supplies. I’m happy to help out with this event. I will send the data and will wait after 10/11 for any information.

  • Updates from clubs
    • No one has heard back from any clubs
    • APTT: interested in collaborating and want us to be involved in Sip & Self Care
  • Tabling event finalization
    • Doctor from Health and Wellness will be at the event
    • Asked for help with trivia questions from primary care (HelWell)
    • Trivia: could have categories on the wheel
      • Each member of HSS makes 3 questions (8 people) = 24 questions
      • Could make the categories correspond to the colors on the wheel
      • Fish bowl idea (if there is no wheel): students choose a number 1-24 and we read the corresponding question
    • Only have one table booked for the Breezeway
    • Tablecloth: Srigouri will bring one from home
      • SGA tablecloth is gone
    • SGA component (surveys): not needed because we already have lots of activities
  • Future event: health promotion event with surveys focusing on improving health resources at Hopkins

ACTION ITEMS

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #5 11 October 2024 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: BLC 1031

ATTENDANCE Srigouri Oruganty, Tanisha Taneja, Jacquelyn Slade, Adithyan Neelamana, Ethan Edelstein, Jason Yu, Sumire Sumi

ABSENT Excused: Anisha Rasamsetty, Karen Vasquez, Sun Moon Unexcused:

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up

  • Updates from Office of Climate & Sustainability
  • Updates from clubs
  • Updates from Health Promotion & Well-Being and Student Health and Wellness
  • Updates about ice rink

New Business

  • Creating trivia questions

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

  • Updates from clubs
    • Office of Climate and Sustainability: rebranded, new launch for Sustainability Plan today (ex: buying 5 electric buses)
    • SARU: asking for help with funding (funded by Health Promotion & Well-Being) -> will ask finance about this
      • Wanted help with marketing as well
      • Starting an on call unit for emergencies (want our help for promotion)
    • JHOC: waiting from President to come back, currently fundraising for hurricane
      • We could help advertise and fundraiser for hurricane aid
      • Will reach out when they have more concrete plans about how we can help
    • APTT: will provide affirmations and mental health flyers
      • One person from APTT will ideally table from 1-2:30
  • Updates from Health Promotion & Well-Being and Student Health and Wellness
    • Provided data to make trivia questions
    • 3 doctors will be in shifts at tabling event (students can ask questions)
    • Will provide 9 questions
  • Updates about ice rink
    • Srigouri sent an email but received an automated response
      • She will find someone else to contact

New Business

  • Creating trivia questions (3 questions per person)

Questions:

  1. Hopkins has "sleep kits" available to students to help them improve their sleep quality – true or false? True
  2. What is the Hopkins amnesty policy related to alcohol? If you have a friend who’s in need of medical assistance, you get amnesty for alcohol policy violations if you make sure they get that help.
  3. What can you use at the dining halls to ensure you can make healthier choices for food? JHU Nutrislice, “Nourish tiers” for health level
  4. There is a vending machine in the Student Health and Wellness Center that offers various items including COVID Tests, Condoms, Plan B etc. to students - True or False?
  5. True or False: 20% of undergraduates have drunk energy drinks or shots on 5 or more days of the past 30 (False–7% of undergrads)
  6. What percentage of undergrads on campus consider their overall health to be “excellent”? (1%, 10%, or 30%)
  7. True or False: According to a survey taken last year amongst JHU undergraduate students, 15% of students binge drank in the past month (False - ~ 30%)
  8. According to a survey taken last year amongst JHU students, what percentage of undergraduates drank in the last month (50%)
  9. True or False: Underclassmen have the largest proportion of students with high-risk/very high-risk drinking (False - Upperclassmen)
  10. Where is Health & Wellbeing? (1 E 31st St, Baltimore, MD 21218 → On 31st Street)
  11. True or False: More JHU students drink Beer than Distilled Liquors/Spirits (False - almost avg of 70% drink distilled liquors/spirits vs avg. 40% for beer)
  12. Among JHU past-year drinkers, as a direct consequence of alcohol use, ___ percentage of students had unprotected sex (around 20%)
  13. What percent of Hopkins students are non-drinkers? 33%
  14. Does JHU have a nutritionist on staff? - Yes or No
  15. True or false: Students can make Health & Wellness appointments online through the MyHealth Portal.
  16. How many percent of students have had to “babysit” their drunk friends? About 50%
  17. What percent of undergrads wear sunscreen usually or always when outdoors? 30%
  18. What percentage of undergrads at JHU received a flu vaccine in the last year? 83.4%
  19. True or False: More than 50% of Hopkins Students completed HPV vaccine –True → actual number is 66%, HPV vaccine can help prevent cervical cancer
  20. True or False: More graduate students experience Hazing that negatively impacts their class performance (True 36.4% graduate students and 7.7% of undergraduate students)
  21. What percentage of undergrads have discussed with a professional and/or been diagnosed with depression in the past 12 months? (5%, 10%, 25%)
  • Tabling Timings (October 23rd, 12-3 pm)
    • Ethan: 12-1:15
    • Jacquelyn 12-1
    • Sumi: 12-1
    • Adi: 1:15-2:15
    • Jason: 1:30 - 3
    • Tanisha: 12-1:30

ACTION ITEMS

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #6 25 October 2024 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: BLC 4053

ATTENDANCE Srigouri Oruganty, Tanisha Taneja, Jacquelyn Slade, Adithyan Neelamana,, Jason Yu, Sumire Sumi, Anisha Rasmasetty

ABSENT Excused: Sun Moon Unexcused: Ethan Edelstein, Karen Vasquez

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Feedback from tabling event
  • Updates

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Feedback from tabling event
    • What went well:
      • Very successful overall
      • Lots of attendance
      • 70 people filled out the air purifier form
      • People asked the physicians questions
      • Physicians’ feedback: enjoyed getting formal feedback from students and interacting with the students
        • Asked if we could help promote them with other events and are interested in helping with future events
    • Improvements
      • Have standardization for the questions (to ensure that there is increasing difficulty for the 5 questions to receive the massage gun)
        • Massage guns/shirts were given out too easily due to lack of standardization
          • Need to follow up with Brandon/LEED to ensure items are arriving on time
      • Some questions were phrased badly (ex: upperclassmen vs underclassmen question)
      • Obtain items that represent SGA
        • Tablecloth/poster board
        • SGA shirts (however, difficult to get this)
        • Magnetic pins with SGA logo
      • Did not have wheel from Primary Care
        • However, having a wheel might have made the event more difficult and crowded
      • Have more bigger prizes in the future
        • Could be a possibility for bigger tabling
      • The QR code for the Air Purifier Giveaway should be more hidden
        • Because the QR codes were on plastic holders, students often scanned the QR code to enter the giveaway before meeting the threshold (answer 1 question correctly) to actually be entered in the giveaway
    • Left Over Items for Future Use
      • Hand sanitizers from Primary Care
      • All the online items (tissues, EmergenC, stickers, hand sanitizer)
  • Updates
    • SARU: Karen and Srigouri have been in contact with SARU
      • Want SGA to help fund their event at the end of November (Speaker Event: Lexi Bean - trans multimedia artist from the Midwest)
        • SARU is not funded by SGA and not re-registered by LEED
          • Might be difficult to transfer money
        • Brandon said we can still fund their event
        • SARU is under Homewood Department Student Organizations
        • Srigouri will attend their E-Board meeting on Sunday and they can present their co-sponsorship bill at GBM on Tuesday (an event grant might not be possible because they are not under SGA for funding)
      • Srigouri sent an email with a flyer about SARU’s upcoming Costume Party on Monday (10/28)
        • SARU wants us to repost the flyer on Instagram and spread the word
    • Ice Rink Event
      • Srigouri has still not gotten a response
    • Other Club Updates
      • No new updates from clubs
      • APTT: Have not gotten any new responses, unsure if they still want help for their Sip & Self Care Event
      • JHOC: have not heard any updates as they have been busy with the hurricane donations
    • Potential Agenda for the Rest of the Semester
      • nMore legislative items rather than programming events

ACTION ITEMS

  • Repost the flyer for SARU’s Halloween Costume Party (10/28) on Instagram

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #7 8 November 2024 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: BLC 4053

ATTENDANCE Srigouri Oruganty, Tanisha Taneja,, Jason Yu, Sumire Sumi, Anisha Rasmasetty, Karen Vasquez, Sun Moon ABSENT Excused: Jacquelyn Slade, Ethan Edelstein Unexcused: Adithyan Neelamana

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up

  • Updates from ice rink

New Business

  • Ideas for next event/legislation
  • Discussion for SMNA maps

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

  • Updates from ice rink
    • Responded to Srigouri, but they are not sure where the ice rink will be this year
      • Said we could do the winter clothing drive only for the event we sponsor and we will be put on the list of attendees
      • Could collaborate with Hearts for Homeless to donate these clothes

New Business

  • Ideas for next event/legislation
    • Snack Pack Packing
      • Caress Roch - wants to set up a meeting next week to distribute snack packs
      • Have a snack pack packing event, provide vouchers to students for packing
        • If interested in being involved with this, send Srigouri availability for next week
    • SARU
      • Presented their funding bill at the last GBM (10/29) for their speaker event for transphobia and anti-trans legislation
    • Defense Item Pick Up on Campus
      • Have alarms, whistles, alarms that call emergency contact, pepper spray (might not be allowed) on campus for use
        • Put items in multiple places: Shirver, Gilman (open 24/7), the Rec, security booths, Wolman/McCoy, Charmar,
      • Anisha - People to contact: Vice President for Public Safety - Branville G Bard (branville.bard@jhu.edu), publicsafety@jhu.edu, people conducting Safety Week, Public Safety
    • Reduce waste at Dining Halls and repurpose it to the homeless
      • Potential problem: whatever food you donate to homeless people, if it leads to food poisoning, JHU can be sued
        • Potential solution: donate the prepackaged food at Char Mar the day it expires or the day before it expires
        • Because there is food that students don’t buy, that food can be donated
      • Tanisha - Person to contact: Graham Browning (graham.browning@jhu.edu) - Sustainability Manager at Hopkins Dining
    • Get a discount for using a reusable cup at Brody
      • Already happening - 50 cents off at Levering, Mudd, and Brody Cafe
    • Reusable to go boxes
      • Students would drop them off in a bin after use
      • Tanisha - Contact Graham Browning
    • Hammock Day
      • Health Promotion and Well Being owns them
      • Hard to make them permanent because they are not great quality and the weather could ruin them
      • Potentially rent them from the Rec?
    • Sustainability Requirements in Funding Guidelines
      • Srigouri will attend a meeting and add sustainability guidelines
        • Ex: if doing an event with catering and if you choose from green catering restaurant , you can get it all funded by SGA
          • If not a green caterer, you have to fund 15%
        • Only requirement to be a green caterer: have to be compostable materials
    • Paint and Sip Event
      • Charcuterie boards, Sparking cider, mocktails
      • Do it in Glass Pav, Levering Lounge
      • Potential collaborators: APTT, sororities
    • QPR Training for SGA
      • SuicidePrevention and response
      • Health Promotion and Well Being wants to host this
    • Veggie Stamp Art
      • Using veggies (beets, fruits) to make art
  • Discussion for SMNA maps
    • November 9th: care packing kits (lip balm, hand sanitizer, gloves, snack pack) for elementary school in an underserved community
      • Need help with obtaining the hand sanitizers (125)
      • We have about 50 hand sanitizers - we can provide these to them
        • Sirgouri can email Primary Care for more hand sanitizers and band aids and CC Tyler on the email
        • Funding bill is not possible because of time constraint
      • Items to put in kits that we can provide: fidget toys, tissue packs, band aids, hand sanitizers
      • Good on advertising
  • Past initiatives within HSS
    • Help Sustainability Office with launch of Sustainability Plan in the fall
    • Meetings with clubs with what they need (mostly fell through)
    • Snack Packs in the Spring
    • Helped out with Earth Fest
    • Sex Week (giving out condoms, raffles for vibrators and sex toys,
    • Menstrual Hygiene Gap with other
    • Meet the Future movie night
    • Sleep Event with Health Promotion and Well Being
    • Mental Health events with mental health website

ACTION ITEMS

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #8 8 November 2024 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: BLC 2006

ATTENDANCE Srigouri Oruganty, Tanisha Taneja, Jason Yu, Anisha Rasmasetty, Sun Moon, Karen Vasquez, Adithyan Neelamana, Ethan Edelstein ABSENT Excused: Jacquelyn Slade Unexcused: Sumire Sumi

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Updates

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

  • SNACK Packs Meeting
    • Srigouri had a meeting with Caress about this
    • At the end of last semester, these snack packs were handed out to students for finals
      • Will happen again for this semester
    • Want us to help pack 400 snack packs
    • Supplies will be delivered on November 18th or the last week of classes
      • Determine when we are available to pack them (November 18th-20th) or December 2nd-3rd)
      • Srigouri sent out a When2Meet
    • Might be distributed during reading days or last day of classes
      • Can be posted on Instagram for drop in hours
      • Could also stand in front of FFC, Brody, Breezeway to give them out
        • Breezeway might be difficult during reading week
  • SMNA maps (Tyler’s event)
    • Currently still needs hand sanitizer, SNACK packs
      • Srigouri will provide sanitizers and thermometers
  • JHOC (Adi)
    • Adi talked to friend in JHOC - will meet with them on Monday
      • Want help reaching out to underrepresented minorities exploring the outdoors (possible promotion)
        • Co-sponsor T-shirt to commemorate the trip (JHOC x SGA)
      • Help with publicity for outings
    • Should email Srigouri and Tanisha any promotional information and co-sponsorship bill
  • Food Sustainability (to go boxes and food waste) (Tanisha)
    • Tanisha sent an email to Jessica to get it approved
      • Will sent it out to Graham Browning once approved
  • Safety Items (Anisha)
    • Will send an email to Jessica to get email approved
  • Hopkins Votes (Jacquelyn)
    • Session in collaboration with Hopkins Votes about collaborating health and well-being during election results
    • Hopkins Votes is already having these sessions
      • Might need more outreach, support, publicity

New Business

  • Updates

ACTION ITEMS

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #9 15 November 2024 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: Zoom

ATTENDANCE Tanisha Taneja, Jason Yu, Anisha Rasmasetty, Karen Vasquez, Sumire Sumi, Ethan Edelstein ABSENT Excused: Sun Moon, Srigouri Oruganty Unexcused: Jacquelyn Slade, Adithyan Neelamana

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up

  • SNACK Pack meeting
    • When are people available to pack on Wednesday and Thursday next week
    • When would we like to distribute them
    • How would we like to distribute them

New Business

  • Updates

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

  • SNACK Packs Meeting
    • When are people available to pack on Wednesday and Thursday next week
      • 5 - 6 pm on Wednesday, November 20th (Sumi, Ethan, Tanisha)
      • 4 - 5 pm Thursday, November 21st (Anisha, Jason, Karen)
      • Need to pack 400 bags
        • Tanisha/Srigouri will send out an email with location and timing
          • Might need additional times/people to help with packing
    • When would we like to distribute them
      • Potentially last day of class (December 6th)- Friday 4:30 - 6:30 pm
        • Might not be crowded and will be cold
      • December 9th (first reading day): 12 pm - 1 pm (Sumi, Jason) and 1 pm - 2 pm (Ethan, Anisha)
    • How would we like to distribute them
      • Outdoors - might be cold in the evening
        • Possible indoor places
          • Commons downstairs area
          • Brody cafe
      • Distribute snack packs on December 9th in front of Brody from 12-2
      • Other potential ideas:
        • Put 100/150 snack packs at Lighting of the Quads Booth (12/5)
        • Could also put some at the November/December tabling
          • Tim said November tabling is 11/20
          • December tabling is Lighting of the Quads (12/5)
        • Reach out other SGA members
          • 2 hours at 1 location might not be enough to distribute all the packs
          • More SGA members can stay at different locations (FFC, CharMar)

New Business

  • Updates
    • Anisha: will work on a draft for safety items initiative this weekend
      • Will CC Srigouri and Tanisha

ACTION ITEMS

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #10 31 January 2025 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: BLC

ATTENDANCE Tanisha Taneja, Jason Yu, Anisha Rasmasetty, Karen Vasquez, Sumire Sumi, Ethan Edelstein, Sun Moon, Srigouri Oruganty ABSENT Excused: Jacquelyn Slade, Adithyan Neelamana Unexcused:

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Goals for the semester
  • Ice Rink
  • Reschedule time?

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Goals for this semester
    • Anisha’s safety initiative: putting safety items (pepper sprays, alarms) in stations around campus
      • Potential safety defense classes (potential collaboration with Hopkins organizations -> potentially ask Stone?)
      • Anisha will send an email out by next meeting
    • Make campus more disability accessible
      • Problems: marble stone when raining, pave the walkway out of MSE, stairs in the shortcut to the Beach
    • Food Sustainability (reusable to-go boxes, donate Char Mar items)
      • Tanisha will re-send email to Jessica
    • JHOC
      • Adi will follow up with them on any initiatives they are interested in
    • Health/Safety Challenge: If someone runs 10 miles/week, you get into a raffle or some sort of prize
      • Targets safety because students can run away from danger and it targets health by exercising
      • Track miles on Strava
      • Can reach out to The Flock or the Rec
      • Sun will draft an email
      • Meeting Notes 4/2
        • Great initiative
        • Timely
        • Strava
        • ⅔ weeks
        • Maybe charge people to enter into
        • Collab water bottle as a prize
        • Consider a small charge for them to get in.
        • Some items
        • Already 50% off group class passes for the Rec
        • Money off of F45 passes.
    • Menstrual products in communal dorm bathrooms
      • Jason will reach out to Omotara
    • Toilet seat covers
      • Srigouri will reach out to Kemi to see who she reached out to for paper towels
    • Cold Care Package
      • Drop off care items (ex: COVID tests) when they drop off toilet paper outside dorms
      • Jason will contact Residential Life and Health and Well Being
    • Hygiene Items
      • Keep baskets around campus with health items like hand sanitizer, Emergen-C
      • Potential places: Desk outside Commons, mail rooms, Rec desk, Brody security desk, Mudd cafe
      • Tanisha will send out an email
  • Ice Rink
    • Srigouri has not received any follow up from Ice Rink people
    • Ice Rink timings: https://www.jhu.edu/johns-hopkins-ice-rink-at-homewood/
    • Potential Timings/Partnerships:
      • Friday, Feb 22nd (potential partnership with Night at Hopkins Skate Night)
      • Backup: Friday, Feb 15th
      • Ideally ONE night (Srigouri was told that we can’t do a week-long event because we would have to take the box back every day)
    • Potential promotion
      • Have a promotion table along with clothing stand
      • Put flyers around the ice rink beforehand
  • Reschedule meeting time?
    • New time: Thursday 6-7 pm

ACTION ITEMS

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #10 6 February 2025 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: BLC

ATTENDANCE Tanisha Taneja, Jason Yu, Anisha Rasmasetty, Karen Vasquez, Sumire Sumi, Sun Moon, Srigouri Oruganty, Jacquelyn Slade, Adithyan Neelamana ABSENT Excused: Unexcused: Ethan Edelstein

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Emails
    • Adi: spoke with JHOC person, emailed asking for their list of priorities/action items
    • Jason: has not sent emails
      • Cold care packages (new idea): instead of cold care packages being delivered to their rooms, residents can go to their RA and pick up the package
      • Menstrual products: Jason will talk to Omotara on Sunday during Student Services meeting
    • Sun: send email about the fitness activity challenge, was approved by Jessica
      • Send email to Maggie Heverly (mheverl2@jhu.edu)
      • Potential rewards: Lululemon gift card ($100), Visa gift card, resistance bands, gym equipment, adjustable dumbbells, air purifiers (from the National Health Education tabling event)
        • Will give out 3 rewards
        • Can also give out small participation rewards to everyone
      • Logistics of the health challenge: if everyone passes a threshold of number of miles/activities, then they can be entered into a raffle
        • Threshold will be 5 miles/week for 2 weeks
          • Threshold should be low so that all fitness levels are taken into account
        • Will be tracked on Strava
          • Can create a “club” for SGA Running on it
        • Can be running or walking
    • Anisha: has not sent email about safety initiative
    • Tanisha: has sent email to Jessica, waiting for response
    • Srigouri: got approval from Jessica
      • Ice rink/clothing drive: Jessica wanted to include where clothes would be donated
        • Hearts for the Homeless (JHU club) will donate clothes to Manna House
        • We will not partner with Night at Hopkins
          • The event will just take place at the same time (2/22 8-9:30 pm)
        • Would want this promoted on the Ice Rink website
      • Srigouri will send out email to ice rink person (Laura Stott) and include Imagine Center
      • Toilet seat covers
        • Want to have toilet seat covers in residential and regular buildings
        • Srigouri talked to Kemi about toilet seat covers but she did not do that initiative
        • Srigouri sent a Teams message to Stone because he worked on getting Brody paper towels
  • Ice rink
  • Rec center

ACTION ITEMS Tanisha: send out email after getting approval from Jessica Anisha and Jason: send email to Jessica Srigouri: Will send email to ice rink person and Imagine Center

  • Update us when Stone responds about toilet seat covers

Adi: Wait from response from JHOC

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #10 6 February 2025 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: BLC

ATTENDANCE Tanisha Taneja, Jason Yu, Anisha Rasmasetty, Karen Vasquez, Sumire Sumi, Sun Moon, Srigouri Oruganty, Jacquelyn Slade, Adithyan Neelamana ABSENT Excused: Unexcused: Ethan Edelstein

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Safety issues
    • Gun shots in front of Homewood
    • The fight in front of subway
    • Not knowing that there was a murder on the loose at Peabody campus

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

  • Emails

New Business ACTION ITEMS

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #10 27 February 2025 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: BLC

ATTENDANCE Tanisha Taneja, Jason Yu, Anisha Rasmasetty, Karen Vasquez, Sumire Sumi, Srigouri Oruganty, ABSENT Excused: Adithyan Neelamana, Jacquelyn Slade Unexcused: Sun Moon

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Ice Rink
  • Shirts
  • Emails
  • Potential Events

  • Kevin Shollenberger at GBM

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

  • Ice Rink
    • Successful event and good bonding experience!
    • Got jackets, shoes, and gloves
    • Things to fix: start planning the event earlier, do a clothing drive near Spring Break (when people are done with their jackets and the weather is nicer), advertise more and earlier
  • Shirts
    • Potentially propose a cotton polo or quarter zip to wear at SGA events
  • Emails
    • Srigouri, Anisha, and Jason are waiting on emails to be approved by Jessica
      • Srigouri sent an email to Jessica about the increase of Celcius in Levering and Char Mar
        • Problems: Why are we promoting a raffle from an energy drink company? Why is there extra promotion around an energy drink?
          • Might potentially be selling the Celcius by packs
          • The large stock of Celcius should not be in the public for storage (they should just be refilled as needed)
    • Tanisha needs to send out email to admin
    • Sun is waiting for a response from the admin
  • Potential Events
    • Screen-free hour event -> crafts and learn about screen free practices and potentially provide blue light glasses (Jacquelyn's idea)
    • Pop-up Well-being events throughout in April
      • Wellness Wednesday?
    • Study event that promotes healthy study events (Jacquelyn’s idea)
      • Might not be a great idea since we already distribute SNACK Packs
      • Many clubs have this, so it would be a bit repetitive

  • Kevin Shollenberger at GBM

    • Will be talking about the next GBM (3/4) about mental health and student well-being
    • Everyone must prepare a question to ask him

New Business ACTION ITEMS

  • Srigouri: create a Teams chat thread where people can post their questions for the next GBM
  • Everyone: prepare a question for Kevin Shollenberger and post it in Teams

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #10 27 February 2025 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: BLC

ATTENDANCE Tanisha Taneja, Jason Yu, Sumire Sumi, Srigouri Oruganty, Sun Moon, Anisha Rasmasetty

ABSENT Excused: Karen Vasquez, Jacquelyn Slade Unexcused:

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Earth Fest
  • Emails

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • No meeting next week
  • Earth Fest
    • April 18th 3-5 pm on Kyser Quad and Glass Pav
    • 3-4 pm: Sun
    • 4-5 pm: Anisha and Srigouri
    • Conducted by the Office of Climate and Sustainability
      • JHOC, SHIP and different clubs are at the event
      • HSS typically has a committee
        • Tie Dye tote bags last year
        • Re-using CDs
    • Potential Ideas:
      • Do artwork with cell culture plates or other reusable items to make murals
      • Paint by the numbers (ex: Earth painting)
        • Collect bottle caps and paint with a mural
          • Anisha and Jason will collect bottle caps
        • Draw the Earth on a Canvas and add the bottle caps onto the canvas
          • Need Canvas, paint, paintbrush, glue
          • 30 x 30 canvas, gorilla glue
          • Adi and Jason will work on the funding bill
        • Potential challenge: In FFC, keep the amount of food waste under a certain limit
          • Send email to dining to understand the statistics on food waste to create goals of reducing waste by a certain percentage
            • Do tabling and poster to reduce that waste
          • Might not be a great idea to do outside of Earth Fest
            • Currently: Dining might be adding measuring scales on the conveyor belt to measure food waste
              • Dining is interested in getting a student group to separate food waste for 3/hrs for lunch and dinner (messy and people might not be interested)
              • Might be a better idea to wait until the measuring scale is on the conveyor belt and then execute this idea
  • Emails
    • Sun: no response from person he reached out to
    • Anisha, Jason, Srigouri: waiting for approval from Jessica
    • Adi: waiting from response from JHOC
    • Tanisha: needs to send emails out
  • Shirts
    • Tanisha and Anisha will work on shirts and present at GBM

ACTION ITEMS

  • Tanisha and Anisha will present t-shirt funding at the next GBM
    • Jason and Adi will present Earth Fest funding at the next GBM

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #10 27 March 2025 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: BLC

ATTENDANCE Tanisha Taneja, Jason Yu, Anisha Rasmasetty, Sun Moon, Srigouri Oruganty, Jacquelyn Slade, Adithyan Neelamana, Sumire Sumi ABSENT Excused: Karen Vasquez Unexcused:

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Earth Fest Canvas
  • Mental Health Event
  • Fitness Challenge
  • Hammocks

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Earth Fest Canvas
    • Anisha has collected 86 bottle caps
    • Bottle caps will be placed on the canvas ridges up
    • Canvas will be changed to 24 inches x 24 inches (from 30 inches x 30 inches)
      • In case we don’t have enough bottle caps
    • Frame can be bought later on potentially
    • New paint bottles (8 oz for white, blue, green, and white) and paintbrushes will be brought
  • Mental health event during reading week (April 30th, 2-4 pm, shifts would be 1 - 5 pm)
  • Lots of food & giveaways
    • Shifts:
    • 12-1: Sumi, Tanisha, Srigouri, Adi
    • 1-2: Adi, Srigouri
    • 2-3: Adi, Sun, Srigouri
    • 3-4: Sun, Adi, Srigouri
    • Jason: unsure
    • Anisha: will be home
  • Fitness Challenge
    • Running challenge for those who don’t exercise frequently
    • Raffle gifts of lululemon gift cards and other
    • Sun, Srigouri, Jason will be having a meeting with them (2:30 pm - 3 pm)
  • Hammocks
    • 10 hammocks will be put up in Kyser Quad (April 29th)
    • April 17th: potential other hammock day (Sumi)
      • Srigouri will give email to Sumi to determine if hammocks are available
  • Health Baskets in Brody
    • Meeting with Mr. Mabry will be 10 AM on Monday (3/31)
      • Tanisha will send out meeting link

ACTION ITEMS

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #10 3 April 2025 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: BLC

ATTENDANCE Tanisha Taneja, Jason Yu, Anisha Rasmasetty, Sun Moon, Srigouri Oruganty, Jacquelyn Slade, Karen Vasquez

ABSENT Excused: Sumire Sumi Unexcused: Adithyan Neelamana

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Tanisha’s meeting with Mr. Mabry (Library)
  • Sun’s Meeting with Ms. Hopkins (Rec Center)
  • Earth Fest

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Tanisha’s Meeting with Mr. Mabry
    • Identified places to put health baskets in Brody and the Annex
    • Mr. Mabry wants an update about receiving supplies from Student Health and Well-Being
    • Waiting to hear back from Rec Center and dorms (Jason will help with dorms)
    • After getting permission from the different locations, Tanisha will reach out to Student Health and Well-Being about supplies
  • Sun’s Meeting with Ms. Hopkins (Rec Center)
    • Pitched idea of getting to collaborate for buying gift cards
    • The Rec Center will provide 10 backpacks, discount for f45 programs (and other items from the Rec) but will not provide gift cards
      • Potentially free acai bowl coupon?
      • Maybe Hopkins merch?
      • Collaborative free water bottles?
      • Maybe Rec merch?
        • Best ideas: backpacks and free acai bowls
    • The Rec recommended adding a fee to enter, but we will not do this
    • Needs to decide what to do for prizes
      • Sun will email an update about prizes
    • Students will run 8 miles for a week, then will be put onto a raffle to win a prize
    • Sun will make a Canva post for this
  • Earth Fest
    • Currently have a decent amount of bottle caps
    • Srigouri has not received supplies
    • April 18th, 3-5 pm, Keyser Quad
      • 3-4: Jacquelyn
      • 4-5: Karen, Anisha

ACTION ITEMS

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #10 10 April 2025 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: BLC

ATTENDANCE Tanisha Taneja, Jason Yu, Srigouri Oruganty, Jacquelyn Slade, Karen Vasquez, Sumire Sumi

ABSENT Excused: Anisha Rasmasetty, Sun Moon Unexcused: Adithyan Neelamana

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Earth Fest Planning
  • Painting

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Earth Fest Planning
    • April 18th, 3-5 pm, Keyser Quad
      • 3-4: Jacquelyn
      • 4-5: Karen, Anisha
  • Painting
    • Painted the background black and made Earth outline
    • Will paint blue and green next week
    • Is going to be in the SGA closet

ACTION ITEMS

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability MEETING #10 17 April 2025 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: BLC

ATTENDANCE Tanisha Taneja, Jason Yu, Jacquelyn Slade, Karen Vasquez, Sumire Sumi, Anisha Rasmasetty

ABSENT Excused: Anisha Rasmasetty, Sun Moon, Srigouri Oruganty Unexcused: Adithyan Neelamana, Sun Moon

AGENDA Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Earth Fest Planning
  • Painting

NOTES Last Meeting Follow-up

New Business

  • Earth Fest Planning
    • April 18th, 3-5 pm, Keyser Quad
      • 2:30: Jacelyn sign in and grab supplies from closet (Sumi will join at 3-3:15 to move the supplies)
      • 3-4: Jacquelyn
      • 4-5: Karen, Anisha
  • Painting
    • Finished painting the Earth
  • SNACK Pack Event (April 30th)
    • 1:30 - 2:30 pm: Sumi (HPWB)
    • 2:15 - 3:30 pm: Karen Velazquez (Levering Courtyard)
    • 3:15 - 4:30: Tanisha (Levering COurtyard)

ACTION ITEMS

Follow-up with ice skating people

  • Collaborate with more on-campus groups
  • Some designation, week to week, an objective that could be split among members
  • Small check-in google form
  • Do more legislation

12:00-12:30PM

Jacquelyn, Tanisha

12:30-1:00PM

Srigouri

1:00-1:30PM

Karen, Ethan,

1:30PM-2:00PM

Anisha, Jason

JHU Student Government Committee on Health, Safety, and Sustainability - Meeting with Caress 14 October 2024 / Minutes By: Tanisha Taneja / Location: Virtual

Presented trivia questions to Caress Caress: Love the questions and the percentages (might be hard to guess but will be fun). Will be quick with the spin wheel. Srigouri: Primary care will provide 8-9 more questions. Will keep the numbers on the wheel - if someone spins a 1, you can ask one of these 4 questions. Caress: You can also color code the wheel for questions. Srigouri: Maybe had a condom giveaway or have sleep kits (from Caress). We will also take some health information packets or promote any future workshops from your office. Caress: I can provide safer sex supplies and information on how to order more, and I can provide 40 sleep kits. We are launching NCHA on the 21st and it will be open for 3 weeks and you guys can promote that. It would be helpful to take this information to all student clubs. It would be helpful doing an incentive but it is hard for that because it is confidential. We will be providing some incentives, such as Garmin watches in a raffle. I also have some information to provide to SGA. Caress: What are your next steps? Srigouri: Follow up with primary care and the items we ordered. Tanisha was able to get a list of who is volunteering. I can pick up the items from your office that morning. Is there any way I can borrow one of your carts for the breezeway? Caress: Yes, as long as you bring it back. On Wednesday, I will be gone, but I can have it ready on Tuesday. What time will you come on Wednesday? SrigourI; I can come between 10 -11, closer to 10. Caress: I will put 10-10:30 on my calendar and I will let Megan know about the pick up. What time would you bring it back? Srigouri: Probably 3:30 because the tabling ends at 3. Caress: I will reach out on 21st or 22nd about the cart being ready.