The fifth meeting of the 2010-2011 Council.
Chair: Kaitlyn O’Hagan
Minutes: Julia C. Dancer
- Attendance
- Anthony Ventimiglia
- Aparna Gokhale
- Elizabeth Kelman
- Kanika Khanna
- Kaitlyn O’Hagan
- Julia C. Dancer
- Joe Borello
- Marianna Lamnina
- David Rand
- Amrita Narine
- Jiayan (Cathy) Huang
- Jenna Jankowski
- Sarah Hussain
- Amal Elbakhar
- Joshua George
- Amy Gijsbers van Wijk
- Kate McQuater
- Administrative Issues
- Macaulay Gear
-Project 571 too expensive
-Cafepress was not a consistent contact
-Zazzle and Cafepress best: initial bad quality of imprint and hardness comes out in wash
-$36-40 for each
-issue: discount for volume: need inventory? Can’t afford!
-Maybe different company for events and online
- Committee Updates
- Academic Affairs
i. “Meet the New Guy” Lunch
-Next Friday at 12
ii. College Council Curriculum Committee
2 courses of action being pursued
-reforming seminars right now
-mandatory syllabus requirement (grade breakdown descriptions)
-must reform without getting entrenched
-upper level involved for curriculum
-more standardized seminars
- Community Service
-Kwame absent from meeting
-Liz trying to set up meeting but right now most activities being planned solely by Kwame
-a lot of ideas, just need to get together
- IT/Communications
i. MSC website
-going well, Julia and Kaitlyn meeting with Central IT John about problems and questions Monday, March 7th at 3 PM in the MHC Reading Room
ii. Meeting w/ Dr. Ugoretz regarding Macaulay website
-MHC Portal may be possible next year
-eportfolio site has useful features we can use for MSC
-eportfolio contest happening soon to boost/reward involvement
iii. Other projects
-MSC facebook page running but needs more friends to catch up to Septopus
- Student Life
i. Cultural Passport Scavenger Hunt
-site fixed
ii. Common Ground
-worked on budget
-need food
-last year about $600-700 for food but need more
-volunteers: 3 types of Spanish dances, 2 groups doing Indian dances, bunch for fashion part, NEED MORE DIVERSITY
-sending out announcements: changes? Send info to Drew.
-steer clear of stereotypical statements about diversity
iii. Arts Night
-meeting this weekend didn’t really happen. Three people there.
-should have $1800 to work with (last year ws 15-1600)
iv. Spring Formal
-meeting last Friday
-City College Ballroom capacity too low
-2 Thursdays before 13th
-After finals? 26th?
-need to charge admission to make sure they’ll come
-nice formal event not over $25 per person
-student DJ and student photographer needed!
-biggest thing: cost and location
-food: buffet for first formal, maybe more next year depending on numbers
-decision by end of week!!
-poll on MSC and in Macaulay Monday
- Olympics committee
i. Spring Picnic Combo/Date Finalized?
-Friday june 3rd noon to four
-money: Alumni reunion committee won’t officially combine
-can’t get alums to come on Friday
-2000 dollars for spring picnic
-how to maximize food piece and how to get cheap sports equipment
-ask campuses (intermurals!)
-Amal has Hunter connections, will let us know
-parks and community centers
-food: trying to find grilling/bbq delivered/catered
-shifts on the grills (bringing?)
-kosher, veggie, and regular
-bombard incoming freshmen’s emails!!
-how to create the teams:
-online and at event (field day activities)
-do form alone and then they can create teams
-Grecian shelter: indoor
-brainteasers and whatnot/hang around inside
-every type of Macaulay student needs something to look forward to
-survey draft ready for Olympics but need to look at brainteasers
-winners: awards? Budget will have to include that
-per sport? each campus its own country: add up points. Campus that wins the most is the winner
-wait and see final tally before deciding prizes
-obvious caps on certain sports
-waterballoon fight!
-suggestions sent to Anthony by tonight!
- Macaulay Student Organizations and Program Updates
- Jazz/Contemporary Music group
-people can come, it is active, have a group
-email Joe Borello
-starting soon? Talk to Drew once everything’s set up.
- Macaulay Messenger
-Contact Kanika Khanna for info
-50 people on staff
-Brooklyn, Baruch, Lehman are underrepresented, so apply!
-basic responsibilities: diff sections: campus news, macaulay section, arts and culture, nation and world, opinions, science and sports (CUNY and other college teams)
-need writers, section editors, photographers
-eportfolio page will be really nice when pages are up
-writers added as site authors, editors edit there, then make public
-system will be revised but looks good for now
-as it starts picking up, might want creative submissions
- Pursuit of Happiness
-Matthew Law, Sophomore at Baruch
-fundraising at Baruch, trying to start a chapter in Queens
-annual business plan competition
-homeless kids getting GED’s, will get them into college
-have volunteers do SAT tutoring etc.
-site in midtown
-won first session and now can go to nationals
-might get 10,000 for everything they need
-will be official Macaulay organization
-would work directly with community service committee
- Macaulay Vlog
-they’re blogging!
- Macaulay Chamber Players
-major coup
-spring concert matinee Friday, April 15, 2:30 PM, at Martin Segal theater at Grad center
-test to see if grad center would allow us to do things
-Grad center is very tight-fisted about rooms bc make money
-we only get administration and common event easily
-may do this once a year, next year maybe to jazz group
- Macaulay Pre-Law Club
-law panel last Thursday went well
-19 people came
-Sunday: practice LSAT with review from testmasters at 10AM
-April 8th Duane Morris
- Macaulay Pre-Med Club
-Cornell Med School
-28 people rsvp’d
-sits and talks at table and Macaulay students at Cornell talk to prospectives and giving tours
-success almost every year
-NYU this year, too
- Macaulay Business Club
-Alex Romov (senior)
-Thursday March 10th, at Baruch
-lunchtime talks
-Eurozone upheavals
-April 18th
- Macaulay Theater Group
-Amy writing play
-will have events
- CUFF
-big season
-March 20th– Peter Reger
-Master class in the evening (how to write, direct and produce)
-RSVP up now
-26th; preopening night
-NY premiere of Japanese Magic Hour Film Academy movie “Cora”
-March 27th big student film event CUFF
- Campus Updates
- Baruch
-raising money for relay for life
- Brooklyn
-honors academy art show went pretty well
-new club on campus might branch into Macaulay- equestrian club
-Amy wanted to start a literary magazine
-must discuss this with Macaulay Administration
- City
-nothing really student-wise
-scheduling issues for mentor breakfast
-administration-Macaulay contingent going to grow by 50% (60 instead of 40 new freshmen!)
-freshman class meetings this week
-scholarship info
-Macaulay/City Honors students semi-finalists for Kaylie Scholarship
-We should always send amazing news about ourselves to Macaulay
- CSI
-starting to register for classes
-planning bake sale
-some students on relay for life committee
- Lehman
-advisor meetings next two or three weeks
- Hunter
–Brookdale dorm formal
-Jonathan is leaving (director)
-going to be headmaster at a prep school in Rhode Island
- Queens
-CUFF excitement
-new honors advisor
-had a career fair and club fair recently
-need a person from Queens who is a senior
-first graduating class wants to give gift so need to sign name: contact Amal
- Miscellaneous
- Septopus concerns
-changed password of Septopus and sent angry email
-Tyler doesn’t have Septopus password and hasn’t told anyone that he wants to be paid for the copyright
-Tyler will contact them but we cannot use Septopus for now
-We need to suggest friends to MSC
-Dean doesn’t want the Septopus
-need professional mascot if we have one at all
-Septopus should be student thing
-need a latin logo
- Enforcing charter stipulations regarding inactive members
i. Clarification of February 2011 amendment to charter regarding replacement of members – replace inactive members with this policy?
-must enforce inactive member policy
-for next year, clarify: if you don’t come to two meetings:probation!
-Julia will email students about inactivity, then email their advisors
-Council voted to replace inactive members
c. Other
- New Macaulay Seminar: Mysteries of NYC proposed by Andy Singh
-Julia (ITC Chair) and Andy (Macaulay@City ’14) will speak with Professors Maciuika and Borrows
-History and science component
-Curriculum reform is going well
ii. Drew will not be able to attend Common Ground
Next meeting: Sunday, April 10th 2:30
Chair: Kate
Minutes: Kanika
