3/30 Senate Beat Begs YOU to Apply for Student Leadership Positions
Highlights and action items: Election results are out! AppComm is hiring for J-Board Secretary, Senate Webmaster, and Honor Council member. Senate is also hiring for Baby Money!
Student Body President Andrew Happy ’27 began the meeting at 4:10pm, announcing that the Residential College Implementation Committee had met right before break and now has a preliminary model. Happy shared that later this semester they will edit and finalize the model before making their final recommendations to Vice President of Student Life Karnell McConnell-Black. He then reported that the CSO Director Search Committee will begin their interviews next week. He finally reported that Academic Support Services also met before break to discuss preliminary Qual Survey results and to set agenda items for the remainder of this semester and for the Fall.
Appointments Committee Co-chair Senator Sofie Braunstein ’28 then reported that the Reed Union will have a small meeting on April 7 from 11:30am-1:30 pm in the Student Union to discuss community at Reed. She further reported that the Sustainability Committee will be holding Canyon Day on April 4. Participants will work to pull out English Ivy in the orchard. Braunstein then requested that any musicians interested in performing at Canyon Day contact sustainability@reed.edu. Braunstein then reported that the Bylaw Review Committee is currently reworking and reviewing the Bylaws. She finally reported that AppComm is hiring for student positions on J-Board and Honor Council, as well as Senate Webmaster. Further information can be found in the recent Student Body information emails. Applications can be found on Handshake.
Senator Alastair Budd ’27 then reported that he was looking forward to a productive time with AppComm and FinComm later that week.
Senator Manoel Pereira Lopes ’28 reported that the Accessibility Committee website will be opening soon!
Head Treasurer Maya Gutierrez ’27 then reported that the application for Assistant Treasurer is open! Gutierrez then reported that the liaisons for Student and Campus Life recently met to discuss leadership transitions at Reed, as well as decisions around which holidays and current political updates the administration chooses to email the student body about. She finally reported that FinComm would be held from 5-6pm in Eliot 123 that same day.
Assistant Treasurer Al McKee ’29 then reported that at the most recent FinComm, the Reed College Creative Review had requested $1,899.70 and had been allocated $1,700. McKee further reported that the Archery Club had requested $10 and had been allocated as much, and that SCOD (Student Committee on Diversity) had requested $233.99 and had been allocated $189.99. She finally reported that the Reed Free Speech Collective had requested $990.91 and had been allocated $911.98. Happy then requested a motion and a second, which were provided by Gutierrez and Pereira Lopes respectively. The vote was subsequently unanimous.
Senator Enzo Lawrence ’28 had no new committee reports.
Senator Justin Sotomayor ’27 also had no new committee reports.
Appointments Committee Co-chair Sima Fasihi ’28 then reported that the recent Title IX meeting had been cancelled and that SCOD had recently tabled.
Student Body Vice President Taylor Barth ’27 then reported that soon before break the Arts Collections and Murals Committee had met to discuss the digitization of Reed’s collections database as well as possible mural creations on campus! He then reported that SCOD had had a successful tabling session before break. Barth then thanked everyone who had participated in their survey, which had sought to accurately learn about and address campus climate, and encouraged those who hadn’t to access the survey via Student Body Info emails. He finally reported that the Alumni Committee would be meeting on Thursday.
Braunstein then reported that election results are out!
Happy adjourned the meeting at 4:18pm.
Vice Treasurer Bella Reyes ’27 and Senator Stella Greer ’29 were absent.