Dear Friends Our next Senate meeting is this Wednesday at 4pm in room 714 Hunter West. The meeting ends at 5:25 pm after which we will have our caucus meeting in the senate conference room 1042 East. I hope that you can all attend. Our last caucus mtg was held on Wed 17th, this was last Wed. I had hope to see more of you there. Our agenda items were: chartering the caucus to a Student Club....opening up the forum to all Hunter College Students as means by which they can become involved, even if it is indirectly We discussed Raab's comments at the last meeting....concluding that the stance on the Bookstore is a bad one. Student should not be encouraged to pay more for their books, even if the college gets a rebate to put into facilities...we carry a heavy tuition cost as is.....I think that we should draft a letter to her in response. I reported that solicitations have gone out to the large media entities here at Hunter, for student senators, the Envoy and the radio station. I am taking suggestions for what more can be done to reach out to students. There are about 20,000 students here at Hunter, I refuse to believe that all of them are single parents, holding two full time jobs down, taking 18 credits a semester....so much so that they can't spare time to dedicate to the affairs of their school. After making a suggestion that a first year student should be placed on a new committee overseeing the First Year Experience I was told that student participation in the senate is too low to consider being that specific. Needless to say I was duly offended. We must do all we can to draw student in. I need your help to do this. Also raised at the Mtg last Wed. was facilities at the Brookdale campus serving the nursing students. Broken windows and unbalanced chairs seem to plague the classrooms. I would like your input on how to deal with this matter. We could bring it up at a Senate meeting, write a letter to the administration, or evaluate the situation ourselves befor proceding with any further course of action. Please lend your views or suggestions on this matter. I imagine that it might be a small issue that can be rectified by filling a work order or writing a letter to the facilities mgmt of the Brookdale campus. Also raised at the mtg was the desire to have for sale at the Brookdale campus computer lab, library and game room, floppy disks (singles), to minimise cost to students. We would also like to ask the Brookdale Coucil to create support services for students at the campus, assiting with late night printing and general school work issues. Again, I do not want to be the only voice chimming in on these issues....we are a caucus and I would like to have your input on this as well. The rationale behind this is that the library and lab close relatively early and we would like to compensate for the services that are lost after hours to students in need. Brookdale campus in general is in shambles and we would like to better the facilities down there. Starting with the gameroom and the restriction that have been placed on the use of the conference room and the gameroom in general. The entire building seems to lack proper ventilation and we do not think that is fitting to have the students activities curbed in this manner(restricting usage because of ventialtion issues) Printing cards are on the table again. We DO NOT WANT TO PAY FOR PRINTING AT ALL, we will look into the contract with Copico and the usage of the tech fee. Students, while they have the printing cards now pay the full fee of the printing and this is not sufficient for us. $5 does not cut it for many majors, especially those that are writing intensive. We must address that in the best way possible. again...suggestions ALSO ON THE AGENDA AND VERY IMPORTANT, THE CLOSING OF THE DOORS TO THE THOMAS HUNTER HALL. THIS MUST BE ADDRESSED AT THE NEXT MEETING W/O FAIL. I think that is all for now.....i am keeping you abreast of all the things that are brewing and i hope that we can find some new blood to bring to this forum so that we can be taken seriously on that senate floor. I don't want us to look like whining brats.....its just not sexy!! truly yours runako _________________________________________________________________ MSN Search, le moteur de recherche qui pense comme vous ! http://search.msn.fr/worldwide.asp