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September 18 |
Budgets. If I could sum up the core of the meeting last night in the subterranean
Griffin 1 in one word, it would be "budgets." How about one word
to sum up the "new" Baxter mailroom? All right, two: "Liar,
Liar." You must then have noticed the rather spiffy new glowing
movie box. While it may appear to have cost College Council a small fortune,
let me explain why it did not. First off, we picked it up from some upscale
pawn shop in Albany. Second, when I opened it upon arrival, I found a giant
photo of a sketchy looking doctor placing two his fingers on the tummy of
some female patient (initially I thought it may have been the two-finger
pregnancy test but I gather the two-finger method is no longer very accurate)
. Here is my current suspicion. Dr. Feelsalot is a stomach specialist. Because
I know Albany already had two stomach specialists, Albany's stomach market
was fairly saturated and as a result he had to sell off his office wares.
From there, we somehow procured it at a fraction the normal cost. Beyond
that, the sign will have paid for itself in paper printing wasted on advertising
whatever movie is showing at the B in a year. In any event, the meeting began with Bert Leatherman who covered the growing number of ideas submitted to opinions@wso.williams.edu . We may see computers at the far side of Baxter Lounge by next week, prices listed with the books on "BookBoard" (where college books can be bought and sold on-line), the prospect of email terminals in the Health center continues to look good. Next, the first wave of student-faculty reps. came today to inform us what they were doing and received feedback. From CEP we had strong and steady Abby Williamson '98 (whose cte is all over educational policy, from Contract Majors to this new Foundation program to teach writing to all at Williams...I obviously could have benefited from such a program), for Dining Services cte we had food czar Kevin Bolduc '99 (who is working on getting the Drisc to do breakfast among other things), the well-read Debi Wilkie '98 for the Library Cte (who will look into those phones on every floor which are like my old Batman walkie talkie in terms of reception) and showing up as soon as he could for the Computing Cte was Sheraz Claphappy '00 who will speak next week. The latest NCAA gossip is that Amherst has only recently broken the news that this dialogue is occurring among College Presidents re:NCCA and we are getting a feeling that the students are fairly livid over the late-breaking nature of (as well as) the news (since they would jump at the chance to continue to lose to us on a national level). For anyone that feels the NCAA has been a valuable experience we STRONGLY encourage a letter written to the "NESCAC Presidents" about why the NCAA has been positive. Then send on to the Pres. office and P.Payne will copy it and distribute it among his colleagues. Lots of quality letters could make the difference. Connected to this, we passed (23-0-0) a statement written by Mac urging NESCAC to remain in the NCAA. Funding galore followed NCAA. Briefly (more details will soon be on the CC homepage): The recommendation from the Finance Com. of money (figures NA) to ARTS passed 24-0-0, to MUSIC passed 21-0-3, to ACTIVISM passed 21-0-3, SPIRITUALISM was tabled for more info, 16-0-8, A/T 2 (Debate, Badminton and other unique sports) passed 18-4-2, PUBLICATIONS passed 20-3-1, CAMPUS SERVICES passed 17-0-6, Water Polo for New Goals for Nationals passed 16-2-6. A word to the preceeding: Mike Darowish has worked tirelessly to make these recommendations brought before us as legal under current funding laws, fair to the groups, and generally as slim as posssible. So these passing with relative ease is credit to one quality Mike D. Penultimately, Andrew Kohl spoke eloquently to bringing Foosball tables, Air Hockey and Darts to the Log. All but Darts were granted (19-1-4 for $3,050) and so next Thursday expect to see Mr.Bell owning those two top-notch Tornado tables at the Log, and on Nov.1 two Air Hockey tables will join them (he will own them too). Sam Abelson closed the meeting out with a proposal from the Safety Cte to give 24 access to those B+G who are called upon in an emergency like a pipe-busting in West or a wide-scale pillow fight in Bascom. It passed 23-1-0. |
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