Medha started off the meeting by mentioning past opinions about the need for a 24-hour academic space. The administration seems to finally be assessing whether this is actually a student need and are willing to work towards establishing such a space. If you think there is a need — email your house reps and let them know.

She then stated that Bob Peck will be leaving at the end of the year. A new Athletics Director will be selected and two students will be on the selection committee. The students will be selected from the entire student body — more information to come. Remember CC office hours are tonight from 9-10pm.

CEP- Max Weinstein ‘00 spoke about the fact that the CEP will be looking into increasing "writing" on this campus. Last year CEP decided that Professors could designate courses as writing intensive and they are pushing this effort further. Many have expressed that students are coming into their junior and senior years without the ability to write effectively. There has been discussion as to different ways to improve this situation. One possibility would be to require all students to take at least one writing intensive course during their time here. Some members stated that they did not feel as though an additional requirement would be a good idea. Others said that the writing intensive courses cover such a broad range of departments that it shouldn’t be a problem to fill such a requirement, and that in the long run such a requirement would benefit the student. Some members stated that it is the students responsibility to decide whether or not they would like to become effective writers, hence in the end it should be their choice whether or not to take a writing intensive class. Any Comments, concerns? Email Max- 00mmw

Dining Services- Terri O’Brien ’02 stated that the survey about the dining halls will be distributed on Nov 17^th. She also stated that there will be a price reduction for seniors on the 5-meal plan so that students are not paying over $11 a meal. The yogurt in the Snack Bar will be switched to StonyField. There is a Big Italian Dinner tonight. Starting next year, Dodd will have a separate dinner menu from the rest of the dining halls every night. The theme-Ethnic Cuisine. Also, Dodd will have a reservation only night, which will be similar to the entry dinners, but open to the entire campus. Also, every dining hall will be serving a different meal for HOMECOMING next weekend. Any comments email Terri - 02tco

Library Committee hadn’t met since the last CC update. Any comments email Joe Urwitz ‘02.

MINCO UPDATE- Shenil Saya ‘02 started by speaking about what MinCo is and how it originated. MinCo meets once a week and all their meetings are open — Mondays at 7:00. He stated that there seems to be a lot of discussion going on around campus about racial fragmentation, and if you would like to talk to MinCo members about this, you should feel free to email either Shenil (01sys), June Yi (02jhy) or either of the MinCo Co-Presidents. Carrie Ryan ’00 stated that she has heard rumors that many students feel as though certain groups are attempting to disband MinCo. She said that it is necessary to make clear that no group has been discussing disbanding MinCo to her knowledge. June Yi ‘02 stated that there will be a MinCo meeting in Goodrich on Monday to address the issue of racial fragmentation of campus and that all are welcome- more information to come.

SIZE OF THE SCHOOL — Ryan Mayhew ’01 presented a statement addressing the issue of the school size.
It encompassed the idea that we would support a return to a smaller school, and that we supported the efforts of some of the administrative departments to work towards enrolling fewer students so as to reduce the overall size of the school. Council members asked about whether we wanted the school to remain at approximately 2000 students or whether it should become a larger school at some point. Ryan stated that the student body should discuss this long-term question, but at present it is necessary to limit the number enrolled on a short term because of issues requiring immediate attention such as housing. It was also brought up that we should begin looking into what segments of the application pool are increasing in matriculation here instead of simply cutting a certain percentage of the overall enrollment. The statement will be further discussed by concerned members of the council and revised.

OPINIONS: Students wrote in about the following:

- One student requested more networked printers around campus — Joe Masters ’02 stated that each Printer costs @ $2500 and so it is probable that if an increase in the overall # of networked printers in student spaces around campus were to occur it would probably occur at the rate of 1 printer per year.

- One student requested that their opinion be read aloud and word for word — The email stated that the student was very impressed that the CC supported the POW WOW, and that it was one of the greatest things she had seen on campus.

- A student stated that the Resource Room needs to be maintained and access to all student groups needs to be provided. The Goodrich Committee is currently working on improving the situation.

- Lots of email about the Lit Review funding-- Students were dismayed at the College Council’s decision not to fund Lit Review. According to a student, CC is not assessing the outcomes of its funding decisions and it is making rash decisions without taking everything into consideration. Other Students felt that there should be an effort to consolidate all lit magazines, because, as it stands now, numerous students do not read all of the magazines and throw them away.

- Lots of email about Ephs for BB -- A student was disappointed with CC’s decision to recognize Ephs for Bill Bradley. Another student stated that CC should fund Ephs for Bill Bradley. One student stated that although he/she supported Bill Bradley, CC should not to fund Ephs for BB because it is limited to one candidate.

Nelson Hioe ‘00 brought up the issue of Lit Review funding and that he thought CC should decide how much money we want to give them next semester soon, so that they can then decide how much of there total annual budget to allocate to each of their semesterly issues. Some council members thought that we should allot the Lit Review $1500 for the next semester so that they are on par with other lit magazines. Other members felt that they should only allot them $1000 because CC has already given them $2000, and that would put them at $3000 for the year like the other literary publications. Many members felt as though, whatever the amount may be it was necessary that we mark off a set amount of next semester’s budget to allot to Lit Review.

Carrie Ryan’00 brought up the fact that an Alum wrote to the record alleging that the CC is responsible for the occurrences at the Water Polo tournament. Many members felt as though the Water Polo team has been taking on an initiative to look into this matter and hence we should not primarily concern ourselves with looking into it.

Ephs for Bill Bradley - Mike Hacker ‘00 requested $400 for the Ephs for Bill Bradley. Joe Masters ’02 brought up the fact that the budget did not include specific events that the group would be attending.

Nelson Hioe ’00 stated that he did not find that the constitutional arguments against funding this group were valid, but he does not think that this group NEEDs this money in order to exist. A group can exist without being funded. Some students brought up the fact that they would be more willing to fund on-campus events. The constitution quote "the council receives student activities funds from each student to promote all student activities except political activities primarily oriented beyond the campus" was then debated and assessed. Morgan Barth ’02 states that we should discuss this issue without regard to the constitution because the constitution can be used to support whichever side one supported. He felt as though Council should fund Ephs for Bill Bradley because it is the only way to foster political activity on campus. There was much discussion as to whether we should fund travel expenses and how house representatives’ constituents felt about funding.

Abid Shah ’02 stated that his constituency was strongly against funding Ephs for Bill Bradley and that they wanted the CC to rewrite the by-laws so that there is an increased emphasis on Arts and Politics. Council members also spoke to the precedent we would be setting by funding this group. There was a vote to amend the budget to $100. The amendment passed 21-8-1.

There was then a vote to fund Ephs for Bill Bradley $100. The vote failed 10-18-1.

A QUICK STATEMENT ABOUT THE LOG -Carrie Ryan ‘00 stated that the division between the front room and the back room has been removed!!!! There are also new disco lights and fog machines at the log. PARTY ON TONIGHT from 10 — 1.

FINCOM ASSESSMENT - Nelson Hioe ’00 stated that there will be a subcommittee set up to assess the funding/recognition process in detail. Interested members will be contacting Nelson.

Medha then asked if council members had any last comments and…

Ben Finholt ‘00 stated that Todd’ s new haircut looked great!