johnny: hi i'm johnny; thanks to felix and jason for the appointment; great opportunity, thank everyone else who is in the process; i am a junior cogsci polysci and psychology major; i also do my best to be involved, i'm on eborard for hop, you might see me on there; also on jhpd accountability board; also on fli thing, served with jazz?; there is a meeting for jhpd accountability tomorrow at 6:30!
jaqueline kim: i am former RSO senator; worked with IA and HSS; 2 amazing councils last year; experience in founding clubs here; current president of hopkins (team?) club; certified internal figure skating judge; i am very impartial/objective; thanks for the appointment, thanks felix, and everyone in sga
jason: as per recommendation by judiciary, these are 2 very qualified candidates
ok so do we vote
jazz: yes; in favor of confirmer say aye
a lot: aye
jazz: any nays, abstentions?
these are now judiciary membersfelix: <script>
jazz: ok only changes to the agenda since you've last seen is[]
cole: motion to approve the agenda
aye: [a few]
jazz: any from public like to speak?
sean: just another advertisement for the syllabus project, if you want to gather past syllabi; if you want to help student know what they will be doing before they register, we have a few people already asking; it's fun, help the student body
jazz: would be a nice time also to know about an event coming up
natalie bernstein: i am the president of CARE; we did have a bill recently Bootacular, basically we do a walk………….very cool opportunity to get students interested in the city, we will also be doing lots of social events; also looking for volunteers, would love for SGA members to volunteer, get to interact with constituents..
also talk to groups like saru about tabling
jazz: unless any other members of public, shall enter cabinet reports
jason; jumping off of natalie with events; we have our talent show this saturday; shriver huge shout out to grace and hannah; will be very exciting, lots of cool events, kayla i think will also be presenting, i think i also mentioned it last meeting, sumi and i are hopefully going to have coffee hours or something similar; can talk to you guys also those in SGA
sumi: regarding the events; if you know any and would like to advertise put those in the group me; if not in groupme please let me know; if you'd like to meet with me like you did over the summer; i had a very productive meeting, talked about bylaws and constitution, will try things different to ; also had meeting with amy and arjun about student(); overall sounded like new/vibing/thriving clubs don't know about budgeting, so fit here are any who do not no about budgeting, please let amy and i know
nora: shout out to civic engagement committee on the national call to action, very fast turn around ( i was only tangentially involved); also thanks to internal affairs committee for attendance sheet; also about booking i will make a spreadsheet you all can put things in for committee meetings
amy: reiterating sumi on RSOs having trouble with HopkinsGroups; there are not a lot of things which cannot be resolved by a conversation, o send those issues our way so we can sit and chat with them; shreemann actually with his club came up to e last night and sorted things out; testament to possibility
we spent in total 332K of our now confirmed total 512K, should be hitting about 2/3rds, again our verdict about how this is going will be discussed later
grace: i have a bill coming today about retreat, if this gets passed, next line out will be sending an email to you guys about dietary restrictions, availabilities, so we can get everything in order
sienna: regarding instagram; if you want event advertised, if it's sga=sponsored it will go there, so let me know for flyer/poster
jaz: in terms of updates we are in contact with OIE and construction, they have been eager, simply trying to figure out which tuesday; would also like to highlight veda for sending me this; a video
<hispanic heritage month video>
jazz: was a very beautiful event
kayla: thank you, was tough getting in contact with dining, thank you veda, came out great
jazz; continuing, shreemann and I were able to go over to agora and saw civic engagement committee's meeting with agora to see what kind of partnership
peterson: i've bet with our executive advisor charles; we shall start hosting the senate social; 12pm-1pm wednesday oct 21 and tuesday oct 27; want to give you an opportunity to meet outside of this; won't be exactly network
aarshi: will there also be alums
peterson: i will talk to charles about this, though it is during the day so they may have jobs, looking to book a room now
veda: where
tekeya: once we get the details your president (jazz) will send out. will have light refreshments
jazz: now going into time of senator reports. is Sid here ? hm, did any other senator have a report they'd like to give
peter: outside of finance, main thing was working was a national call to action, thanks to kevin and [] about the talking, been working on that, be helpful about getting responses together, getting the surveys out. also on academic affairs, been working on a survey for the past week, also about tabling, also want to do research into ams/math having issues/conflicts
paul: few initiatives working on; do you guys also have to mfa to login? it piss-; it is very annoying do you know what passkeys; trying to get passkeys as default should be a pretty easy push, just need to know how in it to contact; would also be nice to give plot on land for PERCH to use; they do drives to plans to campus; would also like to talk to landscaping about this; if you guys have any connections let me know
demarri: jazz is it too late to give a small senator report
jazz: u can sure
demarri: i shall repeat since apparently was not heard during my report a few weeks ago, and some people think this is important, we are working on alternative site jhusga.org to have a better interface with the student body, still a work in progress, but again that's jhusga.org, also the official website is still campus groups; so wherever you see in bylaws, constitution, rules this is talking about campus groups site not this one
jazz: yes official site is still campus groups
senator of the month!!
jazz: for those who don't know, we will now be voting
jackson: would like to move to nominate sophia, can't think of a more deserving senator
jazz: do you accept
sophia: yes but will have to nominate jackson; guys he knows everybody on this campus somehow; very generous ability to connect to people; kind of thing we should be rewarding
sumi: can i nominate nifemi; though being a new senator has been meeting with charles with all senators; meetings with charles and i throughout all
veda; would like to nominate aishannee started all fo tr things over the summer ; has already 2 events going
amy: nominate arjun; we mentioned briefly; arjun was sitting in nlc; happened to hear about qualms, he wasn't necessarily involved in the finance or RSO, but took the time out of his busy week to mediate between us 2, very important skill to have as SGA members
jazz: arjun do you accept
arjun: yes
mahima: would like to nominate kayla; took the initiative; there was an issue with dining taking away all heritage/cultural days; she got them all back
jazz: kayla do you accept
kayla: i accept
jazz: nominated will receive attendance incentive; we are still hashing out what to give for the person receiving most votes; if you have any ideas, the team is open!
we can do things another way if you all would like, heads down
nora: i got it
jazz: ok it's live you get like a minute
time up nora we can close it
nora: senator of the month is….
jazz: sophia! congratulations, a workshopped items, very likely merch; you also get to be senator of the month; all of you on the board get attendance incentive
into approval of programming chair discretionary fund
peter: thought it would be fund to visualize for the year
for non annual, 46K today, 180K left, we are slightly over spending, 4500 weekly spending for the rest of the term; so far has been about 5K inr requests over the year; we start callbacks this year, we will take money back from clubs who don't spend it
demarri: motion to approve discretionary fund
second: [some]aye: [some]nay:abstain:
jazz: first reading begins
shreemann: this is to establish a transfer caucus; transfer students do have a unique perspective, required by bylaws
lauren: hi i am lauren, am transfer student attended community college before coming here, from northern virginia; i went to cc at first to save money, did associates degree in 1 year, was pretty much MPE which is my current here at hopkins; am interested in doing research in tech policy; off campus quite; am national women's caucus chair; if interested in democrat caucus or similar, let me know, happy to give contact, there are plenty of people across the country
transfer struggles, primarily, impostor syndrome; very big change to come here; typically more rigorous coursework, 69 transfers this year, smaller group to talk to and meet; pretty sure was solved this year was credit loss, some people went from english to MSH, other issues are financial aid, big reason i chose hopkins, many transfers still struggle, know hopkins has gotten better considering how well-funded; in terms of housing, transfers have issue finding housing, did apply as junior as i have an associates; was very clueless not sure if i wanted to do this first; told i was 2025, was put in on-campus, but separated from other transfers of the same year who were also on campus; friend groups are also an issue, but meeting as transfers in orientation group was nice, but still hard to get integrated at a new school
shreemann: so that is our bill
jazz: do we have any motion son the table for this bill
jackson: move to refer for consideration by internal affairs
second: aarshi
jazz: all those in favor say
aye: [some]nay:abstentions:
paul: does anybody here know what the CSAC is? basically focus group meeting with vp for affairs hernandez; SGA chooses for the homewood representative, but currently do not have a process in the rules/constitution/bylaws; currently have no representative, reflected on their website; am seeking to add some clauses
jackson actually did this, think we should do a moderated caucus for this, go over the few options <read>
cole: motion for a 10 minute moderated caucus
1st and 4th seem very similar
pual: you might prefer someone from legislative
veda: comment; am appointed to CSAC right now, so, we already have a member that is representing, i think it would look incredibly unprofessional to go to a large board and remove member who is currently representing, once the onboarding has already occurred; agree that we should have this, but not until next term
jackson: want to make sure we have input, also for future year, CSAC … .use to be …. has been watered down greatly, has now become an advisory board; whether through appointment or exec, … there are a lot of things that can be added, anybody's feedback or ideas would be helpful;
nora: agree with veda, she's on the board already this year, could just have a vote for putting her in, am strongly in favor in legislative ability
demarri: i'm thinking about what nora said… i think it makes sense for exec to do this since it's hopefully a position involved in making changes, and this aligns already with executive jobs; i feel like it's hard to say in general since we don't know really what CSAC looks like, like whether someone has qualifications for this role specifically
jazz: had a few thoughts, for this year, am very confident in veda's ability this year for CSAC; would like for this bill to be for further years, as well as give advice/reflect the beliefs of senators and other students and tell them
shreemann: completely agree, i think veda should be the CSAC for this year, there is precedent to have this go into effect next term; in terms of those future year, i think it should be a senator, am in favor of the option involving picking the exec or the senator
kai: echo, think veda will do a good job, currently bill says is vacant on the website, it is available on the website
paul: the website was blank at the time i checked it
kai: and the process, would you run for it within SGA
paul: that was my imagination, want someone who is really up to date about things going on in the senate;
sean: think should be exec, who are elected by all students, very broad in scope; jason
jackson: worth noting, for future years, first duty of the first body is to speak for the student body in bylaws; important to understand why the CSAC is created; newsletter has questions like does it i; hope to have things involving students, like in cornell situation, having some say for the student boyd; something similar to the similar or, i believe GRO has the exec as this person, and if there is an unavoidable conflict; run for exec so you can do this
cole: motion to refer to iasecond: jackson, demarriaye: [some]nay:abstain:
shreemann: IA meets saturday feel free to give opinions
jazz: moving onto canva pro funding bill…
grace:<small back and forth about discretionary fund making this unnecessary>
demarri: motion to table indefinitelysecond: shremann
sophia: hope ur doing well was coming from athletics; SAAC shall be the student athlete advisor council; who knows what this is?
we want to recognize the disconnect between athletes; have worked with exec, are really trying to engage with students; they don't engage with a lot of our events and stuff, trying to do outreach; they get up and they meet every month; SAAC try and meet with different; first real request to sga was recognize SAAC for being liaison
aarshi: motion to refer to financesecond: [idk]nay:abstain:nay: paul
veda: my bill, heard it passed with negative recommendation; reason for such an open ended form is to reuse for future years; survey will be used to organize feedback for various departments at hopkins
demarri: motion for 3 min recess to read form
nora: it's one question lol
veda: <pulls it up on board>
<light laughter from room>
demarri: oo
jazz: i heard a motion for a recess; any seconds or it shall die
[silence]
jazz: has died. any other motions?
kevin: motion for 5 minute moderated caucussecond: shreemann, demarri
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..............jackson: great idea, have worked on something similar with NCtA; very sometimes short answer; would be much better without index card
veda: any other suggestions
paul: nvm
sean: I was the one who read all the index cards and categorized; generally they like chickfila
jazz: motion has run out of time, we may have a motion to extend, otherwise we will continue to next agenda item
cole: motion to extend 5 minutessecond: demarri, [someone else]aye: [some]nay:abstain:
royce: like the idea, over the index cards; quite easy to gamify so people don't just click; lengthen time a little but can get a lot of feedback
noah: veda you mentioned advertising, how do you plan on going through that process at the tabling event?
veda: one thing we are doing is to have this on the stand up banner
rain; some people are going to just take screenshot, unfortunately very common; someone suggested a liker scale; people might just straightline;
amy: this may sound OD, what if you did like an experiment, one has to fill out line, one does index cards, so we know which works better
veda: don't want to put any more work on my committee members, or lose out on good feedback, think you're right, cost/benefit, people would've we will stay open to that
sophia: [i missed this]
demarri: you said that this was available always for people to use, right
veda: yes
demarri: i was curious as to how exactly students would know that, scared of them only using it when they see qr code
veda: [a response, conflict of interest in me recalling it by memory]
cole: as someone who walks past breezeway, a very in-depth google-form, writing, it's a lot for a cookie; less is likely more in some of these things; maybe 2 things at most, otherwise discourage, one mans opinion
sumi: what do you think about not being anonymous to avoid a sidechat;
natalie: maybe you have a raffle
aishani: minimum character count
cole: motion to passsecond: [some]aye: [some]nay: demarri
cohort time
jazz: out of respect we shall do vote on whether to play charades
16-13
<plays charades, EXTERNAL AFFAIRS is victorious !!!! (over the Sumi Heads)>
shreemann: disciplinary marks shall start being used; be locked in !! any senator may bring marks of 0.5 and there will be automatic at 3
nora: and 2 yields a warning to unexcused absent; some of y'all are getting kind of close
amy: attendance related may be getting merch; want to be attendance based; come if you want merch!!!!
jazz: last is you all are doing amazing things, we are not in some type of mood or anything right now; you are all doing an amazing job; we have cohort like these
demarri: motion to adjournsecond: shreemann, [someone]aye: [some]nay:abstain: