ASWU Meeting Minutes 2/23

ASWU

Minutes 2.23.11

I. Call to order at 5.00pm.

II. Mission Statement-Bryce Giffiths.

III. Minutes: Brian to approve, Pierre 2^nd.

IV. Introduce Guests: Ashley, Ira Macintosh, Laura Cardle, Jonny W, Andy, Michael, Andy T .

V. FVP-Lindy Tep

1. Clubs:

a. En Cristo-Malia: Make lunches at Saga, worship time, George’s Place for prepping for Downtown; possibly bring in speakers; Go downtown to Park Tower for soup and games; Street teams pass out lunches to the homeless downtown; Discipleship team that will go down midweek to meet with the residents of Park Tower to build relationships; Learn how to better meet the needs of the residents and teach them to help serve others as well.

b. SNATS- Ira: Caroling parties, trips to see the Metro Opera; Midnight April Fools concert recital plans; Creating more opportunities for students to get involved in their club.

c. Catholic Fellowship-Katie M: Carpools for students to get to Mass; Working on using Whitworth Vehicles to carpool so that students don’t have to drive other students all the time on their own gas; May 6^th trip to go to Cathedral to meet the Bishop and go look through the archives with some professors of WU; Event to make wooden crosses for a large campus event; Confession booth at Spring Fest; Relay for Life team; Hang out time to talk about their faith.

d. I-club-Ariella: International Banquet was successful; International students for Spring Semester; 30 in attendance at last meeting; Bowling night; Volunteer event at Garfield Elementary for Cultural event; Skyhigh event; Rafting trip in April; Spring Trip to Canada for snowshoeing and hot springs; End of the year picnic; Laser Tag event planned.

e. ACM-AndyT: Programming competition last semester for WU and Eastern students; Host another competition?; Laser tag event and end of the year picnic planned.

VI. Cranberry Award: Christine, Sam, Melinda for getting 25 constituent answers from the temperature survey.

VII. President-Josh

1. New Email Policy: Feedback- Should we do the Daily digest for a week and reassess next week? Patrick Y: Test it, but add subject lines to it; Elizabeth: We need to announce that we’re testing this; Kyle: link at the bottom for a survey to test success?; Christine: Color coat events?; Jonny: Is this only ASWU emails or departmental emails as well?; Starting the test tomorrow?; Mary: We need to still send out the emails because people won’t come if we don’t; Donovan: Students in the temp survey said that email is the best way to get their attention based on the subject headlines, even if a lot of emails is annoying; Many students saying that we shouldn’t change the email policy so fast if we do, we have to announce it and then begin it next Monday?; 27 for 12 against, starting next Monday; Trista: We need to test it over a longer time than one week.

2. Eric – FSOP changes: Patrick Y motion to table; Christine; 2^nd.

3. Peter - bike racks-Where bike racks can go; we need more information and the weather needs to cooperate; Keep your eyes open and see where bike racks are overflowing and where there is a need for them.

4. Beck Town Hall Meeting March 8^th.

5. Patrick Y: Propose looking into a making an ASWU marketing position; Coordinate the marketing strategies of all the ASWU leaders and help to make sure that we are advertising our events well; Is there a general interest? Can we incorporate design into that job? Can we vote on the hours of the position? Yes.

VIII. Alan Jacob-Housing lottery changes for next year.

IX. Requisitions- Lindy Tep

1. Mandy Runkel-Improve Boppel’s community: TV, blue-ray, etc. Motion to approve, Patrick S.; Eric, 2^nd.

2. Mandy Runkel- On behalf of all dorms and RDs requisitioning for new pool tables and ping pong tables. Motion to approve, Brian; Sarah, 2^nd.

X. EVP- Shannon Eshoff

1. Announcements.

2. Coordinator reports

A. Jerod- Whitworthian controls ad space on their new website for student leaders at a discounted price for events; Is $35 a reasonable rate for student leaders.

B. Bryce- If you have a Facebook, post the link that Bryce is sending to everyone; Paint up in Mac at 5.45; Playoffs. Wear Red; No cost to students.

XI. Motion to adjourn: Jeff P.; Sam 2^nd.

XII. Meeting adjourned at 6.36 pm.

Submitted by,

Melinda Leavitt, Assembly Secretary