SGA Meeting 10/10/10

• Transportation Update: Sizable amount of money in the transportation budget for this year
• Break buses to boston and new York.
• Wishes to expand busing to surrounding cities
• Ride Board- Back up and running ( go/sga).
• Fall Break buses are 80% sold, expect to sell out at end of week
• Thanksgiving/ Xmas  buses are locked in for this year
• Break Busing to the airport on the two busiest days (all student survey required)
• Talking to four bus companies to get the best price w/ midd transit involved
  o       Make transportation funding available to commons councils?
  o       30,000 dollars not used, 22-23,000 appropriated for this year
  o       Possible shuttles up to Montreal
  o      Sunday bus to Burlington via student request…in communication with ACTR at the current
• Oink Updates- Anne Runkel Oink Resolution is coming Homecoming Weekend’s Meeting
  o      Oink has been funded the past two years via SGA’s use of student activities fee dollars.
• 55% of students “Strongly Support” the withdrawal of student activities fee for (1/5 of student body responds to survey last year)
  o       Call for individual senators to poll constituents for positive or negative responses
  o       Emails in favor for pre orientation are favored
• Parton Health Center- Tony’s Update: Patients are referred to Fletcher Allen.
  o       No statistics are currently kept towards queer students- could possibly be used to provide evidence for the administration.
  o       Goal:  To build infrastructure to queer/gender aid on campus
  o       Provide for more sensitivity training around campus.
• Joe Putko- New business- would like to see a social code in place
  o       People “borrowing” bikes, etc.
  o       Can tie this back into taking dishes from the dining halls and/or recent hatecrimes on campus
  o       Possible thought to reread/resign the honor code every summer via email/mailings.
• Tina: Possible ad campaign or event to discuss social cohesion on campus- outreach in light of recent news events of hatecrimes.
• Anne Runkel: Parties are really hard to set up(Even sub-free parties)
  o       Community council and ICH are looking into changing rules for registering parties this year.
  o       All FYC’s and RA’s are fire safety trained.
  o       Party House training is cumbersome, yet provides the most safe environments on campus.
• Anna Esten: AAL requirement discussion?
  o       Administration is asking for alternatives to AAL
  o       SGA resolution to back up other committees on campus in their efforts to change AAL