SA Community Life Committee

Cornell University Student Assembly Committee on Residential and Community Life Agenda: February 16, 2009

1. Welcome
2. Group Updates
   1. Rammy Salem: Federal Financial aid trip is still open. Interested students should contact him (rms28)
3. Campus Life Sustainability Projects Update (Natalie Raps)
   1. Sustainability Competition is going on in North Campus buildings
   2. There’s a group that soliciting members from Cornell for a project to coordinate activities related to raising awareness about sustainable practices on college campuses.
      1. Natalie has signed on for Cornell and will keep us updated as there’s progress.
4. GIDE Committee
   1. At a recent CLSAC meeting, Don Sevey came to talk to about the GIDE committee- a mainly employee committee to brainstorm ways to reduce operational costs at the university
   2. They wanted student input
   3. Interested students should contact Nikhil to be on the committee (njk38)
5. TCAT Issues
   1. Emily Cusick was unable to attend this meeting but passed along that there was a meeting about the TCAT route changes
   2. Committee members discussed potential questions that TCAT might be asked about route changes and the impact on students.
   3. Questions can be emailed to Nikhil who will passed them along to�somebody (njk38)
6. Housing Lottery Information
   1. Virtual walk-thru was well-received
      1. Freshmen members reported hearing positive reviews from friends
   2. Program houses
      1. Members brought up that Freshmen were hearing a strong push from program houses to draw more applicants
   3. Housing Lottery Follow-Up
      1. An idea was brought up by Nikhil, discussed earlier last semester, about conducting a follow-up feedback session with students
      2. Could be online (working with SA Office and exploring ways to do this using the current website) and/or in person
         1. Potentially using existing avenues like the SA Facebook group or SA meetings
         2. Members are asked to bring ideas to next Monday’s meeting
         3. Planning would have to begin relatively soon
7. Diversity Issues
   1. Rammy and Nikhil looking for students interested in participating in small groups to examine the effectiveness of the Bias Related Incident protocol currently in place in Residence Halls
8. New Projects
   1. Natalie Raps: a weeknight shuttle from libraries to housing
      1. Would operate between 8pm-12am on weeknights
      2. Proposed: separate from TCAT
      3. Tony Miller suggested she talk to Ryan Lavin to get more details; could be similar to SafeRide
   2. Sid Nadkarni raised the question about cardswipes at the High Rises
      1. Andrew Flye replied that the RSC had looked into the matter, done cost-benefit analysis and were told that the project was not feasible
9. Next meeting: February 23, 2009 (5pm, Rockefeller Hall B-15)

Chair, Nikhil Kumar (njk38@cornell.edu)