SA Committee on Residence and Community Life Meeting
Goldwin Smith 162
October 20, 2009
- RHD Resolution
- Burke appointed student elective before the resolution was passed and disregarded application process
- Program Houses
- Issues concerning program houses have risen due to continuous occupancy declining
- Could be due to bad conditions compared to West Campus
- If maintenance of houses kept up could encourage more people to live there
- Ask Cornell to renovate
Most of the time it’s the ethnically themed ones that are attacked
Not a good idea to force people into program houses; defeats the purpose
Programs houses are not advertised accurately
- Should be more open to whole student body
- Promote activities to all students (even those on West Campus)
- West campus initiative has been hurting houses
North Campus is considered far from most campus destinations
- Cornell is looking into bus passes for program houses
- Would rather see funds go to long term improvements (renovations, etc.) instead of bus passes
- Bus passes may not even be that much of a incentive since West Campus is so nice
- Misc.
- Jon will meet with Burke concerning his disregard for application process for student representative
- Thank you, Jon for bringing pizza, wings, and drinks!
- Next meeting: TBA