January 14, 2025 Meeting Notes

New Year, New Meeting!!

• Exec Debrief

  • VP Social

    • In two weeks, 

      • Heartsci x Nursing Coffeehouse

        • Jan. 27, 2025; 7-10 PM

        • 5 ArtSci execs will be needed to help

      • Trivia Night with iSci

        • No date yet; possibly the first week of February

        • Chill event - 4th years are also interested in trivia! Woot woot!

      • ArtSci Coffeehouse some time after reading week

  • VP Functions

    • Milk and Cookies: Summer Opportunities

      • Figuring out panellists, talking to Marquis

      • January last week or February first week → might be rescheduled

      • The process is only at the beginning stages

  • Formal Convenors

    • March 31st for Formal;

      • No immediate problems with dates; Jack and Julia have already talked to Marquis

      • LiUna → waiting for confirmation

      • If you’d like to volunteer, let convenors know

        • Arthy; re-email committee members to help with the coordination and to help with set up

      • Thoughts on glassware? Example; shot glasses, wine glasses, etc. 

      • Please let us know if there are any things to consider with March 31st

      • To gage people’s interest, a form will be sent out to get interests

  • SPA and JPA

    • Next Agora

      • Art and Revolution?

        • Hartley, professors from before, Wilson, Cyrus-Wair

      • Will try to be open about the process to help with planning

  • SRA

    • The divestment project will be worked on again very soon

      • MSU VP Finance will be talked to soon

    • Projects this year; improving the ArtSci office

    • And perhaps making stickers

      • Rameesha made a sticker mock-up → SRA follow-up with Rameesha!

    • Deadnaming project → will reach out again; got ghosted 

  • Ath and Rec

    • Booking for gym Jan. 25th

      • Will talk to level reps about dodgeball

    • Also, have the date March 29th

      • Have these dates to chill and play games, but will be nice to have at least one planned day

      • What are some games we can play? What gym equipment is available?

        • Volleyball and basketball? Badminton?

        • Squidgame inspired games/challenges? Could be fun! 

        • Will update in a couple of days

  • Level 4 Reps

    • A list of activities was sent out to the fourth-year chat → most people chose to do video game/board game night

      • Collaboration with Recreation → Poker, Uno, Bean Game

      • Avery’s already made the graphic but we just need the date, time, and the room

      • Level Collaboration? 

        • The winner should get a special SASS shoutout at formal 

    • People can make a song on Garage Band and the best song can be played at formal (Leah walks into it?)

      • The sillier the better

    • Merch update

      • Going to send a form out tomorrow to get input; options are available, which do you like the best?

        • People submit their artwork and we can vote on which we like the most; numbers will be kept private, but input could be nice

      • WW team also has a lot of sticker and poster ideas → can look into 

      • Can print stickers are HPL 

  • Level 3 Reps

    • Planetarium event; will contact for price and availability

      • A poll will be sent if people are even interested in int

  • Level 2 Reps

    • Valentine’s Day

      • Rose-o-grams?; distribute the flowers during the morning classes

    • ArtSci Speed “Dating”/ Friending

      • Could be a year of collaboration → If first years could talk to upper years that would be great

• Statement Update

  • Any conversations or follow-ups?

    • It was well-received → recommended to have a meeting with SASS to voice concerns and how they see SASS moving forward

      • Having a final vote on that during the Winter General Meeting

      • Maybe pushback because they are not too sure about what going on during the meeting → Arthy will make a LinkTree 

      • Alternative to TownHall meeting → Possibly an anonymous form to ask people about any concerns they have so we can meet and talk about it during a meeting

      • Have the proposed constitution draft ready and sent out so we can get input and people are prepared to talk about it during the General Meeting

        • Blank suggestions and multiple questions they can answer

        • Questions to include?; Sarah, Ahastan, Lauren, and Arthy to work on the form

      • Is the form very general? Or is it to be very specific?

        • Envisioned on how SASS can stand for justice

        • But probably would have a section where people can comment general concerns