January 25, 2023, 5:30-7pm
Attendance is not kept for General Meetings
Quorum (59) was met at 5:47
PGCLL M16
TL;DR:
· Events are coming!
o Paint night (first year event)
o Euchre Tournament – January 31st
o Marquis Movie Night – February 3rd
o Spaghetti Dinner
o Winter Agora
o Art Show
o Summer Opportunities Milk & Cookies – February 3rd
o Formal – March 22nd
o Koffeehaus – February 10th
o ArtSci Musical – March 24th and 25th
· Constitutional Amendments
o Art Show and Aletheia non-voting SASSEx roles
o Amending Athletics and Recreation Officer role
o Honourary SASS membership
o SASS membership fee increase
· Nominations – keep an eye out; your name could be listed!
· Late night pizza
Sorry the TL;DR is so long - just so much happening in ArtSci!!
Tinson: Thanks for coming tonight everyone. First up – announcements from SASS!
Charlotte and Tess: Hey so we’re basically to give you guys an idea of what the role of Welcome Week Planner entails. You’ll be in charge of hiring reps, attending training, running events, managing move in, etc. It’s a paid position now - which yay! Introductory training with other faculties. Can you have a job? If you have never been a rep? Short answer: yes. Long answer: come talk to one of us.
Tinson: Applications for the position close Feb 17th, shortlisted candidates will be interviewed Monday and Tuesday after Reading week. Now an announcement from Maya.
Maya V: Who knows what Sobi is? Great service and students have to pay a $100 annual fee for use. We want to move referendum that voting should only be $22, making it more accessible to students. If you want to support, then please sign the petitions coming around.
Monica: [video submission] Here to give you info on the SRA Representative role. MSU and SASSEx both? Yes please! If you want to have a voice in the MSU and represent ArtSci students, please nominate yourself or friends!
Tinson: MSU Presidential elections are happening. I encourage you to read up on candidates and vote in that election! Platforms and critiques are available on the Silhouette. Now on to upcoming events in the SASS calendar.
Ishmeet: Come out to paint night guys! You don’t even have to paint it’ll just be a great opportunity to hang out and relax.
Anthony: Euchre tournament is January 31st at 7pm. Please come! All skill levels welcome!
Tinson: Come to Euchre; it’s such a good time!
Ian: Movie night is going to happen with Marquis, there’ll be an email with details coming soon.
Tinson: Community spaghetti dinner… what’s that all about?
Ally and Flynn: Basically, it’s the progressive dinner but only with spaghetti. So if you came to progressive dinner and thought this is great – the only way it would be better is if they were only serving spaghetti, then this is the event for you!
Tinson: [Impromptu giveaway] Water bottle for weirdest non-utensil that you can shout out to me!
[Maya E. won with feet]
Oyin: Feb 8 is our Winter Agora on labour rights from 4:30 to 6:30. I’ll also use this as an opportunity to plug our program advisory form, also to be distributed soon. If there’s anything that you want communicated to program administration this is the avenue for that!
Olive: Art Show is happening! On campus! In MUSC! The submission form is open now until next week.
Maya V: Another event on February 3 at 2:30 on summer opportunities. Cohosting with David and Oyin in LRW 3038. More news soon!
Tinson: A formal announcement. The location of formal! Ancaster Mill. Do you guys want to talk about this?
Caroline and Rachel: March 22. Tickets will be sold soon, please come it’s going to be beautiful!
Sadie: Kauffeehaus will be Feb 10th in the basement of MUSC – more details forthcoming!
Wim: Hey Tinson – what about the musical??
Sanjana: Musical is on the 24th and 25th at the Robby [Robinson Memorial Theatre]‼!
[Thunderous applause for musical]
[Impromtu T-shirt giveaway – consensus is that Tinson should stop chucking since it hasn’t gone so well for him this meeting]
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
Addition of Art Show Director non-voting position on SASS
11.21 Art Show Director
The Art Show Director shall:
11.21.1 act as the representative of the Art Show on the SASS Clubs Department;
11.21.2 organize the Artsci Art Show in the Winter Semester;
11.21.3 attend SASSEx meetings as needed in order to fulfill the role.
Motion to amend the constitution
Motion approved
Addition of Aletheia non-voting position on SASS
11.20 Aletheia Liaison
The Aletheia Liaison shall:
11.20.1 act as the representative of The Aletheia on the SASS Clubs Department;
11.20.2 coordinate Aletheia publications with other SASS initiatives;
11.20.3 attend SASSEx meetings as needed in order to fulfill the role.
Motion to amend the constitution
Motion approved
Amendment to the role of Athletics and Recreation Officer
11.4.4 administer the SASS clubs department, should such a department exist.
Ella: Is this just a technicality or part of the MSU clubs department now?
Tinson: This creates position for club ratification opportunity within ArtSci. The Ath and Rec role was designated in the COVID era, so this is just a clarification of the responsibilities of the position
David KE: What does it mean to be a representative on the Clubs Department?
Tinson: These are non-voting members that do not have to attend SASS meetings but are affiliated with SASS through the program.
Motion to amend the constitution
Motion approved
Amendment: Extension of honourary SASS membership to individuals outside the program.
5.2 Membership in SASS is not open to non-students except on an honourary basis.
5.3 Honourary membership in SASS may be granted by majority vote of the Executive to non-SASS members who have been active in SASS and have rendered distinguished service. Their membership will be noted on a ledger maintained by SASS;
5.4 Honourary members may not hold any executive positions within SASS or vote on SASS affairs;
5.5 Honourary members who have paid the annual society fee may pay Artsci-discounted prices and attend Artsci-exclusive events.
If they can’t vote then why? Is there a person that wants to be part of SASS?
Question: How would [membership] be decided?
Tinson: This existed before as an honourary position for past ArtScis. They’ll be put on a leger accessible to the executive.
Question: Ballpark number who have been honorary members in past?
Tinson: There haven’t been honourary members in my history.
Flynn: Is there an approval system?
Tinson: Yes, it’s a vote of SASSEx.
Luna: How would someone apply?
Tinson: I think it’ll be brought up at SASSEx meeting on a nomination basis.
Oyin: There would have to be a clear process if this passes. There needs to be a level of transparency about processes.
Tinson: The next thing will be a SASS bylaw with all the details if it passes.
Motion to amend the constitution
Motion approved
Membership Fee increase
Proposed increase over and above government CPI adjustment for inflation. This change would be instated in the 2024/25 school year. Current fee is $33.81. CPI rate of 6% would be 35.84. Proposed catch-up amount is $40.19.
Tinson: Last increase was 2020, since then it has not been increased even by inflation amount since then. Griffin, do you want to explain a bit more?
Griffin: Hello! I’m Griffin, Master of Coin. Basically, the cool events held by SASS are hard to fund with the current budget. It is worth considering both sides of the coin; if you don’t come to a lot of SASS events then this might not be fair. If you think that a $6.36 is an unfair increase, then obviously don’t vote for it.
Tinson: Our goal is to create an outsized impact on the ArtSci community for the price that people pay in their tuition. Hopefully we’ve given everyone $33 worth of fun this year.
David KE: By what was the 2020 increase? I don’t think it gets increased every year.
Griffin: The vote has been to not increase the last few times. SASSEx has the right to increase by CPI, that is our right. Its anything above that we put to a vote to the general members of SASS.
[Discussion of the math of the increase over CPI]
Motion to amend the constitution
Motion approved
NOMINATIONS FOR SASSEX 2023/24
Round I
Athletics and Recreation Office
Anthony Cherubini
Indigo Kim
Argen Rao
Evan Tyler
Olive
Sarah and Jack Gilles
Junior Program Advisor
Evan Tyler
Athena Warren
Naeva
Indigo Kim
Rachel Lewars
Jack Gilles
Abeer Farooqi
Senior Program Advisor
Adrienne
Flynn O’Dacre
Navya Sheth
Oyin
Sydney Wisener
Wim
Surbhi Rao
David Landrey
SRA Observer
Dani Wohl
David Kanter
Surbhi R.
Anna Farley
Jayden Miller
Atara Lipetz
Formal Convenor
Sara Patterson
David Landrey
Graeme Lavrence
Surbhi
Nate
Chris
Inaya
Cate Ott
Hanna Rao
Flynn & Ally
Amarah Hasham-Steele
Tess McDonald
Oscar Hand
Zach
Liam
Community Chair
Anna Farley and Surbhi Rao
Ally Kortes-Miller and Flynn O’Dacre
Alex and Ella
Nate S and Olive
Sadie MacDonald and David Kanter Eivin
Amarah Hasham-Steele and Mitchell Lane
Luna Quail and David Landrey
Sam DePaul and Tess M
Ekta and Jennifer
Communications Director
Andrea Chang
Sydney Wisener
Josh Watson
Surbhi Rao
Taryn Mann
Zoe Komlos
Naeva
Adriana B
Jack Mah
Sarah Gilles
Impromptu Pizza Referendum
[After an order miscommunication resulted in no pizza available at the end of the meeting. Ah!]
Later date – 25
Later tonight – 31
Master of Coin
Griffin Kinzie
Ian McMillan
Jenette O
Avery
Soraya
Surbhi R
David Landrey
Liam Feldmen
Derek Shen
Vice President Social
Sadie and James
Monica Yeom
Hanna Rao
Chris Smolej and Alex
Luna Quail
Ian McMillan
Avery & Graeme Laverence
Zachary Vaughn
Vice President Functions
Oyin Aderibigbe
Navya Sheth
David Kanter Eivin
Sam Jolly
Sydney Wisener
Hanna Rao
President
Eric Wen
Flynn O’Dacre and Ally Kortes-Miller
Griffin Kinzie
Navya Sheth and Sam DePaul
Oyin Aderibigbe
Marissa Parry-Lai
David Kanter Eivin
Nate Steeves
Sydney Wisener
Jack Gilles
James Esemu
Olive Thomas
ROUND II NOMINATIONS
Level II Rep
Sarah Greene
Ishmeet Johal
Jack Gilles
Taran
Arjun Rao
Level III Rep
Oyin Aderibigbe
Ian McMillan
Luna Quail
Level IV Rep
Sam DePaul
Amarah Hasham-Steele
Sydney Wisener
Ella Brown
Sanjana Shah
James Esemu
Bohmee Kim
David Kanter Eivin