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March 11, 2003

IHC Minutes, 03-11-03

Lunch: IHC and Kim West The IHC (everyone present)

Met with Kim West and student reps to from Avery and other off campus houses to discuss undergraduate housing lottery system (for housing outside of the seven houses). Early lottery systems were discussed for Avery, Marks, Chester, and Del Mar. It was decided that Avery would have its own early lottery (with 33% of rooms available going to early lottery). Marks would also have an early lottery system (again about one-third of the spots would go to early lottery). After much discussion it was decided that Chester and Del Mar should not have early lottery systems. Because of the apartment setting of these locations the community aspect found at other unaffiliated places is not seen. As a result early lottery system was not recommended for Chester and Del Mar. Another discussion was around the dates for card picks, unaffiliated lottery, etc.

Undergrads will receive a brochure with all this information early third term.



Later that night:

IHC meeting; everyone present except for Kristen (guess she forgot…!) (btw, for clarification: Mike=Blacker Mike; Lammers=Page Mike; Tom=Fleming Tom; Tom2=ASCIT Tom)



Jeremy went over some business:

1. Meeting with RAs: Kim West said that she would host a social gathering at her place for the IHC and the RAs for third term (the goal of this gathering would be for the RAs and the IHC to meet each other and bond…). Right now, the tentative date is Friday April 18, from 5-7 pm. Though to our disappointment there will not be a Mannion barbeque, we were promised "heavy hors d'oeuvres." Whatever that is! Tom said and he and Kristen usually have practice or a game on Fridays until around 6 pm. Natalia suggested that the event be on a Sunday night so that we would be feed on a weekend when we don't normally get food. On a personal note, I think the 18th is bad as well-I'll be 21 on that day, and I was kind of planning on being not so sober...

2. There is a room in the Student Center (Keck) that IHC could claim as Jeremy claims that room is really small-but Kim West offered to put a computer in it for us. Lammers said that if we didn't have to do any work for it, we might as well take it. Most of the IHC thought that it was pointless.

3. Alcohol: So Kim still has the alcohol from last year, which was confiscated at the end of various House parties. Jeremy says that there is a good amount of alcohol left over (and not just mixers)…the question was, what should we do with it? Best idea proposed: IHC Happy Hour. We could have an all-houses-invited Happy Hour sometime third term. Locations mentioned for the venue, R-F courtyard or Olive Walk. Our slogan: "ASCIT brings you donuts, IHC brings you booz!"

4. Monthly meetings with administration: Kim had asked Jeremy what he thought about monthly Kim West-IHC meetings. Jeremy asked us what we thought. The consensus was that if wasn't needed. Someone asked about monthly meetings with Margo Marshak. Jeremy will email her again.

5. Director of Admissions: Jeremy received a letter from Charlene Liebau in response to his letter (which was about the outrage of students over the cutting of pre-frosh weekend by a day). The letter didn't answer many questions-it is very political, explaining that there were budget cuts. Evidently the budget gets decided over the summer, so Jeremy plans on talking to Margo about it. Again, he will email her again. We also noted that last year there was talk of chopping a day off pre-frosh weekend. Baltimore "saved the day" by finding more money somehow…but evidently, this year he didn't feel the pressure.

6. ASCIT: Jeremy feels like he and Tom2 may have some issues this year-Tom2 seems to want to turn ASCIT into the IHC. There are some concerns over the fact that Tom2 may over-step his authority. ASCIT and IHC are not the same. We discussed our (and other students) concern over how Tom chose the two student reps for the Size of Caltech Committee and the Dean of Undergraduate Academics Committee. Tom should have put up sign ups and held interviews-there are no excuses there (esp. since he came into office on a no secrecy forum). As a result of student complaint, the two appointed students are interim until official appointments are made. The next concern was the Excomm bit. I explained to IHC what the Excomm does and in the past how they have been chosen. There is some concern over any sort of house elections for this. The survey seems pointless as well. Jeremy will inform Tom that people don't even know what the Excomm is or does and that he should remedy that.

7. Pre-Frosh Weekend Rules: We need to talk about this. Jeremy asked everyone to read them online of in the little t. We'll talk about it next term.

Other business:
1. Jason and Lammers: they discussed the coliseum. Ruddock was told that if they want to keep it up they will have to make some safety kind of additions to the coliseum. This will take time and money. Jeremy think that money won't be that much (or actually none)-maybe Ruddock will keep it up. Lammers says that Page would like to use it in a gladiator-king of social event. Maybe all the houses will be invited (IHC Happy Hour and Gladiator Sports?!). But Lammers has no definitive date-he'll get back to Jason.

2. Natalia: she had concerns over ASCIT paying CDS for the barbeque during Pre-Frosh Weekend. Jeremy said that the money wasn't going to CDS, but to Admissions-they don't have enough money. She also expressed concern about how in the past FSI counselors have been mainly Scurves. Natalia noted that this has created an environment where the FSI frosh often decide to be Scurves even before going through Rotations-and sometimes they know more they should about the process. As a result, she would like to request a cap of one FSI counselor from each House. Only one from each house was thought to be a little extreme, but as a whole the IHC agreed with her (it was suggested to set the cap at two).

3. Jessie: Met with Lauren in the Study Abroad Office. There will be students from University of London here next year-they will be here for a year. They will have singles in Avery, though are encouraged to go through Rotation and to pick into the Houses. They would like the students to be very involved in the Houses (ie attend House dinners). Any ideas? We didn't understand why this was such an important note, but decided that we needed to consider this in our Rotation meeting. Also there will be Danish students again (up to 5). Again during our Rotation meeting we need to come up with a system for which Houses will take them. Lauren suggested that we assign a student "mentor" to each student so that they will assimilate into the Houses better. We didn't feel like this was a problem this past year.

4. Neda: there will be a meeting in Ruddock next week-Tuesday, 12:30. Jeremy told me to email a reminder to everyone.


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