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IHC Minutes: February 8, 2005

meeting called to order in Ruddock

absent: Quimby; guests: Rita Bastia, Andre Mallie, Warner Leedy, Erik Dreyer, Kasia Gora

  1. construction updates from Andre - Chandler should be open until end of March, closed during April
    • Red Door, Avery, Broad will still be open with expanded selections
    • Rathskeller open to undergrads
    • turn-over period depends on construction - could be any time during April (beginning or end)
    • students will hopefully be eating in the house kitchens
    • Feynman plan - a few lunches, plus extra money (haven't decided amount yet)
    • house kitchens open longer - 11-1:30
    • south house kitchen will have same food as now, but one flat rate (so south and north kitchens will still be different from each other)
    • also haven't determined whether declining balance will "reset" every 2 weeks or end of term
    • decisions about declining balance will be made over next few weeks
    • set number of lunches can be from house kitchens OR Red Door BBQ
  2. south house extra rooms
    • Dabney wants Chester, everyone else wants Braun
  3. Avery stuff
    • Warner - prefrosh will stay in Avery during prefrosh weekend - where will they eat dinner?
      • can either eat both dinners in houses, or maybe one in Avery
      • problem that Avery doesn't have community dinners, maybe not so good for prefrosh
      • Avery could try to have a more organized dinner
      • maybe have dinners same as now (in 7 houses) and put another meal in Avery (BBQ at lunch or dinner maybe) - is this like last year?
      • if students do eat a dinner in Avery, need to make sure there are enough upperclassmen there (usually houses have 1:1 or 2:1 ratio)
      • maybe 2 lunches at Avery, half go each day? - could be complicated...
  4. meeting with Margo tomorrow
    • discussion of tuition increases, protests about it
    • biggest problem seems to be lack of communication
  5. presidents should invite people (faculty and administrators) to house dinners - Kim sent lists by email
  6. resolution changes
    • excomms should vote soon on whether IHC reps must be elected in housewide election, can wait to officially pass until Avery has election
    • already changed to require IHC rep to be undergrad
    • do we want to add that rep must be elected only by undergrads?
      • probably not - grad students in Avery part of community there
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