IHC Minutes: February 17, 2005

meeting called to order in Blacker

absent: Matt Walker; guests: Jeff Kauffman, Peter Foley, Erik Dreyer

  1. change meeting time to Wednesdays starting next week
  2. meet Monday Feb. 28 - old IHC and new IHC to discuss general business
  3. Avery athletics - is anything happening?
    • Jeff is talking with Erik and Max - no word yet
  4. House crests to go on school rings - try to get to Tom Mannion
  5. ARC reps
    • Bl: Abdul Tariq
    • Da: Dorota Korta
    • Fl: Brandt Belson
    • Ll: Angelina Crans
    • Pa: Zhongyi Lu
    • Ri: Greg Stachelek
    • Ru: James Bergland
  6. food reps
    • Bl: no one yet...
    • Da: Mary Ollenburger
    • Fl: Billy Zdon
    • Ll: Ryan Farmer
    • Pa: Francisco Godoy
    • Ri: Jayson Messenger
    • Ru: ?
    • food reps need to start going to meetings!!
  7. stewardship committee meeting last night
    • went really well
    • elections for committee chair next week
    • house walkthroughs will happen at least once a term
    • someone from housing walking through daily?? - kind of seems like a waste of time
    • damage charges will go through Michael Raven
  8. Avery timeline
    • will update constitution end of this term
    • elections probably 2nd week of third term - good to have them before committee appointments
  9. CRC reps
    • Barbara Green suggested houses elect reps, then IHC can "appoint" them
  10. new resolutions
    • everyone approved IHC rep should be undergrad
    • requiring reps to be elected by house didn't pass, have to wait a month so will try again Feb. 27 (then only need 6 houses to pass)
    • what about letting grad students vote?
      • still some debate over this
    • will discuss more next Monday
  11. prefrosh weekend
    • problems with some prefrosh only experiencing one house, don't like it and decide not to come
    • want to make sure weekend is more about Caltech and house system in general - try to limit scare tactics
    • problems with grad students interfering with prefrosh? - some went to house events... they're under rotation rules, send out email just beforehand
    • any way to match up prefrosh to house? - not really, maybe we can switch if there are serious problems
  12. leadership training program
    • under Jerry Houser
    • program is ready, but need core group of students to help spread word, advertise, gauge general student interest
    • talk to leaders in industry, other positions
    • active program last year, but most people graduated
    • idea is to help people handle problems faced as a leader
    • Erik will email IHC, spam houses